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When I saw this come up I actually did make a quick drive to my local bagel bakery to get a very tall cup of coffee. 😄
I think I'll have a beer, because it's not so sunny here :)
F.Y.I. between Part 1 and 2 of the '1st Impression' is when you flip the album over.
There's a very short list of drummers who could succeed in trying the the other instruments together in this song. Carl Palmer makes this suite work. Period.
Yes, they DID perform it live in its entirety. Check out the magnificent live album "Welcome Back My Friends To the Show That Never Ends... ...Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake and Palmer!" (Snappy title, huh?)
It was a triple album when it was first released on vinyl. If I could only own one ELP album, it would probably be this one. Many of the live takes are superior to the studio cuts in my opinion while the "Piano Improvisations" section is unique to this album.
I loved watching your reactions to hearing this for the first time! It's really too much to take in all of it in a first listen. I reckon you need to hear it at least ten times before you really appreciate how marvellous it is.
But definitely check out the live version too!
My first impression on hearing this back in 1973 was WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What did I just hear???. 47 years later and it's still WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.
Yes!
Listen "Karn evil 9" it's the best way to spend half an hour. Always works.
Exactly.
And will be wow forever
THREE GUYS DID THIS!!!! Superpower trio👏
for ELP three is enough 🙂
They were the best !
Carl Palmer is just a beast. Beast.
When a lot of 🥁 we're doing speed. Carl was mastering Karate! He was definitely in the best shape of any 🥁. Buddy was also in good shape .
Buddy about Carl :"I've never seen such power, speed and precision."
The Mighty ELP at their finest The talent of Keith Emerson can not be understated! Outstanding Prog rock at It's best ! my head exploded on my first listen
I don't like it when people think that listening to prog rock your head should explode. All prog metal bands have grown up with this opinion, and the more endless shredding, the better they think. This is not true. Don't get me wrong, I love Karn Evil 9, but it's not the prog rock at it's best imo. And for example Tony Banks, Rick Wakeman wrote better than Keith Emerson. Technique will never value more than composing
This, I think, is my problem with ELP "The talent of Keith Emerson can not be understated" and what I am looking for is something a little understated, a little subtle and I don't feel I get that with ELP.
@@Richard_Jones I can understand your point, but that's not Keith Emerson. the master and showman. I've seen ELP twice BSB tour and Works and in my humble opinion I like ELP in your face show off style. It's all subjective to each his own.
@@patricknicolucci5073 Couldn't agree more....well, I could , but you know, where would that get us?
@@garri5108I can only say that I stated how I reacted to it everyone is different
Strange how this never appealed to me as a teenager but now at the age of 58 and absolutely love it 5th December 2020
I had a neighbor, Mr. Kemp, when I was a teen. I played drums then, and one day he he heard me blaring Tarkus. He was a bit of an orchestral/classical freak, probably approaching 70 years old at that point (this was 1983...)
He HAD TO KNOW what I was just playing on my stereo, when I answered my door.
Weeks later ? HE'S BLARING TARKUS, enough that I hear it from my house across the street.
He loved the title track, Bitches Crystal & A Time and a Place.....
I think the classical elements of ELP caught his ear immediately. And to be applied to a three piece band ? All the better !!
This is why I love The Nice, too. (Never liked The Nice as much with Davy O'List- they seemed more amateurish with him, leaning too heavily on psychedelia, IMO, to cover up short comings....like O'List.
Once without him ? Oh, yeah. Blinky Davison was great, great. Lee Jackson ? Yeah, potentially another weakness, but without him ? A key element to their overall sound is lost, too, without Lee Jackson. But I object to the O'List era of The Nice.
Dunno why, it just is for me....😇
Yeah, funny that works!
Snap
Time changes all🙃
I knew how it was - during the 80s, it wasn't cool to be a musical genius. But it was cool to have a mean swagger and a commanding presence on MTV videos, like Billy Idol.
This is the Beethoven's 5th of Prog. Too much to take in at once. Brilliance, confusion, ups and downs. Yes, mind blowing. Eventually it can be understood.
True!
It's not that complicated as far as meaning goes, it's about a war between man and machine, ending undecided
@@voiceover2191 musically it’s just as if not more complicated, the concept is of course not as in depth because the lyrics force a more direct meaning behind it.
Yeah, I enjoy every second of Karn Evil 9, simply briliant work of art
It's a piece of genius played by master musicians at their peak. Even if you don't get into the scifi dystopian story the music is amazing. How does Emerson play that fast? You can understand why punk rockers found this music daunting, they couldn't possibly compete with their 3 chord ability. I'd say this is ELP's best album although my favorite song of theirs is 'Pirates'. Hopefully you'll react to that epic at some point.
There's a girl named Rachel Flowers who plays this song on organ and she's blind, very impressive. She has several You Tube videos.
