ELP performing a part of Tarkus in 1971

[Boujonzu]

Is that a theremin he's playing at the end?

[Aidanloveskeyboards]

@Boujonzu no, it's a touch-sensitive ribbon controller that's controlling his modular.

[Boujonzu]

@Aidanloveskeyboards Ah right, thats fuckin sweet!!

[Aidanloveskeyboards]

@Boujonzu i am actually getting A modular synth with ribbon controller made from a guy who did the synths for linkin park

[Satiaraha]

i always loved that jacket

[wilecuyote]

sick!

[chalitin11]

hey plan x where did you get this and the video from the sessions man this is interesting?? let me know thanx

[paperpichu]

@chalitin11 First of all it's 1973 from there "get me a Ladder" tour and it's from the manticore documentary video. You can get all this on the Beyond the Beginning dvd.

[manhattanrocket]

ONce there was a time when people understood REAL music and REAL bands could achieve this kind of popularity while producing REAL modern music, the time when rock was at its heights. And I fucking missed it

[progmeck1]

This footage is not from 1971. It shows the european tour in spring 1973 !!!! The tour was called " Get me a ladder". 1973 Emerson's synthesizers had grown bigger and bigger. So eventually he could not reach the buttons on the top of the instruments. So one day he called his roadies " It's too high, get me a ladder".

[highlife0586]

I LOVE ELP.

[walshiemaiden]

lol i cant find a picture on the internet of their personal trailer trucks

[vachalia]

I still prefer Emerson with The Nice.

[garygomesg]

@vachalia Me too, but I liked ELP in parts. Tarkus and Brain Salad Surgery were good albums.

[carlosalbertoteixeir]

Totally out of sync.

- c.a.t.

[mastermana92]

yea! tell him! He is just some punk from the streets! :)

kiding naturaly :)

Keith rocks

[boobj]

Tickets were 4 USD advance 5 USD at gate.

Humble Pie opened the show.

Imagine that,.

[susieaxym]

wow.....I'll see Greg Lake shirtless anytime!!!!!!!

[juulbrie]

superior noise!! ans what a pleasure...

[mobyboy]

wow !

[ayu1996]

i have this on dvd

[gtristdan]

I've seen so many concerts, but the one I would have liked to have seen most, was ELP..I saw 'Asia',(and in 1981 or 82' when I first heard about Asia and who the line up was and THEN heard the album, it was one of my biggest musical upsets of all time! ) and enjoyed a nice "Live" Carl Palmer drum solo, but thats the closest I ever got.

[boobj]

I saw this ,.I think it was August 71` [ I was 18 or 19. Pirates World , Dania, Fl.]

It was so good on the Fri nite,.I had to go see it again , Sat. nite The Moog was first starting to grow with two tiers,.saw them again at Miami Fronton ,`73 .and the Moog grew again. There have been eons of different synths ,.but to hear this one on a big PA was THE SOUND. .Met Bob Moog ,and bought his stuff many times in NC 30 yrs later.

[gtristdan]

lol...Now that I think of it, yeah that would be hard to mic! Was it in the 1970's that he did that spinning piano? Anyway I hear what you're saying, Hendrix.. He's in a class all himself (called ..Amazing) But in my own opinion, what Hendrix was to the 'Guitar in performance' is what Emerson was to the 'Hammond Organ in performance' and Moog..And come to think of it, I would have LOVED to have been at the "Isle of Wight" festival in August of 1970!

[mrgears]

The spinning Seinway routine was at the California Jam in San Francisco 1974. Keith had no safety harnesses and started to get motion sickness but he played on. ELP was the last act and were 2nd to NONE in those days. They followed Black Sabbath (with Ozzie), Deep Purple, Billy Preston, The Eagles to name a few.

[Horsemanray]

What is that slidebar thing he's playing?

[gtristdan]

It's called a synth ribbon. Sliding his finger along the ribbon can change the note, or the note's frequency and some other fun stuff I'm not sure about! Cool though aye?

[Kohntarkosz]

What's even cooler is the pyrotechnic rig he eventually added to it. He'd get to a certain point in the solo, and hit a switch and it would fire off a sort of a Roman candle type effect.

[gtristdan]

For sure! I saw that on the video of ELP 'Live at The Royal Albert Hall', I believe the year to be 1996.

Yeah that was cool! Those guys.... What I also think is amazing and I didn't really believe it until I saw it, was Emerson playing a concert Grand piano high up and hovering over the stage and audience spinning end over end, while he played.. Which is cooler, Hendrix wailing the guitar behind his head, or Emerson playing the grand piano while spinning in mid air?! ..lol....

