"America is pregnant with promise and anticipation, but is murdered by the hand of the inevitable" ~ YEAH! Saw The Nice and YES together on the same bill at the Royal Festival Hall...and...and... Keith used the daggers in the keys... and.. and.. had the organ on top of him playing the keys over the top.. and.. and..got the fuel and the matches...and..and ..set fire to the organ with the daggers in..and..and played it....and..and.. it wouldn't happen today!
I saw this band at the Fillmore East back in '68. Loved the daggers into the organ! Emerson was an amazing showman back then. I preferred the Nice to ELP. Although Emerson was excellent in both bands.
Holy Crap - I dubbed this to an 8-track tape and listened to it in my car for ages! Then I saw ELP in Asbury Park in 1971 (or maybe 1972). I was hooked!
"Autumn To Spring" (Charisma) shares 6 songs in common with "Emerlist Davjack" (Columbia). "Autumn To Spring" contains 3 additional songs, including 'America'; "Emerlist" only a couple: 'Rondo' & 'War & Peace.' I haven't thought about this or listened to this music in decades. It's so pleasant to be reacquainted with these gems, thanks to you.
@bogeybast Yeah you rite! I was listening to Hayden's Water Music on youtube and just had a whim to listen to the Nice. Classical music free association I guess. Now I'm getting caught up on one of my favorite bands of the 60's. Saw them several times at the Fillmore East.
My favourite band in this genre used to be Deep Purple with John Lord at the organ, but it didn't take long from they sendt some old BBC archive clip with "The Nice America live at BBC" at the Norwegian Broadcaster NRK before I actually went on internett and bought me self a CD with The Nice... And what cool!
@skreppvin And what cool !!! I also love classic church organ, and what did I hear? In the middle of some prog rock tune I suddenly heard them play BACH like I don't use to hear! Cool stuff man, mixing rock and old classics!
The great Keith Emerson. More proof (if it were needed) that English musicians are the greatest invention since - well, all the other globally important stuff that we invented :-) hee hee
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I was 15. Just reading a book on David Bowie and they were fans of his, and I though Oh yeah I loved them too. My brother was a DJ and he had their records, along with Velvet Underground and Nico and Chicago and others I dont remember. I wish I still had his records.
I was 15. Just reading a book on David Bowie and they were fans of his, and I though Oh yeah I loved them too. My brother was a DJ and he had their records, along with Velevt Underground and Nico and Chicago and others I dont remember. I wish I still had his records.
probably the best concert of the many I went to was an all nighter at the lyceum london in july 1969 with peter hammill, renaissance the original group, yes and the nice. people were getting on stage with the nice as it was so good and the security were getting them off, which lee jackson objected to saying they wouldnt play any more gigs with blue suited b------s. I had to play cricket for the school next morning which I just about made in time.
Jaaaaaa! My hair is standing up,too! Always when I listen to this! And to other songs from that time. Am 59 now and look forward to my funeral, WHEN MY FAMILY HAS TO PLAY THESE AND OTHERS!!!
I was born two years before this song was released and I finally have a chance to hear it. Its amazing how this band never made it in the US. Of course, the fact that they got banned in a lot of places for burning the American flag at the end of this song had a lot to do with it.
Ian Anderson played this version on the "Orchestral Tull" tour couple years ago...think I was the only one in the place who knew the song...what a treat!!!!
Keltyk, you should have seen Emerson live...he sometimes used stilleto-daggers near the finale of their set, stabbing the keyboards with them, wrecking the instrument, but very dramatic....at the time anyway! A real showman, defenitely, wasn't the young girls dialogue at the end of 'America' the Producers Daughter?
my favourite version so far is a live thing off an old Charisma record label sampler called 'Charisma Keyboards'- it's about 11 mins- and the organ sounds like it's really being stabbed- burned- bludgeoned- tormented near the end--- and it works very very well-- real real gutsy and angry
Mephisto89, try LastFM for the Nice if you can get it. Love 'em to bits. Always have and always will. To add to the "Who was the child's voice" lottery, the autobiography of the N ice says it was Pat (P.P) Arnold's infant.
My first concert at The Boston Tea Party 1968--what a way to begin my musical endeavors. Oh and Keith stabbed the hammond B3 with a knife...thats rock n roll!! :-)
My first concert at The Boston Tea Party 1968--what a way to begin my musical endeavors. Oh and Keith stabbed the hammond B3 with a knife...thats rock n roll!! :-)
My first concert at The Boston Tea Party 1968--what a way to begin my musical endeavors. Oh and Keith stabbed the hammond B3 with a knife...thats rock n roll!! :-)
@MrMephisto89 Its a station called deep tracks that plays some of the more obscure classic rock. Its only on XM, but definitely check it out if you can.
