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schizoidman 
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 11:45 |
Vote for one only, please.
Zawinul gets my vote. His years with Cannonball Adderly and as a session musician and then with Wayne Shorter in Weather Report and then with his own projects....incredible work for such a long, long time.
Edited by schizoidman - November 21 2013 at 11:50
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Progosopher
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 11:50 |
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It may be an obvious choice but I can't help but vote Wakeman. Glad to see that Zawinul got the first vote, though.
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schizoidman
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 11:53 |
 Progosopher wrote:
It may be an obvious choice but I can't help but vote Wakeman. Glad to see that Zawinul got the first vote, though. |
My life without Wakeman, Banks, Wright and a few others would not be as good, but, in all honesty, overall my fav is Jozef.
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 11:55 |
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Other-Jurgen Fritz.
His playing in Triumvirat, and the overlooked soundtrack he wrote and played, Hard To Be A God, speak to me like no one else.
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schizoidman
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 11:56 |
presdoug wrote:
Other-Jurgen Fritz.
His playing in Triumvirat, and the overlooked soundtrack he wrote and played, Hard To Be A God, speak to me like no one else. |
I've not heard anything by him....yet 
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presdoug
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 11:59 |
schizoidman wrote:
presdoug wrote:
Other-Jurgen Fritz.
His playing in Triumvirat, and the overlooked soundtrack he wrote and played, Hard To Be A God, speak to me like no one else. |
I've not heard anything by him....yet |
I would recommend starting off with the Triumvirat debut record, Mediterranean Tales.
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schizoidman
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 12:02 |
presdoug wrote:
schizoidman wrote:
presdoug wrote:
Other-Jurgen Fritz.
His playing in Triumvirat, and the overlooked soundtrack he wrote and played, Hard To Be A God, speak to me like no one else. |
I've not heard anything by him....yet |
I would recommend starting off with the Triumvirat debut record, Mediterranean Tales.
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 12:19 |
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tough choice but I always end up going with
Keith Emerson
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The.Crimson.King
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 12:30 |
Wow, tough choice...narrowed down to Hugh Banton for his organ work, Kerry Minnear for his ability to play complex counterpoint with ease, Banks for his incredible composition skills, and Keith for...well...being Keith.
Have to give my vote to Emo. He had it all, the organ skills of Banton (though he couldn't build his own like Hugh could), the counterpoint of Minnear (the opening of Karn Evil 9 is incredibly difficult), the composition skills of Banks, the ability to take classical pieces and rearrange them for rock instrumentation, and he forged the wilderness of using a Moog as a live instrument...besides, who else could play a flying piano 
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 12:33 |
I have albums with all these players (bar Borghi) - my vote will always go to Dave Stewart, both for technique and sound 
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 12:35 |
The.Crimson.King wrote:
Wow, tough choice...narrowed down to Hugh Banton for his organ work, Kerry Minnear for his ability to play complex counterpoint with ease, Banks for his incredible composition skills, and Keith for...well...being Keith.
Have to give my vote to Emo. He had it all, the organ skills of Banton (though he couldn't build his own like Hugh could), the counterpoint of Minnear (the opening of Karn Evil 9 is incredibly difficult), the composition skills of Banks, the ability to take classical pieces and rearrange them for rock instrumentation, and he forged the wilderness of using a Moog as a live instrument...besides, who else could play a flying piano
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Actually, I think I've seen a few people do it on America's Got Talent. A simple three chord song hardly compares to a wild solo, though.
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 12:40 |
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Overall Tony Banks, but in the last twenty years Mark Kelly.
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 12:48 |
First vote for Dave Sinclair 
Off the list: either Klaus Schulze or Edgar Froese.
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Moogtron III
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 13:07 |
My usual list would be Banks, Wakeman, Emerson, Jobson, Stewart in no particular order
Today I vote for Flavio Premoli, not an original player maybe, but his keyboard parts are absolutely wonderful.
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 13:13 |
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Kerry Minnear
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 13:45 |
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kevin moore
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 15:51 |
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Mike Ratledge from this list.
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 16:39 |
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Other — Jan Hammer! From fusion to prog to AOR to film scoring, he's (nearly) done it all.
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 16:58 |
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its Rick Wakeman, but honorable mentions go to the Tony's (Banks and Kaye) and Richard Wright
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MFP
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Posted: November 21 2013 at 17:26 |
First vote for Hugh Banton.
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