Rock music: with or without keyboards?

[daveiv]

Do you have a distaste for rock music when it involves keyboards of any kind?

I know there are rad bands with keyboards, but I'd like to hear your preference.

[hockeyjx]

4 minutes ago, daveiv said:

Do you have a distaste for rock music when it involves keyboards of any kind?

I know there are rad bands with keyboards, but I'd like to hear your preference.

It depends. I think Faith No More's utilization of keyboards is magnificent and adds to the music. There is a bunch of Ozzy stuff that has keyboards to enhance the music.

Since I am a guitar player, I always feel the guitar is the center of it all ?

[daveiv]

21 minutes ago, hockeyjx said:

It depends. I think Faith No More's utilization of keyboards is magnificent and adds to the music. There is a bunch of Ozzy stuff that has keyboards to enhance the music.

Since I am a guitar player, I always feel the guitar is the center of it all ?

How about something stands out a little more, like in this pop rock piece?

 

[Xoo]

No.

[Russell]

Piano might fool you into thinkin' it's not a rocker - I think keys can definitely fit in a hard rockin' tune . . .

 

Edited November 1, 2022 by Russell

[craigb]

5 hours ago, daveiv said:

Rock music: with or without keyboards?

Yes, please! ?

[Rain]

I remember a segment from Behind the Iron Curtain where a fan asked Bruce Dickinson about adding keys to Maiden and his answer was unmitigated: You can't play heavy metal with synthesizers.

Of course, when the next album came out, they'd brough in guitar synths and by the following one, actual keyboards.

[mettelus]

I just learned an interesting piece of trivia. The first person that came to mind was Tom Scholz for "hell no" to keyboards; that was sort of the claim to fame for Boston. Then I just saw from this site: "Boston’s beginnings go back to 1969 and a band headed by guitarist Barry Goudreau called Mother’s Milk. Vocalist Brad Delp and drummer Jim Masdea were joined by a recent MIT graduate, Tom Scholz on keyboards. The band didn’t last, but its members spent time in a homemade recording studio in Scholz’s basement recording demo tapes in hopes of making a new start." Never knew that, but makes more sense in a way.

For me personally it is more about how everything fits, as with all things, rather than the instruments used.

[craigb]

8 minutes ago, mettelus said:

I just learned an interesting piece of trivia. The first person that came to mind was Tom Scholz for "hell no" to keyboards; that was sort of the claim to fame for Boston. Then I just saw from this site: "Boston’s beginnings go back to 1969 and a band headed by guitarist Barry Goudreau called Mother’s Milk. Vocalist Brad Delp and drummer Jim Masdea were joined by a recent MIT graduate, Tom Scholz on keyboards. The band didn’t last, but its members spent time in a homemade recording studio in Scholz’s basement recording demo tapes in hopes of making a new start." Never knew that, but makes more sense in a way.

For me personally it is more about how everything fits, as with all things, rather than the instruments used.

Just to clarify, Tom NEVER said "hell no" to keyboards (quite the opposite actually).  However, he DID say "hell no" to synthesizers and computers.

[Rain]

It's amusing to think back on those days. As a metalhead, I know that we had a lot of disdain for almost anything with synths, or anything where the guitars weren't distorted. Or even anything you could dance too.  It was "music for girls", and if you as a guy listened to that sort of music, well... 

The gap between punk and metal was nothing by comparison, and the prejudice against synths and drum machines lived on for quite some time. Who would have though that a band like Depeche Mode would end up being one of my biggest influences... 

[craigb]

I believe there are really only two types of music:  Good to great; and meh to crap.

Of course, these two groups are determined by what I think is either good to great; or meh to crap! ?

[Jesse Screed]

 

Edited November 2, 2022 by Jesse Screed

[Wibbles]

With or without keyboards, I have a distaste for rock music ... 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

... runs and ducks for cover shuffles slowly away and falls over ?

[Byron Dickens]

Yes.

[Notes_Norton]

I don't care what the instrumentation is, as long as I like the song and how it's performed.

If it sounds good to me, I like it, if it doesn't, it's played for someone else's ears. It's all good as long as it has an audience.

Insights and incites by Notes ♫

 

[RobertWS]

 

[bitflipper]

Anybody remember Resonant Serpent? He didn't think guitars had a place in music anymore.

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...this may be the point where the ancient guitar-slinging primates get off the boat, and they'll be replaced by a new generation of users.

 

[57Gregy]

I'm one of the many old pluckers here who learned to love rock music before it got separated into 1,037 different genres.
Pop radio in the sixties had a lot of keyboard in it; organs, pianos, mellotrons, so I liked them from an early age, no matter the type of music. Plus, the first instrument I ever tried to learn how to play was my grandma's Hamilton piano.
I say WITH! But you don't have to.

[Wibbles]

Remember Queen and their motto "no synthesizers were used on this record" ... until they started using synthesizers.

I never knew quite what they thought  they were saying with this, but it always seemed a bit childish and closed-minded to me.

[SteveStrummerUK]

Keyboards ...

... done properly: