@metallights I still have my old magnetic tapes (already 40 years old, mono sound) where this version of ELP's "Pictures.." is "fully represented" - I was instantly amazeded then . Now from time to time I like to "cover" this for enjoy. Its such a great arrangement.
@Mikexception ... and I still have the vinyl :-) But watching these guys on Youtube is damnly exciting! "Forever young", as it has to be! :-) Thanks a lot whoever uploaded it! <3
elp.......one of the greatest bands of all time. progressive rock will never die!! they shul get back together instead of greg lake doing an asia reunion.
Nel riprendere il tema principale vanno fuori tempo. Ma Palmer è un batterista talmente preciso che nonostante tutto fa rientrare Keith letteralmente provato e sopratutto Greg che è al canto, nella giusta cadenza ritmica. Professionisti che oggi sono rari a vedersi e sentirsi. Che tempi, questa era vera musica fatta col cuore.
@alexoalez . Sorry Alex, i disagree with you. I like this video very much and now I know Mussorgsky a little bit better too... he might have loved this.
@alexoalez wtf were you thinking when you didn't realize a million rock fans wouldn't even know who mussorgsky was unless ground breaking groups like ELP showed it to them
Mi pare che Greg sia fuori tempo nel momento in cui "rientra" col canto, forse ingannato dalle "cacofonie" emersoniane. Beh, sottigliezze, anche i grandi possono concedersi una sbavatura. All'epoca questi signori erano considerati mostri sacri del progeressive. Forse Yes erano più umani di loro, ma ELP erano più popolari.A mio modesto parere.
Gli Yes... piu' "umani"...?! Questo lo disputo senza margini, perche', anche mettere intramezzo le tecniche fenomenali di Keith Emerson, ELP ai vertici tramite il 1970-73, erano MOLTO piu' capaci di emozioni "veri" tramite il loro sound progressivo. Visti a Bologna nel '72, erano uno dei migliori complessi di quel epoca... e ho visto anche Van DerGraaf Generator ed i primi Genesis! Tutta quel' epoca era fenomenale, nel senso musicale...
I'm almost 60, and despite Emerson's aluminum foil suit and Lake's flower shirt, listening to this I'm 18 and hot again. Nice to remember when musicians had no digital bugs in their mikes to help them stay on key and you had to rely on your abs instead of electronic doohingers to get the reverb out of those organs. Helps, of course, to have Mussorgsky as a collaborator.
how can i find the track, when the organs playing alone and going faster until they seems to explode? i 've heard it years ago on a tape from my father and im searching for this song until then.... who can help? it was from an ELP concert....
@schraubermicha - the studio version is Karn Evil #9 part 3 from the record "Brain Salad Surgery", but you are probably remembering the album "Welcome Back My Friends" which is a live recording of ELP from that tour. cheers!
I saw ELP in 1974 in a 5000 seat arena in Dayton Ohio.... Brain Salad Surgery tour. Although the stimulant may have enhanced the show, Its still one of the best if not the best I've ever seen. I've seen a lot. One of the 1st visual shows in that era and in true fantastic quadrophonic. Mind control. They were one of the biggest bands in the world back then. They headlined California Jam later that year. Strange I saw them in 93.. very sparse crowd, no frills. They played just as hard.. Salute!!
I saw ELP and Yes together at the Eastowne in Detroit. Keith just blew Wakeman away, took his moog into the audience and machine-gunned us all. After that show, my appreciation for Yes dropped considerably, while my love for ELP only continued to grow up to their ill-fated quadrophonic tour, which almost bankrupted them!
@gokdude Big congrats on your discovery of ELP.....one of the greatest, most inimitable rock bands in histroy! 'Pictures...' is just a mere tip of the proverbial Iceberg with scores of other amazing tunes under Keith, Greg, and Carl's belts (with 'Trilogy', 'Tarkus', and 'Works Vol I' being my most fav albums.
@gokdude Big congrats on your discovery of ELP.....one of the greatest, most inimitable live rock bands in history! 'Pictures...' is just a mere tip of the proverbial Iceberg with scores of other amazing tunes under Keith, Greg, and Carl's belts (with 'Trilogy', 'Tarkus', and 'Works Vol I' being my most fav albums).
@gokdude , have you bought any of their cds? They are one of the best groups ever. In fact, they were a supergroup. And Greg Lake has one of the best voices ever.
