@usergently Emerson was more advanced technically, but I think Jon Lord from Deep Purple plays with a lot more soul and passion. He was also far more influential in rock music, probably because people could actually copy his style. But I'm pretty sure Emerson was better technically.
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@Supersolyman "It doesn't matter who the people voted for, they always vote for us."-Joseph Stalin(Illuminati)
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Check on the Farfisa. I owned a Deluxe and it had no 5th, 9th or 11th- and no rheostats. You must be thinking of Ray Manzerak. (He switched from a Vox organ to a Farfisa Combo Compact Deluxe in hopes of being able to use the Farfisa special Split Bass setup. (That Fender keyboard Bass was heavy and bulky). Emerson relied on a Yamaha GX-1, a Grand Piano, a Hammond L-100 and sometimes the Moog MK-3).
If you've seen the clips where he pulls the organ right down onto himself as he lies on the stage and then pushes it back up, and you've ever tried to lift a Hammond, you'll know why you wouldn't want to arm-wrestle Keith Emerson.
To those who said he's playing a Farfisa. It's not. Hammond and Farfisa are two different companies. He's playing a Hammond L-100. The L series have the characteristic diving board tabs. If you watch videos from the Pictures at an Exhibition concert, You'll see he has a Hammond L-100 on one side and a Hammond C3 on the other.
ob rückwärts oder vorwärts: EGAL! Wahnsinnig gut und das seit 40 Jahren! Habe ELP letztes Jahr in London gesehen und kann nur hoffen, daß mir dies Glück erneut zuteil wird! Auf meiner Beerdigung wär gut!
It's a shame that neither ELP or the Nice are in the Rock and Roll hall of fame..
However that B3 is. After almost 40 yrs of being stabbed, rocked, flung, tipped up and dropped, played from the inside, been jumped over thousands of times, played backwards ( as well as this piece, I've seen him do Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and Flight of the Bumblebees.), and having KE crouch on top of it to play,
it caught fire on stage and died. Now it's in the Hall of Fame.
@miskatonic763 I can ashure, thats not a B3, the organ he is abusing is a not even Hammond-made although the sound is similar. But actually it´s an old Farfisa!
My dad (an ELP lover in his youth) told me about this when I was very young, maybe 7 years old. Ever since then I have aspired to be the greatest at piano that I can possibly be, just to become a fraction of the awesome that Keith Emerson exhibits here. And here I am, taking piano in university. Amazing, isn't it?
@billyconnearly they had the nice at fillmore east then renasaince with mike hawker thumping away at an electric grand piano then the doors then king crimson then elp
Well KE fan #1, perhaps you can tell us then why Keith thinks atonal and discordant "music" should appeal to the masses? Take his piano concerto for instance - a nice few bars, but the rest is pure NOISE! He has breathtaking technical ability - that's never been any doubt throughout his career - but if his fingers are making noise, what IS the point? I could hit keys at random (even though I'm a moderate "proper" player, as it happens) and say "Yeah man, it's improv, don't ya dig?" Codswallop!
A lot of modern classical music sounds like noise to most people. The reason is that our ears are used to consonanses and diatonic scales and everything else sounds wierd to us.
Emerson is definitley one of the greatest organists in rock music, but for me, my personal favorite is Jon Lord from Deep Purple. Lord can play and orchestrate classical music, but his sense of being able to keep up with Ritchie Blackmores sense of rock riffs as well as his blues influences makes him more of an interesting player to me. my opinion only.
de hecho tocar una pieza hacia atras se llama espejo, y bach hacia mucho eso, si no revisa el arte de la fuga, tiene temas y variaciones en espejo, cangrejo, etc....
What rage! What liberty! His solos were so cathartic! To be able to so physically express his every whim or frustration... simply amazing. And the poor instrument! Thank god for field repairs.
@awaken77 It's the reverb spring. Same thing if you kick a guitar amp with a built-in reverb. Emerson also did a thing where he'd switch the organ off and on to get a really warped-vinyl sort of sound with the bending notes. And of course there were the knives in the keyboard!! What a showman!!
@jcrackerHe's always been accused of that, but the thing is, he really CAN play that well, so why not add a bit of showmanship to it? (And why else do you think he titled his autobiography ""Pictures of an Exhibitionist""?) He certainly plays with as much 'feeling' as 99.9% of pop musicians out there, so it's not really a valid criticism as far as I'm concerned. Besides, the fact that he inspires enough feeling in you that you have to comment must mean he's doing something right!
@TheJordanband Keith Emerson's The Buckethead Of Keyboards. If he band buckethead Were to start a band the fucking world would explode!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thumbs Up if u agree
Just kidding about the wardrobe malfunction. Keith had just come from an audition for the role of the sheriff of Nottingham in a community theater group's Robin Hood remake, and had no time to change his costume (apparently in the jolly old England of Robin Hood's time, they liked to make leather goods 10x bigger than needed, because King John found it visually amusing-strangely, narrow ties and lapels on sport coats were also in though).
