Post by jenia on Aug 17, 2010 11:53:41 GMT 1
sorry if it was alreayd posted, ran into this little interview on the Net and thought it was pretty interesting! It's actually about smoking and drinking! ;D ;D
Ther interviewer is some guy named Tony, I don't know who he is but apparently he chatted with Keith on email:
So here it is:
A few weeks ago I was archiving some new photos that a fan named Mark Sykes sent in. One of the photos was quite interesting; it was a photo of Keith smoking. I sent an email off to Keith to ask him about it, our conversation lend into the use of drugs and alcohol by the members of Emerson Lake & Palmer. Our conversation is below
Hey Keith
Is that a cigarette, that's what it looks like?
I have a video from 70’s of you smoking also... but i think it's a joint in the video..
Best,
Tony.
No. I tried to smoke but I was hopeless at it. I really tried to inhale tobacco but I couldn't without choking. Two puffs of straight grass are enough to give me an appetite. Any video you saw of me smoking may have been for effect to the camera. I tried cigars, again I was hopeless.
K.
You got me confused... so it's not a cigarette in the photo?
Best,
Tony.
I really doubt it. If it was I was probably mucking about. I really didn't like smoking except the occasional joint. I even tried Cuban cigars ( Montichristo No 4's), went to the same club as Mel Gibson in Beverly Hills and bought the paraphernalia such as humidifier to go with it. But, I was a failure.
Another rather pathetic fallacy was the cognac or wine bottle on stage. I was such a fraud. I thought it looked cool, like Janis Joplin, to swig out of a bottle during live performance-the audience even cheered me on. The truth is that with the cognac or wine bottle it was mainly water. I could never have played the complicated stuff I played if I'd drunk any of it neat.
I stopped this after I received a letter from Alcoholics Anonymous saying for somebody in my professional capacity I should be more responsible. Apparently they had received lots of complaints from relatives of keyboard players who had fallen off the stage in a sozzled state only to recover with an intravenous re hydrating drip mumbling, "Well. Keith Emerson does it..." I once tried to play Frederick Gulda's "Prelude and Fugue" after a bottle of Saki and played so many wrong notes you could have written another fuckin' tune out of them.
Lotsaluv,
Keith.
;D
Ther interviewer is some guy named Tony, I don't know who he is but apparently he chatted with Keith on email:
So here it is:
A few weeks ago I was archiving some new photos that a fan named Mark Sykes sent in. One of the photos was quite interesting; it was a photo of Keith smoking. I sent an email off to Keith to ask him about it, our conversation lend into the use of drugs and alcohol by the members of Emerson Lake & Palmer. Our conversation is below
Hey Keith
Is that a cigarette, that's what it looks like?
I have a video from 70’s of you smoking also... but i think it's a joint in the video..
Best,
Tony.
No. I tried to smoke but I was hopeless at it. I really tried to inhale tobacco but I couldn't without choking. Two puffs of straight grass are enough to give me an appetite. Any video you saw of me smoking may have been for effect to the camera. I tried cigars, again I was hopeless.
K.
You got me confused... so it's not a cigarette in the photo?
Best,
Tony.
I really doubt it. If it was I was probably mucking about. I really didn't like smoking except the occasional joint. I even tried Cuban cigars ( Montichristo No 4's), went to the same club as Mel Gibson in Beverly Hills and bought the paraphernalia such as humidifier to go with it. But, I was a failure.
Another rather pathetic fallacy was the cognac or wine bottle on stage. I was such a fraud. I thought it looked cool, like Janis Joplin, to swig out of a bottle during live performance-the audience even cheered me on. The truth is that with the cognac or wine bottle it was mainly water. I could never have played the complicated stuff I played if I'd drunk any of it neat.
I stopped this after I received a letter from Alcoholics Anonymous saying for somebody in my professional capacity I should be more responsible. Apparently they had received lots of complaints from relatives of keyboard players who had fallen off the stage in a sozzled state only to recover with an intravenous re hydrating drip mumbling, "Well. Keith Emerson does it..." I once tried to play Frederick Gulda's "Prelude and Fugue" after a bottle of Saki and played so many wrong notes you could have written another fuckin' tune out of them.
Lotsaluv,
Keith.
;D