AND TO THINK,,,,,THEY SCRAPPED ALL THIS FOR THE LIKES OF PUNKS LIKE,,JOHNNY ROTTEN !!! THIS IS MUSC PERFOMANCE EXCELENCE AT ITS BEST !!! EMERSON,LAKE,& PALMER,,,,,,MUSIC FOR OUR TIMES (LET THE BRIDGE COMPUTER SPEAK ) !!!!!!!!!!!!
@buckybarrett Actually, the live at Montreal concert drove them into the red, and soon became BROKE! Love Beach followed, and thus ended the 70's ELP reign of the GODS!
Bella baby... oh man The Sage ... thank you for the outstanding advice. Now I know my friends just a bit better. I have listened to Pictures now for a few months straight with almost no stopping... Now I get it! Thank you again. Rejoice glory is ours!!!!!!
Man alone; born of stone; Will stamp the dust of time His hands strike the flame of his soul; Ties a rope to a tree and hangs the Universe Until the winds of laughter blows cold. Fear that rattles in men's ears And rears it's hideous head Dread .... Death .... in the wind .... Man of steel pray and kneel With fever's blazing torch Thrust in the face of the night; Draws a blade if compassion Kissed by countless Kings Whose jewelled trumpet words blind his sight.
@lukuntri That is a polymoog with a custom keyboard on top called the moog lyra.The Lyra was similer to the later multimoog,except the lyra was a minimoog with exstensive modulation capability and touch sensitivity.
The polymoog was a prototype,one of two made by moog.It could not produce sustained notes and was only had a five octave keyboard.Emerson advised Moog music on things that would make the polymoog better.
@moogboy010 Indeed....the 2nd incarnation of the Polymoog of course came with the pedal board connectable through the 3 ports on the back of the P.M; I have one, and I LOVE it; I have 2 model D Mini's and a Memorymoog flanked by a Rogue and a Micromoog. Just recently purchased the Voyager XL with the 61 keys and mini patch bay; although having the 61 keys, which I and thousands of other moog enthusiasts have been waiting for is MOST enjoyable, as well as the mini patch bay being loads of fun,
@moogboy010 especially when hooked up with certain Moogerfooger pedals, IT STILL DOES NOT HOLD A CANDLE TO THE WARMTH OF THE SOARING PORTAMENTO AND LOW BASS SWEEPS FOUND IN THE OLD MINI'S AMD MEMORYMOOGS.
@lukuntri It is the Moog Constellation, a combination of the Moog Lyra, the Polymoog prototype and Taurus pedals. The Lyra was a mono solo synth, not mass produced.
@mburgh Keith's Moog prototype was actually built and completed on July 19, 1968; obviously the very same mammoth he uses today...just recently used it with
ELP at the High Voltage Festival in 2010 with Asia, foreigner, Marillion, Transatlantic, etc.
Some of the best lyrics from any form of music, these words have stuck in my head since I first heard them in 1974. God knows how many brains cells I killed smoking this song.
@TheBellaemmamon, in Lucky man, the keyboard solo was accidental. Keith Emerson walked in late in the middle of the recording and started playing. Then when he stopped Palmer and Lake asked what the hell he was doing. The producers kept it just like in The Sheriff, where Carl Palmer messes up and yells, "Shit!" about 15 seconds in.
Bought BSS in 1988 at the age of 13 and thought one of the lyrics were..."No man heels to flies on my shit"
There weren't any lyrics with the tape (cassette, of course), but I did see Pete Sinfeld's name credited and figured, "Well, he writes nonsensical jabber for Crimson, so this is probably his thing".
Lake's voice is (was!) sorta like a combination of John Lennon and Roger Daltry...anyone else agree? he could deliver great power and still maintain great depth and pitch.
Spinning Leslie cabinets for the keyboards .. Nothing else sounds like that, Hate the gum chewing though.. Undoubtedley the best Headphone listening album ever. Brings me right bakc to my early teen years ..I nearly wore out the vinyl copy of this.. Great to able to see it here..
LOVE THE COMMENT "ALL HAIL THE MOOG SYNTH AND IT'S KEEPER!" MAN ANIT IT TRUE? I TRULY BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE THE BEST BAND EVER FROM EVERY ASPECT. BEST AT EACH INSTRUMENT AND MOST UNIQUE! WHO CAN COMPARE WITH GREG'S POWERFUL VOCALS? SUBJECT MATTER AND OUTLOOK UNMATCHED - YEAH ALWAYS WAS ALWAYS AM AN ELP FREAK!
@RLFPRESENTS Dude, I'm freakin on this stuff too! I cant stop listening to it. Not for everyone of course but you know there's so much automated recording shit nowadays and I'm just not buying it... give me real people doing simpler recordings on real instruments and please do not add the computer enhancements.
