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Favorite keyboardist/synthesist?
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:17 am
by toryjames
thewaag wrote: Two of my absolute keyboard heros are Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman. Duh--I wonder why that is?? I have been trying to find a way to get either of them to town in concert for the past year and a half...
It gave me this poll idea...
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 1:25 am
by toryjames
Vince Clarke
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 4:07 am
by Relayer - 1974
Rick Wakeman is easily my favorite. I still cant get over the solo sections he does in South Side of the Sky, on the Yes 35th Anniversary Concert on the Tsongas DVD!!
Dont worry about trying to get wakeman to do a show, try and get Yes to tour again!
(there are rumours that they are to tour next year to celebrate their 40th Anniversary. Yes fans can only hope!)
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:20 am
by Tangsonghe
Ouch. Too difficult! Favourites?
KEYBOARDISTS:
Rick Wakeman, (first heard 7 wives as a boy in 1980)
Stevie Wonder,
Rick Wright (his playing to me is so sublime)
SYNTHESISTS:
Brian Eno
Ed Wynne (Ozric Tentacles)
Geir Jennsen (Biosphere)
Dave Greenslade (because of the Pentateuch -
the first ever synth sounds I heard as a boy in 1980)
Pete Namlock
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 7:20 am
by Sweep
Wendy Carlos, Tim Blake, and Miquette Giraudy, in any order.
Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 8:21 am
by till
Klaus Schulze for moods
Manfred Mann for solos
Christopher Franke (ex TD) for sequences
Wendy Carlos for orchestration and the timeless track "Timesteps"
Boele Gerkes (
Something Completely Different)for goose bumps
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 4:43 am
by RL
SAGA for the great Moog sounds on the old records
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:42 am
by goldphinga
Herbie Hancock, George Duke, Joe Zawinul, Tony Banks, Chick Corea,
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:19 am
by THM
Rick Wright (damn' I LOVE Pink Floyd), Vangelis (great gigs with his Yamaha CS-80 synths), Rick Wakeman (his Yes years), and many more...
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 8:39 pm
by cageswood
Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson Jon Lord and these days the amazing Tomas Bodin from The Flower Kings
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:03 pm
by Kevin Lightner
I pretty much like anybody that can still play once the power has been shut off.
Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:27 pm
by toryjames
Moogs don't sound very good when the power is off.
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:02 am
by Kevin Lightner
The topic isn't favorite Moog players.
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:27 pm
by dr_floyd
Some non-keyboardist/synthesists who can still play with the power off>
Tom Scott - Lyricon driver through Moog Modular 12 (woodwinds)
Mark Isham - Moog Modular 12, Oberheim 4 voice (trumpet/keyboards)
Michael Brecker - Steiner EWI though Oberheim Expander (saxophone)
Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:51 pm
by Kevin Lightner
Michael Brecker will have some problems still, considering he died earlier this year
