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Thoughts from the mind of Santi Galán, 08-12-2001:

>  >Thoughts from the mind of Santi Galán, 06-12-2001:
>
>>I think Tony Banks is the only keys player that can be compared with the
>>jazz guys at least in compositional terms (harmonies...).
>
>>>Somehow TB never managed to impress me that much...
>
>I guess it's a matter of personal taste...

Of course it is.

>  >And I think you're rigth that the rock keyboardists use to get the
>>rigth sounds, but with a poor playing level...how curious.
>
>>>Emerson?  Wakeman?  Poor players...? :-)
>
>Oh, sure... fast scales and arpeggios with some bluesy licks here and
>there...well, I'd never compare them with people like Corea, Hancock,
>Rubalcaba, Zawinul...They're just in another level...

Uhm... I would already be very happy if I reached the level of 
Wakeman :-).  I don't think you do these guys justice by discarding 
their playing as "fast arpeggios with bluesy licks".  I've seen 
Wakeman do things, technically, that Corea or Zawinul can only dream 
of.  Of course Wakeman isn't very brilliant _musically_ (as opposed 
to e.g. Corea) -- I think almost anything he composed rather sucks -- 
but we were talking about _playing level_ here, which is a somewhat 
technical approach, and in that respect not many can beat Wakeman, I 
think.

>Anyway, I'm a big fan of ELP, Yes, Genesis...and have had many many musical
>trips with their albums, but not because of the skills of the keyboard
>parts, but of the concept and the imagination these groups demonstrated with
>their works...

Agreed.  Although I still wonder how ELP as a 3-man band managed to 
make more noise than is explained by the number of people... :-)


cheers,
HJ
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Hendrik Jan Veenstra  <h@knoware.nl>
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