I've said this before and I'll say it again: the playing on this LIVE album is nothing short of AMAZING!! Being a professional keyboardist, Keith Emerson made me want to become a proffesional keyboardist, and made me understand why all those years of classical and jazz piano lessons I took were SO important! Suddenly, after years of holding down triads while guitarists soloed away getting all the glory, Keith Emerson showed that the keyboardist in the band could indeed be the lead instrument in the band and made it cool to be a keyboard player in a rock band! I was fortunate enough to have met Keith a few times and he was the nicest, most humble man ever...RIP Keith Emerson....
Yes, those sounds flew around the stadium even more so during one of their live shows than could be replicated on a two channel record. It was an amazing experience that I had several times in the 70's. When I saw them for the first time in the Spring of '72 I think it was the very first show I saw with a four channel sound system and another sound stage in the middle of the audience facing the stage where ELP played. The sound engineers on that sound stage were every much a part of the show as the musicians on stage. They are the ones that created the depth of sound and kept things moving around. You really had to be there to really understand how big of deal that was to the popularity of ELP. Their shows were next level at that time.
I think Take a Pebble is one of the more under-appreciated tunes that dates back to their debut album. It's an incredible showpiece for piano, bass, and vocals.
The things Emerson used to do to his organs/keyboards onstage was amazing, like they were wild horses that he had to tame. We bought the records back then because we had disposable income and there were no computers, video games, cell phones as competition. Going to the record store every week was a thing and lucky for us there was always something new and great there.
They were in fact, one of the best live, Yes could be great, but they could also lose their way from time to time, Genesis was awesome live, Kansas was awesome live, I wss disappointed with Led Zepplin, but I had terrible acoustics in the loge I was in.
My favorite "Live" album of all time. I saw ELP in 1974 and sat in the middle if the quad speaker stacks. The ending of Karn Evil 9 made this position extra special. When Greg Lake sang "Epithath" the crowd went crazy. Thanks for this video.
Again, thanks for reaction Set an incredible triple album Just a total masterpiece of live performances I feel this was their peak Incredible musicians Who can match keith or Carl on drums and Greg, with his incredible voice and great bass, playing and guitar playing and bringing some melody into some other music Truly, fantastic trio
Outstanding insanely perfect keyboards playing … Aquatarkus…. And the following Classics… Just Wow…I’m jealous for the people who witnessed this live show… it’s an out of this World recorded Performance ! It’s ours for ever …to enjoy it for eternity!! Blessed be those who made this recording possible!
What I love about this channel is the inspiration it gives me to revisit albums I've known for decades but don't listen to all the time now, and this is definitely one of them. There are parts of this album such as Tarkus and Take A Pebble that just blow 99.9% of all other music ever created out of the water. I'm going to play it through from beginning to end very soon!
Aquatarkus alone is worth shelling out for this motherlode of magnificence. I never saw them myself and consider myself less fortunate for that. But hearing this I can imagine standing in the audience as the music performs alchemy upon my soul and forgetting to breathe.
"THE MOTHERLODE OF MAGNIFICENCE".…. the best description I have ever heard!!! I was there, July 26, 1974 Buffalo NY Rich stadium, from the opening "Hoedown" to the end of "Karn Evil Nine" in Quad, with the smoke and wings rising from Keiths modular Moog was just spectacular.... Pardon me while I wipe away some tears..... RIP KEITH AND GREG, YOU ARE MISSED!!!
As mentioned in another comment ELP were one of a (very) few bands touring with a quadraphonic sound system in the early 70s, although the way it was implemented was different to Pink Floyd’s technology. I saw both bands at the Empire Pool, Wembley as it was called in those days. Lucky Man is remarkable in that they were short of a song for their eponymous album and running out of studio time, nobody had anything until Greg said he did have a song he wrote when he was 12! Keith added a Moog solo and the rest is history
Keith Emerson was THE prog keyboard icon, a brilliant 20th century composer and (due to one very fortunate set of circumstances for myself, I found him to be) the nicest guy you could ever meet. Very genuine, funny and engaged. He is and will continue to be sorely missed.
Wow. Even Still You Turn Me On is the first time. Now you need to hear the album version. It’s so nice to see you react not unlike the rest of us when we first heard this album. Respect given Mr. Newstead.
