Keith Emerson, Emerson, Lake and Palmer Keyboardist, Dead at 71
Source: Rolling Stone
Keith Emerson, founding member and keyboardist of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and a prog rock legend, died Friday. He was 71. While the cause of death was not announced, both his bandmate Carl Palmer and the trio's official Facebook confirmed Emerson's death. "We regret to announce that Keith Emerson died last night at his home in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, aged 71. We ask that the family’s privacy and grief be respected," the band wrote.
"I am deeply saddened to learn of the passing of my good friend and brother-in-music, Keith Emerson," Palmer wrote in a statement. "Keith was a gentle soul whose love for music and passion for his performance as a keyboard player will remain unmatched for many years to come. He was a pioneer and an innovator whose musical genius touched all of us in the worlds of rock, classical and jazz. I will always remember his warm smile, good sense of humor, compelling showmanship, and dedication to his musical craft. I am very lucky to have known him and to have made the music we did, together."
After discovering the Hammond and Moog in his teenage years, Emerson grew into one of the greatest keyboardists of his generation, first as a member of the Nice before founding the prog supergroup Emerson, Lake and Palmer. With ELP, Emerson recorded nine studio LPs, including their landmark 1973 album Brain Salad Surgery; Emerson served as co-writer on that album's most enduring track, "Karn Evil 9."
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...what a great musician..
.... who's the joker that put a King Crimson album cover on an ELP song 
I saw him in the hallway. Very sad, one of the few celebrity encounters I've actually met in real life.
... I was trying so hard to compose.
Perfect!
Silver wings fly beyond reason....
right after Roger Waters and Syd Barrett from Pink Floyd. 
I had such a crush on Kieth! I saw him with Lake and Palmer twice in concert in the early 70's. They rocked out the house!
RIP Kieth, love you.
I remember seeing them for their "Pirates" tour, and some friends of mine getting booted out of marching band for an upcoming game. Some of us got tickets to the second show, but they went for the first one, and missed practice.
Our band leader was not pleased
I saw this in my email the other day and thought I'd pass it along as it's about his Moog modular synthesizer. I haven't read it all, but it's a good article, and some great photos.
[font size="4"]Second Coming[/font]
Published in SOS July 2014
Gordon Reid
When, on 1st April 2014, the news broke about Moog's recreation of Keith Emerson's iconic modular synthesizer, it's fair to say that most people dismissed it as an elaborate April Fools joke. But here I am in a small studio inside Moog's factory in North Carolina, sitting in front of Emerson's original synth, as well as the most painstaking recreation imaginable. For some players, it's possibly the most exciting analogue synthesizer project ever undertaken. Others will view it as possibly the most pointless analogue synthesizer project ever undertaken. But however you feel about it, you have to be curious about why Moog Music did it. And how they did it. And how well they did it. And, if you don't mind your studio being dominated by 400lbs of what is, in essence, a monosynth, what it will cost you to buy it.
I can't believe I'm reading this.
ELP was my premier group over Zepp, Pink Floyd, and Genesis. I was hooked after having 3rd row seating at Long Beach Arena stoned to the gills. I'll never forget it.
Keith was a master keyboard player. I'll never get to see another. 
So tragic, unbelievable I really looked up to him back then as 16 year old. Saw them in Pittsburgh Pa August of 1974, my first major Rock Concert and my favorite of the many Rock Concerts. And I have seen many but none as good as The Brain Salad Surgery Tour of 1974. 
