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Select your favorite Keyboardist among two legends: Rick Wakeman or Keith Emerson
Maybe you like both equally or possibly neither. I have to go with Wakeman myself. I feel he is more versatile.
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Tom Ozric
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Posted: March 31 2019 at 15:03 |
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I’ve been listening to both a lot lately, almost impossible to choose between the two, maybe Emerson for his Hammond abuse
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Posted: March 31 2019 at 15:42 |
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Wakeman because of his Yes music contribution.
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Posted: March 31 2019 at 16:30 |
This---very concise great playing and solo's---Keith is great but a bit of a w**ker---but Tony Banks is my favorite.
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Posted: March 31 2019 at 16:32 |
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Keith Emerson. Another one of those individuals you wonder, skill wise, if he's from another planet.
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Posted: March 31 2019 at 17:13 |
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I prefer Hugh Banton!
Or John Peter Robinson (Quatermass).... Or even Tony Pagliuca!  Edited by jamesbaldwin - March 31 2019 at 17:14 |
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Posted: March 31 2019 at 17:21 |
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Both. Keith for his simultaneously jazzy, bluesy piano style. Rick for his lickety-split Minimoog leads. Laid down some slick lines on Clavinet, too. Rick's also a Mellotron user. Keith wouldn't go near the thing.
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Posted: March 31 2019 at 17:50 |
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Posted: March 31 2019 at 17:51 |
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Both rule but I'll go with Wakeman.
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Posted: March 31 2019 at 18:20 |
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I like Yes more than ELP and Wakeman is surely good and makes his contributions, but somehow, probably rather irrationally, I never liked the guy and it's not him that makes Yes great to me. Emerson on the other hand... well he has his name on many things that I don't like, but he brought a spark into everything he did, bright enough for me to recognise.
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Posted: March 31 2019 at 19:02 |
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Both. Quite different in their style, but both amazing at what they did.
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Posted: March 31 2019 at 19:11 |
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Very close for me but went with Rick. I didn't do the both equally thing because I'm a bigger Yes fan than ELP fan. Also, even though many Rick's solo albums are crappy he did put out a lot more of them than Keith so he gets at least one point for that.
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Posted: March 31 2019 at 19:29 |
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Wakeman and Emerson are legends, and rightly so, but Juergen Fritz is my preference. Along with Kristian Schultze and Jasper van't Hof, who don't get talked about in PA, unfortunately....
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Posted: March 31 2019 at 22:29 |
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Wakeman easily, one of my favourite artists. I do like Yes more than ELP, and Wakeman more than Emerson... I even like Wakeman's solo career better than ELP.
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Posted: April 01 2019 at 01:51 |
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I prefer Dave Stewart over both 😎
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Love 'em both but I voted for Keith principally for this reason: Wakeman is a keyboard player who composes Emerson was a composer who played keyboards
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Posted: April 01 2019 at 05:59 |
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Wakeman is an amazing musician who's musical contributions are incalculable, but I still gotta' go with madman Emerson.
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Posted: April 01 2019 at 05:59 |
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I'm a huge Yes fan, and I love "Six Wives", whereas ELP is kind of "meh" for me, so it's Wakeman all the way.
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Posted: April 01 2019 at 07:28 |
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I'm much more of a Yes fan than an ELP fan but after seeing both live I would have to give the edge to Emerson.
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