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  • F(*&^&&((ing awesome... it was always my favorite...

  • I remember watching this particular click when I was about 6 or 7 years old and back then it totally blew me away. That was mainstream, cutting edge back then. Although it is a catchy tune I watched and didnt hold it in the same esteem. Still good though. I remembered the guitar sound as really "ballsy", I guess it may have been for mainstream back then...not in comparison to Led Zep etc of course.

  • Thats the legendary Yamaha GX1 he is playing. I had a poster of that machine ages ago. Coz I couldnt afford the GX1 (£50,000) back in the 70's

    I would love to get the music sheet for this.........the ELP version that is.

  • One of my favourite videos - love the simplicity of it, the way you can see their breath in the cold as they work away, the powerhouse rhythm and Emmerson's keyboard freakout. Amazing how he got all those different effects!

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  • Cameraman got a private elp concert !! none of the pushy, stinky, out-of-it fans that crowd the stadium on concert night. Two thumbs way up. Like the rising notes at the crescendo.

  • We never get great material like this these days These guys are true musicians. Love this masterpiece LOUD in the car. Shakes the entire road.

  • 24 dislikes = allevi's fan

  • If you are a fan of ELP's version listen to Asia's version its really good as well.

  • 24 justin biever's fans, stupids

  • ELP like me from mèxico the best band music is great progresive inmortal forever an ever

  • Truly Epic Old School Instrumental :D

  • fantastic footage i had never seen the video before

  • Theme song for the bourqeious.

  • @GONGBOY83 Being from Green Bay I assure you, you'll need alot than this track to get the Steelers in the position we're in!

  • so this is the earths theme

  • "One of The Best Ever!!!!!! (ELP Forever)

  • I play this every Sunday before football. Go Steelers!

  • Looks like nobody turned up for the concert - the stadium was completely empty!

  • @BuzbyWuzby yeah, I bought all the tickets and donated the money to the kidney foundation, in your honor.

  • Bravo!

  • Sem comentarios.Tres caras dão som de intrumentos.O baterista foi considerado um dos melhores do mundo.

    Kait Emerson, Greg Lak and Carl Palmer. La se vai nos idos 1970.Grande recordação.

  • Awesome, awesome dude. Today You´d never film something like this, with this extent. Great and thanks!

  • Timeless, excellent.

    

  • so kool it snowed far out

  • ELP said this was their #1 favorite moment of their career - playing FANFARE before NO ONE in the Montreal Olympic Stadium !! Great Video !!

  • I am supprised that old synth could keep tune in that cold.

  • Always had a soft spot for this. In all probability, the sheer skill on show here would terrify any loser who might be connected with the Toss Factor. Simoncuntcowell would have no idea what was going on. He's a useless shite and no mistake.

  • Can you imagine keeping a GX-1 tuned outside in the winter? Supposedly this very synthesizer that Keith played on this was on sale earlier this year on eBay for some extravagant amount. I say supposedly because I read somewhere else that it was effectively totalled when a car ran into Keith's house.

  • o6.5sextr1ll10nsk0wr0nsk1jun10­r@yahoo.com code o52565285 code is social secruity number use however ok their two to too tue championships ok the orange county championships this is the song then tri county orange ulster sullivan countys this is the son ok bob bollenbachs gym in monroe new york on quaker hill road kinda just look in the tellephone book bob has the both cds its their you wont believe it butts not a resident have to have been a resident butts stated john this is yours compition ok

  • only one word: EPIC

  • yes Reminds me of my youth,The Royal Standard Walthamstow....

  • Tks

  • Fantastic Music Track Ever.

  • This song can be played by brass or by electric and it is still great.

  • Another of my alltime favourites. Great stuff

  • it looked like they were playing at the big "O" in Montreal...

  • kunovondoodlebug- I happen to think its funny cos I never erd it first time around.LOL!

    Anyway,love the track and think its really cool.

    8.39 Caretaker- "Hurry up lads I wanna go home it's Fucking freezing here".

    Thanx 4 posting this neelix.

  • Getting the GX1 in there must have been a pain

  • tbonexx1, I'm with you on the miming the studio version...but by 77 the keys were all solid-state analog--no more tuning drift when the weather turned.

  • Yeah, I'm aware of that. Percussion and bass would still have been affected to a certain extent. Comments had been made previously about the tuning and it occured to me that people weren't aware that ELP were pulling a Mili Vanili on this particular vid. That's taking nothing away from them or the music. Great musicians and great piece.

  • this is just a brilliant version! /100/10!

  • just thinking the same

  • zseniális

  • Love the fur coats...hehehe

  • ha ha you try it wiseguy, you probably can't even tie your shoe....have some respect.

