Music Single : Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Knife Edge

A cut off the very first album I ever bought. It still does it for me. Launched me into this style of music. Bass lays it down and Palmer ‘s cymbal adds to it. Lakes vocals are perfect then that Emerson guy comes in and does his thing and the song explodes. Fantastic! Oh yeah I dug the lyrics also. They bring it down again and build back to the release.

Emerson takes the bulk of the song and gets a little off track with a classical bit but the other boys bring him back to earth with that great heavy riff. It still gets my blood going. They take it out on this note. Heavy, hard, big sound.

This was my intro into the ELP world and I loved every second of it. I sill get off on this one (and lots of their other stuff). I never heard anything like it before. I liked everything about this song and this band. I wanted to be Keith Emerson. I even grew a mullet.

These three guys made some very good music and this is some of it.