I had the pleasure of what seems like a hundred years ago to see Rick Wakeman play with the "YES" at small college's student union. They played in the rotunda which held maybe 500 people at most. It was a very memorable performance.
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Buenos tardes Senor Eric! Thanks for sharing the links to the terrific videos. Haven't heard from you lately. Sorry to have missed seeing you on 8/14th. For those of you who didn't know this, Eric, is currently taking Spanish lessons. Adios. - Senor Scott
I had the possibility to know Peter Baartmans when he was a Roland demonstrator at Frankfurt Musik Messe. He is very talented and his demos were so funny that sometimes I attended also to the demos in German even if I don't understand German language at all. Nice to see him again in this video.
I'm also a big fan of Rick Wakeman and I saw him playing some years ago as Korg demonstrator in a crowded small demo room at Frankfurt Musik Messe too, in a band where also his son Adam was playing. An unforgettable experience for me.
It think it was in the early eighties I saw/met Peter while he showed what is possible with MIDI and a sequencer. At that time he was playing the Kurzweil K1000 (?) and the sequencer was running on Apple. In fact Peter was the 'trigger' I needed to start using midi and a sequencer.