Roger Joseph Manning, Jr. (born May 27, 1966) is an American musician, singer, songwriter and founding member of bands
Jellyfish,
Imperial Drag,
The Moog Cookbook, and
TV Eyes. He has also spent several years as an integral member of
Beck's backing band, and made contributions to several recordings by the band
Air. He is currently the session keyboardist for rock supergroup
Angels & Airwaves. He is known for his distinctive style of playing various
analog and
digital synthesizers.
Electronica,
power pop,
psychedelia and
jazz are his primary genres although he also does session work with a number of artists as well as commercial and soundtrack music. As well as providing session work, he used to work frequently with producer
Jerry Finn, through whom he was credited as keyboardist on a number of recordings with pop-punk band
Blink-182.