https://www.songfacts.com/blog/interviews/tony-banks
Ho provato a verificare e mi sembra che non fosse stata postata nel Forum.
Ho trovato interessante il suo giudizio su Emerson, che non ricordo di aver letto da altre parti
Songfacts: The Nice with Keith Emerson was your first concert. How does your style compare to his?
Tony: Well, he has vastly better technique. He's a different kind of player, really. I was amazed by him when I watched him with The Nice at the Marquee. He was very flamboyant - he'd do all this stuff, and very impressive. But he was more of a player, in a way. I've always considered myself to be a writer rather than a player, although Keith did write and wrote some nice stuff. But, I always think he's more of a player than a writer, and that The Nice's best music was sort of arrangements of existing pieces: "Rondo," "America" and "She Belongs To Me."
I wasn't such a fan of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, but their arrangements of Aaron Copland and things, that was probably the strongest things they did, in a way. So, I'd say he's more a player and I'm more a writer, and he was a much better player than I am, definitely.
Songfacts: Did you ever get the urge to levitate a piano or stab a keyboard?
Tony: No, I didn't, I have to say. But, he stuck the knife in the keyboard so that the note was sustained, and I did similar things with weights sometimes. Back in the days when all you had on stage was a Hammond organ, you had to find ways to get different sounds out of it. I used to do some of the switching it on and off stuff and all the rest of it, which was always quite fun to do. That was part of the thing that Keith did.