Keith Emerson

OddsOnPhil · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:27 am **Posts:** 674

Been a vintage year so far for big names of rock turning their toes up, master organ stabber Keith Emerson the latest.

ElvisC · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:55 am **Posts:** 4504

Great showman who I was lucky to see play live a couple of times with The Nice.

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Sat Mar 12, 2016 9:53 am

I liked a lot of the Nice’s stuff but I truly believe it was ELP, not the advent of punk, that killed prog rock v1.0.
I believe Emmy had a cousin or niece who lived up Hesleden way.

demented twig · **Joined:** Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:09 pm **Posts:** 1043

can`t say i was a fan,however i did see their scottish tribute act,Emerson Loch and Palmer

Barriewardrobe · **Posted:** Sat Mar 12, 2016 8:52 pm

ElvisC wrote:

Great showman who I was lucky to see play live a couple of times with The Nice.

Blimey Elvis....didn't know you were so old ! (ha ha)

ElvisC · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 9:55 am **Posts:** 4504

Cheeky! They made a comeback in the 2000s!

Barriewardrobe · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2016 1:07 am

ElvisC wrote:

Cheeky! They made a comeback in the 2000s!

ah, that explains it then !

OddsOnPhil · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:27 am **Posts:** 674

Chip Fireball wrote:

I saw quite a few bands from the late 60's and early 70's that reformed in the 90's. The likes of Velvet Underground, Faust, and Suicide spring to mind.

Suicide, the best laxative known to man, I defy anyone to listen to Frankie Teardrop in the dark without shitting themselves !

OddsOnPhil · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:27 am **Posts:** 674

Chip Fireball wrote:

Did any young people like prog rock, was before my time ?

I can remember at school in 77 and 78 the lads that were into music were either into heavy metal or punk, but cant remember anyone being into Yes or King Crimson or Genesis. Cant imagine it was the sort of music 14 and 15 year olds could get into due to the length and complexity of the songs.

When I was 13 or 14 everyone at school was mad over Slade, Bay City Rollers, Kiddyfiddler Glitter etc. I was always considered a bit weird for liking Van Der Graaf Generator, still think Pawn Hearts is one of the best albums ever, Peter Hammill used to write some real toe tapping stuff !

OddsOnPhil · **Joined:** Mon Aug 15, 2011 10:27 am **Posts:** 674

Has anyone else got a really tenuous link to being related to someone famous, my niece used to be married to Alan White out of Yes's cousin.

Can you tell I'm just killing time till the Australian footy comes on.

charco · **Joined:** Thu Jun 25, 2015 8:24 am **Posts:** 885

Chip Fireball wrote:

Did any young people like prog rock, was before my time ?

I can remember at school in 77 and 78 the lads that were into music were either into heavy metal or punk, but cant remember anyone being into Yes or King Crimson or Genesis. Cant imagine it was the sort of music 14 and 15 year olds could get into due to the length and complexity of the songs.

First listened to "Yours in no disgrace" when I was 14 and became hooked by Yes ever since ...

Montpoolier · **Posted:** Sun Mar 13, 2016 3:50 pm

I can't say I was ever into Genesis or Yes, even though they had some cracking musicians. The first group ever to be labelled "progressive" was Traffic and they had a lot of popular appeal (naturally following on from Stevie Winwood's Spencer Davis Group days I guess).

OddsOnPhil wrote:

Has anyone else got a really tenuous link to being related to someone famous, my niece used to be married to Alan White out of Yes's cousin.
Can you tell I'm just killing time till the Australian footy comes on.

I know nobody on here has probably heard of him (and I don't blame you), but I used to work with FFS (famous frog singer) Jaques Higelin's sister-in-law.
And Neil Conti (drummer with Prefab Sprout and with David Bowie at Live Aid) is a bit of a mate of mine but that's not exactly tenuous is it.
And a friend of mine in Paris was the mother of Juliette Binoche's husband.
And I know Phil Dunn personally.

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