The agents for the Tour appear to be Paradise Music. They have published some minimal information on their website for the Emerson Lake 2010 tour so this may a good source to get new announcements for the tour.
Whilst the information at this point is pretty poor on the Paradise Artists website they do have a wee gem tucked away: a sample TV advert for a Greg Lake gig. I am not sure the gig ever took place but the ad is interesting. Can anyone confirm if this gig (The Springfield Performing Arts Centre) took place? I thought the US Tour was postponed along with the second leg of the UK Tour in 2005.
Please note. I have no official information or mandate for this information. I am merely a fan trying to find some information so that I can attend a gig or two. I managed managed to stumble across some information by scratching around the web a little and I thought other ELP fans would probably like to know.
One word of warning. Paradise Artists’ website has pretty poor usability so you might find yourself clicking on links which you didn’t know were links and arrving at pages you did not expect. As the owner of a web Development and Internet Marketing business in Scotland I am always amazed at how bad sites can still be in 2010. Ho hum
The gig hasn’t been announced on the venues’s website as yet but hopefully all the information will start to trickle through soon so that we can all make arrangements to attend the shows – especially us travelling from snowy Scotland and other places further afield. We have flights, trains cars, buses, boats, taxis and bicycles to arrange!
The things you do to see ELp live every 10-15 years! I guess it’s part of the price you pay… and you do get to see more of the world.
In 1992 I saw most of the UK (maybe 8? cant remember) shows and also a few in the East Coast (Boston Albany, Syracuse)
In 1996 I saw three amphitheatre shows (Darien Lakes, Toronto, Scranton)
In 1997 I saw two shows (Hamburg, Dresden) so I am not bothered that they don’t even play in Scotland – it’s much more exciting traveling round albeit a bit more expensive.
As I was stumbling around the web I found this Keith Emerson fan page /Tribute site which was new to me. EMO GIRL (Eowyn from Parma, Ohios) has a my space site which is dedicted to Keith Emerson. It contains some good photos and videos of Keith Emerson.
I don’t want to be negative when someone has taken the time to put some info on the web for ELP but my complaint is with Myspace, not the site owners. The usability and layouts of Myspace websites are so bad with all the background images, animations, ads and general confusion that the pages become virtually illegible. Add to that every ‘friend’ posting gigantic ‘ads/thnks for something’ that the page soon becomes ‘website soup’
I personally hate using MySpace sites as I have to work really hard to find what the page is about and get any useful information on what the page is actually about.
It is really neat to to see someone providing some good material on the web as ELP are so poorly served – especially when you see the Yes community……oh no I can feel a rant coming on : this really needs to go in a separate post
It Bites at ABC Glasgow. They played here in March 2009 and had a stupendous gig. This will surely (after ELP) be one of the highlights of the year and in a small intimate setting too.
Transatlantic at Manchester. I gotta head south for this gig
Emerson Lake and Palmer at High Voltage Festival. This promises to be the best gig since …er…. the last ELP gig I saw in 1997 at Elbufer in Dresden (not counting the Keith Emerson band gig at Astoria in London which also was awesome )
Whitney Houston at SECC, Glagsow (Yes, yes I know she is not technically a prog rock artist but she is still an awesome singer with an awesome backing band and great show)
ELP archivist Tony Ortiz reports that the video of the 95.5 KLOS Christmas Show featuring Keith Emerson is soon to be made available as a free download somewhere (presumably on the KLOS website) in January 2010.
They describe themeselves as ‘a group of daring Los Angeles studio musicians with a mission: to boldly go where no orchestra has gone before. {They}..blend every musical style imaginable in a style that is artistic, introspective, fearless, visually stimulating, shocking and always entertaining.’
Perhaps we can get to hear the outcome on the Orchestre website soon.
Carl Palmer’s Christmas photos 2009. It seems a bit bizarre, given that ELP are doing a ‘big one-off’ gig in 2010, that his message focuses on Asia and The Carl Palmer Band. Who can ever tell?
Keith has posted a Christmas video message on his website/You Tube. It consists of a short rendition of Gershwin’s ‘Summertime’ with Jingle Bells appended. The scene is inside a country house with his grand piano (I’m not sure about the make – any one know?) with a big Christmas tree and a view out to the country – surely a scene which entices all piano players.
Keith was scheduled to appear along with Marc Bonilla, Travis Davis, Gregg Bissonnette, Steve Lukather, Lee Sklar, Ed Roth, Slash, Jason Bonham, Fee Waybill, Rob Halford on 16 Dec (Beethoven’s birthday, for all Peanut’s fans)
It would be neat to hear Luke and Emo playing together as I think they are both the absolute best in their respective fields
Having only just recovered from the news about Greg and Keith writing together again and the Emerson Lake and Palmer gig in summer 2010 we get even more good news. Greg Lake’s new website has finally been launched.
Some neat stuff on it including the Museum, Greg Lake Speaks and a new video of the Mandoki Soulmates featuring Bobby Kimball, Paul Carrack and Greg Lake.
If you fancy a wee chat with Greg there is also an opportunity for a ‘chat’ with Greg on 15 Nov 2009 at 10pm GMT (5pm ET). Lets hope people ask sensible questions.