Take "Every Breath You Take." When I first met him, he was very young, sleeping on the couch at the Atlantic Records offices and using the switchboard after hours. Before Clapton, rock guitar was the Chuck Berry method, modernized by Keith Richards, and the rockabilly sound Scotty Moore, Carl Perkins, Cliff Gallup popularized by George Harrison. People don't realize how unique that is. I'm all over the map emotionally and spiritually, like most people are, so different Talking Heads records speak to me at different times, but with Remain in Light and Fear of Music, the grit of modern living is there. Mick and Gram never really clicked, mainly because the Stones are such a tribal thing. Carl was the real deal a true rockabilly cat. In a way, that upheaval may be part of the reason they recorded so many immortal songs over such a long period. His exactitude with the Note is simple, impeccable musicianship. Gram had the biggest repertoire of country songs you could imagine. But the thing that caught my eye: She was wearing a Fables of the Reconstruction T-shirt. Maybe most important of all, he turned the amp up to 11. I would not have envisioned that without him. My first Aerosmith concert was in 1978, at a festival with Van Halen they were incredibly loud and I barely recognized a note, but it was still the most bitchin' thing I'd ever seen. You hear the frustration of not being able to do that in his Sixties guitar work. There's a damaged quality to David Bowie's original mix that is way ahead of its time. Back then the Four Tops were called the Four Aims. Being the best has got to wear you out. I heard a rumor that Wolf and Muddy didn't get along I never saw that. Massively versatile, Corea dabbled in contemporary classical and prog rock, too, and was comfortable playing pretty much any keyboard instrument you put in front of him. And it was loud, even outside. The guitar player suddenly became the most important guy in the band. They were desperately trying to write material that was truly progressive and original. In 1994, I had just gotten out of rehab, and Tom and I had dinner. The three living members of the group Shirley, Beverly Lee and Doris Jackson were at the awards ceremony. Carl was that good. When I sang backup for Don Henley in the early Nineties, it was a surreal experience, supplying vocals every night to Eagles songs. He was wearing all black and standing in front of a giant video wall. BA1 1UA. And when I saw Wolf, yes, he was a big guy. He wrote the fundamental language, the binary code, that everyone uses to this day. We hung out, smoked some pot and listened to Aerosmith's Rocks. Do yourself a favor, and don't debate me on this. It was an astounding sight and an explosive sound. Steven Wilson: "He's probably the biggest influence of all for me.I grew up in the 80s, and it was a pretty bad decade for music. Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman came with perfect songs like "This Magic Moment" and "Save the Last Dance for Me." Around the same time, Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett were encouraging him to write and sing. The fourth member, Addie "Micki" Harris, had died in 1982. And in that world, people weren't wearing Nehru jackets, smoking pot and jamming for 24 hours a day. He couldn't resist it any more than I could. When I first heard them, I was 14 or 15 and into a lot of heavy-metal and hard-rock music. As a band, the Dead also redefined success. There is this thing in them wound up so tight that they have to let it out, let that thing uncoil; it has to be released. When I'm producing a rock band, I try to create albums that sound as powerful as Highway to Hell. There are thousand of females working as keyboard players in the world, but this list highlights only the most notable ones. The rhythm section is rad. 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. You know when I did "Shaft," with those 16th notes on the high-hat? A community that, as far as I could tell, consisted of exactly one person. 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. Jon Lord (Deep Purple) 4. He was just a stunning and singular musician who was gone way too soon. They influenced everyone from the Ronettes and Motown girl groups like the Supremes to the Beatles, who covered "Baby It's You" and "Boys." And he would not pick up the guitar until everything was totally together. And what they wanted was Jackie Wilson. And both Tom and Jimmy said to me, in a brutally honest way, "You don't have a single on this record. In 1972, the radio was logjammed with progressive rock like you wouldn't believe Yes, Pink Floyd, Genesis I was searching for a great three-chord band to produce. But you have to say, they did pretty well. Any . Following Brian Eno's example, Reznor unpacked his synth and threw away the manual. I lived in England, where it fucking rains all the time, so it was appropriate. "This Must Be the Place" is probably one of the most important songs in my entire life. On The Stooges and Fun House, while his brother Ron, the guitarist, was playing these loud bar-chord progressions, Scott was making the band