You want to talk about aggression and rebellion? ELP were far more punk than the punk rock posers. They were the real deal. It was necessary for the punkers to delegitimize progressive rock (along with help from the mainstream media) and to set the musical bar extremely low in order to legitimize their own remedial musical skills. Shame there wasn’t room for both styles but sadly progressive rock had to go. It was too musically threatening to the posers, label executives and radio programmers.
@@williamhinshaw6838 wrong. It's actually the opposite. Punk and the mainstream media (including MTV) brought on the dumbing down of music audience. ELP were very successful in the 70s and their audience wasn't just musicians. Jethro Tull Thick As A Brick and Passion Play were were Billboard #1 albums. Birds Of Fire was a top 10 album.
Have you checked out Ethan Emerson ? Keith's grandson he's 14 and already playing all of Keith's music. And he has all of his keyboards .
I haven’t even heard your listen yet. The fact that you played the whole thing get my thumbs up.
Ty David!
This was epic when performed live with their quadrophonic PA speaker set up in an arena. And yes they played it from start to finish. Yes, the third impression definitely has a Harlon Ellison vibe.
Yes that's right ! and the synth sounds at the end of Karn evil spinning around the stadium .around & around 😵
Yes. That's how I remember it too. The quadrophonic sound at the end spinning round and round like the roof was lifting off the SF Civic Center. How loud was the concert? Well, I chewed up part of a dollar bill and stuffed it in my ears.
@@sselt I was in an outdoor stadium and on the field up front so it wasn't that bad but I forgot about the quad sound spinning around the stadium and the computer voices echoing around .Pink Floyd had a quad system as well . For the Yes Relayer show they had the Roger Dean light up forms and the first use of laser lights which were shooting off in the sky & were hitting the skycrapers in NYC .People actually thought they were being invaded by 👽 aliens & called the police it was all over the evening news lol 😂
In case your interested the Yes Relayer show i was at was broadcast live on the King biscuit flower hour & is available on TH-cam just type Yes live in Jersey City great sound quality .
ELP was smart in recording this album. Before they went into the studio, they bought a theater and did extensive rehearsals there. So they never had to re-arrange the music for the stage.
I clearly remember the day I bought this album. It was early 1974, I was a junior in high school and since we had a full hour for lunch a friend and I drove to the local Caldor store in his El Camino and I bought the album. Of course, I had to wait until I got home before I could listen to it. Back then, in the NYC area we had radio stations that would play extended tracks as well as deep album tracks (the DJs programmed their own shows, imagine that) so I had heard many of the tracks but never the full album. When I got home from school I put it on the turn table and played it and it blew me away. It was not for everyone but it certainly did its job on me.
The epitome of a prog rock song. Explorative, grandiose, excellence personified. A pinnacle achievement.
My first concert ever was EL&P at Yale Bowl on this tour in 1974 and I was blown away! I was 15 yrs old and it changed my life. Live concerts became a part of my life forever. They do have a live version on a triple live album released in 1974 and it's spectacular!! Enjoying the videos!! Keep up the great work.
Mine was the Works tour. What an intro to music!
@@EdwardGregoryNYC I saw the Karn evil tour but I also saw the Works tour with the 70 piece orc. at MSG which was fantastic .Then I saw then reunion tour for Black moon
Coolness !! Didja catch Yes & Grand Funk Railroad at Yale Bowl, too ? That was '71, I believe....
Different times, and All in the Family was becoming a cultural icon at the time, women's lib and so on. 'Nam still was raging on....
At least the media was a little more forthright & dependable then. At least if we got an opinion, the reporter might at least tell you that a la Cronkite, "in this reporter's opinion"....
Now, we don't even get that or it's an outright platform for an agenda.....
@@craigfazekas3923 No I didn't ,I did see Yes the Relayer tour & Pink Floyd ,Wish you were here tour at the same stadium in Jersey .My first concert was Mott the hoople / for the Hoople on Broadway with opening act Queen / for Queen II after that I was hooked and hundreds of shows later I saw so many great Concerts .
@@craigfazekas3923 Exactly!!! I was a bit too young for any shows in 1971. But saw many shows in the CT area during the 70's and early 80's.
Btw, I saw ELP do this live, in Chicago. It was staggering.
I am so embarrassed! I'm 62 and have known this piece since it came out. I've played it hundreds of times and it is possibly my favorite track. However, until watching this, I never got the Carnival/Karn Evil pun. The line "Welcome back my friends" was the first track of side two of the album. So after flipping the LP ELP were literally welcoming the listener back.
Haha no worries, you're not alone in that!
They did play this in it's entirety when I saw this tour and is on their hugely popular live Album that came out shortly after .I hope you play the Trilogy album ( my favorite ) & Pirates Sometime. ✌️😎
I listened to Trilogy yesterday. Completely different but still amazing. Greg Lake really gets to show off the power in his voice.
Ty Gene, planning on it for the future!
