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  • Baba Yaga is russian folk.

  • for all the people, who think that Baba Yaga is romanian folk character. THAT'S NOT TRUE!!!SHE IS A BAD WITCH IN RUSSIAN FOLK-TALES!!!i know that for sure, coz i'm her granddauter(joke)

  • this music ic awesome! eternal favorite! Keith Emerson is my second fav keyboard-player(first is Jon Lord).

  • Simply genius

  • if you play drums and not influenced or heard enough ELP,your collection in a state of arrested development..C.Palmer one of most influential drummers all time, and one of first to play drums melodically to classical pieces,or just play out of the pocket,melodically in general...

  • I am Romanian too (place of birth). What has Romania to do with ELP? Actually, what does any nationality have to do with great music . . . great creation, in general?

  • Indeed, the good thing about this movie is that it is old, and before there was digital media.

    This film was thrown into the cinema, movies were more frequent forums and small theaters, such as universities, in Spain I knew that Raphael was the most modern!

  • Just wondering why do people watching trippy movies when they are tripping? Then it is a double-trip!

  • I hate the comics. It's nothing related to the music. It's a song about a Slavic folk tale. And it's progressive rock, nothing psychedelic.

  • i dislike what marvel did heree.

  • Tell yoou what about that comic layover: I was 16 when I went to an off-off movie theatre in Vienna where they showed this as a movie, and it was 1974 and I was as blown away by this as I was by Pink Floyd in Pompeii. That was effing state of the art in pre digital times, man, as cheesy as it may look today - we tripped out on it and effing lovd it. Thanks for the memory of my teenage days, sandyroad!

  • @derlynn I saw the same movie at about that time. It was called "Rock and Roll your eyes" Because I was straight, I hated the effects then, and I hate the effects now. The real band, and their abilities are all I needed.

  • stop twiddling those knobs!

  • portishead

  • I cannot see the relevance of the American comic book overlays. Baba Yaga is a Russian folk tale and ELP are a British band.

  • its great to know that is a music to Baba Yaga

  • as the rock is pretty good. It's avangardrock.

  • what's with the comic books? that ain't acid.

  • Vasilisa. Check out the story

  • the best music,you can hear in this time,it´s science fiction very early and absolutly up to date

  • Curse the idiot who ruined ELP's gorgeous live performance with this comical? overlay.

  • @noducs

    Drugs....... like acid

  • a mostriiiii

  • I believe this is from a film called "Rock & Roll Your Eyes" for which I still have my original handbill. I saw it in a theatre back when it first came out around 1971-1973. I remember being puzzeled as Emerson was reading sheet music on his keyboard, but probably just a guide of some sort. Myself, I loved the pop art effects and have been looking for this film for sometime (which I think was later retittled).

  • I believe you're right about this being from the "Rock & Roll Your Eyes" movie. I remember this flick as well...It was the first time I saw ELP before seeing them live many times over during the '70s. This was pre-TARKUS and Emerson does a quick tease of a few riffs of TARKUS during his piano spot.

  • Found this by looking up "BA BA BA BITCHES" :P

  • Don't worry about the visuals.........the sound is why I decided

    to be a musician in the first place.

  • If I could, I would ring the neck of the flipped out moron that superiposed that crap over the performance.

  • Looks better on acid...

  • What kind of bloody moron put in the comic stuff?

  • Perchè quelle maledette figure!!!??!!! Perchè?!?!

  • wich songs of elp are starting with drums ?? I m looking for just one song ...

  • @blackbloodx0 Try 'The sheriff' from album 'Trilogy', starts with kickass drum solo, although apparently not how palmer intended, theres a pause where you quietly here (Shit!) in the middle

  • @booyakaburger HEAR not here(dammit)

  • psychedelic!! i love it!

  • I remember seeing the film in the theater, and I had to close my eyes during the comic book stuff. It was awful and ruined what would have been a fantastic film otherwise. However, I heard that they're going to release the raw footage without the comic stuff soon. Can't wait!

  • @dlsharples Oh god, I hope so. It feels like they're the only thing marring an otherwise exceptional performance.

  • i love this band! elp rulez!

  • Fucking cartoons...

  • I love it how this is a mix from the second part of "Baba Yaga" and original composition.

