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Points: 8717 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 22 2010 at 18:07
Although there are competing instruments like violin and guitar in their sound, mention should be made of german group Wallenstein, where Jurgen Dollase's lovely, moving keyboard sound is so very important-you can tell he has classical music training, but does not smack of pretentiousness, as his playing comes straight from the heart!
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I just added an excellent German trio to symph called Cannabis India..very cool, very ELP
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How could u forget Greenslade?! Awesome band, specialy Time and Tide and Bedside Manners Are Extra
For me its one of the few bands, like Supertramp, that did a great sound with two keybordist.
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Points: 18045 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: June 28 2010 at 18:57
Originally posted by desistindo desistindo wrote:

How could u forget Greenslade?! Awesome band, specialy Time and Tide and Bedside Manners Are Extra
For me its one of the few bands, like Supertramp, that did a great sound with two keybordist.
 
Indeed ... and not to forget that Dave Lawson went on to produce many albums ... and some of them were magnificent and one of the special ones happens to be Stackridge's Mr. Mick ... and guess who made the keyboards in that album! ... totally excellent.
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I'm surprised Rare Bird hasn't gotten a mention yet. Unless they have and I missed it. Two keyboardists and a drummer with nary a guitar or bass in sight.
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Anything from my list of course :-):
 
 
 
And for the beginning I recommend few bands not mentioned in this topic before:
 
- Collegium Musicum (Slovakian's ELP from 70'. Fantastic!!)
- Social Tension (Japanese ELP clone similar to Ars Nova and Gerard but formed before them)
- Motoi Sakuraba (Japanese organist/keyboardist)
- Eloy (especially albums from 2nd to 4th)
- Nexus (probably the best symphonic act from south America)
- Still Life (great early 70' organ prog)
- Cosmic Nomads (Australian organ-driven new band)
- Beggar's Opera (real legend of organ driven prog...)
- Storm At Sunrise (American mix oh hard rock, stoner rock and prog rock with organ solos in every song)
- Trikolon / Tetragon (German organ-driven band)
 
..... and others from my list...
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Fellas, we can't forget the soft machine Tongue. Mike Ratledge was the canterbury wizard.  
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Originally posted by ozzy_tom ozzy_tom wrote:

Anything from my list of course :-):
 
 
 
And for the beginning I recommend few bands not mentioned in this topic before:
 
- Collegium Musicum (Slovakian's ELP from 70'. Fantastic!!)
- Social Tension (Japanese ELP clone similar to Ars Nova and Gerard but formed before them)
- Motoi Sakuraba (Japanese organist/keyboardist)
- Eloy (especially albums from 2nd to 4th)
- Nexus (probably the best symphonic act from south America)
- Still Life (great early 70' organ prog)
- Cosmic Nomads (Australian organ-driven new band)
- Beggar's Opera (real legend of organ driven prog...)
- Storm At Sunrise (American mix oh hard rock, stoner rock and prog rock with organ solos in every song)
- Trikolon / Tetragon (German organ-driven band)
 
..... and others from my list...
how could i have forgotten Beggar's Opere-especially the first album-Alan Parks' organ is really something-also, i wonder, how could i have forgotten Pell Mell? thanks for reminding me!Smile
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Rejoice is a german band on PA. 1 album that i got in tape and i threw away in the garbage.  It's a instrumental album keyboardriven prog with a good rythm section.
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Definetly Greenslade, VDGG, ELP, Caravan (Blind Dog & Waterloo Lily) and The Nice. And
lets not forget Dave Greenslades Solo-Work including The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony which has only different keyboards/synthetizers as instruments except Phil Collins funk-drumming Wink
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Definitely check out Aardvark's debut (and only!) album.  Keyboard-led band with a delicious fuzzy organ sound in the place of a lead guitar.  Pure pornography for the hungry Hammond enthusiast, such as myself!
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Originally posted by timothy leary timothy leary wrote:

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Especially Birds. Such an underappreciated and amazing little gem. King-Bird is an amazing epic as well.
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Gerard - especially "The Ruins of a Glass Fortress" & "The Pendulum".
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Thought I had responded to this thread in the last two weeks - but no. Doing a local search to find out where my contribution ended up and came up with several similar threads (without my contribution!!!), e.g.
 
 
 
So with potentially obvious threads, do a search first and watch out for gems and lots of duplication - then resurrect that old thread with your new contribution, e.g. by trying keywords/phrases such as keyboard, Hammond, Lowery etc.
 
So somewhere else I probably suggested the prog/jazz rock end of the scale albums by
 
Jens Johansson: Fjäderlösa Tvåfotingar, Heavy Machinery, Fisssion, e (as part of Jonas Hellborg's group), No Other World (as the Shining Path - death metal played by jazzers?).
 
Mats Morgan - all their albums with jazz rock and prog rock occasionally sitting somewhere between Zappa and Stevie Wonder
 
Niacin - all their albums although perhaps start with Time Crunch
 
Brian Auger
 
Gerald has been mentioned immediately before, and I would add their covers album Keyboard Triangle II


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I have all Niacin-albums and some boots.
I even traded some bootlegs with Niacin's bassplayer , Billy Sheehan
nice guy
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I would recommend the Brazilian band, Dispasao. Quite the keyboard driven band and quite good.
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