RIP Keith Emerson

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Keith Emerson of ELP fame died last night.

 

[rainmakerrtv]

Damn it!

 

I'd heard he had not been in great health. I was a prog rock kid, I know it was never cool but I loved that stuff and enjoyed listening to his playing. RIP.

[Pete]

Ugh... this hits hard as I'm a huge ELP fan who could care less how quote-unquote uncool they were. Brain Salad Surgery is still one of my favorite albums ever. Saw them in Peoria back in 1993 and they all still had the chops in spades, especially in a fairly small (2,000) theater where they were lurking right on top of you. RIP Keith.

[zev]

I am now remembering times I found myself at the nearest Kmart trying to bash out part of Karn Evil 9, and getting my own keyboard the following Christmas.

 

I am now wondering what became of my college friend who had an ELP tattoo and had a band that allowed him to explore Moog goodness every weekend.

 

That band was, and is, cool.

[ChrisM]

Read on Twitter that it may have been suicide.

 

He was a madman on the keyboards. 

 

[Pete]

Sadly, I could see it... he's had some form of nerve damage to his hands that made it progressively (no pun intended) harder and harder for him to play.

[Steelcanvas]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MS_IbDxKYg

 

RIP

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TQQdYokbp4E

[JLSigman]

One of the earliest things Dad and I had in common was a love of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.

 

Damnit.

[Travis Sheldon]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MS_IbDxKYg

 

RIP

 

Listened to this very track earlier today after I heard the news.

Powerful stuff.

R.I.P. Mr Emerson

[Curt McGirt]

 

 

Fuck. In my stoner youth I bought every damn ELP record on vinyl. Guess I'm gonna be revisiting all of them tonight and tomorrow.

[Pete]

[Pete]

Fark headline: "Emerson, Smith and Wesson"

 

Yes, it's horrible. Yes, I laughed. Yes, I am horrible too.

[Curt McGirt]

A friend of mine read what his wife had commented on the UK Daily News about it and said it was the saddest thing ever, and also the fishiest. If there's any way his partner was responsible it would be some Dateline NBC shit, but I don't want to believe that at all. Suicide is at least something I can accept.