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Poll Question: who is the greatest prog keyboard player of all time?
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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.
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Originally posted by Atavachron Atavachron wrote:

what about greatest prog banjo player, hm?...  the keyboardists get all the glory while the five-string gods of prog are ignored




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what about greatest prog banjo player, hm?...  the keyboardists get all the glory while the five-string gods of prog are ignored
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Whoever it was that voted for Geddy Lee....leave. 



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a few I would have liked to have been there but  its a fine list  ...  Emerson I think 
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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"?


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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
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Emerson, no contest. 
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I voted for Tony because I feel he's the best writer and sort of in the shadow of Emerson and Wakeman.  I love all three though. 
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Someone voted for Geddy Lee? Pot smoking is bad children.
 
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Keith Emerson for technical brilliance, compositional brilliance (especially the Piano Concerto #1) and creativity.
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Well, Rick Wright, subtle yet extremely efficient.
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'greatest'?   hmm, I guess Wakeman from the list... I'd add John Novello, Ron Jarzombek and Alain Rochette
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im going to give some love to Jordan Rudess. i play the piano and listening to this man do whatever it is the aliens allow him to do is mind blowing. Wakeman is a god i know, and Emerson is, well emerson. but Rudess is severely behind so i thought id vote for him. i particularly liked the evening with petrucci and rudess where he moves away from his piano "shredding" and takes a much more tastefull approach. Rudess is some kind of freak. 
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I voted for Geddy just to troll...sometimes I'm a troublemaker Evil%20Smile
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^ I don't know much about playing keyboards, but I don't think you want to be pulling out all the stops... that would sound terrible Wink
 
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Although it SEEMS to me that Keith Emerson is the most skilled keyboardist out there, I did not really enjoy anything he ever really wrote. It was ok, but all of his playing seemed to be very skilled, but it stayed only on one plane. I do not think his music ever developed or went anywhere. One exception for this is Tarkus, but I feel overall his music never went anywhere.
So I vote for Tony Banks, because of his abilities, and the stuff he wrote was so perfect for what he needed to do, and   he went where he had to with his music. He also could pull out all the stops with amazing keyboard solos.
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Originally posted by erik neuteboom erik neuteboom wrote:

About the missing list Easy Money, I would like to add Kerry Minnear, Toshio Egawa, Peter Bardens, my fellow Dutchmen Rick Van Der Linden and  Thijs Van Leer ...
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and Ken Hensley, Hugh Banton, Rod Argent, Dave Greenslade, Bo Hansson, Tony Kaye, Patrick Moraz, Jon Lord, Ray Manzarek, Derek Sherinian...


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Rick Wright!  Tongue

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