Eh, so much to say! Firstly, thanks again, Jim, for playing this - and I will look forward to sides 1, 4, 5 and 6 in the months ahead. On the topic of how such "challenging" music could have reached a wide audience - it's not something I've thought much about, I just took it for granted. Perhaps one factor is that the late 60s/ early 70s were in general amazing year for popular music. Things were moving very quickly: bands were trying to outdo themselves and one another with every release, and those releases were coming thick and fast. And, they were taking the audience with them. New music was, at least to those of my age, a Big Deal. No home computers, no social media, no computer games: music was how we made connections, and shared our enthusiasms. In a way, we explored the music together, and we educated one another. That, at least, was my experience. Then, on ELP in general: If you take some of their less frenetic pieces (like Take a Pebble), you can hear that they are in essence a piano trio, and they often work as a trio, each aware of and respecting the others' contributions. (And they are at their best IMO, when they do this). Part of the wonder that is this live performance of Aquatarkus, is the way in which Keith and Carl work off each other - and although Greg is somewhat buried in the mix, he's in there, too. That's one of the reasons this live performance is so electric: you can sense the collaboration, and the immediacy. It's a joy. Anyhow, all strength to you, Jim. Thanks again.
My very first concert was Emerson, Lake, and Palmer the summer of 1971 at Asbury Park, NJ (the Jersey Shore). What an amazing concert! ELP absolutely blew the roof of the concert venue. Carl Palmer and Greg Lake were terrific, but Keith Emerson was out of this world! He was surrounded by 5 or 6 synths and various keyboards. He flew around like a man possessed! Keith Emerson, to me, was the fastest and most innovative keyboardist of the era. A distant second goes to Tony Banks of Genesis and Rick Wakeman of Yes. After the concert our ears were ringing for hours!
I believe the live shows had an early version of quadrophonic sound where the keys could be panned 360 degrees the stereo panning is a recreation of that.
That high melody at the beginning is from a 1969 album called MOOG:The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman. My Mom ordered it from Columbia Record Club for me. Side 2 opens with an 8 minute track called The Minotaur. Keith was definitely a fan. For comparison here’s The Minotaur. th-cam.com/video/m14ycwf8kbQ/w-d-xo.html
Keith must be using his toes also! Was a huge fan for the first 4 studio albums. Did get to see them live once, but never heard this album.... fantastic!
At 5:39, that is part of a song called "The Minotaur". Dick Hyman (b. 1927) was already on his way to becoming a musical legend by 1968, and it had nothing to do with the Moog modular synthesizer. Having established himself as a jazz and studio keyboardist, arranger, and composer, he found himself thrust into yet another role - that of pioneering electronic musician. Hyman had the first chart-making single using a Moog synthesizer, “The Minotaur.” Album. Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman (LP, Command 938 S, January 1969)
My favourite side! The sublime Aquatarkus, from which only a small bit made it to the studio Tarkus album. Aquatarkus is an absolute drumming masterclass, concentrate on the drumming and you’ll see how epic it is.
Emerson quotes substantially from an early Moog piece, 'The Minotaur' by Dick Hyman. Worth a listen, though Emerson improves on it considerably, much looser and free.
Your Music Mirrors Your Mind Their concerts are performed with one of the first quadraphonic speaker set up so the sound would have moved around the stadium as experienced in the recording Their system and instruments had to be transported in 3 simi trailers to each venue Thanx for the review I was a teenager then and was astounded by this music and am still
Aqua tarkus was absolutely you just can’t describe it when I first heard of the Madison Square, Garden there’s sound it was like you were I blown away because I miss some people have called him a mad genius. Many years later, a lot of keyboard, players said that this is what is the most amazing solo on the synthesizer and it was analogue, but Emerson working with Bob Moog inventor of the system, and every time I listen to it today, especially with headphones And it brings me back like I was in the garden back in December 18, 1973. Also, they surprise the audience by playing a version of silent night. It was beautiful. These guys never cease to amaze me still at the age of 69, but thank you my friend.
I got to see ELP twice in one year both at MSG. Once for their WORKS tour and they came back later in the year for WNEW's anniversary concert. circa 1977?
