Keith Emerson 1944-2016

Synth Wizard and Keyboardist extraordinaire. Founder of The Nice and one of founders of Emerson, Lake & Palmer has passed away from what TMZ reports as a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Emerson had been dealing with depression from a degenerative nerve disorder for some time in his right hand that has limited…

Ladies and Gentlemen… Emerson, Lake & Palmer (live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970)

Over the top? Pompous? Blatantly Full of themselves? Perhaps eventually but in 1970 they were hardcore Prog and damn good at it! I’ve always had a love/hate relationship with ELP because on one end you have the calm ballads of Greg Lake then the other hand is the firey madness of Keith Emerson’s keyboards and…

Prog Rock Magazine’s Top 100 Artists of All Time, Selected Review

I have always been opposed to “lists” of the Top 100 this or Top 10 that, whatever it may be because every band has a different spin on what their Progginess exudes. It’s like comparing apples to tires and oranges to diamonds in a fish’s stomach. It just doesn’t make sense to me, never has,…