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From the creator of Brain-Salad-Surgery.de - the exhaustive cybershrine to ELP’s masterwork - comes another tribute site, this time for Greg Lake’s I believe in Father Christmas. The website launches tomorrow (12/1) and can be found at:
www.i-believe-in-father-christmas.de

Granted, this item isn’t exactly new by any means, but I’ve never had a chance to comment on the figurine - I mean, sculpture - until now. And what a sculpture it is! It’s 1/9 scale and the keyboard stands 12″ high. They’re priced at $149.
The Keith Emerson Limited Edition Sculpture is created in intricate [...]

What a great image from Flickr, courtesy of biking enthusiast Richard ‘captain blue’ Morris:
This photo of Keith Emerson (from Emerson, Lake & Palmer) accompanied an article in “Bike” magazine in the seventies. I was suitably impressed and decided then that a big Kawasaki was what I wanted some day.

Happy Birthday Keith Emerson.

Monday, October 29th, Keith Emerson will be sitting in with “Bruce Lofgren and The Afterburners” at Typhoon restaurant in Santa Monica, California. For details of the show visit the restaurant’s website.

Can you believe this?! Rick has just announced that he’ll be joining Keith Emerson, Chris Squire and Simon Kirke to warm up the crowd for Led Zeppelin’s reunion gig at the new O2 venue in London on 26th November. No specific details have been released yet, but check the RWCC site for updates.

Shout! Factory records has just released ELP’s Brain Salad Surgery ala deluxe treatment:
Housed in a replica of the original LP packaging, including deluxe fold-out sleeve and die-cut mini-poster, this CD features two previously unreleased bonus tracks.
The bonus tracks are an alternate mix of Jerusalem, and an instrumental mix of Karn Evil 9. Get yours now [...]