rev and swing. To put it another way: You can have the rock, but you need the roll. And then you hear Guns n' Roses, and it's inspiring. The first time I heard real anger and aggressive sexuality expressed in guitar playing was on that Mayall record. : players like Remi/mygh69 excluded due to suspicious activity. What else was there? Nobody moved like the Tempts. I first met Gram in 1968, when the Byrds were appearing in London I think it was a club called Blazes. Eric Clapton we don't have to talk about it's obvious how amazing he is. Fogerty plays what I would if I was 22, more talented and into the blues. Clapton was so moved by Johnson's music that he wanted to write and sing with the same passion, clarity and truth. Go look back at those TRL charts and it's not hard to tell why a generation of musicians, critics and fans became so deeply connected to the lyrics of a dude who, supposedly, was describing a world that at least 50 percent of his fans "couldn't relate to.". You heard that every day of your life, for at least three or four years around then. Creedence was the one I took. Joni had an edginess that not many women expressed then. We said, "Oh, shit." He incorporated his culture into the music, and he mixed English and Spanish in the lyrics. I bought a 10-song Hank Williams collection on vinyl for $4.99. But all of them talked bad about each other, calling everyone "motherfucker." The story of Tina's rise and fall with Ike Turner is well-known. Eminem does for his audience what Dylan did for his: He writes how he feels. You can always tell when you're hearing Tupac verse. This is a band getting very strung out, putting so much blood and soul into what it's doing, and for the most part looked upon as trash. Hank had a voice that split wood. She's transformed herself into an international sensation an elegant powerhouse. Maybe more. But basically, "Suzie Q" has all the drama you would ever need. Guns n' Roses are still an example of how a band can move rock forward. I would definitely have to quit smoking to be able to do what he did. Freddie vowed they would return as the biggest band in the world. For AC/DC, rock began with Chuck Berry and ended around Elvis. And I remember being a little jealous, because they were really hitting the nail on the head. We were both fans of the Drifters even before we started writing, and later producing, for them. Run-DMC gave "Slow and Low" to the Beastie Boys. But everyone contributed material and incredible musicianship to the effort: Randy Meisner and Bernie Leadon, then Don Felder, and later Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit. Through it all, the Drifters always had this exquisite vocal blend. Real recognizes real. But it never happened for Wolf. I find the lyrics really calming. I had heard that they hadn't seen each other in quite a while, so there was some apprehension when the three of them took the stage. There were songwriter-producers before him, but no one did the whole thing like Phil. Laurence Fishburne told me once that he didn't like Tupac. He had a tone and a style that were uniquely his. Her influence on me is so obvious. 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. We're trying to do the same thing with Los Lonely Boys make a lot of different types of music into something our own but he did that first. I think he's enthralled with what he's doing; he's intimately involved with his art. When Eminem and I did "Stan" at the Grammys in 2001, we got together to rehearse out in the Valley. Along with the Beatles, they gave those of us entering the business at that time something to aspire to that wasn't pop but was still popular. But Wolf was not a demanding person. I would sit and listen to Wolf talk. When we did a long stand at the Fillmore in the late Nineties, I talked Carl into sitting in with us. 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. But the crowd loved them, because they weren't trying to be black rappers. It was well-rehearsed, but it never actually happened. Prog warriors rubbed shoulders with synth-pop heroes and soul/funk legends, and lets not forget the musical magicians of the pop world, either. Theyve all put a smile on my face.. Iggy's parents were intellectuals his father was an English teacher and that gave him an edge. Following exhaustive searches to find the greatest pre-80s, 80s/90s and 21st-century keyboard players, we narrowed down our field of GOATs to just 15, and asked you to vote for the one true greatest of all time. I first saw them play in 1979 at Madison Square Garden, before their singer Bon Scott died and was replaced by Brian Johnson. We got to go back and do some digging. Tony Banks 5. fan, happy to venture beyond the pale of the radio singles, was a rare thing. Back in the '70s, Jon Lord's full-on rock style was a refreshing antidote to the prog peddled by the likes of Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman, with his overdriven Hammond organ sound becoming a true sonic signature during his Deep Purple days. Yet, despite all these different pieces moving around, there is a lot of very simple musicality going