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    King of Kings said:
    I'm here man. Oh this sucks. I LOVE ELP.
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    :cry: :cry: Keith Emerson was the most badass composer of that era. He was in the same league as the great Classical artists in my book. Seeing somebody play complex music on his hammond backwards and stabbing the shit out of the keys (his main knife a gift from Lemmy himself) must have been something out of this world.

    I don't know if you know this but before ELP started as soon as Lake left King Crimson they got to meet with Hendrix and there were talks about a new project that would include Hendrix, Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Soon after Hendrix died and plans went down the drain. :cry: Just think about it, the two most badass performers and masters at their respective instruments composing together. Fuck me.

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    Post Ironic said:
    FFS Criminy Jicket... Every time I come in this thread you're posting about another dead musical legend. Stahppppp! :(
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    I can't go on :cry:

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    King of Kings said:
    I'm not even going to.listen to Karn Evil #9, or still you turn me on.

    I'm just not going to. No use in becoming a mess
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    This orgastic 30 minute masterpiece will live on. RIP "Hendrix of keyboards".

     
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    CrimsonianKing said:
    :cry: :cry: Keith Emerson was the most badass composer of that era. He was in the same league as the great Classical artists in my book. Seeing somebody play complex music on his hammond backwards and stabbing the shit out of the keys (his main knife a gift from Lemmy himself) must have been something out of this world.

    I don't know if you know this but before ELP started as soon as Lake left King Crimson they got to meet with Hendrix and there were talks about a new project that would include Hendrix, Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Soon after Hendrix died and plans went down the drain. :cry: Just think about it, the two most badass performers and masters at their respective instruments composing together. Fuck me.
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    Hendrix and Miles Davis would have been pretty cool
     
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    ZoSo said:
    I just prefer that style over his later music. I don't really like the fusion stuff at all really.
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    I think most people do too, I know I do. But I look at it this way; once he went electric it was like a rehearsal with the intent of creating something completely new and from that came Fusion. His "apprentices" like Corea, Hancock, Mclaughlin used all they learned from him and made something much more accessible and rock-esque than Miles' free Jazz/extremely experimental stuff.

    I once read Corea saying how he had never played an electric piano (a Rhodes to be exact), something that later became his trademark, before and that he kinda hated it at first on the Bitches Brew sessions. So basically his direct influence not only changed music once but twice.

    Miles was a visionary, he knew that type of Jazz was slowly dying off and that the late 60's was all about reinventing art. He just went along with the times.

    Do you mean you don't like his later career or all Fusion? Cause man, stuff like this is just yummy.

     
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    s4tch said:
    :cry: 2016 is surely a tragic year, and it has barely started...

    i'd +rep you for the ritenour vid if i could.
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    Ritenour is fantastic :D

    Btw it was a suicide. Keith Emerson shot himself because he could no longer perform due to a 20 some years nerve damage. What a sad way to go.

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    'Keith wasn't feeling well on Thursday night. He had bronchitis so I tucked him up in bed,' said Kawaguchi, 52.


    'He was sleeping when I left and I thought he was sleeping when I got back, but then I realised what had happened. He was gone. I am still in total shock.


    'His right hand and arm had given him problems for years. 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.'


    Thanks, internet. :numnum:
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