Somewhere in the universe is 11 year old me, watching this live on my black and white TV, Queens NY. Now almost 62, I'm left with tears of the joy this band brought me, and the sorrow as my time on Earth grows shorter. ELP were like God's to me. I never imagined I would get old, to write this in September, 2024. But I'm so thankful it lives in perpetuity, here on RUclips.
In April this year (2022), it will be 48 years that my husband attended the Best Concert of his life, "The California Jam". ELP was Great, as were the other bands that played that day. He was in college at Arizona Western and his roommate and teammate on the football team and several dorm friends hopped in a car and headed to Calif. to listened to the the Greatest Music of this Era (70's). When he plays his albums of Rare Earth, Deep Purple, ELP, The Eagles, & Black Sabbath (I know the were a couple others), he will talk about this concert. Great Memories!!!
My cousin went and came back talking about a spinning piano and with an album from a group I never heard of. ELP Brain Salad Surgery. I couldn't believe what i was hearing it just got better better and better.
I was at Cal Jam in 1974 with a group of friends. We managed to make our way to the front before ELP started (which was a feat in itself). At one point Keith Emerson and his organ lifted into the air and started rolling forwards, over and over. My friend and I looked at each other to make sure we were both seeing the same thing. We had been partying since the sun came up that morning, and who knew what was real at that point. ELP was the headliner for this Cal Jam, and this was the peak of their success.
I saw them in Springfield Ma. around 77 and I remember his organ arcing side to side shooting red sparks out of the bottom I was so close I could feel them hit me right before it exploded and the big cabinet in back with the oscilloscope disappeared probably beneath the stage I too had been parting and was ready to pass out right before that happened and it sure brought me back to life.
I believe you didn't know what was real because it wasn't an organ. It was a piano. My cousins were up front and as usual had a bonfire. RIP Greg & Keith.
You guys lucky you saw them live. I live in south africa, those were the days we did not have much live bands touring here. But i was a big fan. ELP, and their style of prog rock was massive here. Roy b, CapeTown south africa 🇿🇦
ELP was my first concert. Saw them at Anaheim Convention Center in 1973 thanks to a pretty girl named Linda A. She started me on my Progressive Rock music tour for life.
Yes. I agree 100%. Go read my thoughts. I wasn't alive yet but they got Me hooked. Many others. They are My favorites. Plus You have Moody Blues, Yes, The Who, Pink Floyd, Ect.
Today's Society Kids cannot FOLLOW or even "fathom" this Sort Of Music Greatness!!! ELP was ALWAYS One of my Favorite Bands, still Listen to 'Em these Days; will NEVER Change nor Deviate from my Music during this Time of my LIFE - LUCKY MAN for me...
At this time in 1974 ELP were THE top grossing Rock band on earth. Both Zeppelin and the Stones didn't tour from mid 73 to mid 75 and these guys came out on top.
Bajista de Emerson, Lake & Palmer y en guitarra más grabó en la acústica, pero también le hacía bien a la eléctrica. Dos de los héroes de Greg Lake en el instrumento eléctrico amplificado fueron Hank Marvin de The Shadows y Jimi Hendrix... De Jimi, Lake dijo:"Nunca olvidaré aquella mañana de 1967 en que mientras me preparaba el desayuno escuchando radio, desprevenido escuché los segundos iniciales de Foxey Lady de The Jimi Hendrix Experience... Supe al instante que algo había cambiado ya en la música, y que iba a ser para siempre"...
