We'd spend hours and hours at the piano, swapping ideas. The Stooges' sound was so evocative yet so simple. Zappa was a huge influence on how I wrote music for Phish. Fogerty plays what I would if I was 22, more talented and into the blues. But we can't know what his full impact could have been. Of course, the Police were amazing musicians. Their melodies and harmonies have always been instantly familiar. His dancing was spellbinding twists and splits that left me in total disbelief. Her influence on me is so obvious. The drugs and drinking he was no better or worse than the rest of us. Carl himself was a very bright guy, and very funny. They bucked the system and encouraged their fans to do the same: to be free thinkers. But basically, "Suzie Q" has all the drama you would ever need. Most rock songs about women are from the outside looking in: They say, "Babe, you're so hot, come sleep with me." They have become a household name with music that is anything but mainstream. We waited all day for them to arrive. Ronnie Van Zant was Lynyrd Skynyrd. I remember one time, Booker accidentally had two dates booked at the same time, so he took some other band and went somewhere in Kansas, and I went with the MGs to Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, where I had to go pose as Booker T. Halfway through, some guy yells out, "Hey, man, that guy ain't no Booker T.! Later in life, in the early Nineties, I witnessed a wonderful moment, when the Shirelles were honored by the Rhythm & Blues Foundation. I played with Muddy, too, and it was so great to play with both of them. Their music could just always hold that. Think about how on old N.W.A records the beat would change four or five times in a single song. The sanctions and the embargo were on. The first song of theirs that I vividly remember hearing was "Take It Easy." The well-known music magazine Rolling Stone in its September 18, 2003, issue 931 published a list of the 100 best guitarists of all time. (Image credit: Tom Copi/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) Steve Winwood 8. But I believe that his guitar playing changed radically in the early Seventies because singing and songwriting became more important to him, and Robert Johnson had a lot to do with that. But the MGs were like a family. I was told that. The American Dream has a lot of back alleys, and he was showing those things, and I felt like, here's a guy trying to talk to me about something I had seen firsthand. Of all the bands I'd come across in my life, they were the finest arrangers. The thing was, he was doing that when the public eye was on him, and everything he was hashing out just expanded, and that's when things got out of control. Their music can make you think of walking on the beach with your wife, or of locking yourself in your room with your big toe on the trigger of a shotgun sometimes within the same song. The essays on these top 100 artists are by their peers: singers, producers and musicians. I didn't grow up a Deadhead. It was '77. His first big records, like "Moanin' at Midnight" and "How Many More Years" I'd hear them on the radio when I was still in Louisiana, on WLAC out of Nashville. It would be phenomenal. This is why we're talking about him now. I'd hear the man's voice and try to picture what he looked like. There was just nothing cooler than Aerosmith coming out of America at that point. Add to that Ozzy's amazing voice and one of the greatest rock guitarists of all time, Tony Iommi, and it's an unstoppable force. I also remember being on a long cross-country family road trip as a kid, driving across the Texas desert at night. But wherever she may be, whether it's in Spain, Asia or Egypt, she's never forgotten her humble beginnings. People don't realize how unique that is. Later, when Holland-Dozier-Holland left, I co-wrote "Still Water (Love)" with Frank Wilson for the Four Tops. All rights reserved. We got to go back and do some digging. We were playing the Deep South Crunkville, before there was crunk and it was just black people at those shows. And they achieved that. They were professionals who came up during the punk era and found their messages later on. I didn't know what "production" was back then, but I knew I loved the music. Jimmy and Tom decided to give me "Stop Draggin' My Heart Around," which they had written with Campbell. Even his messes are beautiful. There was a real tradition of great singers in the group: Clyde McPhatter, Johnny Moore, Ben E. King and Rudy Lewis. He commanded both the rhythm section and melodies in the band. There's just no escaping them. Nicky Hopkins 9. The thing is, he had seven years of the most extraordinary, historic guitar playing ever and 40 years of doing good work. But it wasn't like that. Upon Lewis' death, Moore returned to the group in time for "Under the Boardwalk.". ("This person didn't pass the bar and has thyroid problems." The essays on these top 100 artists are by their peers: singers, producers and musicians. And anyone who sings needs to be exposed to Steven Tyler. Back then the Four Tops were called the Four Aims. Carlos isn't the lead singer, but he is the maestro. She didn't sing like Aretha Franklin she wasn't a gospel singer but she was a stylist, and you always believed her. He was so loud. We'd try to change every one of our songs to try and capture their drumbeats. Excitement would still not have peace. I had no idea how to get to that point, how to layer all those instruments. We were both fans of the Drifters even before we started writing, and later producing, for them. He told me his father would actually get mad, saying, "Play