[Kohntarkosz]

I'll let you in on a little secret: when Emerson did the spinning piano thing, the actual music that you heard was on tape. Think about it: there's no way you could mic up a piano that's spinning around in the air like that (at least not with 1973 era technology).

When Jimi played the guitar behind his head, you were actually hearing him play guitar, so I'd say that's cooler.

[PVCVIDEOLA]

There were wireless mics then, too.

[Palmstream]

back when they had trucks for the shit

[54spiritedwill54]

awesome vid dude

[stmusic06]

this is pure enrgy and lot of talent...

hard to find these days

[punkasspete]

what part of tarkus is this???

[eckmeckm]

mass

[audiophile55]

I don't think it is available, Rare MusicVids. ELP were not ones to document themselves through the years they were together, on film, and it is regrettable. We have been begging for the entire Tarkus performance, from the Brain Salad Surgery era, as well as the Karn Evil 9 suite in its entirety, and its not out there. These guys broke ground, and no one thought to film them at their peak! Stupid idiots at ABC erased all Cal Jam footage, which would have given what we want in their entirety!

[RareMusicVids]

well said audiophile55, but I wonder if whoever shot the concert, with such rare close-ups, that perseon might have the full concert! We need to hunt it down!

[Kohntarkosz]

Well, it MIGHT still exist, but I doubt it. It looks like something that was filmed for television, and what usually happened in those circumstances is, which television production company (whether it be the BBC, ABC or whatever) owned the footage. And a lot of times, once they edited the material down for the TV broadcast, they'd just throw the raw footage out. Or if it was videotape, they'd erase.

There are of course exceptions, so maybe it does still exist somewhere.

[RareMusicVids]

good point, if this was shot by a local tv production for a tv show, then it would be unusual they have the whole show or other material. However, in those days it often was tv shows that even bothered to film musicians, that gives us rare footage of many musicians of the past. ELP had lengthy material that was probably edited down in this production.

[gtristdan]

Yeah but I thought for sure there was a Cal Jam dvd out there!!

[audiophile55]

Well, actually, there is, as what was broadcast on ABC-TV is available on ELP's "Beyond the Beginning" two disc DVD set. However, if you type in, here at You Tube "CaliforniaJammer1974", the copies there are much clearer, both audio and video, than what is available on the DVD.

[RareMusicVids]

anyone know where to find the complete concert of this performance?

[darksideof1]

this is real ELP... not that bullshit they do these days...

[smartlamppost]

What? They rock nowdays! They sound like fricken orchestra! I'm not saying they are better now or then, they've just always rocked. Besides, would you rather listen to them, or *gag* insync, or the jonahs brothers, or green day!? You suck. Why are people mindless haters? "Ooh, that band that's pooring their heart out isn't as popular as the other crappy, stupid bands! Let's flame them till' they give up, then mediocre music will be the only thing next!" fricken idiot kids.

[JimmyPageroma94]

i belive this is the milan exibition of 1973

[rickfreslanta]

Man, how about that bank of Leslie's off to KE's right. What I would'nt give for just one!

[Davidekap]

what is that strange rectangular musical tool?

kindly answer me, it's an instrument that emerson also uses in pictures at an exhibition.

[yeshead]

That's a ribbon controller. It functions on the same principal as a theramin and it's wired to the modular Moog.

[Davidekap]

Thanks very much!

[noddyspuncture]

No it doesn't ... the Theremin is a non contact instrument. On the Ribbon Controller you have to press a metal strip against a resistive wire, and also hit a plate to trigger audio...!

[Pectiniculus]

damn! is there any complete live version of Tarkus out there?

[MadShadowBand]

There might be one on "Welcome my Friends to the Show that Never Ends" (Its a double album, also has Karn Evil 9

[GrayLeader2184]

Yes, it is indeed on that album.

It's kind of weird that I know that, since I don't even have that one.

[breakfastisready]

It is. And it's a TRIPLE lp!!!

[Bluesmen88]

My guess is it's pretty hard to find any decent complete live versions of Tarkus out there, Greg wasn't a big fan of performing it live, so it was cut fairly early from there live act.

[EDDIETARKUS]

woow

awesome vid dude

[socalltd]

it is from the "manticore special" to promote brain salad surgery in '73/74. the re-used on the "welcome back" tape in 1993

[BIOCIDEXYZ]

Love the ribbon controller piece.

Would probably be banned these days !

Incidently,where did you find this footage ?

:-)

[amore101]

Why would it be banned?

[2112pk]

health and safty would find a way