Outrageous!! Emerson's sounds have aged well - this sounds very modern still. Making a MOOG sing was not an easy task. Look at those patches!! I think they did the piece justice - It was really all about Keith however and ELP were 3 equal parts at their best.
the color, the control, the expressive dynamics (forte to piano) and the sheer range of that voice ... well, it seems as though no other voice could do justice to this and other ELP compositions -- maybe Greg's vocalizations just rocked reaching up to the great occasion that is the music of ELP
I got to see ELP in 1971 at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. My first rock concert ever. I also got to see them again in 1974, 1982 and 1997. Buy the ELP: "Beyond The Beginning" 2-DVD package if you want to see the entire California Jam performance by ELP. Classic!
lake's voice is amazing. i jsut started listening to these dudes recently althought i have known about them since im like 3 years old. karn evil 9 was played in a video of the 1986 mets world series team that i used to watch religiously as a kid . i love this shit
I love them since over 35 years,maybee i privileged these days music,but this is so great! How beautiful if Greg sings the great gates of kiew( in my burning of a yearning) !
Hey, all you tiny dissing saddoes out there.I saw ELP loadsatimes back in the day!
Think of your best gig ever,double it,add 6,and then take away the number you first thought of and the answer is..........; ELP would still knock any band into a cocked hat.
Live with it and get over it!
WholeLottaLove from someone who was there, and knows what he's talking about.
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Soon you hippies will face your God. You must repent one step at a time. First, perpend: ELP sucks.
"Death is Life!"
Why did you have to take Modest Mussorgsky away from us?
I saw Keith Emerson's costume in New York recently. It had been issued to a cast member of "Technicolor Rainbow Dreams", a musical revue performed entirely by mentally disabled people.
@bugbear34b If you grow up with rock your whole life, getting used to classical is hard. You see all music as relative to the music you're most accustomed to, and if you can't see the relation, you might not bother listening any further to music you're not used to.
By performing this piece, ELP provided an anchor for people to start exploring classical music by connecting it to what they knew.
I'm a classical musician through and through, but I at least understand this.
@madlutist good man yersef. I'm no musician but have just about every transcription of Modests masterpiece in my collection. This is as as close as you can get to the drunken lunatic's genius and his sorrow for his lost "friend". Only Russians can play the piano versions properly.
What is oft overlooked is that Modest was a gunnery officer in Crimea and was probably PTSD whence he hit the Voddy.
Whilst a showman Emerson is highly skilled and an adept composer, great fun though!!!!!!!!!
@Kenentigern7 Wikipedia lists 120 transcriptions. I've only heard the Ravel, the Horowitz, and have a few other performances by various (good) pianists. As far as Ravel's, I have the Fritz Reiner recording and a few others. Reiner's is great.
Flawed masterpiece, which is what makes it so good for transcription, I think. The ELP is pretty good. Gets a little awkward at times, but that happens when you try to make rock out of classical, and at its high points it's really fantastic.
@madlutist Wikpedia says more than it's prayers!!! I've only two Piano versions. What about Tomita and you know the other Russian who did the Orchestration:-)))
Modest was what I love most, a flawed genius, Emerson is good but a showman all the same.
@bugbear34b Matthew 10, Matthew 16, Mark 8 and Luke 9 all say that whoever loses their life for the sake of Christ and the gospel will find it. In Galatians 2, St. Paul says "I have been crucified with Christ nevertheless I live..." Sure sounds like for the follower of the Christian God the bible clearly teaches that "Death is Life".
@Wiaszczurka You might be right. Maybe it was Keith who screwed up causing Carl to go out of time for a bit. Any which way they all did a nice job of getting back on track quickly.
Strange thing.... the public school in the area offered a music course...Electronic Music which was recording and synthesizers. They had a Moog Model 55 just like Emerson's.. We had the base model however. The minimoog and later on the polymoog. At that time ELP was one of the biggest bands inthe world. Isaw then in about 77 with the orchestra... Seemed to take away. Then in the early 90's they played to a sparse crowd in a large hall. They played like the place was packed. Pure class
One of the greatest shows I ever saw. 1974 I believe...July or Aug. Dayton Ohio. Hara Arena in Quadraphonic. Right after Brain Salad Surgery was released.
That was the era of Psychedelics.... And the one of the 1st video screens that played continuously choreographed exactly to the arrangements. Lakes voice could melt you..
that's why live shows are great, you get to listen to mistakes being made and no one gives a fuck since it doesn't have to be perfect. For all we know, he might've just done it on purpose
@alexvitez .... You have no idea what your talking about... Who are you pal.. Mozart or Syd Barrett. Thats one of the greatest 3 piece bands ever. It was a choreographed theatrical show my friend. Maybe you should have saw rather than merely heard. Possibly talked less and listened more. The equipment inthat era was also a shade of todays
This is a cool arrangement of the peice, but the piece is meant for the raw power of the orchestra. Even the original piano version by Mussorgsky sounds like it should be more grand. I'm not used to hearing the melody with lyrics also. I still have to say that after playing this with the Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra, this is a fantastic piece of music, with so many versions of it.
