Talk:Tony Banks (musician)

message: Tony Banks. Incredible talent and influential keyboard player of the prog' rock band Genesis.
Classically trained pianist ( which often seeps into his brilliant fusion of rock & classical styles ), founder member, and surviving member of Genesis.
Banks had a huge influence on the Genesis sound, and his hallmarks of classical style acoustic piano, Hammond organ, Mellotron Strings & Choir sounds & wonderful weaving ARP synthesizer patches made him one of the most intruiging & inventive keyboardists of the 70's 80's & 90's.
Banks's prodigeous talent on the keys impressed anyone who was involved in music, he is trully a musician's musician.
Technically brilliant as both player & composer, Banks set the standards that his peers ( which included Rick Wakeman of Yes and Keith Emerson Of E.L.P. ) had to aspire to.
Bank's contribution to Genesis was so intense, that many people contend that the unique Genesis sound was largely due to the influential keyboard player, who unfortunately could not translate the Genesis popularity into his own solo work, which included several solo albums & film music scores. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.107.110.211 (talk • contribs) 16 June 2006‎
:Wow. What a fanboy violation of WP:FORUM - and so thoroughly uncited. If you find any impact of Banks' work on Emerson, do tell!104.169.16.173 (talk) 02:06, 17 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Praise 

message: Did this article never have a talk page before? And what is the above fan gush doing here? PurplePlatypus 06:34, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  What happened? 

message: The chorus pedal used by Tony banks with the Hammond organ was the Boss CE-1, not CE-10. The CE-1 was released in 1976, which would time it right, but AFAIK there never was a CE-10. There was an RCE-10 released in 1986, which may be what people are confusing it with (a common mistake).
Jackfruit1000 23:51, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Equipment correction - Boss CE-1 (was CE-10) 

message: Something needs to be done with the passage someone recently wrote at the end of this article.  There is some usable information in it, but there's way too much speculation and fan gushing. Jphillst 21:52, 25 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Regarding the drum sound that begins "Mama," Tony Banks himself reports ("Genesis: Chapter and Verse", p. 263) that it was Mike Rutherford who came up with that sound, not Tony. 2601:449:4301:29F0:8014:D0E9:4BFF:4E8B (talk) 17:11, 9 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Comments about his sounds" 

message: Is there any cited validity to this statement?
At any rate, if it needs to be in the article at all, it probably belongs in the intro paragraph. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jphillst (talk • contribs) 07:24, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I took the statement out.  It seemed rather generic and haphazardly-placed anyway.  As a rule, I think generic "one of the" statements (e.g., "So-and-so is regarded as one of the greatest/most important whatevers of blah blah blah") shouldn't be used in Wikipedia unless there is a significant source to back it up. Jphillst 00:31, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed - Banks' work speaks for itself without hyperbole. Scott1329m 12:39, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Widely regarded as one of the pioneers of the progressive rock movement" 

message: It appears that an anonymous user has been adding a lot of unfounded statements to this article, using a lot of hyperbole and speculative views on Tony Banks' significance to give him praise.  To whoever this is, please stop.  With all due respect as a Banks fan, your statements do not reflect the general consensus of prog fans or rock music critics, and therefore are not suitable for Wikipedia.  Jphillst 23:23, 1 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unfounded praise statements 

message: The article says that the MXR Phase 100 was first used on "Robbery, Assault and Battery."  I could be wrong, but I *think* this effect was used during the intro to "In The Cage," from two years before.  Am I right?  Jphillst (talk) 04:55, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  MXR Phase 100 

message: what episodes of star trek the next generation did he do the music for because I'm pretty sure he didn't. The only reference to Star Trek was Marina Sirtis being in The Wicked Lady.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.43.90.61 (talk) 04:41, 16 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Star Trek

message: Add Fish (ex-lead singer from Marillion) to "Associated acts"? Tortillovsky (talk) 02:01, 14 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Added. Fish and Tony Banks collaborated; for instance in "Shortcut to Somewhere". Cheers. Tortillovsky (talk) 00:29, 21 November 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Tony Banks also had solo songs with Nik Kershaw and Kim Beacon. 204.144.183.247 (talk) 14:00, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Tony also collaborated with Andy Taylor and Jayney Klinek on Still. 204.144.183.247 (talk) 14:04, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: One collaboration is not enough to list as "associated". See the instructions at :Template:Infobox musical artist#associated_acts. The connection should be extensive, and every list entry should have its own Wikipedia page. Binksternet (talk) 14:34, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Associated acts

message: Just 2 observations 1. One reason Vaughan Williams's music may have been in the consciousness of the founders of Genesis is that, many decades earlier, Vaughan Williams attended Charterhouse, the same school as the band members. 2. I wouldn't describe John Potter as an "operatic" tenor - and neither would he, despite having worked mainly under the umbrella of "classical" music. Quite the other end of the "classical" spectrum. And his Ph.D. thesis was on Elvis Presley! 2A00:23C6:CB80:6F01:75A0:C34A:5C4F:14DC (talk) 15:58, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vaughan Williams/John Potter