@Ufipman Listen to The Sage live.........you will be in awe of Greg Lake's sheer, raw talent. Some of ELP's songs should have NEVER had organ or drums added to it...ie: Lucky Man, Still You Turn Me On and The Sage. Those songs were simply meant, in my humble opinion to be just Greg and his guitar.
Gene Simmons used the inferior Gibson "Grabber". This was indeed a Ripper, and it was far from "muted". It had a ripping (!), grinding sound...full in both bass and treble. Any instrument that is set up lousy will play thus. Listen to the ELP live album "Welcome Back..." and tell me that thing doesn't sound like the bottom end of a grand piano! I can tell you from seeing them at the Long Beach Arena for this tour, Lake's bass was STUNNING. One of the best live bass sounds I ever heard.
actually my last comment reminded me of what i didnt post last time...remember Wayne's World, when Garth does his Doodleoodleoodlledoop Doodleoodledoodleoodledoop@ um, i was reminded about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami and nuclear dawn 2011.
I played one of thopse Gibson basses too. Hated it! I think in this band it was appropriate because it had such a non-descript kind of muted sound that wouldn't conflict with Emerson's keys.
I played one of the Gibson basses too. Hated it! I think in this band it was appropriate because it had such a non-descript kind of muted sound that wouldn't conflict with Emerson's keys.
@keisterboy hey peoples, i just played a gibson ripper yesterday...one of the sickest basses ever. plug that thing into an ampeg head and you'll know what true bass sounds like. you could make it sound really funky or almost surreally low- or even both at the same time! maybe it was the strings...
It is a Gibson Ripper. Gene Simmons of Kiss was using one around the same time period. I've played one like it and it's a monster: huge over-sized body, long wide neck, wide string spacing and bad action! Overall a real bummer of an instrument.
Though the technology obviously became more user-friendly later on, there was something really cool and dramatic about that 10-foot-tall bank of complicated patch cords and cables that Keith had to use...
Suddenly I had this bizarre though while enjoying this video: None of this and many other things would exist if we didn't kick sum german azz in 1945! Is that weird?!
Lake is such an under-rated bass player because he can actually keep up with Emerson and unison/harmony play those radically odd scales right "in the pocket" (e.g. Tarkus album especially)!
Palmer is a machine! His unique ability seems to be playing non-stop "drum solo style" throughout many songs, adding substantial "fatness" critical to any musical trio without sounding like he is over-playing.
They are very special together! Emerson is a master of complex chords and radically unorthodox scales/tempos. Combined with that, his weaving of many textures is spell-binding and fascinating to me! A modern composer for the history books! I sometimes think he has a separate brain for L and R hands. Some have said he has a killer right hand but I say he has a killer left hand too!
was at the concert in Dusseldorff - it was quite short the appearance of the BSS album , which I did'nt like in the beginning - but after the concert the world had changed!- perfect!!
Emerson indeed used Leslie speakers however everything (i.e the Hammond C3 and L100 organs) were run through Hiwatt amplifiers. (Source: Wikipedia's article on Keith Emerson, also I am a life-long fan).
The 3rd Impression is the perfect soundtrack for a sci-fi space battle! Three top-notch musicians in total control of their instruments, playing a composition that brilliantly showcases each. Knockout.
This IS the best version available...not only was the concert videotaped in 1974, when 400-line resolution was State of the Art ( and considered sexy! ), the show was edited to 3/4 U-Matic videocassettes, which topped out at 260-300 line resolution. If this seems mediocre, check out the umpteenth-geneeration bootleg versions which sustained us for so many years prior to 2005!
Anyone know if this concert film is available from some other source? This is as good as anything I have seen from this concert. I would gladly pay for a good DVD of this performance.
Full Kundalini! Prophetic!. Let this be played 150 years from now, as well...when part of the "human race" has "synthesized"..and for all intents and purposes have become more android than human.
Without the frenzied finale & explosion, the 3rd impression is left without purpose. Kinda like cutting short without hearing the climactic crash at the end of "A Day In The Life," or chopping out the Gong at the end of "Nights In White Satin."
For so many years before YT came along I was looking for a copy of this performance. Its amazing that all these years later it's been found. This was broadcast a couple of years before we had our first VCRs. I remember catching a few minutes of the original broadcast, and it ignited my passion for progressive rock.
To think that this was only 5 years after In The Court Of The Crimson King is strange as well (as well as about 6 years after a VRY young Carl Palmer appeared on Arthur Brown's album)
My first concert ever was ELP at the Long Beach Arena in 1972. The opening act was a Santana-wanna-be group called "Malo." Talk about a weird billing match-up. Keith Emerson was my favorite musician from Day One and that hasn't changed in all these years. ELP forever!
