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moshkito 
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 Posted: March 08 2011 at 14:10 |
Hi,
Some others:
Edgar Froese -- hard to miss or not include him, and he knows his stuff.
Irmin Schmidt -- We can talk about Can all day ... but the individuals in there were all magnificent in their own way.
Phil Ryan -- Specially his work with Man ... his solo stuff is not as good, or his stuff with Pete Brown.
Jean Yves Labat -- worked with Todd and his 2 solos in the early days were excellent and fun
Erik Norlander - Rocket Scientists and Lana Lane as well. Magnificent player and knows his equipment and technical stuff well enough to mix digital and analog quite well. Some say that he is a Emerson clone, but I would like to suggest that Erik is much more flexible and sometimes better than Emerson.
There are simply too many of them ... and there are so different from each other and do so many different things that it is hard to think that anyone is better than anyone else.
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BrufordFreak
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Posted: March 08 2011 at 14:32 |
Argentina's LALO HUBER from NEXUS is, IMHO, this century's prog keyboard god!
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Drew Fisher
https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/
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John McIntyre
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Posted: March 08 2011 at 15:23 |
Could I add Robert Fripp?
We all know him as a Guitar God with King Crimson, but he played Mellotron, Pianet and a Harmonium from 1970-74, reprising The Mighty Tron in 1994 (THRAK). Plenty of people tried the Tron, but Fripp stuck with it - there are >50 Crimson albums with him playing Tron.
I concur about Rick Wright and Phil Ryan (Man, [Iorweth Pritchard and] The Neutrons and Eyes of Blue, plus a few others)
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The Wrinkler
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Posted: March 08 2011 at 16:15 |
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Aww someone already beat me to Irmin Schmidt! I under appreciated him too, until I saw some live videos on youtube. He is awesome, now making me listen to CAN again, but for the keys. They are super subtle, but add so much to the music.
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BaldFriede
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Posted: March 08 2011 at 17:40 |
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Ingo Bischof of Guru Guru, Kraan and Karthago (who are not in the archives; they should be in prog-related).
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 BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue.
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Progosopher
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Posted: March 08 2011 at 19:19 |
So many good artists mentioned so far, especially as the polls tend to favor two particular individuals I need not name right now. In relation to them, almost anybody else is under appreciated. Here are some names that popped into my head, in no particular order:
Patrick Moraz
Pete Bardens
Jean-Michele Jarre
Robert John Godfrey
Don Airy
Rick Wright
John Paul Jones
Nick Magnus
Maybe not underappreciated by some folk, but darn good players.
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The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty"
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presdoug
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Posted: March 08 2011 at 20:23 |
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forgot to mention Wolfgang Dauner
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stonebeard
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Posted: March 08 2011 at 21:56 |
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Mark Kelly.
Any Berlin School artist.
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clarkpegasus4001
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Posted: March 09 2011 at 00:16 |
Dave Stewart from Bruford, definately, Geoffrey Pearcy from Lake who never gets a mention anywhere...now he has!  Patrick Moraz who often gets overshadowed by Wakeman I think. Tom Coster from Vital Information.
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Tony C.
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ten years after
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Posted: March 09 2011 at 03:27 |
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Francis Decamps of Ange produced some pretty impressive keyboards in the early 70s. Hardly ever gets a mention though.
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JeanFrame
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Posted: March 09 2011 at 09:56 |
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And for Heaven's sake! Billy Ritchie, the first Lead keyboard player of them all! Without whom etc etc.....
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jcleary
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Posted: March 09 2011 at 14:00 |
 JeanFrame wrote:
And for Heaven's sake! Billy Ritchie, the first Lead keyboard player of them all! Without whom etc etc.....
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What's your connection to Clouds? Obviously a family member or friend. Well Clouds have no one to blame for their lack of success except themselves. They had every opportunity to create two great cutting edge progressive rock albums, but instead they made two VERY MEDIOCRE albums. Both you and Alex, the guy that does their Website, have claimed that the albums were ahead of their time. Well i was there and bought Scrapbook when it came out and i can tell you that it was WAY BEHIND all of the great albums that were coming out of the UK before and at the same time. Just to refresh your memory check out all of these albums that came out that were alot better than Scrapbook and WaterColour Days.
