joegyork If you like prog and folk then you must know Strawbs and Gryphon 🙂

A more accessible song from the Trilogy album. A fun song, with killer organ and piano by Keith Emerson and great drumming by Carl Palmer. The Sheriff.

As a very young kid, maybe 7 years old, my mother took me to buy my first drum kit — used — for $90, and it was a classic kit. Today, it’s a collectors item worth a lot of money (unfortunately, I sold it when I was a kid). And the drummer selling it was an adult who was a very talented drummer. We were at his home and he had Emerson, Lake, and…Read More

ELP were one of my introductions to rock / prog. As a teenager I had gotten into classical music after hearing Holst’s The Planets in a music lesson and around the same time Peter & The Wolf which made me realise that music alone could tell a story.

Other than that I was more into pop heavily influenced by my older sister – The Hollies, Marmalade…Read More

Love Mixbox!

In any event, of all of the rock groups not in the Hall of Fame that I think there’s a very strong case that they should be there, I think the one that really disappoints me the most is Keith Emerson. He was as brilliant a rock keyboardist as the genre has ever seen and had no limits — and his virtuoso playing abilities allowed him to do whatever…Read More

Yeah, my point was that country, classical, jazz, rap, hiphop, etc. are not Rock’n’Roll and a lot of true rock artists and acts that belong there are overlooked…my meaning of social engineering is that Jann Wenner has basically destroyed the notion of Rock’n’Roll and just puts in groups he likes.

Appease who?

Am I correct in thinking what you’re saying is that you feel eg with Dolly Parton, a country artist, and the various hip hop artists being inducted is that these genres are clearly not rock — as Parton herself pointed out when she was nominated. Is that right? Basically, stick to rock, not country, hip hop, jazz, EDM, and other gen…Read More

On March 10, 2026 at 11:01 am Brian said

… at’s a fantastic deal for the Lifetime Deal buyers. I did not expect that. Considering that you bought the lifetime deal, I am guessing this makes you pretty happy. Is that right, @bluescat?

Yes, I definitely think they did “the right thing” to treat us “early supporters” fairly.  There is discussion a…

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What I mean is taking an established norm and twisting it in order to appease, thus removing all meaning. For instance Dolly Parton has nothing to do with Rock’n’Roll and ELP do in a very big way, but Jann Wenner has stated ELP will never be in the RnRHOF! I like Dolly Parton and think she is trully a wonderful person but the whole idea is…Read More