  • hahaha hilarious... very spinal tap

  • The music of Video Rodven

  • se te cayó la cédula!, jajajaja saludos

  • For those of you wondering how the instruments stayed in tune in the obviously fridgid cold...they're not playing. They are just apeing along to the recording. The music is note for note the recording and I don't care how good a musician you are that's impossible to do. Also explains the sudden cut at the end where it fades out on the recording.

    Great group though! We wore the grooves off the record listening to Fanfare and Pirates back in the late 70's.

  • Right on

  • Heavy tune, awesome.

  • They were truly incredible. rock bands doing classical. ELP, Tull, Queen, Rush .. was so great growing up in the 70s & 80s. this brought back happy memories  :)

  • Back when musicians played music and didn't trot out syncopated speaking as same.

    And, of course, performers PRACTICED back then and didn't just kill their rivals.

    Thanks to the OP for posting this up -- it was great!

  • LOL. So true. As bad as some musicians were back then, they don't hold a candle to the talentless violent thugs we call entertainers today.

  • Very well said. While there's still a handful of real musicians out there, for the most part, music today has become a talentless overly-technical corporate load of crap. Guys like Keith Emerson embraced technology too, but at the same time, they never forgot what it meant to be a real musician.

    Anyone who says that rap and hip-hop are "music" is essentially confirming their single digit IQ, as well as confirming a serious case of being tone deaf & musically challenged.

  • LOL. You are right on there. A lot of people don't know that Keith Emerson was classically trained at Juilliard. His fingers are so long that he can reach 12 notes on the keyboard with each hand. He was born to play the keyboard. They were all brilliant on so many levels. Ah, to have music like that again.

  • i'm surprised the instruments held up in such extreme cold, anyone w/ more knowledgeable about instruments know if they'd have to have them specially made for this?

  • pure pwnage.

    #@!

  • That was a cold place, are you sure they are not in Siberia? oh well Canada, same thing

  • egg sell hent this was the very first 7 inch single vinyl record i ever bought

  • This video was shot some time in January of 1977 while they were in Montreal to play at the Montreal Forum. I went to that gig it was incredible. I was a mere 14 years old at the time.

    maroma15, Someone did give you an answer that they were from England. Keith Emerson was with a group called The Nice, and Greg Lake was with King Crimson... and Carl Palmer was with Atomic Rooster.

  • Sorry, I was mistaken... The gig at The Forum in Montreal was in January 1978 and this being so I was 15 not 14.

    But I can't remember if I went to the show on January 16th or 17th.

  • this wasn't shot in the forum, right? the old hockey barn? is this the olympic stadium?

  • This was shot at the big "O" but with that cold they probably could have played hockey too

  • You're very lucky to have gotten to go to that gig!

  • I'd like to see this version (which I do enjoy) done in an arrangement for full orchestra and played during a classical concert in place of Copland's original. Just as a joke.

  • This done in an arrangement of a full orchestra would be shit hot!!!!! No Joke!

  • That would be cool!

  • That would be awesome!

  • This is ass kickin'

  • Remember Wild World of Sports!

  • Wow, it's so cold I'm impressed that the GX-1 is still in tune!

  • I've just experienced 8:55 mins of heaven

  • My first concert attended....ELP at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale, NY February, 1978

  • wasnt this bit of music done for the montreal 1976 olympics?

    love it whatever

  • fanfare for the common man was written by aaron copeland in 1942

    this is elp's take on it

  • Im fairly sure the video is shot in the Olympic Stadium in Montreal though.

  • very moving musical piece. I remember the tom landry coaches show opened with this for his dallas cowboy's weekly tv show. thanks for posting.

  • ELP! I gotta get skinny & buy some winter jackets like those. I had a few of their albums. "Tiger In A Spotlight" "C'est la Vie"!

    There is room for everything in the music world.

  • LOL! There's more people there than attended Expos games! :)

  • Montreal Stadio........

  • AC/DC most certainly does not suck --in fact, they just rocked Atlanta this week. Eighth time to see them --eighth great show.

    Ac/DC is an original --certainly simplistic in terms of a band like ELP-- but an original nonetheless, spawning countless imitators who never could get it right.

  • great, great keyboardist

  • where are ELP from???

  • England papa...Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Carl Palmer...Emerson was in "The Nice", Lake was in "King Krimson" and Palmer was in "Atomic Rooster", those bands had very good music...try to hear them

  • i had forgotten palmer was in Atomic Rooster

    that was some trippy stuff; as was KK and The nice

    u really know your music ivan

  • the only question that i had was ...where are they from??, i know ELP were very important in the music, i like them, very much, specially this song,!! i`m 28 and i`m from Mexico! can you understand why my question!! thanks!!!

