Emerson, Lake and Palmer!

Come on, give it up for ELP! Who's into them? Favorite album?

 

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.

Good stuff

 

Give what up?

 

As the kids say, "Props".

 

I actually preferred the Nice - before your time perhaps?

 

I'm 50 actually. The nice were good as well but only lasted about 3 years.

 

You can't prefer the Nice over ELP (well I mean you can, but can't compare em)... only Keith Emerson was in Nice... wouldn't that be like saying you ding King Crimson over ELP again only one member (Greg Lake) and he was only a bassist on Court of Crim King for the 2nd album (Ode to the Posedon) he only sang.


Tarkus is best single song but I would say self titled as an album whole... Tank, Pebble, Knifes edge...

I laugh to the age comment... I could have carried this conversation well into the night when I was 16 (13 years ago)

 

Well, best ELP album is Pictures at Exhibition... Kind of impressionistic rock album I think... Nice and, weird... TRY THIS WHILE TRIPPING... Shit man! REALLY HAzzzy..

 

pictures is great... I dont listen to it near enough

 

I like Tarkus much better and of coarse Brain Salad...

 

ELP are great, I just wish it had been HELP. That would have probably been the best band ever.

 

TRILOGY. this album might have changed my life

 

Brain Salad Surgery and Tarkus!

And of coarse "Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends".

 

love elp.keith emerson has to be the greatest keyboardist alive,and no progressive collection cant be without brain salad surgery

 

I've only ever heard fanfare for the common man. Have seen Greg Lake sing with Jethro Tull.

 

I liked ELP at first but the music kind of wore thin after a while.

Kind of pretentious noodling at its best.

I still listen to a few songs from time to time. Notably, "The Barbarian," "Tank," and "Tarkus". the ballads are more lame as time goes on.

I prefer Camel, Focus, Van Der Graaf Generator and a slew of other lesser known but just as good bands.

 

they were one of my faves in high school...saw them in toronto in the seventies...like that song..hoedown..this video shows keith emerson at his best..watch how his fingers dance around the keyboard....why are you not askin for music links on this thread

 

EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER ARE AMAZING! I'm going to add you as a friend.

 

My favorite album of theirs is Trilogy. That album is simply amazing.

 

I like their catalog up to Welcome Back My Friends. Being a drummer, naturally I'm going to dig the band just for Carl Palmer alone. Also like primitive musical gadgetry so hearing Emerson with all of his Moog experimentation is serious ear candy, not to mention his way of tripping out the Hammond by jacking around it's tubes to give a barrage of crunchy sounds.

One complaint though...Welcome Back was mixed really shitty. It sounds like someone stood outside of the venue while holding a tape recorder in his pocket. But the way the songs are played on that album are better than the original versions, I think.

All in all, a stellar band.