~ Emerson, Lake & Palmer ~
Posted on 12/08/2016 5:25:18 AM PST by Huskrrrr
Still way out there. Fripp’s got them on tour now.
Damn you 2016!!!
Thanks. When I think of ELP ballads or soft tunes isn’t usually what comes to mind. But those were some of the best things they did.
I saw them on that tour also.
From The Beginning and Still You Turn Me On are my two favorite songs from ELP.
Hang in there - only twenty-three days to go.
“Between the iron gates of fate
The seeds of time were sown
And watered by the deeds of those
Who know and who are known.
Knowledge is a deadly friend
If no one sets the rules.
The fate of all mankind I see
Is in the hands of fools.”
Prophetic song.
I still listen to that album on a regular basis.
My wife got be Discipline a few months ago and I still love it. (After not looking at it for a while. To see if I still liked it. I DID!)
Starless and Bible Black
Moonchild
Awesome songs and better lyrics.
He will be missed but his music lives on.
I think they should have used 21st Century Schizoid Man for the psycops 24X7 music fest they gave Noriega.
That would drive him out if he didn’t like it.
"From the Beginning" is familiar to me. I heard it a few years ago on the radio (not for the first time!), and decided to learn how to play it. I wish I could sing. Well, other than embarrassingly.
Good observations, of course, Lake was not on the Starless and Bible Black album or the landmark Lark’s Tongue In Aspic.
“The Nightwatch” from Starless is some great song, there’s even some Asian band performing it on youtube. Stupendous song.
But like others, I liked some of that ELP too.
Trilogy was a very good release too, I’m not sure anyone mentioned that one specifically. Hoedown and others. I’m so so on Tarkus and of course, Brain Salad Surgery and their first one are classics.
Rest In Peace Greg Lake.
Rest in peace, gentlemen.
Isn’t that the truth!
Of course my mother is 92 and complains she doesn’t have any friends anymore because they all died of old age.
Peter Sinfield:
“Sinfield had a fairly unusual and colourful upbringing, being an only child (bar his adopted brother, Dennis) of a bisexual mother who ran a hair salon and one of the first burger bars in London in the 1950s. He grew up in a bohemian household, and claims to have vivid memories of extravagant and wonderful Christmases, later inspiring the lyrics for his hit “I Believe in Father Christmas”, which recalled a lost and naive faith in Father Christmas. Sinfield claimed that A Poet’s Notebook by Edith Sitwell had an important influence on his writing, as well as the works of William Blake, Kahlil Gibran, Shakespeare, Enid Blyton and various science fiction writers.”
“Musically he was largely influenced by Bob Dylan and Donovan. Hearing Donovan’s opening line of “Colours”: “Yellow is the colour of my true love’s hair”’ was, Sinfield stated, the defining moment when he decided he had the desire and ability to start writing songs.”
He is still alive at age 73. He has certainly had a colorful life.
Greg Lake had a big influence on my musical life. I used to play From the Beginning and Still you Turn me On and graduation parties. Later we incorporated ELP’s Karen Evil 9 and Epitaph into a rock opera we wrote in college. I’m very sad to hear this news. RIP Mr. Lake you were one of the best.
I could recite the lyrics to Pirates right now!
bttt
Their version of “Fanfare for the Common Man” is awesome (need to play it today).
RIP, Greg Lake. You and ELP were great.
Losing a lot of the good ones! RIP.....
Don't worry, we're all in line, just enjoy the ride and make the best of what you've got and GRWG.
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