Dukabor is right @ 4:50 Carl thinking something isn't doesn't sound right. And he's right, it's him so he takes a pause then resyncs to Greg. It's good to see that even the gods make mistakes.
heh...funny part of this video is when Keith is done torturing his organ (no pun intended)...you can hear him count off 1..2..3...4...and totally confuses Palmer...he looks at Lake to get the rythym....funny....
great video. Great song. Great performance. Reminds me of Jack London's line "there is an exstacy that marks the summit of life and beyond which life cannot rise."
Awesome!!!! Such an exuberant, exultant combination of raw sexuality, youthful vitality, animal magnetism, sublime creativity and splendidly adapted musical genius...... superlatives aside, ELP was the Quintesence of "One of a Kind" - in the best possible sense!!!
Another classic by this all time classic prog band. All three are masters of the music they play and I hope they live on long after they go to the gr8 studio in sky. Thanks ELP for making such timeless music.
when I first bought this album...I have to confess I didn't get it...then I listened to Mussorgky (sp?)'s "picture at an exhibion" and knew it was genius by ELP...thanks for turning me on to a great classical composer....
saw them in 1972 school was out along with many others that summer including Alice cooper i was never the same since...........and black sabbath.......etc what a summer that was!.
awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love you guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
qwerty13731 2 weeks ago
MUSSORGSKY SALTA DE PLACER DONDE QUIERA QUE ESTE!!!
CEBIEDER 1 month ago 2
valeu, Brenão!!
articwave 2 months ago
happy b-day master Emerson!
Mrpvilchesl 3 months ago
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Mrpvilchesl 3 months ago
This is Greg Lake...
Ufipman 3 months ago 2
ELP are far better then Yes !
Pinkyfl0yd 3 months ago
What the hell at 3:53 to 4:37
163388416 3 months ago
@163388416 Well, it looks like fine tuning :). Anyway its timeless and I hope people can listen and enjoy it after many years since even now.
Mikexception 2 months ago
Its timeless, I hope people can listen and enjoy it after many years since even now.
Mikexception 2 months ago
@Mikexception I've listened to this album when I was 12 y.o., now I'm 48... Still orgasmic! :-)
metallights 1 month ago
@metallights I still have my old magnetic tapes (already 40 years old, mono sound) where this version of ELP's "Pictures.." is "fully represented" - I was instantly amazeded then . Now from time to time I like to "cover" this for enjoy. Its such a great arrangement.
Mikexception 1 month ago 2
@Mikexception ... and I still have the vinyl :-) But watching these guys on Youtube is damnly exciting! "Forever young", as it has to be! :-) Thanks a lot whoever uploaded it! <3
metallights 1 month ago
At 2:30 Mussorgsky's composition makes the piano sound like handbells.
rsp196607 3 months ago
Possibly the greatest band that ever lived in my opinion.
LegendOfShinoku 5 months ago 4
This is the first ELP album I heard in 1972 and I have been a Loyal Fan Ever Since !!!!!
progman1960 6 months ago in playlist elp live plus related
fannnnntastic stuff, love elp, and 70s prog rock is best music ever
johnnykawakid 6 months ago
Keith's squirming at 5:33 always makes me smile. God I love ELP.
annikee59 6 months ago
Mussorgsky is rockin' and rollin' and lovin' every minute of it.
Yeah, ELP!
PiratesReport 6 months ago 2
Mussorgsky must be tossing and turning in his grave and wretching as well.
toledini 6 months ago
@toledini Are you kidding? Mussorgsky was no effete aesthete. This is every bit as fierce and joyous as the original.
Chrisiant 6 months ago 3
@toledini shut up,def mokey!!!!!!!!!!!!
juniorjenova 4 months ago
I hate to use this term much, but people take heed:
This is Art.
CamButler 6 months ago
ha its all Emerson :D srsly what would they be without him?
silvr90210 6 months ago
ELP RULES... Still.... you turn me ON... :D !!! Thanks for the "fix", friend... you brought true JOY to my YouTube! Cheers from Mexico! ; )
icabreracederwall 7 months ago
elp.......one of the greatest bands of all time. progressive rock will never die!! they shul get back together instead of greg lake doing an asia reunion.
moandbob 7 months ago
Nel riprendere il tema principale vanno fuori tempo. Ma Palmer è un batterista talmente preciso che nonostante tutto fa rientrare Keith letteralmente provato e sopratutto Greg che è al canto, nella giusta cadenza ritmica. Professionisti che oggi sono rari a vedersi e sentirsi. Che tempi, questa era vera musica fatta col cuore.
