Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer - Rondo Live@NYC 88

[Easleytee]

Brian Davidson was far superior to Palmer interpreting the classical textures behind Emerson.

[photo2010]

Keith Emerson looks younger here than he looked in the late '60's! Somewhere a painting of Emerson is getting old..

[tabajaralabs]

I always miss the segment with the organ backwards...Wish someone posts it here

[rsp196607]

Zzz.

[bearmare]

Mullets!

[GuitarMasterizer]

Where's Greg?

[wonkavella]

i wish they would have showed the entire version with emerson playing the yamaha organ backwards and the carl palmer drum solo and the emerson version of flight of the bumble bee.if i can find my copy i will upload it

[heehaa99]

This is the song 'AMERICA" not Rondo

[thesantoshow93]

In the beginning it's "America", then it turns into "Rondo.

Lake's "subsitute" is Robert Berry

[FUKIMAKAI]

ATENCIÓN: en el minuto 3:56 keith emerson quiere seguir tocando el resto del tema y karl palmer la termina ahí.... me siento identificado con ese tipo de cosas... una lastima porque el blue rondo a la turca completo era una genialidad, incluia fragmentos de obras clasicas muy buenas. no se quienes eran los compositores de rondo. elp no eran. sacando lo de que le cortaron el tema a emerson el resto impresionante, muy buena versión, escuché una del 97 muy buenas también, pero completa

[1994AlmostSkater]

I miss the days of a literal wall of electronics next to keith that he just toyed with the whole performance

[reichmarshall]

It's Emerson, some guy and Palmer!

[1994AlmostSkater]

Oh man, look at those mullets and keith's suit, i thought i was getting rick roll'd for a second

[MrDeppness]

I never knew about this performance. Emerson owns as usual.

But why was the camera on for so long on Emerson? By the time the cam panned back Palmer's shirt was already long off!

[TJLAW7]

Hey ''sitkatop'' why this sucks? Is it because you are way better keyboard player than KEITH EMERSON? Is it because you are a far more studied drummer than CARL PALMER? Please, share with us your ample experience as a musician...

[imnotroger]

This is not Rondo. It's America.

[seeifyouspamme]

Rondo starts at about 2:20

[sitkatop]

This sucks

[vcoaster]

I saw this show (The Power of 3) in a small club called The Living Room in Rhode Island. Standing a few feet from the stage. I would love to see more of the video from this performance.

[MST3Kfanatic]

ELP forever! but let's not forget to have a copy of 'time out'' by the dave brubeck quartet...mmm'kay? SERIOULSY!

[prejeba]

TO THE POWER OF THREE...Ao poder dos Três. Essa é a banda!

[crimsonkng]

Ultra fantastic

[SPECTRE1961]

ROBERT BERRY'S BASS !

[juulbrie]

I agree but Keiths left hand is much better. (on that I agree with Rick Wakeman)

[gsimone77]

Il brano, oltre ad "america" di west side story, presenta molte parti, tra cui l'incipit, tratte dalla Sinfonia "dal nuovo mondo" di A. Dvorak!!! grande Keith!!!!!!!!!

[slui0041]

This certainly America original from the Nice, the former band of Keith Emerson

[tdm5874]

Cool!! This is the first and only footage I have seen of "3"!!!!

[PrZemek44]

Amazing! Any comparisons between Emerson and Wakeman don't make sense. They're just so different. And great...

[AdvaitSarkar]

Sounds like "america" from west side story!

[Kwinquark1]

That's cos it is!

[meowzer999]

It is, it isn't Rondo

[hellrunner87]

there isn't lake... the bass is played by robert berry... the line up is named "three"--- comunque emerson è sempre emerson anche se ha perso molto con gli anni a causa di problemi di tendinite e forse artriti alla mano... comunque lui "viaggia" sempre e riesce a trasmettere quel "calore" mentre suona tipico del jazz, che si è perso coi gruppi moderni....

[1947giorgioone]

ripetitivo e niente di eccezzionale

[ilvecchioPaga]

Ma chi ti credi di essere? E poi eccezionale si scrive con una z sola.....

[GianLuNicoGazNevada]

@ilvecchioPaga accezionale con 1 o 2 z è discusso...

[54spiritedwill54]

That is actually Carl Palmer in there.

[NkreesThaPEACE]

22/f/single/cam! ne1 want to see?

heya =) xr

[audiophile55]

Is this the group "3"????

[MoraxBluEyes]

ELP the best

[jdlord93]

emerson is the beast

[PaulRoberts]

That Electronic Organ sounds awful.

[chetlamm]

Not as bad as Keith's butch hairdo looks.

