ELP! I need somebody, ELP.

micky wrote: jimmy_row wrote: must resist baiting....must resist   I'll pretend you mean the 3-man era...average is not a word to be used in any sentence containing the words Hackett and Genesis.   hahhahaha... oh why fight it...   maybe I"m just a prog-poser here... but  outside of SEbtP...  I don't hear anything that really is above average, especially when you look across the prog spectrum.  Can't argue that people love them... and love them they do... like  taking an album like Nursury Cryme.. with 3 'established' great songs... and rating it.. as 220 reviewers did.. as a Essential Masterpiece of Prog.. it just smells of.. well .. it smells to me

If you ask me, that rating isn't high enough That album took a feeling Itchycock hinted at and went to the next level with it. People have the same problem here that they have with Selling England, the short songs don't "do it"...but I'd be lying if I said they don't work perfectly at bridging those longer pieces while keeping the dark victorian mood.  And Harold the Barrel is mighty impressive commentary from a 21 year old...and I don't see why Seven Stones isn't held in the same regard as the other three long tracks, the use of build up from verse to chorus is a prog trademark.

Tarkus31 wrote: jimmy_row wrote: micky wrote: helll have a couple more clappies.. we don't have enough ELP fans here.. uh oh, he's rallying the troops as we speak....before you know it there will be a fleet of armadillo tanks rolling into progarchives...next thing Foxtrot and Selling England will disappear from the top 10 and the Raelites won't know what hit 'em.   I'd better go tell Ivan and Erik...things could get ugly.   *notices a stray Hammond flying overhead...ducks to avoid whirlwind of daggers and persian rugs* oh, the humanity!   You forgot a spinning drumset and a rotating piano. :)

and the carpet roadie.. the karate instructors..... a symphony orchestra? ...

jimmy_row wrote: micky wrote: helll have a couple more clappies.. we don't have enough ELP fans here.. uh oh, he's rallying the troops as we speak....before you know it there will be a fleet of armadillo tanks rolling into progarchives...next thing Foxtrot and Selling England will disappear from the top 10 and the Raelites won't know what hit 'em.   I'd better go tell Ivan and Erik...things could get ugly.   *notices a stray Hammond flying overhead...ducks to avoid whirlwind of daggers and persian rugs* oh, the humanity!

jimmy_row wrote: micky wrote: helll have a couple more clappies.. we don't have enough ELP fans here.. uh oh, he's rallying the troops as we speak....before you know it there will be a fleet of armadillo tanks rolling into progarchives...next thing Foxtrot and Selling England will disappear from the top 10 and the Raelites won't know what hit 'em.   I'd better go tell Ivan and Erik...things could get ugly.   *notices a stray Hammond flying overhead...ducks to avoid whirlwind of daggers and persian rugs* oh, the humanity!

hahahhahah....  yeah.. that will be the day...  I said we don't have enough  fans but we don't want have too many and descend to Genesis level and have  average prog albums hailed by their fans as masterpieces of prog rock  hhahahha.

ArtRockFreak wrote:  I have listened to hundreds of prog groups,but ELP probably still remain my favourite.. I don't think i ll ever have the chance to see ELP or Keith Emerson live,especially here in Greece... Nevertheless,i am glad there are so many rare bootlegs of this band available(like the manticore one or the PAAE).I ve just finished Emo's biography,a really interesting piece ,which i recomend...

those Manticore bootlegs are worth every penny spent for them.. .love them

helll have a couple more clappies.. we don't have enough ELP fans here..

lightyearday wrote:   any way cos of that , i just don't see E&P back with an L any time soon.   well ,unless its lumbago!   :O)

or the ultimate prog whore himself...

Tony Levin   ..have cash.. will  play with anyone...


Edited by micky - November 24 2007 at 22:45

The Whistler wrote:   lightyearday wrote:   Imagine Emerson Squire and Palmer - ESP.   I'd rather see Emerson, Wetton and White - EWW!

I've recensed these two ELP and related albums:

EMERSON LAKE & PALMER (ELP) - Pictures at an Exhibition
EMERSON, KEITH - Honky

 

I still think an ELP reunion would be better, but I doubt that will happen.

I heard Jimmy Page broke his finger, so they delayed the gig until December, so with that, Rick Wakeman cant play with them because he had a prior engagement he has to be at.