Rachel Flowers plays Pirates at EMEAPP
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- On March 9, 2019 Rachel Flowers performed for a very special event at the Electronic Music Education and Preservation Project (EMEAPP) - The Keith Emerson Experience - at their facility outside of Philadelphia. It was a small gathering of electronic music specialists along with family and close friends of Keith Emerson, celebrating his life and music. Following her performance, Rachel had the opportunity to check out a rather rare instrument, a Yamaha GX-1 similar to the one Keith used on the ELP recording of Pirates. Here she plays the GX-1 for the first time, with Vince Pupillo Jr. assisting. It was an incredible experience, at times emotional but also very fun, as you can see here!
You can hear Rachel's complete studio recreation of Pirates on her SoundCloud channel at: / wnh7a
Many thanks to George Mandrin for providing this video from the event!
It must be awesome to be able to learn great music by ear, then remember ALL of it to perform for others. She’s a musical miracle worker in so many ways. What musician wouldn’t love to have her talent and abilities. I want to yell at her audience to STOP TALKING and just LISTEN, DANG IT!! They don’t even know what they’re missing. Sad.
Rachel is quite a talent. Although it's true she learned a lot of the music by ear (I don't know which pieces), she also learned by using braille music code which she learned to use while attending Southern California Conservatory of Music. Check out this video: th-cam.com/video/4D7_cXzDHds/w-d-xo.html
Dear John E1: Rachel is great: I think this is a convention where many tech electronics instruments are displayed, and people are walking about experiencing other things or doing business. Some may not be familiar with ELP or RF.
Thank You Dear Rachel 👍☕🌹
Thanks!
My dream come true.... Pirates on a GX-1 in 2022. Had I known I would have grabbed one my 8 string basses and drove the 3hrs there to see and hear.
As a fan who has followed Keith Emerson way back to the Nice Rachel is just an extraordinary talent. Many have tried to capture Keith's style yet Rachel does so effortlessly and with her own flare. Amazing!
I discovered KE just as Five Bridges Suite was released. Over the years he taught me so much about music. I bought ELP albums for the new synthesiser sounds but was exposed to all manner of strange orchestrations and jazz. A true education. Much of his playing still brings a tear to my eyes. Rachel is just as good as her mentor.
This is sooooo cool. Any ELP fan automatically knows and appreciates Rachel's talent. Thank You for this video! Best Regards and Best Wishes for 2023!
Brought tears to my eyes... Greg Lake was my favorite singer and this song one of the best. Beautiful Ms. Flowers, thank you.
This is so amazing. Bravo Rachel. Bravo EMEAPP. Bravo ELP. Genius music being kept alive by genius people.
excellent Rachel!
Awesome ! There is so much in this piece, and it must be really thrilling to play this on an actual GX-1 ! As always, you nailed it, Rachel !
You always amaze me, Rachel!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰
Rachel is soo awesome Keith is looking down with love . . I remember for my birthday flying home a week off between gigs and my mom bought tickets to ELP with orchestra on their opening concert with the 70 piece Orchestra first of the US tour at freedom Hall in Louisville Ky , I had seen them a couple times before and perfect as always but the highlight of the night was Pirates it was awesome and unforgetableAnd you know they as a three piece we're unbelievable but the Orchestra was a nice touch Rachel does Kieth ,Greg and Carl justice I truly miss that era of music ,musicians and quality of performances by the Groups back then If you never experienced Yes ,ELP Tull , Floyd King Crimson ,UK live to name a few but an rea of unique music by real Vocalist musicians ,compositions and staging,lighting etc ....but I own these Incredible memories of ....shall I say GREATNESS !!!!!!!!
Congratulations Rachel, this is a marvellous performance, best wishes, Neil
Way back in 1977 I watched ELP do this live at the Hartford Civic Center during their Works Vol 1 tour.. It was amazing! These huge cannons rose over the Amps and fired confetti during Pirates and Emerson had his flying piano and the latest version of his modular Moog.. They did pretty much all of the Works Album ..
No amount of words or praise can justify the beauty and talent of this treasure.
As always... Fabulous Rachel !!!
The Toph of the music world. Great stuff
Oh, yeah. Incredible stuff!
utterly fantastic Rachel!
Rachel never ceases to amaze me. What a talent. She is keeping this great music alive.
The beast that is the GX-1 played by Rachel Flowers. No musician on earth can fill Keith's shoes apart from her.
Just listened to the full SoundCloud version. Absolutely spectacular!!! ❤
Thanksgiving was last week...now I have to thanks again, AWESOME!!!!
Fantastic ... all only from her head memory.
Great!
