- Rick Wakeman / keyboardsAND- Dave Cousins / vocals, guitar, dulcimer, banjoWith:- Ric Sanders / violins (1,7,13)- Mac McGann / tipple (10)- Chas Cronk / bass (1,10)- Tony Fernandez / drums (1,10) Releases information A mixture of jointly-composed originals, reworkings of songs...
- Rick Wakeman / Steinway grand piano, Hammond C3 organ, acoustic & electric harpsichord, Mini-Moog synthesizer, ARP synthesizer, Mellotron 400D, Cripplegate St. Giles church organ, Mander pipe organ, RMI - & Fender Rhodes electric pianos, Hohner clavinet, marimba. - Mike Egan / guitar - Stev...
United Kingdom The Return of the Caped Crusader – Rick Wakeman Live at the London Palladium: Rick Wakeman (keyboards), Hayley Sanderson (vocals), English Rock Ensemble (Dave Colquhoun [guitar and backing vocals], Adam Falkner [drums], Lee Pomeroy [bas...
” Wakeman said. “We did things that really we shouldn’t be able to do, technically. I think it was the last album made … where technology was way behind what musicians wanted to do. Certainly with us. So to me, it’s a very very special album. And I think it was...
(Howe, singer Jon Anderson, keyboardist Rick Wakeman, bassist Chris Squire, drummer Bill Bruford) adding career-highlight performances. Somehow the second side is equally perfect: Prog has never been more emotionally devastating than the middle section of "And You and I," during the transition ...
Wakeman completed the classic-era lineup, and the first of two career-making albums arrived with 1971'sFragile.Close to the Edgethen secured Yes' prog-rock legend in 1972. Both go Top 10 in the U.S. and the U.K., before original drummer Bill Bruford departed. ...
I wrote a 2015 cover feature on Yes bassist Chris Squire forBass Player Magazineshortly after his untimely death. It was drawn from my conversations with Yes members Jon Anderson, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman and Alan White, and my own 2013 interview with Chris. Bass luthier Michael Tobias, who...
To say that Rick Wakeman is an excellent keyboardist is a grotesque understatement. Throughout his career – and most notably as the keyboardist for Yes during thier “classic” era – Rick’s astoundlingly fast dexterity and fluidity made it seem as if he was channeling higher powers through...
Overall the music is good, and the concept excellent, but perhaps WAKEMAN's execution of the concept was not as good as it could have been. That said, it's still a classic of progressive rock in my opinion, and much, much better than his subsequent "Journey To The Centre Of The Earth...