ELP Humour

richardh wrote: Rednight wrote: It's humorous to me that Keith Emerson was the subject of a People magazine article in the '90s(?).   you might like to let other people in on the joke (?)

Sorry about the cultural specifics.  Punk, in this case, meaning a follower of the Sex Pistols, The Clash, etc.  The Boomtown Rats started life posturing as a 'punk band' before they started getting hit singles so the punk movement rejected them in the same way, he assumed, that the prog community rejected ELP.  Many punks at that time hid their admiration for all things prog to avoid disdain from their peers - Capt. Sensible (The Damned) turned out to be a huge fan of Egg, for example.

Hope this clarifies!

verslibre wrote: richardh wrote: Rednight wrote: It's humorous to me that Keith Emerson was the subject of a People magazine article in the '90s(?).   you might like to let other people in on the joke (?)   People is the #1 fluff pop culture rag in the US. Basically, if you're in it, it means you possess some sort of relevance to the current popular scene, so assume an issue can't go by without a K*rd*sh**n mention, or twenty-odd related pics.

Seem to remember Sham 69 as being thought the biggest "sell out" by the Punks I was at school with for having hit singles and appearing unironically on Top of the Pops. I would consider the Stranglers as a kind of Punk equivalent to ELP, technically superior to much of the competition and widely reviled within their own 'community'. When I heard Magazine I thought they sounded like Greenslade on mogadons, sort of a Prog band with the handbrake on. Genesis are The Clash because they both had posh boys in them.


Edited by Cactus Choir - April 10 2015 at 05:51

I can remember reading about Sham 69 being bottled off stage at Reading.

The Stranglers keyboardist Dave Greenfield was a reformed progger who wore a cape (!) on stage in their early days. He got the bassist Jean-Jacques Burnel into The Land of Grey and Pink by Caravan, so there was definitely some Prog influence in there. I went to see them on their UK tour this year and they did a version  Walk On By complete with lengthy prog-style keyboard solo. No wonder the hardcore Punks hated them!

Flight123 wrote: As for Danny 'Sniffin Glue' Baker - world's biggest ELP fan (just trying to bring the thread back again!)

chopper wrote: Flight123 wrote: As for Danny 'Sniffin Glue' Baker - world's biggest ELP fan (just trying to bring the thread back again!) I thought that was Jim Davidson?

Baker is as well, he wrote the gushing sleevenotes to the 'High Voltage' compilation!

Flight123 wrote: chopper wrote: Flight123 wrote: As for Danny 'Sniffin Glue' Baker - world's biggest ELP fan (just trying to bring the thread back again!) I thought that was Jim Davidson? Baker is as well, he wrote the gushing sleevenotes to the 'High Voltage' compilation!