All these years later, as I sit at my laptop and type this, I can honestly say that this track still has the same power, imagery and relevance today as it did then: the first ever instrumental protest track. It still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. The short guitar solo by David O'List is pure and honest and has to by my all time favourite solo.
Well I had to respond to your comment. I first heard this track when a new family from Nairn in Scotland became our neibours in Bradford. I must have been 14 but we were allowed to put LP`s on the radiogram while the mums were chatting. I was listening to the start of a different sound but I did not know it at the time. What a wonderful piece of music.
@grahamparkerluthier I was born 3 years later, in 1971, but for sure I can imagine, because this is tuff music! I always liked rock'n roll that uses pure organ. We lost something when we lost the organ in rock. Today we hear it in some blues and gospel, and for sure that's cool music to, but to hear skilled organ and guitar based bands like Deep Purple and The Nice...
This is a fantastic find. This video really captures the spirt of the day. Who says you need thousands of dollars in CGI effects to make a real, honest statement about the world? And this isn't even in color!
When I was younger I had the album "Five Brides" by the Nice. Just recently purchased the CD and have been blown away by what I had not heard in so long. It is truly a trip
@ImAsMadAsHell Sort of - they did a version of "Intermezzo" from the Carelia suite on an album, and it's the same piece used by the TV programme ( but not their version)
I can picture Genesis doin' a song like this. If they did a version like this, it would be on the 1970 album "Trespass", but without the talking in the end.
To me, this is an example of what made the 60s so awesome in perpetuating rock into the future, to what we have today. This is one of my favorite rock recordings of that period.
This is what i call music (:, none of this new music! How can anyone listen to music of nowerdays with such gems as this!. =] Just my opinion btw dont get offended :P
Nah, I watched this program once - it had some footage of a journalist asking Bernstein if he "thinks The Nice's cover of your song turned it into an Anti-American durge?" (or something to that affect) then he goes "Who?" and they go "The Nice" then he goes "Never hear of 'em".
Does anyone know who did the child's voice at the end. It's a bit like the one on Traffic's "Hole in my shoe", but then again a lot of kids sound the same at that age.
Brian Davison interview, "We were an Improvisational Progressive Classical Jazz Rock group". This was an interview conducted as part of "The Keith Emerson Project", which is an official documentary adaptation of Keith's autobiography "Pictures of an Exhibitionist".
It's time to remember Keith's sounds like one of the best music in the world... I'm sure of this ...thought ( EmerLiistDevJack). What do you think about?
In 60s up to mid 70s bands has to cut long songs, because their singles that are longer than 5 minutes radio station could not broadcast them. That's why there is no solo.
That would have been so cool if Steve Howe had joined The Nice instead of Yes. Keith and he could have played ragtime pieces together etc. Can you imagine Steve Howe playing this instead the Steppinwolf-like David O'list?
Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack is outstanding! This is on "Live with the London Philharmonic" Also a "Must Have":
"I'm One of Those People your father told your sister not to go out with, cause if I get you in a corner you can guarantee I'll want more than a goodnight kiss."
the questios is Why this bands have stayed hidden or buried by tv , radios an pappers = censored , the beatles and stones the great publicity of 60s and what about this bands included the who
Jesus! I hadn't thought of this band since at least the late 70s! This really brings back some GREAT memories of my mid high school years (circa 68-69-70) !! Thanks for a wonderful posting !!
Saw The Nice live in London in the late 60's, this was pretty much their "anthem" along with The Karelia Suite. Like beecees this was my lead into classical as well as the then named "underground" music. Real memory lane stuff!
You made reference to the Lyceum Ballroom in London and I would like to know more.
I was in Dave Berry`s backing band for a year and we played a gig in Leicester Square and I think it was under the Odeon, we had to take our gear down many steps, We were on an Adam and the Ants gig in 1980, Was this the Lyceum?
We were the boys from yorkshire and we were treated very well , I think we were well liked. Can you tell me about the Lyceum?
If my American brain can remember that far back, I believe the Lyceum Ballroom was just off the Strand in Westminster. Real stately place with big columns in the front. My schoolmates Dad was a VP in the record industry, so we used to see all the shows. Among others I saw there were the Rolling Stones, Plastic Ono, Rare Bird, Small Faces, and others I can't quite remember. Wikipedia is full of photos of the place. Great venue, great memories.
