Emerson Lake & Palmer

Another thing I'll say is that I've learned though the internet that prog sure has it's share of the "greasy spoon"
department.  I made up that term to describe some friends of mine in my youth who really like the Velvet Underground and the like and hated prog.  I see that there is a similar faction in prog, people liking choatic, negative stuff,  which sounds to some like great music because its "difficult" and angular sounding and thus in some way
progressive.  To me, it sounds completely regressive.  One probably needs to be using foreign substances quite a bit to stay liking that kind of music.  But you know, there is the same kind of faction in serious or "classical" music.

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Of all the things I've heard from ELP (ELP, Tarkus, and BSS) I really enjoy "Take a Pebble", almost all of Tarkus (except for the sh$%ty "Are You Ready, Eddy"), and almost all of BSS, 4.5/5 (except for that sucker "Benny the Bouncer"). I really should give the first two aforementioned albums a few more listens some time around and then go on to give another shot to Trilogy and Pictures at an Exhibition.

ELP did bring the genre into the view of the masses in the day and should not go un-noticed for that.  Not sure why the "low" or should say lesser than expected ratings are in this forum, most likely the "too commercial" view of them. 

Rush77 wrote: Hey everybody so i was lookin at the site and noticed that ELP is rated pretty low and i was wondering y so im gonna ask everyone who reads this their opinion on this band. Personally i find them to be utterly amazing and one of my fav bands of all time but thats just my opinion plz tell me wat u think about them

The music of Keith Emerson will live on forever and he will take his place among the greats, Mozart, etc...
The kids here who diss ELP will get to watch on the sidelines for the rest of their lives as "their" prog bands like Tool & Radiohead come and go, as musical experimentation without practice, composition and virtuosity will always be popular then forgotten as the new generational sensation takes its place.

ELP music will live on forever as truly great.  Nope, not simply my opinion.  Just watch it happen.

One can get a PhD in music by studying Keith Emerson's works and his compositions are repeatedly being
performed by orchestras around the world.  How can a person who claims to "listen" or appreciate actual music
dismiss that???

ELP is not popular here???  Whatever.  My buddy from Boston, Mass. said it best:

"The masses are asses".  His words, not mine.

Long live ELP!!!!!

Go out and buy the new 5.1 & 2.0 remixes of ELP "ELP" & "Tarkus"

http://www.amazon.com/Tarkus-Deluxe-Edition-Emerson/dp/B008FPZQRO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1346546763&sr=8-1&keywords=elp+tarkus

DVD-Audio & CD set for the price of a CD!!!!!!

Next time I will say what I really think of ELP and the media & pundits who diss them. 

At one of our HS assembies, some ensemble played "The Barbarian"--this was in 1975

 

I believe that ELP fans should really appreciate this:

One of the best bands in rnr ever. they just deserved to be called the supergroup of the 70s. i think they are very underrated here at PA for their virtue, originality, influence and ideas. By my opinion they have the best keyboard player in prog rock ever, and their lyrics written by sinfield are also among the best in pop music ever.

in the last year, i bought the ELP dvds Pictures At An Exhibition Special Edition,Beyond The Beginning, Live at Montreux,and one  called Emerson,Lake and Palmer-C'est La Vie which features some tracks recorded in Montreal in the seventies and other things on other dvds
             i love every minute of every one of them!
              saw the band only once in Ottawa, Canada in January of 1993, and will never forget it


Edited by presdoug - December 13 2010 at 18:05

richardh wrote: Beyond the Beginning is a 5 CD+ 1DVD set that includes the Manticore documentary from 1973. From The Beginning is a 2 DVD set including a decent chunk of California Jam.