ELP were Techno before "Techno"......and I have to think it's a bit difficult to sing with chewing gum in your mouth, but Greg Lake pulls it off! He very much resembles a childhood friend of mine, who did happen to like ELP quite a bit! They were a great live show...saw them in Madison Square Garden circa 1977.
if your a musician, get the sheet music to this and tarkus and you'll realize how talented these guys are. they are playing this pretty damn fast compared to album.
Back in the day I ate this shit up - went to every ELP show I could get to. Looking back, however, its pretension is evident and the music has not held up well. Yes and Rush have left ELP in the rearview mirror - who would have thought?
@favorsham I think these guys have held up much better than yes has. Rush is a different story, but they were latter. And pretentiousness is relative, yeah it can get anoying sometimes, but what matters is the sound of the music.
You are looking at people on the top of their game , these guys are full tilt journeymen performers and musicians , They are the second half of the Yes / ELP beginnings of modern progressive music ,
Enjoy , you are seeing the best there was , or will ever be ,
Keith is playing 2/3 of the Moog Constellation Ensemble (the Lyra monophonic synth and the Apollo polyphonic synth). The Constellation Ensemble never got off the ground in its original form, and only appeared later on as the Multimoog and Polymoog.
The Taurus bass pedal was also to be part of the original ensemble; although a production version did appear in 1975, along with the (original) Polymoog Synthesizer.
Sorry Freezazoid, Greg Lake is one of the top vocalists of all time, let alone the 70s. I'm not a huge fan of ELP myself, although I do like Karn Evil 9. His voice is so powerful, just listen to In The Wake Of Poseidon by King Crimson.
this is absolutley magnificent this band is absolutley brimming with talent Gregs voice is flawless and keiths keyboard and carls drumming are self explanitorey
Keith Emerson: the worlds cheapest orchestra. I mean, really, listen: he does that mina tune, the background, and the additional vocals... of course I have to mention he's doing that while chewing gum. ;D
You see this and it's no wonder Carl and Keith had nerve problems with their hands...Keith from keyboards and Carl from........Karate, go figure. Hope Keith recovers for another tour next year!
The Apollo synth was what eventually became the Polymoog, and the Lyra was a monophonic synth (the trumpet lines were played on this one). The Lyra never truly got off the ground, although its design did end up being released as the Micromoog and the larger Multimoog.
Is it some sort of irony that he sings, ' no computer stands in my way, only blood can cancel my pain'? Just a thought. I still like listening to this song and I have listening since it first come out.
5 people don't like musicians who chew gum during performances...'cause it couldn't be they dislike the music!
jtomasik 6 hours ago
ELP: Back in the day when a musician was based upon their musical ability and not their TV/Marketing appeal.
jtomasik 6 hours ago
i grew up listening to ELP. wish my friends did
ISypek 1 month ago
Here is the ending... /watch?v=0UWkKccf6_Y&t=8m10s
billberends 1 month ago
D'OH!! How could you cut this off at the end sequence?! *FAIL* Now I have to dig out the Welcome Back live album to hear the last 30 sec's!!
billberends 1 month ago
Greg sings with a chewing-gum! fantastic..
boys5l 1 month ago
Keith Emerson-Mind Blowing Keyboards
Greg Lake-Amazing Voice and Steady Bass
Carl Palmer-Incredible Drumming
In short ELP=Awesome
MarchingBagel 1 month ago
Greg Lake, is singing while he is chewing Gum!!!!
jfdesignsarq 1 month ago
AND TO THINK,,,,,THEY SCRAPPED ALL THIS FOR THE LIKES OF PUNKS LIKE,,JOHNNY ROTTEN !!! THIS IS MUSC PERFOMANCE EXCELENCE AT ITS BEST !!! EMERSON,LAKE,& PALMER,,,,,,MUSIC FOR OUR TIMES (LET THE BRIDGE COMPUTER SPEAK ) !!!!!!!!!!!!
buckybarrett 6 months ago 3
@buckybarrett Actually, the live at Montreal concert drove them into the red, and soon became BROKE! Love Beach followed, and thus ended the 70's ELP reign of the GODS!
crickert23 2 weeks ago
Bella baby... oh man The Sage ... thank you for the outstanding advice. Now I know my friends just a bit better. I have listened to Pictures now for a few months straight with almost no stopping... Now I get it! Thank you again. Rejoice glory is ours!!!!!!
Ufipman 7 months ago
Walls that no man thought would fall
The altars of the just
Crushed .... Dust .... in the wind ....
VerifiedNews 7 months ago 2
VerifiedNews 7 months ago
is that polumoog or multi moog?
lukuntri 7 months ago
@lukuntri That is a polymoog with a custom keyboard on top called the moog lyra.The Lyra was similer to the later multimoog,except the lyra was a minimoog with exstensive modulation capability and touch sensitivity.
