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Dr. Occulator View Drop Down

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Topic: Where are they now? 3Missing keyboardists
Posted: March 14 2006 at 19:21

Can anyone tell me where these 3 keyboardists are and if are they still involved in music:
Did they burn out or just fade away?

Tony Banks

Kerry Minnear

Ken Hensley

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Posted: March 14 2006 at 19:39

Dr. Occulator wrote:

Can anyone tell me where these 3 keyboardists are and if are they still involved in music:
Did they burn out or just fade away?

Tony Banks

Kerry Minnear

Ken Hensley

And whatever happened to Dave Stewart? The last I know of jim is he turned New Age together with barbara Gaskin.

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dagrush

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Posted: March 14 2006 at 19:45

From the GG homepage:

Kerry and his wife Leslie live in the Midlands (England). They run Alucard Music, which handles the legal and royalty-related issues of Gentle Giant's music today. Musically, I've heard he has worked on some solo projects and also some computer games, thanks to his connections with Ray Shulman.

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Posted: March 14 2006 at 20:03

Ken Hensley guested on The Human Equation by Ayreon a few years back.

Dave Stewart... I've no idea, but David Sinclair has moved to Japan with his wife (via Richard Sinclair when I spoke to him last year).

Tony Banks was an MP and Minister for Sport... wrong Tony Banks!

I hope he's no relation to Geoff Banks the fashion guru who used to present The Clothes Show many moons ago? Then there's Gordon Banks...

DrGoon

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Posted: March 14 2006 at 20:17

Tony Banks - not been terribly long since his last album:

http://www.tonybanks-online.com/index2.php?lang=en

Ken Hensley is also still making music and is touring:

http://www.geocities.com/~wonderworld/

Dave & Barbara have been promising a new album for a while, so its still "in the works" officially:

http://www.davebarb.demon.co.uk/

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Posted: March 14 2006 at 20:25

What about Jürgen Fritz from Triumvirat?

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Ben2112

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Posted: March 14 2006 at 22:41

I seem to remember also reading somewhere that Kerry Minnear has been involved in music instruction (i.e. giving private lessons) and also heavily involved with music in his church. Not sure if he's musical director of the church or what.

Anyone else heard something similar?

And wouldn't it be cool to get private piano lessons from one of your heroes?

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Posted: March 14 2006 at 23:18

Tony Banks just released an orchestral work in 2004...

Does anybody know about Alessandro Lamuraglia who did such an excellent job with Il Trono Dei Ricordi in 1994? He seems to be vanished. Would love to hear something new again...