He had a stand up piano/organ and he would rock the thing back and forth to get all this crazy sound. I think that when he learned he could no longer play a few years ago he got very depressed....
After ELP konked out years ago, probably after Emerson Lake & Powell didn’t work out, there was a story around that said E was trying to reassemble The Nice, which was the same kind of personnel (with Lee Jackson bass & vocals, uh, Davison on drums). I don’t think that took place.
A Hammond B3. I saw them in Boston (1979?). To end the show. Keith Emerson picked the thing up and smashed it to pieces. What a racket that made. Good times.