Wakeman was always the most incredible keyboard player and his work in the classic era of Yes will live as a musical legend forever... That, and he wore capes!
what,s with the "WAS"! ? he still "IS" ,! and making music just like his early years, best lightning fingered keyboard player on the planet, he is indeed a "super hero" to all of us who remember him in the 70,s and before, and "yes" ,all super heros wear "capes" even at 74 years old, god bless him...😇🎇🎇🎶🎵🎶🎹🎹.....
Its not the number of Minimoogs he owns old or new, its pure talent that he owns and thousands of hours of practice and work. He is the last great synth player left on this planet.
I've seen a lot of amazing synth players. Turkuaz, Eli from dopapod, person who was playing for mars volta when I saw them last year, grizz although he's more all around, Georgio moridor or whatever from daft punk. List goes on. Lisa Bella Donna who is basically the moog mascot
I met Rick some years back, he is very gracious and down to earth. Singed our tickets and a couple of CD's. That MiniMoog is a special treasure, for sure!!
I was lucky enough to meet Mr. Bob Moog in 2004, when I was working (as a Sound Technician) in a Radio Station, and he had a speech in Barcelona. What a nice person! Unforgetable.
*Mr. Rick Wakeman - great musician, fantastic keyboard playet !!!!* I was attending a great YES concert in Toronto, at the beginning of the XXIst Century, performed by this group at the one of the old fashion Toronto's theathres with a great acoustic enviroment !!!!
on of my biggest keyboard heroes of all time...even today after so many decades its hard to beat, what he did on the minimooag right from the start. so nice he is still around.
I've always known Rick was an amazing keyboard player but I never knew how hilarious he was until I started watching interviews. I now think he wears those capes to just be ridiculous
You’re completely right. The problem is I haven’t found any White Rock’s video with enough quality, I mean with a similar standard to the rest of the videos. But the Minimoog right rhere is simply brilliant. If I find one, at last, sure it’ll be in my next Mr. Wakeman Video. Thanks for the appreciation.
That live in Cuba show was fantastic. _ALL GLORY_ goes to The KING of kings, and LORD of lords! HE....can command a morning! HE can put the dawn in its place! HE ....made the stars also! :)
Now with dear Keith no longer with us there are not that many Keyboard greats left from the world of Prog rock. Tony banks, Jack Lord and Eddie jobs yes! But Rick stands high above them all as the greatest!
@@kenquinn7755 Absolutely!!! Totally agree. There's Keith, then everyone else. To me those three are the top three. Notice I put them in ranking order. No one else comes close.
It's been years since I've played a Minimoog. These days I have a Prophet on top of my Hammond, which is great and more flexible, but it doesn't sound as nasty and 'in your face' as a Minimoog (and us rockers all like nasty and 'in your face'!!)
He and jon lords classic keyboard playing were the best those times, while rick had an much clean sound, jon played vs an extrem distorted hammond organ and overdriven Sound, sharp as as raser. Korg had an great invention on rockin songs.
After Close to the Edge, I don’t appreciate RW’s work so much. That was his artistic high point, in my opinion. However, I DO really like his Minimoog patches. In fact, they are often the yardstick that I use when I assess virtual Moogs. Go figure.
I seriously don't get it and I'm a guy with a room full of analog synths who's been playing since I was 3. It's just a flurry of mostly non-harmonizing notes like randomly pecking notes from scales real fast. I could see how it's impressive to ppl that never heard a synthesizer before or who can't play and are impressed by the fast notes but other than that I don't see it. The absolute opposite of Carlos Santana who makes every note count. I do like the cape.
He is no Jan Hammer on the Mini, but Rick have played some awesome keyboard parts throughout his work in Yes and his solo career and he was well respected by Robert Moog.
YHA. HE IZ THE FUCKIN JENOUS WIZARD. AND WARLOCK FOR SURE. WOW SPECTACULAR. N8GHTFENCER. GATEKEEPER. HOLBROOK MA. ROCK ON. THE L9NG WEEKEND COMING ☝ ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!
