Greg Lakes solo performance of this song is something everyone should watch. Name a musician today who can sing ,play a twelve string and chew gum all at the same time.RIP🙏
I thought he was chewing gum, but he wasn’t. It’s a technique used to keep a certain tempo. You’ll see many drummers do the same. Blanked out on who performed “ Hey, Big Brother”, but the lead singer was also the drummer( believe it or not) also did. Ditto John Bonham, Hendrix, Steve Marriott, Dick Dale
About 10 years ago my son was driving back to Scotland and asked if I had a CD he could listen to on the journey so I gave him Brain Salad Surgery! He could not believe that his mother listened to some of the most amazing music he had ever heard. My work is done!
@@kentclark6420 I wept. I CANNOT imagine how Call Palmer dealt, and is probably STILL dealing with, the loss of two friends/brothers and STELLAR musicians. The sky lost two stars.
I was there at California Jam. Keith Emerson played six different keyboards seated in a u-shaped configuration. Greg Lake had one of the most hauntingly beautiful voices in all of music. At least twelve hours of music on a hot day at Ontario Speedway. One of the greater concert experiences!
Everyone's suggesting "Lucky Man" and "From the Beginning," but those are very pop-friendly songs. I'd try something really amazing like "Take a Pebble."
I will third that. Motion carried to the floor for voting. Lol. Take A Pebble is one of my all time favorites by ELP. I got to see them perform it live. My number one favorite is Pictures At An Exhibition but that would be too long for a reaction.
@@Easy_Skanking As far as I know, so far, Jamel has only reacted to 3 songs that exceed 15 minutes, and 2 of them were by Rush ("The Fountain of Lamneth" and "2112"), the other being "Dogs" by Pink Floyd (he also reacted to "Echoes," but it was the Live at Pompeii version that was split into 2 parts). I'm not sure how open he is to doing more of them, especially so soon after being introduced to a certain band.
I was just a kid hearing this band blaring from my oldest brothers bedroom. No wonder my brother was a calm and very nice person growing up...no bad song words to create violence! I loved him! Greg Lake was so talented! RIP!
This just rips me up......... I was in college and we were all over the place in our music. That’s where it allowed us to go. But this song.......... just took me in deep, eyes closed, quietly breathless.
YES, YES, YES Jamel. Absolutely one of my all time favorites from ELP - also try From The Beginning and Cie La Vie. Greg Lake had the most haunting and beautiful voice. Thanks for this memory.
Was wondering when you’d get around to ELP. One of my favorite bands of my youth. Saw them in concert back in the day. Keith Emerson was an absolute keyboard wizard. Surprised you didn’t start off with their most well known song, Lucky Man. I’d say listen to Tarkus, but it took up one whole side of the album. Still a masterpiece in the progressive rock canon.
There is a RU-vid video of Greg Lake singing this with just his guitar. You should watch that one. He chews gum through the whole song and if you didn't see it, you'd never know it. You also need to listen to Lucky Man. Greg Lake wrote that when he was I think 12.
The album cover is also on the label, so that when you put the record on the player, the spindle shoots through its mouth, in what I consider a preview of the tongue with teeth in Alien, shooting out of the mouth.
On some special edition of this album the three talk about various things. One is the cover art. It was an actual painting hanging in Giger's house. The woman is Giger's wife. The shaft of light in the original version is another type of shaft held up to her lips. The album people said "We can't have THAT on the album cover!" Giger protested, but finally gave in - and they airbrushed in a shaft of light!
Not sure about GREATEST, but like Yes, with artist, Roger Deacon, it's a perfect coupling of sight and sound...back when album covers were more in vogue.
@ted ritola Yes, and they where the definitive prog super trio years before Rush. Although, they are very different, ELP is the definitve keyboard driven rock and progressive rock band.
ELP are configured with 3 of the World's greatest musicians in their time. CARL PALMER is a Master Class Drummer. He has solo work you might enjoy. GREG LAKE is one of the World's greatest lyricists. I found these guys and this voice at 6 years old when they first came out. I have been a huge fan ever since and still to this day tell people about them. KEITH EMERSON was the first keyboard player to bring Synthesizer to music. Lucky Man, that you heard and responded too. - - - The band was together for 33 years, active 9 outta 33. Getting back on top of that mountain is difficult once you jump . - - - - Thanks for your discovery of ELP!!! Find time and listen to more of their music. They introduced the SYNTHESIZER. Now go listen where they took it.
