Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Toccata

Palmer was so cute!

first sythersier band ,and this was only a few albums

This is a diffucult piece of music,the balls these guys had to play this to an audience. This is the elp I like,when Greg Lake's mouth is shut. To bad the clip is incomplete and to bad a clip of them playing aquatarkus doesn't exsist.

Yes it is based off of a piece form Ginistera

is this piece based on some classical toccata or a completely original piece?

I don't think this kind of stuff would still work now..........

@Robusto103 What do you mean "work"?

I know plenty of people personally write, perform, and listen to this type of music, and it works for us.

I don't know: I've always heard it as a sound that was typical of that particular period, and I think it sounds a bit dated now...... but of course, it depends on how it is played: if it's played well, it never sounds dated, whatever it is!!!!!!! ;)

Dated because of the synth sounds? Or perhaps evocative of a time and place? I can understand this, but could counter with, "Well, "The Rite Of Spring" sounds a bit dated now because they didn't have a DJ, or someone triggering a sampler or drum machine.

Music does indeed have it's time and place, but some music will always be timeless to certain predisposed people.

well, I think the comparison with the Rite of Spring is a most unappropriate one: when that piece was first performed, it was a scandal. ELP's music was exactly what the public was looking for at the time: this is not necessarily a bad thing, but some of their stuff is too much influenced by those fashions