Back sometime in the early nineties I went to see Rick at Buxton Opera House. He came on at the start of the show and apologised as his guitarist was stuck in traffic on the M6 and wasn't going to make it. Therefore he wouldn't be doing the planned show but would still do the show and play more piano/keyboard based numbers and did a full length show. After the interval he announced that he'd agreed with the theatre manager that he would do the planned show on the following night and we could all come free of charge. So we got two nights for the price of one. What a legend!
Hi myself and 3 friends went to those shows as well I thought Rick said the rest of the band went to Buxton Norfolk. We were a little early the evening of the second show so we went for a jar or two in the pub opposite the Opera House On the way back from the bar to our table Rick walked in he must have noticed I had on a tee shirt I bought the night before and he came and sat with us for about 30 minuets He was impressed we had travelled from Derby 2 nights on the run just to see him What an entertainer we would have paid just to listen to his stories
For the record, he does own a Voyager as well, as well as almost every other synth :) I saw him with Yes using one of each, then the last time I saw him (ARW's 1st tour) he was using 2 vintage Model D's...something special about those!
Mini opened new possibilities for keyboard players, to make note bends (like guitarists do). before Mini invention, keyboards didnt have pitch bend and mod wheel controls. Minimoog set the new standard, which was copied by countless synth makers.
He’s such a nice guy, I’ve taken my son to see him twice. Recent concert in Glasgow my 9 year old son got to meet Rick who encouraged him to keep practicing piano
Rick Wakeman once said about Minimoog invention: "For the first time you could go on and give the guitarist a run for his money...a guitarist would say, 'Oh shoot, he's got a Minimoog', so they're looking for eleven on their volume control - it's the only way they can compete." a reference to Spinal Tap. :-))
Minimoogs go to 12. But don’t look at them or even point at them, they are very temperamental. And lastly, you would always hear them if they were playing.
Rick makes the Mini sing, for sure. He's got the "sound" dialed in and just wails away. So much fun to hear, and watch! Tony Banks does something similar with the Arp Soloist (Pro? DGX?) on early Genesis recordings.
I'm not 2% as good as Rick and I have 4 vintage Model Ds.... 4 or 5. I had 4 or 5 Voyagers and recently sold all but 1. Barely broke even on those. Too many were made!
Yesterday I went to see him in his Buenos Aires concert here in Argentina. He only brought 2 cheap korg or Yamaha thin keyboards... Amazing anyway....but the analog gear was a big absence.
Minimoog to Rick Wakeman is as Hammond organ to Jon Lord. An instrument tightly connected to his personality and defined his performance style
Wakeman was always the most incredible keyboard player and his work in the classic era of Yes will live as a musical legend forever...
That, and he wore capes!
@@MPeaches1958 Well, Edna Motes was very specific... No capes!
what,s with the "WAS"! ? he still "IS" ,! and making music just like his early years, best lightning fingered keyboard player on the planet, he is indeed a "super hero" to all of us who remember him in the 70,s and before, and "yes" ,all super heros wear "capes" even at 74 years old, god bless him...😇🎇🎇🎶🎵🎶🎹🎹.....
There's nothing quite like Rick going flat out on a moog that sends me somewhere special.
Its not the number of Minimoogs he owns old or new, its pure talent that he owns and thousands of hours of practice and work. He is the last great synth player left on this planet.
There are loads of great players, young and old.
the LAST? that's such an insane statement dude
Yup.
I've seen a lot of amazing synth players. Turkuaz, Eli from dopapod, person who was playing for mars volta when I saw them last year, grizz although he's more all around, Georgio moridor or whatever from daft punk. List goes on. Lisa Bella Donna who is basically the moog mascot
Sorry no, the greatest keyboard player ever.
I met Rick a few years ago and he graciously signed my Minimoog. Something I will treasure the rest of my living days!
I met Rick some years back, he is very gracious and down to earth. Singed our tickets and a couple of CD's. That MiniMoog is a special treasure, for sure!!
Wow! What a powerful moment, what an unforgetable memory. Congrats.
Did you bring your whole minimoog out to get signed ?
