On Wed, 26 Nov 2003 13:00:17 -0500 audities-owner@smoe.org writes:
> Sorry to hear that Carl Palmer was an asshole to you.
> I still love ELP's music, tho...Keith Emerson's sense
> of melody -- to this day -- destroys me. 

Missed the original post or I would have responded then.

When I met them while touring as "3", Keith Emerson was very nice, but
Carl Palmer held the title of "the nicest rock star I ever met" for years
(until I got a chance to chat with Jason Falkner).  Carl went out of his
way to be nice to the fans and acknowledged meeting several of them on
prior tours.

The funniest thing was when somebody put a copy of Trilogy in front of
him for an autograph.  It already had a Greg Lake signature on it, which
apparently didn't look authentic.  He asked the owner "Who signed this?" 
They guy said "Greg Lake!"  Carl said "Did you see him sign it, because
that's not how he signs his name."  Well, my friend and I had this inside
prog joke, so I said under my breath to my friend, and my friend repeated
out loud to Carl "Maybe it was John Wetton."  And Carl's eyes lit up and
he said "Yeah, maybe it was John Wetton!"  We were glad he got our little
joke.  (You proggers will get it -- the rest of you don't know what I'm
going on about.)

Oh, and while I love Keith's keyboard parts, I think his compositions are
mostly . . . well . . . lame.  Greg Lake was the true songwriter in that
group.

g




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