Emerson Lake & Palmer
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Greg Lake: Rock Will Go Back To Its Roots
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 3 August 1974
GREG LAKE'S London home is a rare and impressive sight. A light glows outside a town house in a quiet street that takes you back ...
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Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1980
The ELP sticksman somewhat testily describes the break-up of the band; talks about how UK press criticism meant other members refused to tour the country, and about his new (and it turns out short-lived) band PM.
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Interview by David Hughes, Disc and Music Echo, 6 June 1970
IN THIS age of musical complexity, of musicians caring and playing more for themselves and their personal satisfaction than for their hard-working, hard-paying audiences, 'ELP ...
The Isle of Wight Festival: Five Days That Rocked Britain
Report by Mark Plummer, Michael Watts, Chris Welch, Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 5 September 1970
MM's Richard Williams, Chris Welch, Michael Watts and Mark Plummer present a five-page report on an amazing weekend of music and other scenes... ...
Emerson Lake & Palmer: Here Comes Another Orgasmic Peak
Interview by Penny Valentine, Sounds, 31 October 1970
KEITH EMERSON is, to say the least, very upset at the release of old Nice tapes currently flooding the market. ...
Emerson Lake & Palmer: Royal Festival Hall, London
Live Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 31 October 1970
IT MUST have been around 10.30 p.m. on Monday night at the Royal Festival Hall, when Keith Emerson proved beyond all fear of contradiction that ...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Town Hall, Birmingham
Live Review by Tony Stewart, Sounds, 31 October 1970
AFTER TWO hours of solid music, the 2,000 strong audience, at Birmingham Town Hall were dancing in the aisles, clapping and stamping and try as ...
Emerson Lake And Palmer: Emerson Lake And Palmer (Island stereo ILPS 9132, 39s 11d)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 21 November 1970
ANYONE WHO still thinks that Emerson Lake and Palmer are a cheap imitation of the Nice should give this album a spin and be proven ...
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 19 December 1970
Chris Welch reports on a trip to Switzerland with rock's most controversial trio... ...
Report and Interview by Keith Altham, Record Mirror, 27 March 1971
DESPITE PROTESTATIONS to the contrary, there is no such thing as an instant group – super or otherwise – and ELP are a testimony to ...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Review by Loyd Grossman, Rolling Stone, 15 April 1971
WE WERE FOREWARNED by the British music press that Emerson, Lake & Palmer would be a "super-group," and indeed it was hard to see how ...
ELP: Fillmore East, New York NYC
Live Review by Mike Jahn, The New York Times, 2 May 1971
BRITISH BAND MAKES DEBUT AT FILLMORE ...
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 8 May 1971
BLOOD streaming from his head, a middle-aged man, white, well-dressed, staggered into the headlights of the battered Yellow Cab. The Puerto Rican driver, grinned and ...
Emerson, Lake And Palmer: Tarkus (Island I LPS 9155; £2.15)
Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 12 June 1971
'ELP OUR EARDRUMS ...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Humble Pie, Edgar Winter: Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by John Mendelssohn, Los Angeles Times, 21 July 1971
ELP Group Presents a Mixed Bag at the Bowl ...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer Ascending
Profile and Interview by Michael Gray, Crawdaddy!, August 1971
Their first album rides high in the bestseller lists. Their first tour, from the Fillmore East to Carnegie Hall, has been a real and resounding ...
Emerson Lake & Palmer: Pictures At An Exhibition (Island, HELP. 1; £1.50).
Review by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 4 December 1971
"HANS, IS das cheering on zee stereo gramafunken for zee Furhrer at zee 1937 Nuremburg Rally?" ...
Ready, Eddie? An Interview with Eddie Offord
Interview by Mark Plummer, Melody Maker, 12 February 1972
EDDIE OFFORD SITS in his penthouse flat, way above the traffic that thunders down the Vauxhall Bridge Road past Victoria. ...
Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Mahavishnu Orchestra: Long Beach Auditorium
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 24 March 1972
EMERSON, LAKE and Palmer, at their Wednesday night Long Beach Auditorium concert, made the tactical error of presenting Tarkus as their first long selection. ...
The Top of Pop: A Rock Fan Writes
Column by Lillian Roxon, New York Sunday News, 23 April 1972
THAT FINE dividing line between fan and groupie is often razor thin and rather shaky. I used to admire groupies because they at least broke ...
Emerson Lake and Palmer: Why Keith Wants To Become Immortal
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 13 May 1972
KEITH EMERSON would like to be remembered as a twentieth century composer – he thinks about it quite a lot and finds it curious that ...
Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Pictures at an Exhibition
Film/DVD/TV Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Cream, June 1972
ONCE again, rockanroll culture heroes hit the big screen, and, predictably enough, this week’s lucky winners are Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Like all other rock ...
ELP Plus Tull in Dirty Raincoats, and How Free May Drop the Name
Report by Keith Altham, New Musical Express, 5 August 1972
WATCHING EMERSON, LAKE and Palmer play a concert with Free in the middle of a raging typhoon in Tokyo with Carl Palmer performing an incredible ...
Emerson Lake And Palmer: Super-Group Of The Seventies!
