keith emerson assaulting his keyboards for 10 minutes
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- Keith Emerson (1944-2016) was an English keyboardist, composer and performance artist best known for founding the progressive/symphonic rock bands The Nice and Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP).
His flamboyance and dangerous performance acts began when a fight broke out during a performance in France with The Nice. Instructed by the band to keep playing, he produced some explosion and machine gun sounds with the Hammond organ, which stopped the fight. His band members recommended he repeat the stunt at the next concert, where Emerson played the organ back to front.
Emerson abused his Hammond L-100 organ by, among other things, slapping it, beating it with a whip, pushing it over, riding it across the stage like a horse, playing with it lying on top of him, and wedging knives into the keyboard. Some of these actions produced musical sound effects: hitting the organ caused it to make explosion-like sounds, turning it over made it feed back, and the knives held down keys, thus sustaining notes.
(Source: Wikipedia)
NOTE: I own none of the clips used in this compilation.
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I mean picture this scene. Keith Emerson walks into a keyboard shop and all the Hammonds instantly go "Ffffff..."
😂
They scream RUUUUN!
Which is your dominant hand?
Keith Emerson: YES
I’m pretty sure he voided the warranty.
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Keith wanted to be a keyboard front man. He wanted to be The Jimi Hendrix experience but with keyboards. Hence, the histrionics. Hence forming his own "power trio".
not sure if i'd call it histrionics, he just knew how to act wild and energize a crowd. ive seen music bring out crazier things in people before lol
01:49 the exact moment Keith turned his keyboard into a fucking bomb
The greatest rock keyboardist of all time, Mr. Keith Noel Emerson (1944-2016)
Yeah right.
Jon Lord and Rick Wakeman were pretty wild, but when Keith got the daggers out,
started wrestling his hammond....
and the revolving piano...(all while playing amazingly) .....it was a whole
different ballgame....
...and he sat just above them as the superior musician/composer, as they would both admit ;-)
@@Fexobs
correct....
Professor Emerson, Sir Jon and Maestro Wakeman are all massively talented and achieved perfection in technical skills.. But Prof. Emerson topped them all in stage acrobatics and creativiy. RIP Prof. Emerson & Sir Jon
Not only technical, Emerson was a theoretical and compositional genius
I say even Mahler would have sold his soul to compose KE9
Just listen to the phrasing, the emotions, the subtlety
@@scottlukert5287
for the first 10 years of hearing that song....
I could actually TRIP whilst it was playing....
the keyboards and drums towards the 3rd movement are apeshit....
don't know how he didn't get some serious spine health problems after moving that heavy keyboard for so many years...
He had roadies for that. But he did have broken bleeding fingernails from time to time.
He had wrist problems from playing for so long. Not a broken back, but still painful lol
@@incompletotrunksnautillusc1116 yea he developed serious nerve damage in his wrists and hands later in life, one of the reasons he sadly ended it
As a former roadie I have no idea how KE didn't have serious back issues! I mean, have you ever moved a Hammond B3 organ?? It's like moving a nuclear submarine! RIP Keith, nobody ever played a keyboard like you. The greatest for sure ❤ 8:50
@brennenrigley RIP and all respect to the legend, but the way he stood so tall over the keys make a lot of sense why he developed wrist pain. Having them bent like that is a sure way to develop carpal tunnel with enough time
Superb video compilation. Keith Emerson was to the keyboard, what Hendrix was to the guitar.
Hands down the greatest showman I ever saw.
At Cal jam, Ritchie Blackmore and deep Purple blew their doors off.
Honestly, Emerson is my favorite rock organist ever. The Nice and ELP deserve to be in Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame.
That C3 has got to be the most durable instrument I have ever seen
The beater Hammond was an L100 series.
I concur to that. The abuse it withstands is incredible.
Thanks for this compilation! Mr. Emerson was a brilliantly mad genius, the likes of we'll not see again ✝
Agreed. I'm old enough to have seen alot of the "cool bands" of the 70s, but there was nothing like ELP, and no one like Keith.
I'll have what he's having.
I saw ELP perform at Wooster Ohio in 1972. Keith really abused his keyboards during the performance. At one point he laid down on the stage and pulled the keyboard down on top of him, playing it upside down. He could play it while from behind. It was insane and the crowd loved it. Took 3 days to get my hearing back.