Was that you at 3:19? haha
Its worth money for sign autograph
Thank you for sharing this. ProgStock in NJ is celebrating Bob Moog this weekend, and it's great to see this ... :)
No problem! It’s amazing sharing a bit of Wakeman and Moog’s Universe with so kind people like you. Thanks!
And welcome to my Channel.
I was lucky enough to meet Mr. Bob Moog in 2004, when I was working (as a Sound Technician) in a Radio Station, and he had a speech in Barcelona. What a nice person! Unforgetable.
I also recommend you another one of my Clips, with a short intro from that speech: ua-cam.com/video/4Zv7FB45jjI/v-deo.html
*Mr. Rick Wakeman - great musician, fantastic keyboard playet !!!!*
I was attending a great YES concert in Toronto, at the beginning of the XXIst Century, performed by this group at the one of the old fashion Toronto's theathres with a great acoustic enviroment !!!!
on of my biggest keyboard heroes of all time...even today after so many decades its hard to beat, what he did on the minimooag right from the start. so nice he is still around.
I've always known Rick was an amazing keyboard player but I never knew how hilarious he was until I started watching interviews. I now think he wears those capes to just be ridiculous
Sintetizador Moog só com ele mesmo !! ! !! Fera ! Não existe igual. Mr. Rick Wakeman.
nobody plays the minimoog like rick wakeman.
Rick is great!..but the king of minimoog is Jan Hammer!
Tony Banks does!
Yeah amazing very fast a genius !
Józef Skrzek SBB plays on moog so good like Rick
check Stu Goldberg
oh my god - I love these people of Yes - since the beginning of the 70's
So glad I've seen Rick a good handful of times. Keyboard wizard!
Rick Wakeman, Keith Emerson, and Jordan Rudess. Put those three together to play and that would be the ultimate keyboard band!
ua-cam.com/video/-KNe_1Kp_2s/v-deo.html
@Jadiel Brito ua-cam.com/video/lZpHuLXuYtc/v-deo.html
1:59 that moment you have to leave your moog and rush over to play your other moog.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Rick the comedian is a master rock keyboardist. Not any I can think of that are as trained as he is.
Unrivalled Master of the Minimoog, among many other things.
Would have been cool if there is footage of him playing White Rock. Probably his best Minimoog solo.
You’re completely right. The problem is I haven’t found any White Rock’s video with enough quality, I mean with a similar standard to the rest of the videos. But the Minimoog right rhere is simply brilliant.
If I find one, at last, sure it’ll be in my next Mr. Wakeman Video.
Thanks for the appreciation.
Thanks for putting this together and sharing it Toni.
You’re welcome, thank you very much. A pleasure, to meet you in our Common Musical W.orld
That live in Cuba show was fantastic. _ALL GLORY_ goes to The KING of kings, and LORD of lords! HE....can command a morning! HE can put the dawn in its place! HE ....made the stars also! :)
Now with dear Keith no longer with us there are not that many Keyboard greats left from the world of Prog rock. Tony banks, Jack Lord and Eddie jobs yes! But Rick stands high above them all as the greatest!
Jon Lord and Eddie Jobson.
🎹🐥🎹
@@TryptychUK Jon Lord died in 2012 at age 71, leaving us just Rick, Tony Banks and Eddie Jobson.
@@ClassicTVMan1981X Yes, I know. I was correcting his spelling.
And Jordan Rudess
RICK WAKEMAN ES LO MÁXIMO, ES COOL 🤩⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟ES EXCELENTE SIN DUDA ALGUNA ES UNA SUPER ESTRELLA.
Ah Rick 'moog' Wakeman. What more can be said
He really is like an otherworldly being
Simply Richard Christopher Wakeman 💪🎵🎼🎶🎹😎👊
Rick Wakeman THE FINGERS. THE MASTER. FOREVER YES!!!🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹🎹
Фантастика !!!
And does anyone still have any doubt that he is the best of all time?
Emerson, Wakeman and Banks pioneers of ......Prog Rock Rulez!!!!
I love and respect Wakemans music but (personal opinion) he's number two behind Emerson.
