Another passing yesterday (2016)

[Danno]

Greg Lake of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer died yesterday at 69 years of age. His bandmate Keith Emerson took his own life several months ago.
Recently;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=705MiZXNBpA

And back in the day;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoxHGxQw9ws

And one for the Season;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXCEdrnaFlY

 

[Cycle Goon]

Keith Emerson most likely took his own life when he heard the crap music they put out. I don't know how anyone can listen to progressive rock and not want to commit suicide.

 

[Matchless]

I was as upset to hear this news about Greg yesterday as I was a few months ago when I heard about Keith. Both were superb musicians & showmen. I saw them several times both solo & as ELP. Truly great memories.

 

[Brithit]

And Keith Emerson rode a Commando!

http://www.rock6070.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=1473

 

[Danno]

Keith Emerson most likely took his own life when he heard the crap music they put out. I don't know how anyone can listen to progressive rock and not want to commit suicide.

Actually he had become depressed because he could no longer perform at the high level of musicianship he once attained.

The roots of most British Rock n Roll came from the Blues, Country and Soul-in other words, American music. Progressive rock incorporated European traditional music. Many bands (Led Zeppelin being the most notable) played both forms.

 

[Danno]

And Keith Emerson rode a Commando!

http://www.rock6070.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=1473

 

[o0norton0o]

Keith Emerson most likely took his own life when he heard the crap music they put out. I don't know how anyone can listen to progressive rock and not want to commit suicide.

I respect skilled people of all sorts, regardless of their genre. I read an article about Greg lakes passing and the author said that progressive rock was pretentious and supplanted by punk, among other things. I pretty much have to wonder how anyone could call ELP pretentious and prefer the minimal musical skills of bands like the ramones... This clip is more of an emerson keyboard tune than a greg lake tune,... like it or not, it's level of musicianship is mindboggling for it's era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpBo2XWjC-Y

 

[Fast Eddie]

Keith Emerson most likely took his own life when he heard the crap music they put out. I don't know how anyone can listen to progressive rock and not want to commit suicide.

I respect skilled people of all sorts, regardless of their genre. I read an article about Greg lakes passing and the author said that progressive rock was pretentious and supplanted by punk, among other things. I pretty much have to wonder how anyone could call ELP pretentious and prefer the minimal musical skills of bands like the ramones... This clip is more of an emerson keyboard tune than a greg lake tune,... like it or not, it's level of musicianship is mindboggling for it's era.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpBo2XWjC-Y

To each his own.
And respect for the artistry and dececed.
Nevertheless I'd still prefer to listen to the Ramones. Or even better, Joy Division !

 

[DevonNorton]

As many have said each to his own. But this is on my goodbye world playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fK92hdp6u18
and I'm also fine with the Aaron Copeland original.
Andy
Born 1954 - the year UK food rationing ended
UK paid off war debt to the USA in 2006!
As for our motorcycle industry - sacrificed by bad management to the Germans & Japanese. At least we have our Commandos (Made in England).

 

[gjr]

Tut tut. Punk died with Joey Ramone. At least he had something to say and you could understand what he was saying.

Greg

 

[acotrel]

My bike keeps me alive. I know it is always there waiting to keep me amused. As we get older, life doesn't necessarily get easier. I sometimes have feelings of utter defeat. I spent most of my life studying and working as a scientist in aircraft and defence factories. In the 80s, the Hawke and Keating government introduced neoliberalism into Australia. The result has been that our technology base has almost totally disappeared. To me that means that a lot of the work I did, which was often cutting edge - was done in vain. The total futility of the whole deal is extremely irritating. I now find myself with insufficient funds to race my bike and I deeply regret that I did not forgo my profession to pursue more racing in my earlier years. MY problem was that what I believed in was utter bullshit, and I have wasted my time. So - ALWAYS GRAB THE MOMENT, it doesn't come twice.

 

[MikeG]

In The Court of The Crimson King was one of my favorite tunes to get distorted to.... back in the day.



and I just realized this thread is 5 years old..perhaps I spent too much time in distortion?

 

[TomU]

I did not know that Greg Lake passed or that Keith Emerson rode a Commando

So there you go

 

[FastFred]

To each his own.
And respect for the artistry and dececed.
Nevertheless I'd still prefer to listen to the Ramones. Or even better, Joy Division !

I saw Buzzcocks Joy Division in Sheffield 23rd October 1979 at the Top Rank. Buzzcocks got booed , Joy Division stole the show..

 

[Deckard]

Well, we're all a bunch of geezers now! Only saw Keith Emerson (the Nice) once at the Boston Tea Party opening for the Jeff Beck Group in 1969. He beat the hell out of his organ and stuck daggers between the keys. What a show, hardly would be considered "progressive".
Cool that he had a Norton. Clint Eastwood, Keanu Reeves other notables who also rode Commandos that I can think of.

 

[Craig]

Including all of us here , now that you mention “notables” ....

 

[daveforty]

As many have said each to his own......

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I have set the first few bars of this as my phones ringtone. It causes amusement among people of a certain age, and is no mistaking it as my phone. I also made a recording of my Bonneville. It sounds good, and if the phone is set to vibrate as well, it is quite authentic.

Keith Emerson was interviewd in Bike magazine, circa 1973. He had a Z900, and Greg Lake and Carl Palmer had Kawasaki 250 triples - legal as learner bikes at the time. Led Zeppelin were noted for buying a Commando and riding it around their hotel corridors then abandoning it when they moved on..

edit; in those days it would have been a Z1