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Snow Dog

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Posted: August 22 2005 at 16:06

Whats wrong with ladders?

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Posted: August 22 2005 at 16:09

Rotten, moldy and covered with hair cheesy. Pig feces is like mustard compared to Lake's ballads. If Greg Lake was a movie he'd be 'Catwoman'.

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Posted: August 22 2005 at 16:20

^ You really are a horrible person aren't you? Poxx is surely the best name you could have chosen!

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Posted: August 22 2005 at 16:25

Snow Dog wrote:

Whats wrong with ladders?

Carpentry

Fighting fires

Painting

Getting kittens out of trees

Lyrics

(Unless it's a song about carpentry, fighting fires, painting, or getting kittens out of trees....)

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Posted: August 22 2005 at 16:44

I love his ballads. They were an integral part of every ELP album!

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Posted: August 22 2005 at 20:48

C'est la vie is one of my favorite ELP songs ! I absloutely love this song !!

The sage is an amazing one too

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Posted: August 22 2005 at 20:51

bertburt wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:

Whats wrong with ladders?

Carpentry

Fighting fires

Painting

Getting kittens out of trees

Lyrics

(Unless it's a song about carpentry, fighting fires, painting, or getting kittens out of trees....)

What is wrong with the lyric "someone get me a ladder"?

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Posted: August 22 2005 at 23:47

Snow Dog wrote:

bertburt wrote:

Snow Dog wrote:

Whats wrong with ladders?

Carpentry

Fighting fires

Painting

Getting kittens out of trees

Lyrics

(Unless it's a song about carpentry, fighting fires, painting, or getting kittens out of trees....)

What is wrong with the lyric "someone get me a ladder"?

I think the more pertinent question is....What isn't wrong with the lyric "Someone get me a ladder"?

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Posted: August 22 2005 at 23:47

richardh wrote:

I'm not sure,but I think the 'someone get me a ladder' line was actually an ''injoke''.(well I hope so anyway

) Linda(3 Fates) or someone else please clarify?..

Actually Pete Sinfield told me he wrote that in the lyric.. and it was an inside joke. Its also why they called the European portion of the BSS tour.. the "Take a Ladder" tour But in Keith's autobio.. he says he wrote that lyrics... which I had to laugh at.. cause I know that wasn't true...

from the joke:

THIS IS ELP

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Posted: August 22 2005 at 23:50

RaphaelT wrote:

I must admit I like these ballads. Please remember that it was hit single Lucky Man that brought ELP to the top of the charts, so it played vital role in popularization of whole genre (I'm quoting Rockin' The Classics by Edward Macan). It was written by 14 - year old Greg Lake though, and so it sounds infantile (that's why it annoys some ELP fans).

Nevertheless, it would be nice to catch "Still You Turn Me On" or "From The Beginning" on radio on Valentine's Day instead of Britney or Robbie Williams (excuse me for rude language, pardon my Klatchian)

Actually it was written by a 12 year old Greg Lake.. and I've never found the words to be infantile in the least. That moog solo at the end was just perfect also.. .as was Carl's three ending heart beats....

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Posted: August 22 2005 at 23:53

Poxx wrote:

Rotten, moldy and covered with hair cheesy. Pig feces is like mustard compared to Lake's ballads. If Greg Lake was a movie he'd be 'Catwoman'.

You evidently need more medication than you're obviously taking...

THIS IS ELP

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Posted: August 22 2005 at 23:53

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meurglysIII wrote:

I hate the cheesy synth part on Lucky Man

, but otherwise it's a decent song

Call it cheese if you want but that means you didn't understand a couple of things. First it was one of the earliest recording with a moog synth recorded on it and second he did it in one take. Greg lake said that is exactly what I want. Keith never rehearsed or pre wrote the solo for it.

Had I known that I may have thought better of it. I still prefer Still...You Turn Me On to Lucky Man though.

"Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression."

-Merleau-Ponty

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Posted: August 22 2005 at 23:56

Well I can tell you that I've loved every ballad and every song Greg has ever sang on... but then you know that already.

You left out "Watching Over You" and "I Believe in Father Christmas" which next to "Lucky Man" was probably his most selling ballad.

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Posted: October 10 2005 at 21:14

I love all ballads Greg Lake has written with ELP. I think his songs on Works I are my favourites, "From the Beginning" is a great one too, cool moog solo at the end....

Don't be a prog-hole, please...

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Posted: October 10 2005 at 21:23

I love every single thing Lake recorded. He's one of my favorite singers. Probably THE voice of prog, IMO. He's also a great guitarist and bassist too.

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Posted: October 10 2005 at 21:57

chopper wrote:

"Jerusalem" a Greg Lake ballad? - somehow I think not.

I'm not a great fan of his stuff on Works Vol 1, but he is a good singer and underrated guitar player.

you're kinder to his stuff on Works vol 1. than I am. Liked his turn on The Sage. Great vocalist, saddled at times with some crappy lyrics (Still you turn me on

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Space is dark it is so endless
When you're lost it's so relentless
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Posted: October 11 2005 at 00:34

Snow Dog wrote:

What is wrong with the lyric "someone get me a ladder"?

Joke or not, one has to admit that's not one of the best lyrical lines in the history of prog rock.

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Posted: October 11 2005 at 00:36

I like them

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Posted: October 11 2005 at 00:57

I like all of Greg Lake's ballads, but Lucky Man is a little lame (the synth is the best part, and the lyrics are impressive considering how young he was.

I love Still...You Turn Me On, and I honestly never thought twice about the Someone get me a ladder line until now!

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Posted: October 11 2005 at 16:22

Greg Lake's my favourite singer, and I love some of his ballads. I always thought that that was the strength of ELP, the contrast between Emerson's complex stuff and Lake's open, pure sounding ballads.

I like Lucky Man, Still You Turn Me On and the only track on Pictures that was not a Mussorgsky but a Lake tune, was that called The Great Gates Of Kiev? Well, I especially like those tracks. Great singer, great lyricist, great guitar player, great ballad composer.

Time for an applause