Your Greatest Piano/Keyboard/Synth player
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Who is you favorite Piano,Keyboard/Synthersizer player.
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Tony Banks(Genesis)Mick Mcneil(Simple Minds)Paul Humphreys(OMD)
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Oh jeez, this is easy: Jim Steinman. Classically trained, started in theater (with a sensational rock opera he wrote and starred in at uni called Dream Engine, which stunned Joe Papp, founder of the NY Shakespeare Festival), transitioned into rock/pop and became the defining legend of "piano rock" and the "power ballad," and composer/producer of such hits as: [list] [*] Bat Out of Hell (wrote every song on this legendary Meat Loaf album, including "Paradise by the Dashboard Light" and "Two Out of Three Ain't Bad"; the album went on to sell 44 million copies) [*] Bat Out of Hell II: Back Into Hell (wrote and produced this album, including "I'd Do Anything for Love (But I Won't Do That)," for Meat in 1993; the album went on to sell 26 million copies) [*] "Total Eclipse of the Heart" [*] "Making Love (Out of Nothing at All)" [*] Falling Into You (a Celine Dion album, which Jim produced and for which he wrote "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" (winner of the 1997 BMI Song of the Year Award); this album won a Grammy
for Album of the Year) [/list:u] His music has appeared in films such as Footloose, Streets of Fire, The Shadow and Mask of Zorro. He also transitioned back into theater in the 90s, and worked on projects such as Whistle Down the Wind (wrote the lyrics to Andrew Lloyd Webber's music), Tanz der Vampire (music; now in its 16th year selling out in Europe), Bat Out of Hell: The Musical (being readied currently for production; wrote the script, music and lyrics), and Nutcracked (lyrics, set to a heavy metal version of the Tchaikovsky score). Oh, wait, I forgot to mention he plays piano too. 
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My first choice is Ray Manzarek of The Doors, incredible playing! Then it would be Rick Wright of Pink Floyd, I also enjoy Ray Charles, Elton John, Fats Domino etc.
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JordanOnTheRun:
My first choice is Ray Manzarek of The Doors, incredible playing!
Yes!
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Wix Wickens!
No dissing on Wixy hear but, there are a ton i rank beforehand, being a keys guy myself...but you can't put them all in one category Piano: Liberace...yeah he was corny, but that guy was the master. Organ: Ray Manzarek...seeing Ray and Robby this fall and Cannot WAIT! Possibly the biggest influence on my keyboarding style in general Electric Piano: Roger Hodgson of SUpertramp, seen and met Roger ...wonderful guy, huge heart, and very experiemental, in all the right ways. Synth....umm....no. -
Stevie Wonder Paul McCartney Elton John
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Jerry Lee Lewis...that's a given Billy Joel Elton John And of course as mentioned above.....Liberace
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rick wakeman
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JennyLP:
Jerry Lee Lewis...that's a given Billy Joel Elton John And of course as mentioned above.....Liberace
Jerry Lee.....was a performer. And in my opinion, an overrated one...he could play one way, and that is what he did...till he couldn't anymore, and then pushed himself beyond that... I prefer Little Richard.
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Elton John
