KEITH EMERSON - Pictures Of An Exhibition

 

 

The roadie ended the story , by saying that they do their job for the love of the music, not be around egocentric idiots, but they just live for stories like this one.

 

Almost their "raison d'être"

 

Richard, there is one he forgot to tell, though!!

 

One day, Lake was getting upset at Emo's 20 mins solo - he was playing from the back of his organ laying on top of him - and ordered the roadie to see if he was about finished, so they could return to the stage.

 

When the roadie to got Emo, Keith started yelling "help me get this frigging thing back up, I can't by myself, my beltbuckle is stuck into it".

 

 

So the professional he was, had kept on playing for some 15 minutes before somene actually cared to notice that something might be wrong. It turns out nobody had, just that Lake's ego was getting ruffled

 

 

I read this book last year. There are some parts of it interesting. I remember when this book came out. On Greg Lake Forum at the time, around june or july 2004, we were talking about this book and the way Keith was talking about Greg. Somebody on the board was asking why Greg was not defending himself, or saying something about it. We always wanted to defend him all the time actually. What a surprise one morning. ,on the board. Greg wrote something about this matter on the Forum. He did not feel the purpose or the necessity to defend himself, or to give his point of view. For him, it was not worthing it. By the way, Keith was not so harsh on him on his book.

 

Carl read it, and for most part, he did not recongnise the things or the stories ( not the same point of view). Finally, it appears that Carl is currently preparing to write or writhin his own biography. I am very anxious to read this.