I keep wondering about people who mention the "keyboard intro". That's a Chapman Stick, not a keyboard.
The very intro? That's keyboard too. After that it's all just chapman for a few seconds.
The Stick doesn't come in until around the 30 second mark. Before that it's keys/guitar.
My mind is blown. From the moment I first put on the CD, I was certain that those opening patterns were Stick. It never occurred to me that they were anything else. When I mentioned the Stick and others also noted it, I was reassured. The fact that there is Stick, but not where I thought it was, is actually kinda funny (to me anyway).
FII was one of the first DT albums I ever bought, and I didn't realize until much later that some of the leads that I thought were guitar were actually synth. Partly because I wasn't listening that critically, and partly because Derek brought such a different approach to keyboards that I didn't even recognize his sounds as coming from keyboards.
And yes, that's pretty sad since I'm a keyboard player, but DT was the first Prog Metal band I'd ever heard and I'd never heard keyboards used this way before. Metal was always the domain of guitars, and I was amazed that a band had even found a way to integrate keyboards into their sound.