on. David Byrne's parents lived there for a while. But I don't think everyone else knows it. But over the years, her story changed, and her music reflected those changes beautifully. But I still gave him a look like he was bugging. I met the Beastie Boys in Rick Rubin's dorm room at NYU. These days rappers will just tell you, "I'll kill you.". Listen to "This Can't Be Life," a track I did for Jay-Z's Dynasty album, and then listen to "Xxplosive." The winner of this round takes an advantage into Round 2: Triple Charades Jeopardy. Matlock was cool, but Sid was everything that's cool about punk rock: a skinny rocker who had a ton of attitude, sort of an Elvis, James Dean kind of guy. But whatever you think of him, he definitely developed his own style: He didn't sound like anyone who came before him. His melodies weave in and out and all over the place, and you can tell they just spring out of him. There are very few artists who can depict a woman's life, her thoughts and desires and her failings, like he can. He's got some serious babymaking music. We waited all day for them to arrive. He had everything you wanted to see. This is for real." And he was a great harmonica player. But after you're in a life-threatening situation, you think about it a little more. Remain in Light was this combination of ambient music and strong lyrics and incredibly inventive percussion and bass parts. Motown took care of the North with their polished sound, but the MGs were gritty and raw, and they could really groove. Yet for all their fantastic records, the Drifters had the least stable lineup of any of the great vocal groups. Chuck Leavell has been pleasing the ears of music fans for more than 40 years now. But he didn't. NOasis - Noel Gallagher scotches Oasis reunion tour rumours, Session drummer Jim Keltner recalls John Lennon and George Harrison telling him not to bad-mouth Paul McCartney, Doug McKechnie is the 81-year-old synth pioneer you've never heard of: "The history of electronic music needs a rewrite", The Black Keys refer to Noel Gallagher as "the chord lord", even though the Oasis man has said they're meaningless in his songwriting, Surgeon on how he ditched the studio to record an album with a tabletop live setup: "Its funny, but people desperately want to know what gear Im using", GEAR EXPO 2023: The essential new audio interfaces and mixers of 2023, Spitfire Audio has packed some of Look Mum No Computers finest Obsolete Machines into a free LABS plugin. They became one of the greatest rock & roll bands in history. We want to hear it. The Four Tops will always be one of the best groups ever. After that, Shirley, Beverly and Doris were having so much fun that they went into "Soldier Boy." It's the ultimate fuck-off. Sustain happened; feedback happened. Billy Preston 6. We'd try to change every one of our songs to try and capture their drumbeats. The first song I really liked was "Once in a Lifetime." Don't miss the latest deals, news, reviews, features and tutorials. Zappa conceptualized the instrument in a completely different way, rhythmically and sonically. I grabbed their amps, they grabbed ours. People don't know him the way they should now. Boy, was I wrong. Zappa gave me the faith that anything in music was possible. I have experienced the thrill of collaborating with him numerous times as we have invited each other into our respective albums. Following exhaustive searches to find the greatest pre-'80s, '80s/'90s and 21st-century keyboard players, we narrowed down our field of GOATs to just 15, and asked you to vote for the one true 'greatest of all time'. Black Sabbath are the Beatles of heavy metal. Anybody who's serious about metal will tell you it all comes down to Sabbath. We also put the Drifters together with Burt Bacharach who met Dionne Warwick at our office for a Drifters session. Metallica's career is a huge, dynamic thing, and they have done it all. That said, there's nothing romantic about being addicted to heroin. I listened to Chronic Town procured on a recent family vacation to Los Angeles on my Walkman backstage during rehearsal for the school production of Guys and Dolls, rehearsing the conversation in my head: "Yeah," I'd reply casually, "I'm not really into that song this is their first EP. To me, it has always been paramount in singing. We sang "Let's Stay Together" on that stage, and it was a milestone in my short, unimportant career. I'm sure people told them it was too long or had too many movements. Not bloody many. They played traditional blues mixed with their own unique brand of rock & roll, and there was nothing but strength in that group. Ambrosia How Much I Feel. And he would ball that fist up. The Top Ten 1 Dave Greenfield (The Stranglers) I never would have thought of doing that if I hadn't seen Zappa do "Stairway to Heaven" in Burlington with the horns playing Jimmy Page's entire guitar solo, in harmony. The Eagles were a real band. Oscar Wilde said that an artist has succeeded if people don't understand his work but they still like it. It still sounds incredible today. There's a mystique about him. What about those people we done forgot about, like Wolf? The first night was somewhere in Georgia, and we were thinking, "I hope people don't leave when they see them." 