Suena a Rockn'roll pero esta sección de la suite Karn Evil 9, no es Rockn'roll convencional. La métrica de la letra y que haya rimado, es muy tenaz eso. Primero fue instrumental, así la tocaban o preparaban. Se la conoció popularmente como Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends... la canción tuvo un pequeño resurgimiento en la década del 90' cuando fue utilizada en un capítulo de la serie Friends. Los adultos que veían la divertida sitcom la recordaron y los jóvenes que fueron la principal audiencia de la serie, empezaron a llamar a las emisoras de rock de sus ciudades para que les programen al aire Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends, sin saber de quienes se trataba, solo mencionando la famosa frase gancho de Lake
El solo de batería más famoso de Carl Palmer, seguidor de Buddy Rich, también amigo personal que lo visitaba a veces para conversar y aprender de su experiencia. Palmer en la actualidad sigue velocísimo... CP es el Velociraptor... 🦖
A los que realmente les gusta esta música, no les importa que el Hall De La Fama del Rockn'roll ni les haya incluido mientras Carl Palmer continúa con vida... Para ellos este es el verdadero Show Que No Se Acaba Nunca
@@pablotorres7436 Lo más curioso de todo es que los inicios de Greg Lake en el bajo eléctrico fueron por "imposición" de Robert Fripp en la primera etapa de King Crimson previa a grabar "In the Court of the Crimson King" (antes de la llegada de Adrian Belew en la formación ochentera del Rey Carmesí, Fripp no quería otro guitarrista en la banda). Recuerdo haber leído en una entrevista que Lake en un principio subestimó las capacidades del bajo eléctrico, pero una vez que empezó a tocar dicho instrumento cambió totalmente de opinión. Y de hecho, la forma de tocar el bajo de Lake fue casi como una especie de "transición" de su trabajo como guitarrista a las 4 cuerdas (no por nada Lake siempre tocaba el bajo con púa).
Each magnificent in their own right. To be able to sing and play guitar like this, play two keyboards at one without looking and to drum without missing a beat and so creatively! Not enough can be said about these guys! Not to mention the revolving drum kit and the spinning piano!
Keith Emerson looked like a dr with his outfit and he also rocked the mullet like nobody's business. Greg had a great mullet when he was a lot younger. I say this as someone who hates mullets lol. 😂
I saw a docu on them and this was the video they played and they showed Carl afterwards going backstage and was fine until he was out of the sight of the audience and then he leaned up against the wall. He was exhausted. One of his drum sets was beautiful and it may have been this one but he had at one point 4 gongs and the church bell that hung up above him. It weighed half of a ton. Ringo Starr has it now. He only had the steel drum set for one tour and he had gotten the makers to engrave animals in it like a bird and a jackrabbit. It was very pretty.
@@l.plantagenet2539 Yes I saw that too. and since no one made drums sets like that out of steel, they had to get a steel fabricator to make the drums. Carl was asked how thick he wanted them he picked the thicker one not realizing the weight. i think the choice was 1/8th or 1/4th of an inch
I saw them Oct 77 10k seat arena. I got to see Keith play a touring modular Moog, live, in person. An instrument that no longer exists and now is in a museum. There are NO touring modular Moogs any more.
According to what the official CalJam site published on its Facebook channel, each group could request a copy of the original tape from ABC of their concert, obviously paying for it. That's how Deep Purple did it and that's why today on their official site you can see their performance in full. ELP unfortunately did not reserve its copy; After some time ABC re-recorded those tapes, losing the content and that is why only incomplete and low-quality parts survived.
Actually all the video is from this concert . It is just that There is no live video of the 1st 3 minutes so the remaster used audio from a different concert, Mixed it with video of the last part and It goes to the the actual live video for part 2.
GOTTA SEE THE SHOW... TOO BAD I WAS ONLY 5 YEARS OLS BACK IN 1974. It has been my great pleasure to meet Carl over a dozen times and have him as a guest on my radio show. Sadly I never met Greg or Keith .. I will always love these guys. WAXX TRAXX TO THE MAXX ON WUSB.FM NY .
Somewhere in the universe is 11 year old me, watching this live on my black and white TV, Queens NY. Now almost 62, I'm left with tears of the joy this band brought me, and the sorrow as my time on Earth grows shorter. ELP were like God's to me. I never imagined I would get old, to write this in September, 2024. But I'm so thankful it lives in perpetuity, here on RUclips.
Man, Palmer is on fire in this one
Carl was always on fire.
In April this year (2022), it will be 48 years that my husband attended the Best Concert of his life, "The California Jam". ELP was Great, as were the other bands that played that day. He was in college at Arizona Western and his roommate and teammate on the football team and several dorm friends hopped in a car and headed to Calif. to listened to the the Greatest Music of this Era (70's). When he plays his albums of Rare Earth, Deep Purple, ELP, The Eagles, & Black Sabbath (I know the were a couple others), he will talk about this concert. Great Memories!!!
My cousin went and came back talking about a spinning piano and with an album from a group I never heard of. ELP Brain Salad Surgery. I couldn't believe what i was hearing it just got better better and better.