Keith fell victim to a traumatic and tragic wardrobe malfunction in the early days, in which a flimsy belt broke and his pants fell down during a concert. To make sure that mortifying nightmare would never be repeated, from then on, he had all his belts custom made. The leather worker had permanent instructions to make each belt no less than a foot wide, just to be safe. Keith is now a favorite target of animal rights groups for his ravenous consumption of leather.
Saw Keith and Greg Lake last night in Phoenix, small setting, interesting stage setup, got to watch with Chris Squire from Yes, who agreed that they still have it! A couple of King Crimson and Nice tunes, plus a number of the faves, as well as experimental stuff. Outstanding show! Great solos, etc.
Peterson, Tatum, Morton, Powell, Earle Heinz, Nat Cole, Teddy Wilson, .... Not in any particular order. Regiments of British guys, as well. I could go on but there ain't enough words available in this comment box and I don't think I'll live long enough anyway!
I should renew your search if I were you. If you want the real answer, stop looking where you're looking now!
I said keyboard player. Not piano player and not organist.
And I've been looking in Keyboard Magazine where Emerson won the award for keyboard player of the year so many times that they retired his name to give other people a chance.
He definitely played a section of Tocatta and Fugue in D min backwards on a Yamaha Electone in the 1988 Atlantic Records concert. There's a partial video up called 'Keith Emerson and Carl palmer - Rondo Live@NYC' that does not include the section that I remember clearly watching.
@1994AlmostSkater actually they do, Hammond-Suzuki, but nowadays you can buy a Hammond clone which is indistinguishable from a real Hammond which only weighs 35 lbs. It is made by Clavia/Nord. One keyboard is the Nord Electro 3. Check it out~!
Hammond do make new, digital versions. They aren't that bad either - digital isn't necessarily a dirty word. In fact there aren't many true analog organs about, because they were mechanical and difficult to maintain. Check out the Nord Electro, Roland VK-7, 8, and 9, KORG CX-3 and BX-3, and of course the Hammond XK-1, 2, & 3
Keith is god. Wish he didn't have the problems in his hands. Hey, i've got tendonitis and I play drums! You work through the pain for what you love... OK so I'm drunk....
@drunksingsheep I got he book " Pictures of an ehibitionist" Biography of Keith Emerson. There is no point, that Emerson did study in Julian school of music. He claims, that he had private lessons by three different female teachers, who came to his parents home. When he formed "The Nice" he was long time ago professional musician.
Before he played with "Gary Farr and the T Bones". A professional band. Then he played with the "VIPS" later Spooky Tooth. and toured through europe.
I'm the biggest Keith Emerson fan there is; I think the guy is the greatest keyboardist Rock's ever seen. However, I need to clear up the error that he's playing Bach Backward: from 1:11 to 1:38-ish he IS playing J.S. Bach (specifically, an excerpt from the famous harpsichord solo from the 1st movement of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D) but he's doing so facing forward (normally) to the keyboard. What he's playing "backwards" is fun and interesting, but it's NOT Bach, just improvisation.
I'm actually going to see Keith Emerson and Greg Lake performing here in Los Angeles this coming April 25 (it's a sort of "unplugged"-type format, just the two of them) at L.A.'s Orpheum theatre. I'm hoping that they'll perform some older "Keith & Greg" favorites like "Take a Pebble" amongst other less-played originals.
Carl Palmer will again be performing with them later this July 25, at the "High Voltage Festival", UK's new flagship classic rock event in Victoria Park, London.
@Friendulum Saw Keith and Greg last night (4/22) in Phoenix, got to watch with Chris Squire from Yes, who agreed that Keith and Greg still have it. Great show, neat stage ideas, and freaking amazing solos! They did play Pebble, plus some Bartok, all the faves, even a couple of Nice and King Crimson tunes
@Friendulum You`ve got a brother here, saw him with ELP on four occasions, once at Soldier Field with the 63 piece orchestra in front of 60+ thousand people. Never disappointed, always looking to entertain and put the percussion in a percussion instrument that is so seldom played that way...
@Friendulum He's great to see in concert! I saw him seven months ago and I'm only 13! It's nice that these guys are still around so I can see them after I've discovered them. :D
@GuitarMasterizer You obviously possess a very discerning musical mind, G.Mast., and I envy that your discovery of ELP is still a recent and ongoing development. Besides Emerson's incorporation and reworking (or rocking--rawking?) of the music of Bach, Bartok, Copland, Mussorgsky, etc. into his own blues-based and 20th-century musical stylings, Emerson's 'long-form' compositions provide an endless landscape for stimulating, often surprising musical journeys.
@GuitarMasterizer I was around 11 when I first began to absorb ELP and it became a very influential cornerstone for my musical development, and one which has proven quite versatile and applicable, in particular for the music I've composed for film and TV (i.e., "Batman: The Animated Series" and others). That kind of polytonality and rythmic drive are nicely predisposed to the kind of music that underscores 'action/adventure' cues in such cinematic or animated genres.