Jimi Hendrix Experience Are You Experienced May 1967
The Beatles Sgt Pepper June 1967
Pink Floyd Pipper At the Gates of Dawn August 1967
Moody Blues Days of Future Passed November 1967
Cream Disraeli Grears November 1967
Procul Harum Procul Harum November 1967
Traffic Mr Fantasy December 1967
The Rolling Stone Their Satantic Majesties Request December 1967
The Zombies Odessey And Oracle April 1968
The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown Debut June 1968
Caravan Caravan October 1968
Jeff Beck Truth October 1968
The Nice Ars Longa Vita Brevis November 1968
Procul Harum Shine On Brightly February 1969
Spooky Tooth Spooky 2 March 1969
Moody Blues On The Threshold Of A Dream April 1969
The Who Tommy May 1969
Procul Harum A Salty Dog July 1969
Yes Yes August 1969
The Nice Nice August 1969 Clouds Scrapbook August 1969
Blind Faith Blind Faith September 1969
The Beatles Abbey Road September 1969
Ten Years After Sssh September 1969
King Crimson In The Court of the Crimson King October 1969
Pink Floyd Ummagumma November 1969
Rare Bird Rare Bird December 1969
Egg Egg March 1970
Argent Argent March 1970
Atomic Rooster Atomic Rooster April 1970
Quatermass May 1970
King Crimson In the Wake of Poseidon May 1970
Srawbs Just A Collection Of Antiques And Curios July 1970
Yes Time And A Word August 1970 Pink Floyd Atom Heart Mother October 1970
Emerson Lake and Palmer Debut Album November 1970
Gentle Giant Gentle Giant November 1970
Genesis Trespass December 1970
King Crimson Lizard December 1970
Van Der Graaf Generator H to HE December 1970 Egg the Polite Force January 1971
Yes The Yes Album February 1971 Clouds WaterColour Days May 1971 Strawbs From the Witchwood July 1971
Yes Fragile November 1971
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Garion81
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Posted: March 09 2011 at 15:12 |
Gerinski wrote:
Fully agree with Jurgen Fritz, Toni Pagliuca, Dave Stewart...
I would also add
Kansas Joe Walsh, often regarded just as a singer, but listen to his keyboard playing in The Spider.
Dave Greenslade was a great keyboardist but unfortunately lacked the level of inspiration of others.
Par Lindh is not really under-appreciated but often forgotten. Similar situation with Erik Norlander. Clive Nolan is rarely mentioned but with the amount of work he has done I believe that he deserves credit, as well as Neal Morse.
I also believe that Geoff Downes is better than what the music he plays shows.
There's a little know italian guy named Luca Zabbini leader of the band Barock Project who is a real young keys virtuoso, very much influenced by Keith Emerson, check out their videos on You Tube.
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I think you meant Steve Walsh. Kansas would have been a very different band if Joe had been the lead singer and keyboard player. 
Also Kerry Livgren. Generally Walsh played the organs with some vibes and synth while Livgren played the pianos and almost all the synths.
Edited by Garion81 - March 09 2011 at 15:13
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moshkito
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Posted: March 09 2011 at 16:27 |
Hi,
Now we're getting it on with this list ... lovely to see people spread out a bit ... and get away from the famous ones ... and some others that deserve the credit as well.
Imai (ex-Sadistic Mika Band, I think)
Riuiyshi Sakamoto --- ohh well, at least he has an Oscar in his closet and his name etched in Movie History ... !
... did I not see Brian Eno?
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zachfive
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Posted: March 09 2011 at 18:09 |
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I have yet to see anyone mention Kit Watkins of Happy the Man/Camel fame. He is with out a doubt very talented and is one of my personal favorites.
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valravennz
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Posted: March 09 2011 at 18:36 |
My small list. some already mentioned: Dave Stewart; Patrick Moraz; Rod Argent; Rick Wright; Brian Eno; Eddie Jobson; Fred Schendel (Glass Hammer) and John Evan (Jethro Tull).
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TODDLER
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Posted: March 09 2011 at 19:46 |
zachfive wrote:
I have yet to see anyone mention Kit Watkins of Happy the Man/Camel fame. He is with out a doubt very talented and is one of my personal favorites. |
Me too!
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TODDLER
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Posted: March 09 2011 at 19:47 |
BaldFriede wrote:
Ingo Bischof of Guru Guru, Kraan and Karthago (who are not in the archives; they should be in prog-related). |
Wow! Ingo Bischof....HE IS GREAT!
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TODDLER
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Posted: March 09 2011 at 19:50 |
moshkito wrote:
Hi,
Some others:
Edgar Froese -- hard to miss or not include him, and he knows his stuff.
Irmin Schmidt -- We can talk about Can all day ... but the individuals in there were all magnificent in their own way.
Phil Ryan -- Specially his work with Man ... his solo stuff is not as good, or his stuff with Pete Brown.
Jean Yves Labat -- worked with Todd and his 2 solos in the early days were excellent and fun
Erik Norlander - Rocket Scientists and Lana Lane as well. Magnificent player and knows his equipment and technical stuff well enough to mix digital and analog quite well. Some say that he is a Emerson clone, but I would like to suggest that Erik is much more flexible and sometimes better than Emerson.
There are simply too many of them ... and there are so different from each other and do so many different things that it is hard to think that anyone is better than anyone else. |
I can't believe it! Phil Ryan? Why is he not mentioned more often?
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TODDLER
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Posted: March 09 2011 at 19:55 |
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I like Robert John Godfrey from THE ENID. He is a great player. He creates some beautiful string sounds for soundscape type stuff but is also one hell of a classical player.
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