As a 13 year old when this came out, it really had a musical impact on me. In concert, Keith had the spinning computer at the end of the 3rd Impression that started smoking and then “exploded” at the end....that gives you an idea of the thought behind the lyrics. I caught them twice in 1977 (with the orchestra and then without). Fantastic in concert. Love the channel. Your insights are very intelligent.
I saw them in '77, also. Twice with the orchestra (Chicago and Madison) and then about five months later in Madison without the orchestra, a couple days before the release of 'Works, Vol. 2', so the set list was what is on the 'Works' live album.
Some of my favorite concerts, fer sher.
@@Drummingvulture I also saw them in '77 with the orchestra in Detroit. I also saw them later on the same basic tour after they had dropped the orchestra. I also saw them on the Works Vol. 2 tour at a relatively small venue, Eastern Michigan University's Bowen Field House. I was able to be at the front of the stage when they came on for part two of the show. It was a great show at every location. Great band to see live.
@@JamesHowe: Great memories, eh, mi compadre?
The computer didn't spin. Keith played on a grand piano that spun. But it was during Karn Evil 9.
Intereating about that computer! Ty wpollock
“What in god’s name..”. I love it. What an honest reaction!!!!
On their Live Album Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends... they play all of Tarkus and all of Karn Evil 9
I was at the welcome back my friends concert.I was 7,..it was my first concert.The quad setup was insane.I became a musician and have been for 40 years.Karn evil 9,..all impressions are next level.Carl’s drum solo is insane.Someone once said E.L.P is very clever with their sounds and musicianship.Their Cleverness to me is perfection.Welcome back my friends to the show the never ends live,.. turned up loud on the best stereo you got is the way to go .It’s a must listen.Mind blowing ,....great reaction.R.I.P Keith and greg.Thank you..,
@@Immortalheart66 "Karen evil 9" Lol Autocorrect is funny sometimes.
@@BayouMaccabee -Thank you ,.. I corrected it,...that’s funny that it slipped by me....lol..
@@Immortalheart66 love your passion man
Best live album of all time .
I do appreciate Karn Evil 9 and it is a magnificent display of talent. But when it comes to ELP's longer concept pieces, I still think Tarkus was their best. I would add that on these bombastic epic pieces they did, all three members contributed magnificently - the use of Lake's bass throughout this piece is awesome even though the keyboards and percussion have center stage.
A friend introduced me to this song when I was twelve or thirteen. ELP immediately became my favorite band for most of my life.
Hay JP - Saw (experienced) the ELP Karn Evil 9 tour Feb.17, 1974 at the S.F. Civic Aud. "Come and see the show"...A live show about a "show" we came to see. What goes unrecognized is that the concert was in true QUADRAPHONIC sound. In addition to the usual (front) left/right speakers on each side of the stage, there were also 2 huge sets of speakers in the rear corners of the auditorium. That electronic pulsing sound you hear at the end of the album with headphones, going from side to side in your head, was going 'around the room' at this live show. It kept going...around and around...louder and louder...faster and faster...until it sounded like you're standing under a rotating helicopter blade...which also closed the show. Twas an LSD experience I will never forget!
(BTW This is Michael, show happened way before I met my wife Sandra)
Pictures at an Exhibition is so totally different, and will keep your interest
Pictures, was the first Prog Album I purchased. I was very young and much it was way over my head. Greg Lakes vocals kept me going back until my little teen brain caught on.
I LOOOOOVE Pictures at an Exhibition! I hope Justin reviews it...it’s totally different from a lot of other Prog music of the day.
What I loved about these guys was their total unique style that didn’t seem like an amateurish attempt. Many who fiddled with Moog or a synth approach sounded so below the grade level EL&P. They could rock it or they could mellow you out
Specially The Great Gates Of Kiev. But the whole álbum is brilliant !!!
Yeah, but it's a cover album 😉
PURE GENIUSES all three of them 🎹🎸🎤🥁 This must be the 3000th time (since it first premiered) I've listened to this in its entirety and it never gets old. Wait till you listen to it again, and again..... and again !! Performed LIVE in its entirety, its phenomenal !!! As a musician, I can say, it comes naturally to remember it. It's embedded in your brain. The steel drum sound is produced by Keith Emerson on the MOOG
It's years since I listened to this, and right now I'm wondering, WHY? This is a superb piece of work. How have I left it so long. Loved it on first listening, blown away by their virtuosity. Back then, particularly impressions 1 & 3, I was yet to fully appreciate the jazz, and those Latin Rhythms of 2. I've Since listened to tons of Chick Corea, Return to Forever etc, so I'm now up to speed, and 2, wow amazing. The whole things a masterwork.
You ask, "What did WE think when we first heard this?"
For me, I was blown away. I certainly didn't absorb everything that was going on but I did know immediately that this was a piece (and an album) that I was going to study carefully. Between ELP and Genesis, I found just about everything that I aspired to as a keyboard player and I spent countless hours figuring out how to play magnificent pieces of music like Karn Evil 9.
