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OT: RIP Keith Emerson

riftwitchriftwitch Posts: 1,439
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http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/keith-emerson-emerson-lake-and-palmer-keyboardist-dead-at-71-20160311

My wife just told me about this; he was one of my main influences (along with Jon Lord and Rick Wakeman) as an organist and synthesist. The first time I heard the Brain Salad Surgery album, I had an epiphany. He will be greatly missed.

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  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 6,073

    Heard it on the radio a short while back.  ELP were a superb band, love Pictures at an Exhibition

  • Jason GalterioJason Galterio Posts: 2,562

    I just saw this myself. Pretty sad...  Chris Squire, David Bowie, who is going to be next?

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604

    SAd news.  My elder brother will be upset,  Keith Emerson was one of his customers, back in the day.   My brother is the guy who designed the Vox Continental MK1 amd he still works at Hammond

  • riftwitchriftwitch Posts: 1,439
    Chohole said:

    SAd news.  My elder brother will be upset,  Keith Emerson was one of his customers, back in the day.   My brother is the guy who designed the Vox Continental MK1 amd he still works at Hammond

    That's interesting. I never had a Vox, but I did have a Farfisa when I first started gigging. My Hammond is in storage (needed to make room for the wife's piano); coincidentally, the same model Keith used, a C3 (I had it for a while before I ever discovered him). It seems that the C3 was more popular with the British keyboardists I heard than the B3; same internal electronics, different cabinets. 

    I was lucky enough to hear Keith play years ago with Emerson, Lake & Powell. I'm glad I did. I recently found videos on YouTube of The Best, a supergroup I had never heard of that Keith was in. John Entwistle, Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter, Joe Walsh, and Simon Phillips were in it with him. What I saw was really good; I'll have to order the DVD one of these days. I don't have much video footage of Keith playing; I need to rectify that. 

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 6,073

    Just reporting it was a self-inflicted gun-shot to the head.

    If memory serves he taught an ex-colleague's wife the piano :)

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    edited March 2016
    riftwitch said:
    Chohole said:

    SAd news.  My elder brother will be upset,  Keith Emerson was one of his customers, back in the day.   My brother is the guy who designed the Vox Continental MK1 amd he still works at Hammond

    That's interesting. I never had a Vox, but I did have a Farfisa when I first started gigging. My Hammond is in storage (needed to make room for the wife's piano); coincidentally, the same model Keith used, a C3 (I had it for a while before I ever discovered him). It seems that the C3 was more popular with the British keyboardists I heard than the B3; same internal electronics, different cabinets. 

    I was lucky enough to hear Keith play years ago with Emerson, Lake & Powell. I'm glad I did. I recently found videos on YouTube of The Best, a supergroup I had never heard of that Keith was in. John Entwistle, Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter, Joe Walsh, and Simon Phillips were in it with him. What I saw was really good; I'll have to order the DVD one of these days. I don't have much video footage of Keith playing; I need to rectify that. 

    It is interesting, on Ron's website to read how they started, working from what was literally an old warehouse. The car park was a muddy field, where clients would park their rollers etc while visiting.

    Ron counted Keith Emerson as a friend as well as a client back then. Was heady stuff for a teenager to have a big brother who hobnobbed with the likes of  Keith Emerson, The Beatles, The Who, THe Small Faces. Led Zeppelin etc.  He says now that In those early days it seemed that everyone had a split Hammond.

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  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 12,159

    Emmerson, Lake & Palmer were one of the few rock musician groups I liked during my formative years.  The others being The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkle, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues and Led Zepplin.

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