{"id":15967,"date":"2016-12-08T10:16:38","date_gmt":"2016-12-08T16:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=15967"},"modified":"2016-12-08T10:16:38","modified_gmt":"2016-12-08T16:16:38","slug":"greg-lake-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=15967","title":{"rendered":"Greg Lake, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Greg Lake, of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and King Crimson fame, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/entertainment\/music\/ct-greg-lake-dead-20161208-story.html\">has died<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In my youth I drove my parent&#8217;s old 8-track equipped Dodge Monaco, with The Best of Emerson Lake and Palmer one of the few 8-track albums I possessed and thus in very heavy rotation. (Among the annoyances: All but 10 seconds of &#8220;Tiger in a Spotlight&#8221; was on one track, and then a KERTHUNK for the very end.) I never saw one of their elaborate live shows, but I did had tickets for the Austin leg of the Emerson Lake and Powell tour before it was cancelled. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the obligatory Emerson, Lake and Palmer track:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fn_1d_DUE08\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Alas, there does not seem to be a full version of the original &#8220;In the Court of the Crimson King&#8221; on YouTube, or that would be here as well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Greg Lake, of Emerson, Lake and Palmer and King Crimson fame, has died. In my youth I drove my parent&#8217;s old 8-track equipped Dodge Monaco, with The Best of Emerson Lake and Palmer one of the few 8-track albums I possessed and thus in very heavy rotation. (Among the annoyances: All but 10 seconds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132,2046],"tags":[2178,2179,1021,1982,597,1103],"class_list":["post-15967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-obituary","tag-emerson-lake-and-palmer","tag-greg-lake","tag-king-crimson","tag-music","tag-obituary","tag-progressive-rock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15967"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15976,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15967\/revisions\/15976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}