This was epic in the day. i was 16 and remember it well. Of course when the magazines list the best front men or best bands or best drummers they will be far down the list, unfortunately.
It doesn't matter though as they were one of the best and their concert in 77 with the orchestra at MSG was along with a New Order concert that i saw in 89 one of the best concerts i had or ever will see.
we were lucky to be around and hear these great songs and go to concerts where everyone was cool.....sadly its over today...and the young kids got crap and buy crap so they give them crap...but we have the memories.....thats enough for me.
While this is certainly cool, for those unschooled in classical music it is a cover of Modest Mussorgsky's piece of the same name, from his Pictures at an Exhibition. Check it out...beautiful piece of music and it makes this version all the cooler by knowing the source.
great lyric , vocal, and chamber orchestral tribute to a romantic era composer who took his nation: his indigenous country-folk to the heart of his art
They graduated from the cannons at the Isle of Wight to the fireworks at Cal Jam. Why this band isn't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just exposes it as the sham it is. They are ten times better than most of the artists in there and they made more sound as a three piece than that murderer Phil Spector ever did.
@Sargebri ROFL! I couldn't express it any better than you just did. Totally agree. Spector's "Wall of Sound" pales in comparison to these three prodigies of prog.
The era when musicians could actually play instruments is over.Everything now is based on technology and studio tricks.No more ELP although Rush is still around.Look what the Beatles did on 4 tracks.No artists today have the flare and beauty of genius in the art of playing and performing.Hendrix ,The Who and all the great performers never to be equalled.I'm thankful I grew up when music was still good.ELP definitely outshine even the best of that era.They were the best of the best.
The comments on elp videos are about how much modern music sucks, that's just wrong.
When you were young and elp were playing previous generation said the same about this kind of music, they just had not their ears accustomed to these sounds and didn't took the time to dwell deep enough to understand it, don't do the same.
Contemporary scene is adding so much to the performance that you don't get.
check: Warp record, Ninjatune, The Knife, Animal Collective, Cocorosie.
My early recollections of ELP was Fanfare For The Common Man and Greg Lake singing about Christmas. But I have rediscovered them after by chance seeing 'Gates' on a music docu one late night re: progressive rock, I watched it having long been a fan of Genesis and Jethro Tull. I went and downloaded 'Pictures' and have been playing 'Gates' to death via the ipod on the train for the last few days... they just dont make rock like this anymore - absolutely brilliant !
That thing with all the wires is a Moog Modular synthesizer. A REAL analog synth where programming of soundforms is done with patchcords connecting the outputs of one device to the inputs or controls of another. Wonderfully flexible, moderately finicky and very hard to learn similar in complexity to systems computer programming.
Very few keyboard people learned them well enough to use them in the studio and only a tiny, tiny elite ever mastered them enough to take them on the road.
I had the good fortune to see ELP in North Carolina during this tour. It was life changing. To this day, except for maybe seeing Peter Gabriel on his Security tour it was the best concert I've ever attended.
So bassman, what do you think Greg Lake was singing about in Great Gates (the whole lyric rather than this fragment)? I have my own thoughts... Until I decided what I thought he was singing, I found the lyrics to be pretty lame, but now I think they are pretty sly (from my perspective). Send a mssg tell me what you think.
Doesn't get better than this. I was priveliged to have seen this concert when I was a kid. WHEW! haven't been the same since. Unfortunatley MTV reared it's ugly corporate money=driven, commercial ,accountant lawyer based head and it all ended. It was profit ahead of music. Spearheaded by corporate lawyers and accountants with no musical taste and hired to crunch out numbers and sell millions of gargb...er records.... It was SOOOO good while it lasted.
Music is epic not cyclical. What a pity! I only wish I could have seen this show. Anyway, it lives inside me. Every single day. From here to eternity.
close, its a custom built Moog Modular IIIc with lots of xtra modules , a custom configured cabinet and ocsiliscope. the baddest touring modular synth ever built.
I was 17 then. I remember that day quite well. Sitting through shitty bands up against the stage, for seemed like forever waiting for only elp to come on when A tornado like cloud came over and dump a ton of rain on us, I remember running for cover, it didn't last for long and when we returned some dork like idiot with an afro told us no ELP so we tore the field up and tossed on stage the crowd went wild mayhem soon followed so mad we went next door and finshed up there hurt my hands big time.
was there on April 6th......and the day changed me forever. I was 13 years old, first psychedelic trip, dodged the most incredible water container fight (those who were truly there have to remember this very strange event) and watched ELP at their absolute best. It was a long, hot, unforgettable day.
lol its hard to imagine the music industry letting this amazing sound to get heard anymore, i had to dig REALLY deep to get this beautiful rendition of Modests' classic Pictures at an Exhibition, outstandiNg!!!
