Your Favourite Keyboard Player - Progressive Rock Music Forum

There should be a spot on the list for Brian Auger and Jan Hammer.

octopus-4 wrote:

Keith Emerson, but let's spend few words on Rick Wright: his inventive has characterized the sound of Pink Floyd up to Animals. PF wouldn't have been the same without him, and The Final Cut is the demonstration.

...just because this is NOT a Pink Floyd poll LOL

Precisely. The Wall and Final Cut both suffered texturally from what I term 'lack of Rick'... tho that doesn't necessarily mean they were inferior albums, but that topic has been debated many times before within these forums.

"We're going to need a bigger swear jar."

Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2

Today, it's Banks just ahead of Wakeman (from this list), with a nod to Roger King (off list).

Welcome to the middle of the film.

Umeda wrote:

"Keyboard", is this keyboard a synthesizer or electric piano? Or both?

'Keyboard' for the purposes of this poll can mean: upright piano, grand piano, harpsichord, electric piano, pipe organ, electric organ, Harmonium, synthesiser, mellotron, Chamberlin, mini-moog, etc etc. I.E. almost anything with keys on it outside of the woodwind family of instruments.

Edited by Progishness - May 04 2021 at 06:27

"We're going to need a bigger swear jar."

Chloë Grace Moretz as Mindy McCready aka 'Hit Girl' in Kick-Ass 2

Progishness wrote:

Umeda wrote:

"Keyboard", is this keyboard a synthesizer or electric piano? Or both?

'Keyboard' for the purposes of this poll can mean: upright piano, grand piano, harpsichord, electric piano, pipe organ, electric organ, Harmonium, synthesiser, mellotron, Chamberlin, mini-moog, etc etc. I.E. almost anything with keys on it outside of the woodwind family of instruments.

I was preparing to write much the same thing. I'm best at the computer keyboard, but it tends to turn out more dissonant than I would like. ;)

I love the good old acoustic piano, my least favourite keyboard that springs to mind is the keytar.

I don't have a favourite, but in progressive jazz-rock/fusion Herbie Hancock would be one of them. Love Sanjay Kumar in U Totem. In Prog Related, I like William Sheller. Love Fabio Frizzi. Today I feel Hermann Szobel, who is superb, but again I don't really have a favorite, and I'd have to try to think through many more.

On the list, probably Thijs van Leer, so to participate in the poll, I will give him a vote.

Edited by Logan - May 04 2021 at 07:00

Grumpyprogfan wrote:

From the list Tony Banks.

Other... Chick Corea, Hiromi, or Kerry Minnear

agree---but Banks is my ultimate fav based on all his playing---nothing over the top or cheesy for Tony.

suitkees wrote:

BaldJean wrote:

this is of course no surprise. it's Barbara

Barbara Dennerlein definitely is very progressive in the playing of her instrument, but she's not a prog rock artist, and definitely not a rock artist; and that is what this poll is about. It is clear that you want to plug your Barbara Dennerlein every which way and every time you can, but here it is off topic.

And this was the polite way of saying: it's getting very tedious and starts to smell like trolling.

BaldJean wrote:

Barbara Dennerlein may not have been included in the archives, but she made a few albums that fall into the "jazz-rock/fusion" category. her album "Orgelspiele" even has some tracks that sound like symphonic prog, like for example this track:

and some of her albums are almost "progressive electronic"

You now have the polite version and the 'other one'

Why don't you give it a f*cking rest ladies? Angry

Favorite keyboard Player: Keith Emerson

Least favorite keyboard Warrior(s): baldjean and the 'other one'

Edited by ExittheLemming - May 04 2021 at 08:23

Keith Emerson.

"PROG IS MY FERRARI".
Jem Godfrey (Frost*)

Irmin Schmidt or William D. Drake anyone? ... or Jasper Van't Hof?

Edited by Lewian - May 04 2021 at 13:56

Rick Wright from the list.

Others: Hugh Banton and Claudio Parra (Los Jaivas)

Poll Question: Who is your favourite keyboard player?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Rod Argent (The Zombies / Argent)	1	[1.41%]
Tony Banks (Genesis)	12	[16.90%]
Vince Crane (Atomic Rooster)	1	[1.41%]
Keith Emerson (The Nice / ELP)	17	[23.94%]
John Evan (Jethro Tull)	1	[1.41%]
Jean-Michel Jarre (solo)	0	[0.00%]
Tony Kaye (Yes / Badger)	1	[1.41%]
Thijs van Leer (Focus)	1	[1.41%]
Jon Lord (Deep Purple)	5	[7.04%]
Francis Monkman (Curved Air / Sky)	1	[1.41%]
Patrick Moraz (Yes)	1	[1.41%]
Rick Wakeman (Strawbs / Yes / solo)	10	[14.08%]
Rick Wright (Pink Floyd)	4	[5.63%]
Somebody Else (please comment)	16	[22.54%]
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