Profile and Interview by Keith Altham, Petticoat, 4 November 1972
EMERSON LAKE and Palmer may not be three names which are immediately known to you but to millions of progressive rock music fans across the ...
Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 31 March 1973
EVERY SO OFTEN, Greg Lake refers to the music of Emerson, Lake and Palmer as art. He chooses the word quite deliberately. Everything he speaks ...
Interview by Caroline Boucher, Disc, 23 June 1973
SO YOU thought Keith Emerson was a flashy organist? You should see Carl Palmer these days. He's got a two-tone Perspex rostrum which revolves when ...
Emerson, Lake and Palmer: Why They Won't Bach Around The Clock
Interview by Ian Dove, The New York Times, 16 December 1973
WITH EMERSON, Lake and Palmer, apparently nothing succeeds like excess. The successful British rock trio, which is known for its appearances with symphony orchestras, is due at ...
ELP...What? ELP!... What? ELP...
Report and Interview by Judith Sims, Rolling Stone, 25 April 1974
LOS ANGELES — Say what you will about the music, Emerson, Lake and Palmer's recently completed four-month American tour was the heaviest rock & roll ...
Welcome Back, My Friends, To The Show That...
Report and Interview by James Johnson, New Musical Express, 27 April 1974
… requires 40 tons of equipment, 18 humper/loaders, seven personal roadies, six sound crew, five trucker/drivers, four spot manipulators, three heavy musicians two outside coordinators and (we guess) a man to make the ...
Various Artists: California Jam Festival: Ontario Motor Speedway, Ontario CA
Live Review by David Rensin, Zoo World, 23 May 1974
"Bastion Of Ennui" nets record gate. ...
ELP's Carl Palmer Exposes The Secret Drum Synthesizer Behind Brain Salad Surgery
Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, June 1974
After years of drumming in a variety of hard rocking bands, Carl Palmer decided there had to be more to playing than simply marking time. ...
Emerson Lake and Palmer: England's Robbing Us!
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 27 July 1974
WHEN THE alarm bells ring at "Whyte Eagles," it's not a warning of imminent fire or pestilence, just a reminder to Carl Palmer to turn ...
Interview by Steven Rosen, Guitar Player, September 1974
GREG LAKE IS the surrounded L in ELP, the British trio which has brought to the forefront the power of classical music in a rock ...
ELP: The Show That Never Ends?
Report by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 14 August 1976
WHATEVER happened to ELP? One of Britain's most successful and popular bands has been surrounded by a wall of silence as impenetrable as the Kremlin ...
Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Grandest Design
Interview by Dan Nooger, Circus, 28 April 1977
Works, Vol.1 Is the First Instalment of a Spectacular Orchestrated Rock Showcase ...
The $2m Show That Never Ends: Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Report and Interview by Barbara Charone, Sounds, 2 July 1977
KEITH EMERSON sits in a Detroit French restaurant wearing traditional black leather trousers and a very large grin. He’s telling a reporter from Rolling Stone ...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Journey: Cow Palace, Daly City CA
Live Review by Philip Elwood, The San Francisco Examiner, 5 August 1977
Smoke, props and balanced sound ...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Love Beach; Mike Oldfield: Incantations
Review by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 25 November 1978
JEAN-PAUL Sartre took mescaline once, to prove to himself that he wasn't necessarily the institution people thought he was, and as a result became convinced ...
The Concise NME Guide To Electronic Music & Synthesised Sound PART TWO — Synthesisers
Overview by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 12 January 1980
POMP THE trouble with synthesisers is actually playing them, accepting their status as sound-generators and starting from scratch. Mechanical keyboards were included in early synth ...
Retrospective by Chris Welch, The History of Rock, 1984
CARL PALMER first came to international prominence with Emerson, Lake and Palmer at the start of the Seventies. His dynamic approach to drumming, which combined ...
Emerson Lake: Rockin' Dudes Or Art-Rock Mofos?
Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, October 1986
IT'S A SPACIOUS rehearsal studio, though not the world's classiest. I am in London, behind the man running the soundboard, watching the three musicians facing ...
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, July 1992
They've called them "Progressive dinosaurs", "excessive musos", "self-gratifying bores". They've always called themselves ELP. "Probably one of the most misunderstood bands in the world," they ...
Report and Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, 1999
Consider this as a picture at an exhibition. A 10,000-seat arena on the afternoon before an Emerson, Lake & Palmer concert; on stage an orderly ...
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, MOJO, March 2001
QUESTION: HOW DO EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER change A light bulb? A: They don't. Drummer Carl Palmer's personal karate instructor holds the bulb steady while ...
Emerson Lake and Palmer: Victoria Park, London
Live Review by Pete Paphides, The Times, 26 July 2010
"WE'VE ONLY been away for 12 years — you can make more noise than that!" said the drummer Carl Palmer towards the end of this ...
High LOL-tage: Mike Diver's classic rock adventure
Live Review by Mike Diver, Drowned in Sound, 3 August 2010
The other day our former overlord Mike Diver phoned up DiS HQ to belligerently demand we implement what he described as "the final phase" of ...
see also Asia
see also Nice, The
see also Carl Palmer
see also Emerson, Lake & Powell
see also Greg Lake
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