@Friendulum By the way, I enjoyed watching some of your musical performance videos on here, and you are indeed a solid rhythm guitarist and a true musician with the potential to make music a long-term vocation if you decide to commit to it (although I always try to dissuade young people from pursuing it as a "living"--unless they canNOT be dissuaded, in which case their passion will win out and guide them). All my best wishes to you and for your continued musical evolution(s)!
@Friendulum Hmmmmm, I might just argue who the biggest Emo fan is. In more recent years, Keith plays Bach's toccata in D minor when he plays upside down. As you mentioned though, not in this clip.
@Friendulum Hmmmm... Pedantic but true - Keith was and still is the Number 1 keyboard showman - everyone else is second best - Rick Wakeman tried but eh....not quite! Emerson=Hendrix=Moon=Pastorius=Moore=Plant - now THAT is a fucking BAND
Indeed, as you're probably quite aware, E, L. and P. were in discussions with Hendrix about teaming up with him before Jimi's untimely death: "H.E.L.P.!" In 2003, I visited George F. "The Messiah" Handel's house while visiting London (they have an historical plaque out on the façade of the building attesting to its famous former resident). On the building right next to it, there is a similar plaque, which announces that IT was the final residence and place of death of Jimi Hendrix! Small world?
Keith was, at the time, the most naturally musical talent in a generation of keyboard stars including Lord, Wakeman, et al but he had what Mr Cowell would doubtless refer to as the "X-Factor"!! lol he was up for being a bit of a showman as well as a serious muso - after all "serious musos" play to other "serious musos" - Keith played to the audience - whoever they were! THAT is the difference between Artiste and FUCKIN' STAR!!!!!
Keith is the best Rock Keyboardist there ever was. You are witnessing the manic phase of a creative genius right now. He is an unstoppable force. I love Genesis too much to compare him to Tony Banks, however Keith without question is superior to: Jon Lord, Rick Wakeman, Patrick Moraz, Francis Monkman. Even the highly virtuous Eddie Jobson cannot compare to Keith Emerson. He is absolutely bad-ass! Dropped-out of Julliard School of Music 1 semester before graduating with honors to form The Nice.
i grew up listening to my mom & her dad both playing piano and organ ( so from then, to this day of course i luv classical music) but keith emerson kicks ass!
The extreme pitch bending is a function of the self-starting motor in the L-100 series organs...he power-cycled the organ to get those bends out of it. You can make them go all over the place, not very controllable, but delightfully chaotic as seen here. I have an L-100 in the stable...they're a blast to play.
I love the reverb tank crashes. And that pitch bend stuff he's doing...that would be in this case actually varying the line voltage to the organ right? I always assumed on Genesis "Stagnation" (from Trespass) that the pitch bends in Tony Banks' solo were done w/tape varispeed - but this makes me wonder if Tony had a similar setup on his L122? That's not a standard feature is it? I never played an L series...
He does not play the cadenza backwards ! And, anyway, he just plays a little part ; quickly, but a little part. Nevertheless, he's still Keith Emerson. "Picture at an exhibition" was one of my teenage's favorite record.
bob - Dude, it's a Hammond. So long as you oil it once a year and play it nicely (his was specially modified so it would think abuse like this IS playing nice) you can wait until a century after hell freezes over for something to go wrong. I have a similar model that's taken just as much abuse from kids in a church basement, and all I have to do is oil it and fix a tone wheel and the pedals. Other than that, it's a real cherry.
He is a master of keys..Love to see him and wakeman go at it..I also love Ray Manzarcek,,Before his time i think??Peaceout
mdelair420 2 weeks ago
Jebus!!! he's like a mad scientist on the keyboard!
TylerDurden6996 3 weeks ago
Typically fans look up to guitarists and down on keyboardists but people like Emerson and Wakeman are as cool as Page and Van Halen.
c8udyp 1 month ago 5
Aha playing it 'Bachwards' I see!
jamievespa 2 months ago 10
I pity his keyboard technician, venturing out into the nether land for tubes and wires and reefer.
Ken1Nickels1 2 months ago
21 people work at Hammond factory.
AlexPylov 2 months ago
great just listend to keith emerson in garage with nice great record
stevedrywall1 2 months ago
hes breaking the hammond..
rollipolioli 3 months ago
simply the best
savanna2111 3 months ago
If tattoos were popular back then I'd probably still be wearing an ELP tattoo...:)
NoFearOfGod 3 months ago
A real showman from the rock era!!!
kv3x 3 months ago
AMAZING !!!
bonkemethod 3 months ago
has to be the best organist wver
aldisk56 3 months ago
@aldisk56 I think the guy from Deep Purple.
usergently 3 months ago
@usergently Emerson was more advanced technically, but I think Jon Lord from Deep Purple plays with a lot more soul and passion. He was also far more influential in rock music, probably because people could actually copy his style. But I'm pretty sure Emerson was better technically.
JanEgbersNL 3 months ago
@JanEgbersNL Good point. Peace out.
usergently 3 months ago
@usergently - And I think Steve Winwood and Booker T too....
nish147 3 months ago
Brilliant but g€ y
Heath75032 4 months ago
Exelente. Keith Emerson em plena forma. Power trio prog perfeito!