Back in the days of vinyl, I had a relatively rare record player (it was actually a radiogram!) which had four different speed settings. It had the usual 78, 45 and 33 and a third rpm but it also had the obsolete 16 and seven eighths setting. Since 16 7/8 is almost exactly *half* of 33 1/3, I could play normal LPs at near enough half speed so I was able to figure out some of the parts that were just too fast for me to transcribe accurately at that time. Playing it at half speed also means that it stays in the same key; it's just an octave lower.
I not only learned so much from Keith Emerson, I was also inspired by his brilliance and musical ambition. I still am.
RIP Keith.
If you listen only Keith, you miss Greg and Carl, if you listen only Greg (voice and guitars) you miss Keith and Carl, if you listen only Carl, you miss Keith and Greg, this is a brilliant work of art made by only three man, and Brain Salad Surgery is what you get
Thanks for making my Saturday night....headphones on (I'm in my 60s) and my daughter is getting a kick off seeing me close my eyes as I enjoy my voyage you provide!!
Aw thats amazing! Have a fantastic night Alejandro!
I think your spot-on with that first reaction about your brains feeling like they have gone thru a blender, That's exactly how I felt when I first played it in the 70's
Your smile around 28:50 mark is someone thinking i don't know what I'm listening to but I'm more than enjoying the ride. It opens parts of our musical minds we didn't know existed. It's challenging and i don't mean that in a musical snobbish sense.
Haha you're right!
Age 15 when this album came out. It was amazing!
I am so watching the whole thing!!!!!! I’m soooo e cited!!! Thank you thank you thank you thank you!!!!!!!
😁😁
Hey JP, fun fact - Chris Squire and Greg Lake shared an apartment in London at one point.
I've always thought that Greg Lake's bass was particularly tasty on this song. You don't hear many people mention that.
Gibson The Ripper bass sounds awesome with a pick.
@@shyshift I doubt it as all Gibson's sound like shit. Good thing he isn't playing one. It's a Jazz. Search for the rehearsal video of them doing the second impression and you'll see it.
@@johnnicholson8345 I meant he used The Ripper on the BSS tour. Welcome Back.........is The Ripper.
@@shyshift gotcha. I've never heard a good tone out of any GIbson. Not sure how a company can make the best guitars and the worst basses. Grabber, Ripper, EB series, you name it.
@@johnnicholson8345 CREAM?
I don’t get to deep in analyzing. Just love the depth of their talent and unique approach. If you see this live it’s very impressive, because they perform it. Early on the whole thing. Later many times just 1 & 2. If you just listen you get lost in it all. I need to get lost sometimes. Critics are too pompous to appreciate these guys. Maybe the critics don’t like having someone who has talent like this when they themselves have none. So they are critical just to have something to say. The more you listen to it you will appreciate it even more.
Every other prog rock song has never been played by me more than Karn Evil 9 part 3. It’s so dense, rich and dynamic. Decades later, it’s still strongly placed in my running music. I’m very interested in Justin’s take on this after hearing more than just one listen.
A very exciting piece of music, I wish that I'd seen it live which was by all accounts even better. Greg Lake was always an underrated guitar player, he filled in expertly for a band without a lead guitar. His singing fits perfectly with Emerson and Palmers' ferocity. Nice review too.
Trilogy should be your next album listen or the whole of Pictures of an Exhibition
That was my first ELP. album, I was 14 and I played over and over. ELP concert 1976 I was 18.
TRILOGY IS THE PERFECT CHOICE!
I was in 4 grade when this album came out, my older 2 brothers and their friends had this whole thing cranked in our living room. I air drummed to Carl Palmer wanting to get a drum set from then on
Great choice. I got this album for Christmas in 1973 and have been a fan since. I love the way "Welcome back my friends" signals the start of side 2 on the album. Jethro Tull do a similar thing on Thick as a Brick.
This piece of music will grown on you - the great ones always will! Btw, I watched ELP perform this live (a long time ago) and they were absolutely fantastic (as I expected them to be). After you finish reviewing this album, let me suggest Trilogy and Pictures of an Exhibition (which is a live album).
This isn't my favourite long piece by ELP, but man...it's crazy, it's up there with the most elaborate and technical prog rock ever made.
Its absolutely bananas!
The whole fruit salad!
In '73... during my paper route era (I was 15) ... I bought a new stereo. It had the usual AM radio, but there was a dial that had FM Stereo. At the time, a friend told me about KLAY-FM in Tacoma.
I turned it on late night, and a DJ said, "I'll be back in about a half an hour."
First time I heard this. Changed my life.
Lol! Thats awesome
That's a lovely story! I find it funny that one small decision can change minor things such as musical taste, which in return impact more major things like personality traits and whatnot.
