Tommy - VERY cool. I grew up on ELP also - damn, we gotta talk some time. But we've taken this too far afield and Ran's likely ready to kill me as it is. Chalk this up as reason #515 why it's sick you and I have yet to meet in person.... I've seen ELP live too many times to count, or so it seems. Many HAZY memories from that time....
But to whet your appetite... best instrumental in the history of modern music: Rodeo as performed live by Keith Emerson/ELP.
Unfortunately though, my ELP devotion was not the same as yours - I never did seek them out to meet them - you know well that in SoCal, such things are possible if you try hard enough. See, my brother discovered this art-rock band known as Genesis that had just put out their first album... a guy named Peter Gabriel was blowing our minds... The story of our running into Peter Gabriel shortly thereafter is pretty great... I have a similar story meeting Phil Collins several years later...well, ok, enough.
At any rate, you think you get riled up about Tom Fazio? Just get me started on what Genesis turned into and the Phil Collins phenomenon....
Scott - well done re KarnEvil/Pelican - that's exactly what I was thinking!
Finally, for Tommy, back when you played Pine Valley, I imagine these words as sung by Greg Lake were never more appropriate:
You see it's all clear
You were meant to be here......
from the beginning...
TH
ps - I look forward to driving the Armenian crazy discussing this further some day.