Greg Lake (Emerson, Lake & Palmer)

[JimmyM]

I will look, but I think on the cover of the triple live album he is playing a Precision (on the back of the sleeve.)

ripper.

 

[Barkless Dog]

Tarkus is a amazing composition & bass performance.

 

[Ric5]

I think all of his studio work was a jazz bass. I saw him live about 74 and he was playing the Gibson through the crown amp which sounded pretty awful. A lot of treble and mids without much bass.

He has a solo dvd out with his own band and he does some ELP and some King Crimson. Lake fans will really like it. But he does not play bass on the new dvd.

 

[AltGrendel]

JimmyM for the win again.

It's a Ripper on the "Welcome back..." live.

That was my first bass and I figured it was a decent one because of that. Boy was I wrong.

I love the bass line on Eruption.

He also had a doubleneck Zemaitias:

He played that on on Karn Evil 9 - Impression 1 live for a short while.

 

[Freddy-G.]

Greg Lake & Roger Sadowsky

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[rtav]

Greg Lake is an EXCELLENT player - you sit down and work up Karn Evil 9 Second Impression - PHENOMENAL!

 

[JimmyM]

holy crap! the years have not been kind to greg.

 

[Sam Evans]

Ya - even back then, he had a round face and a large frame, and it kinda got away from him over the years ...

 

[pbass2]

Whoa---he did put on . . a few. He was such the handsome chick magnet kinda guy back in the day (for prog at least!). I remember some interview where Fripp said they roomed together and Lake always "got all the birds".
I saw ELP on the BSS tour, and on the Works tour (but without the orchestra I think--man, it's fuzzy--I was quite young and . . altered--was there an orchestra there?)
I do remember indeed it was Ripper for the first and various Alembics (an 8 string in tow for sure) for the latter.

 

[Meddle]

I remember some interview where Fripp said they roomed together and Lake always "got all the birds".

I don't see Fripp getting all the birds somehow. He would probably interrogate them for half an hour then send them home. "You didn't get the gig, sorry".

 

[lowendfriend]

Lake? He's fantastic on King Crimsons In The Court Of The Crimson King...
You wouldn't expect it, but that album has some clever basslines! Lake's a good vocalist, but he's a cool bassist too, both in ELP and in King Crimson. You guys should take a listen.

I never thought Greg Lake got proper creds for his role in what has got to be one of the top ten rock albums of all time, naturally IMHO. His voice was a big part of the surreal quality of that incredible album.

 

[lowendfriend]

I don't see Fripp getting all the birds somehow. He would probably interrogate them for half an hour then send them home. "You didn't get the gig, sorry".

^^This!!

 

[rtav]

I don't see Fripp getting all the birds somehow. He would probably interrogate them for half an hour then send them home. "You didn't get the gig, sorry".

LMAO - EXACTLY!!!!!!