This is the song i used to wow family and friends with when i was 10. Loved elton john. he was my first musical love as the beatles were fading from existence. It was all beatles from the time if was 4 til they broke up. but i'm 50 now and play piano and arrange harmonies in the studio for a living, so music was everything to me. i did the little jam thing at the end and it was that hard even at age 10,but it was cool and it made everyone at my 6th grade party think i had it all going on.
I had this on 8 track(1971-senior year- Bayside High). Killer tape!!!!!!!!! What energy and feeling.And yes, cool when toking + and still so now, clean + sober.
tickle those ivory's, damn takes me back to driving around with friends singing and laughing, so glad i had friends that knew how great this was in the 70's
+HUTCHfromBA I agree! Dudgeon screwed up the UK mix (which was used for the remastered version) by adding too much echo, especially to the lead vocal!~
Dee and Nigel were chosen between many musicians during the end of the year 1970 because Elton's label didn't have the funds to send him out to tour the US with a full band, and they had to promote his albums in US. so they had to rearrange the songs in this trio format - piano-drums-bass - it may appear poor, instead it's very much tight, powerful, the kids (cos they were only 20and something) get on very good and understand each other in a perfect way!
One of the greatest examples of piano rock ever recorded! I play this a lot - at home and at the radio station - on vinyl!!
Awesome! This one of my most favorite tracks! Now this is how you rock and roll with a piano! Today's piansts can't come close to this performance!
This is the song i used to wow family and friends with when i was 10. Loved elton john. he was my first musical love as the beatles were fading from existence. It was all beatles from the time if was 4 til they broke up. but i'm 50 now and play piano and arrange harmonies in the studio for a living, so music was everything to me. i did the little jam thing at the end and it was that hard even at age 10,but it was cool and it made everyone at my 6th grade party think i had it all going on.
I had this on 8 track(1971-senior year- Bayside High). Killer tape!!!!!!!!! What energy and feeling.And yes, cool when toking + and still so now, clean + sober.
this is magic from the age of pure rock and roll
This is my favorite rendition of my favorite Elton John song.
tickle those ivory's, damn takes me back to driving around with friends singing and laughing, so glad i had friends that knew how great this was in the 70's
My opinion, The USA engineered version. Best performance Elton John ever did. And, he did a lot of them but this was his greatest.
+HUTCHfromBA I agree! Dudgeon screwed up the UK mix (which was used for the remastered version) by adding too much echo, especially to the lead vocal!~
I bought this on vinyl and it was an English import with a shiny, slick album cover. No, the shrink wrap was not shiny. Loved the whole album.
Dee and Nigel were chosen between many musicians during the end of the year 1970 because Elton's label didn't have the funds to send him out to tour the US with a full band, and they had to promote his albums in US. so they had to rearrange the songs in this trio format - piano-drums-bass - it may appear poor, instead it's very much tight, powerful, the kids (cos they were only 20and something) get on very good and understand each other in a perfect way!
bateria nigel, bajo dee, piano elton fantastico live desde youtube...la honorable sociedad
I agree... how come we only get 6 minutes?
Do you have "Sixty Years on" from this album?
Just because it was recorded in 1970 doesn't mean you had to use an 8-track.
check out in my videos you'll find as well part 2 and part 3... :)