Saw ELP on first tour. Mott the Hoople opened. Saw all the keyboards and wondered who played that. I was expecting a Seals and Croft type of show. I was Crimson fan and loved Lakes voice. My world got rocked that night.
5:16 Been a fan since April 1973, saw him 20x in ELP, ELPOWELL, 3 and solo. Met him 15X. Each time I left the concert raving - forever. Regarding playing Phatom of the Opera theme " Toccata Fugue in E Minor or whatever- I can't even play it forward! Liv Whetmore where are you?
This was the first track I ever heard played by The Master...In the Nice....still makes me well up when I hear it.....chaotic genius...abused his Hammond and got sounds never ever heard before
Hi there- where was this taken? I was the tech on the tour (you see me drop off a spritzer at the beginning on the side of the MOOG). 2006 Keith was on fire!! this truly shows the energy in those shows. Nice stuff
I remember that Emo should have play in Palermo in 2005 but you didn't come. I thought you never come. Fortunately you came in 2006. I tried to meet him then but it was impossible. He played in Palermo in Semptember 2015 I was able to meet him and shake his hand. The sad thing it was is last performance in front of audience. th-cam.com/video/hoIZ5aQYFvA/w-d-xo.html. Another hot evening in Palermo! How missing! By the way are you a keybords tech?
Exactly! This is how ELP would have been as a 4-piece. Greg Lake was a competent guitar player but not great like this guy, Marc Bonila. Greg could have played bass all the time, as well as producing the records. Unfortunately we will never know.
What is always misunderstood about Keith is this. He is not classically trained. No conservatory, no Juilliard or equivalent. He had some early lessons but was mostly self taught. I like to call him the everyman symphonic composer. I remember in the early 70's the "serious" music critics looked down their noses at him. How dare this untrained commoner attempt to interpret works of the great masters. Some of the shit written and said about him had to hurt deep down. Music was Keith's life. I think not being taken seriously may have led to a lifetime of too much alcohol. edit When he self terminated I think it was about a year before I could enjoy his music again and not get pissed off. His music is not always easy to uderstand but he is the rare exception that when you hear his music, even something for the fist time. You say to yourself, damn that sounds like Emerson.
At least not at the level he felt he could be proud of. My understanding is that his right hand problems were getting worse (both in terms of motor control and pain), he had a series of shows coming up in Japan, and he was taking online criticism (of the sort of "hang it up, mate") pretty hard. You can get on here and see quite a few videos where he's three-fingering his right hand parts as much as he could get away with. After Keith died, Greg Lake flatly said he wasn't surprised - that Keith was never really the same after the WORKS era. Latter-day interviews show him speaking more slowly and haltingly than he did even in the 1990s. I'd looked up to him as a musical titan and even a bit of a personal role model ever since I discovered the band in the mid-1970s and when I saw he'd died by his own hand I immediately burst into tears - I can feel the waterworks starting even just to type that - and that had never happened before or since. I was mostly sorry that he attached so much of his sense of self-worth to what he could still *do* and *do next* as opposed to what he had *successfully done* and *who he was as a man*.
Nobody like him and no one will ever be a master like he was. When he died I was visibly upset for weeks. KEITH EMERSON = THE GOAT!!!!!!
A terrible loss.
Keith was an absolute unique keyboarder...and simply the BEST.....
Saw ELP on first tour. Mott the Hoople opened. Saw all the keyboards and wondered who played that. I was expecting a Seals and Croft type of show. I was Crimson fan and loved Lakes voice. My world got rocked that night.
Keith is Jimi Hendrix of keyboards NO1💖
He was the best. A real genius.
5:16 Been a fan since April 1973, saw him 20x in ELP, ELPOWELL, 3 and solo. Met him 15X. Each time I left the concert raving - forever. Regarding playing Phatom of the Opera theme " Toccata Fugue in E Minor or whatever- I can't even play it forward! Liv Whetmore where are you?
Lucky man!!!
This was the first track I ever heard played by The Master...In the Nice....still makes me well up when I hear it.....chaotic genius...abused his Hammond and got sounds never ever heard before
Awesome performance!! Just amazing!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘
Keith was definitely a crazy performer! He was the best keyboardist in rock at the time.
Legend.
He's amazing.
7:08 that external Moog controller was obviously a phallic symbol :-))
Very nice
I see what you did there
hello !! HE was the >Jimi Hendrix< on keys in the '60th....I just love Him....