Superb Rachel!😉
Big fan!!!!!❤
Awesome Rachel! Was Keith influenced by Copland with Pirates? It's another fantastic piece that should be played by an orchestra.
You can hear the Copland influence in just about everything Keith wrote!
Love it! Huge fan of ELP and Rachel.
Excellent! Thank you! Stay fine.. Cheers, Eddy.
Wow!Emersons GX1
Not Emerson’s GX1 but one like it.
@@RachelFlowersMusic Great anyway!Mr Benny Andersson of ABBA bought one.
Its now restored.
Regards from Hammond Sweden 🇸🇪
Rachel 'Emerson' Flowers!!
Great !!!!
It's great❗️❗️
👏👏👏👏👏👏
I'm sure you would love the TH-cam video titled Rick Wakeman and Jon Lord on Sunflower Jam 2011, Rachel. Just fantastic.
Great!
muito bom mesmo...
🔥🔥🔥🔥✌🏼❤️
Wonder Rachel !!
Nice !
I would like to hear the music as studio quality minus all the unappreciative people trying to talk over the music. I realize this is a special event . . .
Check out the SoundCloud link in the description. It is my recording for fun of Pirates. Unfortunately it is not on the GX-1
Welcome to the world of live musical performance. Unfortunately, one can not prevent the audience from the following very annoying behavior: Talking during songs about how they band played better at that concert they attended in Germany back in 1978. "Dude! We're all here right now, trying to enjoy this concert today. Shut the hell up!"
Singing off-key during their favorite hit songs which appear to be the only three songs by the band that they actually know. "Girl! We're here to listen to a great singer, not some tone deaf reject from an elementary school choir. Shut the hell up!"
Screaming, shouting, whistling and clapping through the entire first full minute of every song introduction. "People! We get it. You like this band a lot and you recognize this song by the first three notes. Congratulations! You're a musicial freaking genius. But, the rest of us also know this song by the intro and we would like to hear it because it's one of the best parts of the song. Shut the hell up!"
@@skybluemarshall Very well put. Audiences like this need to take a look at the average Japanese audience. Respectful, attentive, actually paying attention to & absorbing the music!!!!!! They wait until the end of the song to give their applause. It's a great example for the belligerent concertgoers of the world to follow...if only they'd *shut the hell up* for long enough to consider!
que privilegio tocar un Yamaha gx1
What a privilege to play a GX-1! Now I want to hear the Fanfare patch.
Holy crap, the SunCloud version, was it played on this GX-1? Because when I heard it a few years ago, in my head I said "that sound awful lot like a GX-1! Even the orchestra sounds like nothing I heard since the recording sessions in 76/77
This GX-1 was not one of Keith’s. Maybe the EMEAPP webpage has more information on this GX-1
Ahh… You meant the SoundCloud version. That was done on my Nord with my sound library.
@@RachelFlowersMusicp
Beautifully played, Rachel. Was it not disturbing with the guy in the blue suit flickering about?
I'd love to listen to yourself and Peter (Pete) Jones of Tiger Moth Tales here in the UK. He is a fantastic keyboard player, Genesis Style mostly, I saw him play keyboards for Camel as well as his own band. Pete is a blind multi-instrumentalist and has a wonderful talent for music.
Rachel and Peter teamed up with Francis Dunnery to form the very first act at the very first ProgStock back in 2017.
@@MaxHoukes Thanks for letting me know that they are aware of each other. I love them both.
@@MaxHoukes I would rate Rachel very high amongst performers of Keith Emerson, and add Tom Szakaly of Noddy's Puncture who I have seen live here in the UK as magnificent. Living in the UK, I do not have the opportunity to see Rahel liver, I am more than happy to appreciate her music from afar.
An "A+" since it's ELP and (of course) Rachel. Sound quality gets a C- unfortunately.
Keith Emerson is a big influence on my playing too. Rachel is quite a talent. Although it's true she learned a lot of the music by ear (I don't know which pieces), she also learned by using braille music code which she learned to use while attending Southern California Conservatory of Music. Check out this video: th-cam.com/video/4D7_cXzDHds/w-d-xo.html
Yes, Rachel does know Braille music code, but she (understandibly) finds it bothersome having to use one hand for reading and having just one hand to play. Therefore Rachel learns these pieces by ear. The only time I've actually seen her use Braille is to create/read her set list.
Any one else feel the need to VIOLENTLY SHUT UP all the audience who prefer talking to listening to the performance?
What a horribly rude crowd.
I probably would have never listened to and appretiated this if it wasn"t for you! bet these keys werent easy to play, the attack dynamic sounds non-existent.
Fantastic ... all only from her head memory.
Great!