  • Hey maroma;  They came from England, and the music is a remake of an old song. This band was real big during the 70's.

  • thanks JOhnNall, but i was giving an answer to another guy, but really thank you for the information, i don`t write the english very well, i hope you understand me!!

  • ahh pues yo tambien soy de Mexico...son de Inglaterra...vi un DVD de ELP, y salen en su primera presentacion y fue todo un acontecimiento que se juntaran 3 musicos tan bueno de diferentes grupos, los boletos se venieron en 3 hrs

  • un trio "stellare"...

  • No real music being made today.Pretty much pre packaged pop crap. Most of the real rock and roll is from bands like ac/dc that are still around. Thank God I grew up in a time when there were real musicians that made real music of ALL kinds. Never saw ELP but thank god for videos like this.

  • ac/dc sucks. there's always been shit music being made. ELP even made some shitty stuff. Bands like the Derek Trucks Band, Galactic and Medeski, Martin & Wood are still making good music and draw big crowds. Don't look to MTV or your local rock station to get you hip to what's happening.

  • The entire music industry has been a joke since the late 1990's.

  • There are still young people around trying to make good original music, you just have to look beyond the boy/girl band and x-factor crap.

  • there's a few good ones, not much tho

    interesting how so many youth have 'found' the old bands and loved them... my kids and their friends have listened to the great rock bands for over 20 years now.

    i learned that i would usually lose a cd or 2 when our kids had parties with a lot of friends over to our house, starting in about 88. hard to believe its been 20 and most of those same daughters have kids and all now.

  • i have to agree with you there Aaron

  • For me the music world died when 2LiveCrew released their album. It was the most disgusting thing I had ever heard. I think it was in the early 90's around '91 or '92, the start of rap.

  • When the Canadian Invasion of Country Music occurred in the mid-to-late 1990's, led by Shania Twain, Terri Clark, and others, the music industry got its last nail in the coffin. Rap, Heavy Metal, then the Canadian Invasion of Nashville...the music industry is dead.

  • So true

  • Rap started in the seventies; 'Rapper's Delight' was a hit in '79. I'm not a fan of rap or hip hop at all, but your ignorance is very telling.

  • And your insult is very telling of you. Enlighten without insults please.

  • AC/DC has been recording the same song since the Back in Black album

  • Excellent f**king video. Pure power trio. thanks for posting

  • when i was young(he-he) the disco-club in Kolozsvar start the show of this wonderful,great SONG...YES the life is 1 and nothing more...

  • CARL PALMER!!! E.L.P Real music! Great in concert! One of my first....Great Posting.

  • Emerson is shown here playing the most expensive synthesizer ever. I think there were only 7 of the Yamaha GX-1 ever made.

  • I think i had heard 15 of them.

  • Ultimate D.E.C.A.D.E.N.C.E...

  • Awesome, pure talent. Something that could never be unearthed by the X Factor.

  • gotta be hard playing in the subzero frozen outdoors and can't wear gloves. Ouch!

  • Keith Greg & Carl where did you go? The world could use more of this!!

  • PERFORMING at the olympic stadium of Montreal

  • just reading some of the comments haha some hilarious. Interesting but I don't think many contempary bands could stimulate so much positive conversation or fellings. Too bad...those days were magical, musically speaking!

    I love this band. never got to see them though

    cheers to all

  • i am on my sons acccount, cannot believe how great that was, considering that elp takes a classical song and makes it a modern masterpiece. todays music is just no talent. great work. people who could really play instruments amazing

  • simply stunning..

  • Without doubt, the greatest band that ever were. I count myself so lucky to have seen them live in their prime (1972) touring Trilogy. They shaped my whole musical taste. Everything I now like grew from listening to ELP.

  • I first heard this at a local pub where a band was on when I was around 8 years old. My first taste of a band and live music. The singers took a break and all that was left was the guy on keyboardsm drummer, and bass guitar.

    They did this tune and it stuck in my mind to this day.

    To see this on here by the original artists made me cry. Brought back so many memories, and also made me realise that music is always best played live.

  • EEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPP! Einfach garandios!

    Ich habe die Band 2 x live gesehen (das erste Mal 1973...). Das sind heute noch Rock-Titanen.

    Hier auf YouTube bewundere ich auch das Live-"Peter Gunn Theme" einfach mächtig!

  • EPIC!

  • The opening series was used at Bradford,Odsal, stadium and at BelleVue,manchester,stockcar and speedway tracks in the mid 80's by Stu Bamforth to start the races. I was a steward at both tracks.

    sfb

  • awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • VI ADORO!!!