Black Oak Arkansas, Seal & Crofts
They were Masters of their instruments & Composed amazing music, The Best of the Best !
ELP always used as a synonym for over indulgent prog rock. But you just can't f*ck with how amazing these guys were.
Now we have over indulgent crap that doesn't deliver 1/10 of what they did, or even sing alive.
The amount of talent and energy encapsulated in ELP is freaking amazing to witness
One of the greatest bands in the history of R and R .. LONG LIVE THE MEMORY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Greg’s underrated guitar work is insane in this performance! And it’s not drowned out in the mix! Thanks!!!!!!
Monster drum solo... I've never seen better!
This awesome performance by ELP should be totally remastered. Full show, no edits.
Why are these guys NOT in the R & R Hall of Fame? They have more talent in their finger nail than 90% of the ones in it.
No room for them, the R&R HoF needs to make room for the likes of Donna Summer and the Osmond Brothers. Best ELP is not included in that group.
Agreed
I agree. They belong there.
@@whaheydelee I said the same about Yes before they were (finally) inducted...some bands are so good they transcend the HoF.
@@mathematrucker Yeah man, the HoF is one place that will never make my bucket list.
I was at Cal Jam in 1974 with a group of friends. We managed to make our way to the front before ELP started (which was a feat in itself). At one point Keith Emerson and his organ lifted into the air and started rolling forwards, over and over. My friend and I looked at each other to make sure we were both seeing the same thing. We had been partying since the sun came up that morning, and who knew what was real at that point. ELP was the headliner for this Cal Jam, and this was the peak of their success.
I saw them in Springfield Ma. around 77 and I remember his organ arcing side to side shooting red sparks out of the bottom I was so close I could feel them hit me right before it exploded and the big cabinet in back with the oscilloscope disappeared probably beneath the stage I too had been parting and was ready to pass out right before that happened and it sure brought me back to life.
I believe you didn't know what was real because it wasn't an organ. It was a piano. My cousins were up front and as usual had a bonfire. RIP Greg & Keith.
@@oldmanghost219 , you're right. It was a grand piano.
You guys lucky you saw them live. I live in south africa, those were the days we did not have much live bands touring here. But i was a big fan. ELP, and their style of prog rock was massive here. Roy b, CapeTown south africa 🇿🇦
ELP, nothing compares! 🔥👍
this was one of those bands who are ahead of their time and underrated, but great,
In my opinion, ELP is probably the most technical rock band of all time.
Fripp's crews with Crimson in 2014-2022 are top flight technical rock.
Yes ?
@@OhAncientOne Okay, in the top five.
No contest.
They were, Emerson was referred to at times as the father of 1970's progressive rock.
Greg and Keith, GOATs, how much we miss you and ELP!
Carl thankfully is still with us!
ELP was my first concert. Saw them at Anaheim Convention Center in 1973 thanks to a pretty girl named Linda A. She started me on my Progressive Rock music tour for life.
Kieth moon John bonham Neil pert we’re great drummers, but Carl Palmer
Was from another planet!!!!
Strong Buddy Rich influence.
@@GCKelloch Weird, I was thinking same. And good god he was a monster.
And the early seventies, They were on my radio and tape player all the time, Love Emerson lake and Palmer
man! what intensity! looking at them play with such intensity, I feel faitgued!!!
There he is, with his chewing gum. If Greg is happy with it I am happy too. Best voice ever
Yes. I agree 100%. Go read my thoughts. I wasn't alive yet but they got Me hooked. Many others.
They are My favorites. Plus You have Moody Blues, Yes, The Who, Pink Floyd, Ect.
@@susielong115 smart Susy! ❤️
@@susielong115 I like the ones you named especially Pink Floyd. Got to see when I was in my 20s. Amazing.
A lot of singers use the chewing gum to moisten the throat while singing. Lennon did it as well.
If you're doing a lot of stimulants, such as coke or meth, you chew gum so you won't grind your teeth. Greg was always chewing, in every video.
I was there as a senior in High School. What a show!
Lit and FIRED! These guys man and power their instruments like ROCKETS! MY GOD! I don't are where, just take me on that flight!
hush children, masters are at work.....try and follow this in todays world....