Hi My friend I found that the gig I did was the empire ballroom on the 8th of June 1980 backing Adam and the Ants.
The reason we were there was because Sid Vicious recorded a Dave Berry song called "Don`t Give Me No Lip Child", so Dave was in the media at that time.
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@QuantumMathematician I think it would be weird if some church organist started ripping this out on Sunday morning or something. It'd be cool if more hip people went to church.
Wow this takes me back over 40 years, Ive got the 45 some where! If it wasnt for Keith Emerson I'd never have got into Bach, and yeah Bernstein was livid. But then he must have approved the of Vet war, so lets play this again and again & let him turn in his grave. Maybe he forgave them eventually, when he later met the injured veterans?
"Dated REALLY badly?" The music was of its time, of course, but it is no more "dated" than, say Piper at The Gates of Dawn, or Strange Days, both of which seem to enjoy the status of classics. In terms of songwriting and execution, I think, Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack was pretty much top rate stuff. Ars Breta has its moments, but already Emerson's attempt to play classical music as rock are afoot. As for ELP, Peel's remarks express my sentiments better than I can.
The Nice were an extremely good band. Trouble was, some of the "psychedelic" tracks on Emerlist Davjack and Ars Breta (etc) have dated REALLY badly.... of course, Keith Emerson went on to form ELP. The famous John Peel comment was that ELP were "a great waste of talent and electricity", but - well, compared to what's out there today.....
Only one tune is from West Side Story. The opening chords and a third melody that starts at 1.35 are from Dvorak's Symphony number 9, 'From the New World'. Not just a pretty face, that Keith Emerson.
This song reminds me of a song off of Zelda or some Nintendo game, but then the opening intro sounds like the intro to Metallica's "don't tread on me"
Christ All Mighty, I never said Metallica was better or what not, ok, yes, what Metallica plays sounds like this piece, is what I really meant to say,......so can I have my head back?
@galius1 Metallica is sort of around the same talent level as KISS or something. They can do the two string power chords but have no idea of how to form full chords.
@galius1 My first concert at The Boston Tea Party 1968--what a way to begin my musical endeavors. Oh and Keith stabbed the hammond B3 with a knife...thats rock n roll!! :-)
Good stuff from Kieth Emerson. This was before his work with ELP, but it is still of the same high standard as all of his other works. Keep the good music comming and keep in touch.
This guys sound as Deep Purple in the beginning. Specially guitar at 2:30.
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Jlipnicki 2 weeks ago
i love the little snare drum!! :)
Lorenzo84no 2 weeks ago
"America is pregnant with promise and anticipation, but is murdered by the hand of the inevitable" ~ YEAH! Saw The Nice and YES together on the same bill at the Royal Festival Hall...and...and... Keith used the daggers in the keys... and.. and.. had the organ on top of him playing the keys over the top.. and.. and..got the fuel and the matches...and..and ..set fire to the organ with the daggers in..and..and played it....and..and.. it wouldn't happen today!
SuperNevile 2 months ago
used to have a 45 of this, still got it on a vinyl album tho
shemanic1 2 months ago
I saw this band at the Fillmore East back in '68. Loved the daggers into the organ! Emerson was an amazing showman back then. I preferred the Nice to ELP. Although Emerson was excellent in both bands.
1blastman 2 months ago
1:36 what's??? please answer me!!!
FSP94ASR 3 months ago
@FSP94ASR It's an Andy Warhol painting of a Campbell Tomato Soup can. - Pop Art
1blastman 2 months ago
@1blastman no! I meant the song...but I understood, Antonin Dvorak, from the new world
FSP94ASR 2 months ago
The Nice,King Crimson and Soft Machine were the best much better than ELP.
theseventhprotocol 3 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for The Nice
Wow!! Who knew this even existed? Thanks for posting. I used to feign coolness to ELP fans by saying, 'Yeah, but The Nice - that was a group...'
cbivitz 4 months ago 4
@cbivitz I was 12 when this came out. I still feel exited when I hear this. I was lucky, thanks Nice!
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cbivitz 4 months ago
This is actually based on the song 'America' from West Side Story
Mervcarter1 4 months ago
this is awesome! glad you posted it; glad i found it!
nitewingstudio 4 months ago
thanks to vh1 for bringing this band to the people who born in the 90's :) Greeetings from Colombia
cesarkmba100 5 months ago
I absolutely love this song. It's complete genius from start to finish and whilst it's over 40 years old (older than me) it still sounds immense.
