It is absolutely criminal that they are not in the rock and roll hall of fame. Run DMZ gets into the hall of fame with their garbage rap music absolutely turns my stomach.
I was so pissed when as a 14 year old in Denver in 1974 the Columbia record club sent me a tape by mistake by some band with the stupid name of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer. I threw it aside and didn't listen to it for the longest time until one day out of boredom I played it and had my mind blown. All I had was a little panasonic tape playback player that I rigged to my father's old amplifier and a single 12 inch speaker cone I found in a dumpster which I held in my lap in my room made out of half the garage while this mind blowing jam played out. The awe I felt for this band has never left me.
I had an opposite experience! I mail-ordered _Pictures At An Exhibition_ but on their new Manticore label. When it arrived, side 1 was fine, but side 2 was Fats Waller Live. Fortunately I had another copy of P.A.A.E. that was okay. That was early 70s.
I remember being in the basement of a house that had a JBL paragon on one side and 2 JBL 100s ceiling mounted on the other. We were tripping and listening to ELP and tank started to play. We were really getting into it when at the end of the magnificent drum solo the huge bass note blew the system. From 120DB to zero in an instant. Paralysis set in for several seconds. I’m 73 now and I still remember that day fondly. We stayed up all night and climbed the farm field hill to see the sunrise. Just as it started to rise a herd of cows came out and one of our group said he could call them. He and they came and we were soon surrounded. A truly incredible way to end a trip.
What a great story. What wonderful times back then with acid, peyote and shrooms. And the music, incredible. Saw ELP on ludes. Great show. These are amazing classically trained musicians with a heavy jazz influence. Absolutely should be in The Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
@@daveydudely9954 your name says it all Davey Boy you are a dud. So you think musicianship like that is a farce? I can't figure it out are you borderline retarded if so I forgive you it's not your fault. Or are you just an ignorant sack of s h i t. I think I hit on it didn't I day before. Now go somewhere and whip your little Skippy. Hahaha
@@DaleSteadman Sorry...What do you mean: "Even today"? Nothing. Nothing. Nothing. "Today" comes marginally close. Get a grip man. Take a look around you. A wilderness..
I grew up in the 60s and 70s in my teenage years and damn what great memories and music. This is why I play music. Today's so called music is not music.
When I was 5, my eldest sister gave me ELP Brain Salad Surgery. She sifted through the lyrics for fear of nefarious swear words, found none. 53 now, and I'm still thanking her!! Absolute gold mine, these three.
Perfect Prog. Our time machine is to close our eyes and listen. The music takes us back to when we had long hair, youth, and when the music was a huge part of our lives.Thanks for posting, and thank you to the inimitable, irreplacable, ELP.
Ich höre dieses Konzert so alle 4 Wochen und tauche in diese Musik vollkommen ein und kann nicht aufhören es ist wie eine Sucht Geht mir auch bei Pink Floyd und den Doors so und das mit 73 Jahren
How I wished Greg Lake and Keith Emerson were still alive..... Truly Legends....All of them....RIP Greg and Keith....You both will be forever missed and remembered.....🎤🎸🎹🥁🔥💪👊🙏🙏
It is very sad to believe that Greg and Keith are no longer walking with the living. I grew up in their era so don’t have much time myself. They are still unbelievable. GBG NO EDITS.
@@johnwilliamson2707 yeah round 1971 & early 72 the mahavishnu orchestra was opening up for them the original lineup with Billy Cobham on the drum's Cobham was a true beast nobody could touch him during this particular era and John McLaughlin of course that was one hell of a lineup I see why ELP wanted them to open up for them!
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF RICK WAKEMAN ❓❓❓❓❓ HE PLAYED WITH YES AND WAS A VERY GOOD KEYBOARDIST. I THOUGHT AND STILL THINK THAT YES AND EMERSON LAKE AND PALMER WOULD BE A AWESOME CONCERT IF THEY COULD HAVE PLAYED TOGETHER
It broke my heart when I heard about Keith and Greg both in the same year. They gave me so much and I couldn't do a dam thing. ELP ARE STILL TODAY "BEST IN CLASS". Who has ever come close?
