That’s what people normally want to know, you know: 'Greg—what’s it like getting those royalty cheques every Christmas?' I wouldn’t know. They don’t turn up ’til bloody August. | | | | | Greg Lake in Toronto, Feb. 3, 1978. (Jean-Luc Ourlin) | | | | |  | “That’s what people normally want to know, you know: 'Greg—what’s it like getting those royalty cheques every Christmas?' I wouldn’t know. They don’t turn up ’til bloody August.”
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| | rantnrave:// Three more weeks to go of this godawful year where PRINCE, who warned us that sometimes it snows in April, dies in April, and GREG LAKE, who noticed it frequently rains in December, dies in December. You may know Lake, who succumbed to cancer Wednesday, as a founding member of both KING CRIMSON and EMERSON, LAKE AND PALMER, which puts him close to ground zero of the entire history of progressive rock. Or maybe you recognize him simply as the insanely distorted vocalist of KANYE WEST's favorite prog-rock song. Or perhaps you just think of him every CHRISTMAS. In any case, you should remember him as a central figure in a major branch of rock and roll that has no wing in the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME, and you should build that wing in your heart this particular Christmas. The Christmas we get we deserve, indeed... Lake wasn't the only progressive rock star who died Wednesday. JUNAID JAMSHED, frontman of VITAL SIGNS, who almost singlehandledly brought Western pop-rock to PAKISTAN, was killed in a plane crash. Though named for a RUSH song, Vital Signs were prog in a different way, bringing Pakistani rock out from the underground in the wake of PRESIDENT MUHAMMAD ZIA-UL-HAQ's death. They incorporated elements of Western pop, rock and new wave in hits like " DIL DIL PAKISTAN" and "TUM MIL GAYE." Later in life, Jamshed turned his back on music and became a well-known Islamic preacher and TV personality, and his life story is absolutely worth a read... "Prince's Closest Friends Share Their Best Prince Stories" is a modest title for the greatest Prince thing to ever appear on the internet besides his music... Desperately wanted: artists of the caliber of BRUNO MARS or JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE to play a certain inaugural event next month... Organizers of that certain inaugural event might have better luck with a call to WARNER BROS., which is selling this KID ROCK t-shirt on an official record-company site... No-news-is-news department: SPOTIFY not buying SOUNDCLOUD... It's FRIDAY and that means new music from J. COLE, NEIL YOUNG, NINA KRAVIZ, AB-SOUL, HODGY, ZAO, YASIIN BEY, THE-DREAM, CHARLES HAMILTON, MARIA TAYLOR, TECH N9NE and POST MALONE... And a surprise single from TAYLOR SWIFT and ZAYN MALIK... And, hey, the WESTWORLD soundtrack snuck its way into existence on Wednesday... RIP JOEY CASIO. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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