Your favourite Jens Johansson keyboard solo or melody

[Crazyniel]

My favourite Jens Johansson' solo is from Elements.
When I hear that solo I almost cry because its beauty...^^

[nefertari]

Anthem of the World is very good one, the whole album Destiny contains great solos of Jens. :music: :headbang:

[hiro23]

I like a lot of his solo's on infinite, then again most of the stuff he does with strato is pretty epic,I also like his parts on Malmsteens "I'll see the light tonight"

[RazielSR]

Work in progress III - 2:20

[rikkertje]

His solo's on Yngwie's song "Krakatau" from the Odyssey album.

[hiro23]

His solo's on Yngwie's song "Krakatau" from the Odyssey album.

I love that song

[Mormegil]

His solo's on Yngwie's song "Krakatau" from the Odyssey album.

I love that song

I prefer his solo in Riot In The Dungeons.

[Burning Reflection]

^ Just thinking the same thing yesterday while listening to Odyssey...

also to the other that said the Elements solo makes them cry....I have shed a tear listening to the solo in I'm still alive. It's filled with so much emotion and feeling; it makes me want to raise my hand and hail life! It's musically superb!

[JensJohansson]

I prefer his solo in Riot In The Dungeons.

I still remember that! There was actually a better solo on another track. They used the wrong one when they mixed it ..

I did all the solos on Odyssey in one go. We were in Texas and i had some clinic in New Jersey the next day. I was convinced the plane was going to crash, so I pushed the engineer to get at least the solos recorded the evening before i left...... just in case.

The E1E2 solos i also did in one go -- which was the last day possible. There is some sort of pattern here I think. That time I was properly hung over -- always a must for good solos. I was staying in the Helka hotel in Helsinki, and me and TT had gotten completely plastered the night before (this was when he still drank). He drank some 15 redbull-vodkas and was supposed to sleep on Nino L.'s floor overnight, but had real trouble sleeping because he was hallucinating earthquakes all night. I suppose 15 redbulls worth of caffeine can have that effect. I was luckier, stuck with just vodka, slept, woke up with horrible hangover, and recorded the solos. The rest of the day and night i spent organizing, rendering and exporting keyboard files for mix. E1E2 had something like 25 songs altogether and each song had probably 10 keyboard tracks. I never did go back to sleep, I had to check out from the hotel the day after that because they didn't have any more free rooms...

[Verdades Parias]

I prefer his solo in Riot In The Dungeons.

I still remember that! There was actually a better solo on another track. They used the wrong one when they mixed it ..

I did all the solos on Odyssey in one go. We were in Texas and i had some clinic in New Jersey the next day. I was convinced the plane was going to crash, so I pushed the engineer to get at least the solos recorded the evening before i left...... just in case.

The E1E2 solos i also did in one go -- which was the last day possible. There is some sort of pattern here I think. That time I was properly hung over -- always a must for good solos. I was staying in the Helka hotel in Helsinki, and me and TT had gotten completely plastered the night before (this was when he still drank). He drank some 15 redbull-vodkas and was supposed to sleep on Nino L.'s floor overnight, but had real trouble sleeping because he was hallucinating earthquakes all night. I suppose 15 redbulls worth of caffeine can have that effect. I was luckier, stuck with just vodka, slept, woke up with horrible hangover, and recorded the solos. The rest of the day and night i spent organizing, rendering and exporting keyboard files for mix. E1E2 had something like 25 songs altogether and each song had probably 10 keyboard tracks. I never did go back to sleep, I had to check out from the hotel the day after that because they didn't have any more free rooms...

really funny to hear that story, for me E2 is so much important record in my life...I love that solo inStill Alive, and that in season of faith's perfection, did you ever played live some songs of that record?

[hiro23]

Did Malmsteen have a particular template when you two would write music?

Did it differ much from the way Tolkki or reaching even further back the way Jonas Hansson would write?

[Crazyniel]

I agree with our friend, the solo from I'm Still Alive is great, but I remembered another from E1, not just the solo but the music is great, Learning to Fly.
And adding some more, I really like the music Winter Battle from Last Viking...^^

[Mormegil]

I prefer his solo in Riot In The Dungeons.

I still remember that! There was actually a better solo on another track. They used the wrong one when they mixed it ..

I did all the solos on Odyssey in one go. We were in Texas and i had some clinic in New Jersey the next day. I was convinced the plane was going to crash, so I pushed the engineer to get at least the solos recorded the evening before i left...... just in case.

The E1E2 solos i also did in one go -- which was the last day possible. There is some sort of pattern here I think. That time I was properly hung over -- always a must for good solos. I was staying in the Helka hotel in Helsinki, and me and TT had gotten completely plastered the night before (this was when he still drank). He drank some 15 redbull-vodkas and was supposed to sleep on Nino L.'s floor overnight, but had real trouble sleeping because he was hallucinating earthquakes all night. I suppose 15 redbulls worth of caffeine can have that effect. I was luckier, stuck with just vodka, slept, woke up with horrible hangover, and recorded the solos. The rest of the day and night i spent organizing, rendering and exporting keyboard files for mix. E1E2 had something like 25 songs altogether and each song had probably 10 keyboard tracks. I never did go back to sleep, I had to check out from the hotel the day after that because they didn't have any more free rooms...

The more you know...

Hey Jens, if it's not too much of an inconvenience, could you please tell us something about your days in Dio? I don't think I've ever read an interview where you would've discussed that subject. I would be really interested to know what your thoughts were on album Lock Up The Wolves and Ronnie himself.

[Texidor]

WOW! Great topic guys! Jeez being that jens has been such an inspiration for me since the Yngwie days its hard to tell what solos are his best! But here we go !

Yngwie Days :
Anguish And Fear
Rising Force
Krakatau ( I think I spelled it right! )

Johannsson :
Samurai

Stratovarius :

Babylon
Will The Sun Rise
Glory Of The World
Learning To Fly
Elements
I'm Still Alive - WOW
Know The Difference

[Toki]

FO SHOLAST NIGHT ON EARTH
sure Mike from RR can play it but jens, damn dont get me started

[stratodan1990]

My favourites of Jens are:

Learning to Fly
Rebel
Legions
Holy Light (especially 2m 53s in)
Know The Difference
Glory Of The World

[RazielSR]

We are gonna add some new favourites solos from Polaris to our collection, I'm sure...

[JensJohansson]

We are gonna add some new favourites solos from Polaris to our collection, I'm sure...

There are not so many keyboard solo "orgies" really on Polaris

Matias plays a really nice and long solo on "Somehow Precious". I love that, I know myself how nice it is to have enough time to stretch out.

On Jonas' "art metal" I played a couple of longer ones which I really liked. Not hung over at all, just in a good mood and lots of coffee. That was the same week when I made this video:

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[RazielSR]

I saw tha video some time ago, it's funny

Jens but don't tell me we won't hear keyboards solo or nice melodies in Polaris!! In WIP III video we can listen some nice keyboard stuff, really nice.

[hiro23]

The solo's sound great on that video