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I have been a huge ELP fan for almost fifty years, and it dawned on me, watching a documentary on my computer, that until tonight, I have never heard Keith Emerson or Greg Lake speak before!
Carl I have, because I know him, but the other two, never ever heard them say anything apart from stage announcements.
It feels a little strange ...
Carl I have, because I know him, but the other two, never ever heard them say anything apart from stage announcements.
It feels a little strange ...
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I'm a big fan too. And same re Keith.
Greg and Carl used to up quite frequently on those late Friday night BBC4 music strands.
I see from imdb tht there's a crowd-funded documentary on the go about Keith - Pictures of an Exhibitionist. Let's hope it comes to fruition.
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Greg and Carl used to up quite frequently on those late Friday night BBC4 music strands.
I see from imdb tht there's a crowd-funded documentary on the go about Keith - Pictures of an Exhibitionist. Let's hope it comes to fruition.
https:/
Theland - // Why on earth did Keith smash the organs? Not very artistic, or entertaining. //
Destructions of organs were mainly confined to Emerson's days in The Nice, when the band's performance of America climaxed with a seriously abused Hammond being pushed off the stage.
In the ELP days, Emerson confined himself to tipping his Hammond on end to get its oscillators jammed, and pinning down keys together using Nazi daggers and bayonets he acquired from Motorhead's Lemmy, a serious collector of WW2 souvenirs.
As advised, this had more to do with simple adrenalin than anything 'musical' - when you can play as well as Emerson did, there are a limited number of ways to express yourself musically left open, so sometimes brute force takes over.
Destructions of organs were mainly confined to Emerson's days in The Nice, when the band's performance of America climaxed with a seriously abused Hammond being pushed off the stage.
In the ELP days, Emerson confined himself to tipping his Hammond on end to get its oscillators jammed, and pinning down keys together using Nazi daggers and bayonets he acquired from Motorhead's Lemmy, a serious collector of WW2 souvenirs.
As advised, this had more to do with simple adrenalin than anything 'musical' - when you can play as well as Emerson did, there are a limited number of ways to express yourself musically left open, so sometimes brute force takes over.
When in the forces in the 70s, my best mate and I had almost identical album collections, consisting of prog-rock bands such as Pink Floyd, Genesis, Home, Supertramp, etc, etc. However, his favourite band were ELP and I couldn't stand listening to them. Mine, at the time, were Yes, and he couldn't stand listening to them. However, we did agree that both were tremendously influential in the prog-rock genre.
// I saw ELP at Wembley Empire Pool (I think it was still called that) in 1974, can't remember which night. //
I was at the Sunday concert, the 21st April. It cost me £3.50. Mr Emerson did indeed abuse his organ, and "Pictures at an Exhibition" was the encore. The support band were "Back Door", a jazz-rock combo who deserved better success than they achieved.
I was at the Sunday concert, the 21st April. It cost me £3.50. Mr Emerson did indeed abuse his organ, and "Pictures at an Exhibition" was the encore. The support band were "Back Door", a jazz-rock combo who deserved better success than they achieved.
