Sometimes Greg Lake played 6 string guitar. Just like with King Crimson, they were good with mixing different song types on the albums.
I liked Keith Emerson very much. By far, a most theatrical keyboard player.
Thanks for the heads up mikeya02
SJG
We all need to learn from this book and act. Otherwise neo-liberalism will eat our country alive. I'm fighting neo-liberalism here on the ground, day after day, while elected office holders fight to keep their Silicon Valley Real Estate Ponzi Scheme going:
ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7NAGTq_… ( imagine today a digital organ which allows contextual tuning, so it sounds more consonant, like an orchestra )
The rockers of my youth are really falling by the wayside this year. Carl Palmer is coming to Detroit in the next few months. I better get with it and see him!
Most of ELP's works were the best example of rock music without lead guitar.
Interesting to listen to, and to consider why it works so well. But it is also extremely influenced by classical music.
That entire genre, mostly coming out of the UK, has been referred to as Art Rock, and they saw it as being a form of high culture. Some of this still exists to this day.
But the ELP members, like Greg Lake, always point out that in their heyday they outsold Led Zeppelin, and then when they first heard Sid Vicious and the Sex Pistols they say that they just laughed out loud.
Way back when I was a young man. Unbelievable, I know. Shut up shadowcat !! LOL We had a club in one of our tonier suburbs where up and coming rock bands played. Alice Cooper, ELP, etc., etc. I'll never forget Emerson throwing real knives into the back of his keyboards and making some memorable rock with actual music notes.
I was one of those kids who heard "Lucky Man" a zillion times. What a wonderful band ELP was!
mikey's list of prog rock bands:
King Crimson
Yes
Rush
Genisis
Jethro Tull
Pink Floyd
is fantastic. To this day I think 70s prog rock (mostly British except for Rush) is the best music in the world. Some of my recent and upcoming concerts:
6/2015 - Rush @ Peabody Opera House, St Louis
7/2015 - Led Zep II and Aussie Floyd @ Northerly Island, Chicago
12/2015 - El Monstero (Pink Floyd tribute band) @ the Pageant, St Louis
2/2016 - The Musical Box (Genesis tribute band) @ Arcada Theatre, St Charles, IL
3/2016 - Brit Floyd @ Sangamon Auditorium, Springfield -- 4 days!!
4/2016 - Jethro Tull @ Murat Temple, Indianapolis
^^^^ You're lucky to have seen Rush last year. They recently announced they're calling it quits on touring due to Neil Peart unable to handle it anymore
Yes, I'm very glad I caught what turns out to have been Rush's farewell tour. You'll notice that almost all of my favorite bands have already faded from the scene :(
I think I'll become an alt-J and Imagine Dragons fanboy :)
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I liked Keith Emerson very much. By far, a most theatrical keyboard player.
Thanks for the heads up mikeya02
SJG
We all need to learn from this book and act. Otherwise neo-liberalism will eat our country alive. I'm fighting neo-liberalism here on the ground, day after day, while elected office holders fight to keep their Silicon Valley Real Estate Ponzi Scheme going:
http://www.amazon.com/Multitude-War-Demo…
ELP - Pictures At An Exhibition
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7NAGTq_…
( imagine today a digital organ which allows contextual tuning, so it sounds more consonant, like an orchestra )
The assault on musicians this year continues.
2016. The year the music died.
The 2016 predictions so far are not very accurate. The only 2 musicians in the Top 50 were Fats Domino and Glen Campbell.
Interesting to listen to, and to consider why it works so well. But it is also extremely influenced by classical music.
That entire genre, mostly coming out of the UK, has been referred to as Art Rock, and they saw it as being a form of high culture. Some of this still exists to this day.
But the ELP members, like Greg Lake, always point out that in their heyday they outsold Led Zeppelin, and then when they first heard Sid Vicious and the Sex Pistols they say that they just laughed out loud.
SJG
Anthony Burgess and Malcom McDowell, analysis of Clockwork Orange
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH3IZSM7…
Wendy Williams
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_Carl…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSq6B-kd…
I don't have anything of substance to add. I just like using the term prog rock in a thread.
King Crimson
Yes
Rush
Genisis
Jethro Tull
Pink Floyd
Space rock....
Hawkwind (with the late, great Lemmy)
mikey's list of prog rock bands:
King Crimson
Yes
Rush
Genisis
Jethro Tull
Pink Floyd
is fantastic. To this day I think 70s prog rock (mostly British except for Rush) is the best music in the world. Some of my recent and upcoming concerts:
6/2015 - Rush @ Peabody Opera House, St Louis
7/2015 - Led Zep II and Aussie Floyd @ Northerly Island, Chicago
12/2015 - El Monstero (Pink Floyd tribute band) @ the Pageant, St Louis
2/2016 - The Musical Box (Genesis tribute band) @ Arcada Theatre, St Charles, IL
3/2016 - Brit Floyd @ Sangamon Auditorium, Springfield -- 4 days!!
4/2016 - Jethro Tull @ Murat Temple, Indianapolis
I think I'll become an alt-J and Imagine Dragons fanboy :)