Perfidia4ever 7 months ago
......for Larghetto-Forte....(oh what was I even THINKING?!even spell-check blew THAT attempt off!LOL) my eyes saw Ozzy and Bill Ward for a minute
10056ducks 7 months ago
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this sucks!!,, what in the fuck were those guys thinking when spoiled a fine opus by mussorgsky??
alexoalez 7 months ago
@alexoalez . Sorry Alex, i disagree with you. I like this video very much and now I know Mussorgsky a little bit better too... he might have loved this.
Ufipman 7 months ago
@alexoalez wtf were you thinking when you didn't realize a million rock fans wouldn't even know who mussorgsky was unless ground breaking groups like ELP showed it to them
cykoaudio777 7 months ago 3
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rmtmiller 7 months ago
3:54 Me suh thought he was a gonna lift it and smash it like Duh Who
CaseyRocky 7 months ago
0:15 rip mitch hedberg
CaseyRocky 7 months ago
deep deep joy-from a devotee since 13 yrs and now 53 isnt utube great for nostalgia
love it all still
gordon10ish 7 months ago 16
THIS is how Mussorgsky is meant to be played!
Abdelmadishabneh 8 months ago 11
Fantastic!
1legman 8 months ago
Mi pare che Greg sia fuori tempo nel momento in cui "rientra" col canto, forse ingannato dalle "cacofonie" emersoniane. Beh, sottigliezze, anche i grandi possono concedersi una sbavatura. All'epoca questi signori erano considerati mostri sacri del progeressive. Forse Yes erano più umani di loro, ma ELP erano più popolari.A mio modesto parere.
Perfidia4ever 8 months ago
@Perfidia4ever
Gli Yes... piu' "umani"...?! Questo lo disputo senza margini, perche', anche mettere intramezzo le tecniche fenomenali di Keith Emerson, ELP ai vertici tramite il 1970-73, erano MOLTO piu' capaci di emozioni "veri" tramite il loro sound progressivo. Visti a Bologna nel '72, erano uno dei migliori complessi di quel epoca... e ho visto anche Van DerGraaf Generator ed i primi Genesis! Tutta quel' epoca era fenomenale, nel senso musicale...
eelalien 7 months ago
GOD I LOVE ELP!!!
annikee59 8 months ago
Fuck yeah!!!! :0))))))))
TheMandragoraBCN 8 months ago 3
Simply awesome!
This was one of their earliest performances (Dez. 70) and shows them already at their absolute peak, all 3 of them.
See how Greg is cool enough to tune one of his bass-strings even during finale ~6:04 delivering maximum vocal performance at the same time... .
Miwof 8 months ago
Organ as Theremin.
nbelsky 8 months ago
I'm almost 60, and despite Emerson's aluminum foil suit and Lake's flower shirt, listening to this I'm 18 and hot again. Nice to remember when musicians had no digital bugs in their mikes to help them stay on key and you had to rely on your abs instead of electronic doohingers to get the reverb out of those organs. Helps, of course, to have Mussorgsky as a collaborator.
nohrt4me 8 months ago
ELP!
Kiev!
Ukraine!
vargack1 8 months ago
@misterwarwick, Thx for the help, this was right, i`ve ordered it at Amazon, they`ve got it....
schraubermicha 9 months ago
how can i find the track, when the organs playing alone and going faster until they seems to explode? i 've heard it years ago on a tape from my father and im searching for this song until then.... who can help? it was from an ELP concert....
schraubermicha 9 months ago
@schraubermicha - the studio version is "Brain Salad Surgery". The Concert Version is "Welcome Back My Friends"
misterwarwick 9 months ago
@schraubermicha - the studio version is Karn Evil #9 part 3 from the record "Brain Salad Surgery", but you are probably remembering the album "Welcome Back My Friends" which is a live recording of ELP from that tour. cheers!
misterwarwick 9 months ago
and from 3;330 . . when he . rapes his Hammond ..