Hi Jim! I believe the panning and very spacious sound on this record has something to do with the fact that it was originally a quadrophonic PA system used live. It blew minds left, right and center back in the day 😁
What was very cool in quad at the concert was the very end of Karn Evil 9. Keith's huge moog setup turned 90 degrees to face the audience and wings sprouted from the sides while the arpeggio kept going around the venue and as it got faster and faster it flew from the quad speakers that way as well. Truly an awesome moment.
@@kenl2091 And that line in The Only Way is only objectionable if you don't like to question the existence or nature of God. Greg did, and it's ballsy as hell.
@@kratino Hah! No. I'm a confirmed atheist but my objection to both lyrics is that i suspect the rhyme was arrived at first then they were desperate to shoehorn them into the song lyrics no matter how unsubtle they were.
@@kenl2091 The ladder line was apparently an inside joke with the band, probably something one of them said when they were being mobbed. They even named a tour after it, so they apparently didn't think it was lame. I love both lines. I don't think Lake ever shoehorned lyrics. I like to think his line in The Only Way got people to think. I read a theory that From the Beginning was an apology of sorts for the pushback from The Only Way. I don't know if there's any truth to that. I kind of hope it isn't.
There's more to Take a Pebble after the two ballads. Live, they did different things for that interlude between the first and second halves of Take a Pebble. On the studio track, Greg played a very quiet gorgeous guitar solo that sounds like it's recorded in a cave. Sometimes he sang a little song called "My Dog Blue" and played with Carl to synchronize a guitar chord and a triangle ting. Also, someone probably already mentioned this, but Lake wrote Lucky Man not long after he received his first guitar for Christmas at age 12.
@jimnewstead Most of the shows during this tour were done using a Quadriphonic sound system believe it or not. So depending on the song and the instrument, the music was literally spinning around you.
I love it when I'm able to project my wishes onto someone else's marathon. Thank you, Mr. Elliott, for allowing me to intrude upon your soul in this way. It keeps me wondrous. This side may well be my favorite side of all ELP, and yes, during live concerts, they used the brand-new quad system, because I was standing next to one of the four, trying to keep from being crushed by the 250k who made a sardine can of Charlotte Motor Speedway, a couple of miles from home, I am that lucky. PFM also graced the stage, and quad speakers. Ah '74! When you could get a quarter million prog fans to gather in the American South, granted, the Upper South. Jim, you would have been eating it up. Naked ladies were dancing on the cars in the parking lot, and intercourse was being had in between, tho' not by me, nor the other nerdy prog fans. It was the only time I went to the speedway. I like my noise to have variety.
Whilst I adore this version of Tarkus, it being, for me the definitive version, it should be noted that Mr. Emerson quotes liberally and at length from the Dick Hyman piece The Minotaur. It is available on youtube.
Welcome aboard Jim to yet another all time live great, undeniably fabulous. I love this. Back in '74 and '75 this was my top play album alongside Yessongs. Awesome stuff. Following on, I am going to make a suggestion for you to listen to maybe, probably the most under-rated (R&B / folk ) rock band of all time ((imo) and that is FAMILY. They had, I think, a No.4 hit single back in July '71 titled "In my own Time" (not on any album) brilliant! But the album "A Song for Me" should be on your list, I love this band also from this era because of their unique depth of sound but their potential kind of fell flat later on. Shame. Nonetheless they are well worth a listen pre-'73/74. Please!
What separates the men from the boys on keys is how good they are with their left hand. Rick Wakeman said that Keith Emerson had the best left hand he ever saw.
It is forbidden! King Crimson is instant block on TH-cam so I gave up on it. But I made a video reaction to the album as a perk to my BuyMeaCoffee members as it would never be on TH-cam.