RIP....70y-old-Hippie-and-Yogi from Austria ☮️~e~🕉️~e~✝️
Thank you Keith, fly high.
Hated to lose you,Keith.Rest in power.
Great!!!!
It's so nostalgic!
Ele disse América !? Com tantas fugas ... me parece um motivo para suas interpretações.
Still rocked. RIP
Habe ELP im Wiener Konzerthaus gesehen - ganz klein - Musik wundervoll - kann man sich leider nicht mehr wünschen
Love forever!!!
Why I wasn't there when Emerson was alive? :-(((( RIP
Nice !
Dig Keith busting out the ribbon controller!
Музыкант от Бога !
The other two guys playing with him are really good too.
The drummer is Tony Pia. Brilliant drummer. Also played in Brian Setzer's big band. He can play any style.
@@davethenerd1369 Wasn't it my old mate Brian 'Blinky' Davison?
My first track was pictures... but I remember I had heard this track and I wondered who was........
Keith Emerson for me is like Niccolo Paganini
On keys...
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Hi there- where was this taken? I was the tech on the tour (you see me drop off a spritzer at the beginning on the side of the MOOG). 2006 Keith was on fire!! this truly shows the energy in those shows. Nice stuff
You were in Palermo in 12/07/2006 at Teatro Verdura. Great evening!
Yes- outdoor theatre. Hot evening. A great venue and a great audience. We all wished we had more time to visit the city.
I remember that Emo should have play in Palermo in 2005 but you didn't come. I thought you never come. Fortunately you came in 2006. I tried to meet him then but it was impossible.
He played in Palermo in Semptember 2015 I was able to meet him and shake his hand. The sad thing it was is last performance in front of audience.
th-cam.com/video/hoIZ5aQYFvA/w-d-xo.html.
Another hot evening in Palermo!
How missing!
By the way are you a keybords tech?
Yes, I am and I was his tech from 2005 to 2012
Great! You have to work with famous keyboardists and knows a lot of thing about them!.
This is so fucking great!
Bag End is where Bilbo Baggins lived.
The Nice
Guitar player's good, too.
Exactly! This is how ELP would have been as a 4-piece. Greg Lake was a competent guitar player but not great like this guy, Marc Bonila. Greg could have played bass all the time, as well as producing the records. Unfortunately we will never know.
What is always misunderstood about Keith is this. He is not classically trained. No conservatory, no Juilliard or equivalent. He had some early lessons but was mostly self taught. I like to call him the everyman symphonic composer. I remember in the early 70's the "serious" music critics looked down their noses at him. How dare this untrained commoner attempt to interpret works of the great masters. Some of the shit written and said about him had to hurt deep down. Music was Keith's life. I think not being taken seriously may have led to a lifetime of too much alcohol. edit When he self terminated I think it was about a year before I could enjoy his music again and not get pissed off. His music is not always easy to uderstand but he is the rare exception that when you hear his music, even something for the fist time. You say to yourself, damn that sounds like Emerson.
I heard Keith committed suicide because he couldn't play anymore is that true?
Maybe
That & maybe other personal issues we'll never know.
At least not at the level he felt he could be proud of. My understanding is that his right hand problems were getting worse (both in terms of motor control and pain), he had a series of shows coming up in Japan, and he was taking online criticism (of the sort of "hang it up, mate") pretty hard. You can get on here and see quite a few videos where he's three-fingering his right hand parts as much as he could get away with. After Keith died, Greg Lake flatly said he wasn't surprised - that Keith was never really the same after the WORKS era. Latter-day interviews show him speaking more slowly and haltingly than he did even in the 1990s. I'd looked up to him as a musical titan and even a bit of a personal role model ever since I discovered the band in the mid-1970s and when I saw he'd died by his own hand I immediately burst into tears - I can feel the waterworks starting even just to type that - and that had never happened before or since. I was mostly sorry that he attached so much of his sense of self-worth to what he could still *do* and *do next* as opposed to what he had *successfully done* and *who he was as a man*.
Never did hear anything that sounded like "America".
Two negative hands ..., really ?
he is good but Wakeman is better. This sounds noisy.
th-cam.com/video/XGOjOwJO2C4/w-d-xo.html. Listen this track. Obviously one has his own opinions
The noise is part of his legend,he revolutionized keyboards.Yes,Wakeman is great,to each his own but in my view,they are neck in neck.