Roosevelt stadium was in jersey city and it was torn down in 86. 2 seats were sent to the Smithonian . Those were the days aah and for 6.50 for admission for all those concerts and most of the time you could get right up against the stage.... Stay thirsty my friend!
These guys are one of the greatest bands of all time. why does it matter that Lake was chewing gum? It doesn't. Him chewing gum and singing just means he is a BAMF and you need to get the fuck over it. More talented than you are.
saw them in dec.73 at the garden, saw this concert, and that famous rain out at roosevelt statium n.j. summer 74 still allways makes me wonder just how amazing they really were. Saw tons of concerts no one even came close to ELP I allways said they played better live than thier albums just the best band in thier time. thanks guys
Must have been one hell of a concert, ELP must have been well pissed off with Purple after Blackmore had smashed one of the TV camera's and set light to half the stage.
actually ELP had theyre own stage on railroad tracks just for them. The rest shared 2 flat bed cars. 1 band would be taking apart there stuff while and the following act setting up all the while 1 act performing. ELP were the only band to get a sound check and were set up 1 day before the show.
It does indeed help you concentrate... but speaking as a vocalist it also helps to keep the gob moist.... you have to learn to keep it under control though! ;-)
You're telling me! Many a time have I got my hair caught in my chewing gum. It's awkward, but you can't let it get in your way. Nothing can go wrong up there.
Um, you do know that these guys are playing someone else's music here, right? (Mussorgsky). But at least they're actually playing and not sampling an old recording. Other than that, I agree with you about the twinkies of questionable talent making recordings and doing concerts nowadays.
@alcibaides IIRC a bunch of cockney gobshites like Johnny Rotten came along and told us this was crap and we had to listen to them instead. The NME and BBC fell for it and Malcom McLaren (and the NME) made a lot of money out of the whole thing. The BBC still bash prog rock to this day. Arseholes.
@mailbox827 I wonder how much of that was record companies pushing newer musicians because their royalty rates were much lower than established artists. Maybe they think people will buy anything. And with punk rock they pretty much proved they would.
@alcibaides i agree with you but you know gates of kiev was composed in the 19th century by a Russian composer not elp :P In a way they are dancing to others music with lyrics added
I look back on this stuff 30 years later and while I still enjoy it (I have Tarkus on my PS3 and listen to it monthly), I can see where some of the claims that critics levelled at the band are accurate. While Keith has THE chops, he was still a bit masturbatory, let's admit. Was glad I got to see the band live in '77 before they parted company. And let's be men and admit that drum solos, in general, are a bad idea, eh?
i dont think drum solos r a bad idea, if a bassist, guitarist and kayboardist can get solos why not drummers? anyways ELP is amazing to the enth degree!
Well, I'm hard pressed to say I recall any memorable drum solos (live, that is). They were boring. There's everything on record from Conundrum back to Toad but even the venerable John Bonham (and I'm a huge Zep fan) couldn't wrench the lowly live drum solo from the depths of boredom. I love ELP and Carl was good but I'm beginning to side with Todd Barry's 'gong theory' these days.
ok sorry I came off insulting. Percussion can be as musical as any other section of the band. The improv, the technique and feel these 3 possessed are beyond what most anyone can even begin to fathom in thought. I personally enjoy hearing the long solos and variations and soaking in the genius these guys had. Like ZEP said it's personal opinion. I'm not even a drummer and I got offended like one.
I never said percussion can't be musical. I said rock drum solos, by and large, are uninteresting. I don't return to them like I do other solos. I may need to go back and find the good ones. Any suggestions? For the record, I can program synths but my lack of physical coordination keeps me from being anything more than lousy as a player. (PS minastroneasse: I like both Kissin and Emerson. I wonder if Keith can do Chopin's Sonata 2 for us for comparison. He has referenced Chopin.)
Fair enough. As for good rock drum solos I would suggest Tank by ELP of course, but also Bonzo's Montreux, Led Zep, which does have some electronics added to it. Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick (full version), to a much, much lesser extent, (someone will probably comment on this) Grateful Dead, Drums (live stuff), Though I don't highly recommend this. There's more but really and truly it's the jazzers. thats where it's at.Buddy Rich, Elvin Jones, Max Roach, Billy Cobham, et al
saw them perform this live at newcastle, they used the recording for the album, never compared ELP with anyone else, ELP were ELP and something wonderfull in their own right, Pictures was the epitome of their talent even though Tarkus is probably more well known.
I believe you can't compare Paice and Palmer, and the same goes with Emerson and Lord.
Their bands musical approach, as well as theirs, is totally different. Certainly, Palmer and Emerson are more impressive, but I don't see them playing hard rock the way Paice and Lord did. We should also note that DP duo never used 20 keyboards or cymbals, and they always sounded really, really great.
I guess we all love both bands. So stop this senseless discussions.