The polymoog was a prototype,one of two made by moog.It could not produce sustained notes and was only had a five octave keyboard.Emerson advised Moog music on things that would make the polymoog better.
moogboy010 5 months ago
@moogboy010 Indeed....the 2nd incarnation of the Polymoog of course came with the pedal board connectable through the 3 ports on the back of the P.M; I have one, and I LOVE it; I have 2 model D Mini's and a Memorymoog flanked by a Rogue and a Micromoog. Just recently purchased the Voyager XL with the 61 keys and mini patch bay; although having the 61 keys, which I and thousands of other moog enthusiasts have been waiting for is MOST enjoyable, as well as the mini patch bay being loads of fun,
crickert23 2 weeks ago
@moogboy010 especially when hooked up with certain Moogerfooger pedals, IT STILL DOES NOT HOLD A CANDLE TO THE WARMTH OF THE SOARING PORTAMENTO AND LOW BASS SWEEPS FOUND IN THE OLD MINI'S AMD MEMORYMOOGS.
crickert23 2 weeks ago
@lukuntri It is the Moog Constellation, a combination of the Moog Lyra, the Polymoog prototype and Taurus pedals. The Lyra was a mono solo synth, not mass produced.
mburgh 1 month ago
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crickert23 2 weeks ago
@mburgh Keith's Moog prototype was actually built and completed on July 19, 1968; obviously the very same mammoth he uses today...just recently used it with
ELP at the High Voltage Festival in 2010 with Asia, foreigner, Marillion, Transatlantic, etc.
crickert23 2 weeks ago
I saw em too in the 90's. Sexy boys chewing gum
lovedandhis 7 months ago
Pay attention to the magic sequence starting at 6:10. It used to be the theme of a TV news programme in Brazil in the 70's.
robertopinarizzo 8 months ago
Some of the best lyrics from any form of music, these words have stuck in my head since I first heard them in 1974. God knows how many brains cells I killed smoking this song.
chickenwretch 8 months ago 3
@TheBellaemmamon, in Lucky man, the keyboard solo was accidental. Keith Emerson walked in late in the middle of the recording and started playing. Then when he stopped Palmer and Lake asked what the hell he was doing. The producers kept it just like in The Sheriff, where Carl Palmer messes up and yells, "Shit!" about 15 seconds in.
BeowulfVids 8 months ago
PLEASE, could someone upload ANY live footage of the 2nd Impression, it's by far my favourite!
josearcanjof 8 months ago
You cut the ending! The computer goes into meltdown. In my teens, in the 70's, we hought the ending was so cool.
davekingpt 9 months ago
Great video. Hard to believe they could come so close to the album.
Ranger88video 9 months ago 3
Bought BSS in 1988 at the age of 13 and thought one of the lyrics were..."No man heels to flies on my shit"
There weren't any lyrics with the tape (cassette, of course), but I did see Pete Sinfeld's name credited and figured, "Well, he writes nonsensical jabber for Crimson, so this is probably his thing".
petsounds75 9 months ago
Arrogant, proud and at it. ELP at the top of their game.
TheMandragoraBCN 10 months ago 2
I love the rainbow!
Kitty9991 10 months ago
Lake's voice is (was!) sorta like a combination of John Lennon and Roger Daltry...anyone else agree? he could deliver great power and still maintain great depth and pitch.
Interst890 10 months ago
@Interst890 I was actually thinking the same thing in regards to Daltry. Specifically at 2:25
Kaiseto 1 month ago
they are all chewing some kind of gum any one know what kinda gum they were chewing???
h92o 10 months ago
I AM PERFECT,ARE YOU?
lamecasuelas2 10 months ago
Spinning Leslie cabinets for the keyboards .. Nothing else sounds like that, Hate the gum chewing though.. Undoubtedley the best Headphone listening album ever. Brings me right bakc to my early teen years ..I nearly wore out the vinyl copy of this.. Great to able to see it here..
MrNagy60 10 months ago
LOVE THE COMMENT "ALL HAIL THE MOOG SYNTH AND IT'S KEEPER!" MAN ANIT IT TRUE? I TRULY BELIEVE THAT THEY ARE THE BEST BAND EVER FROM EVERY ASPECT. BEST AT EACH INSTRUMENT AND MOST UNIQUE! WHO CAN COMPARE WITH GREG'S POWERFUL VOCALS? SUBJECT MATTER AND OUTLOOK UNMATCHED - YEAH ALWAYS WAS ALWAYS AM AN ELP FREAK!
RLFPRESENTS 11 months ago 9
@RLFPRESENTS Dude, I'm freakin on this stuff too! I cant stop listening to it. Not for everyone of course but you know there's so much automated recording shit nowadays and I'm just not buying it... give me real people doing simpler recordings on real instruments and please do not add the computer enhancements.
Even if it's "Negative, Primitive, Limited"...