I saw Emerson Lake and Palmer in1976. It was symphonic and magical, truly astounding. Keith came up out of the stage sitting at a gloss black grand piano. A night to remember, that's for sure.
00:01 Intro 00:41 Interview 01:46 Rondo 20:08 Nut Rocker 24:58 Take a Pebble (Beginning) 29:40 Dog Named Lou 31:42 Take a Pebble (Reprise) 33:19 Tank/Hoedown 37:12 Take a Pebble (Ending) 40:18 Knife-Edge 47:02 Big Blues/Medley
Im just glad you got the Old Blue part timestamped lol. Fucking love that. But yeah it's not "Dog named Lou", it's a mini rendition of the song "Old Blue" by The Byrds just fyi 🙃
@@LukewarmBong Thanks for the information. Didn't know about the Byrds. Anyway, this concert has been unofficially released as CD (LCCD5130) where the "song" is listed as "Dog named Lou" 🐶
@@aum1083 Oh wow, now that I did not know lol. Very interesting. Well, w/e you wanna call it, I'm just glad its there 👌its brief but damn is it uplifting
Amen. And I had the good fortune to catch these guys live 3 times ('77, '78 and '92) and Carl Palmer again with Asia in '82. They were absolutely unforgettable.
@@johnwilliamson2707 And i got to see them once, down here in SOUTH FLORIDA, ....MIAMI!!! AWESOME!!!! remember the piano playing and it was spinning as being held up by cables....WOW. was that done at any of those concerts you went to and saw ELP? asking for a friend.
Perdón, para los conocedores del genero, ELP esta en el podio, nada de banda subvalorada, eso lo dirán los que solo han escuchado a pink floyd y piensan que es lo máximo, pero no, ELP, como músicos y compositores, son lejos mucho MÁS que los floyd.
I was studying music / piano seriously in those days. Of course we had to play Bach and all. So yes, when we saw a crazy prodigy rocker on stage dosing us with a little classical mixed in, we just looked at each other and smiled.
I've posted your last sentence a number of times buried in my comments here. It doesn't exist anymore. Saw ELP with Mahvishnu Orchestra. Talk about progressive rock!
Ethan Iverson has a left hand that plays in a different time zone than his right hand. Physical Cities on The Bad Plus album Prog. Ethan is the closest thing to Keith Emerson.
Damn! This band. How in the world did I miss them in the 70's? Guess I was too busy listening to James Taylor, Carole King, Elton John, etc. I am absolutely gobsmacked (to use a British expression) since (re)discovering EL&P. Why, oh why did 2 out of the 3 of these amazing musicians have to pass on from this Earth? Thank God for videos and audio recordings. I would have hated to miss out on music like what EL&P consistently delivered. Carl Palmer - what an unsung hero of the rock and roll drumming brotherhood. Greg Lake - the talent just oozed from his brain, his fingertips and his gorgeously haunting and beautiful voice. And dear Keith, the man was an absolute maniacal genius at the keyboard. A master of all musical genres. I miss good music like this. Why are they not in the R&R Hall of Fame. What a gift they have been to the music world!
If you missed ELP, I assume you also missed King Crimson. If you think you're gobsmacked now? Wow. King Crimson is more or less the inspiration for ELP. Just ask Greg Lake. ;-) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ukgraQ-xkp4.html
@@igalflint LoL, I might have to agree, having seen all of them in concert and listened to all of their albums a lot. Lake's vocal range and edge was like pure crystal, but with a lower register harmonic when he went low, and soaring when he went high.
