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1. Krzysiek Palczewski
2. Jacek Korzeniowski
3. Peter Bardens
4. Andy Tillison
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Richard Wright
Dave Stewart
Keith Emerson
David Sinclair
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KEITH EMERSON (as far as chops are concerned.)

TONY BANKS

MIKE PINDER

RICHARD WRIGHT

KLAUS SCHULZE

PETER BARDENS

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Three who have never been bettered (listed in CHRONOLOGICAL order, not quality - impossible to separate in that respect):-

1) BILLY RITCHIE (1-2-3/Clouds)
2) KEITH EMERSON (The NICE/ELP)
3) RICK WAKEMAN (YES)
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Originally posted by giselle giselle wrote:

Three who have never been bettered (listed in CHRONOLOGICAL order, not quality - impossible to separate in that respect):-

1) BILLY RITCHIE (1-2-3/Clouds)
2) KEITH EMERSON (The NICE/ELP)
3) RICK WAKEMAN (YES)

Partick Moraz had to follow 2 of those legends and did a more than decent job. I prefer Refugee over many more highly rated seventies symph albums and Relayer stands toe to toe with anything Wakey did in Yes and from a keyboard pint of view perhaps bettered both.

I therefore give you Mr Moraz the ultimate prog keyboard GODTongue
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^Richard have you ever heard Mainhorse with Moraz?
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Micheal pinnella

Klause Shultze

Kevin Moore

Maurizio Guarini/Fabio Pignatelli


Honorable mentions for me...

Jordan Rudess, Martin Orford, Andre Andersson, NAthan Van Halla and Norbert Krueller.
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:


Partick Moraz had to follow 2 of those legends and did a more than decent job. I prefer Refugee over many more highly rated seventies symph albums and Relayer stands toe to toe with anything Wakey did in Yes and from a keyboard pint of view perhaps bettered both.

I therefore give you Mr Moraz the ultimate prog keyboard GODTongue

I much prefer Moraz over Wakeman...Relayer is my fave Yes album.  Oddly enough, Tales (the album Wakeman hates) is my 2nd fave LOL
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Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

^Richard have you ever heard Mainhorse with Moraz?

Off you tube I think I have but can't remember . Is it worth checking out?
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Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:


Originally posted by presdoug presdoug wrote:

^Richard have you ever heard Mainhorse with Moraz?

Off you tube I think I have but can't remember . Is it worth checking out?
It has been years since i have heard it (don't own a copy) but i was quite impressed. I have ordered a copy of it recently, and could give you a more exact judgement when i recieve it.
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1. Rick Wakeman 2. Keith Emerson 3. Patrick Moraz 4. Tony Kaye 5. Geddy Lee
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My favorite

Rick Wakeman
Keith Emerson
Rick Wright
Patrick Moraz
Tony Banks
Jon Lord
Pete Bardens

Even Geddy Lee. He has a very interesting style. He makes his synth stuff sound really big but its actually fairly simple chords, but it sounds like a lot more.

Edit: And Mike Pinder! How could I forget Mike Pinder?! The master of the Mellotron himself. I can't believe I forgot him Shocked Ouch Pinch



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Originally posted by Ambient Hurricanes Ambient Hurricanes wrote:

I like Tony Kaye a lot.



I read "Tony Kayo Dot"
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Originally posted by FunkyHomoSapien FunkyHomoSapien wrote:

Emerson and Wakeman automatic, but what about the guy who influenced them both? And many more besides, Rock's first lead keyboard player, Billy Ritchie.  

Yes I agree in terms of importance and quality - He had Emerson and Wakeman and many others in his wake - but strictly speaking, does Ritchie qualify as a pure Prog keyboardist? His real influence was pre-Prog.
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Vittori Nocenzi - BANCO
Keith Emerson, - ELP
Rick Wakeman, - YES
Patrick Moraz, - YES
Tony Banks, - GENESIS
Don Airey, - RAINBOW
Thijis Van Leer, - FOCUS
John Evans, - TULL
Gianni Nocenzi, - BANCO
Jon Lord, - DEEP PURPLE
Tony Kaye, - YES, BADGER, DETECTIVE
Martin Orford,- IQ
 
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There are so many to chose from. Rick Wright grossly underrated in my opinion for starters. Technically, Jordan Rudess, Keith Emerson (scary left hand) and Rick Wakeman are awesome, however from what I've heard Rudess and Wakeman can't improvise for sh*t so they can't get my vote. Keith on the other hand... I thought he had jazz training he improvises so well. Jan Hammer is also a great improviser, but his technical facility lacks and he is a tad messy in places.

Keith takes it for me.

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Originally posted by The Pessimist The Pessimist wrote:

There are so many to chose from. Rick Wright grossly underrated in my opinion for starters. Technically, Jordan Rudess, Keith Emerson (scary left hand) and Rick Wakeman are awesome, however from what I've heard Rudess and Wakeman can't improvise for sh*t so they can't get my vote. Keith on the other hand... I thought he had jazz training he improvises so well. Jan Hammer is also a great improviser, but his technical facility lacks and he is a tad messy in places.Keith takes it for me.Honorary mention, Per Wiberg.



Not so sure about Rudess not being able to impovise. He began his connection with Dream Theater with the Liquid Tension Experiment albums, and those albums had a great ammound of improvisations, so...

And about Wakeman, well, perhaps you are right. But on the other hand, he is great at doing new arrangements for his older songs. Both solo or with yes, he has often improved his songs on later live versions... or yes's songs, wether he was part of the band when the song was originally recorded or not.
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

Originally posted by The Pessimist The Pessimist wrote:

There are so many to chose from. Rick Wright grossly underrated in my opinion for starters. Technically, Jordan Rudess, Keith Emerson (scary left hand) and Rick Wakeman are awesome, however from what I've heard Rudess and Wakeman can't improvise for sh*t so they can't get my vote. Keith on the other hand... I thought he had jazz training he improvises so well. Jan Hammer is also a great improviser, but his technical facility lacks and he is a tad messy in places.Keith takes it for me.Honorary mention, Per Wiberg.



Not so sure about Rudess not being able to impovise. He began his connection with Dream Theater with the Liquid Tension Experiment albums, and those albums had a great ammound of improvisations, so...

And about Wakeman, well, perhaps you are right. But on the other hand, he is great at doing new arrangements for his older songs. Both solo or with yes, he has often improved his songs on later live versions... or yes's songs, wether he was part of the band when the song was originally recorded or not.


I was hyperbolising about Rudess... Every person in the world can improvise to some degree, it's just I don't think Rudess does it very well at all Same with Wakeman. He's a technique wizard, don't get me wrong, but that's not enough for me.
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