He must have been drunk and watched uh . . . What's his name? Oh Yea! Hanna Montana's dad.

Billy Ray Montana.

[chetlamm]

I don't think Keith should have done America/Rondo after the Nice. I actually like watching Rita do it in "West Side Story" better. Leonard Berstein said once that Keith's music sounded like "Grandma Moses". The Brits don't know that's a put down.

[PaulRoberts]

The Grandma Moses thing was just about the Piano Concerto. Bernstein was an arsehole anyway.

[sweetarmadillo]

My nephew went to uni with Carls daughter.They were good mates.Comments are sort of right.Gregs voice was shagged,but he didnt come up with the stuff Keith and Carl were waiting for.Game over.Plus Keith only does what Keith wants to do.Check out his own band,bloody amazing. But he has total control!

[tabajaralabs]

There are two very interesting parts this video is missing. After the Rondo, Keith plays toccata from bach backyards from the keyboard. After, Carl plays a very nice 5-plus minutes drum solo. I had the original recording in VHS and it is a shame I don't have it anymore to digitize in full and put here. This show HAS been record and show on tv in its complete form, there should be a DVD of it.

[obgyno]

i'm a huge fan of ELP and I think what they do is amazing. but i'm seeing them live for the first time and...sorry but.. they really move like they were constipated or something

[petsounds75]

Where's the drum solo? This is the 1988 Atlantic 40th Anniversary show...missing is Palmer's solo. Can't have Carl anywhere without him going bonkers for a good 5 minutes in the middle. :)

[Davesax1965]

This isn't Rondo - it's "America", the old Nice version. And, quite honestly, the nice did it better.......

[obgyno]

they play rondo at the end

[NELLOARA]

Virtuosissimo keit emerson!!

[TonyNewman]

Look at Rob's dinky little bass. xP

[M15577]

Its called a Steinberger.

Not a dicky.

[elpyesrockman]

I saw 3 at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston and they did a great job. Robert Berry does play many instruments and plays them quite well. In the '80's everyone looked dorky thanks to the mullet. All the reviews I read from their tour called them "Emerson Lake and Yank." No wonder music critics are stupid, they couldn't play anything close to what Keith Emerson can.

[FullersRd]

John Peel once said that ELP were a terrible waste of talent and electricity. Cruel, but it's just middle brow entertainment for hippies. I like it.

[scottfbradley]

I saw this during the all-day HBO broadcast. Indeed - this is abbreviated. There was a 'reach around' version of Bach's Tocatta & Fugue in D minor on the Electone...and a drum solo during which Palmer took of his shirt (notice its off at the end of the vid. Also - I noticed that Robert Berry was playing keys at the beginning. Interesting!!! Good to see this after 20 years...

[Marisueksu]

All I'm going to say is, for 70's guys, Emerson is a NUTCASE. Moreso than Rick Wakeman. :O

And I thought showoff Jazz keyboardists and Jordan Rudess were nutcases...

[TonyNewman]

That's why we all love him. XD

[Marisueksu]

If you ask me though, Emerson wasn't the only guy that mashed organs. I think it seems to be a popular trait with Jazz organ players in geenral. (Look up a certain John Scofield video)

[Damphear]

bahahaha 9PM. is teh name of the band.

[robinovich1987]

cristiankey 1982 heeey mi too man, keith emerson is the best in the whole world.

[tabajaralabs]

This video seems cutted, I had a vhs version where he played "toccata" from Bach with the keyboard backwards! Anyone can help me to find the entire video? But anyway, Keith playing keyboards is a god, this video amazes me every time I watch it. Thanks!

[PrZemek44]

Wow, Emerson looks so... civilized! I love this guy, and I know that the way he looks and acts on stage is part of the 'package', still... It's good to see him looking so... nice. Long live progrock!

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[cristiankeys1982]

This video changed my life.

[eternalcolonel]

I saw the "3" group in a small club in Cincy in April, '88.

Yep-they played this, as well a most of the "To the Power Of" album they'd done.

One thing they didn't do was anything that had Lake's vocals on it.

I've seen this performance before; it may be an Atlantic Tribute of some kind.

[Bogtrotters]

Me and my missis saw ELP live twice in 1970/71 at sheffield city hall. They always were musicians musicians. They did everything you wished you could play!! I played bass guitar in those days and have since learned keyboards. We are not worthy!!!

[adrixm]

The first one is "America", only the second one "Rondo".

