I never knew that was on 45! This is the kind of shit people should be listening to while they're getting blasted at the bar.
My post from the Book of Faces last night when I finally got home:
I'm just shocked as anyone else to hear of Keith Emerson's passing. His music was part of my teenage years, lying between the stereo speakers in the middle of the band listening to The Barbarian, Trilogy, Tarkus, Brain Salad Surgery, Knife Edge. Keith had the most amazing sounding keyboards and the heaviest compositions.
I heard my hero play twice.* Once with ELP on the Works tour in Princeton after they dropped the orchestra and about 10 years ago at the Starland Ballroom in Sayreville with his band.
Rest easy Keith Emerson, your suffering is over.
* edit: Emerson, Lake and Powell too.
* edit: make that four times, I caught the Black Moon tour at the Garden State Arts Center.