Hanya jiwa2 pembrontak yang membuat musik seperti ini. ELP adalah kumpulan pemusik2 semacam ini. Teknik mereka sangat tinggi!! Saya mendengar mereka tahun 1980 an. Sebagai otodidak saya "angkat tangan" terhadap musik mereka. Artinya saya tidak mungkin memainkannya!!! Pernah kepikiran membuat gabungan "gamelan Jawa" dengan musik diatonis(THN 1992 an), tapi tidak pernah kesampaian. Tidak pernah punya teman yang se ide!! Akhirnya yang muncul hanya gamelan ber "cita rasa rock". Dan sekarang saya tidak mungkin melanjutkan. Karena usia dan posisi(saya bukan guru musik lagi, karena pendukung saya yang riil hanya murid2 saya setingkat SMP. Berbahagialah Emerson, Lake, Palmer yang mencacat sejarah musik yang gila dan menemukan penggemarnya juga!!! Saya, otodidak, Jawa, Indonesia!(usia 68 tahun).
@@dsusilo8605 them and also the mahavishnu orchestra with John McLaughlin & Billy Cobham damn that was a super band!! Matter of fact they were even on tour with ELP.......
ELP will always be one of the best bands that ever existed in my opinion. They were definitely one of my inspirations when I was young and still inspiring even today.
Being a drummer and a huge fan of Carl Parmer - this video is great because you rarely got to watch his technique since he was always behind his superstack drum kit. Using pure jazz styled grip approach.
I could be wrong, but I think that Hendrix was gonna be in ELP, along with some other people. But it didn't work out. I heard that in a video about how ELP inspired early video game soundtracks. Really good video.
@@jimdep6542 yes sir it was legendary I left that concert in a daze also 1971 was great yes opened up for them at that concert and next in 1976 Journey opened up for them the great journey by the way when they were still a progressive rock group. Those were the three greatest shows but I saw many more after that. By the way I always wanted to go to San Francisco but I hear it's really gone downhill these days
Keith Emerson's sense of harmonic wildness is just awesome. He is not JUST an incredible technician, he is just a physical crazy man. Yes, he attacks the keys in the truest sense. I love Rick Wakeman and all the other prog masters of the keyboard. But can anyone else do this?
Anyone whose played keyboards for a year can do the mindless horseshit Emerson plays here. Give me a fucking break. All these guys do is jerk-off on their instruments. “Incredible technician” - spoken like a guy with no musical training and no understanding of the instrument.
this video shows how truly gifted they are.. one of the most incredible bands ever...I love how they seem like shy school boys when they are first interviewed, then proceed to burn the house down
Haha, you're just a few years behind me. Graduated in '70. The year before this show I saw The Who introduce Tommy, opening bands were John Sebastian, Leon Russel, and Blues Image. Anaheim Stadium. The LA area was a great place for concerts back then. The Doors and Jefferson Airplane played at my HS in Van Nuys, June '67. 1st Dead show was Nov '70 at (I think) Winterland or maybe Fillmore. 2nd was at the Fillmore, 2 nights before Hot Tuna/Trinidad Steel Drum Band/Allman Bros. The latter played the whole "Filmore East" album and more. Again, our minds were blown.
Kieth Emerson was such a rock star presence, it tended to make people overlook what a gifted composer he was. It wasn’t until I saw Rachel Flowers play Tarkus on a grand piano at a recital, that the actual brilliance of Kieth Emerson was on full display. There will never be another ELP. Great performance by them all.
My brother snuck me out of the house when I was in 8 th grade . 5 of us drove 75 miles to the checker dome in St. Louis Mo. 1977 . I was 3 rows back on the floor . So incredible to see these guys for my first concert . Gregg Lakes voice and he played standing on a carpet rug . Carl Palmer ( magnificent ) keith Emerson. And the spinning piano . They played by themselves for almost 3 hours . After intermission they came up from the drum kit raising up out of the floor. AWESOME !
Those were the good ol’ days, when you could do that and not have to worry about being assaulted. All the girls would thumb rides to the beach in the summertime. Can’t do that today…
I found Keith one of, if not the, most consistent and inventive soloists/improvisers in all of rock. He never strayed too far from the composition [or recorded version] and seemed always to land on the most interesting sequence of notes, chords and phrasing. He was a true musical force [and still underrated] IMO.
I bought their 1st 2 albums in 1970 when I was 17 yo and became ELP fanatics for a few years. Live, they were just incredible and Keith Emmerson just wild in the many keyboards he played. And Carl Palmer was possibly the greatest and most underrated drummer of all time...wonderful muscians...incredible band !!