Greg Lake was the Master of triple line poetry, his knowledge of the English language was second to none, he will surely rate as high as the likes of Chaucer and, dare I say it, the Bard . I was fortunate enough to grow up listening to the outrageous and delicious sounds of the wonderful Keith, Greg and Carl, Happy Happy Days
IIRC, they had all the tracks down for the album. The producer said "Hey - we're short 5 minutes - can we fill that with something?" Greg told him about his little song as a kid. He and Carl Palmer played around with it and got something that they could record. At some point Keith Emerson had left for a bit - I don't recall if he didn't like the idea at first, or didn't like it when he got back and heard it. But he thought it was a stupid song fit for a, well, a 12-year old! Keith listened to it for a bit and played around with it. Then tried out his new-found technology of the synthesizer on it. One of the first, if not THE first, use of a synthesizer for a solo on a song. (At the end of the song).
I love watching some of the reactors tip toeing into ELP, listening to "Lucky Man" "From the Beginning" or "Still You Turn Me On" , then they wade right into "Tarkus" "Hoedown" or "Karn Evil 9". That "deer in the headlights" look is priceless! Reminds me of the first time I heard some of this stuff when it was new!
Dude, it's 1984, I'm 6 years old. I've had the radio on in my house my whole life but my folks listen to top 40 (still a good time for top 40). I start pulling out my my old man's records and find Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Turns out it was my uncle's and my old man had never listened to it, my uncle was the old stoner. Anyway, I put ELP on my Fisher Price record player and hearing Keith Emerson make sounds with those Moogs/Arps changed my life forever. I had NEVER heard anything like that before. I consider ELP the first step I took on my music discovery journey, and it lead me to become a huge synth nerd about 10 years later. For the next 20 years or so, whenever I'd go to someone's house, the first place I'd go is there record collection and start digging through and playing records I'd never heard before.
Another three piece band like Rush , masters of their craft, progressive rock gods like yes, genesis, rush, king crimson jump in and swim brother the water's fine
Wasn't it awesome? The lyrics, 'buried in disguise, the dark glass on your eyes, your flesh has crystallised gives me chills. Like you said, it's dark and it makes me think of someone in a casket with shades on and after they're buried, their flesh crystallises. Kinda spooky. I know that's not what it means, but it takes me there, but I Love the song.
Ahhh yes. ELP are and always will be the 💣 and " Still.… you turn me on" is a BEAUTIFUL song and don't get me started on Greg Lakes amazing voice.. 💁🏾♀️🙌🏾💁🏾♀️🙌🏾
Knife Edge! A tune that seems appropriate to these times. When the flames have their season // Will you hold to your reason? Loaded down with your talents // Can you still keep your balance? Can you live on a knife edge?
Three VERY talented men & the best machines available brought us all to our feet all those years ago as Keith & his piano left the stage for a flight to do circles in the air. They were the Cirque Du Soleil of bands at the time.....along w/ Yes & the others w/ expanded minds & no boundaries!!!
@@Margar02 Indeed, he's fully immersed himself in Pink Floyd and Rush. Now he needs to also do it for Yes, ELP, Jethro Tull, and Genesis (I'd say King Crimson as well, but, unfortunately, they're notorious blockers).
I LOVE GREG LAKE❤ Best lyricist ever on this planet❤You should watch the California Jam 1974. He did this song on acoustic guitar, sang all while chewing gum. It is effing fantastic.😊❤another thing I love about Greg is he didn't want to change his english accent while singing, like alot of british singers were doing back then.
I'm amazed at the amount of people that haven't heard of a lot of these great progressive bands of the 70's. Especially as long as they've been around. Crazy!
I discovered this band when I was 14 and they have stayed with me for almost 50 years. Many nights listening with headphones in the dark. To really appreciate the band and his vocals, try Epitaph or The Great Gate of Kiev from Pictures at an Exhibition
I was so freakin’ excited when I saw you were finally getting to EL&P. I saw them during the Brain Salad Surgery tour. It was the most amazing concert I have ever went to.