GLS4321 6 months ago
Fans of Mr. Emerson might like to try and get hold of his '5 Bridges' disc, with the immortal 'Karelia Suite' by Sibelius on it. Tasty.
DokktorDeth 6 months ago
Holy Crap - I dubbed this to an 8-track tape and listened to it in my car for ages! Then I saw ELP in Asbury Park in 1971 (or maybe 1972). I was hooked!
paulc118 6 months ago
"Autumn To Spring" (Charisma) shares 6 songs in common with "Emerlist Davjack" (Columbia). "Autumn To Spring" contains 3 additional songs, including 'America'; "Emerlist" only a couple: 'Rondo' & 'War & Peace.' I haven't thought about this or listened to this music in decades. It's so pleasant to be reacquainted with these gems, thanks to you.
bogeybast 7 months ago
@bogeybast Yeah you rite! I was listening to Hayden's Water Music on youtube and just had a whim to listen to the Nice. Classical music free association I guess. Now I'm getting caught up on one of my favorite bands of the 60's. Saw them several times at the Fillmore East.
1blastman 2 months ago
My favourite band in this genre used to be Deep Purple with John Lord at the organ, but it didn't take long from they sendt some old BBC archive clip with "The Nice America live at BBC" at the Norwegian Broadcaster NRK before I actually went on internett and bought me self a CD with The Nice... And what cool!
skreppvin 7 months ago
@skreppvin And what cool !!! I also love classic church organ, and what did I hear? In the middle of some prog rock tune I suddenly heard them play BACH like I don't use to hear! Cool stuff man, mixing rock and old classics!
skreppvin 7 months ago
increible, si existiera la maquina del tiempo..
boscorhf 7 months ago
The great Keith Emerson. More proof (if it were needed) that English musicians are the greatest invention since - well, all the other globally important stuff that we invented :-) hee hee
DokktorDeth 7 months ago
Thanks for posting this. Could you possibly post a performance of The Nice's "I'm One of Those People"? Thanks.
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tayltay 8 months ago
thumbs up if no one sent you here.
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@mboutsa keith emerson called me to this place
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@mboutsa I guess destiny sent me here.
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@mboutsa i heard about em in an interview from Robert Plant. Anyone else? the interview is from utube- search (i guess) australia 1972
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blackandtanful 9 months ago
EMerson si the best
Nawtas90 10 months ago
pop pop
magnatudepoppop 10 months ago
prog always ruled!
MrVl1500 10 months ago
first time ive ever heard this...amazing man!!!xxpeace
sonnylegirl 10 months ago
Great original line-up with Davy O'list on guitar, shame he lost the plot (Drugs) and was sacked, never did like the trio as much.
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I was 15. Just reading a book on David Bowie and they were fans of his, and I though Oh yeah I loved them too. My brother was a DJ and he had their records, along with Velvet Underground and Nico and Chicago and others I dont remember. I wish I still had his records.
1will2this3work 11 months ago
I was 15. Just reading a book on David Bowie and they were fans of his, and I though Oh yeah I loved them too. My brother was a DJ and he had their records, along with Velevt Underground and Nico and Chicago and others I dont remember. I wish I still had his records.
1will2this3work 11 months ago
probably the best concert of the many I went to was an all nighter at the lyceum london in july 1969 with peter hammill, renaissance the original group, yes and the nice. people were getting on stage with the nice as it was so good and the security were getting them off, which lee jackson objected to saying they wouldnt play any more gigs with blue suited b------s. I had to play cricket for the school next morning which I just about made in time.
puddypuss 11 months ago
what organ is he playing at the beginning?
dad72727272 11 months ago
Jaaaaaa! My hair is standing up,too! Always when I listen to this! And to other songs from that time. Am 59 now and look forward to my funeral, WHEN MY FAMILY HAS TO PLAY THESE AND OTHERS!!!
truxwolf 11 months ago
actually nevermind i was just listening to the beginning, its pretty good
pkc5115 11 months ago
what the fuck am i listening to i just typed nice
pkc5115 11 months ago
war in den 60'absoluter fan von keith emerson super klasse musik
MrRaknarock 11 months ago
Keith Emerson and the Nice ; it doesn't get much better ..than this !
