Emerson Lake & Palmer Electronic Pioneers????

And since everyone's shilling for their own pieces on ELP, here's mine on the great Love Beach...

you have to hear "Taste of My Love", if you have not already. Trust me, the lyrics alone do not do the song full justice. :)

Also, re: influence. Get one Silver Apples.

... but not recording with synthesizers of course

I want to agree, but I also want to say that their debut is pretty stellar: I mean, Tank and Take a Pebble on the same album...

under duress i could listen to "trilogy" again, "from the beginning" is actually quite pleasant '70s single along the lines of anne murray, "saturday in the park" or that one great ambrosia single, "nice, nice, very nice." not perhaps as good as argent's "hold your head up," or flash's "small beginnings" (the latter is actually kinda cool) or for that matter, three dog night's "out in the country" and "harvest for the world," that great, spooky single of theirs. '70s music. of course, i have heard them do "pictures at an exhibition," which was a nice conceptual-art piece, and they got *really* pretentious and art-directed by the time of "brain salad surgery."

I think not. "Trans Europa Express" is a concept album featuring several lengthy and complex tracks with obvious influence from classical music.

Somewhat. Except the people behind the Arp 2600 thought likewise, and by "pushing" their synths on several major acts probably did more to spread synth technology than Moog did.

:)

omg I am drunk now and getting into ELP what is wrong with me?

that you waited this long

Carl Palmer could’ve been a pioneering electronic drummer, with the setup he had around ‘74-‘75 or so. But while the setup itself was innovative, he was still Carl Palmer.

re: the topic of this thread, I'm someone whose entry into Really Loving Music was through dance music of the mid-2000s, and a copy of the ELP live album from my dad's CD collection led to a brief foray into prog obsessiveness (the primary remnants of which today are a ride-or-die Mars Volta fandom and a respect for any band that can get their songs satisfyingly over the 10-minute mark) because it was "rock with synthesizers" and could thus break through my kneejerk aversion to a rock's then-apparent status as EDM's eternal mean older brother. Now, none of this rules out the possibility that I am, in fact, stupid, but it is at least a real data point in the argument's favor.
Also live "Aquatarkus" rules regardless of any other claims made here or elsewhere:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njbx8wJ78Qg