that thing right, boy, or don't play it at all." Whether it's the Cult or the Red Hot Chili Peppers, I apply the same basic formula: Keep it sparse. He could turn the corniest things into funk. The Eagles provided the soundtrack to so many of my summers, and likely many of yours, too. He is one of the most original bass players ever. Anyway, these are our 100 Keyboard classicslet's hear what you think should be included. Hence began the rumor that I was a roadie for the Yardbirds. But this was also the guy who did 87orchestral pieces like The Yellow Shark. A wayward fugitive, stumbling through the door of some Provenal cafe, his hat and coat soaking wet from the journey. Al Kooper 10. I first met Gram in 1968, when the Byrds were appearing in London I think it was a club called Blazes. It meant, "Shut the fuck up and get out of my face." There's nothing like it. The first time we toured with the Beastie Boys was the Raising Hell tour in 1986: Run-DMC, Whodini, LL Cool J and the Beastie Boys. That extended version of "Whipping Post" is the all-time end-all for me. Axl knew how to work an audience. Ben E. King was this younger singer just coming up, yet he had this mature style that was so unusual. The words, the melodies and the sentiment are all there, clear and true. She's transformed herself into an international sensation an elegant powerhouse. I only met him once, after a show in San Francisco. So he quit the Byrds, right there and then. Nobody sounds like him. Admittedly, I was reading a lot about peak oil at the time, but c'mon, who else can inspire a crowd of 100,000 to throw their arms in the air while offering each individual brain in that crowd the opportunity to think critically about language and the state of the world today? You never heard Jagger hanging out on a single note the way Keith Relf could. I was simply staggered by the amount of equipment they had: by Ginger Baker's double bass drum, by Jack Bruce's two 4-by-12 Marshall amps and by all of Eric Clapton's gear. You can think that it's all been written, but it hasn't. I heard a lot of Aerosmith in them, which meant I also heard a lot of bands that came before us. The music is bitchin'! I wanted to make a new record but I was scared. But it was his voice that reached the higher ground. Learn how to play rock and blues piano from one of rock's greatest. Mainstream radio and TV presented the late-Nineties teenager with a weirdly extreme choice between aggro rock played by men in tank tops and mushy ballads sung by slightly smaller men in tank tops; Jay-Z presented a much-needed alternative. Bands like Bon Jovi and Whitesnake were big then, but Guns n' Roses were different. With the theme from Chariots of Fire, he created one of the most well-known 'keyboard songs' of all time, and his Jupiter-fuelled score for 1982's Blade Runner is recognised as one of the most influential electronic music works of all time. When she did it, it was a fluffy time pretty girls singing about pretty things. I remember a friend in high school playing me "A Case of You," from Blue. In a way, that upheaval may be part of the reason they recorded so many immortal songs over such a long period. All of those great albums that we talk about now, like Face to Face, Something Else by the Kinks and Village Green nobody bought those records in the Sixties. The Allman Brothers Band was a true brotherhood of players one that went beyond race and ego. You can grasp the chord progressions and melodies the first time you hear them. Ian Stewart 7. It was warm and round and full and dripping with chocolate. The girl-group sound was everything to me. Still, in Helena, being an R.E.M. Each of the nominees had their merits and we should be grateful to all of them for lighting up our musical lives, but finally, we can count down the top 10 and reveal who youve voted the greatest keyboard player of all time. By the time Lydon's vocal came in, I definitely wanted to destroy my past and create something new for myself. An infinite well of sadness, a hell of a lot of pain and anger, but mostly, a lot of love for the process of releasing this stuff. With players from each era in the mix, this was a tough one. But I loved AC/DC. People have said that "There Goes My Baby" was a very influential record because it helped set the stage for the Wall of Sound and Motown. Keith Emerson (ELP) 2. It takes a lot of courage to be that honest, especially as a woman. Motown took care of the North with their polished sound, but the MGs were gritty and raw, and they could really groove. The reason I got a chance to play on sessions with him on songs like "Killing Floor," "Built for Comfort" and "300 Pounds of Joy" and a lot of musicians better than me didn't get those dates, was because they would come in thinking, "This is my opportunity to blow the Wolf offstage." I love all those other groups but with Pink Floyd I understand the emotion. I first saw Clapton with Cream, at the Cafe Au Go Go in New York in 1967 sort of. I think the artist's primary responsibility is to reflect what life was like in their time. There are very few artists who can depict a woman's life, her thoughts and desires and her failings, like he can. All bands should pay attention to that. The rhythm guitar kicks, too. That song is one of the great moments in rock history for the electric bass guitar. When the Four Tops first came to Motown, the Miracles and I were the mainstays of the label, and the Temptations had just gotten there. We went to their manager's hotel room, and while he was in the bathroom we ordered $1,500 worth of room service and trashed the place. After