Why classic prog faded?

Nah, take it from me, when you meet 'em, you find your inner prog awareness!  Look at the smile on my face!   I have no doubt that everyone posting here would be appropriate & share meaningful moments with your own heroes!  

Follow your dreams and enjoy! 
 

Don't go to many concerts, then?

 

No it did not affect my love for his music, ELP will always be one of my fav bands and Carl one of my fav drummers. I guess we are all humans and we are not always in our best mood.

Not sure about that ... depends on them and what they do and how they communicate. Or what their work is about!

 

Ex: I already knew from the early days, when Daevid was hiding out in Santa Barbara that he was aproachable and a friendly guy ... but it was hard to have a conversation with him, when he was in public ... because he has to be nice and say hello to everyone ... and be his "Zen" self. But if you got him, up close and personal, away from the public, either on the bus, or on the hotel room, or sitting on the sidewalk in Portland watching the river go by ... it changes ... he's very open and will talk about anything you can think of ... and humerous ... even in his guitar shops, doing meditation music, he wanted people to do fun stuff also!

 

Then you go meet Gilly ... earthy as all earth ... and nice. And it was fun walking around Fred Meyer and watching her make comments about Halloween in America ... something that is not foreign to her at all ... but a "fun" holiday in America that is used to disguise the hatred for all internal and spiritual paths -- by making them all look bad and evil.

 

Many others I have had a chance to sit and talk to ... and probably the one person that was the toughest to talk to, and I think he felt he had an image to live by, was Damo Suzuki, so far, the only person and artist I have met, that was very disappointing. He would not talk about his artistry, which would be a welcmoe treat to give what he did some credit, instead of showing it get old and die!

 

Writers, at our house, and other artists, were more interesting, though discussing these here is crazy and some folks don't get it ... because they are too infatuated with fame. To hear Hemingway swear at American publishers, to have Aldous look you in the eye and ask "what you thinking little boy", or to have Sartre not like kids and always look like he thought they were the devil disturbing his concentration, and many others from Latin America and Brazil ... is very different ... maybe I was too young to "know" about the fame thing ... and thus the whole top ten and fame, and blah blah thing was never important for me.

 

The way the media is setup, it is all about the biggest numbers and the fame ... and you are supposed to support it, or you are not cool ... and I already knew since my kid days, that this was the pressure of the commercial world and its advertising ... but it's really hard to show people, and tell them that many of the artists that we love here, went against the grain of the social populism, to try and create change ... but years later, we're not capable of accepting that reality and realize that the hope we had, died ... but then, I agree to an extent with Dean, that it was a nice idea, but in the end, we all fell just like Revolution and the Beatles and then John Lennon ... selfish motives won out, and a month or year later we had the greed is good folks show up with flowers in their hair (so to speak -- more advertising!) ... and that was that ... life goes on!

 

Impressionable youth --- but some of that music was awesome! We still discuss it! We can compare it to some rap folks in 20 or 30 years ... hopefully!

Think of it this way ... you can't even have breakfast without someone bothering you ... specially when you are looking for a bit of quiet time so you can go over (in your head) the bit on that song, you messed up last night!

 

I can understand it from the point of view of a fan ... but sadly ... that usually precludes ... a person!

 

But, it is a tough price to pay for fame, and Carl should have known better! That is not good PR at all ... and hurts in the end, more than it will help!

Well he doesn't really get away, it's just that he doesn't sound too bad in spite of cigarettes.  He hasn't aged as well as the late Dio who sounded very close to his 70s records right till his last gigs.   Certainly, if you want to hit an open, powerful "Take hold of the FLAAAAME", cigarettes don't help. The throat should be relaxed and 'neutral' at all times; though I am not a smoker, I imagine it would cause inflammation?