E.L.P Brasil
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uriahheep108 4 months ago
he made that organ his bitch
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uriahheep108 4 months ago
it`s just too easy for him, so he got to be mad ... :D
solcom 4 months ago
@Papahitas, you're retarded.
@mjsmcd, very.
BeowulfVids 4 months ago
not a keyboardist but how difficult to play backward ?
mjsmcd 5 months ago in playlist Keith Emerson
@mjsmcd depends on how difficult it is to sing backwards
jordankuprij 4 months ago
@mjsmcd About the same as playing it forward. The key is aligning the sheet music correctly in the mirror.
acr08807 4 months ago
BACHwards!!!
Interst890 5 months ago 3
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Hippie shit. Someone should have chopped this fag's hands.
Papahitas 6 months ago
There is a man in control of his instrument...a true master, and of course a picture of an exhibitisionist!
emriederek 6 months ago 19
Check on the Farfisa. I owned a Deluxe and it had no 5th, 9th or 11th- and no rheostats. You must be thinking of Ray Manzerak. (He switched from a Vox organ to a Farfisa Combo Compact Deluxe in hopes of being able to use the Farfisa special Split Bass setup. (That Fender keyboard Bass was heavy and bulky). Emerson relied on a Yamaha GX-1, a Grand Piano, a Hammond L-100 and sometimes the Moog MK-3).
homoignobilis 6 months ago
@olliek1961 It is a Hammond L-100 organ.
jakub421 7 months ago
If you've seen the clips where he pulls the organ right down onto himself as he lies on the stage and then pushes it back up, and you've ever tried to lift a Hammond, you'll know why you wouldn't want to arm-wrestle Keith Emerson.
gordonjcp 7 months ago 3
@gordonjcp
What does that have to do with music?
I wonder if Bach arm wrestled his Clavier?
Easleytee 4 months ago
@Easleytee: Just call it "Pecial Music Live Performance" ;-)
Sterndi1 4 months ago
To those who said he's playing a Farfisa. It's not. Hammond and Farfisa are two different companies. He's playing a Hammond L-100. The L series have the characteristic diving board tabs. If you watch videos from the Pictures at an Exhibition concert, You'll see he has a Hammond L-100 on one side and a Hammond C3 on the other.
deerfish3000 7 months ago
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deerfish3000 7 months ago
What an absolute maniac!! Like Hendrix on the organ!!!
beatlemaniac1966 8 months ago
techno anno'71 ;)
siggiesandoz 8 months ago
finally, so much energy coming from a guy behind the keyboard. Keith Emerson, you are the best!
thrashmetalkills 9 months ago
its hammond farfisa compact right?
lukuntri 9 months ago
Turning the B-3 on and off while holding a key....Bouncing the spring reverb around....he got tones no one else ever thought of.
searayus1 10 months ago
who cares just watch and learn
wardle77 10 months ago
Sounds like Deep Purple - Mandrake Root-ish.
Eldryzif 10 months ago
@Eldryzif you're right. and also like Space Tracking second part...
BlackCrowNavajo 9 months ago
ob rückwärts oder vorwärts: EGAL! Wahnsinnig gut und das seit 40 Jahren! Habe ELP letztes Jahr in London gesehen und kann nur hoffen, daß mir dies Glück erneut zuteil wird! Auf meiner Beerdigung wär gut!
truxwolf 11 months ago
OMFG!!! THAT GUY IS GONNA BREAK THAT POOR ORGAN!!! i wonder how long it lasted after that concert or gig watever it was
organmastr 11 months ago
@organmastr
heh. check this one out where he brings all his tools to work! --> /watch?v=xggFzkyd288
JonP1961 11 months ago
It's a shame that neither ELP or the Nice are in the Rock and Roll hall of fame..
However that B3 is. After almost 40 yrs of being stabbed, rocked, flung, tipped up and dropped, played from the inside, been jumped over thousands of times, played backwards ( as well as this piece, I've seen him do Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and Flight of the Bumblebees.), and having KE crouch on top of it to play,
it caught fire on stage and died. Now it's in the Hall of Fame.
miskatonic763 11 months ago 3
@miskatonic763 I can ashure, thats not a B3, the organ he is abusing is a not even Hammond-made although the sound is similar. But actually it´s an old Farfisa!
olliek1961 9 months ago
0:00 Free repeat knob :-)
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Fael9942 1 year ago
Keith got a job moving furniture with United Van lines.
He was fired on his second day.....
mrprogjazzgto 1 year ago
My dad (an ELP lover in his youth) told me about this when I was very young, maybe 7 years old. Ever since then I have aspired to be the greatest at piano that I can possibly be, just to become a fraction of the awesome that Keith Emerson exhibits here. And here I am, taking piano in university. Amazing, isn't it?
kpmarion 1 year ago
craizyness..
