![]() Greg Lake and Carl Palmer were the strong counterparts Emerson needed to unfold his creativity and energy to full-scale. ![]() ELP explored their capabilities to an extreme, breaking ground, pushing the boundaries of the symphonic rock genre.Įpic, ambitious, and overflowing with technical mastery, ELP paved the way for the success of such prog artists of the ‘70s like Yes and its gone-solo keyboardist Rick Wakeman, who would become their chief rivals for much of the decade. ELP is pretty much the continuation of that group, but managed to completely overshadow the aforementioned band, due to their superior technical abilities. Dominated by Emerson’s neo-classical abilities, The Nice was the first symphonic rock band to adeptly fuse true classical motifs and passages with psychedelic rock and jazz. When they respectively left The Nice, King Crimson and Atomic Rooster and came together as a trio, finding that their playing styles were complimentary, they created the first progressive rock supergroup. Emerson, Lake and Palmer helped to usher the classical style of progressive rock.
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