If only radio stations here had more diversity in what they play, just pop and overplayed hits like Bohemian Rhapsody here in Australia :(
In the late 70s when prog had worn out its welcome I remember reading somewhere the kids coming up after them said they didn't want to spend 20 years practicing to become a rock star... When you listen to music like this... I can see their point. The bar was set so high.
Images Of Keith "Killing" his Hammond with a sword on stage come to my mind listening to this after so long
Great reaction!!! When I heard this for the first time I was 14 years old. My friends and I were completely floored when we heard this. We also got to see this live on their Brain Salad Surgery tour in 1974, and they performed Karn Evil 9 from beginning to end!!! An amazing experience!!
I have revered this album since it came out in 1973. I was fortunate to see them live during the "Brain Salad Surgery" tour in 1974 and they closed the concert with KE 9, which they do play in it's entirety. In the second impression, the Mini Moog, run through a ring modulator is mimicking steel drums. Keith quotes the famous Sonny Rollins tune "St. Thomas" at the end of the section, to answer your question. I am pleased that you are doing ELP reaction videos and encourage you to continue with their catalog.
The FIRST CONCERT TOUR with QUAD SOUND. This soung ends with an M-80 exploding on stage. REAL A.I. stuff!
Every time I hear this album it takes me right back. 1973, just a kid at the tender age of 10, opening up the latest package from Columbia House Records [look that one up kids], seeing the album cover which blew me away then listening to it over and over again. I feel like I was blessed to be exposed to such brilliance at an early time in my life.
I've been listening to this masterpiece for more than 25 years, and it never even occurred to me that Karn Evil sounds like carnival.
Actually, the same realization hit me a few years ago when I realized it was a reference to a dystopian future Evil Carnival. (Don't know what the 9 refers to.) I guess for some of us, it takes a little longer, lol...
Me too. Actually 46 years. "Karn Evil" = Carnival... duh on my part. Listened mostly to the live version on the the 3 record live album - Welcome Back My Friends... amazing, amazing, amazing to perform this "effortlessly" live. Only saw Emerson live once and that was the "Emerson Lake & Powell" reunion in mid 80s. And yeah they did Karn Evil. Wow...
Lol, I miss things all the time😄
@@JustJP On Welcome Back they played every song from the album except Benny The Bouncer. I have never found a live performance for that song. There is a song called Brain Salad Surgery and for some inexplicable reason they chose to release it as a flexi single with I think the Melody Maker then it would later show up on Works Volume 2. I love the song but be careful Emerson plays a downpitched note that if loud enough could damage your speakers. It’s far superior to Benny and they should have switched them.
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Emerson said the Karn Evil was a play on his initials KE and the 9 added because it sounded cool, the evil carnival referenced the sounds you might hear in a carnival....
Great review JP. Love Karn Evil 9
JP. It would be nice to see you review the full album 'Trilogy' by Emerson Lake & Palmer, it's my favorite album by them.
Ty Pipe!
Saw Emerson Lake and Palmer in 1973 in concert doing this whole Brain salad surgery album. My babysitter's took me to this concert I was only 8 years old. I was familiar with the album since they played it all the time and even took it upon myself to listen to it alone. As far as life performance from what I recall everything was spot on, the loudest band I've ever heard! Their crew was top notch also using a quadrifonic sound system what you heard at the end that synthesizer parts swirling around you got the same thing live even better. It was amazing! There were speakers in the front to the side and to the rear all the way around never heard anything like that before and ever since. People think this is still mind-blowing in 2020 just imagine back in 1973 to put it in perspective. You are one of the few reviewers that could ever sit and listen to the whole thing! I commend you on that. Keep up the good work.
Their working together so amazingly
A monstrous display of talent and ambition. And H.R. Giger on the cover art. Wicked.
Have you noticed that at the end of the song, the sequencer sound not just go from right to left and back but also move forward and backward doing the symbol of infinity across your head . Headphones are required to hear that.
There are still moments in Karn Evil 9 that make my heart leap with joy - I first heard it as a 14-year-old at Xmas 1976. I will say that a little alcohol could improve your enjoyment of the piece. 🙂
And a splif !
OH THEY DID! Hellacious yeah, chirren, they did it live. On television. With Pictures At An Exhibition. Look up California Jam 1974. I first saw them doing this piece on that show when it aired. My world was never the same.
I can only imagine!
They did it ALL live...no sheet music, just three guys, no pretense, not to mention Mozart-level talent, creativity, and plain and simple genius.
Justin, I really love your videos. You're very articulate and you put your thoughts over exceedingly well. As to ELP, I first saw them on November 14, 1973 at the Miami Jai Alai Fronton. This literally was the first show of the "Brain Salad Surgery" tour. They played the entire album from "Jerusalem" to "The Third Impression" in sequence. It WAS mind-blowing. The song that did it for me was "The Third Impression." That-to me-was literally a Space Opera, a story about man against technology, and it had me imagining Star Wars like dogfights years before the first movie came out. It's something I've always wanted to turn into a film, but to do it right with all the requisite CGI would be costly. At this point I'm content to run that little movie in my head every time I hear the song. And that is the great thing about all of ELP's music. They were soundtracks for the movies in my mind.
