> frontiernet.net> wrote:

>> On Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:39:54 -0700 (PDT), Raja gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>

>>> On Sep 18, 10:39 pm, poisoned rose usenet.com>
>>> wrote:

>>>> Raja gmail.com> wrote:

>>>>>>> You're right. For sheer speed, there are plenty who rate above Tyner,
>>>>>>> including Tatum, Powell, Newborn and Peterson. Powell had the whole
>>>>>>> package, but due to his precarious mental state, his output is wildly
>>>>>>> uneven.

>>>>>> Sure, but imagine if any of those hacks tried to fumble their way
>>>>>> through the staggering, finger-melting complexities of "No Quarter."

>>>>> It doesnt have to be complex to be good. JPJ was the master of
>>>>> tasteful keyboard work.

>>>> You don't know anything, Raja.
>>>>
>>>> If we asked you whose "tasteful keyboard work" is inferior to Jones',
>>>> you'd probably have trouble coming up with more than about 25 names.
>>>>
>>>> Just think for a moment about what a joke your assertion is. You say JPJ
>>>> is "easily" among the top five keyboardists ever, even as you
>>>> simultaneously admit "he didnt play much keyboard." You've GOT to have
>>>> really shallow, limited knowledge to make those two statements together.
>>>>
>>>> You love Led Zeppelin, and they had some songs which include keyboard
>>>> parts. Your reasoning goes no deeper than that.

>>> SHUT UP. JPJ played enough keyboard to be top 5. But wasnt enough full
>>> time keyboardist to be #1.

>> Can we get you to stomp your feet and suck on a pacifier at the same
>> time?
>>

> I've seen Emerson at least a dozen times, in bars, stadiums and in between.
>
> I've seen Wakeman like that too.
>
> Jon Lord? I may as well say so.
>
>
> John Paul Jones of Zep? He's way down there. (but in the top 20) The
> above are better in concert, then there is Stevie Wonder, Vince Clarke and
> the likes of my friend Emm Gryner (keys on Bowies 2000 BBC stuff). But
> that's a personal thing.
>
> I suppose this is a little weird, and I am aging myself. But when Robert
> Fripp showed up in 1981 with "The League of Gentlemen" at a bar, XTC's Barry
> Andrew's ruled the earth.
>
> I'm sorry. Old farts like me tend to rave about "the good old days".