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  1. Tramore Ranger

    Tramore Ranger Well-Known Member
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    It would be remiss of me not to include the intro to Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield even though the intro lasts the whole album, side 1 and 2.......

    Also another is Barcelona by Freddie Mercury and Montserrat Caballe, starts with Freddie simply belting out the one word "Barcelona" a couple of times then being joined by a choir and finally a full orchestra before launching into verse 1 with Montserrat, wonderful stuff.......
     
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    AC/DC's Thunderstruck, anybody...?
     
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    One of my favourite intros, from Steve Howe. Chris Squire's bass is pretty amazing on this.

     
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    :emoticon-0172-mooni
     
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    This intro starts at full tilt and doesn't let up...

     
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    This is a real rocker...

     
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    The Jean-Luc Godard film of the Stones recording Sympathy with the Devil is well worth watching if you like the song, and haven't seen it in a while.
     
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    I was so lucky to wander in to Eel Pie Island music hall in 66 or early 67 and find some blokes hanging a white sheet up at the back of the stage, and setting up a projector at the back of the hall. It was the first of many, great times I saw the Floyd play, and the first I knew of light shows with live music. A first for quite that sort of music too! It was great to see Roger Walters play a few years back too, if you get the chance.
     
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    Wow, that's so cool<ok>

    I never knew about Lloyd Ryan until reading this and he gave you lessons, I had to go look him up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Ryan

    Mr's 9's, if you could already hit the sticks well and have additional lessons from Lloyd then you must be a sh!t hot drummer dude<ok>

    I can play drums myself so this is very impressive to me<applause>

    Sorry about the blatant brown-nosing Rich...<whistle><cheers>
     
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    I haven't played them for about fifteen years mate. I had to pack them away in the loft when my daughters were born as we didn't have room for them. I took up guitar instead and a little bit of bass and keyboard along the way.
     
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    There can only be one

     
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    I love the intro to this tune - my sons band play it quite often, he's turning into a really good drummer too Mr 999s, his tutor now plays with Altered Images, and had toured with both Rolling Stones and Sex Pistols in her previous band!

     
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    Jon Lord RIP <rose> Richie Blackmore :emoticon-0152-heart

     
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    I've finally landed on my ultimate intro, don't know why I haven't thought of it before. Maybe because I've never really considered it an intro, but that's what it really is imo. Funeral For a Friend, 5 minutes long, first half of Funeral For a Friend / Love Lies Bleeding. A modern classic, fantastic composition, absolute masterpiece.
    When I want to treat myself I break out my first edition vinyl of Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, sit back with a good drink and totally lose myself into what I regard as the finest album ever created. Elton Jogn and Bernie Taupin you two geniuses. Love.

    My God you Brits can produce musicians!

    Maybe the length disqualifies it, a instrumental rather than an intro?

     
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    Always and forever, thank you to Great Britain and the British people whose creativity, since the 1960s, has given the rest of the World hundreds of unique bands and music of unparalleled beauty, quirkiness and atmosphere. What would our lives have been without British bands?
     
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    Purple Haze - Jimmy Hendrix

    (Great fun playing that while driving at breakneck speed to a job on blues :) )

    Concrete Jungle - The Specials

    Come to Daddy - Aphex Twin
     
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    I saw them at Heaton Park when they reformed. Brilliant. Don't have a clue what they played where but after you mention it, I do half wonder if that was the opener. Were we at the same gig?
     
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    The gig I went to was at the Etihad in 2016.......Public Enemy were the main support band.
     
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    Orbital - Satan
    Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight, Tonight
    Charlatans - Forever
    Cypress Hill - Trouble
    Young Fathers - Shame
     
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