2016 claims another great musician. My generation must have heard "Lucky Man" a zillion times. RIP
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Keith Emerson of Emerson. Lake and Palmer passed away last night.....
Mar 11, 2016, 12:04 PM
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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 youtube.com ( imagine today a digital organ which allows contextual tuning, so it sounds more consonant, like an orchestra )
Wow. Karn evil 9!! Thanks rockstar666....I hadn't thought of that song in forever! I gotta go d/l it, light a blunt and go back to a simpler time
I used to listen to ELP religiously, even more often than my parents forced me to believe in their religion. :-)
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!
The assault on musicians this year continues.
- The year the music died.
Yet Ted Nugent lives Life isn't fair.
I sort of remember my older sister had an ELP album with an armadillo on it? As a tank or something? She really loved that band.
'Fanfare for the common man' was their best record IMHO
Sadly, it appears he shot himself to death.
Oh, "nutrocker"! I'd better order quick before Amazon runs out of "ELP" albums. RIP, KE.
Lowpaw: Tarkis, if I'm not mistaken. I don't own any ELP but I spend many hours in friends' dorm rooms smoking pot and being amazed at the artistry.
There's a morbid website called deathlist.net that ranks the likelihood a celebrity will pass.
The 2016 predictions so far are not very accurate. The only 2 musicians in the Top 50 were Fats Domino and Glen Campbell.
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.
SJG
Anthony Burgess and Malcom McDowell, analysis of Clockwork Orange youtube.com
Wendy Williams en.wikipedia.org
I wasn't particularly a fan of prog rock.
I don't have anything of substance to add. I just like using the term prog rock in a thread.
Some other great prog rock bands...
King Crimson Yes Rush Genisis Jethro Tull Pink Floyd
Space rock....
Hawkwind (with the late, great Lemmy)
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 :)
I loved ELP even though they didn't have a guitar player. Karn Evil 9 was great!