GregERobertson 10 months ago
even the genius have been forgiving!!!
drumfast 10 months ago
This is truly amazing work. ELP was really out there on the forefront of melding classical and rock.
manco82 11 months ago
aguante Mussorgsky!!!!!!!
zuzanazuzanita 11 months ago
Eleven ppl came before it was over...
votresouhait 11 months ago
@votresouhait 12 if you count me
pdfontana 9 months ago
son de los mas cabrones.
uruapani130 11 months ago
I saw ELP in 1974 in a 5000 seat arena in Dayton Ohio.... Brain Salad Surgery tour. Although the stimulant may have enhanced the show, Its still one of the best if not the best I've ever seen. I've seen a lot. One of the 1st visual shows in that era and in true fantastic quadrophonic. Mind control. They were one of the biggest bands in the world back then. They headlined California Jam later that year. Strange I saw them in 93.. very sparse crowd, no frills. They played just as hard.. Salute!!
olbuzz 11 months ago
Emerson is a genius..
TEAMTRILOGYTV 11 months ago
I love how Emo rips into the keyboard @ 1:23.
annikee59 11 months ago
i dont know why but it feels greg fucked up at 4;49
Wayavas1337 11 months ago
Lake must have been somewhere else... and when he comes back in 4:49, it takes Palmer 6 seconds to sync with him :)
fetteshice 11 months ago
@Wayavas1337 Always thought that was Palmer's error as opposed to Lake's....
PaulRoberts 11 months ago
@PaulRoberts I checked it again, and both fucked up, hehe
Wayavas1337 11 months ago
absolutely great stuff, i was bought up on this at the age of 7 and still think its brilliant. shame john peel didnt like em
gibsones295sturbo 11 months ago
Their hair is Godly
EdgarRazorlip 11 months ago
I think at 5:33 Keith wants to take a major shit
PsychoDriver9 1 year ago
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MenloJapanese 1 year ago
This is the one of the best. I love Greg's voice. When I was in Tokyo, I went to their concert( in 1970's) . The concert was just like this.
MenloJapanese 1 year ago
Is it me or was Greg's bass badly tuned?
Apart from that, amazing performance.
Canaveral305 1 year ago
@Canaveral305 Seems he was having trouble with it until halfway thru the song. He keeps stopping to retune. But it's still a kickass performance.
annikee59 1 year ago
Not quite! That is part of the intended performance!!!
Neilgs 1 year ago
5:51 to 6:14 best part of the song!!!!!!!! love that line
powerslaver6 1 year ago
ELP and YES rules.
tankerman25 1 year ago 29
@tankerman25 check out "Van Der Graaf Generator" or "Gentle Giant"...
i love progressive rock :DD
CrazyVuki 1 year ago
@tankerman25 I saw
I saw
I saw ELP and Yes together at the Eastowne in Detroit. Keith just blew Wakeman away, took his moog into the audience and machine-gunned us all. After that show, my appreciation for Yes dropped considerably, while my love for ELP only continued to grow up to their ill-fated quadrophonic tour, which almost bankrupted them!
TheGaylordman 10 months ago
@tankerman25 is true!!
notnowjon 10 months ago
@tankerman25: Don't forget King Crimson.
Nikioko 9 months ago
@tankerman25 I heartily concur.
jsilence418 2 months ago
essenzialmente geniali!io li amo e nemmeno lo sapevo..a 31 anni scopro gli ELP..BUONGIORNO MONDO!<3
serena00001 1 year ago
God, I wish Greg had taken better care of those precious pipes! But who knew we'd all live this long?
annikee59 1 year ago
yes..to make a moog sing was very difficult..
at late 70ties i was experimenting with a moog..
fascinating..but all patterns you have to learn!
no digital recording and so on..
keith emerson was genious!!
greetings
kobold
koboldfranz 1 year ago 2
I haven't heard of these guys until today...... and the first thing I hear is Pictures at and Exhibition.... my day is 100% better
gokdude 1 year ago 27
@gokdude Big congrats on your discovery of ELP.....one of the greatest, most inimitable rock bands in histroy! 'Pictures...' is just a mere tip of the proverbial Iceberg with scores of other amazing tunes under Keith, Greg, and Carl's belts (with 'Trilogy', 'Tarkus', and 'Works Vol I' being my most fav albums.
stoopidmonkeyful 9 months ago
@gokdude Big congrats on your discovery of ELP.....one of the greatest, most inimitable live rock bands in history! 'Pictures...' is just a mere tip of the proverbial Iceberg with scores of other amazing tunes under Keith, Greg, and Carl's belts (with 'Trilogy', 'Tarkus', and 'Works Vol I' being my most fav albums).
stoopidmonkeyful 9 months ago
@gokdude , have you bought any of their cds? They are one of the best groups ever. In fact, they were a supergroup. And Greg Lake has one of the best voices ever.
