It's 2024 .just turned 69..and reading all these comments..just shows how good these guys were and the respect they still carry..Glad i got to see them a couple of times in the US back in the 70s..Thank You..Keith, Greg, and Carl..🎸 🥁 🎹..
Then Im the Grand Old Man; 70.I was to all 3 ELP concerts here in DK. Unforgettable.And; Listen to the young american blind girl,Rachel Flowers; She plays Tarkus, so you feel the tears comes. A worthy tribute to Kieth Emerson!
Have I got a story. I was 15, living in Montreal and a growing musician myself. One of my best friend’s dad, Jim McCall, was a manager for one of Canada’s largest musical instrument distributors at the time, and he often had world class musicians over at his place. Jim was friends with the gents of ELP and one evening while they toured Montreal at our old Olympic stadium for what is now a famous live album, Kieth was over and with all of us shitfaced, he played the organ all night long. Smashed out of his mind and with a bottle of Johnny Walker on the keyboard, he improvised with no loss of creativity or mental / physical dexterity…blew me away as a young teenager and I’ll never forget how fortunate I was to have enjoy nights like those at the McCall’s. Love live progressive bliss and ELP ❤
Edgar Allan Poe feared, above all else, the annihilation of beauty. When we're long gone I hope that someway and somehow the beauty of ELP still resonates within the ether.
A latino here, living in my "stinkhole" country. So close to the US, we we've always been under the cultural influences of the West. Radio and TV have always been powered by the top 100 and translated mainstream. The British invasion of the 60's, for example, blasted the airways along with the hippy trends. The spanish language music contended with many a progressive band so we got all the spectrum in music in many radio stations( hundreds of radio stations in my mountainous country). I grew up with some privileges and had access to room fulls of vynil. ELP was part of the repertoire and 50 years later it still resonates, now in remastered digital sound! Wow, it is now more clear why these guys, along with others, are still heard today by young generations and catalogued as great. They created masterpieces! By the way, in 1982 I directed an AM station (1600 kHz at the end of the dial) and made it #1 in my city which had 300k people then. It was , you guessed it, a Rock station. It was an ecclectic collection and you would hear everything from Yes, Jethro Tull, Rush to the Police, Van Halen, Supertramp and dozens more. And, yes, you bet ELP played a lot! Saludos amigos!
I live five miles north of the border, near Nuevo Progresso. I go into Mx every two weeks. I absolutely love it. I’m old and use a walker to move around. Everyone looks out for me, most everybody knows my nickname. Once you have friends on either side of the border, you’re a friend to everyone!
Cool story. We are sad for the Mexican people, that their leaders have failed to empower the average Mexican citizen to reach his potential. We are also sad that now the leaders in the USA are intentionally sabotaging this once great nation and turning it to rubble.
Hey man only horrible people like trump use such terms to refer to countries that are not affluent. Most Americans don't feel like that, I hope. Rock on, hermano!
Hola!......que bien que pusistes tu granito de arena para promover y dar a conocer todos estos grupos que todavía siguen influenciando a las nuevas generaciones de músicos y amantes de la buena música. 🙌
I think You Tube is the greatest thing to ever come out of technology. IT is the best thing I ever have watched.i don't have any money and I can see whatever I want.
Sadly, unless you pay them you get to watch like me, with the damn ads right in the middle of the vids & the longer they are the more BS we get to see, Nothings for free, sad but true. It's far worse now than it was when it first began.
I saw ELP live in august 1971 on the Pictures at an Exhibition tour. I was 13 years old. They were terrific. I marvel at how accomplished they were at such a young age: 26, 24 & 22, I think. Greg had already been in King Crimson for several years touring the world before forming ELP. So much talent. As a bass player, I watch Greg closely. In addition to being a great bassist he is a superb vocalist. While I am old now, perhaps, I grew up with ELP, Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Return to Forever, Pat Metheny, Stevie Wonder, Weather Report, James Taylor, Stevie Wonder, EW&F, Joni Mitchell, The Crusaders… it really was the golden age, IMO. There is talent these days, for sure, but I think the industry is different and it doesn’t manifest in the same quality ensembles that my generation enjoyed. I’m not too interested in most of the new stuff, but I can listen to the old stuff endlessly. IMO, it really was that much better.
This band was so far ahead of its time. These guys forged territory only dreamed of by most other bands. A trio with this amount of power, talent and creativity is hard to come by. What a fantastic era for music.
Nowadays, the only thing that gets played on radio is singles or hits. Back in the old days, you were likely to hear just about anything that was on an album, even odd, non whistleable tunes that would never be top ten hits. That's how I learned of ELP-I heard some of Pictures at an Exhibition on the radio, and I went right out and stole the album. Became an instant fan, and still am. I don't steal albums any more, though.
... and Mussorgsky is fantastic too. I was only 13 when listened to - first time - their PIC Exhib album and after 4 minutes I fell in love forever. Their best arrangement - to me - Toccata. Never enough! THANK ELP!
Love Carl's smile at the beginning! There are no words on how talented these musicians truly are! Saw them at Santa Monica civic in the early days of the seventys. First concert with surround sound with walls of speakers all around the whole arena! Keith's majestic organ grinding and mystifying as the music 🎵🎶 jolts and floats through one ear and out the other! Magnificent musicians unsurpassed phenomenal talent!
Saw them in Houston in early 70.s LOVE THIS GROUP WISHED I WAS REALLY THERE ONLY SONG I REMEMBER IS BIT OF LUCKY MAN & KARN 9 BUMMER 😢 I HAVE ABOUT 5 R 6 ALBUMS COLLECT TAPES CDS ALBUMS CAUSE THE MUSIC OF TODAY IS: NOT😢
Gregg Lake’s voice is from heaven. ELP helped map out my teenage years along with Yes. The compositions were so progressive, taking us on incredible journeys. Brain Salad Surgery was exactly that. I can recall entire parts of that album in my mind, note for note.
