Fans of Bands with Keyboards

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nable7 commented on “name some good bands that use keyboards as part of their live sound” (13)   last month

nable7 commented on “Artists that DON'T belong here.” July 2011

• nable7

  Go to http://cfox.supernova.com/celestialruin to register and vote to help Vancouver's First Symphonic Rock band (and one of the first ones to prominently feature keyboards if you're really into that) onto the scene!

  last week

• nable7

  Aleksander, I responded to your Discussion post because I saw it first. Dream Theater is connected and Jordan's cool, but he's a keyboardist not a band. Thanks for your suggestions though. =)

  April 2012

• prog_scibi

  Dream Theater & Jordan Rudess

  March 2012

• nable7

  =) nice.

  July 2011

• tartainia

  Having grown up (yeah right) with the likes of Jon Lord,Ken Hensley,Rick Wakeman et al,i have always loved bands that HAPPEN to have keyboard players...As a music fanatic i have constantly evolved over the decades..and now i listen to bands like Nightwish,Epica,Therion & Kamelot who also HAPPEN to have keyboards in their music..Coincidence?....I think not. :)

  July 2011

• nable7

  I added a few piano rock bands that I found on the piano rock last.fm group. It's not a genre I know much about, but I need to balance out all the symphonic music…

  July 2011

• nable7

  Someone asked me in a PM if most bands don't use keyboards. So this might be one of those things that not everyone thinks about, but very few rock bands include a keyboardist. They hire a producer to add keyboards lines on their albums and sometimes play along with pre-recorded keyboard lines called backing tracks when they play live. They may be a band with a keyboard but they don't give keyboardists the respect of being in the band. One of the few kinds of rock where it's normal to have a keyboard in your band is symphonic rock/metal. Also, most my last.fm friends and I are into that kind of music, so for those reasons that's mostly who's in the connected artists so far. But there are a few others, like Muse and The Dresden Dolls that I happen to know about even though they're outside of my general area of interest.

  June 2011

• jose2jp

  THX! nable7. Mari Hamada, She's the Metal singer who is famous in Japan. I think that such a music is particularly good. Keyboard player is Takanobu Masuda. This song is "Fantasia" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SfoMrWId7g

  May 2011

• nable7

  Oh I see, it's 浜田麻里 She's a singer that uses keyboards in her act. I guess that's close enough.

  May 2011

• nable7

  who's the artist, jose2jp?

  May 2011

• jose2jp

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYZWR7qA_KI May not you add this?

  May 2011

• nable7

  This group didn't exist, so here it is.

  May 2011