Emerson, Lake & Palmer

btw Carl Palmer is playing at the New Day Festival in 2018 that is held near Faversham in Kent. It's a great festival for anyone like me that misses High Voltage. I went this year and saw the likes of BJH , Wishbone Ash and Uriah Heep . Very enjoyable.

https://www.skiddle.com/festivals/a-new-day-festival/lineup.html

Rednight wrote: Squonk19 wrote: Just saw Carl Palmer last night at the Sage in Gateshead with his trio, doing his ELP Legacy tour - and I just couldn't believe the speed, complexity and quality of his drumming - especially during the Curse/Hut of Baba Yaga part of 'Pictures'. About 10 metres from the drum kit in the second row. Unbelievable - He's 67 years old!!! 👍 Without the keyboards of Keith and the vocals of Greg, it's never quite the same - but his bassist and guitarist really do a very good job at filling in the sound and melody lines ( and anyway you are filling in any gaps and singing the lyrics in your head anyway!) Worth checking out if they come near you in the near future - Carl is clearly enjoying revisiting his ELP catalogue and flexing his drumming more than he could do in Asia etc. A friend saw Carl's three piece at the time a few years back at the Roxy in Los Angeles. Beforehand, he asked me to go with him, but for whatever reason I declined the offer. He later told me that he was allowed into the venue about an hour and a half early and took a seat. No sooner had he done that when Palmer strode past him to apparently check the set up of the stage. My friend said he got up and approached Palmer in order to say hello. He said the man graciously shook his hand and then proceeded to spend about 20 minutes chatting about music and such before kindly excusing himself. My friend was starry-eyed when he recounted all of this. I would have been too.

WOW, so your friend actually chatted with The Man(Carl Palmer)! I would certainly go see this deal if I thought I could chat with him also! Oh I'd talk all about Asia and ELP and.. he'd be trying to trying anything to get the heck away from me after a while lol. 

richardh wrote: ^ Depressingly we are getting to a point of having to take a roll call of who is still alive and going it seems

True. On that note, I'll be seeing Blue Oyster Cult in a few months. First time in over a decade. Buck and Eric are still fronting the band, so as long as that train is rolling, I'm there.