ELP and Keith Emerson Tour Cancelled
Bad News for ELP fans again. Due to a recurrence of the right hand/right arm problem (Focal Dystonia) Keith Emerson has cancelled his summer 2009 Tour and the subsequent Emerson, Lake and Palmer Tour in late 2009. Mentioned in a personal letter by Emerson himself he apologises and explains how devastated he is at having to cancel the tours.
Man its never easy being an ELP fan. Bad enough that you get a tour at 10 year intervals but when it looks like you get a chance it gets wrecked by egos, bad management, force majeure, timing or just pure ELP fan bad luck. Yes the light at the end of the ELP Tunnel is switched off again.
I guess the one positive comment is that at least Keith and Greg were talking adn actually had agreed to do the tour in the first place. There goes another chance to justify going to from Scotland to NYC for the gig at BB Kings! Bummer.