Ty so so much Bill! Yes I could definitely see a sci fi cinematic with this one!
My holiday gift! Thanks JP!
GOBSMACKED! Then and now, negative and primative.And live in person and on record is even more impressive.
Keith Emerson was the greatest keyboard player of modern music. I was very fortunate to have seen ELP on stage from their first US tours until I went into the USAF in 1974. They put on a fantastic show. Sadly,we lost Keith and Greg but Carl is still with us,occasionally touring. I can’t understand why ELP aren’t in the Rock Hall Of Fame.😡
You Have Picked a Great Group of Musicians and the Band that they created back in the day and have produced and recorded over many years together with Some of the Greatest Music in Rock n Roll History ! Not to Take Away Anything from All The rest of the other artist(s) (bands) in Music History that have created there own Masterpieces just like ELP did ! It’s Great to see the younger generation listening to the music that the older generation has listened too for many years (decades) because it has been the Soundtrack of Our Lives which is what we grew up on (with) over the years (decades) !
I had the pleasure of going to see ELP perform this live on consecutive nights, the 31st of April and the 1st May, 1974, at the Liverpool Empire theatre. Me and my mate bought tickets for the last night if the band we were seeing were performing over a couple of nights in the belief that they would want to leave their fans a lasting memory of their best performance. The first night the band would be getting the feel of the gig. Second night,they would be into their stride, and the third night on top of their game. (That was our excuse anyway!:))
It truly was an amazing show. Pretentious? Maybe. Entertaining? Without a doubt. Three talented musicians in sync with the universe. Thank you Keith, Greg and Carl, for the memories, they will stay with me forever. And thanks to JustJP for tripping me out in the waybackwhen machine, nice one :)
LOL 4:05 am in my part of Canada. Staying up late on a Saturday morning. Was just gonna get some sleep, but oh well. LOL.
No problem, just 2020 sleep schedule
Lol!
Thanks for doing this … you bring new light to these 3 geniuses who created superhuman music. Truly a masterpiece of unprecedented proportions.
Hi JP. I want to thank you for the generous assessment of this suite. This piece was a culmination of all of the groups talents, melded into possibly their most comprehensive composition. As far as the steel drum sound ; this was achieved by placing pickups within the drums, and using the ring modulator of the moog 3C synthesizer to emulate each tone. This gave us the dissonance that we would recognize as steel drums. So in essence it was a collaboration between Emerson and Palmer. Happy to share this with you. I once knew my dear late friend Keith as I worked with him and Robert Moog at Moog music when it was in its infancy. Thanks again for your review.
Ty Brooklyn!
Actually I respectfully disagree. 😎 My understanding is that the steel drum sound was done on a MiniMoog synth and played by Emerson only.
To comment on YOUR comment... I loved this album, as with many of the ELP long pieces, it grew on me the more times I heard it. But you struck a nerve with me because when I heard their "Welcome back" live album I was blown away by them somehow brilliantly doing this nonstop in a live performance. Incredible talents.
Saw them 3 times in Montreal...once with the symphonic orchestra,back then this band open me the door to the world of prog...and my interest never stop.Thank you for the vid!
I actually heard the live version from "Welcome Back" before the studio version. I was staying with my aunt & uncle one summer and my cousin had just got the new live album and was playing it. I had never heard anything like it, and saved up my money for my own copy as soon as I got home. It was literally life-changing, at least as far as my musical tastes went.
Me 2. Live first .
A friend introduced me to this album when I was 13. I wore out several copies of this record.
Awesome band One of a kind
So talented
The best
Search for Emerson lake and Palmer California jam. Live. Must see live version
Thanks Justin, made my Saturday and it’s only lunchtime.
Now it’s time for ‘Fanfare for the Common Man’
Let's make sure he does the whole thing and not the radio edit
I'm glad you had a great Saturday 😁
I first heard this in the 70's when it was new. I was like you thinking 1 listen was probably enough but I find myself watching your reaction more than once because I love the music so much. It will haunt you and I'm pretty sure you will listen to it more than once. I saw them live back in the day and they were fantastic. It blows my mind what they were able to create at their young ages.
This was my first record, and I played it constantly. It's always a bit weird to hear the first half and second half of KE9 without having to stop and flip the album, as it seems you gestured. As great as Emerson is here, it's Palmer's time to shine.
Heads of bishops, bomb inside a car, perform on guillotine, ... it's a bit of the voyeuristic culture that developed in the television age - and hasn't slowed down since.
The Best of the best , Just love seeing you enjoy it so much ! Wish you had seen them play it live...it was just like hearing the record...........Played it all..1st, 2nd and 3rd Impressions !