24161412416141 1 year ago
bachwards
Keeeeeeeeth 1 year ago
I saw ELP 6 or 7 times and they were the best of the "progressive" bands! Greg, Carl and Keith were top musicians above all else!
billyconnearly 1 year ago
@billyconnearly they had the nice at fillmore east then renasaince with mike hawker thumping away at an electric grand piano then the doors then king crimson then elp
spacepatrolman 1 year ago
Well KE fan #1, perhaps you can tell us then why Keith thinks atonal and discordant "music" should appeal to the masses? Take his piano concerto for instance - a nice few bars, but the rest is pure NOISE! He has breathtaking technical ability - that's never been any doubt throughout his career - but if his fingers are making noise, what IS the point? I could hit keys at random (even though I'm a moderate "proper" player, as it happens) and say "Yeah man, it's improv, don't ya dig?" Codswallop!
MrAttPatt 1 year ago
@MrAttPatt
A lot of modern classical music sounds like noise to most people. The reason is that our ears are used to consonanses and diatonic scales and everything else sounds wierd to us.
SevenCircles 1 year ago
who cares ? minor league look at me crap.
nootaramus 1 year ago
@nootaramus ...and your recording career is going how well then ???
heraldojesus21 1 year ago
^.^ oafml
FuckNewbs 1 year ago
Emerson is definitley one of the greatest organists in rock music, but for me, my personal favorite is Jon Lord from Deep Purple. Lord can play and orchestrate classical music, but his sense of being able to keep up with Ritchie Blackmores sense of rock riffs as well as his blues influences makes him more of an interesting player to me. my opinion only.
kortick50 1 year ago
lmbo!!!!
mark318123 1 year ago
lmbo!!!!
mark318123 1 year ago
Planx: what concert, what liner notes, and is this an excerpt from a complete video?
thanks, wordofgord
thewordofgord 1 year ago
damn that mothafucka can play!!! i wanna learn hammond organ REEEAAALLLYYYYY BAAAAAAAADDDDDDDD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dmrock4life 1 year ago
Pobre Johann Sebastian.
gringochucha 1 year ago
@gringochucha
de hecho tocar una pieza hacia atras se llama espejo, y bach hacia mucho eso, si no revisa el arte de la fuga, tiene temas y variaciones en espejo, cangrejo, etc....
TheMetalSoundSystem 1 year ago
@TheMetalSoundSystem Pobre, pobre Johann Sebastian.
gringochucha 1 year ago
3:00 tricky jump, huh
BleakAutumnMist 1 year ago
What rage! What liberty! His solos were so cathartic! To be able to so physically express his every whim or frustration... simply amazing. And the poor instrument! Thank god for field repairs.
mchampag 1 year ago
One of rock's ultimate madmen!!!!!!
saanzacs 1 year ago
now who know if he is playing Bach backwards, sounds shit anyway
gardenofarcane 1 year ago
magor
fuky445 1 year ago
Give a random monkey from the zoo some LSD, let him play an organ and he'll do the same.
danavyor 1 year ago
I FUCKIN' LOVE IT !!!
TheMaxLefebvre 1 year ago
What the name of original song?
JaUhdeEsparta 1 year ago
@JaUhdeEsparta The excerpt of Bach is from the harpsichord solo from brandenburg concerto no. 5
Jamesdude2000 5 months ago
@awaken77 It's the reverb spring. Same thing if you kick a guitar amp with a built-in reverb. Emerson also did a thing where he'd switch the organ off and on to get a really warped-vinyl sort of sound with the bending notes. And of course there were the knives in the keyboard!! What a showman!!
smeg27 1 year ago
.taht od dluoc I hsiw I
mario64guy 1 year ago
i hate this guy, sorry
jcracker 1 year ago
@jcracker you hate Keith Emerson?
slashdelbarrio 1 year ago
@slashdelbarrio he's a huge showoff who can play a lot of notes at once. if you like that i guess you'll love keith emerson
jcracker 1 year ago
@jcracker Envy is just so ugly...and sad. Stop whining and start practicing!!
smeg27 1 year ago
@smeg27 i dont think you get it. of course he's better than me. i just think his playing is a way to show off, with no real feeling.
jcracker 1 year ago
@jcrackerHe's always been accused of that, but the thing is, he really CAN play that well, so why not add a bit of showmanship to it? (And why else do you think he titled his autobiography ""Pictures of an Exhibitionist""?) He certainly plays with as much 'feeling' as 99.9% of pop musicians out there, so it's not really a valid criticism as far as I'm concerned. Besides, the fact that he inspires enough feeling in you that you have to comment must mean he's doing something right!
smeg27 1 year ago
@jcracker performers like Emerson can afford to demonstarte less feelings from time to time...
BlackCrowNavajo 1 year ago
@jcracker It's not uncommon for people to hate those who are better than them and emerson was better than everyone in else in rock on keyboards.
