The Ten Commandments of Prog Rock

great thread, Frenchie!

thanx guys!

i love you random greg lake obsessee! you rule!

Okay, that's the first time I've seen that cover...

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Its the worst album cover I've ever seen in my life!! (for a rock band)

A freind of mine - renowned for his legendary p!ss taking skills -  was looking through my CD collection a few years back and pulled out a Focus album. He was crying with laughter at that for over half an hour. Its a good job I'm not an ELP fanatic, and have things like that 'Love Beach' monstrosity lying around the house  I'd never live it down.

That said, thou shalt not be ashamed of my musical taste

Saturday Night Fever. Prog style

Those medallions are classic, and someone should have given Greg some sunblock. Dont he know about the ageing effects of the sun..??

 

haha that cover always cracks me up! aww elp. they look so cute there. actually i detect a hint of selling out. were the record company trying to play them for fools? didn't anyone ever point out that they've gone from ok titles and covers to THAT!

what a world!

frenchie wrote: is it odd that you cant see any sand on the album cover? or am i just being stereotypical?

'The Three Gigolos' wouldn't have sounded as good.

http://www.odd-sex.com/info/gloss322.htm

Keith Emerson remeinds me of that scene in Spinal Tap where Derek gets stopped at Customs with the squash in his pants...

ah.....

Good Lord....

Thanks for sharing those photos Three Fates. It
makes me wonder what other kind of memorabilia
you've got lying around.

I remember going through a record store sometime
in 1979, not knowing that ELP had anything new out.
And much to my surprise was "Love Beach".   I
especially got a big kick out of Palmer's quaffed
hairdo.

I felt embarrased even touching "Love Beach" and
yet I plunked down my money and brought it home.
The first side was extremely uneven. "Taste Of My
Love" is a fun song musically but with extremely silly
lyrics (was it meant to be funny or if Lake was going
through some kind of mid-life crisis?). "Canario"
sure sounded like everyone was having a good time
playing. All of side 2 is taken up with Memoires Of
An Officer And A Gentleman, which almost made up
for the rest of that album. That piece is a very lovely
composition, very "romantic" in a thematic, not
superficial, way.

Still though....those photos are absolutely classic!   
Emerson stated in Keyboard Magazine some years
back that he ran a poll at an airport by showing
people the album cover and asking if they would
purchase it.   By the results of the poll, he hoped to
convince Atlantic how terrible the decision was to
market ELP as a "romantic" band. Sadly, no one at
Atlantiic seemed to care about Keith's polling
information and the rest is history.

Pierre

richardh wrote: frenchie wrote: is it odd that you cant see any sand on the album cover? or am i just being stereotypical? 'The Three Gigolos' wouldn't have sounded as good. http://www.odd-sex.com/info/gloss322.htm

in the words of ace ventura... "alllllrighty then..."

why are you giving me links to a gigolo site? whats that got to do with my sand comment! GAH!