Saw them at Nassau coliseum in New York during the brain salad surgery tour think I was in 10th grade was so lucky to see so many concerts back then so many of them are gone now 🥲those were some great memories 🙂
I would tend to agree due to their varied instrumentation and range of music. I mean Hendrix was also from outer space but his band didn't have the breadth that ELP did. Saw both of them within a year of each other. Teenage mind blown.
@@johnbrowne2170 Nobody will argue that Cream wasn't one of the best rock/blues trios that ever existed. I mean, who ever played the short version of Crossroads?? LoL
@@deadtimber You can really groove to Cream, especially when they played live. Love ELP and Police were remarkably different. Sting, on his own, was amazing.
I was lucky indeed to see them at the old Cleveland Stadium in the early 70’s during their Brain Salad Surgery tour. WMMS, ELP and Blodder. That was my childhood. Omg. So fantastic. To this day I don’t know if Kieth Emerson’s organ really revolved or was that the acid? Carl Palmer absolutely shredded percussion. God I love this band. Greg Lake’s voice was amazing. I also still love King Crimson. Takes me right back to my happy youth. Anyone who saw them live consider yourselves lucky indeed.
We may NEVER see musicians like this again. The young generation is too busy with mindless video games and their gadgets to engage in anything of this caliber... Humanity lost it forever.
@@jimdep6542 Yes. It does. It’s so hard to convince any youngsters to master anything... True - there will be jewels here and there - individuals that have self-discipline instilled and nourished since early childhood, but that takes true parenting. Sadly, that critically important part of life is almost gone. Just a handful of families still teach their offspring valuable life lessons. The rest just buys gadgets, video games, pass time activities on consumer level.
ELP came at the tail end of the pursuit of excellence by Western masculine dominated society. After 1970 feminine cultural dominance pushed pursuit of excellence out as a priority and made community care a priority. In the last 20 years what recording is comparable to the likes of ELP, Pink Floyd, and Steely Dan, all coming at the end of the era of excellence?
Keith Emerson. Nobody has ever played keyboards like him again. We lost something when we lost him and we will never get it back. The other two are nonetheless incredible musicians in their own right. I was at a concert once with their Brain Salad surgery tour sometime in the 70s. Unforgettable.
CG: Didn't get to see them until the "Black Moon" tour. While The Gorge at George (WA) is a singular venue and this remains the best live drumming performance I've ever seen, envy your seeing them during the "BSS" days!
Been a fan of theirs since the early 1970's and I love it today just as much. Music back then was so much deeper and complex then the shallow junk that comes out today. It took many months to write this kind of music, today's junk music gets written in a day.
Some refer to Rap as music. The term Rap music is a contradiction in terms. An oxymoron. Music is primarily a combination of harmony and melody. There are other aspects of music such as rhythm, however, as one who was a straight "A" student in music and have played over a dozen different instruments, I have my own opinion I suppose as to what is what with regard to the subject. Btw, I'm only 69 so I consider myself a ways away from "old age"! I still work as an aircraft mechanic so when I can no longer do my job..........then I'll take "old age" into consideration.
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW...I was SO blessed to have grown up in that era of the tremendous, brilliant musicians. We will never see a generation of music or musicians like that ever again. People today have NO idea what we were so fortunate to see and what they missed. You tube doesn't even touch the genius of what these artists could do. This was LIVE people...LIVE!!!
Every generation is filled with people who think that generation defined not only music, but everything else good in life. This band was part of the road map of my early life too. But they were just one band. I'm 71 now and there are bands just as amazing as ELP playing. You just have to get out there and see them. We live in the best time yet for music lovers.
Jeezus, those guys were great! Used to jam to them on my 8-track cassette player in my '71 Mercury Capri. Went to hear them live and blew my mind. My best friend was a drummer and worshipped Carl Palmer.