MerkinMuffly 1 year ago
@MerkinMuffly of course he's better than me. bernie worrell kicks his ass though.
jcracker 1 year ago
miren este que tiene algo que verr youtube.com/watch?v=vZq74bS1H6w
quiquevisser 1 year ago
I'll have what he's having ;)
TheJordanband 1 year ago 23
@TheJordanband Keith Emerson's The Buckethead Of Keyboards. If he band buckethead Were to start a band the fucking world would explode!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thumbs Up if u agree
SpartanLaserCanon 7 months ago
This is the bollocks
bottomblacker 1 year ago
Nothin' but pure soul.
bkisme 1 year ago
Just kidding about the wardrobe malfunction. Keith had just come from an audition for the role of the sheriff of Nottingham in a community theater group's Robin Hood remake, and had no time to change his costume (apparently in the jolly old England of Robin Hood's time, they liked to make leather goods 10x bigger than needed, because King John found it visually amusing-strangely, narrow ties and lapels on sport coats were also in though).
Gregorypeckory 1 year ago
Keith fell victim to a traumatic and tragic wardrobe malfunction in the early days, in which a flimsy belt broke and his pants fell down during a concert. To make sure that mortifying nightmare would never be repeated, from then on, he had all his belts custom made. The leather worker had permanent instructions to make each belt no less than a foot wide, just to be safe. Keith is now a favorite target of animal rights groups for his ravenous consumption of leather.
Gregorypeckory 1 year ago
Gonna see Emerson and Lake TONIGHT in Colorado Springs. Can't wait.
genErichatchet 1 year ago
bachwards! ;-)
The Best!!
GigiAO28 1 year ago
Saw Keith and Greg Lake last night in Phoenix, small setting, interesting stage setup, got to watch with Chris Squire from Yes, who agreed that they still have it! A couple of King Crimson and Nice tunes, plus a number of the faves, as well as experimental stuff. Outstanding show! Great solos, etc.
warriormonk1818 1 year ago
Excellent note 1000
powerr8511 1 year ago
Nice belt, Keith!
reichmarshall 1 year ago
who is this asshole?
13Azad 1 year ago
@13Azad
It's Keith Emerson. He's, arguably, they best keyboard player alive.
nickmorgan19457 1 year ago
@nickmorgan19457 i shoundn't say it but he is somehow better than wakeman and even possibly better than vangelis maybe? YES!
THEPOCONOJOECHANNEL 1 year ago
@nickmorgan19457
Hmmm! Where've YOU been looking?
Peterson, Tatum, Morton, Powell, Earle Heinz, Nat Cole, Teddy Wilson, .... Not in any particular order. Regiments of British guys, as well. I could go on but there ain't enough words available in this comment box and I don't think I'll live long enough anyway!
I should renew your search if I were you. If you want the real answer, stop looking where you're looking now!
g3nby 1 year ago
@g3nby
I said keyboard player. Not piano player and not organist.
And I've been looking in Keyboard Magazine where Emerson won the award for keyboard player of the year so many times that they retired his name to give other people a chance.
nickmorgan19457 1 year ago 2
He definitely played a section of Tocatta and Fugue in D min backwards on a Yamaha Electone in the 1988 Atlantic Records concert. There's a partial video up called 'Keith Emerson and Carl palmer - Rondo Live@NYC' that does not include the section that I remember clearly watching.
scottfbradley 1 year ago
Does anyone know if they still make Hammonds anymore? God i was born in the wrong generation!
1994AlmostSkater 1 year ago 3
@1994AlmostSkater actually they do, Hammond-Suzuki, but nowadays you can buy a Hammond clone which is indistinguishable from a real Hammond which only weighs 35 lbs. It is made by Clavia/Nord. One keyboard is the Nord Electro 3. Check it out~!
VladtheEmailer 1 year ago
Hammond do make new, digital versions. They aren't that bad either - digital isn't necessarily a dirty word. In fact there aren't many true analog organs about, because they were mechanical and difficult to maintain. Check out the Nord Electro, Roland VK-7, 8, and 9, KORG CX-3 and BX-3, and of course the Hammond XK-1, 2, & 3
XTradeB 1 year ago
I would like to see Emerson on stage with Wakeman doing a yes elp mixed rock off! speakers would melt! YEAH
THEPOCONOJOECHANNEL 1 year ago
Keith is god. Wish he didn't have the problems in his hands. Hey, i've got tendonitis and I play drums! You work through the pain for what you love... OK so I'm drunk....
maxondrums 1 year ago
Kieth can blow Bach out of the water and play his shit backwords? YEAH! ELP ROCKS!
THEPOCONOJOECHANNEL 1 year ago
@drunksingsheep I got he book " Pictures of an ehibitionist" Biography of Keith Emerson. There is no point, that Emerson did study in Julian school of music. He claims, that he had private lessons by three different female teachers, who came to his parents home. When he formed "The Nice" he was long time ago professional musician.
Before he played with "Gary Farr and the T Bones". A professional band. Then he played with the "VIPS" later Spooky Tooth. and toured through europe.
progmeck1 1 year ago
crazy
Manuel333it 1 year ago 2
I'm the biggest Keith Emerson fan there is; I think the guy is the greatest keyboardist Rock's ever seen. However, I need to clear up the error that he's playing Bach Backward: from 1:11 to 1:38-ish he IS playing J.S. Bach (specifically, an excerpt from the famous harpsichord solo from the 1st movement of Bach's Brandenburg Concerto #5 in D) but he's doing so facing forward (normally) to the keyboard. What he's playing "backwards" is fun and interesting, but it's NOT Bach, just improvisation.
