Observation: Upon hearing of Prince's death, every radio station that wasn't programmed for cousin fucking cattle rustlin' somebody better go back and get a shitload of dimes country and western played his shit until our eyes bled purple. One casual mention on the classic rock station of Greg Lake's passing and they don't play a damn thing he performed. RIP Mr Lake, still you turn me on.
With all due respect to Mr. Lake and the rest of ELP, they really didn't get all that much airplay back then. They were supremely talented, but not exactly top 40.
True...not dissin' Lake or ELP at all, but their music tended to intricate, not pop, and their heyday was decades ago. It isn't surprising that there wouldn't be a lot of airplay now. I did have Brain Salad Surgery playing in the car this morning.
There's so much good music that didn't get any airplay, at all. So many crap bands and artists... Don't get me started. Like... If it weren't for re-writing that commercial POS Springsteen's "Blinded by the Light", who here woulda ever heard of Manfred Mann's Earth Band? That guy's stuff was really good for the time and, as far as I know, would not otherwise have been released in the US. The album "Solar Fire" comes to mind, pre-dating "The Roaring Silence" which, itself, had some really moving music...none of which was ever aired here, except for that one Columbia promoted tune, "Blinded..." I even bitched to a DJ about playing something else from the album..."It's not on our playlist". They say video killed the radio star? I say radio killed music.
Very much so. They were very good at re-interpreting other peoples songs, Al Stewart's "Eyes of Nostradamus" springs to mind.
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