I saw them troppo time in milan 1974 and 1992 amazing!!! GREG voce ii notte comparabile .i Was at 5 metres of him ,your voice put in my hear...celestial!!!!
@@catsinhotpants 100% agree, Greg was a master vocalist along with the other 2 geniuses, are you in 7 Oaks? I am in the USA now but used to live in Sandy Lane, still have friends on Seal Road. Happy Christmas.
Not going to happen, because they are primarily not rock. Emerson's music is far closer to a modern form of classical music, played on rock instruments. It's no accident that most of ELP's major works are written like 3 or 4 part concertos. Trilogy, Karn Evil 9, The Three Fates, Tarkus, etc. It's also the reason so many classically trained musicians, such as myself (pipe organ), are so attracted to the Nice and ELP.
@Sevenoaks Kent But the HoF is a bit like the Oscars: it's more about whether your 'face fits' rather than genius. I'm not bothered they're not in HoF....
@@martintaper7997 King Crimson is a profoundly technical proficient band, but it is as well somewhat minimalistic in their composition style, whereas ELP, also technical proficient themselves, prefered the grandeur of orchestrated compositions, or in some sense the transcription of orchestral oeuvres into trio arrangements. Nevertheless, ELP always bet for grandiosity and exhuberant showmanship. That's why I consider them magnificent.
@@carlosrobertoramirezfuente2524 In my mind that makes their music "derivative". Try listening to the first four albums by Kansas, they make ELP look like learners.
@@martintaper7997 what do you means by "derivative"? I know the albums of Kansas. Kansas is AOR and ELP is prog. Even in time it is impossible that the music of ELP (69) is a "derivate" of Kansas (73).
@@wimgroart1870 ELP as the other comment states, "ELP, also technical proficient themselves, preferred the grandeur of orchestrated compositions, or in some sense the transcription of orchestral oeuvres" hence "derivative". Kansas wrote their own music in their own hybrid style and the members played in bands with an evolving style to Kansas predating ELP and 1969. Your definition of progressive rock is a moot point, and ELP is less "rock" than Kansas, that is self evident, so they ELP less fit the "rock" genre before we even start narrower definitions.
"Knife-Edge" is based on the first movement of Leoš Janáček's orchestral piece Sinfonietta (1926),[5] with an instrumental middle section that includes an extended quotation from the Allemande of Johann Sebastian Bach's first French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812, but played on an organ rather than a clavichord or piano. Lake provided the lyrics, with assistance from Richard Fraser, a member of the group's road crew.
@@wildrosecece Yeah, the first time I saw them ( in 1977 ) I think the ticket was about $7.50. If they were still around the tickets would probably now cost at least $50 !
Hey fella, when you say ` fucking gigantic musicians’ you mean they were over 20 feet tall?! They only look around average human size to me. You witnessed them 7 times though so I guess the trips were shit hot back in the day?! 😆
Puts tears to my eyes... i tripped on acid in my Firebird when I was 19... Went to the record store in 2004...asked for this album and the guy looked at me like I was from another planet... then I bought it and had the greatest night of my life
I had a bar of chocolate and a lemonade. I was 12 at the time. Never tripped on acid , continued to eat chocolate. Still like ELP. Still can't afford Firebird or Camaro.
This Performance was the very Soul& ❤of the most prolific music performed by the most talented musicians I have ever seen & MET. GOD BLESS YOU KEITH AND GREG. YOU WILL BE SORRYLY MISSED. & CARL KEEP COMING TO THE LOVE AND POWER YOU HAVE DISPLAYED IN COUNTLESS TIMES ⏲️ OVER THE YEARS!!!!!
Beautifull Greg and Keith. I feel so fortunate to have seen ELP live as well as Greg solo. Their passing still hurts, and no other band will ever come close to ELP. They are one of a kind!
Keith Emerson was in a category of exactly one. ELP affects me still the way they did in 1972, just slack-jawed wonder at his facility on his instrument and unparalleled creativity. They were my music teacher and I’ve never forgotten that.
Jazz took off in the days of Vaudeville, and as Vaudeville died, Jazz drifted away from the populous, and Rock'n Roll, came in with simple, loud and emotional music. Kids get really good on they're instruments at young ages, so only a generation after Rock'n Roll started, there were some exceptional Rock'n Rollers that could play circles around a lot of the most popular Jazz musicians. ELP was one of a few of complete acts that produced works of art far ahead of anything that Jazz ever attempted. The old Jazz aficionados were calling acts, like this, "pompous." Of course, being so far above so many professional musicians, the next generation wanted their time in the limelight, so we had the New Wave. Coming off the high of 70's art rock, the new musicians weren't exactly chopped liver. ELP was resented by both the new and the old. 50 years later, it becomes obvious just how extraordinary this act was.
I really wish I had been alive in a time when a progressive band could redo Mussorgsky and it would sell out massive stadiums. People just seems so much more intelligent back then.
I’ve seen ELP more than any other group. Each and every time is nearly life-altering. So sad that Keith and Greg are gone. Carl is still going strong I believe…
I work in a city with a few classic rock radio stations. They never play any ELP. One of the greatest bands of all time. And the same stations played their songs a lot in the 70s and 80s.
ELP introduced many of us teens to classical music, they made it palatable to our generation. I, like many, developed a real love for classical in the following years. Thank you ELP.
