greatest prog keyboard player

Emerson, no contest. 

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"?


Edited by ClassicRocker - December 06 2007 at 22:35

Whoever it was that voted for Geddy Lee....leave. 



Just...leave. 



Now.  

Edited by rileydog22 - December 06 2007 at 22:36

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

ClassicRocker wrote: 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.

Easy Money wrote: agProgger wrote: ClassicRocker wrote: 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.


Edited by ClassicRocker - December 07 2007 at 00:01

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.

According to the list:

Great Rick

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.