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Mark L

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I just loved ELP (still do.) Saw them as the warm up for Procol Harum at the Spectrum in Philly around 69 or 70. Seen them about 14-15 times in all. I like all of Brain Salad Surgery... although I like ELP and Tarkus better.

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Hate everything about that abomination of a band...they are like the grandaddys of soulless, wank-a-rama bands like Dream Theater.

 

Carl Palmer is a crazy soloist..and that's about it...he's still a crazy soloist even when he's simply attempting to keep time.

In some misguided judgement, Scott Henderson once hired him for a session. He later said "needless to say...it didn't work out, at all...Carl thinks drums are something you just set up and wail on, with no rhyme or reason."

 

Greg Lake - a reviewer once called him the Don Pardo of rock - that's very apt...he's a stiff, booming voiceover...as out-of-sync as the rest of the musical melee going on around him.

 

Emerson's kinfe-chucking-and-stabbing rape of Hammond organs, spaghetti-hell of patch cords, and vertically rotating piano solos are the sole reason for the invention of Punk...so thank god for Keith, I guess.

 

All that being said....the beginning of "Tarkus" was pretty cool.

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I loved ELP when I was young. Much of their music hasn't aged too well for me. I do like The Carl Palmer Band's take on some of the ELP tunes. Paul Bielatowicz does some interesting takes of Emo's parts on guitar.

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I found ELP heavy and complex and also intricate on some tracks. Got into the whole Prog rock Genesis, Yes, Giant stuff along with Beatles and /Stones back then. Real orchestras too. Makes me want to hook up the 'table and play some old vinyl...I liked Black Oak Arkansas too :lol: They were opening for ELP here in...''72? :lol:

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I loved ELP when I was young. Much of their music hasn't aged too well for me.

 

 

Same here. I was a big ELP fan like 35 years ago, I'm not so much into the prog stuff now. But I did see The Keith Emerson Band at Toad's Place a couple years ago and they were great. It was cool seeing Emerson play his modular Moog from about 10 feet from where I was standing.

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