Ufipman 11 months ago 2
@Ufipman well emerson lake and palmer used sampling on their albums, they dont do it live but they do record using pre recorded stuff.
technology is not bad, using technology is what elp did, the problem nowadays is that "musicians" rely on technology WAY TOO MUCH
Wayavas1337 10 months ago
@Ufipman Listen to The Sage live.........you will be in awe of Greg Lake's sheer, raw talent. Some of ELP's songs should have NEVER had organ or drums added to it...ie: Lucky Man, Still You Turn Me On and The Sage. Those songs were simply meant, in my humble opinion to be just Greg and his guitar.
TheBellaemmamom 10 months ago in playlist ELP
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rmtmiller 8 months ago
perhaps the most majesti sound in rock history -- and they meant it!
jmorra 11 months ago 4
Gene Simmons used the inferior Gibson "Grabber". This was indeed a Ripper, and it was far from "muted". It had a ripping (!), grinding sound...full in both bass and treble. Any instrument that is set up lousy will play thus. Listen to the ELP live album "Welcome Back..." and tell me that thing doesn't sound like the bottom end of a grand piano! I can tell you from seeing them at the Long Beach Arena for this tour, Lake's bass was STUNNING. One of the best live bass sounds I ever heard.
mattleemattlee123 11 months ago
Emerson is the best on keyboard....
Nawtas90 11 months ago
actually my last comment reminded me of what i didnt post last time...remember Wayne's World, when Garth does his Doodleoodleoodlledoop Doodleoodledoodleoodledoop@ um, i was reminded about the Japanese earthquake and tsunami and nuclear dawn 2011.
Tiger Blood Winning Adonis DNA
SuperMegaUberGenius 11 months ago
i've never seen such an eloquent vocalist be so pure in his truity whislt chewing gum
SuperMegaUberGenius 11 months ago
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I played one of thopse Gibson basses too. Hated it! I think in this band it was appropriate because it had such a non-descript kind of muted sound that wouldn't conflict with Emerson's keys.
keisterboy 11 months ago
I played one of the Gibson basses too. Hated it! I think in this band it was appropriate because it had such a non-descript kind of muted sound that wouldn't conflict with Emerson's keys.
keisterboy 11 months ago
@keisterboy yeah me too, i would rather use a j bass
Wayavas1337 11 months ago
@keisterboy hey peoples, i just played a gibson ripper yesterday...one of the sickest basses ever. plug that thing into an ampeg head and you'll know what true bass sounds like. you could make it sound really funky or almost surreally low- or even both at the same time! maybe it was the strings...
Interst890 8 months ago
It is a Gibson Ripper. Gene Simmons of Kiss was using one around the same time period. I've played one like it and it's a monster: huge over-sized body, long wide neck, wide string spacing and bad action! Overall a real bummer of an instrument.
gigantorrrrrr 11 months ago
Though the technology obviously became more user-friendly later on, there was something really cool and dramatic about that 10-foot-tall bank of complicated patch cords and cables that Keith had to use...
wsterbrg 11 months ago 5
What bass is he using?
MrMusicman456 1 year ago
@MrMusicman456 just wonderin' the same thing, looks like it MIGHT be an early gibson ripper or something along the lines...
Interst890 11 months ago
Had to share this...
Suddenly I had this bizarre though while enjoying this video: None of this and many other things would exist if we didn't kick sum german azz in 1945! Is that weird?!
gigantorrrrrr 1 year ago 2
Lake is such an under-rated bass player because he can actually keep up with Emerson and unison/harmony play those radically odd scales right "in the pocket" (e.g. Tarkus album especially)!
Palmer is a machine! His unique ability seems to be playing non-stop "drum solo style" throughout many songs, adding substantial "fatness" critical to any musical trio without sounding like he is over-playing.
gigantorrrrrr 1 year ago 3
They are very special together! Emerson is a master of complex chords and radically unorthodox scales/tempos. Combined with that, his weaving of many textures is spell-binding and fascinating to me! A modern composer for the history books! I sometimes think he has a separate brain for L and R hands. Some have said he has a killer right hand but I say he has a killer left hand too!
gigantorrrrrr 1 year ago 3
Where is the runaway synth sync at the end :( Karn Evil 9 is a great musical work!
gigantorrrrrr 1 year ago
DANGER!!!
LET THE BRIDGE COMPUTER SPEAK
Those lines are genius
Wayavas1337 1 year ago
Nobody was more suited to combining rock -n-roll and electric keyboard than Mr. Emerson and this clip definitely proves it!
Lewis1key 1 year ago 5
a piece of rock history
mycatwilatackyou 1 year ago 4
I am instantly 15 again
mycatwilatackyou 1 year ago
was at the concert in Dusseldorff - it was quite short the appearance of the BSS album , which I did'nt like in the beginning - but after the concert the world had changed!- perfect!!
yamahapaultje 1 year ago
Greatest concert I've ever been to in Des Moines, Iowa, but what do I know? Beats Rap (CRAP)!
kdhainin 1 year ago
EMERSON LOOKS JET LAGGED!