Along time ago ,my boyfriend's father gave me the first record of E.L.P on my birthday.I like They do advenced rock music.Impossible not to love. Thank you ELP, thank you Laitche ,BERAY from İstanbul
I love how all three of the members of this band played so tightly and in tune with what the others were doing. I loved seeing Greg smile at Keith. He commanded the stage and was clearly the 'leader' and heartbeat of ELP. God, he was so damned talented and he loved making music so much, and that came across with every performance. He was there for the audience, and that was very apparent. I just wish that whoever was manning the cameras in these videos actually spent more time focusing in on Greg's playing, but as it was the focus was almost always on Keith and Carl. With 3 such ridiculously talented musicians, it's gotta be hard to know who to focus on, and when. But Greg's singing and playing, and stage presence were intoxicating and mesmerizing, and I always want to see more.
Beautiful voice and every guitar he playing, strong and smart drums & unbeliewebl keyboards any kind Ewesome band I love welcome back my friend...... at night before sleep with big headphone Every sound what i hunt in my head is masterpice
A great band. One of my top 5 favs. Greg Lake was a magnificent human being who kept his head about him when others were losing their's. England produced the best progressive rock bands of all time, and after all is said and done that little island nation has produced the greatest modern musicians.
@@wildrosecece Seems like most music nowadays is only influenced by $$$...not all, but most! Thank Rock and Roll for Greta Van Fleet, The Glorious Sons, Monster Truck, YYNOT & others for still creating wonderful Music!
Plenty better. Honestly, that is just silly. Inspiring to teenage prog fans maybe, yes, but creatively, his meter, all not so good. Like him all you want... I saw him several times... But be honest with the reality.. do some work.
It goes to show the greatness of their music, that 50 years later it's still listened to and appreciated. So glad I caught several of their concerts (including Keith @ BB King but especially the '77 Pirates tour). Wish there could be more. RIP Keith and Greg
Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends. Guess, that the classic komponents in all ELP creations are exorbitant high quality, you come out and have new ears, brain and possibly new spirit & soul. God bless all of you(rs) and Greg Lake too.
Even the gods have to leave us eventually. But we are better for the time they spent among us. Wherever Keith and Greg are, they're watching and smiling down on us. ❤️️
Oh what a band! They are incredible...and Gosh, Carl is so cute, strong and beautiful, he was only 20 years old here, I'm just a teenage girl but I think he's still so young, so fresh, so handsome nowadays , what a man!🥰 I would love to meet him someday. I love his talent, I admire him very much❤...
Saranno stati anche strafatti di qualunque sostanza disponibile, però riuscivano a mantenere il controllo totale (e CHE controllo) degli strumenti.. grandi!!
Saw this tour in Miami, at the Jai alai stadium. I was 16 and went to Hialeah High School. Concerts back then, people were quiet and actually sat and listened to the concert. A friend and I snuck in early before the show. They were warming up. We were walking in a hallway giggling and goofing off, and then suddenly we see someone is walking toward us, oh shit it's Carl Palmer. We panicked, turned and walked to the restroom, and in he walks and joins us at the urinal. We thought we were done. But while he is peeing, he asked us if we were with the gaffers. We had no idea what that was. But we said yes. I will never forget that feeling of awe and dread that we were busted, but its Carl Palmer. That's my story.
Gaffers are electricians working mostly with lights in a concert tour. On a film set, their work is essential to placing light where the director wants it.
Músicos de verdad, profesionales, creativos y talentosos, una lástima inmensa que ya no los tengamos, por lo menos a dos de ellos, Greg Lake un prodigio colmado de talento y calidad musical, Keith Emerson un genio que no podrá ser replicado, cargado de una capacidad creativa muy pocas veces vista, el que queda otro prodigio, baterista lleno de magia.
Way, way back in the "dark ages" of the '70's, my brother introduced me to a few things one day. I got stoned, and heard ELP and YES for the first time. Well, you know what happened, they imprinted themselves on my brain and have been a part of my life ever since. I'm glad to say that I was able to see them both in concert, Yes 6 or 7 times but unfortunately, I only saw ELP once.
Saw Emerson with The Nice at a hotel near Coventry in 1969. Hard to believe but yeah you could see world class musicians back then in very small venues. This was back when Emerson was stabbing his keys with giant World War 2 knives. Great times but problem was we didn’t realise at the time what the importance was of what we were witnessing. Same goes for when I saw Jimi Hendrix in 1967 at Coventry Theatre. They were just “pop stars” back then. Crazy when I look back. Glad I was there though.
I still dearly love ELP...IMO they were the greatest prog rock band to ever make music, pure genius stuff...the talent these men possessed was at such a high level it was scary, I'm lucky I got to see them perform live ! 🎼😀🎵
We used to rent this VHS video from our local record store : FULL CIRCLE, get smoked up and watch, many a times our parents would be like uhhh what are you watching? Knowing we were totally baked, I mean come on, this isn't Billy Joel😅
Durn they were great. I don't give GD about people saying their music was 'pretentious'. They, like Yes and some other progressive bands, were fabulous musicians. And I'm listening and loving it 50 years later.
At school i had two mates who raved over them, while i admire their exceptional musical ability, i never took to ELP, but it wouldn't do for us all to be the same, happy to say i attended and met Carl at drum clinics and been totally in awe at his prowess on the drums as well as being a real nice guy to chat with.
Agree, 50 years later... I was 15 at the time now I am 66. Unbelievable what music gave to me. EL&P simply were musical legends to me. On other source I've listened to pictures at an exhibition today again after all these years. BTW did you hear what happened to Keith Emerson ~
With today's technology in gear and years down the road for the musician's that came years after. The beginnings of the Synthesizer being used in music was of coarse Keith Emerson. Today it sounds fairly simple compared to Dream Theater's Jordan Rutless, BUT no one today was in their shoes attempting to create the unknown, with what they had back then. Moog was just coming on the music scene in 1967. Moog modular synth was starting to be added in by Paul Beaver in jazz and used by Paul with the doors on some tracks. It wasn't until 1970 when ELP was ready and exploring, Lucky man brought that distinct sound to center stage! How many of us heard that ending riff by Keith for the first time and were taken back? Thank you, Bob Moog!