  • stop that stupid conflict! just be proud of your own country, and thats it. this elp song is not about being romanian or not, its dedicated to all people with good music taste, whether they are from romania or else. (romania's a nice country, by the way). think about it.

  • ok but too much for my eyes. this is what puts people in a rubber room.lol

  • I was at my friend's house when we were teenagers and we were listening to this CD. This particular song came on and I started playing air drums which eventually led to me beating on the couch. I kept it up and I was going really nutso trying to keep up with Carl Palmer and then I looked up and saw that my other 4 friends were doing the same thing ! The couch cushions were all over the floor and we were exhausted. Carl is like an Olympic athelete.

  • Mussorgsky FTW!!

  • Baba Yaga means in Romanian language Baba Cloanta, an old female witch who curse mankind and especialy children, I'm very proud cause Elp digged in Balcan Region for old habbits

  • Its not their song :D google Modest Mussorgsky

  • Does anyone know the lyrics to this? I can make out most, but not all of it, and there is nothing available on the Internet!

  • Doubles faces dark defense

    Talk too loud but talk no sense

    Yeah I see those smiling eyes

    Butter us up with smiling lies

    Talk to creatures raise the dead

    Feeding those who are fed

    Drained the blood from hearts of stone

    Whores and hustlers picked the bone

  • Keith was / is a monster.........

  • hermoso

  • love at first listen! :D

    'pictures at an exibition' is a masterpiece!

  • ELP geniously transformed original "Pictures from Exhibition" written by Musorgsky, nothing to do with Romanian folklore... and Baba Yaga came to Europe (Romania, Russia etc fairy tales) from Mongolia 1000 years ago :-) ... otherwise this is one of my favorite albums since I've been a school student 35 years ago!!!

  • LSD guys LSD!!!

  • that comic layover is one of the highest crimes in rock cinematography. Someone needs to develop a technology that can digitally lift shit off like that.

  • i know i used to cry everytime i watched this all i wanted to see was carl ripping through his drum part on this not see all that comic shit..

  • @ELP71 Don't forget the acid. THAT was the draw.

  • @ELP71 It doesn't look like there's anything left of the real footage in a lot of places, so even the hypothetical anti-comic-book technology wouldn't help. Yah, I really wanted to watch Electro and Daredevil slug it out while one of the greatest concerts ever goes unseen. What were they thinking?

  • @ELP71 <AGREED!!

  • I feel pretty sure, serious musicians as these boys were(are), they would have objected if they had known what it was going to turn out like. At that time, these guys were at the top of the food chain, and so if they said no, it would have gone away. They probably didn't know about the treatment until they saw it and were rightly royally pissed at the film. Hope they get it remastered sometime soon. All that can be removed. Anything is possible with digitech if you gots the buks.

  • I wouldn't mind SO much if the cartoons had some relevance to the piece....but they don't..

  • But i have to say even though there are parts like this I'm glad they made this film They were my heroes at the time.Imagine greg lake was 18 or 19 when he did court of the crimson king,and early 20's here.

  • não entendi!!!!!!

  • I always hated the cartoons. I get the impression that the filming went bad at points and they had to cover it up with something. It makes no sense that someone would just bastardize a stellar performance?

  • I saw this in the cinema at the time.They were trying to appeal to the acid crowd.I'll make up my own hallucinations thanks.I always prefered just watching the performance. being a musician it pissed me off that they did this,just show me the band enough artsy crap!They should go back to the original film stock ,remaster it without the nonsense.

  • nobody gives a crap about the damn cartoons....thats wat ruined the video is those stupid cartoons.....the videos would b awesome with out the cartoons

  • This shit rules!

    Reminds me a bit of George Harrison's "Electronic Sound" LP.

  • sooo unbelievably stupid to F this film up w/ cartoons!!!! still pisses me off all these yrs later

  • estas son las canciones buenas de E.L.P

  • This is awesome and trippy!

  • I so miss analog

  • Amazing! Can't find words for this! Fantastic is just not enough...

  • Wow Emerson's modular is still in the baby stages in this video. Amazing Performance

  • se ve que a EL&P le gustaba marvel! jajajajaja

  • the dip shit with the comic omage was a dumb ass that is probably dead by now. 38 yrs old! concert

  • no it is an another early concert after Isle of Wight

  • is this from their isle of wight festival performance?