In the early 70s, modern synthesizer/sampler units with 24 bit DSP Effects and multidirectional pitch-bend weren't invented yet. But Prof. Keith Emerson, through his immense creativity and innovation, perfected the art of pitch-bending, distortion and feedback on the organ, by using those acrobatics onstage. He was a true pioneer and technical virtuoso. RIP Prof. Emerson.
He was essentially the unsung grandfather of the electronic genre which rose to mainstream status in the ‘80s and ‘90s, yes?
@@YoungLeosword Yes. He was determined to push the sonic boundaries of the Hammond Organ and create sounds not possible using normal means. This inspires further innovations. Modern-day synthesists, in a way, took this creativity further by digitally sampling any sound and uses various DSPs to convert the sound into a patch playable using MIDI keyboards or any other MIDI controllers. Which, btw, is what electronic music is all about 👌😁👌
Keith Emerson's most famous stage act. Not only exceptional musician, but also great showman. We miss that man, nobody doing stuff like that today
Problem is current pop/rock music is totally focused on singers. There are still pretty skilled keyboard players around but they are only needed to accompany artists both mainstream and independent. The only keyboard oriented modern music is the one made by DJs which is a pain in the ass live to say the least.
Rachel Flowers?
So at @06:20 is this a custom made Theremin type instrument?
@@StanErvin-yo9vlI’m pretty sure he’s just going crazy on a Moog modular keyboard
@@StanErvin-yo9vli think it's a stylophone
It's a good thing that nobody is doing something like that today, it looks rather painful, but it's sure extravagant, you don't expect this kind of behavior from a prog musician, so that was pretty intresting, at least in that genre.
He's so insane I love him sm
love your youtube about me, I was just listening to that song!
i'm guessing you like to smoke and drink and ball too hahaha
@@jumbledfox2098 never smoke, neither drink in my life, but I do ball a few times. I mostly prefer to spend my meantimes digging old and obscured music, thank you for the compliment btw
@@stonedsoulpicnic haha, i don't like to smoke either, and i should certainly ball a bit more, i was making a reference to the song!
@@stonedsoulpicnic omg soft machine, i think their first three albums are great
In one way, he reminds me of Jimi Hendrix. "I'm so good, just playing a phenomenal melody on my instrument isn't enough of challenge. What else can I do?"
For Hendrix, it was playing behind his head or with his teeth. For Keith, it was playing upside down, or laying the keyboard on top of him.
And just like Hendrix would hold his guitar up to the amp to get feedback and then move it around to vary the sound, Emerson found you could do the same with a Hammond!
did you know there was a short time when someone thought it would be great to turn ELP into HELP? I don't remember the story precisely, but yeah, the idea was to have Hendrix join ELP.
obviously nothing materialized, and personally I can't imagine that would've worked really well, but it's an intriguing thought nonetheless. :-)
No
How could Hendrix join ELP? He passed in 1969
Emerson talked with Hendrix before even Carl was on board, likely Mitch Mitchell would have been on the kit.
HELM
@@scottlukert5287 I can't remember the details, sorry, maybe I got something wrong. maybe was it Emerson joining The Experience? anyway, I read about it somewhere, and Emerson mentions it in some interview. (maybe the HELP acronym was just an idea of the author of that article?)
People hear that Hendrix and Emerson talked of playing together, the first thing that comes to mind is H-E-L-P! The Nice toured England with Hendrix as you probably know, and they each had tremendous respect for each other, but as is often the case, these collaborations seldom work out because of other obligations. Squire, Howe and Wakeman had all talked to Emerson at various points. In fact I'd like to believe that Jimi and Keith would have recorded at some point but we'll never know! @@romaneberle
Or... they both swam in an ocean of drugs.
her: "you must be keith emerson playing a grand piano rotating in the air if you think we fuckin"
my dumbass: 1:15
This man was a bonafide genius. There will never be another like him.
Ecclesiastes states: nothing new under the sun. Well, Solomon had no idea God was going to produce Keith!!
When Karn Evil 9 is just a little too evil for the mainstream.
There are clips in here that I've never seen and I have seen many. Thanks!