GreenhouseEffectGE 11 months ago
It didn't get much better than this!!!!
billyconnearly 1 year ago
Top drawer, especially the use of an infant on the studio version to utter the statement that ends the song. Classic stuff.
mlovet100 1 year ago
Saw the nice at unganos in NYC about this time.I was sold on the Hammond organ
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:)..nice..
1bizo 1 year ago
Wow fritz - where did you get this ? The shortened version - the missing jam was brilliant - but I loved this as a teenager - so thanks so much.
mickigoe 1 year ago
I was born two years before this song was released and I finally have a chance to hear it. Its amazing how this band never made it in the US. Of course, the fact that they got banned in a lot of places for burning the American flag at the end of this song had a lot to do with it.
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Ian Anderson played this version on the "Orchestral Tull" tour couple years ago...think I was the only one in the place who knew the song...what a treat!!!!
theqman1956 1 year ago
Keltyk, you should have seen Emerson live...he sometimes used stilleto-daggers near the finale of their set, stabbing the keyboards with them, wrecking the instrument, but very dramatic....at the time anyway! A real showman, defenitely, wasn't the young girls dialogue at the end of 'America' the Producers Daughter?
iaingbrennan 1 year ago
Keith Emerson rules!
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briansf999 1 year ago
my favourite version so far is a live thing off an old Charisma record label sampler called 'Charisma Keyboards'- it's about 11 mins- and the organ sounds like it's really being stabbed- burned- bludgeoned- tormented near the end--- and it works very very well-- real real gutsy and angry
keltyk 1 year ago
;) makes happy ;)
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tamishamurchakg 1 year ago
The Nice ya hacía prog antes que King Crimson!!
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@gayobay7 esto es rock progresivo del bueno
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Mephisto89, try LastFM for the Nice if you can get it. Love 'em to bits. Always have and always will. To add to the "Who was the child's voice" lottery, the autobiography of the N ice says it was Pat (P.P) Arnold's infant.
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Mephisto89, try LastFM for the Nice if you can get it. Love 'em to bits. Always have and always will.
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lexierichehhj 1 year ago
My first concert at The Boston Tea Party 1968--what a way to begin my musical endeavors. Oh and Keith stabbed the hammond B3 with a knife...thats rock n roll!! :-)
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My first concert at The Boston Tea Party 1968--what a way to begin my musical endeavors. Oh and Keith stabbed the hammond B3 with a knife...thats rock n roll!! :-)
euphoriart 1 year ago
My first concert at The Boston Tea Party 1968--what a way to begin my musical endeavors. Oh and Keith stabbed the hammond B3 with a knife...thats rock n roll!! :-)
euphoriart 1 year ago
FANTASTIC....Today music sucks :-((
Cardiff67235 1 year ago
Saw them a few places mostly Dunstable Town Hall Couldn't stand ELP they represented end of Nice.
sobrquet 1 year ago
I heard this on the radio on the way to school this morning, and my mom started singing the lyrics from West Side Story.
gkchvh 1 year ago 2
@gkchvh
Where the hell do they play the nice on the radio? oO
MrMephisto89 1 year ago
@MrMephisto89 Its a station called deep tracks that plays some of the more obscure classic rock. Its only on XM, but definitely check it out if you can.
gkchvh 1 year ago
Heard this live at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh 69 or 70.Absolutely brilliant.Keith Emerson awesome.I remember fans rushing the stage.
ploughlh192 1 year ago
bernstein is a great composer and the nice did an amazing arrangement
lennyranallo 1 year ago
I was sixteen when this track was first released.
All these years later, as I sit at my laptop and type this, I can honestly say that this track still has the same power, imagery and relevance today as it did then: the first ever instrumental protest track. It still makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up. The short guitar solo by David O'List is pure and honest and has to by my all time favourite solo.
Fantastic track!
grahamparkerluthier 1 year ago 22
@grahamparkerluthier: I was only a few years younger than you back then, loved this piece and still do. Good things never outdate.
Marlene55M 1 year ago
@grahamparkerluthier I'm 16 now and so glad I came across The Nice and haven't missed out like SO many others of my generation
mistersusan1471 1 year ago
@grahamparkerluthier Me too!!! Greatings!!!
paris5210001 1 year ago
@grahamparkerluthier Damn right !
Javor272 1 year ago
@grahamparkerluthier
Well I had to respond to your comment. I first heard this track when a new family from Nairn in Scotland became our neibours in Bradford. I must have been 14 but we were allowed to put LP`s on the radiogram while the mums were chatting. I was listening to the start of a different sound but I did not know it at the time. What a wonderful piece of music.
