Emerson, Lake & Palmer - From the Beginning

[marble falls]

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[badhair77]

1. Wow. Does that bring back the years.

Thanks for the memories.

[marble falls]

3. I play what I want to hear. And all sorts of stuff I've read or heard about.

[SheltieLover]

2. One of my favs!

Ty!

[marble falls]

5. Progressive rock was what got me listening to music and hearing it. Right around the time I got a great ...

... great stereo. Started replaying all the stuff I learned to love as music on a battery powered transistor radio that I would put under my pillow as a kid and listen to the "clear channel" station at night. But only now on a system.

[SheltieLover]

9. A great sound system was a must!

Lol. Love the radio under your pillow.

[marble falls]

12. My dad tried hard to censor what I read and listened to. He broke some Beatle records of mine a few weeks before ...

... my mom gave me the Rolling Stone "Out of Our Heads", the one with Satisfaction on it.

[SheltieLover]

13. Oh no!

I'm so sorry to hear your dad censored what you read and broke your Beatles' records!

Glad to hear your mom was much more reasonable!

[marble falls]

14. I had a good life, but I did have to learn how to live around my father.

[1WorldHope]

4. This was played by a friend on his acoustic guitar at another friends very sad funeral.

The friend died tragically in a head on collision on his motorcycle with a truck on a rainy night after a bad evening with his "woman", who was my good friend. This happened at a pivotal time in our lives as a group of friends. It kind of changed everything.
So every time I hear it, I'm right back there. We identified as hippies and i went to his funeral in bare feet in my hippie dress. That dress still hangs in my closet upstairs with my grandpa's shirt that has a cigar in the pocket. It's been 50 years, or more.

[marble falls]

6. music is the matrix of my memories. Every memory has it's song, every song brings up memories. ...

... even my dreams have sound tracks. None that I have ever been able to remember even as a fragment.

[ProfessorGAC]

11. Sad Circumstance

I do this sing from time to time at open mic nights, if I being (or borrow) a 6 string.
I usually bring a 12 string, and this song is better on 6, especially that flamenco run near the end.
Greg Lake, despite being mostly known as a bass player, was quite a good guitarist.

[Bayard]

7. Bookmarking

[Figarosmom]

8. Love this.

Greg's voice always gets me.

[Martin Eden]

10. I have the LP. Saw them live in 1974.

EL&P certainly broke some new ground in progressive rock. From the Beginning is my favorite track.