Vale Greg Lake (1947-2016)

Mountains Magpie · Posted: Fri Dec 09, 2016 7:13 pm

Passed away yesterday. Founder of King Crimson (with Robert Fripp) and Emerson Lake & Palmer. All round prog rock legend.

Keith Emerson died in March this year.

RIP Greg.

MM

Culprit · Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Location: Port Melbourne

Another legend passes. So many Music legends have died this year. Sad how old I am getting/feeling.

Pies4shaw · pies4shaw Joined: 08 Oct 2007

I am greatly saddened by this. What a beautiful singing voice he had. A fine guitarist and bass player, too.

I can't post links at the moment but if you wanted to listen to him at his finest, try "I Talk to the Wind" and "Epitaph" from "The Court of the Crimson King" and "Still You Turn Me On" and "Jerusalem" from Brain Salad Surgery.

Or just listen to "21st Century Schizoid Man". Just because you can.

RIP Greg.

What a really, really unacceptable year this has been.

watt price tully · Joined: 15 May 2007

Very sad. Just read about here. What a shocking year.

King Crimson were one of my favourite bands in high school & later. The Court of the Crimson King - what an album: at once brilliant, profound & wonderful - of course I don't to talk too highly about it.

Confusion will be my epitaph.

Pies4shaw · pies4shaw Joined: 08 Oct 2007

As I crawl a cracked and broken path.

piedys · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 1:44 pm

Will always love Fanfare for the Common Man.
Were there ever any lyrics penned against the melody?

Mountains Magpie · Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2016 1:59 pm

Pies4shaw · pies4shaw Joined: 08 Oct 2007

Aaron Copland, one of the last century's finest composers and the author of the fabulous "The New Music". The original Fanfare is a tremendous piece. ELP also recorded Hoedown (the 4th part of Copland's Rodeo Suite) - their studio version is on Trilogy - but the version to end all versions is on "Welcome Back, My Friends to the Show That Never Ends", one of the greatest openings to a live album (and a triple-album, at that), ever. To my way of thinking, Hoedown was a much more effective translation of Copland than turning the Fanfare into a blues-laced boogie.

piedys · Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2016 8:34 pm

Guys, there you go - learn somethin' new every day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fanfare_for_the_Common_Man

Pies4shaw · pies4shaw Joined: 08 Oct 2007

^^^

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLMVB0B1_Ts - James Levine conducting Copland's original Fanfare

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OLWgrr671g - ELP refashioning it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ajQYANLiug - Copland's Hoedown from the Rodeo Suite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjBwDFuqOH4 - Starting with ELP's version of Hoedown, the whole of "Welcome Back My Friends". I don't want to distract from the Greg Lake tribute but I find myself close to distraught listening to Keith Emerson's magnificent start to the Hoedown. Nevertheless, for those of you who might not have heard it and (unlike me) can avoid bursting into uncontrollable sobbing when you hear the late, sadly-silenced Keith Emerson playing the Hammond, here it is.