I was wondering how that organ got so banged up, but after seeing Keith push it around the stage, nearly toppling it over, playing it upside down, backward, sidewise, riding it like a bucking bronco, and then stabbing it repeatedly with several knives -- I am wondering how it is still in one piece and still sounding magnificent! LOL! Crazy, brilliant, genius! RIP Keith, nobody ever played the keys like you and never will! You made Jerry Lee Lewis look like an amateur riding a tricycle! As a keyboardist, I owe Keith to my love of the keyboards! Nobody has every wowed me as much as he and his playing!
In the 70’s I saw lots of concerts. Nobody, and I mean nobody came close to giving amazing concerts like ELP. They were the greatest, best concerts ever! Absolutely mind-blowing.
They were a power trio from the start, this in their first year as a band, amazing and beautiful to see great camera and editing in these early days of progressive rock music. I love how they blend in the folk and blues
We were lucky to be there. Despite the Vietnam war and turbulence, getting hassled by cops, etc., I wouldn't have wanted to have been born much later, or anywhere else (grew up in the L.A. suburbs) than I was because I got to see all the greats of the era at least once, some many times. Witnessing these guys and others morphing into progressive rock, the folk rock, and psychedelic rock / jazz movements was an epic experience. I wish there would be some really creative people creating new sounds and genres today...and not just the commercial B$ we see and hear for the most part these days.
They all seemed to have been able to reach unattainable talent levels that only compare to each other , in their differing modes of musical expression . How they all came together is but a miracle in time .
I can only imagine rehearsals. The other two do compliment Kieth exceedingly well and bring their own genius. Lake great voice and guitar/bass player. Palmer exceptional drummer! Probably two of a handful who could have keep up or complimented K. Love it when Lake tells him to piss off when he’s playing his cute little blues acoustic number, smile 😊 they seem to be having a hell of a good time!
For those who want to know, Emerson made the noise of the rumble by activating a spring reverb unit, which when hit produces that bang. The pitch bends were made by turning the motor of the Hammond L100 organ off and on.
I knew the reverb bit but I had always wondered how the pitch was shifted on a Hammond organ. Had heard other musicians do it too but never knew how. Thank you very much for that explanation.
@@nrlohan4738 Thanks to you for this comment. The L-1XX series of Hammond organs have an self-starting motor for the tone wheels, that is, turning this motor on and off varies the pitch generated by the organ. Adding overdrive to that sound, it sounded similar to a police car siren.
@@AugustoJParmaThanks again for this. Although I'm a guitarist, I have a collection of vintage analogue synths, but I've never had the chance to get to know Hammond organs close up because there are none that I know of here in Malaysia. Truly appreciate your explanation. Honestly, I feel much smarter now. At least I can now explain it to people who ask me about it. 🙂
I was 23 when I saw this show at the Kongresshaus in Zurich (my hometown). It blew my mind so much that I could not find my Volkswagen Beetle car afterwards. Being a Deadead then (still am) and used to be functioning stoned this says enough. Still love this great band.
It speaks volumes that not one of them could even imagine a different way to spend their time than making music. I have found this to be true for virtually every successful musician I have worked with in my 40+ years in the business. Despite being a grueling job with almost endless hours and very tough conditions, no one would trade it for anything. Music is magic.
Absolutely true! I'm a professional musician and my father's cousin, a distinguished dean and professor of music in Sweden, put it this way: "Music is an incurable condition".
The band as a whole brought many talents. Carl Palmer was extraordinary in his drumming just like keith on the keyboards and lake with his vocals. Fantastic band in the end
Oui...génial ces 3 ... la maîtrise totale !!...fuuuuu la la ..dedius..!! Un groupe à faire découvrir à la jeune génération.... qui n'ont pas connus ce genre de miusik !!!.. ce Live est une merveille !!!!
The first SUPER GROUP hands down! I was lucky to see them for a couple different tours in the mid 80s and early 90s in the Fox Theater Detroit, MI and Pine Knob, Clarkston, MI. Greg Lake was promoting the tour and speaking on WRIF radio in Detroit, when Greg was leaving the station I was there waiting and got to meet him briefly and get his autograph which was a very memorable moment for me! Greg was very friendly and approachable unlike some celebrities.