306bad 1 year ago
Keith Emerson before Emerson Lake &Palmer
gondi4707 10 months ago
@grahamparkerluthier I was born 3 years later, in 1971, but for sure I can imagine, because this is tuff music! I always liked rock'n roll that uses pure organ. We lost something when we lost the organ in rock. Today we hear it in some blues and gospel, and for sure that's cool music to, but to hear skilled organ and guitar based bands like Deep Purple and The Nice...
skreppvin 7 months ago
I still can't believe that this video has like 20 time less viewer than that crappy piece of "music" called "The nice kitty song"???
Where have world gone...
MacedonCollowrath 1 year ago
This is a fantastic find. This video really captures the spirt of the day. Who says you need thousands of dollars in CGI effects to make a real, honest statement about the world? And this isn't even in color!
Bucky315 1 year ago
In the short solo from: David O'List, he and Richie Blackmore had a very similar sound in 68.
That is my opinion.
larteonceagain 1 year ago
I was once seventeen and I feel the same
schaubp1 1 year ago
When I was younger I had the album "Five Brides" by the Nice. Just recently purchased the CD and have been blown away by what I had not heard in so long. It is truly a trip
tebanas1 1 year ago
@tebanas1 Five Brides or Bridges? But yes, it is awesome.
flowTVY 1 year ago
@flowTVY Sorry, that would be "bridges"
tebanas1 1 year ago
chung king chow mein, in Amerika......
GreenmanXIV 1 year ago
5:58
17joetube 1 year ago
did this band do the theme tune for world in action ?
ImAsMadAsHell 1 year ago
@ImAsMadAsHell Sort of - they did a version of "Intermezzo" from the Carelia suite on an album, and it's the same piece used by the TV programme ( but not their version)
Tzarchasm09 1 year ago
I can picture Genesis doin' a song like this. If they did a version like this, it would be on the 1970 album "Trespass", but without the talking in the end.
JeffK1980 1 year ago
@JeffK1980 and with some sort of flute. obviously ;) dont think peters ego could have taken it hadnt he been on it
remnrone 1 year ago
Onwijs kei tegek
Jeroenius666 1 year ago
Fantastic. :-)
Davesax1965 1 year ago
To me, this is an example of what made the 60s so awesome in perpetuating rock into the future, to what we have today. This is one of my favorite rock recordings of that period.
isolationblues 1 year ago
amazing song
dinkeldal 1 year ago
This is what i call music (:, none of this new music! How can anyone listen to music of nowerdays with such gems as this!. =] Just my opinion btw dont get offended :P
lcamps1993 1 year ago 3
This sounds like bloody ELP. It's trippy and good. I like it.
mdonnelly1971 1 year ago
THE NICE indulged in what some might call "musical masturbation",LOL!!
Weird noodling around with arrangements. I used to laugh myself silly over these
songs. They were so outrageous that composer Leonard Bernstein ripped of
his wig (or something) when he heard how THE NICE had re-arranged his
song!!
RonaldVaughan 1 year ago
@RonaldVaughan
Nah, I watched this program once - it had some footage of a journalist asking Bernstein if he "thinks The Nice's cover of your song turned it into an Anti-American durge?" (or something to that affect) then he goes "Who?" and they go "The Nice" then he goes "Never hear of 'em".
Mordain607 1 year ago
@RonaldVaughan John Peel once dubbed ELP as a waste of talent and electricity- his standards were too high, long live middle brow prog rock!
FullersRd 1 year ago
Does anyone know who did the child's voice at the end. It's a bit like the one on Traffic's "Hole in my shoe", but then again a lot of kids sound the same at that age.
gertiemolly1 1 year ago
.....didnt Leonard Bernstein take exception to this progressive interpretation of his music.......and take legal action.....?
chatham43 1 year ago
n comment is the best absolutly great
setmenue 1 year ago
Thanks for the song you cheeky Brirz!!
Snotra 1 year ago
Brian Davison interview, "We were an Improvisational Progressive Classical Jazz Rock group". This was an interview conducted as part of "The Keith Emerson Project", which is an official documentary adaptation of Keith's autobiography "Pictures of an Exhibitionist".
Thank-you Brian RIP
okseagull 1 year ago
@okseagull Brian passed away?? I knew him when he was drummer for the Mark Leeman Five..
jimincairns 1 year ago
@jimincairns Sure was back in the day at The Marquee Club in London, a very unassuming man and a great rhyme drummer made a wicked cuppa
okseagull 1 year ago
Prog needs to make a massive comeback, this is the best music ever conceived!
