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| With which progressive rock band did Keith Emerson perform before teaming up with Greg Lake and Carl Palmer? | Emerson, Lake and Palmer
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The Nice. The Nice featured Emerson on keyboards, Davy O'List on guitar, Lee Jackson on bass and vocals, and Brian Davison on drums. Greg Lake had played with the Gods; Carl Palmer had played with the Atomic Rooster; Refugee was formed by keyboard player Patrick Moraz, with former Nice members Davison and Jackson.
In the Wake of Poseidon. Gordon Haskell replaced Lake as King Crimson's bassist and vocalist shortly before "In the Wake of Poseidon" was completed.
| Carl Palmer was hired as ELP's drummer after Keith Emerson and Greg Lake failed to come to terms with the drummer they really wanted. Who was that drummer? | Emerson, Lake and Palmer
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Mitch Mitchell. Mitchell was best known for his work with the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Jimi Hendrix himself briefly showed some tentative interest in following his old drummer into the new band, but nothing ever came of that.
| Which Russian composer's "Pictures at an Exhibition" inspired one of ELP's most popular concept albums? | Emerson, Lake and Palmer
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Modest Mussorgsky. Mussorgsky wrote the pieces in "Pictures at an Exhibition" for piano only. Maurice Ravel adapted them for an orchestra.
| Greg Lake's ballad "From the Beginning" is the only ELP song to crack the Billboard Top 40 in the United States? | Emerson, Lake and Palmer
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True. A rare, straightforward love song, "From the Beginning" appeared on the "Trilogy" album.
| Which ELP album features a lively rendition of "Nutrocker," a revved-up version of the Overture to Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker Suite"? | Emerson, Lake and Palmer
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Pictures at an Exhibition. "Nutrocker" was originally conceived by Kim Fowley, who later discovered Joan Jett and the Runaways.
Peter Gunn. The "Peter Gunn" theme, written by Henry Mancini, is the first track on their "Emerson Lake & Palmer In Concert" album.
| In the band's early days, Greg Lake wrote all the lyrics. Who took over that task, starting in 1973? | Emerson, Lake and Palmer
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Pete Sinfield. Sinfield had been the lyricist of Lake's old band, King Crimson. After a falling out with King Crimson leader Robert Fripp, Sinfield began working again with his old mate, Lake.
| Which number usually gave Carl Palmer a chance to show off his incredible skills as a drum soloist, during concerts? | Emerson, Lake and Palmer
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Tank. Palmer often says "I HATE boring drum solos", and goes all out to make sure his are always memorable.
| In 1986, Keith Emerson and Greg Lake reunited, and released a new album with drummer Cozy Powell. Which classical piece appears on this album? | Emerson, Lake and Palmer
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Holst's "Mars, the Bringer of War". Lake had played this piece (from Holst's "the Planets") during live shows with King Crimson, years earlier.
armadillo. Tarkus is, essentially, half armadillo and half "Big Willie" tank.
The Isle of Wight Festival. The 1970 Isle of Wight Festival exposed their music to an estimated 250,000 fans, who also got to hear the Doors, Jethro Tull, the Moody Blues, Jimi Hendrix and Chicago, among other artists.
| Keith, Greg and Carl only played together on two tracks, on the "Works Volume 1" album. Which two tracks? | Emerson, Lake and Palmer
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"Fanfare For the Common Man" & "Pirates". Thanks for playing- it's nice to know there are other boring old fogies out there!
H.R. Giger. Giger was also responsible for the creature in the movie "Alien".
Jimi Hendrix. A jam session was actually going to be set up with Hendrix but he died before it could happen.
Atomic Rooster. Before Atomic Rooster, Carl was in "The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown".
Paiste. Carl has used Paiste since 1970.
California Jam. The festival held in Ontario, California also included Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Black Oak Arkansas and Earth, Wind and Fire ( odd choice I think ) among others. Emerson did his famous "flying piano" stunt here.
knives. He used the knives to hold down certain keys on his organ. Incidently, The knives were given to him by none other than Lemmy from Motorhead who used to roadie for The Nice, Keith Emerson's previous band!
| During Keith's years with The Nice, which American composer was not happy with their version of one of his pieces? | Emerson, Lake and Palmer
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Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein tried to stop the group from releasing it's instrumental version of the song "America" from "West Side Story". He complained that the group never asked his permission to revamp his piece.
Manticore. The manticore is featured in the artwork for the album "Tarkus".
Mitch Mitchell. Mitchell turned down the offer to play with Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix considered playing with the band but died before an audition could be held.
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