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He gave the STONES sound a touch of class. RIP!
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tomk
Hopkins is not on Quadrophenia. He's On Who's Next and By Numbers.
Interesting to ponder what Quad would have sounded like with him on it.
I met Hopkins a few times. The nicest musician I've ever met.
He told me he plays all the keys on Village Green Preservation Society album.
Called Ray Davies a "bastard" but said it with a big smile.
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DoomandGloom
Chris Stainton holy cow." Chris Stainton also toured with the Eric Clapton band. Although Nicky Hopkins had helped the Who play piano on thier "My Generation" and "Who's Next" albums, he didn't play session pianos on any song for "Quadrophenia"". So LOve Reign is Chris???? I once recognized him in a coffee corner and he hugged me exclaiming "no one ever recognizes me". I knew him mostly from Clapton but he did play with Joe Cocker on Mad Dogs as well.
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tomk
Hopkins is not on Quadrophenia. He's On Who's Next and By Numbers.
Interesting to ponder what Quad would have sounded like with him on it.
I met Hopkins a few times. The nicest musician I've ever met.
He told me he plays all the keys on Village Green Preservation Society album.
Called Ray Davies a "bastard" but said it with a big smile.
All of the mellotron too?
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DoomandGloom
Nah... Pete can play keys but he's not a pianist... Nicky also did all the early Lennon stuff. George and Ringo too....
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tomk
Hopkins is not on Quadrophenia. He's On Who's Next and By Numbers.
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DoomandGloom
Nah... Pete can play keys but he's not a pianist... Nicky also did all the early Lennon stuff. George and Ringo too....
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tomk
Hopkins is not on Quadrophenia. He's On Who's Next and By Numbers.
Interesting to ponder what Quad would have sounded like with him on it.
I met Hopkins a few times. The nicest musician I've ever met.
He told me he plays all the keys on Village Green Preservation Society album.
Called Ray Davies a "bastard" but said it with a big smile.
All of the mellotron too?
He told me he played "all of it." We talked about Olympic Studios, too. I wish I could remember more of what we talked about, but it was so long ago.
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tomk
Oh, yeah, for sure Pete does that programming. But his original demos have piano.
Sounds like him. I'll have check that documentary again and see what he says.
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latebloomer
There is a biography about Nicky that was published just last year, "And on Piano ...Nicky Hopkins: The Extraordinary Life of Rock's Greatest Session Man." It's gotten decent reviews. I've been meaning to get a copy, but I'm to busy to add another book to my reading list right now. Anyone here read it?
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