Emerson, Lake, and Palmer albums poll

Heep is still putting out albums?

They reunited in the early 2000s and have been recording and touring steadily. They're gonna be opening for Judas Priest in North America in early 2019.

Has this become a thing where we go into threads just to say we don’t like the music act said thread is about? If so, I have a lot of catching up to do.

lol Karl's Love Beach gif upthread just sent me into a sorely needed 5 min fit of laughter

LOL Gilliamesque.

obviously I disagree with everything in Ashley's post but it is interesting to see a hater direct their ire towards Greg Lake. he's an odd figure in the prog scene; responsible for a lot of ELP's commercial success, but also sort of a ghost...there are looooong stretches on ELP albums where you kinda forget he's even there. and nothing he wrote was even remotely proggy..."Take a Pebble", maybe? not his famous ballads, nothing on Works, certainly nothing in that short-lived solo career he did - when he's on stage holding down the bass line to "Rondo" for 15 minutes you can practically see the bored look on his face, wishing he was chainsmoking outside.

hence why the Emerson/Berry/Palmer group was kind of interesting to me, if you listen to the live recording there's a real loose and fun atmosphere to it that ELP proper never had. like when your group of friends get together, but the whiny dude who takes everything personally and always leaves in a huff can't make it. it's also interesting because Emerson sounds awesome on it - there are sections where it sounds like he's practically up to his peak. the tempos are faster than those '77-'78 recordings. so clearly something happened to him in the following years.

greg lake sings my favorite king crimson songs. free pass forever after. carl palmer drums on my favorite ASIA song. free pass forever. keith emerson is as great as alex lifeson, geddy lee, rick wakeman, jim hendrix, mary timony, any freaky virtuoso out there. RIP!

something i love about ELP (along with van der graaf generator) is their inspiring and curating the 'rock progresive italiano' scene. manticore records is maybe the best artist vanity label

http://www.esotericrecordings.com/manticore.html

Um...

https://deadline.com/2020/02/radar-pictures-develop-emerson-lake-palmer-song-karn-evil-9-film-1202859799/

hoping this sets up the Rise of Tarkus

New York Times bestselling author Daniel H. Wilson has been hired to adapt the screenplay, which is inspired by the title and lyrics created and recorded by band members Keith Emerson, Greg Lake and Carl Palmer.

Didn't Pete Sinfield churn out the lyrics for this crap? I would see a film based on 21st Century Schizoid Man, mind you.

Sure, but what’s the runtime?

gonna admit something embarrassing: I really like "Pirates"

I used to. I think. Haven't heard it in many many years.

Wiki says: the band had wanted Leonard Bernstein to conduct "Pirates". Bernstein walked out after hearing the music, describing it as "primitive".

i am not impressed with anything they did!

https://ibb.co/bzQHczp

I will always owe Emerson a debt of gratitude for introducing me to barrelhouse/boogie woogie on Works Vol. 2

“Show me the way to go home.”

“I’m tired.”

“And I want. To go to bed.”

ELP were musically conservative, almost regressive for a prog band and they had no personal demons and nothing to say.

They're my least favourite of the big six prog bands, and the most forgotten too. Not one of their records is free of boring or tasteless tracks, but on those occasions when they agreed to collaborate rather than self-satisfy, the unlikely mix had its unique flavours.
I like the freshness of the debut, but the overbearing Brain Salad Surgery might actually have more good music.

Big six = Floyd, Yes, Genesis, Tull, ELP, ... KC? Anyway I'm p sure I would agree with you whoever the other five are but I do enjoy the first album and a few other things. I actually like that they attempted rock versions of Janacek, Bartok, Mussorgsky, and Ginastera (which are choices that imo challenge "conservative"/"regressive"; not like they were doing Pachelbel's Canon like TSO or someone).

They're my least favourite of the big six prog bands, and the most forgotten too.

I guess my own Big Six would probably be:

Yes
King Crimson
Pink Floyd
ELP
Van Der Graaf Generator
Genesis

Jethro Tull were (are?) awful. ELP at their best are wild, unhinged and joyously self-indulgent.

I love couple of VdGG albums. I just thought he meant big 6 in terms of popularity.

sund4r, that list is correct. I'm not sure who came up with that term, I first heard it in the 90s sometime.

Tull have a whole lot of banal music that sounds like itself, but it helps that Ian Anderson is a witty and canny lyricist. I can't listen to him after he blew his voice out in the 80s.

My personal top prog acts would include VDGG, Gentle Giant and Henry Cow (plus Oldfield if he counts) above ELP. As a kid born in 70s Toronto, Rush will always be "metal" rather than prog to me.

And I do hear that wild, unhinged quality at their best, yeah. I don't really hear them, or much early 70s prog, as "just very fast and precise" tbh, esp with the hindsight of a few decades of progressive metal or even any post-EVH hard rock guitar shredding. xp

A lot of what I enjoy about ELP is the ballads (though not "Lucky Man"). Emerson calms down a little behind the piano.

Yeah, I love "From the Beginning".

The mellow Mimimoog solo on that one is the bees knees.

my dad played Trilogy all the time when I was 6...hearing that solo again on the radio at 13 was a trip

If Leonard Cohen had written these lyrics from The Only Way (off Tarkus) they'd be hailed as mordant genius rather than wittering stupidity:

Can you believe
God makes you breathe?
Why did he lose
Six million Jews?

elp planning reunion tour with e & l on film.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/emerson-lake-palmer-reunion-tour-interview-1247408/

lmao it's footage from the Black Moon tour

THE REUNION'S ON

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2pYeyJCykc

I do enjoy the OTTness of their early live stuff but not a big fan of the studio stuff. Do have first couple and they do have a few moments bit think I'd only really listen to them live from first couple of years of the 70s.
Do like The Nice when Davy O'List was still on guitar.

There's a South American hard rock band called Tarkus that are supposed to be pretty good

i saw them in dec. 1973 at the nassau coliseum. admittedly not the first *couple* of years in the 70s and maybe it would have been cooler to have seen them earlier but it was cool nonetheless. in quad! this is, apparently, what we got. any earlier tour and there would have been no karn evil 9.

Hoedown
Jerusalem
Toccata
Tarkus
Benny the Bouncer
Take a Pebble
Still… You Turn Me On
Lucky Man
Piano Improvisation
Karn Evil 9
Pictures at an Exhibition

playing now on bass, there is Greg with younger face

(not my comment by the way but it makes me laugh)

I saw Carl Palmer with Asia on their first tour. He is indeed a monster. The other two were talentless douchebags.

i know it's not exactly groundbreaking as composed music but i still genuinely like piano concert no.1 -- it has a nice bony momentum

someone shd actually write up their approach to rescoring the classical classics (i once had a discussion with chris cutler at a bar where he made a p good case for pictures at an exhibition as a genuine contribution to whatchamacallit)

maybe someone already wrote this

nice bony momentum and no greg lake 🥰