As I teenager in England when I first heard this in the 70s, my reaction was remarkably similar to yours. It was simply so different to anything I'd heard before in the ingenuity, dexterity and the relentless energy in it. Someone on this thread called it the Beethoven's Fifth of prog. I agree. You say it takes more than a first listen. It does, and like any truly clever music with real depth you see more in it the more often you listen to it. 45 plus years on I can listen to it and am never bored by hearing it. Lyrically the First is a hymn to humanity's fascination with the grotesque. When I saw the first Terminator movie which came a decade later my instant reaction was that they lifted the idea for it from the narrative of the Third.
Its pretty amazing they were bigger in North America than England.
Greg Lake's finest vocal delivery ever IMO.
What more can you say about Emerson?
Palmer's at the top of his game also
Some incredible guitar layers from Lake which are usually understated in most of their music.
Just every single aspect I love about ELP is pushed to the extreme to creat this gigantic monster of music composition/playing.
I know tarkus usually gets a lot of the credit but in my humble opinion Karn Evil knocks everything out the park
Already a yes fan from the earliest of age, I caught up with ELP with remembering the cool album cover in a department store when I was young, then bringing the record back from the library to put on my parents record player the summer of 1982 while they were at work and had the whole house to myself. With every listen it grew and grew and grew and got louder and louder and louder. Til you remembered what exactly was coming next and looked forward to every nuance of it. It still has the same effect to this day. I get thrilled by discovering the ever so slightest thing in this music. I particularly love watching the practice sessions of some of this on TH-cam. It’s so heart warming to see them working together, smiling, poking fun at each other.
The top athletes of progressive rock.
Third Impression: the retelling of the science fiction theme where the creation of man becomes his enslaver, and triggers his doom. Retold in "Metropolis", Frankenstein, and "Terminator", not to mention "The Matrix".
In "Dune", thinking machines are outlawed, and the Mind has become the creation, but the theme is present.
They played this in it's entirety in concert. All three (four!) parts.
JP I'm sure you've notice Carl Parmer's upgrade from his 5 pc.standard Dbl skinned Drum Kit to his new 12 pc. Kit w/ it's 8 single skinned "Melodic Tom-Toms" 6" to 16" for the Brain Salad Album & Tour !! Many Rolling Drum fills on this album !!! : D
Yeah JP the 3 Karn songs truly highlighted the bands many sonic vision and writing !! Musical Virtuosity Everywhere and much fun for them to "Stretch their legs" as they put it themselves in an interview back in 1974' Heavy Prog, Classical, Free Jazz, Rock etc, with their Sci-Fi fantasy story, this is the first time in about 3 yrs I heard it all through again (Thanks for that !! ) and I still feel the same ... WoW !!! Lol : )
WPLJ FM early 2am in NJ...
Will always be remembered..
I was waiting for your reaction to the start of the third impression.
It’s a fantastic introduction and the whole segment is full of aggressive power and pace.
Simply brilliant, just brilliant🤗
Welcome back my friends...
Flashbacks to Alan Freeman's Saturday album racks show on BBC Radio.
Brilliant !! You need to do "Pirates" next 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️😊
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PIRATES! Greatest song...ever!
(Along with Renaissance's 'Song For All Seasons'. Hence piratessfas and SFAS)
Man, you’re killing it on the ELP reviews. 👍😊🌞
Haha ty Scott! Glad youre enjoying them!
As you were asking, I was 14 when BSS came out. Our school had a music room, which the prog. rock clique had basically taken over every lunchtime, and which is when I first heard it, and loved it. Went home and begged my mum for it. And, bless her, every prog. rock album I asked for back then, she gave me the money to buy (and there were an awful lot of prog. LPs around then). Loved it ever since and the surround mix on the 2000 Rhino DVD-A is brilliant (piece of advice: avoid all other surround mixes as this one is far and away better than all the others). Great stuff, Justin, and I will now shut up, having pestered you for so long to play this epic. Roll on to "Topographic". Cheers.
Topographic Oceans. Oh man wouldn’t that be great!
Yeah, they performed the entire piece in its entirety on the Brain Salad Surgery tour which you can listen to on the live album, "Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends". On later tours, they usually only played the First Impression, and sometimes only part two of it.
The thing I remember during this period was how Carl Palmer’s drum kit kept getting bigger and bigger.
Carl's stainless steel drum kit from the Works tour is now owned by Ringo Starr! He was planning to give it to his son Zack.
He justified that kit growth through those years. He was a very musical drummer, employing melodies into the rhythms. That different types of toms, of varying sizes, cowbell, vibraphone, chimes, ect., made perfect sense for a drummer being THAT musical....
Gongs ? Always over the top, IMO. Or Bruford or Jamie Muir's "thundersheet"....essentially a big slab of thin metal that has a crashing "boinggg" sound to it, from the metal flexing when struck with a good amount of force.
