Progressive Rock Legend Emerson Dies

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35787187

Ruddy hell ! Another of my teenage rock heros has gone !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OLWgrr671g

[Baldric]

Got a mention here earlier

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Music/Question1479699.html

[Prudie]

I have suggested before, we really should have an RIP topic on here

[mikey4444]

Ed...please merge this with the previous thread, if that is possible.

[youngmafbog]

seem to be dropping like flies.

Must be our age I guess.

[Peter Pedant]

// another of my teenage rock heros has gone ! //

shouldnt that be - - - washed away /

Jesus the track you have put on is ... a bit derivative isnt it ?

[sunny-dave]

I remember seeing KE with The Nice - at Birmingham Town Hall - he eventually got bored with his Hammond and attacked the ornate monster of a classical organ that has been there for donkeys years - I don't think it had ever produced such sounds before (or indeed since).

[Ken4155]

When i was in the army both my friend and i were deep into 'prog' rock. One of my fav bands were Yes (who he had no time for), whilst his favs were ELP (who i had no time for). Nevertheless i recognise a god of the keyboards when i see one. RIP Keith Emerson.

[mikey4444]

Derivative ? They used a piece by Aaron Copland, and wove a performance around it. They brought some music to a new audience who would probably never have heard of it before. The Nice did it with West Side Story.

[murraymints]

this one suicide !

[mikey4444]

Yes, MM...just heard on the Today Program. Very sad.

[EDDIE51]

Here is Aaron Copeland's original , which I prefer

[bibblebub]

He'd recently started suffering with a degenerative nerve issue in his right hand which meant that he could use only 8 fingers for playing the keyboards and was thus depressed. I'm currently listening to the eponymous 1970 album feeling mighty sad.