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Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« on: March 12, 2016, 12:51:23 PM »
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/keith-emerson-emerson-lake-and-palmer-keyboardist-dead-at-71-20160311

Keith Emerson, founding member and keyboardist of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and a prog rock legend, died Friday. He was 71. His bandmate Carl Palmer and the trio's official Facebook confirmed Emerson's death. TMZ reported that police found Emerson with a single gunshot wound to the head, and Santa Monica police confirmed to Billboard that Emerson died by suicide. "We regret to announce that Keith Emerson died last night at his home in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, aged 71. We ask that the family’s privacy and grief be respected," the band wrote.
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Re: Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2016, 01:38:57 PM »
Posed to" Fanfare For The Common Man" in my first contest by ELP.  RIP Keith, keyboard virtuoso, Rock legend. Nobody played a Moog Synthesizer like Keith.
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Re: Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2016, 02:02:30 PM »
From the Beginning = good song.

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Re: Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2016, 02:11:24 PM »
 Suicide?! Did he suffer from mental illness?

 Otherwise - what a lucky man he was.
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Re: Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2016, 02:15:28 PM »
RIP  :(
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Re: Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2016, 02:30:09 PM »
Great song
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Re: Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2016, 03:00:12 PM »
I have been a big fan of The Nice and ELP since I was 10 years old. Pictures at an Exhibition was always blasting out of my Garrard record player in the 70's. I loved Keith's treatment of the Moogs and the Hammond organs. Jon Lord and Rick Wakeman were similar geniuses of the keyboards.

Strange thing is, Thursday night for some reason I looked on youtube for Fanfare for the common man played live at the empty stadium which I think was the version used by the BBC for the Montreal Winter Olympics.  I bought the original single with brain Salad surgery on the B side back in 76 and just had an urge to hear it again 40 years after I bought it. I was shocked to hear that he had died around the time I was listening to it. Must have been his genius reaching out into the psyche of his long time fans as he drifted in the cosmos. :o
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Re: Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2016, 06:35:57 PM »
Quote from: Purge_WTF on March 12, 2016, 02:11:24 PM
Suicide?! Did he suffer from mental illness?

 Otherwise - what a lucky man he was.

One of my favorite songs.

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Re: Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2016, 09:28:43 PM »
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Re: Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« Reply #9 on: March 13, 2016, 07:31:05 PM »
RIP   :(
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Re: Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« Reply #10 on: March 14, 2016, 01:03:27 AM »
Quote from: Las Vegas on March 12, 2016, 02:02:30 PM
From the Beginning = good song.



I think it's a great song because the keyboard solo is eminently hummable.
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Re: Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« Reply #11 on: March 14, 2016, 05:43:51 AM »
Quote from: BIG AL MCKECHNIE on March 12, 2016, 03:00:12 PM
I have been a big fan of The Nice and ELP since I was 10 years old. Pictures at an Exhibition was always blasting out of my Garrard record player in the 70's. I loved Keith's treatment of the Moogs and the Hammond organs. Jon Lord and Rick Wakeman were similar geniuses of the keyboards.

Strange thing is, Thursday night for some reason I looked on youtube for Fanfare for the common man played live at the empty stadium which I think was the version used by the BBC for the Montreal Winter Olympics.  I bought the original single with brain Salad surgery on the B side back in 76 and just had an urge to hear it again 40 years after I bought it. I was shocked to hear that he had died around the time I was listening to it. Must have been his genius reaching out into the psyche of his long time fans as he drifted in the cosmos. :o
Pretty freaky Big AL. My friend and I used to spend hours and hours in his basement listening to Brain Salad Surgery, Pictures at an Exhibition , Welcome Back my Friends to the Show that never ends etc. He was a drummer and worshiped Carl Palmer. Some of the best memories of my teenage years listening to ELP on an amazing stereo system and getting high.
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Re: Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« Reply #12 on: March 14, 2016, 06:50:59 AM »
Quote from: Ronnie Rep on March 14, 2016, 05:43:51 AM
Pretty freaky Big AL. My friend and I used to spend hours and hours in his basement listening to Brain Salad Surgery, Pictures at an Exhibition , Welcome Back my Friends to the Show that never ends etc. He was a drummer and worshiped Carl Palmer. Some of the best memories of my teenage years listening to ELP on an amazing stereo system and getting high.
listened to elp teenage yrs a lot had all there live records..welcome back my friends was 3 fold out like elp 'work's'they all had solo material on that one.live in montreal opened with 'peter gunn'theme and side 2 was pictures at  an exhibition..with orchestra ..greg lake had a cool voice.
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Re: Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« Reply #13 on: March 14, 2016, 07:11:46 AM »
Fuck man. They're all going. They're all going away. The greats from when music was real. The 60's and 70's that changed a generation. They're all going away.

Soon they'll be nobody left.
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Re: Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« Reply #14 on: March 14, 2016, 07:16:28 AM »
Quote from: Ronnie Rep on March 14, 2016, 05:43:51 AM
Pretty freaky Big AL. My friend and I used to spend hours and hours in his basement listening to Brain Salad Surgery, Pictures at an Exhibition , Welcome Back my Friends to the Show that never ends etc. He was a drummer and worshiped Carl Palmer. Some of the best memories of my teenage years listening to ELP on an amazing stereo system and getting high.

Yeah I got a bit of a shock reading the news on Friday.
One of my friends was hi-fi crazy in the 70's and had a valve amp connected to a turntable with a pair of 4 foot tall Warfdale speakers complete with 15 inch woofers.  You could feel your eardrums flexing with the bass at high volumes.
Apart from ELP, one of our favourites was White Rock by Rick Wakeman.  Playing this at high volume with great bass capabilities in the dark while stoned is like being on the Hulk roller coaster.

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Re: Keith Emerson R.I.P.
« Reply #15 on: March 14, 2016, 10:15:01 AM »
I hope he was saved. 
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