Carl Palmer played mostly with Asia in the '80's. Cozy Powell did one album with Emerson and Lake around 1986, and then Carl Palmer formed a band
with Keith Emerson at the end of the '80's called Three. They did one album.
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with Keith Emerson at the end of the '80's called Three. They did one album.
Greg Lake was a major influence on me in my teens. I would play along on my cassette player with the bass tracks to Tarkus and Brain Salad Surgery. Check out Lake's bass playing on Karn Evil 9 2nd impression, great stuff! Here's a video of Lake playing a Spector NS-2 in 1986.
Cool song "Touch & Go"! A band without a six string guitar?!?! I've never...
That's one giant KB/Synth setup.
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Asia was another band back in the day that I bought their albums as they came out. That was a great combination of musicians. I was a big Yes fan, and was great to see Steve Howe in the band. Geoff Downes had also played in Yes. I was also into UK, so John Wetton fit well into the band.
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"Not Spector related Material" Sorry guys for the interruption. Checkout this MF add for Ibanez guitar. Two years ago I said to myself,"What if you could do away with all of those effect floor pedals and have it already integrated into your bass?" I kicked around an idea of installing a computer chip into a Spector bass that would hold multiple sound effects, that would replace multiple floor foot pedals. Well Ibanez came out with that idea, though a bit on the gaudy side. I was thinking something much smaller in size and programable so you can always upgrade it with more effects, computer interfaced thru a cord. What do you all think of that idea?
Yeah, it's funny to see all the connections of prog-rock musicians back in the day. Geoff Downes played with Trevor Horn in Yes for the 'Drama' album, then they formed The Buggles, and had that one hit 'Video killed the radio star'. Later Geoff Downes and Steve Howe formed Asia with John Wetton and Carl Palmer. John replaced Greg Lake in King Crimson for a while, and Greg also replaced John in Asia briefly. Figure that one all out!?!
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johnsonabq
Watch out where the huskies go...
In 1970 a friend of mine turned me onto ELP, stating that this is the band Greg Lake went to after leaving King Crimson. Synths were just starting to make a big presence in R&R (or more accurately prog rock) and the synth solo in "Lucky Man" was a monster. I was hooked on Emerson's virtuosity. Songs like "Take a Pebble" and "The Three Fates" showed me how cool long form songs were. Where you go through passages and take the music places and then return to the original theme and end it. I loved that stuff. It was taken to the fullest with "Tarkus" in 1971. What a massive piece. It was orchestral.
Which lead naturally to "Pictures At An Exhibition". ELP's live adaptation of Mussorgsky's piece. I was eating this stuff up. 1972 saw them release "Trilogy". Another great album with other long form songs like "The Endless Enigma" and the title track. It also had Lake's classic "From the Beginning". I was still in high school at this time but even my Mother really like Emerson's piano work. Then in 1973 ELP released what I considered their magnum opus, "Brain Salad Surgery". "Karn Evil 9" was so massive it took 8 and half minutes of side one and all of side two. It contained another Lake classic "Still You Turn Me On". Great stuff! A couple of weeks before Christmas 1973 I got to see ELP at Madison Square Garden in NYC on the Brain Salad Surgery tour and I was blown away. All the music was a favorite and played to perfection. They even did "I Believe In Father Christmas", complete with snow falling on Carl Palmer's drum set.
Unfortunately, that was a high point that couldn't be followed in my mind. Everything they did after that just didn't move me. I never lost respect for them, but rather moved onto other bands. I still to this day though, listen to their first few albums and still love them.
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Cool song "Touch & Go"! A band without a six string guitar?!?! I've never...
Greg Lake played 6 string guitar on all of their albums and swapped between guitar and bass during shows.
He was a pretty monstrously talented dude.
I think John Wetton also came from Uriah Heep.
Very cool memories Jeff, I did become more in tune with progressive music later on and should have visited ELP more.
johnsonabq
Watch out where the huskies go...
John Wetton was in Uriah Heep for only one album and some touring. I thought it kind of a miss match myself. Brought in after their bass player Gary Thain died. Back in the early 80s I spoke to their keyboards player and founding member Ken Hensley once and asked him about John. He said "John joined the band just long enough to get the money to buy a house and then quit." Hmmm...
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I had the album with John and it was different, I think they soon had troubles with the vocalist as well and he moved on. Ken was great, more in the vein of Jon Lord.
My Uriah Heep days started with The Magician's Birthday, and Demon's and Wizards. Great stuff!!! They had a bunch of great albums. Wonderworld was kind of magical to me, and brings back memories. Needless to say, I have about all of their CDs.
johnsonabq
Watch out where the huskies go...
By 1974 I had switched from ELP to Kansas. I still listened to Yes and Genesis. And about that time I found Supertramp. Man, you just don't find bands like that anymore. (old man rant ends)
Yeah, they don't invest into bands like they once did....its all about the one hit now so they find a band and then reproduce that flavor with a lot of others to sell the down load as they don't have record stores any longer...or its just places that sell the used stuff.
