Music Trivia - Guitar Player

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 2:00 am

What well known guitar player expressed interest in joining Emerson, Lake, & Palmer but he never did join them?

f.sciarrillo · Post by **f.sciarrillo** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 2:24 am

I know this, but will let someone else answer

That would be a stupid thing to not do. ELP were awesome. Then, if you look at some of the careers; going a different direction proved better ...

VENTGtr · Post by **VENTGtr** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 4:39 am

Ya. Glad "he" didn't. I LOVE Greg Lake's acoustic playing. Never know...but I don't see it working out. Cripes. Those three were too strong willed. Throw in another, and may never have gotten anywhere.

Dark Soul · Post by **Dark Soul** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 1:19 pm

That would be none other than Jimi Hendrix.

moxham123 · Post by **moxham123** » Sat Apr 10, 2010 2:12 pm

Dark Soul wrote:That would be none other than Jimi Hendrix.

And, we have a winner!

Before settling on Carl Palmer, who at that time was a member of Atomic Rooster, Greg Lake and Keith Emerson approached Mitch Mitchell of The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Mitchell was uninterested but passed the idea to Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix, tired of his band and wanting to try something different, expressed an interest in playing with the group. Since Emerson and Lake had settled on Palmer by then, this led the British press to speculate about a supergroup called HELP, or "Hendrix, Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Because of scheduling conflicts, such plans were not immediately realized, but the initial three planned a jam session with Hendrix after their second concert at the Isle of Wight Festival (their debut being in The Guildhall, Plymouth on Sunday 23 August 1970 at 7.30pm - with the band "Earth" as support), with the possibility of him joining. Hendrix died shortly thereafter, and the three pressed on as Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.

Greg Lake made this comment on ELP's discussions with Hendrix:

"Yeah, that story is indeed true, to some degree...Mitch Mitchell had told Jimi about us and he said he wanted to explore the idea. Even after Mitch was long out of the picture and we had already settled on Carl, talk about working with Jimi continued. We were supposed to get together and jam with him around August or September of 1970, but he died before we could put it together."

Banned · Post by **Banned** » Tue Apr 13, 2010 12:55 am

That possibility might have turned into a British Mahavishnu Orchestra.