Today's Society Kids cannot FOLLOW or even "fathom" this Sort Of Music Greatness!!! ELP was ALWAYS One of my Favorite Bands, still Listen to 'Em these Days; will NEVER Change nor Deviate from my Music during this Time of my LIFE - LUCKY MAN for me...
I was there ..Brain Salad Surgery ..the best prog/classical Rock fusions and Live ..amazing set of ELP ..'74
Incorporating so many different styles of music combined into one song!!!! They were truly a phenomenom, miss seeing them.
Not Keith Emerson looking like Dr. Frankenstein in that outfit. He definitely was a genius musical mad scientist.
They were not men, they were GODS.... Thank you for posting this awesome vid!
Not even sweating playing this high energy music.was there '74 by far the best group in the line up..
At this time in 1974 ELP were THE top grossing Rock band on earth.
Both Zeppelin and the Stones didn't tour from mid 73 to mid 75 and these guys came out on top.
This has always been one of my favorite songs!
Where the hell did carl get the energy to play like that ever night
Richie Blackmore, the loud mouthed guitarist from deep purple,said DP would blow ELP off the stage
Hey Rich, how did that go down?
This music is still from the future.
Bajista de Emerson, Lake & Palmer y en guitarra más grabó en la acústica, pero también le hacía bien a la eléctrica. Dos de los héroes de Greg Lake en el instrumento eléctrico amplificado fueron Hank Marvin de The Shadows y Jimi Hendrix... De Jimi, Lake dijo:"Nunca olvidaré aquella mañana de 1967 en que mientras me preparaba el desayuno escuchando radio, desprevenido escuché los segundos iniciales de Foxey Lady de The Jimi Hendrix Experience... Supe al instante que algo había cambiado ya en la música, y que iba a ser para siempre"...
Suena a Rockn'roll pero esta sección de la suite Karn Evil 9, no es Rockn'roll convencional. La métrica de la letra y que haya rimado, es muy tenaz eso. Primero fue instrumental, así la tocaban o preparaban. Se la conoció popularmente como Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends... la canción tuvo un pequeño resurgimiento en la década del 90' cuando fue utilizada en un capítulo de la serie Friends. Los adultos que veían la divertida sitcom la recordaron y los jóvenes que fueron la principal audiencia de la serie, empezaron a llamar a las emisoras de rock de sus ciudades para que les programen al aire Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends, sin saber de quienes se trataba, solo mencionando la famosa frase gancho de Lake
El solo de batería más famoso de Carl Palmer, seguidor de Buddy Rich, también amigo personal que lo visitaba a veces para conversar y aprender de su experiencia. Palmer en la actualidad sigue velocísimo... CP es el Velociraptor... 🦖
A los que realmente les gusta esta música, no les importa que el Hall De La Fama del Rockn'roll ni les haya incluido mientras Carl Palmer continúa con vida... Para ellos este es el verdadero Show Que No Se Acaba Nunca
@@pablotorres7436 Lo más curioso de todo es que los inicios de Greg Lake en el bajo eléctrico fueron por "imposición" de Robert Fripp en la primera etapa de King Crimson previa a grabar "In the Court of the Crimson King" (antes de la llegada de Adrian Belew en la formación ochentera del Rey Carmesí, Fripp no quería otro guitarrista en la banda). Recuerdo haber leído en una entrevista que Lake en un principio subestimó las capacidades del bajo eléctrico, pero una vez que empezó a tocar dicho instrumento cambió totalmente de opinión. Y de hecho, la forma de tocar el bajo de Lake fue casi como una especie de "transición" de su trabajo como guitarrista a las 4 cuerdas (no por nada Lake siempre tocaba el bajo con púa).
Wow you REALLY improved the sound quality! Thank you! Night and day from the other uploads!
It's a great job of video editing with HQ sound (mix studio and live)
Great job I was there at 16 with freinds awesome concert at ontario speeway April 6th 74
@@RockbertoRocks That mix is only the 1st 3 minutes. There rest is the actual live video.
These guys were made for this album
Great live performance
EXCELENTE! SALUDOS DESDE VENEZUELA 🇻🇪✌️😎
Yep, from south africa.
Carl's 50yd stare says it all.
Each magnificent in their own right. To be able to sing and play guitar like this, play two keyboards at one without looking and to drum without missing a beat and so creatively! Not enough can be said about these guys! Not to mention the revolving drum kit and the spinning piano!