Ah, the indulgences that came from the early 70's rock music scene....😎
I first heard this on the radio. I was completely blown away and got the album very shortly afterward. The next step was to see them live. Some music just never gets old to me. Nice H to He wrap yesterday too. Keep up the good work Justin!
Ty!
I am very interested if Justin starts to feel the need to listen to this again and what his impressions are after a few listens. That would be so cool.
been listening to this for almost 50 years loved it when i first heard it and it has lost nothing for me still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end pure genius!!!
JP I saw them perform brain salad surgery tour at Madison Square, Garden, December 18, 1973 I was 19 years old now I’m 66 and these guys never cease to amaze me what I love what you do JP is introducing for re-introducing progressive rock to a lot of young people out there and I love your reactions because in high school and college we would sit around with a couple of beers and some well smoke some stuff you get the drift and everybody would say this album was one of the best I’ve ever heard as far as progressive rock I mean don’t get me wrong you have yes rush Pink Floyd Jethro Tull and then the bothers me the most these idiots in Cleveland meaning the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame that these guys are not in it what is wrong those dumbbells well anyway stay safe God bless you have a happy new year because I’m listening to this I’m by myself New Year’s Eve not complaining about anything just watching the joy in your face of listening to this masterpiece and to think all of the other bands got it before them some deserved some didn’t deserve to be there but that’s up to them politics as usual I mean Frank Zappa one said he wanted to play with Keith Emerson He’s in the rock ‘n’ roll Hall of Fame
Thank you so much James, I bet they were mind blowing live! Hope you have a great new year!
I don't remember the exact date, but I was there too for the Brain Salad Surgery tour, age 18! In those days, I practically "lived" at the Garden, lol. Tried to never miss a show. ELP blew the walls off MSG. I also remember the concert with the floating piano, I believe? They were so good, musically, though, that the extra show biz gimmicks were just eye candy for those who found that entertaining. Me...I just loved the music, straight and simple. Weren't we the lucky ones!
moody blues...procol harum...jethro tull... led zeppelin.... the who.... yes.... cream..... emerson lake and palmer....jimi hendrix...... even the beatles got into the act..... these among others were treasure troves of sound, poetry and music... in fact we didn't call them "music" or "tunes". we called them "sounds".... t'was mystical magical era... i am happy to see new generations are rediscovering them..... as we would say back in the day...... peace
Interesting fact is ELP bought an old theater back in the day. They actually played Karn evil 9 live in that theater before they recorded it so they knew they could play it live when they went out on the road.
I was lucky enough to have watched them live several times. You should watch the live versions to see Carl play, he's amazing. The live concerts were Quadraphonic with huge stacks of speakers in 4 corners of the Long Beach Arena. Those synth riffs would jump from left to right to back left and back right it was truly amazing live. I had a friend who worked security so he walked me right up to sit at the steps that led to the stage.
Watched the whole video. Thank you. Your honesty sells me. And yes, after decades of listening to this, I feel I get more out of this music now than I did back then. Even though I loved it back then as well,
with all the talk of the exponential rise of artificial intelligence to come, this becomes more valid every day as our future many years from now will make this lifetime look like the Stone Age or/and the best of times.
This track makes me weep with joy
The first time I heard this song was several months before the album was released live in concert. At the end of the Third Impression Keith's synth explodes after that tone circled around the stadium several times. They were the first show I ever saw that used four channel sound in concert. The spacial effects added a lot to the experience.
I first heard this on a Marantz stereo 4 speaker on a Marantz turntable in 1976 a friend of mind had. listing in his bedroom What can I say? way cool! You have to have 1500 yrs of British history to get that sound.
Yeah, this suite definitely "blows your head apart," as the lyric says. It's really tough to summarize one's feelings after a first listen, so I congratulate you, Justin.
My favorite Impression is the First. Greg _kills_ it vocally all the way through, and it doesn't get any better than when he half-shouts "Welcome back, my friends, to the show that never ends!" and belts out the last "See the show!" line.
As you speculated, _yes,_ they played the entire Karn Evil 9 piece live, multiple times, for years. You can hear complete performances on live albums, including the _Welcome Back, My Friends..._ live album.
This album was different than the ones that preceded it in that ELP rehearsed the whole thing over and over before recording it to ensure they could play it live with just the three of them. Carl Palmer and Greg Lake said that recording _Brain Salad Surgery_ was really easy because they knew the material backward and forward, so it was like recording a concert in the studio.
You are so correct about Keith Emerson. While all three members of ELP were virtuosos (Carl on the drum kit and Greg at the mic, bass, and producer's desk), Keith Emerson is probably the best keyboard player of all time. Heck, a _Prog_ magazine readers' poll voted him #1 over Rick Wakeman (Yes), Tony Banks (Genesis), and Richard Wright (Pink Floyd). May he rest in peace.
Lastly, a Fun Fact: The voice of the Computer in the Third Impression is provided by Keith Emerson. It is his only vocal contribution to any of the music he ever made.