The late Greg Lake....what an exceptional voice‼️‼️ One of the very greats in rock❣️❣️❣️ He is greatly missed...listen to E.L.P. daily....they make your heart skip a beat each time, such haunting vocals....still turning me on...Greg Lake❣️❣️❣️❣️
I managed to get tickets to see ELP in concert in the 1980's at the Lloyd Noble Center, Norman, OK. Picture this, ... seats on the floor, seven rows back, straight in front of the great keyboard player Keith Emerson, it was incredible! I had also, somehow managed to get my camera in the arena, and got some great shots of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake! They put on a incredible show that night, its hard to believe that both Keith Emerson and Greg Lake are both gone now, RIP Keith and Greg.
Sometimes I hear a song from my childhood and I say to myself "I used to like this. What drugs must I have been on?" This is not one of them, I could listen to this all day.
When I first heard this song, it was pure ear candy, and I went out right away and picked up the album.... I was just a kid, and I wasn't ready for the loud, heavy complexity of the rest of the album. (A few years later, and I was ready for it all ~~~) Forty-five years later, my comment is: It's credited to Emerson, Lake, and Palmer, but it *should* have been credited to Emerson, Lake, and Eddie Offord, engineer/producer extraordinaire !!
I was lucky enough to have seen this tour, which was presented in LIVE quadraphonic sound. They had 360' speaker towers in all 4 quadrants of the MSG's floor. The sound was coming from everywhere, wherever they wanted, whenever they wanted. Sounds were literally spinning around the arena.
Jamal, there are several people here suggesting the live version of this at Cal Jam 74, and I suggest that you look into it too. The performance is outstanding in itself, but more relatable to you is that it took place at the old Ontario Speedway, yep, ON YOUR TURF! Really worth it, keep up the brilliant work 💜
ELP was one of the main Art/Prog bands that defined the genre in the 70's, along with Yes and King Crimson. Greg Lake, who wrote the music for this and plays guitar and bass, was also a founding member of King Crimson before he left to form ELP. Pete Sinfield wrote the lyrics for most ELP songs including this. Sinfield was also the lyricist for KC, where he and Greg Lake met. If the style of the album cover looks kind of familiar, that's because it was done by the Swiss artist H.R Giger who designed the alien creature for the Ridley Scott movie, Alien. More ELP, Yes, and KC please!! Thank you, thank you, thank you! Peace from SF
This song blew me away the first time I heard it a few years back. I thought I had heard everything from the classic rock spectrum, and this song came on satellite radio it sounded like something modern!
Dude, that breathy "Wow" you let out halfway through the song - I LOVE music that makes me go wow in that same way! And this song does. Prog rock in particular is full of moments like that. It fills you with a sense of wonder, like a child on Christmas morning.
I can't even begin to say how much I love this song! Also "From The Beginning". We went on a long drive a few days ago and just happened to listen to this CD. I also have the vinyl. Big time ELP fan! Three amazing artists!!!!!!! I'll confess, in the mid 80's I took a lot of "trips" if ya know what I mean. This album was mandatory on the turntable every time, hehe! Saw them at the first California Jam in '74, I went primarily to see them! magnificent! I don't always analyze lyrics, sometimes it's better just to FEEL them
It's an odd choice as an intro to them, but whatever. "Karn Evil 9" or "Tarkus" might be too much too soon. It'd probably be easier for him to ease into them with stuff like "Take a Pebble," "Knife Edge," The Endless Enigma," or "Toccata."
You've opened up the box of the kings of Progressive Rock. This album is great, but, you have to dig a bit deeper into ELP. Some of their masterpieces range in the 15 to 30+ minutes long and cover all kinds of magical wanderings. Not bad from just a 3 piece band, keyboards, drums and bass/guitar.
Thank you Jamel. I've also been asking for this review. ELP is the original supergroup. Their albums were meant to be a listening experience. Please try next From the Beginning and Lucky Man. Those are their most well known.
Yes Greg - You STILL turn me on!!! Rest in Peace and Love!!! Need to see the live version of Greg playing this on his 6 string while chewing gum and singing with his eyes closed effortlessly - such perfection!!! Then you need to see the video of "I Believe in Father Christmas". What a treat.