Yes - several Nice ones I haven’t seen before.
Ale jazda, rock progresywny zawsze wymiatał i ... zawsze będzie!!!
FYI: the Hammond was electro-mechanical. The various key pitches were generated by magnetic tone wheels on a revolving steel shaft, driven by an electric motor and a chain drive. So if you moved the organ, the whole setup would speed up and slow down. And the crashing sound was caused by him banging the spring based reverb inside the organ as well. I own an old Hammond, and the inside is crazy! Full of vacuum tubes, a TON of wires (every key has NINE switches!), and even an oiling system for the mechanical parts.
Keith was the exception to the principle that the greater the showmanship the less the ability. He was undoubtedly the most technically able keyboard player (I’ve been playing keyboards for many years, so I do know what I’m talking about!).
Tragically he also suffered from depression - but it’s unlikely we’ll see anyone as gifted and talented again.
His later depression stemmed from a degenerative disease affecting his hands depriving him of his reason for living. Sad that his life came down to his playing ability...
Most of us take to teaching's when our technical abilities fade!
@Dropped On Head - Several people are, playing-wise. Keith also wrote fabulous (IMNSHO) music. That cuts the field down quite a bit.
@@coachhannah2403 It's so sad that he couldn't find another reason for living and enjoy his final years.
@@jakurdadov6375 - Agreed.
That’s true! The tragedy is that he only had 4 concerts in Japan to play before retired - but he didn’t think he was able to play well enough for them. In truth he hadn’t been playing particularly well since his carpal tunnel operation, but I guess the depression finally overcame him.
I always thought it was terribly tragic and ironic that the fingers which played so much incredible music should be the ones to pull the trigger…
Keith had a unique center of gravity,
physically and musically.
Playing the Keithboard!
EMERSON É O HENDRIX DO TECLADO. VIRTUOSO ATÉ DE BAIXO D'AGUA.
Fabulous, thank you for posting them. Good time for you
I'm pretty sure Mr Hammond would be truly upset by the treatment of his organs.
His boot inches away from my face after he fell into the audience, one night in New Jersey! EMERSON!!!!!!
Man, I would not want to be in the same building when he's beating hell out of the spring reverb tank like that. That must have been insanely loud.
That’s what depressants are for. XD
"I have a knife and a Hammond C3, and am not afraid to use it !"
Police: - Thank goodness that he did not pack C4.
Now this is Music.
I remember seeing this live what a star and a genius on the keyboards😁
wow! when and where did you see him live?
@@brennenrigley most of this is available on DVD and TH-cam for that matter. The 1970 Switzerland show is available as is the Isle of Wight and California Jam.
@@brennenrigley I saw the 1973 show with the flying piano at Kiel Auditorium in St Louis Missouri.
I seen ELP twice both times in Cardiff back in the glorious 70s
@@dylandid50 I've seen ELP every time they came to St Louis starting in 1971. So just a guess that was at least 20 times and half of that was in the Glorious 70s including one time when Journey opened up for them in 1976. Not the Steve Perry Journey the good journey the progressive rock Journey and another time in the 70s when yes opened up for them.
When someone told Keith to “Rock the Hammond”, he took them extremely literally! Hes a strong dude as even the A-100 model Hammond was heavy….
Great footage from The Nice! Damn!
Keith Emerson is like the Cliff Burton of keyboards if I'm right.
& That's why I love Keith Emerson!!!!!!!🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Saw him play at 1969 IOW festival. Group was then 'The Nice' brilliant live performance.
An average guy in the 70's😄
Seeing The Nice at the Dundee Caird Hall in 1970 was a mind-blowing experience for my then 16-year-old self!
Things you can't do with clones, like pitch bends and train whistles.
You can't even do it with most tonewheel Hammonds. It only works with the L series.
@@tonicjack9823 I used to own a Hammond Porta-B which warbled by switching it on and off.
I know - I’ve tried with various keyboards! The only thing you can do is mess around with the amp, and distort the sound as much as possible.
Incidentally, inspired by Keith, I’ve tried holding down as many keys as possible on a church organ, then turning the power off. It sounds like it’s dying!
