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RIP Greg Lake

  • 09-12-2016 03:10PM
    #1
    bodhrandude
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,321 ✭✭✭✭


    2016 claimed another outstanding rock star of the seventies, Greg Lake aged 69, his former bandmate Keith died on March this year too. RIP legend.

    https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/dec/08/greg-lake-obituary

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



Comments

  • #2
    pumpkin4life
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,435 ✭✭✭pumpkin4life




    One of the greatest songs of all time from one of the few non up its own hole prog rock albums.

    RIP Greg Lake.


  • #3
    JupiterKid
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 14,954 ✭✭✭✭JupiterKid


    Another great gone.:( And his former band mate Keith Emerson passed away earlier this year too. Emerson, Lake and Palmer were an incredible band for their time. In the early 1970s they pioneered synthesizer harmonics in their music.

    ELP - Lucky Man (1970)
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89g1P_J40JA


  • #4
    Mr. FoggPatches
    Closed Accounts Posts: 681 ✭✭✭Mr. FoggPatches


    His nephew taught me in secondary school.
    FACT!


  • #5
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    2016 is claiming nothing.


  • #6
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    Never heard of him, or his songs.

    Any relation to Swan?


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  • #7
    osarusan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,059 ✭✭✭✭osarusan


    Jimmy Purple Babyhood wrote: »
    2016 is claiming nothing.
    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Never heard of him, or his songs.

    Any relation to Swan?

    FFS. Sh!t like this annoys me.

    Hard to believe that either of you thought the thread would actually be the better for these posts, rather than just leaving the thread for people who want to post about Greg Lake.


  • #8
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    osarusan wrote: »
    FFS. Sh!t like this annoys me.

    Hard to believe that either of you thought the thread would actually be the better for these posts, rather than just leaving the thread for people who want to post about Greg Lake.

    Post away but this recurring nonsense that 2016 is claiming lives is wearing thin. We live in an era of celebrity covering many aspects of life the arts and culture and the icons of the era are reaching a certain age when death becomes more common. Lament the death a personal hero, or a legend of your childhood, but spare us the clichés about 2016.

    Personally, I really enjoyed Emerson Lake and Palmer in the 70s and found their style of music original and refreshing at the time.


  • #9
    Skylinehead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,690 ✭✭✭✭Skylinehead


    Jimmy Purple Babyhood wrote: »
    Post away but this recurring nonsense that 2016 is claiming lives is wearing thin. We live in an era of celebrity covering many aspects of life the arts and culture and the icons of the era are reaching a certain age when death becomes more common. Lament the death a personal hero, or a legend of your childhood, but spare us the clichés about 2016.

    Tbh complaining about people saying 2016 is just as bad.


  • #10
    mzungu
    Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 6,311 Mod ✭✭✭✭mzungu


    RIP

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvCmtHDDuu0


  • #11
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    Too young.

    My joint favourite Christmas song!


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  • #12
    Goya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Goya


    Some people go overboard with the 2016 thing - e.g. Andrew Sachs. He was well into his 80s, nothing unusual there, and as if people knew a thing about him apart from Manuel nearly 40 years ago and then the Russell Brand/Jonathan Ross thing decades later.

    But it's not true to say 2016 was just like any other year in terms of highly innovative people dying relatively early in life. We all know full well there was an unusual number of deaths in that regard.

    Absolutely love that Greg Lake Christmas song.


  • #13
    fryup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,067 ✭✭✭✭fryup


    one of the finest xmas songs ever written

    RIP


  • #14
    Pac1Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,407 ✭✭✭Pac1Man


    'Twas almost an anti Christmas song.


  • #15
    andekwarhola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,687 ✭✭✭andekwarhola


    Jimmy Purple Babyhood wrote: »
    Post away but this recurring nonsense that 2016 is claiming lives is wearing thin. We live in an era of celebrity covering many aspects of life the arts and culture and the icons of the era are reaching a certain age when death becomes more common. Lament the death a personal hero, or a legend of your childhood, but spare us the clichés about 2016.

    As ever here, the judgment is far more tedious and annoying than the original, harmless semantic crime.


  • #16
    Mr. Incognito
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,798 ✭✭✭Mr. Incognito


    osarusan wrote: »
    FFS. Sh!t like this annoys me.

    Hard to believe that either of you thought the thread would actually be the better for these posts, rather than just leaving the thread for people who want to post about Greg Lake.

    Listened to the songs. I apologise. I realise now why i hadnt heard of him.

    The music is crap.

    Fawning over obscure crap music is a bit pathetic.

    RIP to the guy but hes no icon


  • #17
    Clarebelly
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 250 ✭✭Clarebelly


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Listened to the songs. I apologise. I realise now why i hadnt heard of him.

    The music is crap.

    Fawning over obscure crap music is a bit pathetic.

    RIP to the guy but hes no icon

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3YfAu2dIV4


  • #18
    Goya
    Closed Accounts Posts: 464 ✭✭Goya


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Fawning over obscure crap music is a bit pathetic.
    As is posting "edgy" stuff for attention.


  • #19
    Irish Guitarist
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,736 ✭✭✭Irish Guitarist


    Mr. Incognito wrote: »
    Listened to the songs. I apologise. I realise now why i hadnt heard of him.

    The music is crap.

    Fawning over obscure crap music is a bit pathetic.

    RIP to the guy but hes no icon

    It doesn't get much more obscure than little known beat combo ELP.


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