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. They feared no one. He started singing the opening notes of his song "Doggin' Around." He would do this boogie-woogie thing, around and around like the kids used to do with the hula hoops, where you had to go around and around at your waist, to keep the hoop going. He was no Geraldo Rivera he was Muhammad Ali or LeBron James. I think the artist's primary responsibility is to reflect what life was like in their time. Iggy wanted the Stooges to be what he'd seen in Chicago as a young guy these old bluesmen playing so hard that, as Iggy once said, the music drips off you. Murmur, Reckoning even Dead Letter Office, with its beer-soaked goofs and discarded B sides, provided a much-needed insulation against the cruel, Queensrche-and-Garth-Brooks-listening world. Two-thirds of the way through their set, one of them said, "We'd like to invite a friend of ours from America out onstage." My big awakening happened when I was 14 years old. God knows how many [synths] Ive owned over the years," he told MusicRadar in 2020. In the early days of rap, the conventional wisdom was that only black people were supposed to like hip-hop and only white people were supposed to like rock. He told me his father would actually get mad, saying, "Play that thing right, boy, or don't play it at all." Their songs are universal they're part of all of our lives. My children didn't know who I was until they were 21 and were able to come in the clubs and see me. John Fogerty wrote more classic songs in a three-year stretch than anyone other than the Beatles. In the studio, he moved the mic across the room from the amp, which added ambience; everybody else was still close-miking. Since we were involved in the Drifters' career, it's probably not our place to declare their music immortal. The Stooges' sound was so evocative yet so simple. And yet the songs are perfectly realized, well arranged. Bobby Keys. I see more and more people getting into his music today. Page 2 of 11: The best blues guitarists of all time We carried each other's gear in, because back then, that's what you did. But this was also the guy who did 87orchestral pieces like The Yellow Shark. I'd hear the man's voice and try to picture what he looked like. To start, a player from each team competes in the Music Buzzer Battle. So he quit the Byrds, right there and then. That was her story. Highway to Hell is probably the most natural-sounding rock record I've ever heard. Seeing the Stooges in reunion with Mike Watt from the Minutemen on bass was awesome. And Ronnie ran that band with an iron hand. Basically, we hung around together, like musicians do. He's one of the greatest players who ever lived. All the compelling themes are on Black Sabbath's records: beauty, atrocity, the seven deadly sins. For now, though, let's focus on the greatest keyboard players of the 21st century, as voted for by you. Excitement": I heard that seeing Wilson perform made the King want to hide under the table. She also didn't play it up although many of her songs are about sex. "Not having a bass player made me play more . He was so exciting to be on a show with. She set the road map for the success of Janet Jackson, Madonna anybody who could sing but wasn't a real crooner like Aretha or Patti LaBelle or Gladys Knight. I was in my third year of classes at a place in London called the Regent Street Polytechnic School of Architecture, which is where I met Nick Mason and Rick Wright. That warmth and wit came through in his music. They're a fucking piece of the mountain coming down behind you, and you can't do anything about it. My parents, at a loss, suggested I get involved in the local community theater's after-school program. I had a tape of Eazy-E's Eazy-Duz-It when I was 11 years old (until my mother found out it had curses on it and confiscated it). . I first met Dre in December of 2003. Intellectually, Clapton was a purist, although there was little evidence of it in the beginning. His records are enormously important to country music, but I think I responded to them because they sounded so exotic. I'd been trying to get into this older girl's pants for a while, and she finally let me come over to her house. Unsurprisingly, he's still very much in demand: he played the keyboard solo on Bruno Mars' 2017 single Versace On The Floor (opens in new tab), and when John Mayer wanted those '80s vibes for recent release Last Train Home, who else would he call but Greg (opens in new tab)? In these fan testimonials, indie rockers pay tribute to world-beating rappers (Vampire Weekend's Ezra. There have been bottleneck-guitar players forever, from the Twenties through the Sixties, but Duane began doing things no one had ever done before. It wasn't heavy metal. When everyone was writing song cycles about Eastern mysticism, Ray Davies was writing about a two-up/two-down flat in some English suburb. 