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Best Rock Pianist (?)
#22403332 - 10/19/15 12:26 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Non-jazz nor jazz-fusion.
I've seen five or six (YouTube) live concerts of Elton John between 1972-77, and, god damn, he just shreds.
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22403366 - 10/19/15 12:32 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ikey Owens Money Mary Ramos-Nishita Mark Aanderud
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22403372 - 10/19/15 12:33 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22403373 - 10/19/15 12:33 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Madman Across the Water (live 1971)...o, wOw. I'd say the only living pianist who can play like this would be jazz great McCoy Tyner (my fave pianist):
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22403480 - 10/19/15 12:59 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Freakdaddy said: Non-jazz nor jazz-fusion.

Pretty much all of the best ones that come to mind are pretty jazzy 
Also are you talking just straight piano or keys in general? Because both are amazing.
This song has some great piano:
Lake "Red Lake"
It is a bit overshadowed by everything else going on in the song but it really shines in a few spots. Their keys player is super groovy.
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Bob Dylan, Ray Manazerak
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Luueschen]
#22403502 - 10/19/15 01:03 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Ray Charles
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Luueschen]
#22403510 - 10/19/15 01:06 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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richard wright RIP 
Another super groovy keys player
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Wright rules. How about John Paul Jones or Gram Parsons
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Luueschen]
#22403541 - 10/19/15 01:14 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Keith Emerson. Rick Wakeman. Steve Howe. Patrick Morazz
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: zappaisgod]
#22403554 - 10/19/15 01:17 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Billy Preston, Keith Emerson, Steve Winwood.
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22403563 - 10/19/15 01:19 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I was proposing just piano.
Ray Charles =
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Sun King]
#22403566 - 10/19/15 01:20 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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i mean id prob say elton john
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22403569 - 10/19/15 01:21 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Billy Preston also quality.
I wdn't call either of those guys "jazz" (now, someone like George Duke--great as he was--was jazz, so is disqualified from this here poll. Nome sane?
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22403574 - 10/19/15 01:22 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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billy joel
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22403583 - 10/19/15 01:24 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
CHeifM4sterDiezL said: billy joel
Good call..
Also, Freddy Mercury.
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22403584 - 10/19/15 01:24 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I love Billy Joel up through The Stranger. But I just don't put him in Elton John's league.
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22403591 - 10/19/15 01:26 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Jerry Lee Lewis, obviously.
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22403595 - 10/19/15 01:27 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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lil richard (LOL)
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Came to post Zappa's list, basically. Wouldn't have included Steve Howe though as I didn't even know he played piano.
Definitely not Billy Joel
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yeh cuz ur list is def not gonna fade into obscurity
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Quote:
musiclover420 said: richard wright RIP 
Another super groovy keys player 
  
(But mostly synths; I was jess lookin' of the ivories.)
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22403700 - 10/19/15 01:55 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Sun King]
#22403821 - 10/19/15 02:25 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Quote:
hex_enduction said: Came to post Zappa's list, basically. Wouldn't have included Steve Howe though as I didn't even know he played piano.
Definitely not Billy Joel 
I made a mistake. I meant Tony Banks.
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: zappaisgod]
#22403851 - 10/19/15 02:33 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I had a feeling 
I wish Billy Joel would fade into obscurity, I'm sorry but the dude's music is straight garbage to my ears.
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Yeah. He wrote a few catchy tunes but he is mostly a singer/songwriter. He isn't distinguished by his musicianship.
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22404017 - 10/19/15 03:12 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I honestly prefer electric keys due to the diversity and infinite possibilities, I love both though.
My grandma is a classical piano teacher and has two full sized grands in her living room I use to play them when I was younger.
Synths are so much more compact and versatile though, I definitely appreciate both though. Acoustic and electric both have their place and ups n downs.
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy] 1
#22404020 - 10/19/15 03:13 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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Tony Banks is a wunderkind. One of my favorite keyboardists; he plays a lot of piano (but it's his work with the Mellotron that blows me away--like God's Own Choir at times, and beautiful--unlike Rick Wakeman's jarring cacophony (but I love Rick Wakeman for different reasons).
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22404148 - 10/19/15 03:49 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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I forget his name but the keys player from the black crowes and CRB is amazing, he plays mostly synth though.
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Atreyu]
#22404193 - 10/19/15 04:02 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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bruce hornsby
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: zappaisgod]
#22404512 - 10/19/15 05:28 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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zappaisgod said: Keith Emerson. Rick Wakeman. Steve Howe. Patrick Morazz
I didn't even know Steve Howe played keyboards. I found this trivia. Steve Howe and Rick Wakeman first played together on the first Lou Reed Solo album.
I saw Yes once with Morazz and once with Wakeman. I liked the show with Morazz better, not because he was a superior player, but he fit in better with the band concept, played shorter solos, etc.
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22404688 - 10/19/15 06:03 PM (8 years, 3 months ago) |
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John Lord, Ray Manzarek
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Rick Wakeman (Yes; David Bowie; much solo work) is up there.
Tom Waits is a brilliant pianist--a gifted motherfucker.
Rick Davies (Supertramp) = highly underrated on the ivories.
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22521410 - 11/14/15 08:43 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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i would go with Ray Manzarek, Rick Wakeman, the guy from Lynyrd Skynyrd (early years prior to the plane crash and becoming morbidly obese), and Tony Banks (prior to Genesis morphing into a soulless, shitty pop band)
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: crackbaby]
#22521455 - 11/14/15 09:00 AM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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That'd have been Billy Powell (passed away about four years ago). Great pianist; good call.
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
#22524029 - 11/14/15 07:29 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Rick Wakeman
I have been getting down to some Yes, definitely some great keys!
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Fats Domino Billy Preston Donny Hathaway Bruce Hornsby Leon Russell Dr. John
Elton is probably still the best though.
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: RebelRMS]
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Shiithead]
#22525068 - 11/14/15 09:55 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Uriah Heep has a pretty killer keys player, he is mostly an organ and synth guy though.
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Shiithead]
#22525083 - 11/14/15 09:58 PM (8 years, 2 months ago) |
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: Freakdaddy]
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Rick wakeman, tony banks
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: SunnyD]
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Professor longhair. Duh
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Keith Emerson. Those other guys are good, but he's got some very cool toys.
The drummer is an alien. No human can play like that.
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: zappaisgod]
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Re: Best Rock Pianist (?) [Re: searching]
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Good one...I had an old buddy who loved Dream Theatre
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