Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake and Palmer

j-200 well they are of course iconic in the sense of who played them you know I mean they're the they're the choice of the king and and everyone in his wake but the beautiful thing about them is the town it is the greatest rhythm guitar I think ever made and it's good but it also it's got punch so I've got this little equally got this beautiful picking it you so it does a lot of things you can pick with it you can strum it you can really develop power and with an when it's properly amplified I'm Iike hurt you the the power you can generate with it with it with the j-200 it's an inspirational guitars beautiful under the fingers beautiful to feel lovely just a gratifying thing to play I never tire of them they look beautiful and they are beautiful no some are more special than others I've got some j2 hundreds which I just can't I would never sell is there just two lovely they stick talk to me you know they say Greg you know Greg you haven't played me for a long time you know are you neglecting me and I pick them up and when I play it so they're grateful you know it's the vibration of them you feel it in your chest it's such a lovely deep warmth you know but it's also got that power and it's dramatic guitar - alligator papa papa the curtains open and there's Elvis with his back to the audience they're shining a spotlight up and up on the back screen there was a silhouette of Elvis must have be 40 feet tall and a core any turn round all of a sudden go to a party in the county jail and it was like a wave of spiritualism just hit you I because of people fainted I watched two or three women in the front row just fall off their seat onto the ground he did 30 seconds of jailhouse rock and then did since my baby left me Bab I found our new place to dwell he did 30 seconds of Heartbreak Hotel and then he did you ain't nothin but a hound oh so he done three major world hits with him one and a half minutes of coming on state and after he finished them the place looked just like a bomb it ate it there were cups glasses all over the floor there were women crying with makeup it was just like a bonnet hit the place he did about I suppose it must have been a half an hour show something like that maybe 40 minutes tops and I can't remember the last song it was dared endured and he leaves the stage and the band keep playing they keep playing the keep playing and all of a sudden they stop it was as though they just quit and they turned on the fluorescent lights in the room and over the PA come came those famous words ladies and gentlemen Elvis has left the building in the Court of the Crimson King on soft gray mornings widow's cry the wise men tell a joke you know all these lyrics that were really cry off the ball and of course it was in the period of LSD and all these things we formed this band ah and we decided it would had to be original you know in those days the currency was originality you needed to be original these days it's more like you have to be the same to fit into some market concept you know then the idea was you needed to be different and so what we decided to do we'd apply we try and apply all new principles to what we did and one of the things we immediately decided most rock and roll bands at the time based their inspiration they drew their inspiration from American music from blues soul music gospel so we thought we'll look for something different and what we decided was to use European music for the influence so we started to really be more take our influence more from classical music folk music medieval music some of it I mean the the Crimson stuff these are strange courts you don't we were quite good players at the time we you know we we practice hard and we were all taught well so we could really play it so what we based the band on was more listening you know we would listen rather than rather than focus on what we were playing we would focus on listening what other people play and we would respond to that and sometimes you'd find we'd be on stage and somebody wouldn't play at all until they felt the moment was right then they would play and sometimes you'd have long gaps of silence when no one would play and we used to have one song that was had no time signature and no key we counted in 1 2 3 4 and it was playing there was nothing that was not a sound but it had started and so you get so young you know somebody'd start playing and somebody would play as a result of that and then it would star some nights it was boring but other nights it was magnificent

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Keywords: Greg Lake (Record Producer) Emerson, Lake & Palmer (Musical Group) Gibson Guitar Corporation (Organization) Music (Industry)

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Length: 7min 45sec (465 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 29 2014