TouchingYou 1 year ago
SHEER PERFECTION!!!!!!!!!
Manticore5706 1 year ago
he´s Jake from two and and a half man
Excelente music
jofret1 1 year ago
That's an interesting fact,the chewing gum trick.
I always thought the gum chewing was to prevent grinding your teeth as blow makes you grind your teeth...Not that that matters to me.
MrFloydianSlip 1 year ago
Emerson indeed used Leslie speakers however everything (i.e the Hammond C3 and L100 organs) were run through Hiwatt amplifiers. (Source: Wikipedia's article on Keith Emerson, also I am a life-long fan).
koroba01 1 year ago
Dr Moog actually custom built this set up for Keith , yes he was proud
vegasshowgirlshoes 1 year ago 12
I pay homage the the mighty Moog & its keepers! Dr. Moog would have been so proud!
Trilogy319 1 year ago 3
I pay homage the the mighty Moog & its keepers!
Trilogy319 1 year ago 2
I was there and it's so cool to see this perfomance again after all these years.
Ampvega 1 year ago
3 people dislike because there wasn't a fourth impression.
bearmare 1 year ago
Nobody is perfect they say ,but Keith Emerson on the Keyboards - - IS !!!!!
POLSTEADPAUL 1 year ago
In terms of compositional characteristics, this may very well be the greatest piece of rock music ever written.
tempname1100 1 year ago 4
Everybody's chewing gum !
sturoc0 1 year ago
@sturoc0 singers chew gum to keep their throat from drying out - only Greg Lake can sing powerfully, play and chew gum too!
12Racer99 1 year ago
@12Racer99 Yeah I know that one, But it's funny to see Carl and Keith chewing too!
sturoc0 1 year ago
@TheBlackWhirlies looks a little epileptic there doesn't he. lol
TheBellaemmamom 1 year ago
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Mirokuofnite 1 year ago
The 3rd Impression is the perfect soundtrack for a sci-fi space battle! Three top-notch musicians in total control of their instruments, playing a composition that brilliantly showcases each. Knockout.
KennyOKemp 1 year ago
I think GREG LAKE tied a rope to a tree and hung the universe <3 And when he says thrusting....OMG!
TheBellaemmamom 1 year ago
@TheBellaemmamom O God Yeah!
annikee59 1 year ago
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TheBellaemmamom 1 year ago
Nobody's perfect, but these guys are so close.
annikee59 1 year ago 3
@annikee59 I totally agree!
TheBellaemmamom 1 year ago
Check out those Leslie speaker cabinets spinning like a bastard over his shoulder!
pinkfloydeffect 1 year ago
@pinkfloydeffect Keith used HiWatts , not Leslie
vegasshowgirlshoes 1 year ago
This IS the best version available...not only was the concert videotaped in 1974, when 400-line resolution was State of the Art ( and considered sexy! ), the show was edited to 3/4 U-Matic videocassettes, which topped out at 260-300 line resolution. If this seems mediocre, check out the umpteenth-geneeration bootleg versions which sustained us for so many years prior to 2005!
derosierjr 1 year ago
AMAZING voice and He's HOTT!!!!!!!
bunnyheather76 1 year ago
Brilliant!!!!!!!
TheBellaemmamom 1 year ago
Emerson had just dashed to the gig after leaving his dentistry practice
fishybishbash 1 year ago 3
Anyone know if this concert film is available from some other source? This is as good as anything I have seen from this concert. I would gladly pay for a good DVD of this performance.
sandalow1 1 year ago
Full Kundalini! Prophetic!. Let this be played 150 years from now, as well...when part of the "human race" has "synthesized"..and for all intents and purposes have become more android than human.
Neilgs 1 year ago
Without the frenzied finale & explosion, the 3rd impression is left without purpose. Kinda like cutting short without hearing the climactic crash at the end of "A Day In The Life," or chopping out the Gong at the end of "Nights In White Satin."
We gotta hear the whole thing!
thedriverguy 1 year ago
Let the Maps of War be Drawn...
moonlightsea8 1 year ago
ONLY BLOOD CAN CANCEL MY PAIN!
kakofatus 1 year ago
There is an EXCELLENT interview with Greg Lake in the current edition of Bass Player magazine, I highly recommend it!
Babyhowdy233 1 year ago
watch the rachel flowers version. you will not be dissappointed.
anklepantsone 1 year ago 2
Yeah what's with all the gum.
joenbloe 1 year ago
keith and greg are chewing gum!!
jonesledzep 1 year ago
They still sound fantastic live!!
hetricus2113 1 year ago
Let's see Miley Cyrus belt out a four-part thirty minute long epic...
