local news • events • Music • RestauRants • theateR • nite liFe listinGs #1 Independent Community Weekly www.desertstarweekly.com May 24 - 30 Vol. 5 No. 21 DESERT STAR WEEKLY Photographer Carla Huntington Greg Lake pg.3 Cemetery Going Dead? pg.5 Bullwinkle at Harrison House pg.13 DesertStarWeekly.com May 24 - May 30, 2012 3 contents: How Save Are We ...................... 4 Cemetery Going Dead.................5 Lucky Man Music Worth Buying ................. 6 BY DEAN GRAY GREG LAKE at LA QUInta RESORT Garden Guru ..............................7 La Quinta, CA - Joining us in the desert this weekend is the musician, songwriter and Living Longer ............................ 8 singer who helped define progressive rock - that fusion of classical, jazz, blues and rock Pets ........................................... 9 music. Greg Lake will play the La Quinta Resort this Friday night in an intimate setting Body, Mind & Spirit ................. 10 more like a conversation than a concert. The Edible Desert .................... 11 The casual style of the affair is as if Lake is personally entertaining you in your living Grubstake Days ....................... 12 room. “I stumbled upon this after writing my Nite Life..............................14 -15 autobiography, Lucky Man” Lake said, sounding positive. “With influential songs Calendar ................................. 16 I’d share with audiences over the years, in journeys I found the audience had their own The Mosh Pit ........................... 17 stories about the tunes they wanted to share.” Back then (the 1970s and 1980s) it was Astrological Affects ................ 18 a shared experience with people gathering around in their circle to hear the latest albums Crossword................................19 and to examine album cover art which was often daring and experimental. Classifieds...............................20 “What I’ve done is immediate apparent,” Lake said. “The audience really got on board making certain it was a roller coaster of surprises. Not predictable and not boring was DESERT STAR WEEKLY important. The challenge really was for me www.desertstarweekly.com to make it always fresh and appealing, for [email protected] me to go out there each night like walking in 66538 Eighth Street, Desert Hot Springs, CA 92240 a family room, like you’ve only been away for a short while. It’s an amazing feeling of 760-671-6604 interactive bonding.” FAX: 760-671-6730 Greg Lake’s tunes have been running facebook.com/desertstarweekly in our heads for decades such as “Lucky twitter.com/desertstarnews Man” (Emerson, Lake & Palmer), “The Office Hours: 8 – 5, Sage” (Pictures at an Exhibition), “From the Monday through Friday Beginning” (Trilogy), “Still... You Turn Me On” (Brain Salad Surgery) and “C’est la Vie” PUBLISHER: Dean Gray (Works Volume I). Lake enjoyed tremendous EDITOR: Laura Anne Rowell success with best selling albums and stadium OFFICE MANAGER: Mindy Witsiepe appearances yet he is also popularly known SALES TEAM: Mia Elliott, Abel Lujan for his Christmas single, “I Believe in Father ART DIRECTOR: Dan Irvine Christmas” CONTRIBUTORS: Art Kunkin, Ren Yogamaya, “Songs of a Lifetime” is Lake’s unique Margo Sturges, Aaron Kiefer, Eonn Skye, one-man-show touring intimate venues the Crimson King”, released in 1969, made significantly contributed to the evolution of Dan O’ Brien, Branson Hunter allowing him to talk with the audience in a DIGITAL MEDIA: Andrew Morales King Crimson a key influence and landmark progressive rock. Lake contributed to many of small and focused setting with special effects. PHOTOGRAPHERS: Pat Krause in the emerging progressive rock genre. ELP’s songs but was particularly noticeable INTERN: Jorge Romero Lake left his London home to start his Lake’s vocals, which ranged from serene for his guitar-orientated and soulful ballads. tour in Quebec before bringing his show to and soothing to acerbic and distorted, were On their debut album (Emerson, Lake & ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER: the eastern seaboard in Boston then Florida, a striking element of the album. However, Palmer), Lake included an acoustic song Arllette Capel and Texas. He prepared himself for our heat Lake soon left to start the rock trio Emerson, called “Lucky Man”, based on a poem he had while in Arizona, just before arriving here in Lake & Palmer, forming the ‘supergroup,’ written at the age of 12. In determining the DISTRIBUTION: Pamela Berry the Coachella Valley for this special event. ELP. direction of the band, Lake’s focus on ballads, All advertising in the Desert Star Weekly newspaper subject to current After this, Lake’s off to Europe and Asia for From the outset, Lake filled acoustic radio-friendly material and “down-to-earth” rate card. The newspaper reserves the right not to accept an advertiser’s order. The entire contents of the Desert Star Weekly newspaper his unique presentation. guitar, electric guitar, bass, lyrics, vocals and compositions contrasting sharply with copyright 2012. All rights reserved. “It’s not just my material,” Lake said. “I’m production duties for the band. The trio did Emerson’s desire to create rock symphonies bringing in songs from other places as well; not make use of external producers for any of and polyphonic, poly-rhythmic suites. The including a song by Elvis who was a big their albums in the 1970s, nor did they ever result was that ELP continuously merged influence upon me. I’m painting a broader employ session players for studio work or classical and blues styles, producing albums picture of how life went.” live performances. with bewildering mixtures of classical pieces, Greg Lake came to prominence as a ELP became highly commercially printed on recycled paper founding member of King Crimson with with soy-based ink successful in the 1970s (with album CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 guitarist Robert Fripp. “In The Court of sales totalling more than 30 million), and 4 May 24 - May 30, 2012 DesertStarWeekly.com SUBSCRIBE BY CHARLES BENNETT, JR. NOW to your community newspaper serving desert cities How Safe Are We and beyond. $25 CRIMES AGAINST THE Elderly for one year subscription mailed to Crimes against the elderly are on a rapid rise, and tips to avoid becoming a victim: specifically here in our valley. 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Renaissance Pleasure Faire (good till May 18) LUCKY MAN •CoNtiNUed froM Pg 3 ballads, hard rock songs and epic-length vocals and ELP’s unique brand of musicality __________________________ suites. would continue to gain popular recognition. first name last After their debut album, ELP recorded ELP’s massive commercial success __________________________ a live performance of their treatment of continued when they were the headline act street address Pictures at an Exhibition, which brought (along with Deep Purple) at 1974’s California in elements of electric rock, jazz and blues. Jam, where they played to 180,000 people. __________________________ The third album introduced Lake’s ballad Throughout the 1970s, Lake was known city zip From the Beginning which was their most as the svelte singer who could nonetheless commercially successful single. deliver powerful, rasping vocals. Payment method With ELP steadily becoming one of the After the break-up of ELP, Lake played Check Credit Card highest-grossing live acts on earth,Scar they TreaTmenT a few concerts with the group Asia in 1983, __________________________ released their most ambitious album yet released two well-received solo albums, re- Credit Card # in 1973, Brain Salad Surgery.