Greg Lake Tribute On His 77th Birthday ("I Believe In Father Christmas", Ian Anderson, Pictures)

[@briancoburn9556]

Greg Lake is one of my all time favorite singers. You should check out the entire talk from that cruise ship. He tells a great story about how Lucky Man came to be on their first album and the recording process of the song. He was such a good story teller. I think I'll listen to some ELP today also.

[@richardvasquez8019]

Thank you for introducing new artists that we can listen to.🤘

[@franciscodiaz183]

Thank you, Glenn and Adrian, for dedicating this episode of your channel to Greg Lake, whom I appreciate very much. Much could be said about Lake, because he had a very rich professional life, with great successes in King Crimson and ELP. He also developed projects with other outstanding musicians, although they did not always attract attention. Given the difficulty in making reactions to King Crimson, I take the opportunity to comment that Lake became friends with Robert Fripp when they were both guitar students of Don Strike. Don was a professional banjo player who owned a musical instrument store (which still exists). By the way, Don Strike had notable students, not only Fripp and Lake, but also Al Stewart and The Police's Andy Summers. In 1968, Fripp called Lake to invite him to his band, as the band's bassist and singer. Lake agreed, thus becoming bassist.

[@glennandadriansrocktalk]

was glad to do it!

[@miguelangelmontenegro9939]

Greg Lake... I Saw ELP 6 times in Buenos Aires Argentina with dinner at backstage of a gig ! With the whole Band plus Stewart Young and Will Alexander. Greg was lovely and humble , with a Magic on the stage and chating very Unique. Greg is my Hero !!! Cheers from Buenos Aires Argentina 🤙🍻

[@PaulMcGarry-bo3jg]

I think Greg was spinning a yarn about Pictures here. ELP played it at their debut in Plymouth.

[@niclightfoot4329]

I became a fan of ELP in my mid teens at the time Brain Salad Surgery was released. I remain a fan in my 63 year on this planet. From the first time I heard it I realised "I Believe In Father Christmas" was an anti "Christmas commercialisation" song and I have always loved it. I love the way it gets played along with all the other Christmas songs when it has nothing to do with that ethos. By the way, the breaking of complexity into parts that Greg describes is known by philosophers and modellers (like myself) as "reductionism" - we reduce the whole into its component parts. It is a very powerful way of addressing complex systems, although there is a growing fraternity that argues that the methodology loses the overall complexity and is therefore flawed, but I don't agree with that point of view: I am a reductionist.

[@glennandadriansrocktalk]

thanks for the info!