top 5 rock keyboardist...

this one is kind of hard...i dont know some of thier names but here goes nothing...

1. the guy from iggy pop/david bowie
2. geddy lee (foot keyboards)
3. greg allman
4. ray manzaric
5. steve winwood

other notables:
the guy from chuck berry's band (he just died, he invented the guitar riff chuck used on everything ((johnny b. goode etc.))
the guy from YES
the guy from pink floyd
the girl from wings (just kidding)
libarace(although not rock this guy was OUT there)

Derek Sherinian (formerly of dream theater)
Jordan Ruddess (dream theater)
Page McConnell (Phish)
Ryo Okumoto (Spocks Beard)

I can't think of any more off the top of my head. I'm sure there's a few more I could come up with.

Sure.... Go ahead and leave out Little Richard ! You know they ALL stole from him!
Jerry Lee Lewis
Elton John ( Shut Up ! )
John Paul Jones
Guy that played for Deep Purple:rockin:
Guy that played for Dio:rockin:
Guy that played for Wham ?

You've gone too far, Monkey.

R.I.P.~ Ray Manzarek, The
Best In Any West!

Rick Wakeman-Yes
Keith Emerson-Emerson Lake and Palmer
Tony Banks-Genesis
Stevie Wonder
Rick Wright-Pink Floyd
Jon Hammer
Stevie Winwood
Billy Preston

1. Tsutomu Kato / Tadashi Osanai - KORG
2. RA Moog -MOOG Music
3. Ikutaro Kakehasi - Roland
4. Tadao Kashia - Casio
5. Koichi Kawai - Kawai

Responses too literal?

Not sure if this dude counts as rock or not. Really cool stuff though.

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"guy from Deep Purple" WTF!? (lol)
Jon Lord! Hands down the best live keyboard solos I've ever seen. RIP
Number 2 was Rick Wakeman and #3 Tony Banks. #4 Keith Emerson, #5 Dennis DeYoung (and he could sing!)

Beer-lord said:

Rick Wakeman-Yes
Keith Emerson-Emerson Lake and Palmer
Tony Banks-Genesis
Stevie Wonder
Rick Wright-Pink Floyd
Jon Hammer
Stevie Winwood
Billy Preston

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OK. Close the thread.

Couldn't whittle it down to 5, so here's my 9.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garth_Hudson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicky_Hopkins
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rick_Wakeman
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Manzarek
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Emerson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lord
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Hornsby
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Goldberg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Kooper

OK. Now you can close the thread.

What? No Gary Wright?

littletommy said:

What? No Gary Wright?

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The "Dreamweaver" dude?

MrNatural said:

The "Dreamweaver" dude?

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Well, yeah! The one and only!:rockin:

Keith Emerson
Rick Wright
Jon Lord
Jan Hammer
Manfred Mann

John tesh

^^^^^^^

That. Thread.

Roddy Bottum. screw the rest of your silly shizzle.

I'll go all over the place.

Rudess
Lord
Herbie Hancock
Elton John
Ben Folds

Edgar Winter

For without him, there would be no keyboard body strap!