Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Toccata

Emerson, Lake and Palmer performing Toccata at Cal Jam in 1974.

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Music

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• Emerson
• Lake
• Palmer
• ELP
• Toccata
• California
• Jam
• 1974

[cykoaudio777]

if anyone doesn't like this,but you like Green Day, please stop commenting all together,PLEASE,pretty please don't go on youbube at all,or if you like Clapton and are still stuck fighting over that s#t#t from 40 years ago,please leave,if you don't see the genius in this,prob cuz you can't read music,which all 3 of them CAN..so read a book on music history,listen to some classical first,then learn to read music,then get back here

[rts100x5]

The simple fact that they could bring this inSANE masterpiece from the studio to a live gig is SHEAR FUK BALLS GENIUS !!!!! very few EVER realized how this band was decades ahead of ANYONE is the music industry ..........

[Lurtzman1]

@cykoaudio777 I was with you for the first bit, but when you ripped on Slowhand, you lost me. Just because someone got popular making simpler music than ELP back in the day does not make them bad. In fact, Cream is one of my top 10 favorite bands of all time, whereas ELP is at about 13. Complexity isn't everything.

[mytchk]

merci!!

[nirvsgard]

That was real music, art, talent: Pink Floyd, Yes, ELP, J.Tull, Zeppelin, Sabbath,...

[flowerpower6820]

EL&P take me back to the 70's... so good times!!!

[MegaCrusher99]

This has got to be the weirdest song i've ever heard, but I love it!

[pithor]

Ahhh! So excellent!

ELP and YES concerts for me! Been to several throughout the years.

Feeling sorry for today’s lame ass G-chord strumming generation.

[sandygort]

@ratbiter To check behind myself I looked up Toccata in the dictionary as I was thinking it’s a form a compositional style. It states “a composition in the free style of organ, piano, etc. generally characterized by the use of full chords and running passages”. There are numerous classical compositions that include Toccata in their title. As I stated, the video picks this up halfway through. If you would like to hear more & have I-Tunes a good sample is included at their store.

[ratbiter]

@sandygort I'll have to find the other half before I can accept it, and I look forward to being proved wrong, The part in this video doesn't sound anything like the Toccata I know (Well at least the more popular part as I realize the tune is possibly a lot longer that that often played etc) Many restaurants serve a fish that's called rock salmon, it's printed as such on their menus, people ask for it by that name, But I've yet to see a menu or anyone ask for it by it's correct name "Dogfish"

[sandygort]

@ratbiter Specifically, this is entitled “Toccata (An adaption of Ginastera’s 1st Piano Concerto 4th Movement”. This was done with Ginastera’s permission and he quoted “Keith Emerson has beautifully caught the mood of my piece”. This video only shows half the song. But if the composer calls it Toccata, Keith Emerson calls it Toccata, and in 1973 Atlantic Recording printed it as Toccata, then it is Toccata.

[ratbiter]

@sandygort Just because they call it Toccata doesn't make it Toccata. Like I said they are a great band and have produced many great tunes (love their cover of Nutrocker) and I'm sure they could cover Toccata just as well in their own style, but Toccata will always be Toccata can't post a link but a quick search on Youtube "sky" + "Toccata" will find a great cover by another great band.