  • no, lyceum

    you can find it on the "pictures at an exhibition" CD (not the vinyl)

    in my opinion its much much better than the other performance

  • il miglior gruppo progressive della storia...

  • argh, stupid psychedelic editing. I was actually trying to see what keith was doing with that crazy patch at the beginning.

  • i know, right? what idiot put all those dumb comic book pictures in there and other photos completely unrelated to anything? i wish i could find this video without all that o well

  • Dude...awesome user name!

  • thanx

  • i guess it's impossible to find it without this

  • i'm looking for the bassline's tabs of this song but i can't find it...

  • its funny when i hear kids sayin these rock drummers are soooo good!!..THEY NEVER SEEN PALMER PLAY!!!

  • Why do guys think they can improve ELP with pyschedelic images?

  • Whatever works to attract the 'new generation'... LOL. 35 years ago music it'self was enough. Not anymore... Good job, sandyroad.

    Long live prog rock!

  • Because the drugs haven't arrived dude..

  • I may be overly sensitive to this. I remember the hack job ABC did 'improving" ELP's performance at the California Jam with trick photography speed ups etc. Somehow they didn't do that to Black Oak Arkansas...

  • The imagery was not added recently, it was done at the time the film was made and can't be undone. Unfortunately, this sort of thing was popular back in the day. It was supposed to be psychedelic.

  • For the same reason that people today listen to crap! They ruined all this footage with that bullshit! :-(

  • esta bien chingon!! xD

  • i'm pisses, youtube took all non-live ELP videos off...copywright or something...great video too :-)

  • i want this dvd soo bad

  • I recognize this this.... It's a clip from an ELP movie made around 1974 or 1975 called "Rock and Roll Your Eyes" Keith was (and is) a wizard with the Hammond C3 and Moog synthesizers. We'll never see the like again

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  • Nothing like making your own patches before the song...

    Hey sandy, what's with all the cartoon shit?

  • All I can say is ... O___O Wow...

  • haha love this, listened into this on the school ^^

  • listen to that jazz bass!!!! and hammond wow if there is an ELP reunion i will shout this song from the beginning till the end of the show, im sure they will play alot of pictures tho

  • The text of this song ! I have this album live !

  • I wish I was high right now, then I'd love this.

  • No, actually, this is titled "The Curse of..."

  • la mierda del comics viene con el video??qué desastre no deja ver lo importante, cómo tocan

  • Now...if only we could get the lyrics to this.

    To date, we have not seen the lyrics to the "The Curse of Baba Yaga". Here is what I gathered from others, over the years:

    Terrible faces try defense, talk to all but talk no sense,___ ___ the smiling lies, cut us up with smiling knives!

    ___ ___ ___ to raise the dead, feeding those who are fed, drain the blood from hearts of stone, whores and hustlers pick the bones"

  • Doubles faces dark defense

    Talk too loud but talk no sense

    Yeah I see those smiling eyes

    Butter us up with smiling lies

    Talk to creatures raise the dead

    Feeding those who are fed

    Drained the blood from hearts of stone

    Whores and hustlers picked the bone

  • Baba Yaga is a russian witch,there were some russian cartoons in which she fights against misha(the olympic mascot of OG moscow 80)

  • Baba Yaga is a russian witch,there were some russian cartoons in which she fights against misha(the olympic mascot of OG moscow 80)

  • Оригинальная трактовочка!

  • I think Mekong Deltas cover is better

  • aww, pictures at an exhibition. a very strange piece. Mussorgsky was one crazy dude. hell of a composer though

  • So if I can only listen to one ELP album in my life which one should it be?

  • ELP could have been considered underground in the day. I disagree about the acid rock moniker, they were more stoner music They blew me away then and still do now. I'm a bit more critical. Emerson rambles on keyboard more than he should ie. karn Evil 9, 2nd and 3rd, Lake wasn't much the lyricist. Tarkus is underrated. With Karn evil 9 1st, that's the definitive ELP and should have been enough to get them into Hall of Fame. There's nothing like those compositions and not likely to ever be.

  • ELP and prog-rock was mostly a male preserve. The females got their lite version of rock in the 80's, Def Leppard, Cinderella etc. It's like everything else now, the standards went down, excellence was deemed to be "self-indulgent". The Spinal Tap movie also made serious musicians out to be laughing stocks so that didn't help either.