all this time, he's still at war. There are a lot of Deadheads who were completely different people before they connected with the Grateful Dead. Santana has a really good message to send to the human spirit. Any hard-rock band that ever tried to write a crazy twelve-minute operetta owes them a debt. Keep on chooglin'. The Supremes were the epitome of the Motown sound. Joni had an edginess that not many women expressed then. 1. The ultimate beginner's guide. Whether it was Ruffin or Dennis Edwards or Eddie Kendricks or Paul Williams singing lead, the Tempts were always an all-star vocal band. It was precise and explosive and heavy. The next thing we knew we were on the road with these guys, opening up for them and Quicksilver Messenger Service, and witnessing music history. I had a strange dream a few years back. In the songs he wrote with Robert Hunter, and in Bob Weir's stuff too, you're also hearing music from 40 years ago. Don't miss the latest deals, news, reviews, features and tutorials. He didn't get the breaks he deserved; hard luck seemed to follow him around. I remember when the surviving members of Queen were looking for a singer a few years ago, I was like, "I would love to try it." The Sex Pistols released just one album Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex Pistols but it punched a huge hole in everything that was bullshit about rock music, and everything that was going wrong with the world, too. Wolf was a big man, but he could really move. Ted has them committed to memory: "Bo Diddley, Ronnie Montrose, Gary Moore, John Sykes, Derek St. Holmes, Eric Johnson, SRV, Joe Perry, Sammy Hagar, Duane Eddy, Dick Dale, Brad Whitford, Steve Vai, Chris Duarte, Angus Young, Johnny Winter, Steve Hunter, Bugs Henderson, Joe Satriani, Richie Blackmore, Steve Morse, Brian Jones, Keith Richards, Mick After I released my first solo album, I was doing a TV special in Memphis, and I called him and asked if he'd grace us with his presence. It wasn't just about the fact that Duane and Gregg Allman had the same parents. There was nothing about him that was contrived. she sounded like she was begging. The first time I heard real anger and aggressive sexuality expressed in guitar playing was on that Mayall record. Steve Winwood (Traffic) 10. Greatest Rock Keyboardists 1. Most bands improvised solos each time they performed or recorded. in 1986, a song tacked on to the end of a demos collection of a Eugene, Oregon, band that my uncle, then in school at U of O, sent to me for Christmas. As a singer, the thing I got out of the Yardbirds was that you don't have to have a great voice. The Drifters records that we're most associated with, including "There Goes My Baby," come from that era. He catches us at our tricks, and that's always thrilling. But Clapton's guitar playing is still terrific. Then there's the producer who does it all. Everything is so canned and sliced up now. But you could see them the band was right in the window. It still sounds incredible today. I love the way Freddie performed. I must have done something right. My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. You're in the resistance now, son. When I started getting calls to come and play on some cuts behind him, I'd think, "Oh, shit, I better play right." At an early age I looked to music to take me out of my reality, and Sabbath does that better than any hard-rock act I know. It hits you in waves: driving rhythms with brass and strings countered by down-in-the-alley funk. And I don't hear that today. But it was always Booker T. and the MGs playing. After three or four albums, Lynyrd Skynyrd transcended the Southern-rock tag. Foghat? We had never met or really spoken, so I was a little intimidated. Every time one of his songs starts playing whether it's "You Ought to Be With Me," "I'm Still in Love With You," "Love and Happiness" or, of course, "Let's Stay Together" when the stomp starts and the guitar comes in, you know you're in for something full of sweet love. And every time, they raise their finger to the press and the critics and say, "Nothing we do is for you!" The things that Lydon wrote about back in '76 and '77 are totally relevant to what's going on right now. Then he cranked the fucking thing. Allen Toussaint Southern Nights. But while the band could duplicate the majesty of past live shows (and still can), the heart and soul of the band was gone forever. went to England in 1985, I drove through Muswell Hill and it certainly wasn't romantic-looking. It was around 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning. The emotion is all in that groove. It seemed like he was singing about me walking in the sunsets in Oklahoma. When I hear Metallica, I get this feeling that they're doing something that they have to do. The Dead still believe in that message. Aerosmith did, because we grew up in that era. The difference between John Lydon and a lot of other punk singers is that they can only emulate what he was doing naturally. He had everything you wanted to see. Cream were very innovative within the context of all the music coming from the West Coast of the U.S. at that time, from bands like the Doors and Love. It can take you down a quiet street before it drops a beautiful musical bomb on you. I first saw them play in 1979 at Madison Square Garden, before their singer Bon Scott died and was replaced by Brian Johnson. Every time I buy a Radiohead album, I have a moment where I say to myself, "Maybe this is the one that will suck." One of the things I learned from Joni: If you can tell the story and keep things moving, you don't need to return to the chorus