Thanks for posting this. Incredible
One of the really in depth B-3 clones from 20 years or so back had a faux start and run switch which looked brilliant but for whatever reason they didn't keep on that trend and those are now rare and cost a fortune. I have no idea why. I've got three spinnets I'd rather use primarily for the manipulation alone. It's like, part of the lore of these old things.. I have no clue why all the clonewheels don't have some sort of emulation for the power switch..
The Greatest Keyboard showman of all time….and a KILLER player as well!!
very educative and important content
Can you imagine him playing with Yes?
he was actually approached by his manager in 1973 after wakeman left yes to take his place... imagine if he said yes and albums like relayer would have him as the keyboardist
after the nice broke up in '69, the bassist (lee jackson) and the drummer (brian davidson) formed a power trio with moraz in '74 titled "Refugee". they released a single album before moraz left to join yes on Relayer.
i highly recommend listening to refugee, it has a lot of similarities with the nice :)
@@brennenrigley The Refugee album is absolutely fantastic!! I *love* everything The Nice did with Emerson but I think the Refugee effort actually surpasses it. It's one of the best prog albums ever recorded.
Ful fact : the only guitarist Keith wanted for ELP was Steve Howe
No.
Most of this is the bloody nice but a couple of clips are from the great ELP. Mr. Keith God on the keyboards Emerson. 2016 the last time I remember crying. Rip mr. Emerson.
Some of us would put the words "bloody" and "great" the other way round. Tastes differ.
@@kevinwest2654 like the preacher said you go to your church and I'll go to mine.
whats not to love about the nice? :)
Never missed a single show. How much I miss them in the world
Wow! I never thought I'd say it, but this makes Captain & Tennille look tame!
😅😅
The Jimi Hendrix/ Eddie Van Halan of keyboards.
Insane demonic play😂
BTW what song are they even playing?
(Im not a big fan of ELP but still love them, and I don't know one song from The Nice so feel free to explain)
I FUCKING LOVE KEITH EMERSON. i wish i could've seen him live. :c
never mind the DOORS! this guy is a LEGEND
'legend' might be an understatement lol
but ray manzarek is wonderful too, in his own way
@@brennenrigley
Hey, not trying to spam your channel, but please give Rachel Flowers a serious listen. Blind musician who played with THE Ray Charles In his home studio when she was 8 years old. Then went on to play with Keith at his house on that very same kit! Played at many Nord trade shows and does a great WBMFTTSTNE collab. She also does Zappa and others. Did the memorable for him just after his death. Have yet to see an instrument she couldn't master.
Wow super cool collection of video hats off to you my super human being of incredible talent,wonder how many brusese he had gotten over his run and some serous accidents, wow all them L and M Hammond s I’m keeping my M102, thanks great video
The other band members look bored, like Ian Anderson during his Flute Solos...LOL
Jimi Emersondrix
seeing that rotating piano few weeks ago made me start listening to elp its insane
The GOAT of keyboards!
i saw him and the nice quite a few times, but was underwhelmed when i saw e l p at the isle of wight,but just hoped they would get better,,,,,,,,,, im still waiting !
have you ever carried such a thing, there must be a secret to it..
I was about to post that "Keith always looked like Keith but sometimes Carl and Greg looked like a couple of hippies", but I guess those clips were from when he was playing with The Nice.
Just glorious!
Saw The Nice at bham town Hall, he did same,even tried to have a go on the pipe organ but he reconed it had been locked.....
ロックだ！こんなキーボーディストは彼以外居ない！貴重な映像ありがとう
Agreed to all comments!!! What the hell was that keyboard made of re-enforced steel?? I lifted my keyboard and the knobs got loose and fell off!! RIP Keith...
As a elk in the forest . Haha .
I don't know what's more impressive: That the Hammonds are built like tanks or that he was good enough to jam with Oscar Peterson.
Now I can start my HOLIDAY,..wow great stuff😂
Grande Emerson grande🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌
"Assaulting" LOL
Love his glance to make sure non one from the RSPCKA was watching
He was quite good at piano wasn't he
Yes, not bad - he was probably Grade 2 or 3…
He’s aiiiight
Sure, the kid's got potential, but he still has a long way to go
not TOO bad, indeed...
id say so, he wrote an entire piano concerto in 1974!
