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Kit Watkins – Minimoog, acoustic piano, Rhodes piano, ARP string ensemble, Hammond B3 organ, Hohner clavinet, flute (4,8), marimba (7) Rick Kennell – electric bass; Mike Beck – drums, percussion; Road Crew. Eric Smith – Road Manager; Steven Meeks – Stage Lighting; Kenny Baily – Stage Manager; Wayne Garber – Sound Engineer
Kit Watkins (born 1953) is an American progressive-ambient-jazz recording artist based in Brattleboro, Vermont. He was previously a member of the band Happy the Man. [1] Beginnings. Born in Virginia to classical piano teachers, Watkins took piano lessons from the age of 5 to 13.
Kit Watkins, the star of the recording, establishes himself as the most accomplished (and the fastest) Mini-Moog player. The keyboard arrangements (with Frank Wyatt sharing keyboard duties) summon a magical haze of electric piano and string-synth.
17 de ene. de 2024 · That’s where I met Stan Whitaker [Happy The Man guitarist] and Kit Watkins [keyboards]. I met Stan in a jazz theory class. He’d just moved there from Germany and he turned me on to all these progressive bands. He played me things like Gentle Giant, Colosseum and Soft Machine and I was like, “Holy shit!
Sin embargo, esta formación no duró mucho; Kit Watkins, hijo de un profesor de piano de JMU, reemplazó a Bach temprano. Cuando en enero de 1974 Kennell finalmente regresó de Alemania (los primeros espectáculos se habían realizado sin él), la banda, nombrada Happy the Man por el hermano de Whitaker, Ken (quien estaba fuertemente ...
Producido nada menos que por Ken Scott ( The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Elton John, Procol Harum ), Happy The Man es una colección de nueve temas, casi todos instrumentales compuestos por Wyatt y grabados en A&M Studios de Hollywood, California, entre noviembre y diciembre de 1976 con Wayne Garber tras la consola y la deslumbrante foto portada de Mary...
This lineup did not last long however; as Kit Watkins, the son of a JMU piano teacher, replaced Bach early on. When in January 1974 Kennell at last returned from Germany (early shows had been performed without him), the band, named Happy the Man by Whitaker's brother Ken (who was strongly influenced by Christianity), was finally able ...
