Bumblefeet Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/keith-emerson-emerson-lake-and-palmer-keyboardist-dead-at-71-20160311 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicrawker Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 (edited) Damn my old musical heroes are dropping like flies this past year................this one really hurts as I am a massive ELP fan........I was hoping they might get back together for one last tour but I guess it was not meant to be....RIP Keith you will be missed. I saw ELP back on July 28th 1974 at the Yale Bowl in New Haven. They used to block off one end of the stadium with the stage set up in the end zone facing the stands at the end of the bowl. The band had a quad sound system with rear speakers behind me in the stands which was loud as hell but crystal clear. At the end of Brain Salad Surgery Keith's moog rotated around the speakers in increasing speed. An absolutely stunning performance by the trio who sounded like a full orchestra at times.....one of my top 10 concerts of all time... Edited March 11, 2016 by classicrawker Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 (edited) Probably one of my cardinal targets of hate throughout my entire like...span of liking music, like seriously despised. Up there with your Elton Johns and Bonos and all the shitest music that ever rang around this crooked little revolving orb of a planet of ours...but in the final reckoning it is pop music and there has to be something seriously fundamentally wrong with you to hold something like that against someone like they signed at the bottom of the Final Solution proposal or something, so RIP Keith Emerson, your music was fuckin' dreadful and I'm sure you were a top lad. Actually, I'm not sure of that either but RIP nonetheless. I imagine he'll be up on high now givin' an angel a bollocking about the proper way to play a harp, God bless! Edited March 11, 2016 by Len B'stard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dalsh327 Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 (edited) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSm5IQFaTZA http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UXQkBd-LCrM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7_XkndCwQc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RSRoM_fc9I Edited March 11, 2016 by dalsh327 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dontdamnmeuyi2015 Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Well that sucks. I saw E L and P once and they were pretty good. Emerson was all over the place and jumped into the crowd. He was crazy! Loved their music. Sad another rocker gone. RIP Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 I always felt he was an acquired taste like a lot of prog rock artists but you can't deny his talent. RIP. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 (edited) 1 hour ago, dalsh327 said: Funny innit, you grow up as a snotty little 11 yr old being massively influenced by this shit like it's opposite football teams and then you get older and it turns out they're all mates really But no, my prejudice is firmly established I'm afraid. Who knows, in another time and place i might've loved em but like, you gotta remember, to a certain group of people they first heard of ELP by people having a go at em...and then you listen to em and you go 'yeah, i see what such and such means, this is shite'...and 20 odd years later you're still thinking the same thing and like...no, i just can't be having em, they sound horrible, even if Johnny Lydon, the ghost of Sid Vicious, the prime minister (thats more reason to dislike em) and Jesus Christ himself like em they still sound shite to me. RIP and God bless though. It's the same with metal, i was sort of bred to hate metal really...and every time i gave it a go it sounded shite...and everybody hated and took the piss out of metallers, it was never really cool over here like i think it was in America. So like, y'know, it was never gonna get a fair shake. And as luck would have it its all shite anyway so... Edited March 12, 2016 by Len B'stard 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
denin Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 (edited) Sad news, but glad to see the INFERNO theme vid opening this thread. Edited March 12, 2016 by denin 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicrawker Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 Just read his death is being investigated as a suicide......I know he had carpal tunnel syndrome, which effected his playing ability and limited how long he could play, but wonder if he had some other illness...... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Georgy Zhukov Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 Depression got the better of him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicrawker Posted March 13, 2016 Share Posted March 13, 2016 18 hours ago, Georgy Zhukov said: Depression got the better of him. yup looks like he shot himself...I read his depression was casued in part by the tunnel carpal syndrome which affected his playing.........very sad........... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZoSoRose Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Saying he was affected by online comments Sad stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bumblefeet Posted March 14, 2016 Author Share Posted March 14, 2016 8 hours ago, ZoSoRose said: Saying he was affected by online comments Sad stuff I see a lot of headlines in the UK press about "Emerson trolled to death" etc. and frankly find it all disgusting. It's just people trying to give quick fix answers for why he killed himself without knowing what state he was in or what personal demons were troubling him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 I feel rotten now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DieselDaisy Posted March 14, 2016 Share Posted March 14, 2016 Len has been trolling the poor guy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Len Cnut Posted March 15, 2016 Share Posted March 15, 2016 No i ain't, only place i discuss music online is here, i just mean, well, if people caning him online led to it then well that'd be me partly, wouldn't it? i don't mean I'm at fault personally i just mean, y'know, people like me. Sort of like the Nigel Benn and Gerald Mcllelan fight, to a point i feel guilty about that, because i was part of the apparatus of what led to Gerald Mcllelan ending up handicapped. In fact i cheered it on loudly. When i won about 15 grand gambling a few years back i stuck about a grand into the Gerald Mcllelan Fund, like that makes anything better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
classicrawker Posted March 17, 2016 Share Posted March 17, 2016 Got this off of another forum I belong to...looks like Emerson was depressed about how the carpal tunnel he has effected his ability to play and the negative fan feedback about his playing as a result........... KEITH EMERSON Feared He Could No Longer Perform Perfectly For His Fans, Says His Girlfriend Read more at http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/keith-emerson-feared-he-could-no-longer-perform-perfectly-for-his-fans-says-his-girlfriend/#GBGh1XzBAfIVLmQz.99 Keith Emerson's girlfriend has told U.K.'s Daily Mail that the EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER keyboardist killed himself because he was concerned about the nerve damage to his right hand which had affected his playing. Mari Kawaguchi found the 71-year-old musician's dead body around 1:30 a.m. Friday after returning to the apartment they shared in Santa Monica, California. He had an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head, police said. "His right hand and arm had given him problems for years," the 52-year-old Kawaguchi said. "He had an operation a few years ago to take out a bad muscle but the pain and nerve issues in his right hand were getting worse. "He had concerts coming up in Japan and even though they hired a back-up keyboard player to support him,Keith was worried. "He read all the criticism online and was a sensitive soul. Last year he played concerts and people posted mean comments such as, 'I wish he would stop playing.' "He was tormented with worry that he wouldn't be good enough. He was planning to retire after Japan. "He didn't want to let down his fans. He was a perfectionist and the thought he wouldn't play perfectly made him depressed, nervous and anxious." Kawaguchi told the Associated Press that Emerson was constantly thinking about music. "He was just natural," she said. "The music was always in his head, always. Even when he was sleeping, you know, I could tell he was always thinking about music. Sometimes he would wake up and compose music. And it was all so, so beautiful." In addition to Emerson, EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER included vocalist/bassist Greg Lake and drummer Carl Palmer. Palmer said in a statement that he was "deeply saddened to learn of the passing of my good friend and brother-in-music." EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER reunited for one last tour together in 2010. Their final gig took place in July 2010 at London's High Voltage festival. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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