carl palmer Archive
26 Jun 2022
Music to Your Ears: ELP’s ‘Trilogy’
One of progressive rock’s leading lights as well as one of its first supergroups, Emerson Lake & Palmer exploded onto the music scene with “Lucky Man,” the hit single from […]
06 Mar 2022
March Through Time: Emerson Lake & Palmer
This month, I’m hitting pause on coverage of new artists and releases, focusing instead for a bit on the bodies of work from some of my favorite artists. — bk […]
10 Aug 2019
British Rock Nobility Convenes Onstage for “The Royal Affair”
Note: I’ve interviewed a bunch of these artists. Blue-highlighted hyperlinks will take you there. — bk In the concert business, package tours are nothing new; as far back as 1959, […]
06 Jan 2017
A Look Back at ELP with Carl Palmer, Part Three
Continued from Part Two … Bill Kopp: With the benefit of studio technology, bands in the early ’70s could overdub and make really dense, layered albums. Reproducing that sound onstage […]
05 Jan 2017
A Look Back at ELP with Carl Palmer, Part Two
Continued from Part One … Bill Kopp: The term “supergroup” was just coming into use around the time ELP got started. And it certainly applied to you three, since each […]
04 Jan 2017
A Look Back at ELP with Carl Palmer, Part One
Late-breaking Author’s Note: Very shortly after I turned in this feature for publication — it ran in December on BLURT — news broke that Greg Lake had succumbed to cancer […]
22 Jan 2015
Capsule DVD Reviews, January 2015 Part 2
Picking up where I left off yesterday, here are four more brief DVD reviews. Rockin’ the Wall Most people will agree that the communist regimes that ruled on the other […]