ELP Is Over, Says P
Carl Palmer says that High Voltage was the band\'s final farewell
Carl Palmer has revealed that Emerson, Lake and Palmer is definitely finished following their final gig at High Voltage this year.
In an interview with Classic Rock Magazine the band’s drummer revealed that he’s finished with the reunion, and that High Voltage was their way of saying goodbye.
"Well, for reasons I won’t go into it’s always hard to rev it up. We rehearsed for it for a month, which almost killed me. Not the physical side of it, just keeping interested. Me personally, I didn’t need a month. But that’s what we did, and when it came to the gig what you saw was what you got. That’s as good as it will ever be (again). Everyone seemed pretty happy with it, and I think that gig will be far as the three of us can take things.”
When asked whether he was nervous about the reunion, he revealed.
"Not from me, I’m not the nervous type. I play all the time. Greg and Keith, on the other hand, were highly nervous and that was part of the problem though they both did the best they could. I looked at it not exactly as just another festival, but well... Asia have played more than 200 gigs since the reunion, and of course I’ve also got my own band. For me, like I said, it was the month’s rehearsal and not the gig that really frustrated me.”
For people that were at the show in July or for those that wanted to be there but couldn’t make it, there is a DVD and CD coming at some point in the future which will provide the bookend to their career.
"We’ve been doing some overdubs and there will also be an audio CD, but it’s looking really good,” says Palmer. "And that’s about it, really. There are no plans to do anything else, not from my perspective anyway. I’ve let the other two know that. Being the 40th anniversary, it seemed a great way to finish things. Let’s just leave it there.”