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Points: 1787 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 14:53
Ouch!  I know many of the day are getting on in age, but damn, they are happening so close together...

Oddly enough, just yesterday I found a Emerson, Lake, and POWELL CD in a thrift store and got it because I had not heard it before...strange.

RIP, Keith.  ELP, Floyd, and Yes were the gateway for me into prog, Thanks!
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Points: 15242 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 14:57
2016 is a brutal year for musicians. R.I.P. to another legend

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Points: 2165 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 14:59
Shocked....I thought he was touring with a trio.....I thought he was on the upswing....sad day for the music world.  RIP, KE.
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Points: 7851 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 15:08
Keith followed George Martin. Oh gosh! Least expected and worst news. 
We were promised the show that never ends and Keith's music lives on. R.I.P.
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Points: 46833 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 15:11
just got home and since I was in a trench all day I hadn't heard.

shocked.. about all I can say.

A sad day for progressive rock.. only Fripp is in the discussion for singular impact on the music.  Even then Fripp takes second. Emerson WAS prog man.  The single greatest rock keyboardist that ever lived.. 

RIP man.. and hold a seat at St. Patricks open for me. First couple of rounds will be on me as long as you let me go on about how hot Carl Palmer and his hair were...
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What a year Cry RIP Keith
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Points: 14072 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 15:21
Just heard it....I can't believe....my first prog album was Trilogy...
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Points: 887 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 15:25
Very saddened by this.  I said this already elsewhere but I think what comes out is how he took directly the dumbing down of culture which could not understand or appreciate his music.   He had everything, the rebellion and the scholarly approach to music in one place, yet he was unjustly treated by many. 
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Points: 1063 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 15:41
Man, I can't believe this sh*t. So sad.

ELP were the first prog band I've listened to with Floyd. I got Trilogy for my 15th birthday in 2007 :'( 
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RIP Keith Emerson...
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Points: 7024 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 15:48
Keith Emerson
Piotr Grudzinski
Chris Squire
David Bowie
Philthy Animal Taylor

That's one hell of a band we've lost in the last year. RIP all of them.
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Logged in after a long time just to say RIP.

Wrote three lenghty posts, and deleted them all.

I feel empty.

Keith Emerson was a teacher, a guru, even a substitute father in a way: he changed my life forever.

Thank you Keith, and rest in peace.

One day, the humanity will properly acknowledge your visions.

We owe you.
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Points: 1038 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 15:55
My favourite musician of all time bar none. Such a sad day. RIP Keith.
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Points: 6446 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 15:58
Prog as we know it wouldn't exist without that guy.

RIP
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Points: 3449 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 16:07
I rarely post anymore, but there's nothing to bring me out of the woodwork like the loss of Keith Emerson. The man was the Hendrix of the organ in his era. No one played like Keith; none of his peers (there were none) could touch him. The Hammond to him was a guitar, and he wielded it as such. Before Keith, the keyboard was just a part of the band. Think about it. Who were his predecessors in rock? Alan Price? Doug Ingle? Ray Manzarek? Rod Argent? They all played a couple of iconic riffs. But who transformed what an organist could be? It was Keith. He borrowed heavily, sometimes to the point of plagiarism. So what. So did every rock musician. And this is not even touching upon his pioneering synth work.  

Yes, in the later years he turned into a caricature of himself. That in no way negates his primeval influence on the genre this site celebrates.

Man, I am depressed.

RIP Keith. 
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Points: 18446 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 16:11
Nooooo CryCryCry
I Just saw the scroll on the CBC news channel.
He was my #1 guy in prog. I'm absolutely devastated. I thought he'd live to be 100.

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Points: 17094 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 16:15
CryCryCryCryCryCryCryCry I can't believe it. RIP, Keith.
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Points: 494 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 16:15
Horrible news!!!
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Points: 18446 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 11 2016 at 16:36
Rolling Stone via TMZ is reporting that police say he was found with a single gunshot to the head. I know TMZ are greasy but is this true???

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/keith-emerson-emerson-lake-and-palmer-keyboardist-dead-at-71-20160311
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