sadoldgit Posted 11 March, 2016 Share Posted 11 March, 2016 Another musical giant has passed away. He made some truly wonderful alums with The Nice and ELP and was described as the Jimi Hendrix of the keyboards. He was a massive hero of mine in the 70s. Very sad news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 12 March, 2016 Author Share Posted 12 March, 2016 I am the only one then? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 13 March, 2016 Share Posted 13 March, 2016 Old man dies aged 70, It happens to us all in the end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ecuk268 Posted 13 March, 2016 Share Posted 13 March, 2016 Saw him when The Nice came to Southampton Guildhall. Very accomplished keyboard player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 13 March, 2016 Author Share Posted 13 March, 2016 Old man dies aged 70, It happens to us all in the end. Same could be said for David Bowie. I know many people here weren't even born then, but ELP were t he biggest band on the planet in the early to mid 70s. Yes, bigger than Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd for a while. Keith Emerson was possibly the best keyboard player that rock has ever produced. But feel free to pass him off as just an old man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maggie May Posted 13 March, 2016 Share Posted 13 March, 2016 Old man dies aged 70, It happens to us all in the end. What, shooting yourself? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitey Grandad Posted 13 March, 2016 Share Posted 13 March, 2016 What, shooting yourself? As my business partner said as he was dying from lung cancer, "something's going to get you in the end". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
explorer saint Posted 13 March, 2016 Share Posted 13 March, 2016 Fanfair for the common man great song loved it if of the over 50 age .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 13 March, 2016 Author Share Posted 13 March, 2016 Fanfair for the common man great song loved it if of the over 50 age .. Yep, you have to be of a certain age. I thought there might be a few more Prog Heads on here but it seems like we are a dying breed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stedje Posted 14 March, 2016 Share Posted 14 March, 2016 Yep, you have to be of a certain age. I thought there might be a few more Prog Heads on here but it seems like we are a dying breed. No, certainly not. Live in Norway, and these prog bands from the 70s are still very popular. King Crimson have sold out all three gigs in Oslo in September. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seaford Saint Posted 14 March, 2016 Share Posted 14 March, 2016 Been away for a few days...I am a fan of Keith Emerson. Saw ELP in the 1970's at the Gaumont. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 14 March, 2016 Author Share Posted 14 March, 2016 I didn't see them until 1972 the Hammersmith Odeon and then the Wembley gigs in 1974. I didn't see The Nice first time round but did catch them when Keith toured with them again in 2002. I have been listening to the live album from that tour, Vivacitus, today, Still sounds amazing. The fusion of rock, classics, jazz and blues isn't to everyones taste but the versions of the Karelia Suite, Pictures At An Exhibition etc blew me away when I was a teenager. To see him playing Bach from behind the Hammond organ (and underneath it!) was bat**** crazy but it was what the 70s was all about. Amazing musician, amazing showman. After the slagging that Punk gave ELP and their ilk it was also funny to see John Lydon and Keith become mates later in life too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winnersaint Posted 14 March, 2016 Share Posted 14 March, 2016 A bit too young to have caught The Nice, but ELP at Bournemouth Winter Gardens was the first gig I went to possibly in November 1972. Also Pictures at an Exhibition was on at cinema about the same time. Remember seeing it in a small cinema in Southampton, possibly The Classic. Big fan back in the day. He was a tremendous musician and one of my most striking memories of him apart from his assault on his Moog was of him playing on Parkinson with Oscar Peterson. RIP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Luke Posted 15 March, 2016 Share Posted 15 March, 2016 I saw him at the Albert Hall some time in the 90's. There is a DVD of an ELP gig in 1993 so it might have been that. I'll have to check my ticket stubs. First single (record) I ever bought was Fanfare for the common man - must have been at the time of the Montreal Olympics or soon after - it was the main theme for those olympics. Seems he suffered depression, was worried about how he would perform on a tour after suffering problems with his hand. Sad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 15 March, 2016 Author Share Posted 15 March, 2016 That would have been 1992 Luke. I went to all 3 gigs so who knows, we might have sat next to each other? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick65 Posted 23 March, 2016 Share Posted 23 March, 2016 First ever gig I went to was The Nice at Bournemouth Winter Gdns in 1970. Thought he was brilliant in the Nice but never liked ELP much. Sad end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Luke Posted 23 March, 2016 Share Posted 23 March, 2016 That would have been 1992 Luke. I went to all 3 gigs so who knows, we might have sat next to each other? I was in the swivelling debenture seats - friend at work had 2 debenture seats and he was the only ELP fan in his family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonb Posted 23 March, 2016 Share Posted 23 March, 2016 I am the only one then? Before my time but became a huge fan of prog and 70s Rock in my early teens. Loved everything about Isle of Wight '70. The Doors, Hendrix, The Who, ELP. Am I right in saying that show was ELP's debut ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
van Hanegem Posted 31 March, 2016 Share Posted 31 March, 2016 I was lucky to have an older brother with a wide taste in music. I was only seven and found Dylan to be some old nag and Zappa too complex. ELP however got a hook on me immediately and I favoured their debut album, Tarcus and Pictures for an Exhibition for years until Punk and later on New Wave came along. Nowadays it's fun again to listen to ELP, UK and so on.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 8 April, 2016 Author Share Posted 8 April, 2016 Before my time but became a huge fan of prog and 70s Rock in my early teens. Loved everything about Isle of Wight '70. The Doors, Hendrix, The Who, ELP. Am I right in saying that show was ELP's debut ? They played a warm up gig at Plymouth just before they played the Isle of Wight festival in 1970 but that was where they became noticed. They were labelled a "supergroup" as they had all been in relatively successful bands before (The Nice, King Crimson and Atomic Rooster respectively) but that made them a target for many of the rock press who had a down on them from the start. Bombastic and pretentious were words often thrown at them but their amazing musicianship could not be denied and there first 5 albums were groundbreaking and sold in shedloads. After Brain Salad Surgery they lost their way and the pressure put on them to provide radio friendly short track took its toll on their material, but from 1970 to around 1975 they were massive. The press made a big thing of Punk killing them off but that wasn't the case as shown by bands like Pink Floyd and Genesis continuing to sell out massive shows and shift tons of albums in the late seventies onwards. In fact John Lydon (aka Johnny Rotten) became buddies when they both moved to Santa Monica and he said he never had a problem with ELP, that was all down to the press. The music from the 60s is often referred to as a golden era, but the 70s also provided some amazing stuff, especially from bands who started out in the 60s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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