I´m not talking about Paice who is a brilliant drummer only playing more simple music. - Jon Lord had a good beginning with tunes you mentioned but was still some dimensions worse than Emerson. For instance look at his left hand, he hardly used it! But the worst: he didn´t develop since then and almost every solo he played in the 90s could have been played in the 60s/70s by him - he was just repeating his stuff again and again. - Ridiculous for a prof. musician!
Keith Emerson is very good and one of my favorites, but that is just a ridiculous thing to say. Perhaps you have never heard Mandrake Root or Wring that Neck Live, then you wouldn't make such a statement.
Thats your Moog Modular complete with 5 million miles of wire and patch cables, imagine having to program that sucker for each song, I have a smaller version and Emerson has his hands full lol
first band to rock out the synth, rolling stones couldn't work out how to use it. 30 000 pounds later and u have a moog the size of a bus. genious...kraftwerk would be proud!
Seems it's the other way around, there, ironbuttermilk. You seem to be the "touchy" one, since you made the false statement regarding the polyphonic Moog set up Keith was using. It took the roadies over an hour to program and hook up the patch cords. The last thing Keith Emerson needed was something "fake" for show. He used 10 keyboards at the time, which was already blowing everyone's minds at the time.
How so ? The bottom row of modules where fake and for show. Most the other modules where used :). Remember severl where hard wired to the preset box, but hey still had to be patched. Oehts where deicated to the sequencers and other routings.
I have a hot girlfriend and most certainly I'm not a nerd. I was only fucking W/U. But dude, show some respect for this band. Would you? And I'm not being touchy, but really, KISS??
If you take the time to do some research and find some info about Moog modular synthesizers, which Emerson is using here, you'll learn that those arrays of wires and knobs were the only way to connect keyboard triggers, oscillators, filters, and ADSR controllers... big, clumsy, and unreliable pieces of hardware, it was a miracle it can perform live with that. Show some respect at least if you prefer to remain ignorant. Don't post about what you don't have a clue.
I was thinking about the patches themselves, those were the big troublemakers. Of course, detuned oscillators and heat sensitive Moog filters were too.
this is slightly random, but has anyone else noticed that all their hair was darker in Pictures at an Exhibition and it has kinda gotten blonder at cal jam? Or am i just going crazy?
This was epic in the day. i was 16 and remember it well. Of course when the magazines list the best front men or best bands or best drummers they will be far down the list, unfortunately.
It doesn't matter though as they were one of the best and their concert in 77 with the orchestra at MSG was along with a New Order concert that i saw in 89 one of the best concerts i had or ever will see.
mattiajmark 1 month ago
we were lucky to be around and hear these great songs and go to concerts where everyone was cool.....sadly its over today...and the young kids got crap and buy crap so they give them crap...but we have the memories.....thats enough for me.
Dojocho 1 month ago in playlist elp live plus related
what year was this filmed? God i hate when uploaders don't include that lol
SRNF 6 months ago
@SRNF 1974, california jam
Wayavas1337 6 months ago
1:19
aeroglifo 6 months ago
Seen ELP 6 TIMES, just brilliant!
nchippy51 11 months ago
24 people weren't sent to the gates!!!!!!!!!
jkrtr56 11 months ago
Fantastic, real musicianship! Listen to Isao Tomita's Pictures as well, he's the God of synths IMO, but ELP are the Gods of 70's bands!
cazten 1 year ago
Fantastic, real musicianship! Listen to Isao Tomita's Pictures as well, he's the God of synths
cazten 1 year ago
@cazten
Yes Tomita is wonderful . I also like his Debussy album Snowflakes are Dancing.
Check it out on Youtube. I think you might appreciate it.
ozzymandi 11 months ago
@cazten I agree 100% Isao Tomita is a genuis.......
ogrebattle22763 10 months ago
While this is certainly cool, for those unschooled in classical music it is a cover of Modest Mussorgsky's piece of the same name, from his Pictures at an Exhibition. Check it out...beautiful piece of music and it makes this version all the cooler by knowing the source.
Whitelitr 1 year ago 2
seems like 24 people have their end to their lives and the began the death
powerslaver6 1 year ago
ELP is the best!
BRAD73379 1 year ago
year anyone? clothing and style says '71, but lake's voice and the fact that they're playing in the States tells me its later. anyone know the year?
butcherbird52 1 year ago
@butcherbird52 1974 California Jam, - Ontario, CA
Survivor87 1 year ago
Bravo, Bravo.... Awesome!
54gravi 1 year ago 2
great lyric , vocal, and chamber orchestral tribute to a romantic era composer who took his nation: his indigenous country-folk to the heart of his art
davidfaubion 1 year ago
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shit fucking crap
davidr6680 1 year ago
They graduated from the cannons at the Isle of Wight to the fireworks at Cal Jam. Why this band isn't in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame just exposes it as the sham it is. They are ten times better than most of the artists in there and they made more sound as a three piece than that murderer Phil Spector ever did.
