OT: Greg Lake of ELP has passed

[rudedude]

Wow, what a bad year for musicians. Carl Palmer the only surviving member now of ELP.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/greg...dium=referral&utm_campaign=newsletter_8317156

 

[Relayer]

Great voice, great musician. RIP Greg

 

[psuro]

Heard that this morning. Sad. Great melodic voice.

 

[TenerHallTerror]

after Keith Emerson died, I dropped the $$$ to buy their 1990s South America tour box set. 3 full shows. amazing musicians.

 

[Lion84]

I just listened to "I believe in Father Christmas" My favorite holiday song even though its kind of dark - Great Singer and Musician. As mentioned many talented people in music passing this year.

 

[BBrown]

I just listened to "I believe in Father Christmas" My favorite holiday song even though its kind of dark - Great Singer and Musician. As mentioned many talented people in music passing this year.

was just thinking of that song after I heard he passed on the radio.
I like it as a Christmas song too, even thought it is kind of "dark".

 

[rudedude]

He started out in King Crimson and sang 21st Century Schizoid Man. We had the pleasure
of seeing Lake and Emerson a few years ago at the Sherman Theater in Stroudsburg. A great show and hard to think they are both gone now. Emerson even had his gigantic Moog with him. Too
many musicians I grew up listening to are now leaving the planet.

 

[21Guns]

A great singer and musician who is sorely missed. Wrote and performed both virtuoso progressive music, as well as acoustic and pop music, equally well.

 

[bwifan]

RIP Greg Lake.... Always a favorite of mine this time of year...

 

[Psychedelic_MackDaddy]

Wow, what a bad year for musicians. Carl Palmer the only surviving member now of ELP.

http://ultimateclassicrock.com/greg...dium=referral&utm_campaign=newsletter_8317156

Sinfield continued the story: "Some of it was based on an actual thing in my life when I was eight years old, and came downstairs to see this wonderful Christmas tree that my mother had done. I was that little boy. Then it goes from there into a wider thing about how people are brainwashed into stuff. Then I thought, 'This is getting a bit depressing. I'd better have a hopeful, cheerful verse at the end.' That's the bit where me and Greg would've sat together and done it. And then I twisted the whole thing, with the last line, 'The Christmas you get, you deserve,' which was a play on 'The government you get, you deserve.' I didn't necessarily explain all the politics or the thoughts behind it. It's not anti-religious. It's a humanist thing, I suppose. It's not an atheist Christmas song, as some have said."

 

[Psychedelic_MackDaddy]

RIP Greg Lake.... Always a favorite of mine this time of year...

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"The Christmas we get, we deserve."

Amen! Thats why planet Earth has NEVER known peace. Humans get what we deserve - WAR!

PEACE ON EARTH will never ever come through the guise of religion.

 

[psuro]

"The Christmas we get, we deserve."

Amen! Thats why planet Earth has NEVER known peace. Humans get what we deserve - WAR!

PEACE ON EARTH will never ever come through the guise of religion.

You could take the fun out of a Roman orgy.

 

[CF LION]

Ooooh, what a lucky man he was.

 

[Tom McAndrew]

You could take the fun out of a Roman orgy.

Front Range, where are you? The above certainly is a contender for the Portland Cement COTW award.

 

[Lion84]

"The Christmas we get, we deserve."

Amen! Thats why planet Earth has NEVER known peace. Humans get what we deserve - WAR!

PEACE ON EARTH will never ever come through the guise of religion.

Oh - Somebody has a case of the Monday's.

 

[bwifan]

"The Christmas we get, we deserve."

Amen! Thats why planet Earth has NEVER known peace. Humans get what we deserve - WAR!

PEACE ON EARTH will never ever come through the guise of religion.

Are you always an A-Hole or just on Thursdays? Nevermind we already know....

 

[Psychedelic_MackDaddy]

You could take the fun out of a Roman orgy.

Perhaps. But imagine the fun everyone would have burning me at the stake.

 

[TenerHallTerror]

the fact that Lake could be the bridge between Palmer's blistering drums and Emerson's frenetic keyboards speaks volumes of his talent