ICanHazFezonn 1 year ago 3
For so many years before YT came along I was looking for a copy of this performance. Its amazing that all these years later it's been found. This was broadcast a couple of years before we had our first VCRs. I remember catching a few minutes of the original broadcast, and it ignited my passion for progressive rock.
To think that this was only 5 years after In The Court Of The Crimson King is strange as well (as well as about 6 years after a VRY young Carl Palmer appeared on Arthur Brown's album)
purpledynasty 1 year ago 2
i saw them in the seventies,when the works album came out. 3 of the best musicians on the planet ever..god bless
scottus1955 1 year ago 22
For some reason Emerson, Lake & Palmer, or really the Karn Evil 9 series reminds me a lot of SNES era JRPG battle music.
Not that its a bad thing.
Mirokuofnite 1 year ago 2
My first concert ever was ELP at the Long Beach Arena in 1972. The opening act was a Santana-wanna-be group called "Malo." Talk about a weird billing match-up. Keith Emerson was my favorite musician from Day One and that hasn't changed in all these years. ELP forever!
MallardTDrake 1 year ago 2
ELP were Techno before "Techno"......and I have to think it's a bit difficult to sing with chewing gum in your mouth, but Greg Lake pulls it off! He very much resembles a childhood friend of mine, who did happen to like ELP quite a bit! They were a great live show...saw them in Madison Square Garden circa 1977.
cc92103 1 year ago
Greatest band of all time ... greatest album of all time ... Karn Evil 9: greatest musical suite of all time ... end of story, period.
racer500gp 1 year ago 5
No man yields who flies in my ship..I saw this on ABC.. Believe it or not...
1Samh666 1 year ago
Beyond ultimate talent , Yes is a very close second , but ELP ranks first
Greatest line every written in modern music
"rejoice glory is ours
our young men have not died in vain
Their graves need no flowers
The tapes have recorded their names"
In my book that line is genus beyond anything else
vegasshowgirlshoes 1 year ago 3
if your a musician, get the sheet music to this and tarkus and you'll realize how talented these guys are. they are playing this pretty damn fast compared to album.
bruceMCILWRAITH 1 year ago 4
@bruceMCILWRAITH i know what you mean dude thumbs up
Wayavas1337 1 year ago
Lake seems to be chewing gum while singing. Weird.
porgy29 1 year ago
@porgy29 It's a trademark.
stig7585 1 year ago
All hail the Moog synth and its keeper.
The999nuclear 1 year ago 36
@The999nuclear
Y'not wrong there mate! :0)
TheMandragoraBCN 10 months ago
@The999nuclear YEAHHH
Wayavas1337 9 months ago
Back in the day I ate this shit up - went to every ELP show I could get to. Looking back, however, its pretension is evident and the music has not held up well. Yes and Rush have left ELP in the rearview mirror - who would have thought?
favorsham 1 year ago
@favorsham I think these guys have held up much better than yes has. Rush is a different story, but they were latter. And pretentiousness is relative, yeah it can get anoying sometimes, but what matters is the sound of the music.
porgy29 1 year ago
Sheer genius
zigzag909 1 year ago 3
amazing carl is an android !!!!!
klnine 1 year ago
Simply majestic pop pickers !
klnine 1 year ago
AAggggh... the last 20 seconds got cut off!! Other than that it was pretty damn good.
KeithinQuepos 1 year ago
I actually like this song better in the lower key they play it here. Man were they hot in the Brain Salad era!
DJEricBliss 1 year ago
Keith Emerson, il più grande in assoluto!
Nimrodel84 1 year ago
if you translate this music to MODERN ROCK METAL INSTRUMENTS you have the best PROGRESSIVE METAL ever composed
keith emerson is the best heavy metal composer of all time´s !!
CristoesDMT 1 year ago
They do appear to be chewing gum in this video! Regardless, this piece rocks!
orbgetar 1 year ago
Are they, like, chewing cocaine gum to keep up the pace?
tdelacruz61 1 year ago 2
ELP is the best band ever!!!
pmarie57 1 year ago 3
Its so cool! Awsome!! I love ELP.
SeaInYourOcean 1 year ago 2
You are looking at people on the top of their game , these guys are full tilt journeymen performers and musicians , They are the second half of the Yes / ELP beginnings of modern progressive music ,
Enjoy , you are seeing the best there was , or will ever be ,
vegasshowgirlshoes 1 year ago 2
All the people into "goth" music these guys invented it!
