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Main Discussion Area => In Memoriam, Happy Birthday => Topic started by: urth on March 11, 2016, 12:23:31 PM

Title: RIP Keith Emerson, 71
Post by: urth on March 11, 2016, 12:23:31 PM

The keyboardist from Emerson, Lake & Palmer and The Nice passed away at his home in Santa Monica.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7127455/keith-emerson-dead-emerson-lake-palmer


Jeez, George Martin and now Keith Emerson. Are we about to lose another herd of aging musicians?

Title: Re: RIP Keith Emerson, 71
Post by: ggould on March 11, 2016, 01:43:17 PM

They just had an alert on Sirius/XM about this.

Title: Re: RIP Keith Emerson, 71
Post by: mshray on March 11, 2016, 03:11:54 PM

I was 12 in 1974 when I first bought my first LP.  That record was Tarkus.

Everyone else in eighth grade was listening to John Denver, Elton John and and/or discovering the Beatles & Beach Boys for the 1st time, but I was proudly a prog rocker.  By 10th grade everyone was into disco, but not me.  By then I had all of ELP's records, almost all of Yes & the Moody Blues, King Crimson (when Greg Lake was still in the band), Rick Wakeman's Journey to the Center of the Earth, lots of Jethro Tull, early Alan Parsons, etc.  I mean I also liked the Who, Stones, etc...whatever was being played on St. Louis' legendary KSHE 95.  But especially ELP, which I always said, whenever asked, was my favorite band.

Very sad right now.

Title: Re: RIP Keith Emerson, 71
Post by: urth on March 11, 2016, 05:58:28 PM

News sources are now reporting that authorities are treating this as a suicide case, as Emerson was found with a gun in his possession and a gunshot wound to the head.

Very very sad. Mshray, I share your sorrow.