@@JimNewstead I think it's interesting and infuriating that Robert Fripp took the KC name with him when everyone but he and Pete Sinfield (who was the lyricist/lighting designer/costume designer/"pet hippy" and never a member of the band musically) left. Eventually, Fripp booted Sinfield, so Fripp was the only member who survived all the lineup changes. It takes a special kind of egomaniac to keep riding the coattails of the first lineup instead of calling it something else. I've read Greg Lake's autobiography and many interviews with him related to KC, and he has always been discreet about his feelings on this matter. Recently, though, I read an interview with him in which he laid Fripp out and made the point I did above. Furthermore, it's Fripp who has put this strict blocking in place. I think other members of the multiple lineups would like the publicity as it would increase their name recognition and income these years later.
its very good and i played it till the grooves were gone ...but i put disk on the other day the bass dissapeared and things were missing , and it just sounds muffled its a nice piece of music just recorded bad .......the king biscuit flower hour recorded the same show and it is out standing like your on the stage . but only half of the show was recorded check it out😎
Hey Jim! I have some request for you, (if you don’t mind hehe) could you listen to Asia Band please! From their debut album Asia (1982), Alpha (1983) & Astra (1985) because for me these 3 albums are masterpiece. Thank you, and have a great day!
Hi Jim, sorry to ask this here, but I'm kind of new to this, I want to do an album request for Boston's first album. It's only like 37 minutes long total both sides I'm not sure which that would fall under. buying me a coffee said cassette is 45 minutes or then you have the full album? The full album is less than the cassette. I'm not sure which one to do for buy you a coffee for the request? Thanks.
Hi there. While it might seem slightly unfair, the reason the album is more expensive is that it’s a lot more work to do. Even though the time of music could be less, it still needs to be two (at least) videos due to copyright restrictions. I had a problem with a mixtape a few weeks ago that was all with the same band and it was blocked. I also try to buy the album to use for the videos, and £10 from the cost goes towards that. The videos for an album generally take about 3 or 4 hours to put together, if not more. Taking the £10 off for the cost of the music, that works out at about only £12.50 an hour for my time. If it feels too much, you could go for a single song or a cast iron guarantee which are less, or combinations of those. Sorry to sound mercenary, I know it sucks! But I also have to be realistic about my own time and value. I hope that helps? I could also add that there might be an option for you becoming a member where you get an album of your choice as well as other benefits. Thanks.
I like electronic music a lot but this first song doesn’t work for me. There’s so much happening at once without a real structure in it. The piano piece is great though.
I've said this before and I'll say it again: the playing on this LIVE album is nothing short of AMAZING!! Being a professional keyboardist, Keith Emerson made me want to become a proffesional keyboardist, and made me understand why all those years of classical and jazz piano lessons I took were SO important! Suddenly, after years of holding down triads while guitarists soloed away getting all the glory, Keith Emerson showed that the keyboardist in the band could indeed be the lead instrument in the band and made it cool to be a keyboard player in a rock band! I was fortunate enough to have met Keith a few times and he was the nicest, most humble man ever...RIP Keith Emerson....
Aquatarkus…simply epic.
Keith let loose and displaying his
unique skills and sounds.
Truly, the greatest rock keyboard
player of all time.
Agree with Aquatarkus. For me, it is the best that live music gets - magical!
Yes, those sounds flew around the stadium even more so during one of their live shows than could be replicated on a two channel record. It was an amazing experience that I had several times in the 70's. When I saw them for the first time in the Spring of '72 I think it was the very first show I saw with a four channel sound system and another sound stage in the middle of the audience facing the stage where ELP played. The sound engineers on that sound stage were every much a part of the show as the musicians on stage. They are the ones that created the depth of sound and kept things moving around. You really had to be there to really understand how big of deal that was to the popularity of ELP. Their shows were next level at that time.
I think Take a Pebble is one of the more under-appreciated tunes that dates back to their debut album. It's an incredible showpiece for piano, bass, and vocals.
I do prefer studio of that one. Live is abbreviated...
The piano playing during Take a Pebble is just wonderful.
Rick Wakeman said that Keith “ had the best left hand in the business “
And the best right hand.
And Keith said..Rick wakeman had the Best Right hand!
Fab indeed Jim 🎹 I started listening to Keith Emerson in The Nice which is well worth a listen his playing was always absolutely sublime 😎
I had forgotten how much I loved this album.
The things Emerson used to do to his organs/keyboards onstage was amazing, like they were wild horses that he had to tame. We bought the records back then because we had disposable income and there were no computers, video games, cell phones as competition. Going to the record store every week was a thing and lucky for us there was always something new and great there.
truth, great description of our lives back then, I saw this concert live at Cleveland Stadium, with CLimax Blues Band and The James Gang.
