From simon@alphabeck.co.uk Wed Aug 13 17:57:29 2008
Subject:Re: Future of the Organ

The Rolling Stones have always had at least one world-class keyboard player
(sometimes more) on stage. Firstly (because he was a founder-member of the
Stones) Ian Stewart - he played live and on record with the band from the
earliest days until his death in 1985, even though he ceased to be an
official band member in 1963 at the behest of Andrew Loog Oldham. In the
mid-to-late 1960s Stewart often shared keyboard duties with top session man
Nicky Hopkins - Stewart would play the more boogie-woogie influenced
material. The 1970s brought in Billy Preston, fresh from working with the
Beatles, and Dylan sideman Al Kooper. The list just goes on and on, and goes
to show how important keyboards can be for a "keyboardless band".

Simon

>> Bands like The Beatloes and The Rolling Stones
>> don't (didn't) even have a keyboarder except for studio
>> overdubs.

> Hmm, some great and well-known Stones tunes are carried by the great
> chops of the late Billy Preston (one of my musical heroes and
> inspirators). And Lennon played piano on many Beatles tunes. Which he
> wrote on piano, too.

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