Greg Lake

(Laughs) Was I?

Yeah, I think so.

(Laughs) Do I have to be?

If you blink, you might have missed it. (laughs)

(Laughs) Well then, I’d rather blink in that case. What happened was I got a call one night from Carl Palmer and he said, “Greg, can you do me a favor?” I thought he wanted to borrow a guitar or something, so I said, “Yeah, of course, what do you want?” And he said, “Aw man…we’ve just fallen out with John (Wetton), the lead singer, and we’ve committed to do this satellite broadcast in Japan.” And I said, “Yeah?” He said, “Well, and also MTV has run this huge competition where they’re flying the prize winners over on a specially charted 747. There’s no backing out of it. They’ve paid for all the planes and everything.” So I said, “Yeah?” (laughs) He said, “Could you come to do that one show?” There were actually three shows. “Can you come and cover for him?” I said, “I don’t know all the songs Carl.” He said, “Well, you can learn them.” So I said, “When is it?” He said, “10 days.” I said, “No, I can’t do that.” And he said, “Aw man…”