They were in fact, one of the best live, Yes could be great, but they could also lose their way from time to time, Genesis was awesome live, Kansas was awesome live, I wss disappointed with Led Zepplin, but I had terrible acoustics in the loge I was in.
In 1973/74 ELP were at their peak and
one of the biggest live acts in the world
alongside Led Zep, The Who and The
Stones.
This is my favorite version of all for Tarkus. Keith and Carl really open it up.
My favorite "Live" album of all time. I saw ELP in 1974 and sat in the middle if the quad speaker stacks. The ending of Karn Evil 9 made this position extra special. When Greg Lake sang "Epithath" the crowd went crazy. Thanks for this video.
Again, thanks for reaction
Set an incredible triple album
Just a total masterpiece of live performances
I feel this was their peak
Incredible musicians
Who can match keith or Carl on drums and Greg, with his incredible voice and great bass, playing and guitar playing and bringing some melody into some other music
Truly, fantastic trio
Dang. I still can’t get over that intro to this video you made. Ooohh man….
Outstanding insanely perfect keyboards playing
… Aquatarkus…. And the following Classics… Just Wow…I’m jealous for the people who witnessed this live show… it’s an out of this World recorded Performance ! It’s ours for ever …to enjoy it for eternity!! Blessed be those who made this recording possible!
What I love about this channel is the inspiration it gives me to revisit albums I've known for decades but don't listen to all the time now, and this is definitely one of them. There are parts of this album such as Tarkus and Take A Pebble that just blow 99.9% of all other music ever created out of the water. I'm going to play it through from beginning to end very soon!
Me too!
Aquatarkus alone is worth shelling out for this motherlode of magnificence. I never saw them myself and consider myself less fortunate for that. But hearing this I can imagine standing in the audience as the music performs alchemy upon my soul and forgetting to breathe.
"THE MOTHERLODE OF MAGNIFICENCE".…. the best description I have ever heard!!!
I was there, July 26, 1974 Buffalo NY Rich stadium, from the opening "Hoedown" to the end of "Karn Evil Nine" in Quad, with the smoke and wings rising from Keiths modular Moog was just spectacular.... Pardon me while I wipe away some tears..... RIP KEITH AND GREG, YOU ARE MISSED!!!
@debbiegoss4475 Well, you just made me insanely jealous. I have always believed that I was born too late, and I missed my real time.
@@alanbiggs9306 ..,.. but people like you are needed to keep the music of the 70's alive for the next generations !! PLEASE DON'T STOP!!!!
CHEERS!!!!
@debbiegoss4475 as long as I have breath in my lungs and blood in my veins music will not die
@@alanbiggs9306 you'd have been a perfect fit for my crowd !!! 🤘
As mentioned in another comment ELP were one of a (very) few bands touring with a quadraphonic sound system in the early 70s, although the way it was implemented was different to Pink Floyd’s technology. I saw both bands at the Empire Pool, Wembley as it was called in those days. Lucky Man is remarkable in that they were short of a song for their eponymous album and running out of studio time, nobody had anything until Greg said he did have a song he wrote when he was 12! Keith added a Moog solo and the rest is history
1973, Long Beach Arena, one of three venues used in this album. My first live 'rock' concert!
Keith Emerson was THE prog keyboard icon, a brilliant 20th century composer and (due to one very fortunate set of circumstances for myself, I found him to be) the nicest guy you could ever meet. Very genuine, funny and engaged. He is and will continue to be sorely missed.
Wow. Even Still You Turn Me On is the first time. Now you need to hear the album version. It’s so nice to see you react not unlike the rest of us when we first heard this album. Respect given Mr. Newstead.
Thank you for turning up and watching!
I was at one of their concerts and the sound and panning was quadrophonic. It was really amazing hearing the panning go 4 sides of the concert hall.
Maybe someday remixed version of this will come out in surround sound. That would be cool I think.
@@jgdmlw That would be great. I know in that time there were several quadrophonic bootleg LP's.
Fabulous album. Live version of Tarkus is a step up from studio, but should not be heard first.
Eh, so much to say!
Firstly, thanks again, Jim, for playing this - and I will look forward to sides 1, 4, 5 and 6 in the months ahead.
