Emerson, Lake, and Palmer albums poll

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 🥰