Yet another Rock Legend has passed today.
Keith Emerson (71) will be long remembered.
Saw ELP many moons ago but regrettably I never did get to see The Nice.
His music will live on.
Oh no. Another one gone. Gone to see the Diamond Hard Blue Apples of the Moon.
I saw The Nice at Sunderland Empire, must have been around 1969. He stuck knives into the keys of his Hammond organ.
He used swords when I saw ELP at the Kennington Oval and again at the De Montfort, Leicester.
All my heroes (and masters of their trade) are fast vanishing :'(
R.I.P. Keith
Saw the Nice at the Coatham Hotel, Redcar, probably just before or just after George did in Sunderland. Saw ELP at Birmingham Town Hall. Epic showman, sadly missed. Pictures at an Exhibition is still one of my favourite albums of all time.
....Nooooo!....
I can't believe....another one...IT'S A MASSACRE!
R.I.P Keith.....honky tonky train blues-man
Marco
Never ever saw ELP or the Nice and now regretting it. Got some ELP stuff here and love it. RIP Keith E :(
Can't believe it! Could play by ear almost anyone's music on the piano except this guy! He was both an awesome inspiration and my musical hero. Even played 'Close to Home' at a small concert in Chacewater, Cornwall as a memorial to my late piano-playing Uncle. So, so sad. Shot himself - that is terrible. RIP Keith.
Yes, such a sad way to go for a great musician.
I too never saw ELP but had a number of their albums.
You kinda hope that rock stars who live into their seventies would be allowed to die of natural causes as so many die far too young so it is really sad to hear the circumstances of his death.