Bridges & Instrumentals

[tiggerblue10]

What are your favourites?

I heard this song for the first time a year or two ago and fell in love with it. (Sorry, my tablet doesn't let me embed YouTube vids so can only provide links)

https://youtu.be/cqZc7ZQURMs

What instrument is the high pitch twiddly bit towards the end?

[tonyav]

Here you go, tiggs.

[Fitzer]

That’s Phil Kenzie on (I think) tenor sax

[tonyav]

Saxophone, tiggs.

[tiggerblue10]

Thanks Tony :o)

No, its not the sax bit. It's a a high pitched tune possibly a synthesiser or keyboard?

[TheWinner]

Saxophone Phil Kenzie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Kenzie#:~:text=Kenzie's%20sax%20is%20featured%20on,s%20Band%20on%20the%20Run.

My favourite sax break is in Baker Street Gerry Rafferty
Sax played by Raphael Ravenscroft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphael_Ravenscroft#:~:text=Raphael%20Ravenscroft%20(4%20June%201954,s%20song%20%22Baker%20Street%22.

[Patsy33]

Some sort of whistle?

[Fitzer]

At what time in the song?

[tonyav]

Sounds like either an electric piano or a synth to me, tiggs.

[tonyav]

At 5.45.

[Patsy33]

This has to be up there..
https://youtu.be/mdt0SOqPJcg

[tonyav]

Patsy

[tiggerblue10]

Around 5.18

[Patsy33]

It seems it's a synthesizer, Tiggs. Just looked up all instruments played for that ( great) song

[tiggerblue10]

I thought it might have been that, Patsy. I could figure out all the other instruments used apart from that one.

Not sure when synthesisers were first used but clearly remember them in the 80s ;o)

[bobbinwales]

Year of the Cat is one of my favorite all time tunes, tiggerblue.
He had a follow up single- forgot the title for now) and a good album... track called Lord Grenville or simlar but can remmeber any others even tho I still have the album

[bobbinwales]

On The Border. I allso remember Time Passages
Only just realised he was Scottish ... assumed he was American

[bobbinwales]

Here he was in 1967.
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=al+stewart+bedsitter+images
Not a patch on Year of The Cat but you can tell its him