Great Organists in Rock


The recent thread about the greatest rock guitarists got me thinking about great rock organists. Here's my list so far...who have I forgotten?

Hammond

Keith Emerson (ELP)
Jon Lord (Deep Purple)
Gregg Allman (All Bros Band)
Lee Michaels
Ken Hensley (Uriah Heep)
Doug Ingle (late Iron Butterfly)
Jerry Corbetta (Sugarloaf)
Al Kooper (BS&T, Blues Project, etc)
Booker T.
T. Lavitz (Dixie Dregs, Jazz is Dead)
Steve Winwood (Spencer Davis Group, Traffic)

Vox Continental

Doug Ingle (early Iron Butterfly)
Ray Manzerek (Doors)
77jovian
All Hammond players - but then I am biased

Jean-Jacques Kravetz (Frumpy / solo)
Jeff Beer (Odin)
John Tout (Renaissance)
Vincent Crane (Atomic Rooster / Crazy World of Arthur Brown)
Paolo "Apollo" Negri (Wicked Minds / Link Quartet / solo)
Par Lindh
Pete Robinson (Quatermass)
Thomas Bodin (Flower Kings)
Mike Mangan (Big Organ Trio)
John Freund (Bigger Than a Breadbox)
John Novello (Niacin)
Graham Field (Fields / Rare Bird)
Julian Jay Savarin (Solo / Julian's Treatment)
Fred Hellman (Kvartetten Som Sprängde)
Gianluca Gerlini (London Underground)
Eric Malmberg (solo)
Gerald Dellmann (Satin Whale)
Oskar Lundström (Siena Root)
Tillbjörn Persson (Sound Express)
Terry Howells (Still Life)
Rick van der Linden (Trace / Ekseption)
Fred Van Zegveld (solo)

These all have shown to have superb skill either over the course of a career of perhaps on a single album.

Also see my list on RYM (if anyone's remotely interested)
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/Crazyworldof/hammond_fest
Richard Wright for Pink Floyd was the first keyboardist that came to mind - I dont know what type he played, but as far as contributing to a bands sound, I cant think of any other bands where the keyboards worked so well and didn't make it sound like funk-a-delic or the capton and tanell (SP) or something.

Billy Powell from Lyndard Skynard was great too at helping the bands sound and it still sounded like hard rock and not something light weight like elton john or barry manalow.

Generally, i hate keyboards in rock bands, but these are two examples where, imo, they worked very well.
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