rmtmiller 7 months ago
if i were able to sing like greg lake i'd sing ALL the time
PippoBlues93 1 year ago 2
Outrageous!! Emerson's sounds have aged well - this sounds very modern still. Making a MOOG sing was not an easy task. Look at those patches!! I think they did the piece justice - It was really all about Keith however and ELP were 3 equal parts at their best.
musthatedogs 1 year ago
the color, the control, the expressive dynamics (forte to piano) and the sheer range of that voice ... well, it seems as though no other voice could do justice to this and other ELP compositions -- maybe Greg's vocalizations just rocked reaching up to the great occasion that is the music of ELP
davidfaubion 1 year ago
from .... modeste moussorgski !
ndongousman 1 year ago
I got to see ELP in 1971 at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh. My first rock concert ever. I also got to see them again in 1974, 1982 and 1997. Buy the ELP: "Beyond The Beginning" 2-DVD package if you want to see the entire California Jam performance by ELP. Classic!
highlife0586 1 year ago 2
I saw ELP 3 or 4 times back in te early 70's, at the old Philly Spectrum. Best live performance of all time. Thx for posting, brings back memories...
bozboz777 1 year ago
lake sings so damn good ! wow !
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narragansettharco 1 year ago
ooops, gotta tune up 1:07
alaincharnier1971 1 year ago
lake's voice is amazing. i jsut started listening to these dudes recently althought i have known about them since im like 3 years old. karn evil 9 was played in a video of the 1986 mets world series team that i used to watch religiously as a kid . i love this shit
mikemai123 1 year ago
For abuse to Hammon Organs call 1-800-Eme-rson. Could not help this post. One of the best!
RADicalDownloads1 1 year ago
ELP, Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath are the best bands ever!!!!!!!!!
3runex 1 year ago
Mahler 8 is much more epic than this, Mahler did not have to take note for note a transcribed piano piece for orch .
elimaurer 1 year ago
Carl fecking Palmer (Mr) :)
seeifyouspamme 1 year ago
Was just as good at High Voltage Festival
grandslam90 1 year ago
ooouuuuuwww very nice!!!!!
enormal 1 year ago
FOR LIFE TO BEEEEE - TO BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!
RedMapp1 1 year ago
Is it possible to express pride probably by music?
I don´t think so.
Nevertheless they were getting close.
8]
muck
ListenToMcMuck 1 year ago
Oops ! Palmer is completely out of synch at 4:53 !! (nicely catches up, though)
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FUCKING AMAZING. Makes me feel alive :)
4d4W0ng 1 year ago
PSYCHO KEITH!!
RedMapp1 1 year ago
FUCKING AMAZING.
zigzag909 1 year ago
genios, una bestia keith emerson
srcardio 1 year ago
exceptionnel!!!
sergio39046 1 year ago
creepy!
mariadelfina1983 1 year ago
I love them since over 35 years,maybee i privileged these days music,but this is so great! How beautiful if Greg sings the great gates of kiew( in my burning of a yearning) !
TheRoseanne58 1 year ago
Simply Killer!
Blackflag427 1 year ago
Hey, all you tiny dissing saddoes out there.I saw ELP loadsatimes back in the day!
Think of your best gig ever,double it,add 6,and then take away the number you first thought of and the answer is..........; ELP would still knock any band into a cocked hat.
Live with it and get over it!
WholeLottaLove from someone who was there, and knows what he's talking about.
barnetboy1 1 year ago
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Soon you hippies will face your God. You must repent one step at a time. First, perpend: ELP sucks.
"Death is Life!"
Why did you have to take Modest Mussorgsky away from us?
I saw Keith Emerson's costume in New York recently. It had been issued to a cast member of "Technicolor Rainbow Dreams", a musical revue performed entirely by mentally disabled people.
bugbear34b 1 year ago
@bugbear34b Do grow up, vent your spleen if you must, but leave the less fortunate out of it.
That final comment is as funny as tertiary syphillis.
Have a nice day now
Kenentigern7 1 year ago
@bugbear34b If you grow up with rock your whole life, getting used to classical is hard. You see all music as relative to the music you're most accustomed to, and if you can't see the relation, you might not bother listening any further to music you're not used to.
By performing this piece, ELP provided an anchor for people to start exploring classical music by connecting it to what they knew.
I'm a classical musician through and through, but I at least understand this.
madlutist 1 year ago
@madlutist good man yersef. I'm no musician but have just about every transcription of Modests masterpiece in my collection. This is as as close as you can get to the drunken lunatic's genius and his sorrow for his lost "friend". Only Russians can play the piano versions properly.
