Wa Hoo! Classic ELP for my Bday!

[metron07]

An old buddy from New York, got me some very rare bootleg recordings of ELP live from back in 1972. I was actually at some of those shows at MSG and the Academy of Music. Also got shows in Boston and The Hollywood Bowl! One of my favorite bands of all time! I so dug it when he threw those knives in his Hammond organ and jumped on top and road it across the stage. Hendrix of the keyboards, and the first to do concerts with those big old Moog synths! Ah memories! Good times! Can't wait to listen to all these Cd's.  ;D


I will enjoy them...... :alien  :metallica:

[Ktrek]

Keith Emerson and ELP were great in their day. I personally preferred Rick Wakeman and YES as far as progressive rock was concerned but I still owned all of ELPs albums. I'm sure you'll have fun listening but bootlegs from 1972 won't have very good sound quality. You have to be a real fan to dig them!

Kevin

[Rico]

Very cool and nice of your friend to do that for you!  I'm sure you'll enjoy them!

[metron07]

The first time I saw them was at the Filmore East, in New York 1970. I was in the second row under Emerson. When he did this number below and he was standing in between the two Hammond's. He pulled one of the keys right out of the smaller Hammond L111 organ and spit it into the audience next to me. That was it, I was hooked. Rock and roll, classical, with keyboards using a large Moog synth. There is no better chops. Wakeman was a good player, but he was no front man like Emerson was. Check out this example;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cSegukNR8HY

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I meet him briefly in 1974 during the height of their fame.
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About half way into this clip you will see why I called him the Hendrix of keyboards. NO ONE to this day does this?!!!!! Watch and be amazed!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=to_8kZCQalQ&feature=related

[Meds]

Ah man you've got to love English Prog Rock, do like these i must say. Yes were pretty cool and i have to admit I'm addicted to Jethro Tull (its the flute really, love it)

[moyer777]

Man, that is a blast from the past.  Pretty amazing.  The complexity of the music was so cool.  It takes a genius mathematical mind to figure that kind of thing out with feeling.  I have always appreciated the progressive scene for that reason.  It's too bad the most hits are three chord wonders, but I think a more simple sound appeals to the masses. 

I have to say it's a little eerie to see someone wrapped in tinfoil roughing up a Hammond.  :)

This stuff reminds me of a Pink Floyd Jam session like on Echoes.

[Meds]

Best Floyd song? for me Comfortably Numb, man i love that.

[moyer777]

The whole Wall album is pretty much amazing. 

Gee whiz, they either were drug induced or having a spiritual experience.  :)

[davekill]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emerson,_Lake_%26_Palmer

ELP almost became HELP.

Greg Lake made this comment on ELP's discussions with Hendrix:

    "Yeah, that story is indeed true, to some degree...Mitch Mitchell had told Jimi about us and he said he wanted to explore the idea. Even after Mitch was long out of the picture and we had already settled on Carl, talk about working with Jimi continued. We were supposed to get together and jam with him around August or September of 1970, but he died before we could put it together."

I loved Emerson, Lake & Palmer's song "From the Beginning"

[davekill]

Best Floyd song? for me Comfortably Numb, man i love that.

It's hard to pick just one.
I've always liked David Gilmour's "Dogs" from the Animals album.

Like Norm from the TV show Cheers says " It's a dog eat dog world and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear"

[Ktrek]

For keyboard "wizardry" Keith Emerson can hardly be beat, but when it comes to classical keyboard technique Rick Wakeman wins hands down.

Kevin

[metron07]

Ah, Ktrek, you should view videos below and you may want to change you opinion. Keith was a child prodigy. He won several classical piano competitions before he was in his 20's. I would give the technique reward to him (look at his very classicly trained posture / Technique) and the wizardry award to Wakeman who did more for using synths live in those days for orchestral arrangements better than anyone else I ever saw including Emerson. Emerson only orchestrated synths in the studio for example Abdon's Bolero on the Trilogy CD. The textures Wakeman came up with where a testament to his training in the Royal Academy of Music. That and dozens of keyboards on stage that is a wizard!

Wakeman's style was more classical, blues, rock and roll. Emerson was classical, jazz, ragtime, rock and he had/has still WAY more chops. Wakeman was part of a much larger team of virtuosos in Yes where Emerson was most of the sound of ELP except when Greg did his great acoustic and vocal solos and Carl his percussion solos. Remember they where a trio! Keith played most of the parts, even bass on the synth when Greg played guitar. Yes was a quintet. Though Rick went on to do some beautiful orchestral works like Journey to the Center of the earth. My favorite solo work of his was The Six Wife's of Henry the Eighth. It really rocked and was all him stylewise. Finally don forget the orchestral work Keith did both for years in the Nice and then later with ELP.

Case and point.....The Big E at the piano only..... :Bow:                                           
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFpWs9Puxpw&feature=related       

or

Mr. Wakeman    :metallica:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mSJP18SMXw&feature=related

[metron07]

As far as Pink Floyd  is concerned. I first saw them at the Filmore East in 1969 at a late night show that went on for over 3 hours.  It was around the time of the Ummagumma and I was still in highschool. :jawdrop

I did not recover from that night for about 3 months.  :shocked
One of those defining moments of music and theater experience for me and to think that was before Dark Side. What a band.....
Metron

[metron07]

One last tidbit to finish off this conversation of Emerson and Wakeman. Below is a excerpt of a interview last year with Keith.

Another roomer I heard was that you and Rick Wakeman talked about going on the road together as a sort of the dynamic duo of keyboards.

We actually spoke about it the first time at the first Moogfest. I think it was Rick's fiftieth birthday and I played "Happy Birthday" to him — a very loud version of it on a Moog synthesizer, which was kind of fun. After the show, Rick came into the dressing room and he said he had a lot of financiers who would love to put that (a Wakeman/Emerson tour) together, and I said, "Yeah, that would be a good idea." The idea was that I would play some of Rick's stuff and Rick would play some of my stuff. And then we would come up something completely new together. I presented the idea to my manager Stewart Young and promoters like Harvey Goldsmith, and for some reason, they didn't come up with the sort of money Rick was expecting. I didn't hear anything more after that.

[Bryancd]

Best Floyd song? for me Comfortably Numb, man i love that.

I've always been partial to Learning to Fly and....of course...Run Like Hell!