@@kenquinn7755 Absolutely!!! Totally agree. There's Keith, then everyone else. To me those three are the top three. Notice I put them in ranking order. No one else comes close.
excellent choices!!!!!!
Thank you very much. You’re very kind.
The master ¡¡¡
I'd recommend checking Starship Trooper Keys Of Ascension version. The best version and the best Wakeman's solo with Yes IMO.
Genio!!!!
2nd best rock keyboard player in the last 50 years.
I want a play off with Tony Banks & Rick!
Unico❤️
It's been years since I've played a Minimoog. These days I have a Prophet on top of my Hammond, which is great and more flexible, but it doesn't sound as nasty and 'in your face' as a Minimoog (and us rockers all like nasty and 'in your face'!!)
The Moog Maestro
My god!
He and jon lords classic keyboard playing were the best those times, while rick had an much clean sound, jon played vs an extrem distorted hammond organ and overdriven Sound, sharp as as raser. Korg had an great invention on rockin songs.
Una bestia. Interpretando
Now Rick is quite qualified to manipulate these magnificient instruments.Not many can.
Now i know who Jordan Rudess was inspired by
veeeeery cool
He said that he owned nine Moogs, but six were nicked (stolen).
величайшие музыканты... о,йес!
The best
Caraca, tem até o Paco de Lucia tocando guitarra!!!! SHOW
Reminds me a lot of the prog rock band Yes [ joke ]
After Close to the Edge, I don’t appreciate RW’s work so much. That was his artistic high point, in my opinion. However, I DO really like his Minimoog patches. In fact, they are often the yardstick that I use when I assess virtual Moogs. Go figure.
What was that second song? After heart of the sunrise?? And the third?? 😮
2. From Yessongs, the track’s an excerpt from The Six Wives Of Henry VIII.
3. From Criminal Record, Judas Iscariot.
@@ToniMartinTCPRIL dude thank you!!!!!!
The Wizard...
I've got one of the 9
Wow! How did you get it?
He sold it through a shop in london and a lot of other eqipment as well.
@@ToniMartinTCPRIL
💯❤️😇
He has stronger force than darth vader
Criminal Record! Is there more?????
Not sure. What’s sure is you have the whole song. Anyway, that’s what I’ve found without working it too hard, so... probably more?
I love the minimoog but it don't have presets. Buy 2 😊
What song?
bestia the best
Well, he still uses two at a time.
I seriously don't get it and I'm a guy with a room full of analog synths who's been playing since I was 3. It's just a flurry of mostly non-harmonizing notes like randomly pecking notes from scales real fast. I could see how it's impressive to ppl that never heard a synthesizer before or who can't play and are impressed by the fast notes but other than that I don't see it. The absolute opposite of Carlos Santana who makes every note count. I do like the cape.
Anne Bolyn.
What is the song at 0:31
From Yessongs, 2nd lp, A-Side, Excerpts from "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" " (Wakeman) - 6:37
@@ToniMartinTCPRIL thank you!!
1:20 The name please!!
Judas Iscariot, from Criminal Record.
song? 0:30 cheers
Originally in the Yessongs album, it’s a Rick’s solo part from the "Excerpts from "The Six Wives of Henry VIII".
FAKE NEWS: the title should be "Rick Wakeman on MinimoogS"
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
yes = progressive sh .
If he owns nine MiniMoogs, why does he continue to play that Korg crap?
Very speedy. Very precisely. Very boring.
For you
@@pedrosebaguzman and for all who have ears
@@olegmakarov7877 I vehemently disagree, and that's a pathetically arrogant stance to have.
@@olegmakarov7877 🤣🤣🤣 (sarcástico)
He is no Jan Hammer on the Mini, but Rick have played some awesome keyboard parts throughout his work in Yes and his solo career and he was well respected by Robert Moog.
The best Rick Wakeman is the cape-wearing Rick Wakeman.
YHA. HE IZ THE FUCKIN JENOUS WIZARD. AND WARLOCK FOR SURE. WOW SPECTACULAR. N8GHTFENCER. GATEKEEPER. HOLBROOK MA. ROCK ON. THE L9NG WEEKEND COMING ☝ ROCK ON!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've met him as well and happy to confirm that he's a genuinely nice guy - as well as being an amazing musician.