Ce groupe est le reflet d'une époque éclatante révolue, un astéroïde fantôme qui revient jeter son dévolu sur l'art sonore. Une onde prodigieuse chargée de paradoxes d'où s'échappent la féérie l'enthousiasme et l'irrationnel, facteurs hypnotiques défiant les âmes vulnérables en quête d'absolu. Son architecture musicale est un court tunnel qui mène à la lumière 🤗
Love that crazy moog synth! These guys changed my life. Cozy was no slouch either. Saw the other ELP back in the day too. Mind blowing time. I believe that was the tour that Max Headroom was the opener! Wow.
Really loved the early ELP records when I was a teenager in the very early 70’s. The Moog synthesizer was fairly new and Keith Emerson was making the most of the new technology.
It's 2024
.just turned 69..and reading all these comments..just shows how good these guys were and the respect they still carry..Glad i got to see them a couple of times in the US back in the 70s..Thank You..Keith, Greg, and Carl..🎸 🥁 🎹..
Just behind you.. 66.
Lucky Man
Then Im the Grand Old Man; 70.I was to all 3 ELP concerts here in DK. Unforgettable.And; Listen to the young american blind girl,Rachel Flowers; She plays Tarkus, so you feel the tears comes. A worthy tribute to Kieth Emerson!
71 and 3 concerts in the 70's. I have all the albums.
@@johnnynielsen4804 she is great
Have I got a story. I was 15, living in Montreal and a growing musician myself. One of my best friend’s dad, Jim McCall, was a manager for one of Canada’s largest musical instrument distributors at the time, and he often had world class musicians over at his place. Jim was friends with the gents of ELP and one evening while they toured Montreal at our old Olympic stadium for what is now a famous live album, Kieth was over and with all of us shitfaced, he played the organ all night long. Smashed out of his mind and with a bottle of Johnny Walker on the keyboard, he improvised with no loss of creativity or mental / physical dexterity…blew me away as a young teenager and I’ll never forget how fortunate I was to have enjoy nights like those at the McCall’s. Love live progressive bliss and ELP ❤
What a wonderful role model for you
I was there too
Lucky guy!
Edgar Allan Poe feared, above all else, the annihilation of beauty. When we're long gone I hope that someway and somehow the beauty of ELP still resonates within the ether.
A latino here, living in my "stinkhole" country.
So close to the US, we we've always been under the cultural influences of the West. Radio and TV have always been powered by the top 100 and translated mainstream. The British invasion of the 60's, for example, blasted the airways along with the hippy trends. The spanish language music contended with many a progressive band so we got all the spectrum in music in many radio stations( hundreds of radio stations in my mountainous country). I grew up with some privileges and had access to room fulls of vynil. ELP was part of the repertoire and 50 years later it still resonates, now in remastered digital sound! Wow, it is now more clear why these guys, along with others, are still heard today by young generations and catalogued as great.
They created masterpieces!
By the way, in 1982 I directed an AM station (1600 kHz at the end of the dial) and made it #1 in my city which had 300k people then. It was , you guessed it, a Rock station. It was an ecclectic collection and you would hear everything from Yes, Jethro Tull, Rush to the Police, Van Halen, Supertramp and dozens more. And, yes, you bet ELP played a lot!
Saludos amigos!
Cool
I live five miles north of the border, near Nuevo Progresso. I go into Mx every two weeks. I absolutely love it. I’m old and use a walker to move around. Everyone looks out for me, most everybody knows my nickname. Once you have friends on either side of the border, you’re a friend to everyone!
Cool story. We are sad for the Mexican people, that their leaders have failed to empower the average Mexican citizen to reach his potential. We are also sad that now the leaders in the USA are intentionally sabotaging this once great nation and turning it to rubble.
Hey man only horrible people like trump use such terms to refer to countries that are not affluent. Most Americans don't feel like that, I hope. Rock on, hermano!
Hola!......que bien que pusistes tu granito de arena para promover y dar a conocer todos estos grupos que todavía siguen influenciando a las nuevas generaciones de músicos y amantes de la buena música. 🙌
I think You Tube is the greatest thing to ever come out of technology. IT is the best thing I ever have watched.i don't have any money and I can see whatever I want.
I can watch full concerts of bands that I had only seen in still pictures before TH-cam.
Sadly, unless you pay them you get to watch like me, with the damn ads right in the middle of the vids & the longer they are the more BS we get to see, Nothings for free, sad but true. It's far worse now than it was when it first began.
50 years later and no other band has come close to what ELP was able to achieve!
RIP Keith and Greg!
Best wishes for Carl!
Dead right......rock on.....ELP lives
As I recall from my youth, BBC Radio 1 hardly used to play their music. Unfortunately!
Vuelo a los años más felices de mi juventut 💖
maybe only king crimson have overcome this
What? Yes, Rush and Dream Theater have done incredible things, much, much better than this. This is nothing special
This was my first album...... 1972 still unbeatebel .but still you turn me on. RIP Keith and Greg
I saw ELP live in august 1971 on the Pictures at an Exhibition tour. I was 13 years old. They were terrific. I marvel at how accomplished they were at such a young age: 26, 24 & 22, I think. Greg had already been in King Crimson for several years touring the world before forming ELP. So much talent. As a bass player, I watch Greg closely. In addition to being a great bassist he is a superb vocalist. While I am old now, perhaps, I grew up with ELP, Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Return to Forever, Pat Metheny, Stevie Wonder, Weather Report, James Taylor, Stevie Wonder, EW&F, Joni Mitchell, The Crusaders… it really was the golden age, IMO. There is talent these days, for sure, but I think the industry is different and it doesn’t manifest in the same quality ensembles that my generation enjoyed. I’m not too interested in most of the new stuff, but I can listen to the old stuff endlessly. IMO, it really was that much better.
pretty much...Poor kids of today.