NikkiLaVey 1 year ago
Keith seemed a bit rough on the improvised solo, didn't he?
jtomasik 1 year ago
Absolutely one of the best bands of the progressive rock scene. Lake looks baked, though.
jtomasik 1 year ago
In nomine... Keith Emerson, Greg Lake, Carl Palmer's... can't you see something holy? ;) this trinity is the best band in every time and every place!
pontoeusino 1 year ago
The Greatest Prog Band Ever!
dobson1202 1 year ago 6
Timeless....
unamacarana 1 year ago 2
brings back so many memories.I'm going to see Keith Emerson and Greg Lake tonight.
tflinnrn 1 year ago
i'm madly in love with greg lake!
myypoiintt 1 year ago
i love the way they are all chewing gum lol great song
denco2611 1 year ago 2
Its an Oral Surgeons Outfit. This Tour was for the "Brain Salad Surgery "Album. Its not too much of stretch here?
ELP71 1 year ago
Why is the keyboard player dressed like a dentist
zigzag909 1 year ago
Because at the time it looked really futuristic?
bigmanpigman 1 year ago
poor Carl haah earnt his money on this piece!
klnine 1 year ago
is that a Moog Modular? Jesus....
soopahsoopah 1 year ago
@soopahsoopah
Keith is playing 2/3 of the Moog Constellation Ensemble (the Lyra monophonic synth and the Apollo polyphonic synth). The Constellation Ensemble never got off the ground in its original form, and only appeared later on as the Multimoog and Polymoog.
The Taurus bass pedal was also to be part of the original ensemble; although a production version did appear in 1975, along with the (original) Polymoog Synthesizer.
ClassicTVMan81 1 year ago
This is probably the greatest piece of
music ever performed by ELP, played
during what is probably the pinnacle
tour (the 1973-1974 Brain Salad Surgery
Tour). And of course, ELP was one of
the most talented bands ever.
In other words, it just doesn't get better
than this!
Weasler455 1 year ago 14
最高！！！！
懐かしい！！
NCC1771A 2 years ago
How can he chew gum and SING??
maxondrums 2 years ago
CRAP THE END'S CUT OFF!!! Is there a place where I can see the computer explode at the end? WTF?!?
RaggedTiger70 2 years ago
I was at this concert - Cal Jam -
had seen ELP at the San Francisco Civic Center a couple months earlier - the most amazing concerts of my life
SamLowerySF 2 years ago
:p
Keith Emerson is for playing synthesizers what BB King is for guitarplayers. Whithout them everything would sound so differend.
andyk2138 2 years ago 7
I M PERFECT ARE YOU ?!
bond00777777 2 years ago
Dang! I can't even chew gum and walk!
These guys are amazing!
Droopy777 2 years ago 2
If you like this song, just type "kerry elp" here on youtube he is just amazing and he plays all 3 Impressions + Toccata etc...
You'll be amazed!
Cozy990 2 years ago 3
Fuck!
Carl is drenched in sweat!
The most technical peice of live music. Ever.
MrAlexOfBullhead 2 years ago 6
Sorry Freezazoid, Greg Lake is one of the top vocalists of all time, let alone the 70s. I'm not a huge fan of ELP myself, although I do like Karn Evil 9. His voice is so powerful, just listen to In The Wake Of Poseidon by King Crimson.
PointThree 2 years ago 2
this is absolutley magnificent this band is absolutley brimming with talent Gregs voice is flawless and keiths keyboard and carls drumming are self explanitorey
atgskater14 2 years ago 3
Greatest piece of music ever!
vintagerockdotcom 2 years ago 53
Keith Emerson: the worlds cheapest orchestra. I mean, really, listen: he does that mina tune, the background, and the additional vocals... of course I have to mention he's doing that while chewing gum. ;D
smartlamppost 2 years ago
@vintagerockdotcom .. it is awesome . .wanna hear the first part of the first impression . .
GregERobertson 1 year ago
Played the (3 piece) vinyl album "Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends" again and again when I was a teenager...
loekie64 2 years ago 3
yes sirs dread! pray and kneel in 2010
ePhilosopher9 2 years ago
You see this and it's no wonder Carl and Keith had nerve problems with their hands...Keith from keyboards and Carl from........Karate, go figure. Hope Keith recovers for another tour next year!
deltaf106a 2 years ago
its a one of a kind 3 in 1 prototype.the apollo, polymoog(?) and the taurus pedals which Keith didnt use.
ELP71 2 years ago
@ELP71
The Apollo synth was what eventually became the Polymoog, and the Lyra was a monophonic synth (the trumpet lines were played on this one). The Lyra never truly got off the ground, although its design did end up being released as the Micromoog and the larger Multimoog.
ClassicTVMan81 1 year ago
I love the part from 2:43 to 7:13 and i love Tarkus.
BoxenRobl 2 years ago
Is it some sort of irony that he sings, ' no computer stands in my way, only blood can cancel my pain'? Just a thought. I still like listening to this song and I have listening since it first come out.
1Samh666 2 years ago
When I first bought BSS and heard this song, I thought for the longest time that Lake said, "No man heels to flies on my shit".
I was 13 at the time. Go figure.
MrUpshotKnothole 2 years ago 2