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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 Palmer playing and both my mother — who was a music teacher and musician for a living (old school, musicians’ union, she even had be explore joining the musicians’ union when I was 18) who went to college for classical piano and organ and was in love with Chopin most of all — and I fell in love with what they guy had playing on his turntable, Emerson, Lake, and Palmer’s Trilogy. I bought the drum kit and then bought ELP’s Trilogy album. Some years later, my youngest sister took me to see ELP in concert for my birthday — my first ever rock concert. So, ELP has a special place in my heart. Although I still recall that I was a pretty upset little kid, they didn’t play any songs from their Trilogy album at that show.

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