This band was so far ahead of its time. These guys forged territory only dreamed of by most other bands. A trio with this amount of power, talent and creativity is hard to come by. What a fantastic era for music.
Best Trio in Rock Prog History.. No question
@@davelogan676 for sure, along side the outfit.. Yes..brain salad surgery done it for me.
Yessong
Can't get over how young they look. So talented to be so young.
Nowadays, the only thing that gets played on radio is singles or hits. Back in the old days, you were likely to hear just about anything that was on an album, even odd, non whistleable tunes that would never be top ten hits. That's how I learned of ELP-I heard some of Pictures at an Exhibition on the radio, and I went right out and stole the album. Became an instant fan, and still am. I don't steal albums any more, though.
Bet that was the best money you never spent
Sheriff: “You’re under arrest for stealing an album”
You: “But it’s ELP”
Sheriff: “Oh ok, take it and get outta here”
😁
non whistleable?
@@myearsloveit not this
Like maybe "abbadons bolero"? 😉
@@dandecastro51 mebbe🤣
... and Mussorgsky is fantastic too. I was only 13 when listened to - first time - their PIC Exhib album and after 4 minutes I fell in love forever. Their best arrangement - to me - Toccata. Never enough! THANK ELP!
Oh yes! Me too!!!!
Oh boy what memories .... Saw ELP concert first time in 1972 at Palasport in Rome. Will never forget
Been a fan since the 1970's still amazed by the awesomeness' of their music! RIP Keith & Greg you are sorely missed.
Love Carl's smile at the beginning! There are no words on how talented these musicians truly are! Saw them at Santa Monica civic in the early days of the seventys. First concert with surround sound with walls of speakers all around the whole arena! Keith's majestic organ grinding and mystifying as the music 🎵🎶 jolts and floats through one ear and out the other! Magnificent musicians unsurpassed phenomenal talent!
Saw them in Houston in early 70.s LOVE THIS GROUP WISHED I WAS REALLY THERE ONLY SONG I REMEMBER IS BIT OF LUCKY MAN & KARN 9 BUMMER 😢 I HAVE ABOUT 5 R 6 ALBUMS COLLECT TAPES CDS ALBUMS CAUSE THE MUSIC OF TODAY IS: NOT😢
Carl has a beautiful smile. They looks like kids having so much fun!. Very talented young musicians.
Gregg Lake’s voice is from heaven. ELP helped map out my teenage years along with Yes. The compositions were so progressive, taking us on incredible journeys. Brain Salad Surgery was exactly that. I can recall entire parts of that album in my mind, note for note.
I saw them troppo time in milan 1974 and 1992 amazing!!! GREG voce ii notte comparabile .i Was at 5 metres of him ,your voice put in my hear...celestial!!!!
I didn’t have to write anything because you wrote Word for Word my thoughts and experience! Note for note!
I do that with Surrealistic Pillow note for note in my brain!
@@fabriziospinelli6356 saw them at caljam1 in 74 at 16
You obviously didn't ever hear the New York Dolls.
Greg had a golden voice, so beautiful.
Yes...such a beautiful voice
The best!
@@catsinhotpants hey Sevenoaks are you in sevenoaks? I used to live there in Sandy Lane, now in the usa sadly
@@catsinhotpants 100% agree, Greg was a master vocalist along with the other 2 geniuses, are you in 7 Oaks? I am in the USA now but used to live in Sandy Lane, still have friends on Seal Road. Happy Christmas.
Smooth as silk !!!
I seen Emerson Lake and Palmer when they where on there Brain Salad Surgery Tour in 1977 at the Boston Gardens 💯Amazing!!!!
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😊💜
Me, too. First concert ever, and first time I ever got high! Still have my ticket stub.
Brain salad surgery was released in late 73. Either the tour is wrong or the year when you seen them
77 would have been the Works tour. I caught that one in Ft. Wayne, IN
Emerson Lake and Palmer should be in the Rock N' Roll Hall and Fame, now!
who cares its a big fucking joke, these guys blew away tons of the people inducted
Why ?
Not going to happen, because they are primarily not rock. Emerson's music is far closer to a modern form of classical music, played on rock instruments. It's no accident that most of ELP's major works are written like 3 or 4 part concertos. Trilogy, Karn Evil 9, The Three Fates, Tarkus, etc. It's also the reason so many classically trained musicians, such as myself (pipe organ), are so attracted to the Nice and ELP.
@Sevenoaks Kent But the HoF is a bit like the Oscars: it's more about whether your 'face fits' rather than genius. I'm not bothered they're not in HoF....
Do yourself a favor, don’t waste your time or money going there. It’s a joke.
They wouldn’t know good music if it bit them in the ass.
Avevo 12 anni quando li ascoltai la prima volta, era il 1973, rimasi abbagliato, Tarkus era la mia ossessione, gli idoli della mia infanzia.
Their first album is phenomenal..so much sophisticated music from 3 very talented YOUNG men….stunning stuff
These guys didn't play by the rules. They always just improvized with their sheer greatness of skills. Godspeed ELP
no, they kinda played it the same each time.
Yezzir that's why they were Great!
This is the song that opened my eyes to classical music, even though I only played rock music. EL&P was an intelligent band.