  • "...ELP and prog-rock was mostly a male preserve"... this idea somehow makes me smilehe age - do you really think we were waiting till tso?

  • SORRY, mistake in the 1.attempt.

    @secordman:"ELP and prog-rock was mostly a male preserve." this idea somehow makes me smile - do you really think we were waiting till becoming twens to get to listen to some "lite version of rock in the 80's"? I well remember that by far I wasn't the only girl driving her poor parents absolutely crazy whilst spending "precious time" listening to the early genesis, to the nice, to yes, king crimson, elp, of course to pink floyd, to eloy and to saga,too, to jeth

  • ...to jethro tull as well as to nazareth and to so many others if not "prog" but rock bands like deep purple, grand funk railroad, iron butterfly, led zeppelin, grateful dead...let's stop it here, I could continue on and on...it's great memories of an incredibly creative time I grew up in and even if for my kids it's sort of "mum having her minutes" when returning home into concert-like "fanfare to the common man" sound volume, they do join us for saga & j.tull concerts. -followed by 3-

  • -3- And as there is no x-box in our place but very good speakers, they aren't as bad as some of you suspect. & there a still some others like ours out there,too, at least I got to meet some. so @GoodSirKnight and @tokaicarl: don't let it come to desperation. Of course they grow up in their time which obviously isn't dominated by quality but this we can't blame on nowadays kids...same with toys like xboxes- they're always given by parents to them. so let's -followed by 4-

  • Hm... I think you might have misunderstood him, he was not mentioning fans who listen to Rock music... he was talking about the musicians who play the actual music... there is a difference, and he is right, most of the prog bands were male dominated... nowadays, we have alot more females playing bass... guitar drums etc.

  • possibly I did, sorry if, being no native english speaker of course I can't exclude misunderstandings...secordman didn't tell me so in his reply on my reaction. as neither Def Leppard nor Cinderella were or are joined by female musicians(as far as I know) I understood secordman talking about "the females got their lite version of rock in the 80's, Def Lep...,Cinder...etc" as referring to the females as audience, not as players. anyway, if it makes a difference to you we might as well ask him.

  • -2- in any case we probably agree on the subject of talking about unrivaled great music... written and played by most creative male musicians, no dispute. and I very much appreciate the opportunities of nowadays media such as youtube...for we could only listen to but not watch our well beloved bands...apart from concerts. (but maybe we've been lucky then insofar as we were forced to concentrate on our sense of listening? being constantly

  • -3-

    being constantly overwhelmed by visual impressions whilst listening obviously doesn't form demanding habits of listening...)

  • Yes, I am definatly not arguing that standards of today have pathetically fallen to an all time low in music... There are some bands with qaulity today, but its rare to find them and when you do, they have been shunned by radio stations and popular culture. Pretty sad isnt it?

  • that's how it always worked. even thirty years ago it was only some stations at some times that played some of the songs (i.e. the most commercial ones which then became popular), the others you had to get somehow.

    and doesn't REAL music always start with small gigs? I guess, every movement bears a seed of it's backlash in it, therefore might better times be coming up...at least hopefully. meanwhile I enjoy small events where real music takes place, I take the kids with me to give them -2-

  • an idea about the real thing beneath the well promoted pop circus.

  • -4-

    So let's take them - whereever possible -to "our" concerts, to classical concerts & let's listen to their music from time to time,too, cause they can't share our memories.

  • Sorry to generalize, nice to see you mention Saga. :)

  • you don't have to apologize, that's alright. About Saga - I just love them. Saw them in december 07, one of the last concerts before Michael Sadler left the band. their life shows with small audiences -1000 fans or so- are (better have to say were) incredibly sweeping. I'm sort of torn between my regret about MS having left them -though I perfectly understand and respect his point! - and my curiosity about the ongoing of the band now that they found his successor. Any news about this in Canada?

  • You know, I didn't know that Saga had gotten back together. They were very big in Europe and Japan, not so much in the U.S. (and just another band in Canada).

  • except for Puerto Rico, where they have many fans and where they gave their very last concert together with Michael Sadler. I heard the new singer 'd be from Toronto...we're pretty curious to get to listen to the new voice...