Friendulum 2 years ago 36
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thegrandoz 1 year ago
@Friendulum , Hey thanks for that great info.....Keith is AMAAAAAAZING!!!
Mreloka1 1 year ago 3
I'm actually going to see Keith Emerson and Greg Lake performing here in Los Angeles this coming April 25 (it's a sort of "unplugged"-type format, just the two of them) at L.A.'s Orpheum theatre. I'm hoping that they'll perform some older "Keith & Greg" favorites like "Take a Pebble" amongst other less-played originals.
Carl Palmer will again be performing with them later this July 25, at the "High Voltage Festival", UK's new flagship classic rock event in Victoria Park, London.
Friendulum 1 year ago 8
@Friendulum Saw Keith and Greg last night (4/22) in Phoenix, got to watch with Chris Squire from Yes, who agreed that Keith and Greg still have it. Great show, neat stage ideas, and freaking amazing solos! They did play Pebble, plus some Bartok, all the faves, even a couple of Nice and King Crimson tunes
warriormonk1818 1 year ago
@Friendulum Hey, I was there!! Man, when I saw the smoke blowing over that medieval looking backdrop I just knew they were gonna rock.
smartlamppost 4 months ago
@Friendulum You`ve got a brother here, saw him with ELP on four occasions, once at Soldier Field with the 63 piece orchestra in front of 60+ thousand people. Never disappointed, always looking to entertain and put the percussion in a percussion instrument that is so seldom played that way...
pilesovinyl 1 year ago
@Friendulum He's great to see in concert! I saw him seven months ago and I'm only 13! It's nice that these guys are still around so I can see them after I've discovered them. :D
GuitarMasterizer 1 year ago
@GuitarMasterizer You obviously possess a very discerning musical mind, G.Mast., and I envy that your discovery of ELP is still a recent and ongoing development. Besides Emerson's incorporation and reworking (or rocking--rawking?) of the music of Bach, Bartok, Copland, Mussorgsky, etc. into his own blues-based and 20th-century musical stylings, Emerson's 'long-form' compositions provide an endless landscape for stimulating, often surprising musical journeys.
Friendulum 1 year ago
@GuitarMasterizer I was around 11 when I first began to absorb ELP and it became a very influential cornerstone for my musical development, and one which has proven quite versatile and applicable, in particular for the music I've composed for film and TV (i.e., "Batman: The Animated Series" and others). That kind of polytonality and rythmic drive are nicely predisposed to the kind of music that underscores 'action/adventure' cues in such cinematic or animated genres.
Friendulum 1 year ago
@Friendulum By the way, I enjoyed watching some of your musical performance videos on here, and you are indeed a solid rhythm guitarist and a true musician with the potential to make music a long-term vocation if you decide to commit to it (although I always try to dissuade young people from pursuing it as a "living"--unless they canNOT be dissuaded, in which case their passion will win out and guide them). All my best wishes to you and for your continued musical evolution(s)!
Friendulum 1 year ago
@Friendulum Hmmmmm, I might just argue who the biggest Emo fan is. In more recent years, Keith plays Bach's toccata in D minor when he plays upside down. As you mentioned though, not in this clip.
mrgears 1 year ago
@Friendulum Hmmmm... Pedantic but true - Keith was and still is the Number 1 keyboard showman - everyone else is second best - Rick Wakeman tried but eh....not quite! Emerson=Hendrix=Moon=Pastorius=Moore=Plant - now THAT is a fucking BAND
billyconnearly 1 year ago 3
Indeed, as you're probably quite aware, E, L. and P. were in discussions with Hendrix about teaming up with him before Jimi's untimely death: "H.E.L.P.!" In 2003, I visited George F. "The Messiah" Handel's house while visiting London (they have an historical plaque out on the façade of the building attesting to its famous former resident). On the building right next to it, there is a similar plaque, which announces that IT was the final residence and place of death of Jimi Hendrix! Small world?
Friendulum 1 year ago
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EyMeng 1 year ago
Keith was, at the time, the most naturally musical talent in a generation of keyboard stars including Lord, Wakeman, et al but he had what Mr Cowell would doubtless refer to as the "X-Factor"!! lol he was up for being a bit of a showman as well as a serious muso - after all "serious musos" play to other "serious musos" - Keith played to the audience - whoever they were! THAT is the difference between Artiste and FUCKIN' STAR!!!!!
billyconnearly 2 years ago
Keith is the best Rock Keyboardist there ever was. You are witnessing the manic phase of a creative genius right now. He is an unstoppable force. I love Genesis too much to compare him to Tony Banks, however Keith without question is superior to: Jon Lord, Rick Wakeman, Patrick Moraz, Francis Monkman. Even the highly virtuous Eddie Jobson cannot compare to Keith Emerson. He is absolutely bad-ass! Dropped-out of Julliard School of Music 1 semester before graduating with honors to form The Nice.
drunksingsheep 2 years ago
If you play Bach backwards are you decomposing?
lilscorsese 2 years ago 93
Hahahaha well put my friend.
leonardthecow 2 years ago
@lilscorsese No you're just playing bachwards.
tedharbot 2 years ago 6
Roll over Beetoven? No recomposing!
