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Poll Question: who is the greatest prog keyboard player of all time?
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25 [27.78%]
33 [36.67%]
18 [20.00%]
2 [2.22%]
1 [1.11%]
1 [1.11%]
2 [2.22%]
0 [0.00%]
7 [7.78%]
1 [1.11%]
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^ Are you talking about getting the sound samples, looping them, adding decay times, etc., or are you talking about physically building a synthesizer?  If it's the latter, I wouldn't include that in my calculations, unless it was for who was a better electrical/sound engineer.
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Have you ever tried to create a decent-sounding synthesizer sound from scratch? It ain't easy, even using the most modern technology. It's truly an art form, in fact.

Not that Rudess is particularly adept at that, IMO. In fact, that's my main beef with him: he uses the same 5 patches or so over and over and over again. He's a ridiculously skilled player, however.

I went with Tony, who will sometimes understate his playing in order to fit the song.


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Keith Emerson - 10
Rick Wakeman - 9.999
Tony Banks - 9.9

But I will always remind you that Banks is a complete jerk. Nowadays he tells everyone about how he hated playing long songs with ridiculous lyrics and complex solos, and says he only did it because he had a weak personality and Peter Gabriel and the others drove him to do it.
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On the 'tron, you can only hold a note for 8 seconds before the tape runs out.  The "tarantula" or "spider" technique involves slowly crawling from one inversion of a chord to another in order to hold a mellotron chord for more than 8 seconds.  

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Originally posted by erik neuteboom erik neuteboom wrote:

 
                   Emerson never played the Mellotron so Rick Wakeman is my #1
                   because of his famous 'Tarantula technique' on the Mellotron Wink!


What's this 'Tarantula technique'?
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I'm a Wright-fan, but he's not there *glares*
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Tony Banks is one of my favorites musicians ever. I think his skills and way of playing at keys are unique in every way. But i also like Emerson and Wakeman but there is many more great key players that you forget to list here.
Where is Kerry Minnear from Gentle Giant, one of the most inteligent and skillfull musician ever
where is Ken Hensley from Uriah Heep, very important key player in prog music in my opinion
 where is John Lord from Deep Purple
 where is John Tout from Renaissance, one of the most inventive key player from his decade
 where is Peter Bardens from Camel
 where is Hugh Banton from Van der Graaf Generator, and many many stunning musicians that you forget to mention here. They are among my favourites key players from entire prog music, and they are from old school, not to mention others from '80 and '90 and from today.
This poll in my opinion is so so, not good not better then others, anyway is forgetable, sorry to be so rude.
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My favourite is Banks, in terms of musical sympathy the mans a genius. However the best player is Wakeman at the end of the day, so he got the vote.
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1. Rick Wakeman
2. Tony Banks
3. Keith Emerson
4. Joe Vannelli
5. Neal Morse

For those of you who don't know of Joe Vannelli or under-appreciate his work, check out the Gino Vannelli albums "Storm at Sunup" and "Powerful People". I think you will be pleasantly surprised Wink
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Not to complain about your list (lists like this can never be complete) but I've noticed on Prog Archives that when keyboards list are created they always seem to omit David Sancious who is probably one of the finest prog keyboardist going.
 
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Saw Joe Vannelli didn't get any vote yet!!!. Listen to the old Gino Vannelli stuff, till 1980. Very nice.
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Originally posted by Harry Hood Harry Hood wrote:

Your poll fails for not including Steve Walsh, Tomas Bodin, or Kerry Minear.
 
Gotta give some love to Ryo though. He IS rock and roll, after all.
  I was going to mention Steve Walsh too


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According to the list:
K. Emerson is one of the most skilled and technical keyboardists, but T. Banks puts into his music something more: feelings.
Besides, I couldn't answer the question who's the best at all.
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Kerry Minnear, Peter Bardens, Mark Kelly, This van Leer and Martin Orford should be there.
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Originally posted by ClassicRocker ClassicRocker wrote:


Hm, that sounds kinda cool. The difference for me though is that it isn't necessarily Rudess's "skill" that would make effects like that sound good, but merely the technology within the keyboards themselves... Just food for thought.


It's hard to argue with him going to the Juliard School of Music at age 9.
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Your poll fails for not including Steve Walsh, Tomas Bodin, or Kerry Minear.
 
Gotta give some love to Ryo though. He IS rock and roll, after all.
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Originally posted by Easy Money Easy Money wrote:

Originally posted by agProgger agProgger wrote:


Originally posted by ClassicRocker ClassicRocker wrote:


Originally posted by agProgger agProgger wrote:

Not to be a DT fanboi, but Rudess gets my vote.  The other guys are a bit before my time, so I'm not terribly familiar with them, but Rudess can do some amazing stuff.  The other guys are really good, but Rudess gets it for his ability to produce a turntable sound with a keyboard =P
"a turntable sound"?
He manually produces the turntable-like noise in "Glass Prison" using some weird technique that manipulates the pitch ribbon (whatever that may be -- I'm not terribly familiar with keyboards, unless that's just another name for the pitch wheel).  Seeing as how all of those guys are amazing keyboard players, that one unique though largely unimportant tidbit gave him the edge in my book hehe.

The late 80s Ensoniq EPS had a unique feature which would allow you to manipulate a sample's start time in real time and really "play it" like a DJ would. Maybe his kybd has a similar feature. I haven't seen anything as creative as the EPS in a long time.

Hm, that sounds kinda cool. The difference for me though is that it isn't necessarily Rudess's "skill" that would make effects like that sound good, but merely the technology within the keyboards themselves... Just food for thought.


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Originally posted by agProgger agProgger wrote:


Originally posted by ClassicRocker ClassicRocker wrote:



Originally posted by agProgger agProgger wrote:

Not to be a DT fanboi, but Rudess gets my vote.  The other guys are a bit before my time, so I'm not terribly familiar with them, but Rudess can do some amazing stuff.  The other guys are really good, but Rudess gets it for his ability to produce a turntable sound with a keyboard =P
"a turntable sound"?
He manually produces the turntable-like noise in "Glass Prison" using some weird technique that manipulates the pitch ribbon (whatever that may be -- I'm not terribly familiar with keyboards, unless that's just another name for the pitch wheel).  Seeing as how all of those guys are amazing keyboard players, that one unique though largely unimportant tidbit gave him the edge in my book hehe.


The late 80s Ensoniq EPS had a unique feature which would allow you to manipulate a sample's start time in real time and really "play it" like a DJ would. Maybe his kybd has a similar feature. I haven't seen anything as creative as the EPS in a long time.
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