Greg Lake Broadcast 1976

This is the latest release in the popular radio air check series, which has been a hot topic for its ability to package radio programs broadcast in the 1970s and bring back the atmosphere of the era. This time, it is “The Story of Greg Lake” from the 1976 “Summer Rock Class,” where the famous music critic served as DJ. This work also records the content that was broadcast at the time as it was, and takes the listener on a time trip 48 years ago. This 1976 Summer Rock Class was broadcast for six consecutive days from August 9th to 14th, and this “The Story of Greg Lake” was broadcast on August 14th, the final episode of the series. The music program recorded here is one of the “Summer Rock Class” series that was featured every summer on FM stations in the Kanto region in the mid-1970s. In addition to blues and progressive rock, the program featured overseas music and rock from various angles. As I mentioned in the previous “Ritchie Blackmore Story,” the reception is so stable that you might even wonder if they copied the master from the broadcasting station. (However, as is often the case in this day and age, there is a noticeable crackle noise from the analog records provided by the broadcasting station.) This program is also broadcast from a tourist spot, and the forced setting that makes you wonder “Why Sumata Gorge?” is also a nice 70s feel. (This time the DJ started the broadcast from the point where “Today we’re on the edge of a cliff, in a very scary place, with a river flowing dozens of meters below, and if you take one wrong step you’ll die.” Why?) At the beginning, it was interesting to hear the DJ and his partner talk on the theme of “Before teaming up with Keith Emerson, I was thinking of teaming up with Jimi Hendrix,” which Greg often says (although I’m not sure how feasible this was). I agree with his partner’s opinion that “Maybe it would have been better for Keith Emerson to team up with Jimi Hendrix than Greg,” but I also think that “It would be interesting if Brian May, Jimi Hendrix and Keith got together because their song ideas are similar” is an original idea that was typical of the time and is something that no one would have thought of now, so I think it’s interesting. “Greg Lake said he wanted to work with Jimi Hendrix because he thought that he and I were completely opposite in terms of personality. Both Jimi Hendrix and Emerson are very musical people who don’t have words, and they are very talented in that area, but Greg Lake is someone who places importance on melody lines as words rather than sounds, and I think that the combination of Emerson’s dry personality and Greg Lake’s sticky personality was very successful.” “In “Take the Stone,” the personalities of Greg and Emerson are in subtle harmony, making it a fairly persuasive song. I really like the first album, and this part is very transparent, has a cold steely feeling, and there is a tension before it becomes more ostentatious later on, and I think “Take the Stone” is particularly good.” (The About Sage) * Talking while walking “This song really shows Greg’s personality. It features an acoustic guitar, and reflects a bluesy way of thinking that “I’m really covered in the dust from my travels, and life is full of hardships after all.” This is what seems to determine his qualities. “I’m a kid from upstate New York (lol), and I’m a bit of a happy guy at heart, so I can’t really absorb his vibrations, and his damp personality is a little bit of a rejection. But I think his talent to turn these poems into a bestselling album (“Pictures at an Exhibition”) in this day and age is still great.” Tarkus is played at the end, but it’s not the studio version, but the second disc of “Ladies & Gentlemen” that is broadcast as is. (So Aquatarkus has not been collected yet.) I think the DJ was explaining it with the intention of playing the studio version, but what was broadcast was a live take. Before that, he walks up a mountain path, and while he is out of breath, he talks passionately about ELP for about six minutes, which I think is the best part of this album. Every part of his unique ELP theory and Greg Lake theory is very interesting, so if you are a fan, please listen to it. I especially felt that the following comment was very true. Even in 2024, 38 years after that, will not only Greg, but also progressive rock fans and artists still stop at “Confusion will be my epitaph” (probably until they all die)? If that is the case, there has been no particular progress since 1969, and it seems that it is not progressive at all. “The final conclusion is always back to something like “Confusion will be my epitaph” and it feels like it’s going around and around in circles. From that point, I think that the role they need to play from now on is to take another step forward and take a new perspective, or to move towards positive sounds and words. “I think Greg Lake could do that kind of work if he did it properly, but he doesn’t seem to do it (laughs).” *In the end, what came out of that was a desperate masterpiece (?) “tetralogy” that completely lost its direction, so everyone was disappointed in the following year, 1977. …So, for about an hour, it makes you think about a lot of things, including your own life, and is a must-listen for rock fans in their 40s and 50s, as it is a summer rock class broadcast exactly 48 years ago (summer vacation 48 years ago?). It is a must-listen for all rock fans, whether they listened to it in real life as teenagers or are listening to it for the first time. Broadcast Date : 14th August 1976 R.I.P Greg Lake, December 2016 1. Intro. 2. In The Court Of Crimson King (King Crimson) 3. DJ Talk 4. The Barbarian 5. DJ Talk 6. Take A Pebble 7. DJ Talk 8. The Sage 9. DJ Talk 10. Hoedown 11. DJ Talk 12. Tarkus (Live) 13. Outro.