I was there. It was awesome, but I was very stoned and I only have bits and pieces of memories!
No need to ask why boomers hate today’s pop music!!!
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂👏👏👏👏👏👏
Amen
Keith Emerson looked like a dr with his outfit and he also rocked the mullet like nobody's business. Greg had a great mullet when he was a lot younger. I say this as someone who hates mullets lol. 😂
apparently you don't even know what a mullet is. Look up mullet pics and you will see.
Yeah, um, this was well before mullets were a thing.
I like every ELP-Fan!
12 minutes of beating the drums...wow he had to be exhausted!
No way 😎
I saw a docu on them and this was the video they played and they showed Carl afterwards going backstage and was fine until he was out of the sight of the audience and then he leaned up against the wall. He was exhausted. One of his drum sets was beautiful and it may have been this one but he had at one point 4 gongs and the church bell that hung up above him. It weighed half of a ton. Ringo Starr has it now. He only had the steel drum set for one tour and he had gotten the makers to engrave animals in it like a bird and a jackrabbit. It was very pretty.
Greg was so pretty with that vocal range he had.
@@l.plantagenet2539 Yes I saw that too. and since no one made drums sets like that out of steel, they had to get a steel fabricator to make the drums. Carl was asked how thick he wanted them he picked the thicker one not realizing the weight. i think the choice was 1/8th or 1/4th of an inch
@@l.plantagenet2539 That set is now owned by the Modern Drummer Museum. Danny Carey bid on it.
I saw them Oct 77 10k seat arena.
I got to see Keith play a touring modular Moog, live, in person.
An instrument that no longer exists and now is in a museum.
There are NO touring modular Moogs any more.
I remember all the buzz about Moog back in the day from my musician friends. It was the tits.
Please!! It’s called Karn Evil 9 1st Impression and they actually did all three impressions at that concert. You can see syncd vids on CalJam threads.
1:38 beautiful piece!!
Greg Lake, John Lennon, Eric Clapton and Ted Turner from (Wishbone Ash) are my favorites. *
Check out some Terry Ried if you haven't already!
After sall these years WHY can't the full concert be released?? Supposedly ABC has the tapes in storage somewhere. WTF is the issue????
I've been asking myself this question for many years, why do abc still keep full versions of the concerts of ELP, Black Sabbath
Lawyers and Money .
@garyscarlett5471 Bingo- money. It's always money.
According to what the official CalJam site published on its Facebook channel, each group could request a copy of the original tape from ABC of their concert, obviously paying for it. That's how Deep Purple did it and that's why today on their official site you can see their performance in full. ELP unfortunately did not reserve its copy; After some time ABC re-recorded those tapes, losing the content and that is why only incomplete and low-quality parts survived.
These three make Cream look like raw amateurs...
Carl Palmer can’t do that single stroke roll..neither can I. He is one of my drum heroes.
Buddy Rich about Carl " I've never seen such precision, speed, technique and power"
WOW Carl !!!
Nice job of dubbing in the welcome back my friends album on the video
Are the other performances from this show in the works? This is GREAT!
RUclips has the entire broadcast production. This was all on TV (at a later date) - all 8 bands can be found!
Sublime
And we thought Keith Moon was wild !!!
EXCELLENT!! Said the Les Paul Player from TEXAS!!!!!!!!!!******!!!!!!!!!!!
😂❤😂
Anyone noticed this is not the video for this performance?
Actually all the video is from this concert . It is just that There is no live video of the 1st 3 minutes so the remaster used audio from a different concert, Mixed it with video of the last part and It goes to the the actual live video for part 2.
Nice editing! The Pt 1 is from their live album not California Jam. ☹️
Right... It goes to the the actual live video for part 2.
Are they chewing gum???
Three men orchestra
Not one single Tom moves one single micron
First time I heard this as a teenager I thought it was The Who
Wonder what their gum budget was...
"and don dupoy can LMAO 🤣 and put a price on isis for a change!"
GOTTA SEE THE SHOW... TOO BAD I WAS ONLY 5 YEARS OLS BACK IN 1974. It has been my great pleasure to meet Carl over a dozen times and have him as a guest on my radio show. Sadly I never met Greg or Keith .. I will always love these guys. WAXX TRAXX TO THE MAXX ON WUSB.FM NY .