Sargebri 1 year ago 4
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annikee59 1 year ago
@Sargebri ROFL! I couldn't express it any better than you just did. Totally agree. Spector's "Wall of Sound" pales in comparison to these three prodigies of prog.
randy63ism 1 year ago
This is a stellar performance, but all some of you morons are talking about is chewing gum. Pathetic!
haga936 1 year ago
This is so majestic. Absolutely AWESOME!!! The Moog Modular at the beginning sounds like nothing else. ELP are real legends.
madhattan65 1 year ago
For Prog Jazz rock fans: TriMatch-King !!!
A new band of prog : visit the Mousikos chanel !!!
Cheers!!!
And Thanks !!!!!
Andremousikos 1 year ago
The era when musicians could actually play instruments is over.Everything now is based on technology and studio tricks.No more ELP although Rush is still around.Look what the Beatles did on 4 tracks.No artists today have the flare and beauty of genius in the art of playing and performing.Hendrix ,The Who and all the great performers never to be equalled.I'm thankful I grew up when music was still good.ELP definitely outshine even the best of that era.They were the best of the best.
GregDrayGregDray 1 year ago 6
I remember the whole audience singing that last line together. God was I lucky to have lived thru this era.
annikee59 1 year ago
One word..... Genius!! ok, 2: PURE Genius. ELP rocked in EVERY sense of the word.
HolyMotherofGrid 1 year ago 3
My God!!! Still you turn me F@@@ ON!!! Long live ELP.
tarkus57 1 year ago
Always chewing gum. Whats the deal?
saleasylum 1 year ago
youtube.com/watch?v=bG3x-8EqA7A
brendandawna 1 year ago
this is only about 1/3 of the song
brendandawna 1 year ago
I was there...it was incredible!!
RevMishka 1 year ago
@RevMishka
I wished I lived at that time. Deep Purple, ELP, Black Sabbath and Eagles on one day........
dasvadder12 1 year ago
The comments on elp videos are about how much modern music sucks, that's just wrong.
When you were young and elp were playing previous generation said the same about this kind of music, they just had not their ears accustomed to these sounds and didn't took the time to dwell deep enough to understand it, don't do the same.
Contemporary scene is adding so much to the performance that you don't get.
check: Warp record, Ninjatune, The Knife, Animal Collective, Cocorosie.
just one ex: v=-sOWlZGUYPY
loopback69 1 year ago
@loopback69 That one sucks too.
saleasylum 1 year ago
My early recollections of ELP was Fanfare For The Common Man and Greg Lake singing about Christmas. But I have rediscovered them after by chance seeing 'Gates' on a music docu one late night re: progressive rock, I watched it having long been a fan of Genesis and Jethro Tull. I went and downloaded 'Pictures' and have been playing 'Gates' to death via the ipod on the train for the last few days... they just dont make rock like this anymore - absolutely brilliant !
The17pdr 1 year ago
1:35 that's a FULL ON DOUBLE RAINBOW
PhantomLord 1 year ago
@PhantomLord WHAT DOES IT MEAN!?
smartlamppost 1 year ago
That thing with all the wires is a Moog Modular synthesizer. A REAL analog synth where programming of soundforms is done with patchcords connecting the outputs of one device to the inputs or controls of another. Wonderfully flexible, moderately finicky and very hard to learn similar in complexity to systems computer programming.
Very few keyboard people learned them well enough to use them in the studio and only a tiny, tiny elite ever mastered them enough to take them on the road.
MikeGalos 1 year ago 5
Greg Lake is so sexy when he is chewing gum!!!
peachhead3 1 year ago
what the heck is that big thing with all the wires
DRGAS339 1 year ago
He looks like a mad scientist ready to some neferious deed with his massive elecrtonic board.
Sundancetr4 1 year ago
Mussorgsky is rolling over in his grave
willspear1564 1 year ago
@willspear1564 Why?
IzuharaTiger 1 year ago
@willspear1564 Most people wouldnt know who Mussorgsky ,Copeland or Bartok was if it wasn't for Emerson Lake and Palmer
deepsussex 1 year ago
@willspear1564
Only so that he might hear the music better.
cosmotcat 1 year ago
dude he wrote lyrics to an arranged transcription of a piano piece fuckin sweet
wolfeman0 1 year ago
so they really could play Mussorgsky and chew gum at the same time!
teledyn 1 year ago
Right on guys....glad we had this in our time....as you say ..kick ass music
nickcrown1 1 year ago
it's awesome! real music!
oldvic88 1 year ago
Saw these in London around 1973..........AWESOME!!
POLSTEADPAUL 1 year ago
Can you feed a punchcard in to that thing Emerson is playing in order to calculate 2+2?
treetoptop 1 year ago
this is great!! the synth was portable back then!!
