Can you see what Emerson, Lake & Palmer did to me?
Yes, courtesy of budget labels MFP (Music for Pleasure) and (I think it was) Hallmark, I stuck my proverbial toe in the murky waters of classical music, snapping up Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition“, Dvorak’s “New World Symphony” and Tchaikovsky’s magnificent “1812 Overture“
It would be years later [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘emerson lake and palmer’
10-30-09
(1974 Albums) Classical Albums
10-13-09
January 7th 1974
“Berfday. Got lamp, pygamas, £2 from Mormor – bought Stranded – Roxy – Smart!”
So the wild and crazy out-of-control teenager turns 16 and celebrates with … erm… some pyjamas (mis-spelled), a lamp (a lamp??) and a couple of quid from his Danish grandmother.
However, it seems like I made up for it a little later in the [...]
09-30-09
December 27th 1973
“Bort Brain Salad Surgery – not very good but alright”
Wha??
Doubtless buoyed by “christmas money” I went out and bought Emerson, Lake & Palmer’s new opus – released a mere month earlier – only to get it home and immediately deem it “not very good, but alright“
Do I sense dissatisfaction setting in with progressive rock gods [...]
07-20-09
September 6th 1973
“Bort Photos of Ghosts – Premiata Forneria Marconi – SMART, spesh Celebration”
Two reasons why I was attracted to this album by relative unknowns Premiata Forneria Marconi … or to give them their easier name, PFM.
1• This Italian group were ‘discovered’ by Emerson, Lake & Palmer and signed to the trio’s own Manticore Records.
2• One Sunday afternoon whilst [...]
07-19-09
September 4th 1973
“BAK TO SCHOOL! Went up Nigs, went over park, Mart P also came. Bought Hotel”
Ha-ha-ha. My entry makes it sound as though, that night, I simply “bought a hotel”!
“Hello, is that the Savoy?”
“Yes, how can we help you?”
“I’d like to buy your hotel please”
“Why certainly sir, just bring your collection of Emerson, Lake & Palmer LP’s, [...]
05-17-09
An Aside – My “History of Music” Project: Part V
Yes, it’s yellow paper. No it hasn’t yellowed over the years. It was yellow form the start, from a large box of foolscap-sized paper by Dad bought for 5 shillings (25p/35¢) from British Rail some 6 or 7 years previous.
Please note gratuitous introduction of Emerson, Lake & Palmer… plus a ludicrous remark commenting that Man [...]
05-14-09
An Aside – My “History of Music” Project: Part II
Here’s the inside front cover showing the contents.
One may notice there is a certain ‘favouritism’ still at play with an indexed mention of not only Emerson, Lake & Palmer but the “Welsh Pub Rock Boom” (i.e. Man).
One may further notice that I have a problem spelling “psychedelic“
04-16-09
June 7th 1973
“Bog broke at school. Melody Maker news – ELP split from Island, now on Manticore/WEA. Magninimous amount of revision achieved”
Who broke the bog? Did I break the bog? Did the school only have one bog? All these questions and more are answered in the special blu-ray “director’s cut” of this blog, available from Amazon and other [...]
03-20-09
May 16th 1973
“Recorded Trilogy and Emerson, Lake & Palmer for Bruce in Evng”
No it didn’t.
As I am currently (i.e. 2009) discovering in the fantastic book “Appetite for Self-Destruction (The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age)” by Steve Knopper, major record label executives have inflicted FAR more damage to the business than all the [...]
05-19-08
July 21st 1972
“Trev came up. He brought up N.E.T.E. + Elegy. In afternoon we played cricket + F.ball and got told off by Grumpy”
I got told off by myself? Oh…. got it, this was not 2008, but 1972!
I really was an energetic little toad wasn’t it? Cricket and football all in the space of one day? I’d be [...]