On the topic of how such "challenging" music could have reached a wide audience - it's not something I've thought much about, I just took it for granted. Perhaps one factor is that the late 60s/ early 70s were in general amazing year for popular music. Things were moving very quickly: bands were trying to outdo themselves and one another with every release, and those releases were coming thick and fast. And, they were taking the audience with them. New music was, at least to those of my age, a Big Deal. No home computers, no social media, no computer games: music was how we made connections, and shared our enthusiasms. In a way, we explored the music together, and we educated one another. That, at least, was my experience.
Then, on ELP in general: If you take some of their less frenetic pieces (like Take a Pebble), you can hear that they are in essence a piano trio, and they often work as a trio, each aware of and respecting the others' contributions. (And they are at their best IMO, when they do this). Part of the wonder that is this live performance of Aquatarkus, is the way in which Keith and Carl work off each other - and although Greg is somewhat buried in the mix, he's in there, too. That's one of the reasons this live performance is so electric: you can sense the collaboration, and the immediacy. It's a joy.
Anyhow, all strength to you, Jim. Thanks again.
Thank you so much for this. It is a special record for sure! It brought a smile to me face more than once listening to it!
My very first concert was Emerson, Lake, and Palmer the summer of 1971 at Asbury Park, NJ (the Jersey Shore). What an amazing concert! ELP absolutely blew the roof of the concert venue. Carl Palmer and Greg Lake were terrific, but Keith Emerson was out of this world! He was surrounded by 5 or 6 synths and various keyboards. He flew around like a man possessed! Keith Emerson, to me, was the fastest and most innovative keyboardist of the era. A distant second goes to Tony Banks of Genesis and Rick Wakeman of Yes. After the concert our ears were ringing for hours!
I believe the live shows had an early version of quadrophonic sound where the keys could be panned 360 degrees the stereo panning is a recreation of that.
That high melody at the beginning is from a 1969 album called MOOG:The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman. My Mom ordered it from Columbia Record Club for me. Side 2 opens with an 8 minute track called The Minotaur. Keith was definitely a fan. For comparison here’s The Minotaur.
th-cam.com/video/m14ycwf8kbQ/w-d-xo.html
Thanks!
Thanks so much ❤️👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
Keith must be using his toes also! Was a huge fan for the first 4 studio albums. Did get to see them live once, but never heard this album.... fantastic!
At 5:39, that is part of a song called "The Minotaur". Dick Hyman (b. 1927) was already on his way to becoming a musical legend by 1968, and it had nothing to do with the Moog modular synthesizer. Having established himself as a jazz and studio keyboardist, arranger, and composer, he found himself thrust into yet another role - that of pioneering electronic musician. Hyman had the first chart-making single using a Moog synthesizer, “The Minotaur.” Album. Moog: The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman (LP, Command 938 S, January 1969)
The Minotaur, th-cam.com/video/m14ycwf8kbQ/w-d-xo.html
My favourite side! The sublime Aquatarkus, from which only a small bit made it to the studio Tarkus album.
Aquatarkus is an absolute drumming masterclass, concentrate on the drumming and you’ll see how epic it is.
I did. It is!
Emerson quotes substantially from an early Moog piece, 'The Minotaur' by Dick Hyman.
Worth a listen, though Emerson improves on it considerably, much looser and free.
Your Music Mirrors Your Mind
Their concerts are performed with one of the first quadraphonic speaker set up so the sound would have moved around the stadium as experienced in the recording Their system and instruments had to be transported in 3 simi trailers to each venue Thanx for the review I was a teenager then and was astounded by this music and am still
Ohhhh what an intro!!!! An intro of intros!!
They had amazing audio in live venues. Special effects were great
Aqua tarkus was absolutely you just can’t describe it when I first heard of the Madison Square, Garden there’s sound it was like you were I blown away because I miss some people have called him a mad genius. Many years later, a lot of keyboard, players said that this is what is the most amazing solo on the synthesizer and it was analogue, but Emerson working with Bob Moog inventor of the system, and every time I listen to it today, especially with headphones And it brings me back like I was in the garden back in December 18, 1973. Also, they surprise the audience by playing a version of silent night. It was beautiful. These guys never cease to amaze me still at the age of 69, but thank you my friend.
I got to see ELP twice in one year both at MSG. Once for their WORKS tour and they came back later in the year for WNEW's anniversary concert. circa 1977?
