Poll
Question:
Who is your favourite Arena keys'man?
Option 1: Clive Nolan
votes: 25
Option 2: Who?
votes: 4
(I had to try! At last we'll reach some agreement, here!) ;D
Clive's winning so far ;D
Errrr, yes.
Duh!! :)
I didn't know Townsend, Daltrey and co once collectively played keyboards for Arena. ??? ;D
And the famous Time Lord too! What a shocking revelation!
I was wondering though, which incarnation of the Doctor? I can quite imagine Jon Pertweed (old joke, ask Hogweed) or Tom Baker dressed in full Wakemanesque regalia, pounding the keys in grandiose stylee!
I can't believe nobody has voted for Who yet... It's bound to happen! ;D
I voted for Clive too. He is also on this forum and I don't want to be kicked off ;).
No, seriously, I admire his various keyboardplaying on Arena, Pendragon and Ayreon!
Who is "Who"??? I was about to vote him, but I wasn't sure ... ;D
"Who" is on third...
"What" is on second...
"Why" is on the Home Plate...
;D
The bowler's Holding...
The batsman's Willy...
Slice of Dundee cake, anyone...sent in by by Mrs. Beauchamp of Ashby-De-La-Zouch...
Delicious....
;D
Quote from: gelert on Sun, 2005-04-17, 20:09:37
The bowler's Holding...
The batsman's Willy...
;D
Class Colemanball ;D
Don't understand a single word, folks
Quote from: Peter on Mon, 2005-04-18, 10:57:34
Don't understand a single word, folks
That's what 'hanging-about' OTHER forums does for you, Peter  ;D
The "first bit" was my attrocious attempt to remember the classic sketch by The Marx Brothers...
The "second bit" was a verbatim quote from a genuine piece of cricket commentary...along the same lines, but in my true inimitable way, off on some kind of prog-grammatically-incorrect-tangent-type-thingy-stuff-wibble-thang...
Loopy's comment was for Private Eye's only... ;)
Quote from: gelert on Mon, 2005-04-18, 18:43:07
some kind of prog-grammatically-incorrect-tangent-type-thingy-stuff-wibble-thang...
Loopy's comment was for Private Eye's only... ;)
Ah yes, Tangent, great band  ;D
..and I think Private Eye's due out today as well ;)
Quote from: Deenfan on Fri, 2005-03-18, 00:31:12
(I had to try! At last we'll reach some agreement, here!) ;D
There was one keyboard player in Arena...I can't remember exactly who it was...Errm..........err.........um.......
oh yes! Some dude called Clive.
Clive....errrrrm........oh.......no......Nolan!
That's it! Clive Nolan!
Yeah! He's damn good! ;)
Bit of a genius too, by all accounts! ;D
Quote from: keyboardistmatt on Sat, 2005-05-21, 17:31:52
That's it! Clive Nolan!
Yeah! He's damn good! ;)
Bit of a genius too, by all accounts! ;D
Yes, he is. If they sack him, they're really dumb... ;D
I think Clive Nolan is the best, but I also like to hear Mark Kelly playing.
before i vote here, who exactly is "Who?" are we talking about, Doctor Whom?
Quote from: marcello on Mon, 2005-07-18, 22:31:10
before i vote here, who exactly is "Who?" are we talking about, Doctor Whom?
Maybe an idea for the next poll, to fill in other keyboard people, Clive has no resistance, so he will always win. Do You know a guy who's better than Clive than You can vote WHO.
But Yes Clive is the best so You don't need other names
Personally, i prefer the keyboard player in Pendragon.
Quote from: Constable Hogweed on Tue, 2005-07-19, 04:05:34
Personally, i prefer the keyboard player in Pendragon.
The first, or the second one...?
Gotcha. ;D
There we go, got ourselvs an honourable vote for Clive from me :)
Quote from: Constable Hogweed on Tue, 2005-07-19, 04:05:34
Personally, i prefer the keyboard player in Pendragon.
That's funny that is Clive Nolan (at least on as good as Gold), or maybe there is another now, I'm not so familiar with Pendragon, only have one CD named as Good as Gold, I don't know if the other records are better but I didn't like it very much, what cd would You suggest to listen from Pendragon to get the Pendragon virus, I don't get it from the CD As good as gold.
"The Jewel", EXTREMELY recently remastered, is as good a place to start as any...not as "nice" as As Good As Gold (Which is an EP+Extras, er, EP, not an album BTW...!)
And after that, get your CreditCard Company to increase your limit, and with all of your new free money, er, buy EVERYTHING, IMHO.
Thank You for the advice, maybe I will try The Jewel than.
Quote from: gelert on Tue, 2005-07-19, 18:27:10
The first, or the second one...?
Gotcha. ;D
Smart move gelert. But as i was using present tense, it doesn't mean Rik Carter. ;D
Herben, please read here http://shattered-room.net/index.php?topic=357.msg3986#msg3986 for a new thread on 'where to start'....
Quote from: Constable Hogweed on Wed, 2005-07-20, 12:28:59
Smart move gelert. But as i was using present tense, it doesn't mean Rik Carter. ;D
Damn this English...
I'm going back to my native language of Latin...
Itis Apis Potanda Bigon e
Clive rules of course. ;DStrange topic. :-\
Quote from: Sergey on Tue, 2008-01-29, 12:39:42
Strange topic. :-\
Trust me. There are a bit more of those in this Room. ;)
I haven't seen this topic yet.
Funny! :)
Clive is of course the best for Arena. I mean he IS Arena.
Of course there are more good keyboardists out there, but none would fit Arena.
For instance, I like Jerry Sahlin's (A.C.T) keyboard playing very much, but his happy playing wouldn't fit on an Arena album or vice versa. :D
Jordan Rudess is another example. He's good, but not like our Clive. The style is also VERY different of course. And Jordan likes himself too much. ;D
Jem Godfrey... nah... He's ok, he's an excellent songwriter by the way. And he can do the widdly widdly funny solo's, but it's not really emotional or anything.
Neal Morse is also a TOTALLY different way of playing.
I think the few that come close to Clive's playing are: Martin Orford (ex-IQ) and Richard West (Threshold).
But we must remember that Clive is not only an excellent keyboard player, he's also a brilliant lyricist. We cannot miss him in Arena.
I don't know what lyrics Widge can write, but Richard's lyrics are not in the same vein as Clive's.
Clive is unique.
Just like all those other keyboardplayers! ;D
-Paco