1i1feat 1 year ago
Oh.
meneltar 1 year ago
Good that Mussorgsky never heard this!
mds279kr 1 year ago
I had the good fortune to see ELP in North Carolina during this tour. It was life changing. To this day, except for maybe seeing Peter Gabriel on his Security tour it was the best concert I've ever attended.
Steevlan1 2 years ago 6
@Steevlan1 I bet !!
Horrowfilmfan 1 year ago
as a classical musician im totally offended by the fact that they put words to the great gate of kiev
as rock musician...it was ok pretty cool
bassman31793 2 years ago
@bassman31793
as a jr high school hall monitor im totally offended that he was chewing gum.
as a gum aficianado...i wonder if it was juicy fruit or hubba bubba
rosycross 1 year ago
So bassman, what do you think Greg Lake was singing about in Great Gates (the whole lyric rather than this fragment)? I have my own thoughts... Until I decided what I thought he was singing, I found the lyrics to be pretty lame, but now I think they are pretty sly (from my perspective). Send a mssg tell me what you think.
myrrhfish 1 year ago
Doesn't get better than this. I was priveliged to have seen this concert when I was a kid. WHEW! haven't been the same since. Unfortunatley MTV reared it's ugly corporate money=driven, commercial ,accountant lawyer based head and it all ended. It was profit ahead of music. Spearheaded by corporate lawyers and accountants with no musical taste and hired to crunch out numbers and sell millions of gargb...er records.... It was SOOOO good while it lasted.
alcatras4 2 years ago 12
hmm i was going to add but i think youve covered it all! lol
sad but true most of the popular music is crap...not all but an alarming amount!
People dont even have to sing they just sort of mime and writhe around. lol sorry that my rant of the day.
joeygsmom 2 years ago 3
Chewing trio :Emerson -chiclets, Lake -wrigley´s and Palmer-stimorol
Sparksaty 2 years ago
Music is epic not cyclical. What a pity! I only wish I could have seen this show. Anyway, it lives inside me. Every single day. From here to eternity.
Jaffbr 2 years ago 8
kick ass old school real music not like the crap we have now days
DRGAS3339 2 years ago 89
totally agree with you
densolable 2 years ago 2
agreed. well said my friend
GuitarMasterizer 2 years ago
@DRGAS3339 yeh, like 100 years old music
revoltingmexican 1 year ago
@DRGAS3339 just wait 20 years when teenagers have gron up and bitch about how no one plays pop music
z50wheely 1 year ago
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@DRGAS3339 just wait 20 years when teenagers have grown up and bitch about how no one plays pop music
z50wheely 1 year ago
Love them because it's like the jordan rudess.. i love them both =')!!
rockingharderthanyou 2 years ago
Sounds exactly like what Mussorgsky had in mind.
danuu2 2 years ago 16
what the f is this, MegaMoog?!
djstkora 2 years ago 8
close, its a custom built Moog Modular IIIc with lots of xtra modules , a custom configured cabinet and ocsiliscope. the baddest touring modular synth ever built.
ELP71 2 years ago 10
Correction I thought you were talking about the rainout in NJ.......Oh well
jkrtr56 2 years ago
I was 17 then. I remember that day quite well. Sitting through shitty bands up against the stage, for seemed like forever waiting for only elp to come on when A tornado like cloud came over and dump a ton of rain on us, I remember running for cover, it didn't last for long and when we returned some dork like idiot with an afro told us no ELP so we tore the field up and tossed on stage the crowd went wild mayhem soon followed so mad we went next door and finshed up there hurt my hands big time.
jkrtr56 2 years ago
check out my elp pics, .. . taken by me
VeganWTF 2 years ago
was there on April 6th......and the day changed me forever. I was 13 years old, first psychedelic trip, dodged the most incredible water container fight (those who were truly there have to remember this very strange event) and watched ELP at their absolute best. It was a long, hot, unforgettable day.
tongvabear 2 years ago
La mejor banda progresiva de la historia!! Increible, 3 tipos en el escenario, parecían 30, sin palabras...
martintarkus 2 years ago 2
damn i only wish i could have seen these masters!!! missed it by just a few years. they are one of the greatest, dont make it like this anymore
skullfoot 2 years ago 3
I wasn't there, but I did see this tour.
Perhaps the best musicians I've ever seen. And the VOICE!
News4usall 2 years ago 4
lol its hard to imagine the music industry letting this amazing sound to get heard anymore, i had to dig REALLY deep to get this beautiful rendition of Modests' classic Pictures at an Exhibition, outstandiNg!!!
BonzoMcBonzo 2 years ago 2
Roosevelt stadium was in jersey city and it was torn down in 86. 2 seats were sent to the Smithonian . Those were the days aah and for 6.50 for admission for all those concerts and most of the time you could get right up against the stage.... Stay thirsty my friend!
jkrtr56 2 years ago 5
These guys are one of the greatest bands of all time. why does it matter that Lake was chewing gum? It doesn't. Him chewing gum and singing just means he is a BAMF and you need to get the fuck over it. More talented than you are.
