Greg Lake - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I never liked ELP or much of early KC, but I nonetheless respect what Lake did for music. RIP.

Only found out about this late last night... 2016 continues to cull the best.

Greg Lake, thanks for the music and rest well. Give our fond regards to Keith.

Jon Lord 1941 - 2012

Carl will still go on coz he has a most healthy regime.............
.......young Carl on Atomic Rooster's debut...............he hasn't changed much to this day.........(bar his hair.........) Healthy b*****d............

Another sad loss, R.I.P. Greg.

Cried when I heard the news last night on the CBS Evening News that Mr. Lake had left us. His singing when he was at his best was phenomenal. Your thoughts?

Edited by Rednight - December 09 2016 at 15:41

"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno

The guy and his mates were magic. I still kick myself for missing them at Cal Jam I. It didn't get better than that.

"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno

Yesterday I knew about Radim Hladik has passed away, today Greg Lake .... !!!!! One of more beautiful voices that I've heard in my whole life !

Ej, Padá, Padá Rosenka ....... Ces't la Vie.

I'm very sad ... R I P Greg

SteveG wrote:

Ivan_Melgar_M wrote:

A few years ago (1999) I had the chance to have lunch with him.......Such a nice and funny man.

Rest in Peace

No pun intended, Ivan. You truly were a lucky man.

That's one of the few advantages of living in a country with a small musical scene, you always know somebody who knows the producer who brings great artists.

Replayer wrote:

I remembered an amusing excerpt from a Greg Lake interview a few years ago:

After you made those records, you were, of course, in Asia for a short time…a very short time. 

(Laughs) Was I?

Yeah, I think so. 

(Laughs) Do I have to be?

If you blink, you might have missed it. (laughs) 

(Laughs) Well then, I’d rather blink in that case. What
 happened was I got a call one night from Carl Palmer and he said,
“Greg, can you do me a favor?” I thought he wanted to borrow a
guitar or something, so I said, “Yeah, of course, what do you
want?” And he said, “Aw man…we’ve just fallen out with John
(Wetton), the lead singer, and we’ve committed to do this satellite
broadcast in Japan.” And I said, “Yeah?” He said, “Well, and also
MTV has run this huge competition where they’re flying the prize
winners over on a specially charted 747. There’s no backing out of
it. They’ve paid for all the planes and everything.” So I said,
“Yeah?” (laughs) He said, “Could you come to do that one show?”
There were actually three shows. “Can you come and cover for him?” I
 said, “I don’t know all the songs Carl.” He said, “Well, you
can learn them.” So I said, “When is it?” He said, “10 days.” I
said, “No, I can’t do that.” And he said, “Aw man…”

RIP Mr. Lake

I have the Enso Kai CD. Great versions of the songs, and I do love how Lake sang them, however, rather bad sound quality. I guess it could have been worse, though.

Terrible news. These are the days I have always dreaded. When our heroes left us. I've been An ELP fan for most of my life. Thankfully I have seen them perform a few times but the fact that they are now gone...sucks. It sucks because as the years go by all of our favorite bands will become only memories.

Enjoy them and go see them while we can.