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Michael John Barry
is an American keyboardist that was born August 20th, 1959 in []. He started piano lessons when he was 7 years old with a private teacher, Margaret Ryan. During College, he studied at the Park Forest Conservatory of Music in Park Forest. After College, he joined his first touring band, The Kent Brothers Band, playing Southern rock. After leaving in 1980 to play in a more progressive rock style, he formed Aspect with Michael Craddock (Bass) and Paul Freshley (drums). That band evolved into RAMM, which played all []. This band consisted of Michael Craddock (Bass), Allyn Deerwester (drums) and Rick Rodenbaugh (vocals)[].Michaels live keyboard setup was a Kawai electric grand piano[], Hammond B3 organ[], Moog Minimoog[], moog Liberation[], and a Chroma Polaris[].In 1993, 7 years after disbanding,the group recorded one sampler CD under the name Over the Edge in []