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Is anyone else excited by the ELP reunion gig?
Posted by peterdasent on 14 November 2009 - 9:16am.
It seems they've come to some agreement for now - after all the disagreements of the past.
Keith Emerson has kept playing - with The Nice reunion and his own band, Greg Lake doesn't seem to have done much at all and Carl Palmer does drum clinics and gigs with Asia.
Apparently the sticking point with any new recording is the role of the producer - Greg wants that title and the others want an outside person. Or something like that.
But the fact that they are all still alive, and playing, is such a bonus.
Now I have to persuade the FPO that an airfare from Australia is worthwhile. That's probably more impossible than an ELP reunion ever looked like!
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No.
No, not at all.
I don't care what Danny Baker says
they are seriously shoite.
Danny Baker
lovely bloke - v.funny and all that - but his admiration for ELP is impossible to endorse
I'll be there, I'll be there
I will be there. If only to meet many online friends venturing from abroad.
Greg Lake was slightly busy with his solo tour, touring with Bongo's band and, er, the annual promotion media tour for I Believe In Father Christmas.
Don't suppose they will have the same payday of their past glories when they made serious wonga and I hope it is a strong bill for the Classic Rock festival.
"touring with Bongo's band" - que?
what's that?
I knew he'd toured with Ringo's All-Starr band a few years ago.
Who's Bongo?
sorry to be so dumb....
The same
Pet name for my ole mate Richard. Peace and love.
Last time onstage was probably last year when he guested on a Trans Siberian Orchestra show. He will be doing a live chat tomorrow through his new website. http://www.greglake.com/interact_live.html
Ringo no longer likes to be called by his 'stage name'
so we have to call him something else - Bongo seems as good as any :-)
Peace and love [makes two handed peace signs]
I saw them-in late 80s I think-at Albert Hall
and Greg Lake at Reading---not sure whether I'd pay today's inflated ticket prices
No
I first read that as ELO, and got excited. Then I realized it was ELP, and wasn't.
I won't be there...
Was there on the last reunion and it had lost the spark.
You know how some reunions 'click' and manage to recapture past glories? This didn't.
I'll stay at home and watch the Isle Of Wight dvd instead.
Bargepole agrees
it will be very difficult to recreate the old magic from 30 odd years ago, esspecially given the apparent bad feelings between them. and several potential reunions over the past five years have failed to materialise in the end. still, wouldn't it be nice.....
Whereabouts
in London is this gig?
Victoria Park
ish
I'm sure it will be disappointing
But I'd still be interested if it were just them. I'm not sure I'd want to pay for (and sit through) whoever else is on the High Voltage bill.
Mind you, judging by the last time I saw him on TV, Greg Lak is going to need a much bigger carpet.
No
Nope, negative, non, nein. They were completely and utterly cack. plus Jim Davidson used to go on about them, another reason to avoid their records.
Montreaux
there's a concert by them that crops up regularly on Sky Arts 1, a dull workmanlike affair that I didn't even bother recording
Sort of
Exited, no. Interested, certainly. Will I be there? Definitely.
(Particularly if its victoria park which was the scene of my greatest ever sporting triumph, scored 37 runs in a cricket match. Thats about 36 more than i normally got)