Best Keyboard player ever ?

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Warner Edwards

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• Aug 20, 2019

• #121

With limited knowledge of some of the other mentions I'll echo Richard Wright and Rick Wakeman and add Mark Kelly of Marillion

 

Surf's Up

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• #122

Jimmy Smith - end of thread......

https://youtu.be/fuqW-wUZ8V4

 

ozzygull

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• Aug 20, 2019

• #123

I find this guys videos interesting

Run down on what thinks is the best keyboard intro's

 

Weststander

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• Aug 20, 2019

• #124

Peteinblack said:

Saw them in Bristol on the same tour - as good as they ever were. The 2017 album they were promoting, Hippopotamus, is up there with Kimono my House and Propaganda from the '70s (there isn't a weak track on it), and their mid-1990s 'comeback' album, Gratuitous Sax and Senseless Violins is also a classic.

Absolute geniuses, musically and lyrically. Yet like a lot of people who first saw them on Top of the Pops performing 'This Town Ain't Big Enough For Both Us', I thought they were a one-hit-wonder novelty band!

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I've loved The Number One Song In Heaven for 40 years, plus many of their other songs. The former would be in my Desert Island Discs. Being into synth pop, New Wave and dance music, to me it's perfection.

Life's distractions including bringing up a family, I've never seen Sparks. Only stumbled across this 2017 performance yesterday on youtube ...love it. The backing band are all fantastic musicians, giving a wall of sound. I must keep an eye on Sparks future dates in the UK.

 

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METALMICKY

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• Aug 20, 2019

• #125

ozzygull said:

I find this guys videos interesting

Run down on what thinks is the best keyboard intro's

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His videos are excellent. I'm much more of guitar fan but would nominate two players from two of my favourite bands.

Brighton's own Dave Greenfield from The Stranglers and Mike Lindup from Level 42.

 

Hornblower

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• Aug 20, 2019

• #126

Jeez, 13 pages and no one got the answer right. You folk need to broaden your music horizons, the answer is Art Tatum.

 

Icy Gull

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• Aug 20, 2019

• #127

No idea if he has already been mentioned and many on here won’t have a clue who he was because he died in 1994 but played piano for the Stones, The Beatles and The Kinks in their heydays

Nicky Hopkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfUZDzEN_I0

 

Blue3

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• Aug 20, 2019

• #128

All these are or were great in their own ways cannot pick a best out of them

Keith Edmunson
John Paul Jones
John Lord
Dave Greenfield
Rick Wakeman
Billy Preston

 

BadFish

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• Aug 20, 2019

• #129

Cheshire Cat said:

Duran Duran FFS, they could barely hold their instruments, let alone play them.

Instead (in no particular order) who could all play with more than one finger...
Rick Wakeman
Vangelis
Tony Banks
Keith Emerson
Jon Lord
Richard Wright
Patrick Moraz
...and several others.

But NOT Duran Duran.

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John Taylor was a very good bass player. I give you exhibit A, Rio track by track thingy with the bassline isolated.

 

Boys 9d

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Barbara Dennerlein. See the foot work from 7.24.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYP7Mxss3_U

 

Questions

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• Aug 20, 2019

• #131

Liberace....

 

Doc Lynam

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• #132

De Tellivo, full back Championship Manager season 97/98 Italian version. Brilliant player consistently in and around the 9s every match.








Edit: Ah keyboard players!

 

Nitram

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• Aug 20, 2019

• #133

I always found that Elton John could knock out a tune now and then. Pretty good live as were Ian McLagan ( Small Faces and Faces) Rod Argent (Zombies) and Gillian Gilbert (New order).

 

getz

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• #134

Very surprised no one has mentioned Bruce Hornby and of course Oscar Peters on.

 

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Mexican Seagull

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• Aug 20, 2019

• #135

And no mention for Gregg Allman

 

bluenitsuj

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• Aug 20, 2019

• #136

Dougie...........

Sorry I read it as Keyboard Warrior

 

Two Professors

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• Aug 20, 2019

• #137

After much thought (and playing Speed King multiple times) it has to be John Lord,with honourable mentions for Stevie Winwood and Alan Price.

 

zefarelly

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• Aug 20, 2019

• #138

ozzygull said:

I find this guys videos interesting

Run down on what thinks is the best keyboard intro's

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This blows most of that into the weeds. No fancying around with synths and pianos, steam in with a heavy Hammond up to 11!

https://youtu.be/LgJgEBKYeAM

 

zefarelly

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• Aug 20, 2019

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Icy Gull said:

No idea if he has already been mentioned and many on here won’t have a clue who he was because he died in 1994 but played piano for the Stones, The Beatles and The Kinks in their heydays

Nicky Hopkins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfUZDzEN_I0

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Very good call, also with Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart early doors, and Steve Miller, oh, the who too!

 

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Cesar Chavez

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• #140

Mark Ambler -TRB, Power to the People


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