1994AlmostSkater 1 year ago 21
It's time to remember Keith's sounds like one of the best music in the world... I'm sure of this ...thought ( EmerLiistDevJack). What do you think about?
Sorry for my english: I'm Italian...
GianLuNicoGazNevada 1 year ago 3
# All like to be in America...#
; ))
CaptainBluebear08 1 year ago
NICE !!!
bond00777777 1 year ago 3
fantastic interpretacy bravisimo Keeth
bond00777777 1 year ago
What ever happened to David O'list?
powellallan 1 year ago
Bad edit ... why cut the solo...?!?
noddyspuncture 2 years ago
In 60s up to mid 70s bands has to cut long songs, because their singles that are longer than 5 minutes radio station could not broadcast them. That's why there is no solo.
Eldryzif 1 year ago
That would have been so cool if Steve Howe had joined The Nice instead of Yes. Keith and he could have played ragtime pieces together etc. Can you imagine Steve Howe playing this instead the Steppinwolf-like David O'list?
Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack is outstanding! This is on "Live with the London Philharmonic" Also a "Must Have":
"I'm One of Those People your father told your sister not to go out with, cause if I get you in a corner you can guarantee I'll want more than a goodnight kiss."
drunksingsheep 2 years ago
By the time Steve Howe joined YES (1970) Keith had already Formed ELP (1969). So... don't be rediculous.
superbeavo 2 years ago
NICE!
GarryMcFarlane 2 years ago
Ha,geweldig!!!!!!!!!
kees8172 2 years ago
Great song & vid! I always have to play this song as loud as possible! (can't help it!)
MrBlackmambo 2 years ago
Hell Yeah!
TheDutchways 2 years ago
the questios is Why this bands have stayed hidden or buried by tv , radios an pappers = censored , the beatles and stones the great publicity of 60s and what about this bands included the who
lamestamiliano 2 years ago 2
I wonder what Hendrix and Keith created the few times they got together...
vivelavidarocka 2 years ago 2
yeah hard to imagine huh?
ElFlakoRompanTodo 2 years ago
Jesus! I hadn't thought of this band since at least the late 70s! This really brings back some GREAT memories of my mid high school years (circa 68-69-70) !! Thanks for a wonderful posting !!
Toyboy789 2 years ago 4
Saw The Nice live in London in the late 60's, this was pretty much their "anthem" along with The Karelia Suite. Like beecees this was my lead into classical as well as the then named "underground" music. Real memory lane stuff!
QuantumMathematician 2 years ago 11
Same here. Caught them at the Lyceum Ballroom in London, I want to say early 1969. Great stuff.
JuilliardReject 2 years ago
Hi JuilliardReject,
You made reference to the Lyceum Ballroom in London and I would like to know more.
I was in Dave Berry`s backing band for a year and we played a gig in Leicester Square and I think it was under the Odeon, we had to take our gear down many steps, We were on an Adam and the Ants gig in 1980, Was this the Lyceum?
We were the boys from yorkshire and we were treated very well , I think we were well liked. Can you tell me about the Lyceum?
306bad 1 year ago
If my American brain can remember that far back, I believe the Lyceum Ballroom was just off the Strand in Westminster. Real stately place with big columns in the front. My schoolmates Dad was a VP in the record industry, so we used to see all the shows. Among others I saw there were the Rolling Stones, Plastic Ono, Rare Bird, Small Faces, and others I can't quite remember. Wikipedia is full of photos of the place. Great venue, great memories.
JuilliardReject 1 year ago
Hi My friend I found that the gig I did was the empire ballroom on the 8th of June 1980 backing Adam and the Ants.
The reason we were there was because Sid Vicious recorded a Dave Berry song called "Don`t Give Me No Lip Child", so Dave was in the media at that time.
I was with a gang who saw Paul Carrack in January, I hope you remember is vocal on "In the living years", Eyes of Blue is just a top tune and a joy to listen to, Eagles, I don`t want to hear anymore, wrote by Paul Carrack check you t
306bad 1 year ago
@QuantumMathematician I think it would be weird if some church organist started ripping this out on Sunday morning or something. It'd be cool if more hip people went to church.
mdonnelly1971 1 year ago
they have this song out on cdin a vietnam 4 cd box set a 4 cd classic of the vietnam time songs
djbabbles100 2 years ago
Nice Sonor drums. I have a set of those but my snare is deeper. (4"). I have got to get an LP of these guys!
flammaster 2 years ago 2
GREAT drummer, too..'Blinky' Davison was with The Mark Leeman Five until Mark was killed in a car smash.
jimincairns 2 years ago
I saw them in 68 in Brighton with others. It was a kind of breakthrough.