Wow! How was that?
This must be true because so many people share this. I love that! Humble and incredible.
I confirm too!
One of the greatest keyboard players in the world!!
Back sometime in the early nineties I went to see Rick at Buxton Opera House. He came on at the start of the show and apologised as his guitarist was stuck in traffic on the M6 and wasn't going to make it. Therefore he wouldn't be doing the planned show but would still do the show and play more piano/keyboard based numbers and did a full length show. After the interval he announced that he'd agreed with the theatre manager that he would do the planned show on the following night and we could all come free of charge. So we got two nights for the price of one. What a legend!
Wow!!! What a wonderful story!
Sweet.
Awesome!
Hi myself and 3 friends went to those shows as well
I thought Rick said the rest of the band went to Buxton Norfolk.
We were a little early the evening of the second show so we went for a jar or two in the pub opposite the Opera House
On the way back from the bar to our table Rick walked in he must have noticed I had on a tee shirt I bought the night before and he came and sat with us for about 30 minuets
He was impressed we had travelled from Derby 2 nights on the run just to see him
What an entertainer we would have paid just to listen to his stories
For the record, he does own a Voyager as well, as well as almost every other synth :) I saw him with Yes using one of each, then the last time I saw him (ARW's 1st tour) he was using 2 vintage Model D's...something special about those!
Rick Wakeman played the Minimoog like a guitar
Mini opened new possibilities for keyboard players, to make note bends (like guitarists do). before Mini invention, keyboards didnt have pitch bend and mod wheel controls. Minimoog set the new standard, which was copied by countless synth makers.
He’s such a nice guy, I’ve taken my son to see him twice. Recent concert in Glasgow my 9 year old son got to meet Rick who encouraged him to keep practicing piano
Rick Wakeman once said about Minimoog invention: "For the first time you could go on and give the guitarist a run for his money...a guitarist would say, 'Oh shoot, he's got a Minimoog', so they're looking for eleven on their volume control - it's the only way they can compete." a reference to Spinal Tap. :-))
He also said, "It was great, it had a sound that could cut through concrete!"
Minimoogs go to 12. But don’t look at them or even point at them, they are very temperamental. And lastly, you would always hear them if they were playing.
Didn't know Boris was so versatile. Phoaah.Wiffwaff.
Rick makes the Mini sing, for sure. He's got the "sound" dialed in and just wails away. So much fun to hear, and watch! Tony Banks does something similar with the Arp Soloist (Pro? DGX?) on early Genesis recordings.
The Maestro
Love it
Great Rick Wakeman!
I'm not 2% as good as Rick and I have 4 vintage Model Ds.... 4 or 5. I had 4 or 5 Voyagers and recently sold all but 1. Barely broke even on those. Too many were made!
MIGHTY ROCK GOD
Das ist kein Mensch. Das ist ein Musik-Gott!
Jaws falling down on the floor......
Yesterday I went to see him in his Buenos Aires concert here in Argentina. He only brought 2 cheap korg or Yamaha thin keyboards...
Amazing anyway....but the analog gear was a big absence.
Well I guess KEITH EMERSON wasnt the only guy that could make one talk. Im still partial to E.L.P.
13 agosto ROMA
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
⭐️🌼🌼🌼🌼⭐️
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I had a Micromoog once, until I told everyone that I had one and it was stolen a month later... Hahahahahahahaha 😂!!!
Este maestro. Estubo en Argentina verdad. Hace unos 5 o6 años atras
Fantastic!!
The Goddddd Rick Wakeman!!!!!
Huge sense of humor ..
Remember, the mini moon was monophonic. That makes his solos even more fantastic
You’re completely right. The Polymoog was another story…
mini moog king
Completely agree!
Yes!!!!
Superbe
2:41 anyone know the track's name?
It’s the final part of Starship Trooper (The Yes Album) from his gig in Cuba, 2005.
ua-cam.com/video/i7GgqC5IO-g/v-deo.html
Is it just me or is he playing out of time?