Как я люблю этих мальчишек! Они втроём стоят симфонического оркестра. Думаю, от такой интерпретации Мусоргский был бы просто в восторге!
Да ,мне повезло слушать феноменальную игру этих музыкантов и каждый раз вновь и вновь поражаешься их мастерству . RIP Kиту и Грегу
И я люблю, а как улыбаются! Прелесть. Каждый день слушаю пару вещей!
Хрен Его знает, может и повесился бы сразу...
ELP had the ability to make any music composition an exciting, impressive journey. There will be no one as magnificent as them.
Not even King Crimson?
@@martintaper7997 King Crimson is a profoundly technical proficient band, but it is as well somewhat minimalistic in their composition style, whereas ELP, also technical proficient themselves, prefered the grandeur of orchestrated compositions, or in some sense the transcription of orchestral oeuvres into trio arrangements. Nevertheless, ELP always bet for grandiosity and exhuberant showmanship. That's why I consider them magnificent.
@@carlosrobertoramirezfuente2524 In my mind that makes their music "derivative". Try listening to the first four albums by Kansas, they make ELP look like learners.
@@martintaper7997 what do you means by "derivative"? I know the albums of Kansas. Kansas is AOR and ELP is prog. Even in time it is impossible that the music of ELP (69) is a "derivate" of Kansas (73).
@@wimgroart1870 ELP as the other comment states, "ELP, also technical proficient themselves, preferred the grandeur of orchestrated compositions, or in some sense the transcription of orchestral oeuvres" hence "derivative". Kansas wrote their own music in their own hybrid style and the members played in bands with an evolving style to Kansas predating ELP and 1969. Your definition of progressive rock is a moot point, and ELP is less "rock" than Kansas, that is self evident, so they ELP less fit the "rock" genre before we even start narrower definitions.
"Knife-Edge" is based on the first movement of Leoš Janáček's orchestral piece Sinfonietta (1926),[5] with an instrumental middle section that includes an extended quotation from the Allemande of Johann Sebastian Bach's first French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812, but played on an organ rather than a clavichord or piano. Lake provided the lyrics, with assistance from Richard Fraser, a member of the group's road crew.
ELP is one of the best things that could happened to music
yes, it made people move past it, as they saw it as a bloated ego dinosaur. that, coming from a fan.
I witnessed ELP live 7 times. They were fucking gigantic musicians who took prog rock to unseen and unheard levels.
Live 7 times! Oh, what a lucky man, he was!
Yeah tickets were probably $8.00 you could go to any concerts as long as you had a ride.
@@wildrosecece Yeah, the first time I saw them ( in 1977 ) I think the ticket was about $7.50. If they were still around the tickets would probably now cost at least $50 !
Hey fella, when you say ` fucking gigantic musicians’ you mean they were over 20 feet tall?! They only look around average human size to me. You witnessed them 7 times though so I guess the trips were shit hot back in the day?! 😆
so jealous. I was too young.
Puts tears to my eyes... i tripped on acid in my Firebird when I was 19...
Went to the record store in 2004...asked for this album and the guy looked at me like I was from another planet... then I bought it and had the greatest night of my life
comment of the decade
I had a bar of chocolate and a lemonade. I was 12 at the time. Never tripped on acid , continued to eat chocolate. Still like ELP. Still can't afford Firebird or Camaro.
👏🤣
Charger i was 12
nice!
This Performance was the very Soul& ❤of the most prolific music performed by the most talented musicians I have ever seen & MET. GOD BLESS YOU KEITH AND GREG. YOU WILL BE SORRYLY MISSED. & CARL KEEP COMING TO THE LOVE AND POWER YOU HAVE DISPLAYED IN COUNTLESS TIMES ⏲️ OVER THE YEARS!!!!!
Senza tempo...avevo 14 anni quando sentii Pictures la prima volta. A 65 anni ancora rimango ammirato dal talento di questo trio ❤
I saw them in Nashville in 1977. Best concert I've EVER seen!
Was that the one with the orchestra? I was there! Unless that was 78. If so, we were lucky. I hear they ditched the orchestra shortly afterward.
Beautifull Greg and Keith. I feel so fortunate to have seen ELP live as well as Greg solo. Their passing still hurts, and no other band will ever come close to ELP. They are one of a kind!
What a voice, only got better the older he got, I can always listen to Greg
Великая (супер) группа в мастерстве и глубине чувств.
Keith Emerson was in a category of exactly one. ELP affects me still the way they did in 1972, just slack-jawed wonder at his facility on his instrument and unparalleled creativity. They were my music teacher and I’ve never forgotten that.
Jazz took off in the days of Vaudeville, and as Vaudeville died, Jazz drifted away from the populous, and Rock'n Roll, came in with simple, loud and emotional music. Kids get really good on they're instruments at young ages, so only a generation after Rock'n Roll started, there were some exceptional Rock'n Rollers that could play circles around a lot of the most popular Jazz musicians. ELP was one of a few of complete acts that produced works of art far ahead of anything that Jazz ever attempted. The old Jazz aficionados were calling acts, like this, "pompous."
Of course, being so far above so many professional musicians, the next generation wanted their time in the limelight, so we had the New Wave. Coming off the high of 70's art rock, the new musicians weren't exactly chopped liver. ELP was resented by both the new and the old. 50 years later, it becomes obvious just how extraordinary this act was.
Not something you see in near future. ,, Just incredible guys. Real players
I saw ELP once in Margate UK in March 1971, unforgettable experience, RIP Keith and Greg
I really wish I had been alive in a time when a progressive band could redo Mussorgsky and it would sell out massive stadiums. People just seems so much more intelligent back then.
I’ve seen ELP more than any other group. Each and every time is nearly life-altering. So sad that Keith and Greg are gone. Carl is still going strong I believe…
The public education system was still somewhat functional.And WOKE didn't exist.