And bougth this amazing single -- the only music recorded with Nice at that time. I think it is still the longest single ever made.
They were fantastic.
hiljab 2 years ago
From my memory 'The Nice' was our slang term for 'the dealer'. Can't remember having heard it used for 'speed'.
hawkmoon03111951 2 years ago
great stuff!!! thanks!!
alebohemio 2 years ago
Wow this takes me back over 40 years, Ive got the 45 some where! If it wasnt for Keith Emerson I'd never have got into Bach, and yeah Bernstein was livid. But then he must have approved the of Vet war, so lets play this again and again & let him turn in his grave. Maybe he forgave them eventually, when he later met the injured veterans?
beecees 2 years ago
Did any of these acts perform in East Germany at all? The beat club acts while in GER, what city?
zappatx 2 years ago
Hamburg
RSNCICREO 2 years ago
go emerson go...!!!
that organ sound...ahhh
skalkmusix 2 years ago 3
"Dated REALLY badly?" The music was of its time, of course, but it is no more "dated" than, say Piper at The Gates of Dawn, or Strange Days, both of which seem to enjoy the status of classics. In terms of songwriting and execution, I think, Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack was pretty much top rate stuff. Ars Breta has its moments, but already Emerson's attempt to play classical music as rock are afoot. As for ELP, Peel's remarks express my sentiments better than I can.
silverskid 2 years ago
The Nice were an extremely good band. Trouble was, some of the "psychedelic" tracks on Emerlist Davjack and Ars Breta (etc) have dated REALLY badly.... of course, Keith Emerson went on to form ELP. The famous John Peel comment was that ELP were "a great waste of talent and electricity", but - well, compared to what's out there today.....
Davesax1965 2 years ago
Only one tune is from West Side Story. The opening chords and a third melody that starts at 1.35 are from Dvorak's Symphony number 9, 'From the New World'. Not just a pretty face, that Keith Emerson.
vegetubleman 2 years ago 5
This song reminds me of a song off of Zelda or some Nintendo game, but then the opening intro sounds like the intro to Metallica's "don't tread on me"
SniperSam 2 years ago 2
Actually Metallica's "Don't Tread on Me" sounds like the opening to this song and Metallica is a joke compared to the talent of this band.
galius1 2 years ago 52
Christ All Mighty, I never said Metallica was better or what not, ok, yes, what Metallica plays sounds like this piece, is what I really meant to say,......so can I have my head back?
SniperSam 2 years ago
Your head has been boxed and shipped first class to your house. Enjoy your package, sir!
galius1 2 years ago 4
Hahahahha Metallica......it makes me laugh!
Thomaspwgy 2 years ago 5
Actually......they all sound like Bernstein!
Thomaspwgy 2 years ago
indeed
skalkmusix 2 years ago
@galius1 Metallica is sort of around the same talent level as KISS or something. They can do the two string power chords but have no idea of how to form full chords.
mdonnelly1971 1 year ago 2
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@galius1 hahahahah you are soooooo right :)
abrlebabrle 1 year ago
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@galius1 My first concert at The Boston Tea Party 1968--what a way to begin my musical endeavors. Oh and Keith stabbed the hammond B3 with a knife...thats rock n roll!! :-)
euphoriart 1 year ago
It actually sounds like "the Last train to Clarksville"
kidding
SixDayWar67 2 years ago
LOL
SniperSam 2 years ago
nice
jamalam17z7 2 years ago 2
great band!
KLONDYKE1111 2 years ago 2
Good stuff from Kieth Emerson. This was before his work with ELP, but it is still of the same high standard as all of his other works. Keep the good music comming and keep in touch.
paulwall1981 2 years ago
The organ intro was kinda familiar... I think I've heard in a Metallica song...
Don't tread on me...
darkolyte 2 years ago
stop hawking your ignorance round here
skinnynorris85 2 years ago
Both that song and this one got it from the west side story song america.
Smarsh2009 2 years ago
Love that shred of Dvorak there!
coosoorlog 2 years ago
Saw this bands final concert at the Festival Hall in (I think) 1970. The support band was Yes. A brilliant band, glad I got to see them
Rijedaim 2 years ago