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Old 11-03-2016, 20:47
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Yeah the cull continues, in this shocking year...

Sad that another great is no longer with us
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Old 11-03-2016, 21:05
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Sad news ...
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Old 11-03-2016, 22:09
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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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQr9Y7FOBGc
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Old 11-03-2016, 22:16
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Such sad news.

Yet another figure from my youth gone.

RIP.
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Old 11-03-2016, 22:34
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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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Old 11-03-2016, 23:31
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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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Old 12-03-2016, 00:41
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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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Old 12-03-2016, 01:01
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The ELP ouvre wll be my Monday soundtrack.
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Old 12-03-2016, 07:36
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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.
me too... (i didnt like prog rock so its a no brainer for me!)
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Old 12-03-2016, 08:03
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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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Old 12-03-2016, 12:25
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me too... (i didnt like prog rock so its a no brainer for me!)
Eh? The Nice were prog rock. Pioneers of it, in fact.

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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Old 12-03-2016, 14:35
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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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Old 12-03-2016, 15:01
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Sad news. a great talent!
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Old 12-03-2016, 16:26
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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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Old 12-03-2016, 18:57
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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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Old 13-03-2016, 00:44
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Sad - I loved the Nice and early ELP.
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Old 13-03-2016, 11:35
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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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Old 13-03-2016, 12:21
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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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Old 13-03-2016, 16:47
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Boy....she musta really liked you
To quote the song title.....Lucky Man
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Old 13-03-2016, 22:01
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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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Old 14-03-2016, 05:40
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BBC obit...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35793468
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Old 14-03-2016, 09:09
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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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Old 14-03-2016, 10:41
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Eh? The Nice were prog rock. Pioneers of it, in fact.
Oh come on... that's a bit unfair.
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Old 14-03-2016, 11:54
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Oh come on... that's a bit unfair.
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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Old 14-03-2016, 14:07
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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.
I have always preferred the term Progressive Music because it has many influences and it isn't limited to the standard Rock format.
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