JimmyPageZoSo56 2 years ago 6
Well said Jimmy, well said.
WoodRatGirl 2 years ago
Also, Hendrix chewed gum throughout his Monterrey performance.
jtruns 2 years ago
I think some singers, like Lennon and Lake, chew gum during performances because it keeps their mouths from drying out and helps their singing.
alcibaides 2 years ago 4
i know lennon chewed gum because he was extremely nervous before each performence and the gum helped to calm him
mer54gull 2 years ago
saw them in dec.73 at the garden, saw this concert, and that famous rain out at roosevelt statium n.j. summer 74 still allways makes me wonder just how amazing they really were. Saw tons of concerts no one even came close to ELP I allways said they played better live than thier albums just the best band in thier time. thanks guys
jkrtr56 2 years ago 4
I saw them at Roosevelt Stadium too, but for the life of me can't remember where Roosevelt Stadium was...I think they tore it down.
ny10980 2 years ago 2
where can I get their whole performance at cal jam 74?
thesantoshow93 2 years ago
It is available on their DVD "Beyond The Beginning" a 2 disc DVD set.
audiophile55 2 years ago
70's creative gods-hell, looks as tho' they had a good time?
troofilth01 2 years ago 2
Must have been one hell of a concert, ELP must have been well pissed off with Purple after Blackmore had smashed one of the TV camera's and set light to half the stage.
steviep33 2 years ago 5
actually ELP had theyre own stage on railroad tracks just for them. The rest shared 2 flat bed cars. 1 band would be taking apart there stuff while and the following act setting up all the while 1 act performing. ELP were the only band to get a sound check and were set up 1 day before the show.
ELP71 1 year ago 4
Pot = Dry Mouth = Gum ...ok
jkrtr56 2 years ago 5
How does chewing gun help them play, I wonder?
eameece 2 years ago 2
It does indeed help you concentrate... but speaking as a vocalist it also helps to keep the gob moist.... you have to learn to keep it under control though! ;-)
babayaga321 2 years ago 6
You're telling me! Many a time have I got my hair caught in my chewing gum. It's awkward, but you can't let it get in your way. Nothing can go wrong up there.
okbass 2 years ago
ELP is just that awesome. They can chew gum, cure cancer, and rock your world all at the same time.
raydeen2k 2 years ago 5
Amazing isn't it? That's how it used to be. It was great!
LilysApple 2 years ago 4
How did we lose this. Instead of genius musicians/singers/songwriters we have Mitzi Gaynor type chicks singings and dancing to other people's music.
I blame Madonna. And Disney.
alcibaides 2 years ago 81
@alcibaides dont forget about mtv...
MarkoZds 1 year ago
@MarkoZds
Yeah, them too. But more than anyone else I blame the record companies. They deserve to go out of business.
alcibaides 1 year ago 2
@alcibaides
Hey, that's an insult to Mitzi Gaynor!
Um, you do know that these guys are playing someone else's music here, right? (Mussorgsky). But at least they're actually playing and not sampling an old recording. Other than that, I agree with you about the twinkies of questionable talent making recordings and doing concerts nowadays.
jwz965 1 year ago
@alcibaides IIRC a bunch of cockney gobshites like Johnny Rotten came along and told us this was crap and we had to listen to them instead. The NME and BBC fell for it and Malcom McLaren (and the NME) made a lot of money out of the whole thing. The BBC still bash prog rock to this day. Arseholes.
mailbox827 1 year ago
@mailbox827 I wonder how much of that was record companies pushing newer musicians because their royalty rates were much lower than established artists. Maybe they think people will buy anything. And with punk rock they pretty much proved they would.
alcibaides 1 year ago
@alcibaides Blame Stock Aitlen and Waterman - Death to the Philistines!!!!
armandin2048 1 year ago
@alcibaides
It happened before Madonna.
JonP1961 11 months ago
@alcibaides I blame MTV.
leandrobern 11 months ago
@alcibaides The mass musical media always been the same. The public wants shit nowadays so they give them shit. And I talk about majorities.
Wayavas1337 6 months ago
@alcibaides i agree with you but you know gates of kiev was composed in the 19th century by a Russian composer not elp :P In a way they are dancing to others music with lyrics added
But ye I know what you mean :)
SRNF 6 months ago
my god look how many people are in that fucking audiance!
angie4josh 2 years ago 4
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Pathetic. Totally ridiculous. Not even worth an Evgeny Kissin's fart...
minastronasse 2 years ago
shut up >:-(
ZeppelinFromtheLake 2 years ago
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I'm not totally fond of Kissin's version but yeah, it makes this look's steaming heap of dung.
jabberwock11 2 years ago
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aiuto sembra un centralino il synth!!
vinsdrum 2 years ago
I look back on this stuff 30 years later and while I still enjoy it (I have Tarkus on my PS3 and listen to it monthly), I can see where some of the claims that critics levelled at the band are accurate. While Keith has THE chops, he was still a bit masturbatory, let's admit. Was glad I got to see the band live in '77 before they parted company. And let's be men and admit that drum solos, in general, are a bad idea, eh?
hamdemon99 2 years ago
i dont think drum solos r a bad idea, if a bassist, guitarist and kayboardist can get solos why not drummers? anyways ELP is amazing to the enth degree!
