Rick Wakeman’s band is terribly talented

Posted in Concerts, Entertainment, Great Bands, Music, Musicians, Recreation, Video on Aug 20, 2007

Oh my GOD!!! The show left me literally in a state of incomunicato.

Not just because of R. Jackson’s generous gift of buying a ticket for me (which I WILL remember for the rest of my life!), but due to the pure talent of Rick Wakeman and his band mates.

The tour is called Rick Wakeman’s Grumpy Old Picture Show.

The caped keyboard crusader was at his all time best!

When they started to play the first song I thought that these guys were just a rinkie dinkie band of whoever that he put together at the last minute. A funny thing happened later on though, they started to morph into this MEGA BAND right before my very eyes!

The band consisted of Rick Wakeman and the English Rock Ensemble.

I only wish that you all were there to enjoy it as much as we did. Thanx again R. Jackson for the memories!

Keep on Jammin’

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5 Responses to “ Rick Wakeman’s band is terribly talented ”

  1. # 1 Ladislav Says:

    Wow – nice clip! I have problems with just one piano :-)
    But it was a pleasure to hear that.

    Ladislav

  2. # 2 Chris Says:

    Ya, me too!

    When I was with Phylis, a 80′s prog. rock band we were doing many Saga songs but my favorite was one called “Don’t be Late”.

    Our keyboardist pulled the song off like only Saga could and I just had asked him to show me how he did it. He really was very impressive to watch play! I also loved to play a song called Tempus Fugit from YES because of the high degree of technical ability of the song. It is a song not to played live for the musically faint of heart. Listen to the song and you’ll find out exactly what I mean.

    He, Tony, was always using two keyboards while playing and I was constantly in awe about how coordinated he was by doing so. After hounding him endlessly, he proceeded to show me the tune and after a while I really got the hang of it. It was really cool!

    It really looks like you know what your doing when you can play two separate keyboards at once during one song! Looks can be deceiving … well in my case anyways!

    Keep on jammin’

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