What is oft overlooked is that Modest was a gunnery officer in Crimea and was probably PTSD whence he hit the Voddy.
Whilst a showman Emerson is highly skilled and an adept composer, great fun though!!!!!!!!!
Kenentigern7 1 year ago
@Kenentigern7 Wikipedia lists 120 transcriptions. I've only heard the Ravel, the Horowitz, and have a few other performances by various (good) pianists. As far as Ravel's, I have the Fritz Reiner recording and a few others. Reiner's is great.
Flawed masterpiece, which is what makes it so good for transcription, I think. The ELP is pretty good. Gets a little awkward at times, but that happens when you try to make rock out of classical, and at its high points it's really fantastic.
madlutist 1 year ago
@madlutist Wikpedia says more than it's prayers!!! I've only two Piano versions. What about Tomita and you know the other Russian who did the Orchestration:-)))
Modest was what I love most, a flawed genius, Emerson is good but a showman all the same.
Kenentigern7 1 year ago
@bugbear34b Matthew 10, Matthew 16, Mark 8 and Luke 9 all say that whoever loses their life for the sake of Christ and the gospel will find it. In Galatians 2, St. Paul says "I have been crucified with Christ nevertheless I live..." Sure sounds like for the follower of the Christian God the bible clearly teaches that "Death is Life".
hdwhit75 1 year ago
Amazing!!!!!
frosthamer 1 year ago
@scrivs11
Yes it is, amazing show
liftmedown001 1 year ago
@Lisztianus1973 IT was Greg who screwed up by singing too early. You can see both Keith and Carl jump a bit and try to get back on time.
otaybuckwheet 1 year ago
@otaybuckwheet I'm not so sure about that. He started singing exactly at the same point as it is on the album.
Wiaszczurka 1 year ago
@Wiaszczurka You might be right. Maybe it was Keith who screwed up causing Carl to go out of time for a bit. Any which way they all did a nice job of getting back on track quickly.
otaybuckwheet 1 year ago
Anyone know what Keith's running his keyboards thru.
I want to say a bass Hiwatt head.
marshallman83 1 year ago
an epic end for an epic "suite". one of the best pictures: gates!! (the very best is gnome, in my opinion)
pontoeusino 1 year ago
Part 2
Strange thing.... the public school in the area offered a music course...Electronic Music which was recording and synthesizers. They had a Moog Model 55 just like Emerson's.. We had the base model however. The minimoog and later on the polymoog. At that time ELP was one of the biggest bands inthe world. Isaw then in about 77 with the orchestra... Seemed to take away. Then in the early 90's they played to a sparse crowd in a large hall. They played like the place was packed. Pure class
olbuzz 1 year ago
One of the greatest shows I ever saw. 1974 I believe...July or Aug. Dayton Ohio. Hara Arena in Quadraphonic. Right after Brain Salad Surgery was released.
That was the era of Psychedelics.... And the one of the 1st video screens that played continuously choreographed exactly to the arrangements. Lakes voice could melt you..
olbuzz 1 year ago
Pomposity at it's absolute finest(and I mean that in a good way).
Colddeed 1 year ago
Murssorskj!!
atrebil71 1 year ago
Yup-bet he couldn't hear. Lots o' noise up there and I don't see a lot of monitors
JazzCat60 1 year ago
does it matter , after richie blackmore these three guys are my musical heros, saw them at the royal albert hall and was just blown away
villagelanterne 1 year ago 2
yes, Ritchie and then comes Keith :-)
Picato75 1 year ago
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Pure genius......ELP FOREVER!!!!
jkrtr56 1 year ago 2
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Greg fucked it up at 4:47, he came in too soon and fucked everyone else up after that for several beats
kirkmach32 2 years ago
that's why live shows are great, you get to listen to mistakes being made and no one gives a fuck since it doesn't have to be perfect. For all we know, he might've just done it on purpose
iqsymphic 1 year ago 3
You know I think you might just be right.......what irony that would be.
kirkmach32 1 year ago
at that time, music whas more an emotion
Paulusvrouwtje 2 years ago
These 3 musicians gave the best shows all over the world..!!
I will always take time to enjoy their intense music...
ROCK ON ..!
mrprogjazzgto 2 years ago 12
I LOVE this band & how they created music in conjunction with a painting & classical music.
pukaedup 2 years ago
I had listened to ELP for years, and have
enjoyed a lot of their work,but more often
then not, they didnt seem to be on the same page. What a pity, such exuberance
and culmination of talent, and I felt they
had never reached their potential, nor
shown the world the brilliance they were
capable of. Maybe they tried too hard.
alexvitez 2 years ago
so...why did you keep listening to them?