on time. He was a white boy who pushed it to the max. The 30 greatest synth players of all time: keyboard wizards, programming gurus and sound design legends By Scot Solida ( Computer Music, Future Music, emusician, Keyboard Magazine ) last updated 30 October 2020 Your votes have been counted, so who came out on top? The Four Tops are a one-in-a-million singing group. Yet, despite all these different pieces moving around, there is a lot of very simple musicality going on. And bow down. He would strike amazing poses; maybe he practiced them in front of a mirror, but he wasn't pretending to be somebody else. It has perhaps the Dullest Expensive Album Cover ever, with the foldout profiles of the band members, but it sat proudly next to Devo, Kiss, the Yardbirds, the Stones' early albums (they were cheap), the Decline of Western Civilization soundtrack and the Dead Kennedys' Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables. They survived in a world where survival didn't seem possible. Contributions from Jenna Scaramanga, Amit Sharma last updated 16 January 2023 A comprehensive rundown of the best guitarists of all time, featuring the trailblazers, the early innovators, the best jazz, rock, indie, blues, metal and acoustic players - and the top guitarists around today. As a songwriter, Gram worked very much like I do, which is to knock out a couple of chords, start to spiel and see how far it can go, rather than sitting around with a piece of paper and a pen, trying to make things fit neatly together. That bugged me out. I can still listen to two or three Tupac CDs straight. We were tired, we'd been on the road. They were playing a weeklong engagement, and each night I'd hear another great original song from them and knew I'd found the band I was searching for. In the studio, he moved the mic across the room from the amp, which added ambience; everybody else was still close-miking. The early TRL charts were dominated by 'N Sync, the Backstreet Boys, Korn and their respective biters. Tony Banks 5. In these fan testimonials, indie rockers pay tribute to world-beating rappers (Vampire Weekend's Ezra. When she asked, "Where did our love go?" Most artists now just aren't smart enough to write that, or honest enough to write a line like, "I ain't a killer but don't push me." I was like, "Man, we don't go there." Eminem was that good. How many artists make it 15 years without embarrassing themselves, let alone while maintaining their relevancy? Formula 1 driver Charles Leclerc reveals his love of the piano and shows you how he recorded his first track in Ableton Live, How a song written in 1974 turned up on Bowie's Let's Dance and unwittingly kicked off a controversy. There was a humanity in Jerry's guitar work as well as his singing that drew you in. The list presented was compiled based on input from musicians, writers, and industry figures and is focused on the rock & roll era.. They didn't write emotional lyrics. I've made the imaginary "Top Ten Keyboard Players" list that RS might print. The songs are great. "Roxanne" is blatantly about a hooker it's not about how Sting loves her and broke her heart, it's just about how she's a hooker. Sting already had a career and a degree when the Police made it; he wasn't afraid of sounding like a grown-up. They were the best in my neighborhood in Detroit when I was growing up. He later took the voice of activism, calling out diseases of urban America and challenging people to see what was going on, a plea Marvin Gaye would take up, too. For almost 30 years my entire career, really all I've been doing is trying to discover another Diana Ross. Izzy Stradlin was also important. There have been bottleneck-guitar players forever, from the Twenties through the Sixties, but Duane began doing things no one had ever done before. Black Sabbath are the Beatles of heavy metal. He said, "It wasn't called heavy metal when I invented it." Jealousy just burns; Radiohead infuriate me. Al, he was a crooner. This is the way Wolf treated you. Hank lived what would have been a rock star's life full of touring, drinking and woman troubles. This greatest female keyboard players list contains the most prominent and top females known for being keyboard players. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song let alone album after album. It was well-rehearsed, but it never actually happened. Robert Henry Keys (December 18, 1943 - December 2, 2014) was an American saxophonist who performed as a member of several horn sections of the 1970s. I was floored. Tupac's aggressive records are my favorite. Phil Spector could be the greatest of these. It can build to where you think the whole thing will crumble beneath its own weight and then Thom Yorke will sing some melody that just cuts your heart out of your chest. He asked me to produce a track for the Game. It's just an amazing thing that no one's been able to live up to. They started out in the age of the sensitive singer-songwriter, and their music was as smart and sensitive as anyone's, but when they called upon it, they also had the power of a great rock & roll band. Elton John makes the Rolling Stone list four times ("Bennie and the Jets" - #371, "Your Song" - #202, "Rocket Man" - #149, and "Tiny Dancer - #47), repping the piano in all its glory. They did "Shapes of Things," "Beck's Boogie," among other songs. It sounds simple, but what AC/DC did is almost impossible to duplicate. I wonder if it's even possible for them to be bad on record. Billy Preston 6. You had all those personalities, and they were all truly playing together.
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