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Listened to some ELP this past week, some of their albums strike me as over the top and pointless but growing up they opened the door for me to modern classical music, which then took me even further to earlier classical music. Much like the Mannerist period in art, prog rock was a movement - the natural progression of music from standard pop to a hyper sophistication that was supplanted by punk rock. Greg Lake with ELP and King Crimson put out some great material some of it was really good, some of it was long and obnoxious. But, just like most artists, some of it worked some of it didn't. There is no denying he was a gifted artist who with an acoustic guitar, wrote some fantastic tunes and was an integral part of my youth. Gone too soon.