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Posted: June 16 2009 at 07:24

Why do ELP hate each other? Angry

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 07:30

I think both Greg and Keiths egos are to big.

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 07:39

Keith is a very good keyboard,piano player maybe the best in the 70's(although Tony is MY favorite). However soloing too much , which many including myself may enjoy, is a bit hard for the rest of the band.So as far as bass or drum solos are not that very exciting for an audience as a keys solo he was in the difficult position of doing clownish thing with knives, fire,beasts,dinosaurs,whatever which on the one hand are fun but on the other hand show an ego too big for a band, imagine how big it was for a trio of really great musicians!!! So i believe he is responsible for the hatred.

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 07:46

Could it have been from losing all that money during the 1977 Works orchestra tour?

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 08:10

I'm not sure they hate each other.

Who are you and who am I to say we know the reason why... (D. Gilmour)

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 08:13

Who says they hate each other?

This is the worst poll ever.

Nobody in ELP has an ego TOO BIG. They all have ego's of the correct proportion.

If only I had the power to close this poll.

Edited by Snow Dog - June 16 2009 at 09:26

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 08:31

Just tell me why Cry

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 08:55

Greg Lake is my geriatric idol Heart

Emerson can suck his piano Angry

Edited by RoyFairbank - June 16 2009 at 08:56

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 10:25

I bet Freud would know this one. Ermm

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 11:06

Vompatti wrote:

I bet Freud would know this one. Ermm

Penis envy? Or does that only work with women?

Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal.

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 11:21

TheCaptain wrote:

Vompatti wrote:

I bet Freud would know this one. Ermm

Penis envy? Or does that only work with women?

Perhaps it's not Keith's ego that is too big. Wink

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 13:23

Definitely Keith's ego too big

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 13:54

I haven't got the energy to vote in this. Who says they hate each other? I would agree if people said that egos got in the way of normal relationships, but you could say that about a number of bands, i.e. The Who - Townsend drove Daltrey round the bend, but they do genuinely love and respect each other, and I have never seen any interview in all the years I have followed prog where Emerson, Lake, or Palmer have said they hate each other.

Now if you were talking about Gilmour and Waters, that would be different Wink

But even those two have buried the hatchet in a mutually respectful kind of way (eventually)

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 15:33

Misomex777 wrote:

Could it have been from losing all that money during the 1977 Works orchestra tour?

THIS

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Posted: June 16 2009 at 23:50

Misomex777 wrote:

Could it have been from losing all that money during the 1977 Works orchestra tour?

Sadly prior to the days of corporate sponsorship.

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Posted: June 17 2009 at 07:19

I agree with Zargus that both Greg and Keith's egos are too big ...... but Keith's a biker and so am I, so I decided to put the blame on Greg's ego!

.............. Greg's not a biker as well, is he?!

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Posted: June 17 2009 at 07:26

I don't think they hate each other, but Keith's ego is reputedly too big: I have read that Dave O'List had to leave The Nice because Keith could not stand another soloist beside him.

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Posted: June 17 2009 at 09:26

someone_else wrote:

I don't think they hate each other, but Keith's ego is reputedly too big: I have read that Dave O'List had to leave The Nice because Keith could not stand another soloist beside him.

Can't we all just get along.

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Posted: July 01 2009 at 05:25

The same reason why I prefer Rick Wakeman over Keith Emerson - Keith turned into a rockstar.

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progkidjoel wrote:

The same reason why I prefer Rick Wakeman over Keith Emerson - Keith turned into a rockstar.

Excuse me?

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Poll Question: Why do ELP hate each other?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Keith's ego too big	10	[41.67%]
Greg's ego too big	10	[41.67%]
Carl's ego too big	0	[0.00%]
Other, comments	4	[16.67%]
This topic is closed, no new votes accepted