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Points: 23122 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2013 at 19:23
Originally posted by Sumdeus Sumdeus wrote:

Manzarek is one of the greatest.



But of course he is. Sure as honey.
I think he was even awarded with best musician in 68 over Jimi. Not that that says anything really, but you can't deny the man's skills. He was the bass, harmonies and vocal contributor. What he did in some of those live gigs simply defies belief. He's obviously got a brain in each extremity.
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2013 at 20:01
One of my favorite Doors songs is Yes, The River Knows - beautiful lyrics, drumming, vocals and piano. 

Edited by Horizons - January 11 2013 at 20:01
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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I love that one too.

Also Indian Summer
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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2013 at 21:06
"The Crystal Ship".
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Points: 831 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 11 2013 at 21:45
I could list favorite Doors songs forever... such a perfect band
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Points: 9869 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 12 2013 at 21:53
In prog,  my favourite is definitely Rick Wright, followed by Minnear, Correa, Stewart, Correa, maybe Wakeman and Greenwood too.  I don't really relate emotionally to Banks's playing style, though I do like the parts that he writes.

But barring Wright, my favourites are really outside prog and mainly in jazz/jazz based music - Peterson, Evans, Brubeck, Dennerlein, Rhoda Scott, Stevie Wonder, Fiona Apple.   I have only watched and heard Anton Baronin once when Igor Butman came over to play so I won't call him a favourite but I did love his performance in that concert, he was wonderful.    
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Points: 831 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 13 2013 at 04:22
if we speak of jazz my favorite keyboardist is Thelonious.
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Points: 700 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2013 at 05:20
Hugh Banton?
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Points: 13 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 15 2013 at 05:27
Martin Orford and Clive Nolan...
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Points: 195 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2013 at 09:35
My vote was for Billy Ritchie, the first lead rock keyboard player, but Ray Manzarek is another very fine musician.
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Points: 30223 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2013 at 15:09
I thought I would trawl the thread to see who hasn't been mentioned yet (and apologies if I didn't look hard enough)
Vangelis Papathanassiou - forget the synth stuff 1975 and onwards (although I like it). He was very important as a prog musician on Aphrodites Child 666 as well as making some very interesting solo albums such as Earth, Hypothesis and The Dragon.
Rod Argent must also be worth mentioning if only for Hold Your Head Up.
Manfred Mann was a great prog keyboard player in the seventies as well.
Ton Scherpenzeel (Kayak) is always overlooked for some strange reason. Fantastic player especially on the first four Kayak albums.
 
Good to see mentions for our modern day keyboard heroes Par Lindh,Martin Orford and Fred Schendel.
 
I also like Richard Barbieri a lot . Could be viewed as the modern equivalent of Richard Wright?! I seem to be the only person who likes the album he did with Steve Hogarth.
 
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Points: 4574 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2013 at 19:03
richardh, I thought the album he did with Steve Hogarth was very good, so you're not the only one
A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!!
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 16 2013 at 19:14
What was the album like?
Crushed like a rose in the riverflow.
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Points: 30223 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2013 at 01:51
Originally posted by Wanorak Wanorak wrote:

richardh, I thought the album he did with Steve Hogarth was very good, so you're not the only one
Cool
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Points: 7514 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2013 at 02:52
John Hawken gets my vote as favorite, if not best...
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Points: 4574 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 17 2013 at 12:34
Horizons, Barbieri and Hogarth's album was very ambient with a lot of little things going on. It's one you really have to LISTEN to carefully to reveal all that's going on.
A GREAT YEAR FOR PROG!!!
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Points: 3136 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 18 2013 at 06:32
No mention of Lalo Huber - your'e all just a bunch of philistines.............
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Points: 12 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 19 2013 at 18:34
Hm...I'd say probably Jordan Rudess, the Hugh Banton/Peter Hammill duo, Nicky Hopkins, Richard Wright and Jon Lord, in that order.

I should probably also mention my deep love of Teddy Wilson.
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Points: 10970 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 02 2013 at 22:57
It's nice to see at least two people mention Vittorio Nocenzi on this thread (not quite sure how well his bro Gianni did with Banco's music, though), but I'm quite surprised no one mentioned the hot and talented PFM keyboardist Flavio Premoli.
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Points: 10387 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 03 2013 at 03:12
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A shot of me as High Priestess of Gaia during our fall festival. Ceterum censeo principiis obsta
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