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. I don't mean to demean the roles the others played in the group's success, but it never would have happened without him. She describes smells and sounds and uses fewer words to transmit more feeling. It's testament to Jordan Rudess's skill and popularity that he's the one contemporary keyboard player to have challenged for our top spot. Those first three albums Santana, Abraxas, Santana III are really special to me. And then the guitars come in, and then the ambience comes in it's like several songs all blending into one. In the end, nobody described George Clinton's music better than the man himself: It is "Cosmic Slop," it is funkadelic funky and psychedelic. I wonder where I'd be right now if Dre had discovered me. At a certain point in the Sixties, things got tough for Carl he had a drinking problem, which he eventually overcame and he went back into the lead-guitar business. That kind of storytelling has fallen out of pop music, for the most part. Hardcore was very rigid. Chuck Leavell, legendary keyboardist for The Rolling Stones, The Allman Bros, Eric Clapton, John Mayer, and more. When they showed it to me, I was like, "Is this the right thing to do? Not too long after that, Guns n' Roses were asked to open for Aerosmith on their Permanent Vacation tour. Go home and turn off the radio. He was not the kind of guy to blow his own horn; he was very humble. You should always try to keep moving forward. I remember getting chills watching him perform "On to the Next One" at Coachella. But I never did. I had this picture of a gorgeous vista when it's really a kind of grimy area. No matter how much they let go in their shows, they never lose their clarity. There is a whole generation of musicians coming up who can't play their instruments. They used to have to go out there and tape foam rubber around everything that Axl could touch from his teleprompter to his mic stand to make sure he wouldn't break anything, or hurt himself. Nicky Hopkins 9. This is the way Wolf treated you. The fact that Metallica connected with the world in the way that they have is phenomenal. This is why we're talking about him now. They were the best of all of us. But wherever she may be, whether it's in Spain, Asia or Egypt, she's never forgotten her humble beginnings. In 2004 50 years after Elvis Presley walked into Sun Studios and cut Thats All Right Rolling Stone celebrated rock & rolls first half-century in grand style, assembling a panel of 55 top musicians, writers and industry executives (everyone from Keith Richards to ?uestlove of the Roots) and asking them to pick the most influential artists of the rock & roll era. Then I get ready to go into my next project. That was actually a break Al played on Otis Redding's "Try a Little Tenderness." What's more, he's still devoted to the analogue cause, telling MusicRadar earlier this year: Ive got nothing against digital synths, but I just happen to prefer the real thing. All bands should pay attention to that. It's outsider music. How many artists make it 15 years without embarrassing themselves, let alone while maintaining their relevancy? Hank Williams songs like "Lonesome Whistle" and "Your Cheatin' Heart" are wonderful to sing because there is no bullshit in them. That song is one of the great moments in rock history for the electric bass guitar. But the groove took over, and that calmed them down. His piano and keyboard work has been heard on the works of Eric Clapton, The Rolling Stones, John Mayer, The Black Crowes, George Harrison, The Allman Brothers Band, The Indigo Girls, Blues Traveler, Train, Montgomery-Gentry, Lee Ann Womack and many, many more. Ray Manzarek 3. As a kid, I used to sit at home after school and just bang out those songs on the piano. My reaction to Radiohead isn't as simple as jealousy. They put rock with rap like we did, but it made so much sense when they did it because they were punk rockers. The Boy Georges of the world all got up in a twist about it. And every time, they raise their finger to the press and the critics and say, "Nothing we do is for you!" he took that country-picking thing into the rock world. My mind was being blown by this beautiful violence that was unlike anything I'd ever heard before. Steve Winwood (Traffic) 10. Greatest Rock Keyboardists 1. In every sense, the woman has legs. As I got to know them, I marveled at their work ethic. Page, in the end, was the one who took those ideas all the way with Led Zeppelin. Every boundary that was possible on the guitar was examined by him. But I was also totally into Brad Whitford's guitar solos, and he had a more direct influence on the way I play than anybody realizes. You don't realize how powerful that is when you're just a listener. But then it came out and just took hold of the world. We've reached the end - find out who'll be taking their place in our fantasy GOAT band. But he really came into focus in Butler's next big hit, "He Will Break Your Heart," which was written by Mayfield and features his strumming electric guitar to a saucy tango beat that you can hear echoing in Ben E. King's "Spanish Harlem.".

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