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R. I. P. Keith Emerson |
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R. I. P. Keith Emerson
Yeah the cull continues, in this shocking year...
Sad that another great is no longer with us |
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Sad news ...
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Sad news indeed. Had the good fortune to see Keith Emerson and The Nice a number of times in the late '60s. They started out life as PP Arnold's backing band, amazingly. But when she wasn't around they were rehearsing for what would become a prog rock act. That term wasn't around in the 60s Here's what The Nice sounded like in 1967.
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Such sad news.
Yet another figure from my youth gone. RIP. |
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Possible suicide. So sad
![]() http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/rep...ed-as-suicide/ Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Fanfare For The Common Man - Live In Montreal, 1977 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMuePyV1nr8 |
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I preferred The Nice to ELP, who always sounded a bit overblown to me. But sad news all the same. RIP.
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I always thought Keith and Gary Busey looked a lot alike.
ELP were great musicians but I could only take them in small doses. I still have Pictures at an Exhibition because our music teacher at school was very impressed with it and it was cheap at the time. I still think ELP were completely overblown but Tarkus and Brain Salad Surgery are worth a listen. |
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The ELP ouvre wll be my Monday soundtrack.
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I preferred The Nice to ELP, who always sounded a bit overblown to me. But sad news all the same. RIP.
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Probably the only man to think the best way to cover a Bob Dylan song was to replace Dylan's lyrics with some JS Bach melodies: https://youtu.be/37T_28eXX-o
A great musician. RIP. |
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me too... (i didnt like prog rock so its a no brainer for me!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nice The Nice were an English progressive rock band Genres Progressive rock psychedelic rock jazz fusion art rock[1] |
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Very sad, especially the apparent circumstances. I recall reading quite a few years ago that Keith Emerson was starting to suffer from arthritic fingers and couldn't play how he used to. If you can no longer do the thing that means so much to you, well. Not the time or place to speculate though.
RIP Keith. |
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Sad news. a great talent!
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Very sad news. Elegy by The Nice and ELPs Trilogy are my favourites from his oeuvre for transporting me back to my youth.
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Sad News....
Saw Keith Emerson live on three occasions....dragged the girlfriend along each time. She hated every minute of his act. |
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Sad - I loved the Nice and early ELP.
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It's sad that he took his own life because he felt he was no longer good enough to play his music.
"A bullet had found him. His blood ran as he cried No money could save him. So he laid down and he died." |
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Sad News....
Saw Keith Emerson live on three occasions....dragged the girlfriend along each time. She hated every minute of his act. Boy....she musta really liked you
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Boy....she musta really liked you
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Although he was best known for Fanfare for the Common Man, I preferred Honky Tonk Train Blues.
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Really sad news.
I can't say I was a massive ELP fan but I saw their farewell gig @ High Voltage in 2011 and he could certainly play!! |
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Eh? The Nice were prog rock. Pioneers of it, in fact.
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Oh come on... that's a bit unfair.
Here's a definition of progressive music: http://www.progrockandmetal.net/prog...definition.htm The only significant way the Nice fell short of that definition was that Lee Jackson wasn't a "superior" vocalist. Good bass player, though. |
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At the time we called music that had complex arrangements, unusual time signatures and improvisation "progressive music".
Here's a definition of progressive music: http://www.progrockandmetal.net/prog...definition.htm The only significant way the Nice fell short of that definition was that Lee Jackson wasn't a "superior" vocalist. Good bass player, though. |
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