#1 best Keyboardist and Drummer?

I very cleverly don't know that  The RPI bug hasn't quite caught on yet.

Ha. I'll see what I can think of to continue the evil tide:

Keys:

Keith Emerson (generic)
Rick Wakeman (generic)
David Sinclair
Gianni Leone
Hugh Banton

Drummers:
Carl Palmer (Generic)
Bill Bruford (Generic)
Mike Giles
Jon Hiseman
Billy Cobham

Bwahahaha!

Oberon wrote: KEYBOARDIST: 1. Richard Wright (Pink Floyd). 2. John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin). 3. Jon Lord (Deep Purple). 4. Daniel Melero (Soda Stereo). 5. Ara Tokatlan (Arco Iris). 6. Charly Garcia (Sui Generis). 7. Fito Paez. DRUMMERS: 1. Roger Taylor (Queen). 2. Stewart Copeland (Police). 3. Porl Thompson (The Cure). 4. Hermes Calabria (Baron Rojo)

interesting highly.. hahhahahhahha.. highly frickin inter...hahhahahahhha..esting.  I couldn't have come up with a ....hahhahahhah.. list like that if I tried hahhahahhah.

Best keyboardist: Dave Stewart (Khan, Egg, Hatfeild and the north, National health)

Edited by Zargus - May 28 2008 at 16:31

Thank you for saying Andy Ward and Peter Bardens Cesar. I was about to. And don't dis Rick Wright too much everybody. He may not be the most talented, but he and Gilmour are the two that really gave Floyd their sound musically. This whole poll's kinda screwed up. Is there really a "best"? It's all a matter of opinion. If you put most of these guys up against each other, they'd probably come out even is a far as talent and technical prowess goes.

Geddy Lee and Neil Peart?

Oberon wrote: 2. John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin).

Richard Wright? Roger Taylor? Urgh i hate sounding snobby, but this was asking for it

Bj-1 wrote: superprog wrote: the Supersilent 'duo' of Stale Storlokken (keyborads/synths) and Jarle Vespestad (drums/percussives) for their amazing ability to listen to one another and create beautiful tones n' textures..........     Jarle Vespestad is an amazing drummer, especially his work with Farmer's Market which is absolutely stunning!   For all time favorite drummers, I'd say Mark Zonder, Phil Collins, Bill Bruford, Pierre Moerlen and Daniel Denis have certainly influenced me a lot.   As for keyboardists, Keith Emerson and Kerry Minnear are particular faves. Theres many others too though, I just can't name them all.

Pierre Moerlen was an excellent keyboarder too, by the way; he was a classically trained piano player before he took up drumming. The following anecdote about him (taken from the Gong homepage) shows that:

Jonny Greene
I first met Pierre in 1990 when he came to stay at the house I shared with Daevid in Somerset. The three of us went out to eat at a local café, The Blue Note, which as it's name implies often had live music in the evenings. Two very good local jazz musicians, John Cartwright & Jackie Whitren were playing, and as a happy Pierre got into what they were doing he started to play along using just his hands on the table top. In fact he got so into it that after a while, on the appreciative nod of John Cartwright at the electric piano, he even took a solo. And when he came to the end of the solo the whole, full café, who had no idea who he was, burst into loud, prolonged spontaneous applause - he'd been that good! He was always that good. I'll remember him and the times we had on tour with much fondness.

Oberon wrote: 4. Daniel Melero (Soda Stereo). 7. Fito Paez.

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