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Joined: April 05 2006
Location: Vancouver, BC
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Posted: November 25 2008 at 11:42
MrEdifus wrote:
kibble_alex wrote:
MrEdifus wrote:
Voting against VDGG was as easy as voting for Dream Theater.
So pretty tough then?
Nope, quite the contrary.
In a poll such as this, I'm much more inclined to vote for something than vote against something. I voted VdGG because I prefer it, but that's not a vote against ELP.
Anyway, I would expect that many more DT fans would prefer ELP.
Joined: July 26 2008
Location: England
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Points: 1043
Posted: November 28 2008 at 16:24
Hmm, ELP are like the England football team. A few good results early doors to raise your hopes then they revert to type and lose. Anyway I vote ELP though I think VDGG will win, possibly in a penalty shoot-out.
"And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!"
Joined: January 03 2008
Location: Argentina
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Posted: November 28 2008 at 22:31
Cactus Choir wrote:
Hmm, ELP are like the England football team. A few good results early doors to raise your hopes then they revert to type and lose. Anyway I vote ELP though I think VDGG will win, possibly in a penalty shoot-out.
Joined: September 13 2006
Location: Xanadu
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Posted: November 28 2008 at 22:34
crimson87 wrote:
Cactus Choir wrote:
Hmm, ELP are like the England football team. A few good results early doors to raise your hopes then they revert to type and lose. Anyway I vote ELP though I think VDGG will win, possibly in a penalty shoot-out.
Joined: July 26 2008
Location: England
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Posted: November 29 2008 at 03:49
crimson87 wrote:
Cactus Choir wrote:
Hmm, ELP are like the England football team. A few good results early doors to raise your hopes then they revert to type and lose. Anyway I vote ELP though I think VDGG will win, possibly in a penalty shoot-out.
Emerson Lake & Palmer
Tarkus
Trilogy
Brain Salad Surgery
Pictures at an exibition
Welcome back my friends
And if we take into account another facts.
First gig at the Isle of Wright (600000 people)
California Jam (350000)
Sold out tours across US Europe and Japan
Constant techinical innovations
One of the best tlive acts of the 70's
Touring with a whole orchestra
Spinning piano
Only zeppelin was bigger than ELP in the 70's.
Those look like pretty good results to me!!
Those ELP results are amazing of course, and the spinning piano was possibly their greatest triumph (stick that in your existentialist pipe and smoke it Hammill). It's just a shame that like the England footie team the Glory Days were such a long time ago and were followed by years of under-achievement!
"And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!"
VdGG had 4 albums better than ELP's best along with a bunch of other very solid albums. If I had to make this decision 3 years ago, my vote would have easily gone the other way, but I've had a bit of a falling out with ELP over the past couple years.
Joined: September 25 2005
Location: Texas
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Points: 359
Posted: December 14 2008 at 17:25
I voted for VDGG, even though I've listened to ELP for almost 30 years and only "discovered" VDGG this year.
Although it took me a couple of weeks to appreciate Peter Hammil's vocal style, once I got into it, I got WAY into it. ELP may be better in terms of technical virtuosity, and they did compose some cool songs, but VDGG is more my style.
Joined: October 10 2006
Location: Missouri
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Posted: December 15 2008 at 14:47
crimson87 wrote:
Cactus Choir wrote:
Hmm, ELP are like the England football team. A few good results early doors to raise your hopes then they revert to type and lose. Anyway I vote ELP though I think VDGG will win, possibly in a penalty shoot-out.
Emerson Lake & Palmer
Tarkus
Trilogy
Brain Salad Surgery
Pictures at an exibition
Welcome back my friends
And if we take into account another facts.
First gig at the Isle of Wright (600000 people)
California Jam (350000)
Sold out tours across US Europe and Japan
Constant techinical innovations
One of the best tlive acts of the 70's
Touring with a whole orchestra
Spinning piano
Only zeppelin was bigger than ELP in the 70's.
Those look like pretty good results to me!!
I was at CalJam. It was a great show once you got past the first few acts.
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Those ELP results are amazing of course, and the spinning piano was possibly their greatest triumph (stick that in your existentialist pipe and smoke it Hammill). It's just a shame that like the England footie team the Glory Days were such a long time ago and were followed by years of under-achievement!
