adding keyboard player Jordan Rudess to thicken the sound. “I was a very serious young protégé from the age of nine, going to Juilliard. I knew nothing about rock music,” said Rudess. “That all changed because a friend of mine in high school brought over Emerson, Lake and Palmer’s Tarkus record and played it for me, and I couldn’t stop listening to it. I thought it was incredible.”