Same here.
Lucky Man... or is that a song? 🧐
@@JimNewstead At the time...lucky boy (but didn't realize the significance..)
Lucky Man is describing the funeral itself.
Keith Emerson was, without doubt (!!!), the greatest Keyboard Player of all Time! ☺Kind Regards Heinz from Munich/Germany.
Hello Heinz 👋
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Hi Jim!
I believe the panning and very spacious sound on this record has something to do with the fact that it was originally a quadrophonic PA system used live. It blew minds left, right and center back in the day 😁
Sounds incredible Even!
What was very cool in quad at the concert was the very end of Karn Evil 9. Keith's huge moog setup turned 90 degrees to face the audience and wings sprouted from the sides while the arpeggio kept going around the venue and as it got faster and faster it flew from the quad speakers that way as well. Truly an awesome moment.
Aquatarkus is a great song to listen to in all the live recordings. It's always very different in each one.
'Every day a little sadder, a little madder, someone get me a ladder' Truly one of the lyrics of all time.
I dunno if you're being sarcastic here. Always grated with me, that one, along with 'Why did he lose six million Jews?' Great music though.
It's perfect for this song, which is about the irritating aspects of stardom and the desire to just climb up and get out of the scrum.
@@kenl2091 And that line in The Only Way is only objectionable if you don't like to question the existence or nature of God. Greg did, and it's ballsy as hell.
@@kratino Hah! No. I'm a confirmed atheist but my objection to both lyrics is that i suspect the rhyme was arrived at first then they were desperate to shoehorn them into the song lyrics no matter how unsubtle they were.
@@kenl2091 The ladder line was apparently an inside joke with the band, probably something one of them said when they were being mobbed. They even named a tour after it, so they apparently didn't think it was lame. I love both lines. I don't think Lake ever shoehorned lyrics. I like to think his line in The Only Way got people to think. I read a theory that From the Beginning was an apology of sorts for the pushback from The Only Way. I don't know if there's any truth to that. I kind of hope it isn't.
There's more to Take a Pebble after the two ballads. Live, they did different things for that interlude between the first and second halves of Take a Pebble. On the studio track, Greg played a very quiet gorgeous guitar solo that sounds like it's recorded in a cave. Sometimes he sang a little song called "My Dog Blue" and played with Carl to synchronize a guitar chord and a triangle ting.
Also, someone probably already mentioned this, but Lake wrote Lucky Man not long after he received his first guitar for Christmas at age 12.
Aquatarkus is in fact "cover" of The Minotaur by Dick Hyman, but another level
@jimnewstead Most of the shows during this tour were done using a Quadriphonic sound system believe it or not. So depending on the song and the instrument, the music was literally spinning around you.
I love it when I'm able to project my wishes onto someone else's marathon. Thank you, Mr. Elliott, for allowing me to intrude upon your soul in this way. It keeps me wondrous.
This side may well be my favorite side of all ELP, and yes, during live concerts, they used the brand-new quad system, because I was standing next to one of the four, trying to keep from being crushed by the 250k who made a sardine can of Charlotte Motor Speedway, a couple of miles from home, I am that lucky. PFM also graced the stage, and quad speakers. Ah '74! When you could get a quarter million prog fans to gather in the American South, granted, the Upper South. Jim, you would have been eating it up. Naked ladies were dancing on the cars in the parking lot, and intercourse was being had in between, tho' not by me, nor the other nerdy prog fans. It was the only time I went to the speedway. I like my noise to have variety.
Haha, I like naked ladies dancing on cars. It doesn't happen nearly enough in Milton Keynes. Well, not at the reputable car parks I go to!
Note: this was recorded as was heard in many Arenas. It was called Quad sound, the speakers were located in 4 areas. Ground breaking at the time.
Best voice of all time 😊
Whilst I adore this version of Tarkus, it being, for me the definitive version, it should be noted that Mr. Emerson quotes liberally and at length from the Dick Hyman piece The Minotaur. It is available on youtube.
Yes he does so, and brilliantly.