  • i love this band

  • Grandi Emerson, Lake & Palmer, bello da sentire ancora oggi come allora. Avevo fuso il disco su questo pezzo a forza di ascoltarlo!

  • happy days, having been a uk hit single(short version)I looked forward to it being shown on the Christmas day totp's....and guess what, they played it with pans people dancing instead!!!!!!!!!!!!.

    The opening section was also used as bbc Scotlands theme for local news programme Reporting Scotland.

    this was a fav piece of my best mate.

    Killed Dec 2004

    Rock on Spike

  • Good to sse the full length version. Any ideas how Lake gets that clanky bass sound?

  • It is an 8 string Alembic Custom bass...sounds awesome!!!

  • Didnt John Paul Jones also use one of those?

  • greatest film clip ever.

  • I hope all can appreciate ELP's dedication to the voice and soul of the everyday joe in the audience and his personal strugglesday in and day out, If you don't appreciate this from this song- then I don't know how to reach you.

    Love, Cherish, Honor, Support, and Nuture your fellow common man- HE is You in a different shell!

  • Composer Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for the

    November 19, 2008

    Common Man" served as today's wake-up call for the STS-126 crew, as chosen by pilot Eric Boe's family.

  • doesn't this kind of sound like Mannheim Steamroller? Anyways great song by ELP

  • The original ELP version of this song started my love affair with synths. Still outstanding. Aah.

  • they were rehersing in Montreal during the winter of 77...they lived there for 6 months, than the concert was in august 77...I was there and also we were told they were in town the whole winter too..

  • Brain Salad Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuur­g

  • I remember when this was the theme song for the NFL after the intro the base riff

  • Wow looks like it was really cold.

  • GRANDIOSI !!!!!!

  • neelixs great video, thanks for posting this for an old hippie!

  • Sixty30, why are you making me think of Alan Partridge ?

  • in spite of the abuse they took, i think they were always very respectful of the classical pieces they adapted. and if they introduced just 1 person to classical music, then that person's musical horizons were expanded.

  • They introduced me to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition and for that I will be forever grateful. These guys rocked from the start, and Carl Palmer is still rocking - catch his "power trio" lately where the keyboard parts are played by a guitarist!

  • This video looks colder than that movie Fargo.

  • ha! nice

  • ...had my 1st orgasm to this song! Really!

  • Ummm... OK.

  • Were you sitting on the speaker?

  • Did you at least pass the intro?

  • Wow!

  • thats rather ledge! so did i!

  • A tad more information than we really needed but thanks for sharing it with us anyway!

  • I was there at the olympic stadium that year ( I live in Montreal ), what an awesome concert, this great song brings back so many memories of 1977

    Thank you for posting this one :)

  • This is one of the best songs of all times. Seriously. At least for me is. If I was a ginecologist helping a woman giving birth, this could be the song playing in my IPod while assisting her. I don't know why. (useless parenthesis)

  • I looooooooove the sound of these analogic keyboards !!!

  • Thanks for this ... never thought to find it again!!!

  • Dont think about the place and the year of this piece of E,L&P! Enjoy thi fanfare!

    Thanks

  • Winter 1977 was a cold one! The Montreal concert when they recorded the live album was described by Emerson as the zenith of their career.

  • it wasn't Japan as someone posted in the comment. This video was shot a couple of days before their actual concert in Montreal. You can tell at the beginning you see the 1976 Montreal Olympics logo.

    From Wikipedia - Emerson, Lake and Palmer In Concert is a live album by Emerson, Lake and Palmer, recorded at the August 26, 1977 show at Montreal's Olympic Stadium which is featured on the album cover.

  • That makes much more sense. It looks like Olympic Stadium in Montreal, which would have been fairly new after the '76 games, and the Olympic logo is kind of a clue.... along with all that snow.

  • Actually, the concert ELP did in Montreal when this video was made was held at the Montreal Forum, not the "Big Owe". That show was in Dec. of 1976. The band returned with the full orchestra show in August of '77. Would you do an outdoor show in Montreal in Dec.?

  • Popular music today has too many other things to focus on than just pure raw musical talent. Too many molds to pour into. You don't get much like this anymore...

  • Amen to that brother.

  • Me & my girl we love each other.

  • it's the Montreal Olympic stadium - 1977 a year after the '76 Olympics. Great concert I was there

  • soz tdervo if you look at the stadium there is no one there but still is great track and band

  • This was the day before a concert - in Japan - and it was actually snowing - all that white stuff on the ground!

    (This info from Emerson's autobiography).

  • Which stadium is it??