    (my kids would have voted for Tarja Turunen, ex-Nightwish singer but I've no idea whether she ever was talked about by Saga)

  • Yes they were unbelievable musicians without peers today. I challenge any young music listener of today to NOT enjoy Tarkus, Trilogy or Brain Salad Surgery. Trouble is though...the low attention span of the youth today means they would probably stick the X-Box on after 5 minutes...

  • your wrong there i'm afraid- they would stick the x-box on after 1 min--------- seriously can you imagine the young hip hop/rap/r'n'b type thickos listening to anything remotely intelligent like this?

  • Well I'm 16, and I absolutly adore ELP, I own Trilogy and Brain Sald Surgery and can easily listen to the whole of the 'Karn Evil 9' suite in one sitting. Heck if I was all alone in one room with no one around to distract me, I could listen to every song on 'Tales from Topographic Oceans' by Yes in one sitting.

  • I'm 14 and i can say exactly the same! :)

  • I challenge anybody to find an artist today that cites ELP as an influence. Music now is not good in my opinion. Is it common for people my age (31) to like the older stuff? Opinions please

  • @Wrigglemeister

    like d2843 said "Dream Theater"

  • Amazing hammond organ work from emerson. !!!!!!

  • Sincerely I think that when someone try to compare bands that are totally different such as Led Zeppelin and ELP makes a big mistake. They just were great bands and that's all. Bands like Pink Floyd, Genesis, King Crimson, Queen, Yes and so on made the history of rock and unfortunately we have nothing similar today. Maybe because at that time they could experiment, while today the music business wants only "squeeze" more money possible from the artists.

    P.S. Sorry for my English

  • You are so right.

  • People stopped asking for greatness, so the music industry stopped selling it. They found little kids around 12 years old to be a bigger market than the college students so they sell music to little kids.

  • this explains todays shitty music

    watch?v=Lv2qLOiioPc

  • love that jazz bass sound..

  • re the cartoons, pro or con, you're both correct. sign of the times, and a distraction.

    the other fact was most of the fans, (and also producers of these videos no doubt), were on acid, so that set it their priority rather than ELP . there is always that eternal conflict: the musicians vs the video producers. most of the times, as you see here,

    the vid guys win out because they are in charge, not the musicians.

    nice to see ELP on stage though.

    personally, at those shows, i hated the cartoons.

  • if you are inferring that i was on acid you are probably correct...i don't remember so good..timothy leary's dead

  • ELP could play rings around any rock band, before, during, and after its time. No doubt about it.

  • zeppelin, anyone?

  • Sorry, but I am including Led Zeppelin in that

    comment. As talented as Jimmy Page and Jon

    Bonham were, they were no match for Emerson and Palmer.

  • haha love this, listened into this on the school ^^

  • I really loved ELP's music as a teenager. I still love it, but now I can really appreciate how they were trying to "push the envelope." They certainly weren't imitators. They really were "creating". Well done.

  • Mighty bass chords - Greg Lake, a true innovator!

  • i love those comic books

  • I also didn't think PAAE had any lyrics. I thought the whole album was instrumental, because it's a re-arrangement of a classical work.

  • What year was this filmed.

  • 1970 ( they were 17 years old or so!)

  • They were in their mid-twenties in the 70's! Keith is now 64, Greg is 60, and Carl around 58!!

  • I'd rather watch ELP than some idiotic set of cartoons... :/

  • Dear Asshole!

    I think I'd rather watch them than cartoons. I don't care what they thought.

    IMHO you should be exterminated.

    CHRIS

  • No, YOU don't get it. Members of ELP don't appreciate the visualizations. Greg Lake has stated in interviews that he finds it annoying, but unfortunately was a sign of the times. Believe me, ELP wanted to be seen - they were justifiably proud of their talent.

  • I agree, but that was part of the artistic vision in those days. So many things in the 70's were horrible to watch, usually because the cameramen and their producers insisted on filming at stupid angles, using kaleidoscope effects, cheesy blue screen stuff, zooming in and out repetitively.... brutal haha! Just take it as a symbol of the times. Great song by the way! Pictures is my fave ELP album... no wait Trilogy... no- BSS... no....

  • I was responding to gietek's note about the cartoons here, cheers.

  • este pictures es el mejo rde todos por eso o siempre comproorignales