@@kevmac1230 and potato chips came in 3lb cardboard boxes.
❤still God bless them
Yes. Because we were more intelligent back then.
I work in a city with a few classic rock radio stations.
They never play any ELP.
One of the greatest bands of all time. And the same stations played their songs a lot in the 70s and 80s.
ELP introduced many of us teens to classical music, they made it palatable to our generation. I, like many, developed a real love for classical in the following years. Thank you ELP.
I couldn't agree more!
Along time ago ,my boyfriend's father gave me the first record of E.L.P on my birthday.I like They do advenced rock music.Impossible not to love. Thank you ELP, thank you Laitche ,BERAY from İstanbul
Потрясающая музыка. ELP, вы великие музыканты!
I love how all three of the members of this band played so tightly and in tune with what the others were doing. I loved seeing Greg smile at Keith. He commanded the stage and was clearly the 'leader' and heartbeat of ELP. God, he was so damned talented and he loved making music so much, and that came across with every performance. He was there for the audience, and that was very apparent. I just wish that whoever was manning the cameras in these videos actually spent more time focusing in on Greg's playing, but as it was the focus was almost always on Keith and Carl. With 3 such ridiculously talented musicians, it's gotta be hard to know who to focus on, and when. But Greg's singing and playing, and stage presence were intoxicating and mesmerizing, and I always want to see more.
In an earlier time Greg Lake would have been a minstrel bringing stories from town to town across the English countryside.
I like it.
Beautiful voice and every guitar he playing, strong and smart drums & unbeliewebl keyboards any kind
Ewesome band
I love welcome back my friend...... at night before sleep with big headphone
Every sound what i hunt in my head is masterpice
A great band. One of my top 5 favs. Greg Lake was a magnificent human being who kept his head about him when others were losing their's. England produced the best progressive rock bands of all time, and after all is said and done that little island nation has produced the greatest modern musicians.
I was v.i.p. at radio city concert met Greg n Carl got pictured autographs those guys A+!
Holy holy holy and these young men created this music for my generation and yours and generations to come.
Thank-you gentle men !
RIP Emerson, here's hoping your contribution to music influences future artists and generations
never gonna happen
All music influences someone.
@@wildrosecece Seems like most music nowadays is only influenced by $$$...not all, but most! Thank Rock and Roll for Greta Van Fleet, The Glorious Sons, Monster Truck, YYNOT & others for still creating wonderful Music!
00:00 Presentation for Keith Emerson
00:27 Promenade
02:18 The Gnome
08:00 Promenade
09:24 The Sage (intro)
#RIP Keith
#RIP Greg
Great to see Greg and Keith alive. RIP both of you. 😢
After 50 years, Carl is still a great drummer! ...no, better!
yes
Plenty better. Honestly, that is just silly. Inspiring to teenage prog fans maybe, yes, but creatively, his meter, all not so good. Like him all you want... I saw him several times... But be honest with the reality.. do some work.
Bravissimo. C'è però anche John Bonham dei mitici Zeppelin..
Palmer spielt mit 90 noch alle an die Wand
It's hard to believe we saw this over 50 years ago. Wow.
It goes to show the greatness of their music, that 50 years later it's still listened to and appreciated. So glad I caught several of their concerts (including Keith @ BB King but especially the '77 Pirates tour). Wish there could be more. RIP Keith and Greg
The most talented band popular music has ever seen! RIP dear Maestro and genius Emerson and supremely talented Greg!
Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends. Guess, that the classic komponents in all ELP creations are exorbitant high quality, you come out and have new ears, brain and possibly new spirit & soul. God bless all of you(rs) and Greg Lake too.
Even the gods have to leave us eventually. But we are better for the time they spent among us. Wherever Keith and Greg are, they're watching and smiling down on us. ❤️️
All fabulous musicians, and the showmanship of Keith Emerson blew me away the first time I saw a live video of them!
The brilliance of. these performances lives on! ... God Bless.
did god bless that shot gun Keith used... or Kurt Cobain? Just wondering why he would step in now for your blessing? Confusing..
Oh what a band! They are incredible...and Gosh, Carl is so cute, strong and beautiful, he was only 20 years old here, I'm just a teenage girl but I think he's still so young, so fresh, so handsome nowadays , what a man!🥰 I would love to meet him someday. I love his talent, I admire him very much❤...
I was blessed to finally see ELP at a smaller ventue after they reunited. They didnt disappoint.
Rip Keith, Greg.
They bring me back to a time ,playing these classics over and over
Saranno stati anche strafatti di qualunque sostanza disponibile, però riuscivano a mantenere il controllo totale (e CHE controllo) degli strumenti.. grandi!!
Saw this tour in Miami, at the Jai alai stadium. I was 16 and went to Hialeah High School. Concerts back then, people were quiet and actually sat and listened to the concert. A friend and I snuck in early before the show. They were warming up. We were walking in a hallway giggling and goofing off, and then suddenly we see someone is walking toward us, oh shit it's Carl Palmer. We panicked, turned and walked to the restroom, and in he walks and joins us at the urinal. We thought we were done. But while he is peeing, he asked us if we were with the gaffers. We had no idea what that was. But we said yes. I will never forget that feeling of awe and dread that we were busted, but its Carl Palmer. That's my story.
Love it
Gaffers are electricians working mostly with lights in a concert tour. On a film set, their work is essential to placing light where the director wants it.
Ahahahaha great story
and you can tell it any way you want to .
Músicos de verdad, profesionales, creativos y talentosos, una lástima inmensa que ya no los tengamos, por lo menos a dos de ellos, Greg Lake un prodigio colmado de talento y calidad musical, Keith Emerson un genio que no podrá ser replicado, cargado de una capacidad creativa muy pocas veces vista, el que queda otro prodigio, baterista lleno de magia.
