Greatest Rock Keyboardists

octopussois · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject:

boy, my list blew. point system? what the hell was I thinking?

Ode to No One · Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 4:40 pm Post subject:

I assumed you were thinking in terms of who you'd most like to see nude.

octopussois · Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:35 pm Post subject:

I would kill myself before I had to see Wakeman nude.

tlf · Joined: 11 Oct 2007 Posts: 157

i certainly think Bellamy has a bit of skill on the old keyboard.
he seems very Pink Flyod influenced

thejew · Joined: 21 Nov 2007 Posts: 626 Location: Virginia, US of A

What about Geddy Lee? I would love to see him put down the bass in which he'd mastered to just straight jam on keyboard. It might be nice... Cool

Guest · Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2008 4:41 pm Post subject:

Jan Hammer is a rock keyboardist?

B360Lightning · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 28 Location: Flannigan's Forest

At one point in the 80's Hammer did turn to rock.
Kerry Minnear from Gentle Giant is a way more interesting keyboardist than Wakeman or Emerson. Influence or popularity is over-rated, I listen to something for what it is. The creativity of Minnear blows most of these tools away.

Now Debussy.... there was a keyboardist

stealyourface420 · Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 301

Brent Mydland (Grateful Dead) should be on here. As should JoJo Herman (Widespread Panic).

stealyourface420 · Joined: 14 Jul 2006 Posts: 301

Brent Mydland (Grateful Dead)
JoJo Herman (Widespread Panic)
Rob Barraco (Phil Lesh & Friends, The Dead, Dark Star Orchestra, etc.)
Kyle Hollingsworth (The String Cheese Incident)
Steve Molitz (Particle, Phil Lesh & Friends)
Aron Magner (The Disco Biscuits)
Melvin Seals (Jerry Garcia Band)
Danny Louis (Gov't Mule)
Benmont Tench (Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers)
John Medeski (Medeski Martin & Wood, The Word)

beaverteeth92 · Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 539

Is it me, or should Kerry Minnear be a lot higher? Like Top 50? His keyboard skills are insane, and he has no trouble with strange time signature changes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTet3C_afKA

beaverteeth92 · Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 539

Where the hell is Jurgen Fritz of Triumvirat? He's like the German Keith Emerson.

Maddolis · Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 11:28 pm Post subject:

I've read a few pages and seen many requests for Jordan Rudess to be moved higher, but not many arguments against it.

I certainly reckon he deserves a top 10 spot, does anyone have any argument (or "evidence") to putting every single one of the 1-11 keyboardists above him?

I like the top 3.

gminer · Joined: 17 Apr 2005 Posts: 6103

..some may enjoy this Jon Lord and Rick Wakeman interviewing each other .... Take care

http://rockondigital.com/catalog/4990.html

beaverteeth92 · Joined: 17 Nov 2007 Posts: 539

Why isn't Tuomas Holopainen of Nightwish on here? The guy is probably third to Rudess and Johannsson as the most influential metal keyboardist of all time.