Kevin Moore or Jordan Rudess?

I was listening to Graveyard Mountain Home in work last night.  I think that it's a quality piece of work. By turns it's both dark (knowing the story helps here obviously),catchy and uplifting.

Crucially, the whole package is a fairly unique one,as far as I can tell. 

CrowmaKey wrote: Kevin Moore all day long.  In my opinion he is a much more tasteful player - he never over egged the pudding in the way that Rudess can sometimes do. From time to time Rudess' tone is hateful - he *almost* manages to ruin Six Degrees with his treacley sweet effects! In terms of songwriting I think DT miss the influence of Moore - his lyrics for DT were brilliant and his contributions to the musical side of things were also from the top drawer. Also,looked at what he did for Fates Warning when he guested on their recordings - genius! OSI and Chroma Key, too,  are great projects. Yup - Kevin Moore for the win!

I completely agree with the songwriting side of things. I mean, DT have never seemed to interest me during the Rudess era. It just seemed to get too overcomplex, not very diverse and relatively tuneless! Whereas in the Moore era... Now you're talking. You have Learning to Live (my all time favourite DT song), Metropolis Pt. 1, Voices, Erotomania and The Killing Hand. All memorable DT songs, and I have a hunch that it was all because of Moore. He also plays his keyboards LIKE A KEYBOARD, not like some kind of shredding device (example The Glass Prison) unlike Mr Rudess.

Both are great musicians but I think Rudess is more of a true artist. I witnessed this myself in Amsterdam where he did the opening minutes of Octavarium  in an unbelievable way. Shivers down the spine !  Second advantage for him is he also excelled in LTE.

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I voted Moore - Rudess may be a better technical player, but Moore created an atmosphere (which have made his resulting albums (Chroma Key, OSI) awesome) and DT have been missing that terribly since he left.

King By-Tor wrote: THREAD NECROMANCY I voted Moore - Rudess may be a better technical player, but Moore created an atmosphere (which have made his resulting albums (Chroma Key, OSI) awesome) and DT have been missing that terribly since he left.

Wow, epic bump man

Jordan Rudess for me, he's work with DT, LTE and his solo career  apeal more to me than Kevin's one. Never the less Kevin's prestation with DT is excellent , no doubt, but his solo career is rather unintristing for me and even boring most of the time, just check out his work  with Chroma key, totaly not for me and damn boring.

huh?

Uli Jon Roth or Mattias Jabs?

Ruddess for sure, but Moore can still play better than most keyboardists with his face.

Equality 7-2521 wrote: I feel like I see this poll every other week.

it's probably been the same poll, this one is from, like, 4 years ago


Edited by King By-Tor - January 26 2009 at 11:03

The poll results looks real close, I think that's a good outcome for two particularly good musicians.