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Title: Emerson, Lake and Palmer co-founder Greg Lake dies at 69
Post by: Fansome on December 08, 2016, 1740 UTC
Emerson, Lake and Palmer co-founder Greg Lake dies at 69
Associated Press

Musician Greg Lake, a prog-rock pioneer who co-founded King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died. He was 69.

Manager Stewart Young said in a statement that Lake died Wednesday after "a long and stubborn battle with cancer."

Born in the southern English seaside town of Poole in 1947, Lake founded King Crimson with guitarist Robert Fripp in the late 1960s. The band pioneered the sprawling, ambitious genre that came to be known as progressive rock.

He went on to form ELP with keyboardist Keith Emerson and drummer Carl Palmer. With Lake as vocalist and guitarist, ELP impressed the crowds at the 1970 Isle of Wight Festival, in a lineup that also featured Jimi Hendrix and the Who.

The band released six platinum-selling albums characterized by songs of epic length, classical influence and ornate imagery, and toured with elaborate light shows and theatrical staging.

One album was a live interpretation of Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." It reached the top 10 in Britain and the United States, a feat that seems astonishing now.

Another, "Tarkus," contains a 20-minute track telling the story of the titular creature, a mythic armadillo-tank.

Emerson, Lake and Palmer's 1973 album "Brain Salad Surgery" included a nearly 30-minute composition called "Karn Evil 9" that featured a Moog synthesizer and the eerie, carnival-like lyric: "Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends."

They filled stadiums and sold records by the millions, but ELP and other prog-rock bands such as Yes and the Moody Blues suffered a backlash with the arrival of punk in the mid-to-late 1970s. They were ridiculed as the embodiment of pomposity and self-indulgence that rock supposedly eschewed.

ELP broke up in 1979, reunited in 1991, later disbanded again and reunited for a 2010 tour.

Emerson died in March from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at his home in Santa Monica.

Palmer, the group's sole survivor, said, "Greg's soaring voice and skill as a musician will be remembered by all who knew his music."

"Having lost Keith this year as well has made this particularly hard for all of us," Palmer said. "As Greg sang at the end of ‘Pictures at an Exhibition,’ 'death is life.' His music can now live forever in the hearts of all who loved him."

Lake's songs as a solo artist include "I Believe in Father Christmas," an enduring seasonal staple first released in 1975.
Title: Re: Emerson, Lake and Palmer co-founder Greg Lake dies at 69
Post by: Pigmeat on December 08, 2016, 2027 UTC
Palmer addressed the press from a large pile of money, occasionally shouting, "The royalties, the royalties, they're all mine now! Thank you Grim Fansome!"

Palmer and Ringo Starr are planning a trip Acapulco with notorious hemp-head, Paul McCartney. Starr and Palmer plan to triple dog dare McCartney to try cliff diving after getting him to sample the local produce. Say's Starr, "Pauly talks a big game, he's made fun of Keith Richards for years for falling out of that coconut tree. Let's see how he deals with heights all smoked up."
Title: Re: Emerson, Lake and Palmer co-founder Greg Lake dies at 69
Post by: Josh on December 09, 2016, 1647 UTC
King Crimson makes me think breakfast cereal for some reason.
Title: Re: Emerson, Lake and Palmer co-founder Greg Lake dies at 69
Post by: Pigmeat on December 10, 2016, 0353 UTC
Captain Crunch makes me think of Apple Computers, which makes me think of JTA. No JTA and Captain Crunch playing radio in the Bay Area hills 45 years ago and there's no Apple. Steve and Steve were listening and called in. Captain Crunch stopped by their dorm, showed 'em how to build the blue boxes and they used the money from them to finance the first Apple PC.

And that kiddies, is how Pirate Radio created the modern interconnected world of home computers. Otherwise I'd still have open the window to yell at Al to get off the roof, but instead I can text him on my Iphone. Better living through piracy.
Title: Re: Emerson, Lake and Palmer co-founder Greg Lake dies at 69
Post by: Josh on December 13, 2016, 1743 UTC
Lol I never read 2600 lol.


Cough.
Title: Re: Emerson, Lake and Palmer co-founder Greg Lake dies at 69
Post by: Pigmeat on December 13, 2016, 2230 UTC
Lol I never read 2600 lol.
Cough.

You should. The last page features pictures of payphones from around the world, many sent in by our own Anti-Bozo, Al Fansome. His 2009 article, "Mylar Or Aluminum:Studies In Brain Beam Deflection" is still the cutting edge on the subject.
Title: Re: Emerson, Lake and Palmer co-founder Greg Lake dies at 69
Post by: Josh on December 14, 2016, 1900 UTC
Hmmm, I've got the 2009 set but can't seem to find that piece.

Guess I'll have to email Emmanuel Bernstein or whoever.
Title: Re: Emerson, Lake and Palmer co-founder Greg Lake dies at 69
Post by: Pigmeat on December 15, 2016, 0016 UTC
Isn't Emmanuel Leonard's grandson? I used to enjoy Leonard's show when I was a kid.
Title: Re: Emerson, Lake and Palmer co-founder Greg Lake dies at 69
Post by: redhat on December 15, 2016, 0112 UTC
Lol I never read 2600 lol.
Cough.

You should. The last page features pictures of payphones from around the world, many sent in by our own Anti-Bozo, Al Fansome. His 2009 article, "Mylar Or Aluminum:Studies In Brain Beam Deflection" is still the cutting edge on the subject.

Ah yes, the 'offenders of the faith' page....

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Title: Re: Emerson, Lake and Palmer co-founder Greg Lake dies at 69
Post by: Pigmeat on December 15, 2016, 0537 UTC
I've always thought that if people gave up their faiths, they would be a lot less offended.
Title: Re: Emerson, Lake and Palmer co-founder Greg Lake dies at 69
Post by: redhat on December 16, 2016, 1205 UTC
Words to live by...  ;D

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