Tambien es una lástima q palmemos mosotros con 71...bueno seguiré escuchandp hasta q los timpanos aguanten
Way, way back in the "dark ages" of the '70's, my brother introduced me to a few things one day. I got stoned, and heard ELP and YES for the first time. Well, you know what happened, they imprinted themselves on my brain and have been a part of my life ever since. I'm glad to say that I was able to see them both in concert, Yes 6 or 7 times but unfortunately, I only saw ELP once.
Saw Emerson with The Nice at a hotel near Coventry in 1969. Hard to believe but yeah you could see world class musicians back then in very small venues. This was back when Emerson was stabbing his keys with giant World War 2 knives. Great times but problem was we didn’t realise at the time what the importance was of what we were witnessing. Same goes for when I saw Jimi Hendrix in 1967 at Coventry Theatre. They were just “pop stars” back then. Crazy when I look back. Glad I was there though.
Yours is no disgrace.
Best concert I've ever seen inHouston, Tx, as a 16 yr old living in Alvin, Tx
saw them 1974 roosevelt stadium, jersey city n.j. amazing show!!
8:17 Never get tired of listening to Greg Lake’s voice here
I remember buying PAAE back 1972. It is still astounding today. Not to mention what they do to Kim Fowley's Nutrocker.
I still dearly love ELP...IMO they were the greatest prog rock band to ever make music, pure genius stuff...the talent these men possessed was at such a high level it was scary, I'm lucky I got to see them perform live ! 🎼😀🎵
You were a " Lucky Man", alright.
One the best groups without question. I've been a fan since I was in the seventh grade, I'm 59 now.
Pure talent, brilliant geniuses! GL and KE never forgotten!
Still love them forever. Never missed a concert
When I first watched Keith brutalise and pushing around his Hammond like it owed him money I was just joyously shocked. What a performer.
Like it owed him money.......ha ha ha
Funny .!
Lol what a way to put it hahaha
Immer wieder Gänsehaut
Nach den Jahrzehnten ...
This _cuvée_ is one of the best of them. Those years was pure mind elevation.
We used to rent this VHS video from our local record store : FULL CIRCLE, get smoked up and watch, many a times our parents would be like uhhh what are you watching? Knowing we were totally baked, I mean come on, this isn't Billy Joel😅
ELP brought me to classical music and my music professor gray hair. Greetings from Austria, the country in which cows fart in polyphonic voices!
Saw them 4 times. The last was the August Jam. It was the same tour.
ELP changed my music life. Along with others. They are the greatest.
Durn they were great. I don't give GD about people saying their music was 'pretentious'. They, like Yes and some other progressive bands, were fabulous musicians. And I'm listening and loving it 50 years later.
At school i had two mates who raved over them, while i admire their exceptional musical ability, i never took to ELP, but it wouldn't do for us all to be the same, happy to say i attended and met Carl at drum clinics and been totally in awe at his prowess on the drums as well as being a real nice guy to chat with.
Agree, 50 years later... I was 15 at the time now I am 66. Unbelievable what music gave to me. EL&P simply were musical legends to me. On other source I've listened to pictures at an exhibition today again after all these years. BTW did you hear what happened to Keith Emerson ~
One of my all time favorites. This was one of my first more FM bands. The band still remains as one of the greats from prog rock.
REST IN PEACE KEITH EMERSON ...YOU WILL BE MISSED :(
Carl Palmer lives on in his new band, the ELP Legacy.
They are deeply missed... I saw ELP Legacy, they are awesome!
Such a great talent has left us 😔
With today's technology in gear and years down the road for the musician's that came years after. The beginnings of the Synthesizer being used in music was of coarse Keith Emerson. Today it sounds fairly simple compared to Dream Theater's Jordan Rutless, BUT no one today was in their shoes attempting to create the unknown, with what they had back then. Moog was just coming on the music scene in 1967. Moog modular synth was starting to be added in by Paul Beaver in jazz and used by Paul with the doors on some tracks. It wasn't until 1970 when ELP was ready and exploring, Lucky man brought that distinct sound to center stage! How many of us heard that ending riff by Keith for the first time and were taken back? Thank you, Bob Moog!
何度観ても飽きない😉👍
Desde Chile al mundo ..uno de los mejores grupos del rokanrolllll.....
Ce groupe est le reflet d'une époque éclatante révolue, un astéroïde fantôme qui revient jeter son dévolu sur l'art sonore. Une onde prodigieuse chargée de paradoxes d'où s'échappent la féérie l'enthousiasme et l'irrationnel, facteurs hypnotiques défiant les âmes vulnérables en quête d'absolu. Son architecture musicale est un court tunnel qui mène à la lumière 🤗
Love that crazy moog synth! These guys changed my life. Cozy was no slouch either. Saw the other ELP back in the day too. Mind blowing time. I believe that was the tour that Max Headroom was the opener! Wow.
Amused to see the old-fashioned frequency counter sitting on the Moog, 'cos that was the only way to keep those early synthesizers in tune! ♥
They made this piece of music a masterpiece
Really loved the early ELP records when I was a teenager in the very early 70’s. The Moog synthesizer was fairly new and Keith Emerson was making the most of the new technology.
So great to see young kids having fun playing music --- Carl just keeps smiling.
Born in 1969....was lucky enough to see them in the 90's. Brilliant
And then Lake went on with his master piece "The Sage", that he composed when he was in his early 23 year of age!!
I love The Sage. Oneof my all time favorite songs
Outstanding musicianship all along. Long live ELP!
Look how cute allowed them are❤ Carl and Greg Are to much❤😮