Hello, ....never cared for ELP ("Nutrocker" and that "See the Show" song used to agitate me quite a bit in my pre-stereo teen years when all I had was a radio) but the Nice were cool and so were Crimson and the Crazy World of Arthur brown, so they all had their hands in some cool stuff at some point. As far as re-evaluations of early listening habits, I have a few. 1) Blues-rock- my freshmen year of high school (mid-'80's) I got heavily into Cream, Bluesbreakers, Yardbirds, etc. Six months later I was dissing all of it in favor of the contents of whatever Chess records comp I could afford w/ the meager earnings from my ten hr a week job. I was officially the only 15 yr old electric blues snob in my high school. Slowly but surely, I've had to repurchase a slew of cauc-blues recs that'd I'd purged from my collection in those halcyon days, plus some stuff I never owned in the first place: Canned Heat, Paul Butterfield, Fleetwood Mac. 2) Led Zep- "II" was spun in my bedroom easily 300 times during the summer after 7th grade. Air guitar to "Heartbreaker" and everything. Only record I ever wore out. Needless to say, I REALLY hated these guys during my blues period. Two months ago I had a good time playing the first six albums in a row. I'll probably never do it again, but each rec has some grand stuff on it. Opinion: Plant was the weakest member. 3) Grateful Dead- by junior year I was into the punk underground, and a large portion of my classmates were on a major summer-of-love trip. I'm discovering Minor Threat and Big Black and The Flesheaters and Kildozer; most of my peers are in the throes of san-fran ballroom rock. Actually, they usually listened to late '70's Dead studio albums and solo Janis. Directly after I graduated, some new friends turned me onto the REAL Dead stuff (I returned the favor by hipping them to this guy named Zorn that I'd just found out about) and I had to make shelf space for some more records/discs. There's also The Monkees and ZZ Top, but this message is long enough. I remain.... Joseph NP: Rev. Fred Lane- "From the One That Cut You" LP NR: Jack Kerouac- "Big Sur" (again) -----Original Message----- From: zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com [mailto:zorn-list-admin@mailman.xmission.com]On Behalf Of Edgar Lee Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 9:17 AM To: zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com Subject: Emerson, Lake and Palmer I hadn't listened to Emerson, Lake and Palmer since 1977. Punk on the radio and TV altered what I was listening to and I merrily ventured on that journey from punk to post punk, to jazz punk, jazz and the avant garde and so on. So I hadn't listened to ELP because of the way I viewed that whole prog rock scene from a typically 1977 punk view. However, I was really surprised how much I enjoyed listening to the wonderfully bombastic ELP first LP. I'll have to wait to find their other LPs at my parent's house after my visit. So my question is have other people rediscovered similar LPs and been surprised at what they found after having been critical of them without listening to them for a long time? Edgar NP Pink Floyd Piper at the Gates of Dawn CDr(mono) http://mobile.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Messenger for SMS - Always be connected to your Messenger Friends _______________________________________________ zorn-list mailing list zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com To UNSUBSCRIBE or Change Your Subscription Options, go to the webpage below http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list