Emerson studied and played so many different types of music
Welcome aboard Jim to yet another all time live great, undeniably fabulous. I love this. Back in '74 and '75 this was my top play album alongside Yessongs. Awesome stuff. Following on, I am going to make a suggestion for you to listen to maybe, probably the most under-rated (R&B / folk ) rock band of all time ((imo) and that is FAMILY. They had, I think, a No.4 hit single back in July '71 titled "In my own Time" (not on any album) brilliant! But the album "A Song for Me" should be on your list, I love this band also from this era because of their unique depth of sound but their potential kind of fell flat later on. Shame. Nonetheless they are well worth a listen pre-'73/74. Please!
What separates the men from the boys on keys is how good they are with their left hand. Rick Wakeman said that Keith Emerson had the best left hand he ever saw.
Increiblemente buenos.
I saw this tour Wembley arena or the empire pool as it was then
Aquatarkus is great. Period.
Btw, I’d love to hear your take on ITCOTCK, how’s that accessible?
It is forbidden! King Crimson is instant block on TH-cam so I gave up on it. But I made a video reaction to the album as a perk to my BuyMeaCoffee members as it would never be on TH-cam.
@@JimNewstead I think it's interesting and infuriating that Robert Fripp took the KC name with him when everyone but he and Pete Sinfield (who was the lyricist/lighting designer/costume designer/"pet hippy" and never a member of the band musically) left. Eventually, Fripp booted Sinfield, so Fripp was the only member who survived all the lineup changes. It takes a special kind of egomaniac to keep riding the coattails of the first lineup instead of calling it something else. I've read Greg Lake's autobiography and many interviews with him related to KC, and he has always been discreet about his feelings on this matter. Recently, though, I read an interview with him in which he laid Fripp out and made the point I did above. Furthermore, it's Fripp who has put this strict blocking in place. I think other members of the multiple lineups would like the publicity as it would increase their name recognition and income these years later.
@@JimNewstead I know that reactions to ‘who we shall not name’ are instantly blocked. I’ll check the coffee membership 👍
You are killing me with the Eras box sets. I have II and IV now, but I and III are still too rich for my liking.
its very good and i played it till the grooves were gone ...but i put disk on the other day the bass dissapeared and things were missing , and it just sounds muffled its a nice piece of music just recorded bad .......the king biscuit flower hour recorded the same show and it is out standing like your on the stage . but only half of the show was recorded check it out😎
Hey Jim! I have some request for you, (if you don’t mind hehe) could you listen to Asia Band please! From their debut album Asia (1982), Alpha (1983) & Astra (1985) because for me these 3 albums are masterpiece. Thank you, and have a great day!
Maybe!
Hi Jim, sorry to ask this here, but I'm kind of new to this, I want to do an album request for Boston's first album. It's only like 37 minutes long total both sides I'm not sure which that would fall under. buying me a coffee said cassette is 45 minutes or then you have the full album? The full album is less than the cassette. I'm not sure which one to do for buy you a coffee for the request? Thanks.
Hi there. While it might seem slightly unfair, the reason the album is more expensive is that it’s a lot more work to do. Even though the time of music could be less, it still needs to be two (at least) videos due to copyright restrictions. I had a problem with a mixtape a few weeks ago that was all with the same band and it was blocked. I also try to buy the album to use for the videos, and £10 from the cost goes towards that. The videos for an album generally take about 3 or 4 hours to put together, if not more. Taking the £10 off for the cost of the music, that works out at about only £12.50 an hour for my time. If it feels too much, you could go for a single song or a cast iron guarantee which are less, or combinations of those. Sorry to sound mercenary, I know it sucks! But I also have to be realistic about my own time and value. I hope that helps?
I could also add that there might be an option for you becoming a member where you get an album of your choice as well as other benefits.
Thanks.
Thanks
To really appreciate this music you must hear it multiple times so you know what the f is going on....as with most prog.
Still got the ticket
TRIPLE ALBUM BOYS 6 SIDES OF BLISS IV GOT MY COPY FULLY OPEN ON THE WALL ITS NOT O.T.T. TO OPEN
First listen??
I like electronic music a lot but this first song doesn’t work for me. There’s so much happening at once without a real structure in it.
The piano piece is great though.
Not a dis, but it speaks to me!
Different things for different people!
I don't know if it's been mentioned yet but Greg wrote "Lucky Man" when he was 12 yrs. old !!!!