THEPOCONOJOECHANNEL 1 year ago
@lilscorsese bahahahahah
inflateablesoulmate 1 year ago
@lilscorsese I think the song is just dearranged? I prefer Keith play it forward.
alteal 1 year ago
@lilscorsese Bach certainly is.
cranie4 1 year ago
@lilscorsese HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH!!!!!!!!!!!! Very Funny!!!
eddiemperor 1 year ago
My high school opinion: superior to football and politics. Opinion at age 53:same.
ProgRok 2 years ago 7
He and Jon Lord are real gods of Hammond Organs
Tomash3c 2 years ago 3
naah, that title belongs to Jimmy Smith.
bkisme 2 years ago 2
good god all these years listening to him an dI never figured that it was the #5 Brandenburg backwards
eahazell 2 years ago
Man the bass should've stopped or something while Keith was playing that part from concerto 5... Totally doesn't fit the modality of that part.
wolffrankenstein 2 years ago
i grew up listening to my mom & her dad both playing piano and organ ( so from then, to this day of course i luv classical music) but keith emerson kicks ass!
MST3Kfanatic 2 years ago 7
This remindes me the Space Truckin live in Japan.
gytxduy 2 years ago 4
shit, I was totally thinking it sounded like Space Truckin too
afrodrew 2 years ago
"Keith Emerson is the business." (Teo Olivares) ... with which I wholeheartedly agree.
Messjuh1 2 years ago
Brandenburg Concerto nº5 *-*
gesseroure 2 years ago
RONDO
joakorush2112 2 years ago
The extreme pitch bending is a function of the self-starting motor in the L-100 series organs...he power-cycled the organ to get those bends out of it. You can make them go all over the place, not very controllable, but delightfully chaotic as seen here. I have an L-100 in the stable...they're a blast to play.
TheB3Nut 2 years ago
I have The m100 series with the same features! and the reverb crashes like an thunder storm! driven through a stack it sounds amazing !
jeffrow1960 2 years ago
M100s have decent vibrato, that's the one main difference.
mooghammondb3 2 years ago
I love the reverb tank crashes. And that pitch bend stuff he's doing...that would be in this case actually varying the line voltage to the organ right? I always assumed on Genesis "Stagnation" (from Trespass) that the pitch bends in Tony Banks' solo were done w/tape varispeed - but this makes me wonder if Tony had a similar setup on his L122? That's not a standard feature is it? I never played an L series...
mootbooxle 2 years ago
what Bach song was he playing backwards?
JimmyPageZoSo56 2 years ago
one of his cantata & prelude on organ solo
ondineclaudel 2 years ago
the fifth Brandeburg Concert's cadenza :)
sousukesagaraJKD 2 years ago
He does not play the cadenza backwards ! And, anyway, he just plays a little part ; quickly, but a little part. Nevertheless, he's still Keith Emerson. "Picture at an exhibition" was one of my teenage's favorite record.
taf44tt8io 2 years ago
I didn't mean he was playing backwards! :)
I misunderstood JimmyPage's question.
Picture at anexhibition is one of my favourite records too!
sousukesagaraJKD 2 years ago
i remember too ..KE was so tall and his hammond or synth looked so huge and clumsy...and what sound !!!! This Pict..was ..thnx Taf for reminding me
ondineclaudel 2 years ago
uno dei miei gruppi preferiti... il progressive è troppo bello ;)
mynameisjonk46 2 years ago
wow
funds450 2 years ago
This dude did with his Hammond,
what Hendrix did with his guitar.
Almost just as good.
PAULLONDEN 2 years ago
Henrix once offered Emerson to join his band
jesper79 2 years ago
Yeah, ELP was onced going to be called "HELP".
floydclaptonblues 2 years ago 2
Man, what could've been.
khyropia 2 years ago
I just love the absurdity of what he is doing. That is what makes this video.
mjmcnult 2 years ago 2
saw them do this ;)
troofilth01 2 years ago 2
the most rock and roll thing ever.
kamuy347 2 years ago
ha!My dad had an organ similar to this!!Its from the Hammond "L" SERIES ,,100..102.Keith was probably the reason I chose to be a musician!
law245 2 years ago
aha! Thought that looked like an L100.
mootbooxle 2 years ago
bob - Dude, it's a Hammond. So long as you oil it once a year and play it nicely (his was specially modified so it would think abuse like this IS playing nice) you can wait until a century after hell freezes over for something to go wrong. I have a similar model that's taken just as much abuse from kids in a church basement, and all I have to do is oil it and fix a tone wheel and the pedals. Other than that, it's a real cherry.
tehm0dul4r 2 years ago