ZeppelinFromtheLake 2 years ago
Well, I'm hard pressed to say I recall any memorable drum solos (live, that is). They were boring. There's everything on record from Conundrum back to Toad but even the venerable John Bonham (and I'm a huge Zep fan) couldn't wrench the lowly live drum solo from the depths of boredom. I love ELP and Carl was good but I'm beginning to side with Todd Barry's 'gong theory' these days.
hamdemon99 2 years ago
i dissagree i do not think drum solos are boring in the least but i guess it is all personel opinion
ZeppelinFromtheLake 2 years ago
Spoken like a typical non-musician, or at least not a very practiced one, perhaps you play one instrument, or more but none very well
albszoso 2 years ago 2
Well, albszoso... there's a difference between trying to insult someone and presenting your well-reasoned argument. Are you capable of the latter?
hamdemon99 2 years ago
ok sorry I came off insulting. Percussion can be as musical as any other section of the band. The improv, the technique and feel these 3 possessed are beyond what most anyone can even begin to fathom in thought. I personally enjoy hearing the long solos and variations and soaking in the genius these guys had. Like ZEP said it's personal opinion. I'm not even a drummer and I got offended like one.
albszoso 2 years ago 3
I never said percussion can't be musical. I said rock drum solos, by and large, are uninteresting. I don't return to them like I do other solos. I may need to go back and find the good ones. Any suggestions? For the record, I can program synths but my lack of physical coordination keeps me from being anything more than lousy as a player. (PS minastroneasse: I like both Kissin and Emerson. I wonder if Keith can do Chopin's Sonata 2 for us for comparison. He has referenced Chopin.)
hamdemon99 2 years ago
Fair enough. As for good rock drum solos I would suggest Tank by ELP of course, but also Bonzo's Montreux, Led Zep, which does have some electronics added to it. Jethro Tull, Thick as a Brick (full version), to a much, much lesser extent, (someone will probably comment on this) Grateful Dead, Drums (live stuff), Though I don't highly recommend this. There's more but really and truly it's the jazzers. thats where it's at.Buddy Rich, Elvin Jones, Max Roach, Billy Cobham, et al
albszoso 2 years ago
saw them perform this live at newcastle, they used the recording for the album, never compared ELP with anyone else, ELP were ELP and something wonderfull in their own right, Pictures was the epitome of their talent even though Tarkus is probably more well known.
izobelsutton 2 years ago 2
I believe you can't compare Paice and Palmer, and the same goes with Emerson and Lord.
Their bands musical approach, as well as theirs, is totally different. Certainly, Palmer and Emerson are more impressive, but I don't see them playing hard rock the way Paice and Lord did. We should also note that DP duo never used 20 keyboards or cymbals, and they always sounded really, really great.
I guess we all love both bands. So stop this senseless discussions.
mjecpa 2 years ago 2
@mjecpa
I´m not talking about Paice who is a brilliant drummer only playing more simple music. - Jon Lord had a good beginning with tunes you mentioned but was still some dimensions worse than Emerson. For instance look at his left hand, he hardly used it! But the worst: he didn´t develop since then and almost every solo he played in the 90s could have been played in the 60s/70s by him - he was just repeating his stuff again and again. - Ridiculous for a prof. musician!
anonymusum 2 years ago
Bruford.
dirkbag22 2 years ago
Looks like they rented Blackmore's Rainbow stage set for this gig, lol.
happyking65 2 years ago
Actually, it was the rainbow at California Jam that probably gave Blackmore the idea for his Rainbow staging.
dirkbag22 2 years ago
Grat emerson, lake & palmer, but GREAT Mussorsgky!
mrcltrz 2 years ago 4
Great!!
techiri 2 years ago
Always loved these guys! Great stuff!
Tommyr 2 years ago
ELP played with Deep Purple as support - wonder how Jon Lord dared to `play´ his boring solos in front of Emerson to come ....
anonymusum 2 years ago
Keith Emerson is very good and one of my favorites, but that is just a ridiculous thing to say. Perhaps you have never heard Mandrake Root or Wring that Neck Live, then you wouldn't make such a statement.
happyking65 2 years ago
Jon Lord is a GREAT rock and roll keyboardist... it's not even a comparable genre.
dirkbag22 2 years ago 6
these no end to my life, dead is lie!
roymystify 3 years ago
heavy masterpiece
smanticor 3 years ago 3
really it looks like a friggin computer from another planet LOL!
silverbirdsong 3 years ago 7
look at that sucker....IT does look like the Great gate of Kiev, hahahaha
transfobby 3 years ago
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How childish.