The bass is played by Robert Berry, ELP were on hiatus at the time and Atlantic faked "3" as ELP (I guess for contractual obligations). I imagine Greg Lake was pretty upset of this :-)

[cmpsrr]

Does anyone have this song in midi or have the notes sheet? Thanks in advance

[goonedup82]

Soul? Let's begin with Dark Side of the Moon. The main synth used on that LP was the VCS 3. It appears that Mr. Wright needed help using this setup as David Gilmour and Roger Waters also are credited with playing this synth on the studio recording. Wish You Were Here - all 4 are credited with tape effects (and Gilmour for additional keyboards). Live - I always notice a second keyboardist along with Mr. Wright. For somebody with a lot of 'soul', he sure gets a lot of help.

[PrZemek44]

Who said 'soul must be slow'? It made me mad when, back in 70s some critics used Emerson's speed angainst him. Wanna see his 'soul', go to The Fanfare for the Common Man", here. He's 'amazingly trashy", you can not love it!

PS. Putting Write in thse same league with Rick and Keith... Never heard that one before.

[eden12345]

all the greatest keybordists in the world (wakeman,emerson,J.ruddes and friends) only know how to play fast and technique without soul,and the guys that playin with soul(rick wright and friends) playin only slow and not technique...great keybordist is a one that will find the balance between these two

[bigduckhead]

Whos the dork on bass?

[GoblinGirl]

Robert Berry. As others have said, Emerson, Berry, and Palmer did an album called 3-To the Power of 3. It's pretty awful.

[TonyNewman]

Yeah, listening to it was literally cringe-worthy torture for me - but this version of America and Rondo was quite satisfying IMO.

[GoblinGirl]

I don't know how Emerson and Palmer hooked up with Robert Berry. That 3 album was, as you said, cringe worthy.

This version of America is good, though.

[AkiraLegs]

Yeah, it sucked, but at least I got to meet "Fingers" ( K.E. ) in person when they played the Fillmore in San Francisco. Can't believe that was 20 F-ing years ago !!

Heard that the reason ELP aren't together anymore is because Greg Lake wouldn't keep his voice in shape and Keith and Carl finally got fed up with his singing so badly !! A real shame, because in their day, they blew everybody away with their concerts !!

[GoblinGirl]

You're right. Keith and Carl kept up their musical skills, and they were both angry at Lake for not keeping his voice (and his body) in shape. Lake is kind of that cool rock star who totally let himself go. Emerson and Palmer aren't. Palmer especially looks great for his age. Emerson can still play superbly. It's a shame as Lake had such a great voice.

[AkiraLegs]

Kind of funny that you should mention that Palmer looks great for his age, which if I'm not mistaken will be around 57 or 58 in about 11 days ( His Birthdate is March 20th ), BUT I also just read that he very recently had to have an angioplasty to unblock an artery, so maybe he's not as fit as he looks. He's supposed to be starting a tour with the other original members of the group "Asia" as soon as the doctors clear him to travel.

[GoblinGirl]

Yeah, I did read that he had surgery (and he's recovering nicely). But he does look very good, and his recent solos are fantastic. So hopefully all is well with Carl.

[GoblinGirl]

I've never seen them perform as "3".

[petsounds75]

There was a bitchin drum solo in the middle of that which was cut out which explains Palmer without a shirt at the end of the video. Now if I could just find a way to convert VHS when I taped it in May of 1988 into a media file.

[GoblinGirl]

Yeah, that's a bit of a continuity flub....

[tabajaralabs]

Do you recording has "toccata 565" from toccata et fugue on the middle? I've been looking for it for YEARS. I had it taped in VHS, but got lost in a moving.

[romarioflazaco]

Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman:The masters

[JusCuz410]

Who's the bassist?

[mikesstick]

robert berry,session player from 80's.(bass player)

[JusCuz410]

Cool. Thanks.

[LordRufus]

Well, at the time (1988) Emerson, Berry and Palmer comprised the band "3" which released one album "To The Power Of Three" to marginal success. It's "pleasant" in an 80's pop rock kind of way.

[mikesstick]

this was 'THREE' to get the correct band title.was recorded at ATLANTIC RECORDS 40th Birthday in 1988

Keith Emerson,Robert Berry and Carl Palmer.Produced one album falling between ELPowell and the reformation of ELPalmer in 91/92.They played Fanfare for the common man and this track on the video which was America going into Rondo.Nice keys from Keith showing his unmatched dexterity and talent.

[wonkavella]

why was the drum solo cut out.that was like the best drum solo he did post emerson lake and palmer.i remember watching this on hbo along with the led zep reunion

[Tarkus31]

That is actually Carl Palmer in there.

[macekmacek]

this is Keith but not Palmer

[Meddled]

The Song is America, not Rondo.

[yamex5]

Actually, it starts out as America, and they work into Rondo at about 2:14

[Damphear]

this is 3pm not keith and carl

3pm

3pm