Dukabor 1 year ago
@alexvitez .... You have no idea what your talking about... Who are you pal.. Mozart or Syd Barrett. Thats one of the greatest 3 piece bands ever. It was a choreographed theatrical show my friend. Maybe you should have saw rather than merely heard. Possibly talked less and listened more. The equipment inthat era was also a shade of todays
olbuzz 1 year ago
Thanks delafisicos for the videos =)
Ochulrak 2 years ago
The first thing I watched after midnight
vomitrelish 2 years ago 2
Love Carl's bass drum :13 to :30.
scoobes11 2 years ago
this is one of the coolest things on youtube.
shane4896 2 years ago 63
lake's vocals are awesome
bruceMCILWRAITH 2 years ago 43
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talk about tuning problems . . . OUCH!!! My poor ears.
RustyIronloins 2 years ago
This is a cool arrangement of the peice, but the piece is meant for the raw power of the orchestra. Even the original piano version by Mussorgsky sounds like it should be more grand. I'm not used to hearing the melody with lyrics also. I still have to say that after playing this with the Toronto Youth Wind Orchestra, this is a fantastic piece of music, with so many versions of it.
LilDrummerBoy74 2 years ago 4
I think the piano version still has more depth
Ksueleman 2 years ago
OMFG! To be 18 again!
Thank you.
Redoubt2 2 years ago 3
Dukabor is right @ 4:50 Carl thinking something isn't doesn't sound right. And he's right, it's him so he takes a pause then resyncs to Greg. It's good to see that even the gods make mistakes.
L3tm30ut 2 years ago 5
heh...funny part of this video is when Keith is done torturing his organ (no pun intended)...you can hear him count off 1..2..3...4...and totally confuses Palmer...he looks at Lake to get the rythym....funny....
Dukabor 2 years ago
great video. Great song. Great performance. Reminds me of Jack London's line "there is an exstacy that marks the summit of life and beyond which life cannot rise."
howedelamitri 2 years ago 4
Nach all der Zeit:unvergleichlich gut.
DANKE.
jevo1947 2 years ago
Awesome!!!! Such an exuberant, exultant combination of raw sexuality, youthful vitality, animal magnetism, sublime creativity and splendidly adapted musical genius...... superlatives aside, ELP was the Quintesence of "One of a Kind" - in the best possible sense!!!
HolyMotherofGrid 2 years ago 4
Another classic by this all time classic prog band. All three are masters of the music they play and I hope they live on long after they go to the gr8 studio in sky. Thanks ELP for making such timeless music.
paulwall1981 2 years ago 4
when I first bought this album...I have to confess I didn't get it...then I listened to Mussorgky (sp?)'s "picture at an exhibion" and knew it was genius by ELP...thanks for turning me on to a great classical composer....
Dukabor 2 years ago 3
best song ever love elp
sixstringrock 2 years ago 2
Brilliant
swellmusik 2 years ago 4
There´s no end to my life
no beggining to my death
death is life
wise words!!! there was no life without death
bewalker25 2 years ago 2
That's the truth. It's all one, though we don't remember and that's the great illusion of life.
spanishsong1 2 years ago
Greg Lake is the best vocalist ever. No doubt. No Plant.
axzck 2 years ago 2
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drummer fucked up at 4:50 lol
cru4you 2 years ago
It was Greg´s fault. He started to sing too soon.
Talman76 2 years ago 4
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I thought everything is always the drummer's fault?
cru4you 2 years ago
ROFL
Algorhythmiq 2 years ago
Yeah, started singing too early... but nice save on Palmer's part! Great musicianship.. if something wrong happens, you fix it without screwing up.
ELP are awesome! Great show!
Spyes23 2 years ago 6
You do better.
spanishsong1 2 years ago
first of all everything i've said was a joke so you guys gotta lighten up heh?
and if you really want me to do better then come jam with me and we'll see if i can
cru4you 2 years ago
Oh yeah - I have seen 1973 ELP life in Frankfurt (Germany) in June, there become old memories awake.
emperorlake 2 years ago
saw them in 1972 school was out along with many others that summer including Alice cooper i was never the same since...........and black sabbath.......etc what a summer that was!.
FastMg42 2 years ago
los grandes puentes de kiev..me encanta esta cancion!!
pauletfromcallao 2 years ago
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i'm 23 and the lyrics tell a story of people who really know nothing about life of death. deep
kwsigma 2 years ago