LazlosPlane 3 years ago
How AMAZING.
Bluesmen88 3 years ago 2
Go listen to Green Day and get out of this area of music, It does not suit you correctly.
bunnyhead71 3 years ago
This is the classical music of the modern day and ELP are the today's version of the "Powerful Bunch"
billycosboy 3 years ago
Look at that synth!
I'd have a better chance at being president than understanding how that damn thing works.
MaddMan95 3 years ago 4
LOL, MaddMan95.
audiophile55 3 years ago
Thats your Moog Modular complete with 5 million miles of wire and patch cables, imagine having to program that sucker for each song, I have a smaller version and Emerson has his hands full lol
Deviceroy 3 years ago 7
awesome!!!
five stars
mickyfinn17 3 years ago
kunovondonderberg-you need to stop fuckin around on prog video pages you dick.
if you you hate it so much then dont watch the videos.
mickyfinn17 3 years ago
what have you done musically that is more suprior than this?
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paul7703 3 years ago 5
damn straight.
sydbarrett1973 3 years ago 2
emerson 1 skizofrén zseni (genius),greg a szelid oroszlán(bland lion),palmer ő(he is) PALMER.
És kurvára nem érdekel,ha rosszul fordítottam.
LILALA09 3 years ago
It takes a great mind to patch properly and turn the nobs to what was recorded in the studio.
VigoSOC 3 years ago
jeez, people will argue anything on you tube who cares just enjoy it man !peace :)
eagle2sky1 3 years ago 2
wow love it........my dad put me on to this band awhiles back....so glad he did. thanks....
mefilmmaking 3 years ago
same to me
qonson 3 years ago
El compositor Ruso Modest Petrovich Mussorgski en el mas alla debe estar muy orgulloso de EL&P. grandes maestros del sigloXX
rgonima 3 years ago
first band to rock out the synth, rolling stones couldn't work out how to use it. 30 000 pounds later and u have a moog the size of a bus. genious...kraftwerk would be proud!
guysywisey 3 years ago
Seems it's the other way around, there, ironbuttermilk. You seem to be the "touchy" one, since you made the false statement regarding the polyphonic Moog set up Keith was using. It took the roadies over an hour to program and hook up the patch cords. The last thing Keith Emerson needed was something "fake" for show. He used 10 keyboards at the time, which was already blowing everyone's minds at the time.
audiophile55 3 years ago 3
what a great interpretation of a great song
ArtichokeProductions 3 years ago
When most people hear "prog rock" they think you're talking about some kind of Czech music.
dan0628 3 years ago
LOL Prague Rock!!!!
imbatman333 3 years ago
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2 thirds of Emerson's vast array of knobs and wires didn't do shit, just there for show, like alot of Kiss' backline of amps.
ironbuttermilk 3 years ago
How so ? The bottom row of modules where fake and for show. Most the other modules where used :). Remember severl where hard wired to the preset box, but hey still had to be patched. Oehts where deicated to the sequencers and other routings.
Brian880 3 years ago
Blasphemy! Emerson and KISS (???WTF??)can't be in the same sentence....watch it next time!!...ProgPolice.
vivelavidarocka 3 years ago 11
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Ha ha ha ha!!! Prog nerds are so predictably touchy.
Get a girlfriend.
ironbuttermilk 3 years ago
I have a hot girlfriend and most certainly I'm not a nerd. I was only fucking W/U. But dude, show some respect for this band. Would you? And I'm not being touchy, but really, KISS??
vivelavidarocka 3 years ago 6
If you take the time to do some research and find some info about Moog modular synthesizers, which Emerson is using here, you'll learn that those arrays of wires and knobs were the only way to connect keyboard triggers, oscillators, filters, and ADSR controllers... big, clumsy, and unreliable pieces of hardware, it was a miracle it can perform live with that. Show some respect at least if you prefer to remain ignorant. Don't post about what you don't have a clue.
DesPlante 3 years ago 3
the only thing unreliable were the oscillators...its complex but a properly patched and functional machine will be reliable
hotlanta71 3 years ago
I was thinking about the patches themselves, those were the big troublemakers. Of course, detuned oscillators and heat sensitive Moog filters were too.
DesPlante 3 years ago
ok see u soon!
lol im naked! XT
blitzkrieg1890 3 years ago
Totally amazing
rushfloydzeppelin 3 years ago
best lyrics ever
JoeMooreXperience 3 years ago
this is slightly random, but has anyone else noticed that all their hair was darker in Pictures at an Exhibition and it has kinda gotten blonder at cal jam? Or am i just going crazy?
rushfloydzeppelin 3 years ago