I sorta missed the feedbacking organ in ELP. It gave the Nice a punk edge.
Emerson гений! Бог чёрной и белой клавиши. Таких больше не будет.❤
So amazing!🔥🔥🫶🔥🔥
Very cool I just wish I could see the whole show of every different ones you have
some of the clips i dont have links for, but i can provide some for the Nice shows:
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Thank you sir
@@brennenrigley most people think it's just noise but can you imagine the hours of playing around with different hookups and settings to get just the sound he wanted for a particular song or solo and then just dialing it in at will plus the hours of just regular practice he really was special and one of a kind John Lord is the only one who comes close to just the organ playing cause John didn't mess with the synth stuff but he was as good as Kieth on just the Hammond with all the little tricks they made themselves with just using that but Kieth was great
Smash yer guitar, Pete !!
🚬😎👍
There are about a dozen states today where he would be arrested for doing that.
Sexual misbehaviour with hammond organs!
He isn't playing a musical instrument but "another thing".
Seen ELP at Glasgow greens playhouse brings back some great memories Keith was on form brilliant fantastic night hope your still playing in heaven Keith 😂😂❤
Poor roadies had to get that baby back to functional after each concert!
Sonic alchemy
Okay but what’s up with that Rachmaninoff flipping around like that?
Where’s the full video?
Keith was arguably the best keyboardist ever. Never quite understood the antics. Drugs maybe?
as far as im aware he didnt do any drugs, just tobacco at the most
@@brennenrigley ok that could be true. I was a kid when he was with The Nice and early ELP. Back then info was hard to come by and what you heard could you put stock in it. Anyway still never got the antics although they were not widely known back then.
After his house burned down Emerson was understandably depressed. 'I did drugs for a long time' emerson confided.
As to why the antics, simply because the audience loved it and responded.
To my knowledge Emerson never even used tobacco, and really never drank to excess, claiming the bottle of Courvoisier on top of the Moog to be mostly water!!
@@scottlukert5287 I get what you’re saying about the audience loving the antics, but when he was flipping his moog on top of him and playing it, how many from the audience could really see that. Anyway, I just listened to the Manticore Vault bootlegs and his brilliance is undeniable. But at the same time he went off on some crazy tangents that just didn’t make sense to me.
Read his autobiography _Pictures of an Exhibitionist_. He started doing the jumping-on-the-keyboard thing one night in France when he'd taken a whole bunch of amphetamines, the audience were fighting each other and he decided to do something to distract them. So yes, it *started* with drugs.
No idea who this is. But this is brilliant
Love/ hate relationship with his keyboard. Can't live with it can't live without it.
Solo lui....❤️
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The story is that once the repair guys in London found out what he was doing to his Hammond, they threaten to cut him off from repair service! That was when he largely stop putting daggers in the B3 and throwing it around
very true, it was also around the time ELP were becoming more of a studio band with releases like tarkus and trilogy. you can still hear some of the organ explosion sounds on their debut record
It wasn't the console Hammond he wrestled - (he actually used C3's not B3's)... it was his L100. And he used my L100 at ELP's last gig in 2010 at High Voltage, so he never actually stopped his Hammond antics...
This is sensual.
If there was a divorce ceremony
lol rip @9:26
I have 3 questions.
1) Is Vince Noir Keith Emerson's love child?
2) Was a Keith Emerson proof Hammond ever created?
3) If not, is it because it wouldnt have sold because Emerson wouldnt buy one and no one trips balls like that generation?
Que modelo de Hammond era ese el aporreado ??
Get yourself a keys player who can do this and also play Take A Pebble, Trilogy and The Endless Enigma as well..among others of course
Favourite moment is 2:47
PERDOEM-ME WAKEMAN, LORD, BANKS, KAYE...
E TODA A RECA TECLADISTA DESTE MEGA MUNDO MUSICAL E CHEIO DE ASTROS GÊNIOS, MAS IGUAL EMERSON MUNXQ TEVE E JAMAIS TERÁ. O HENDRIX DO TECLADO.
Lemmy handing him the knives woulda been cool.
Does everyone know by now Lemmy roadied for the Nice and ELP?
well id hope so, thats how keith got some of his knives in the first place
And we wonder why his hands got arthritis....