The Nice (feat. Keith Emerson) - America (1968)
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
- The Nice were an English progressive rock band active in the late 1960s. They blended rock, jazz and classical music and were keyboardist Keith Emerson's first commercially successful band.
The group was formed in 1967 by Emerson, Lee Jackson, David O'List and Ian Hague to back soul singer P. P. Arnold. After replacing Hague with Brian Davison, the group set out on their own, quickly developing a strong live following. The group's sound was centred on Emerson's Hammond organ showmanship and abuse of the instrument, and their radical rearrangements of classical music themes and Bob Dylan songs.
Love this amazing track by The Nice… Keith Emerson created a phenomenally thrilling, dynamic sound on the keyboards… I remember feeling quite sad when they split up!
is ken dodd on drums?
@@malcolmthornhill9165 Could well be… I heard that his famous ‘tickling sticks’ evolved from the snare brushes he used as a jazz percussionist!
@@malcolmthornhill9165 Brian Davison, great drummer, was the Nice's drummer. RIP, Brian!
Er war ein Genie! Was Hendrix an der Gitarre war war er am Keyboard.
“America is pregnant with promise and anticipation, but is murdered by the hand of the inevitable.”
What a time and how god damn young we were ... 😮
I 'll never look at another picture of Lyndon B Johnson, Robert F Kennedy, or a Campbell soup can without this organ riff playing in my head!🤣🤣🤣
very very good band.............................................
The Nice was Keith Emerson's group, a progressive rock band that was a precursor to Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
thanks for enlightning us on something we already knew ,you clever twat
Davy O'List on guitar! my fave
He had a bad habit of leaving great bands after 1 album, and the bands were never as great after that. (Attack/The Nice/Jet). Probably the only guy good enough and odd enough to temporarily replace She Barrett!
Auto correction strikes again! Not she...Syd!
@@f.w.2054And of course, played with Roxy Music, was also on the ground level with Black Sabbath & Jethro Tull...
Meine Lieblingsversion von der LP
Excellent version of the song & very poignant for 1968
And for 2021.
Thank you emerson
Damn, the VFX on this thing, back when everything was practical. Reminds me of how absolutely genius the Ghostbusters' VFX is.
Given that Yes had covered Simon and Garfunkel's "America", that's what I was expecting, being far too young to have known about The Nice's cover of the West Side Story song. After having read about it, it's pretty obvious why it didn't get any rotation on the classic rock stations here in the US unlike Yes and ELP.
Actually, I first heard the Nice on WBCN, an underground station that evolved into a classic rock station. This was released in 1968. The Nice disbanded in 1979 so Keith could form a more popular group, ELP. I never hear 21st Century Schizoid Man by King Crimson on classic rock stations. Classic rock stations play cuts by the most popular groups. The Nice were just about to break through in the United States when Emerson left for more commercial success with ELP. Bands like The Nice, early King Crimson, Gabriel era Genesis sold well, comparatively speaking, but not in excess of 10 million records like Yes, ELP, or later Genesis did. You will hear earlier bands like Cream and Hendrix, for example, but those guys were album sales juggernauts.
Nice !
Nice to meet emerson
Juventud divino tesoro,época de cambios
Magic great days 🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟🐟
Vom "Roten Album" - teils live aus dem Madison Square garden, great Album !
Nice video
The nice where sooo nice at songs that is
I'm surprised this wasn't live.
Was the organ intro pre-recorded? Sounds like a pipe or reed organ, not a Hammond at all (listen to the way the notes swell - a Hammond is on/off keying, plus optional percussive attack, but it can't do the slow rise like a reed/pipe organ).
Sadly the whole song is mimed. The original organ intro was a pipe organ.
@@bobsmith1956 There are live versions you can see on RUclips.
Keith
An absolute favourite from my youth. So cool. So anti-American. Punk elements. Whoever that guitarist is! Unfortunately overshadowed by Keith’s brilliance.
Yeah,im surprised they let him into the USA after once burning the stars and stripes on stage,also the Kennedy undertones in this.take care
anti american? he blew his liberal brains out.
Davy O'List was the guitarist
Damn!!No flag burning here!
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"The Nice...was a precursor to [ELP]..."
Youre kidding, right?
Or:
THANK, YEWWWW!
Yes, Keith was the star. But not enough is said about the rest of the band.
Brian Davison was a monster jazz drummer.
Davy O’List was more psychedelic than Prog. Shortly after this he would leave and years later almost join Roxy Music.
Lee Jackson though, really couldn’t sing, and being a bass player myself, can say he’s good, but not great. Greg Lake can do both better.
Didn't Keith play on Arthur Brown's Fire
..Vincent Crane, later of Atomic Rooster on Hammond.
Carl Palmer was the drummer on Arthur Brown's "Fire".
You guessed the wrong member of ELP.
I know as soon as I sent it Keith was in Nice I f..... Up
Stare,ale jare...Vlodi
Andy Warhol CAMPBELL'S TOMATO SOUP.
Martin Luther King.
...wow, poignant images of the political scene in the US! I'd still rather see Keith and the boys miming, than those ugly scenes.
Then you missed the point
@@johnkulpowich5260 ..no, you did.
@@juliusschwencke142 the music of the 60s was about war injustice. You missed the point
@@johnkulpowich5260 ..really? Purple haze, Sunshine of your love, Light my Fire? Get a life dipstick..!
@Geoffrey Darcy ..another dipstick!
Bernstein HATED this version of America. I'm not sure why the NIce were even allowed to play it.
But when you listen to the original from WSS, it is essentially the same message.
Fuck Bernstein!!
My last name is Bernstein also, no relation
As an American, we haven’t given a fuck about what the British think about us since 1776.
You should…because the short American history and present is full of crime, although its a beautiful country
Wow, that explains SO much.......
ian, you do not speak for all Americans. Some care about how our allies feel about Us. We are partners in many things. Many British soldiers have died side by side with our young soldiers. Its a long time since 1776.
Triggered little Ian 😁 You enjoyed stealing our computer tech and the nazi space program though 👍😁
@@CdEmm50 We also enjoyed stealing your status as the world power😉