I saw this album in a record store on sale. I bought it without any idea who ELP was, or even what the album's title was. I was drawn to the cover art, but I didn't know it was HR Giger's work. On first listen, I wondered what the hell I had bought. It wasn't until Karn Evil #9 that I realized that this album was a work of genius. It was my introduction to ELP and their entire back catalogue.
I saw ELP live at Charlotte Motor Speedway NC at the August Jam 1974 (google it )they had a Quadraphonic sound system and it was huge but the sound coming from those monster stacks was totally mind dissolving !!! The sound swirled in the hot night air like nothing I ever experienced before or since !!!
I bought myself my first stereo 'record player' as a teenager. Amazing to think we heard every recording and broadcast in mono before then! This album was one of very few to really exploit the new technology and I was gobsmacked!
As Official Archivist of ELP and Employee of Carl Palmer currently, I thoroughly enjoyed this 1000% Very well done. See you on The next Return of ELP Carl Palmer Tour. Come by the Merch table and buy something and say hello.
Wow! My heart missed a beat there! I thought you were going to tell me off over using some of your images! I’m so glad to hear you liked the video and I would consider it a great honour if you could somehow pass a link to Carl himself and (and seriously here) Jim Davidson if you know him. Seriously, I am humbled to be writing this in a way and grinning like a Cheshire cat.
I saw Carl do a show in Saratoga, CA before COVID. He was doing double duty with his own band and with Asia. He was having a blast playing the old ELP numbers and bringing out Arthur Brown to strut around the stage. The kid he has playing guitar is brilliant... he was doing a lot of Keith's keyboard parts on the guitar. From my seat fairly close to the stage, I got the impression that Carl is genuinely a nice guy. I regret never seeing Keith or Greg live. But I'm thrilled I could see Carl play the ELP classics.
Carl invited the audience to meet him at the merch table on the first date of that tour with Arthur Brown, Todd Rundgren and Yes. He was so nice to us fans, signing any merch we bought, answering questions and being the absolute cool guy I've always imagined him to be.
ELP was the epitome of originality and creative genius. The '70's was a hugely inspired period in music and art, and ELP will be remembered as a front-runner.
I am a lifelong 'foam at the mouth' ELP fan, and Brain Salad Surgery was truly their apex in every possible way; musically, creatively, lyrically, and performance-wise with the incredible 73-74 world tour that followed. Here were three of the greatest and most talented musicians in Rock, at the absolute top of their game, creating and performing some of the best music they would ever conceive of in their lifetimes, and performing it at a time when their chosen genre of Progressive Rock was cresting in popularity and acceptance. The Stars truly aligned for ELP in 73 and 74. My compliments to the creator of this documentary. I am very familiar with ELP video footage and music, and I just can't imagine where you dug up those rare video clips and audio outtakes, but I tip my hat to thee Sir !
I got through it many many times for many years. An absolute touchstone of an album for me. One of the greatest. I should add that the first time I heard it was around 1978 while playing a board game at a friends house. His older brother played it several times in a row. The first time it was alien to me. By the third time I was hooked for life.
I totally agree with what you are saying here real nyc. Punk didn't kill Prog, Prog killed Prog, or as you say "it came to it's naturel end". People always forget to mention the ELP, Yes and Genesis all had top 10 hits around the time Punk was happening.
The first 4 ELP albums were just astounding. I especially enjoyed the first album Emerson Lake & Palmer . BSS took everything to a new level . Just brilliant. 😂❤
I saw ELP on stage in the early 1970’s and became a lifelong fan. I was heart broken to hear Keith took his own life. Rest In Peace Keith and Greg. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
For about four short years ELP were the greatest rock group in the world. Saw the BSS World Tour in San Diego and at the California Jam. Best concerts I ever saw, bar none.
Can I just say, what’s been incredible about this series for me, going all the way back to the early Genesis docs, is how albums that I used to pass over time and time again have now either gained my appreciation or have become my favorite albums (I’m looking at you, Topographic). These mini documentaries are everything that “Sum of the Parts” and “Yesspeak” should have been and more. I look forward to these like a kid looks forward to the ice cream truck. With that said, this was another outstanding addition and I cannot wait for more. You’re doing a real service to the Prog community and I wanted to express my admiration. Thank you.
I get what you're saying. Considering I am making this in my spare time with basic-level software, (I barely know) the documentary output by the bands themselves is hugely disappointing. Especially when you consider they are sat on a goldmine of knowledge, outtakes, photos etc.
@@progrockdocs All the more reason I wanted to express my appreciation. They’ve become my go-to’s since coming across the “Lamb” doc last year. Really well done! Looking forward to (and donating to) future releases.
@@comfortat could not agree more! Loads of great tunes and musical moments on it, particularly “Onward” and “Release,Release”. The production is a bit lacking, but the spark and charm is still there.
Topographic has always been at my Top lol!!I get the ups and downs of it, but I'm on the I love it side since I own shirt of album cover hahahaha!!ita not my only top, very brand range I'd say!! Also,I agree about quality of this documentary as well as the genesis 1s,they're all BETTER than stuff put out by money clamoring suits,barely any quality!!!so I get it 😁✌️🍻
I'm absolutely stunned. This video made me realize just how disproportionate is my love for this album as compared to what I actually know about it... Thank you rael, you are a true prophet of prog.
As a huge ELP fan, I can't tell you how delighted I was with this. Watched it twice in succession. I still listen to ELP virtually everyday (great music to work out to). Its hard to imagine that, with the way we all felt about BSS back in the day, that this could ever be an underrated album - but it is. So much attention to detail from you- I was overwhelmed. Prog was the child of genius, but genius is hard to control- so much easier to control guys who learned to play just last week- also so much easier to replace them. (All you have to do is dumb down the taste of the listeners- Disney Radio anyone?)
For those that don't know, and are nerdy enough about synthesizers to care like me 🤓, the Apollo polyphonic synthesizer Keith had was the first prototype and part of the Moog Constellation system which can be seen in the lower left hand corner of the image shown between 6:45 and 6:48 of this video. It consisted of the Lyra monophonic solo synth on top of the Apollo and there was a Taurus bass pedal synth on the floor. I wanted to point this out since most of what is shown while the Apollo is being talked about is the large Moog Modular system which was also customized for Keith by Moog and looks mightily impressive indeed but isn't polyphonic, at least not in the normal sense. For those who want to know more, Marc Doty has a good video on the somewhat convoluted history of the Apollo instrument ruclips.net/video/_AXcFobja7o/видео.html
I saw ELP at virtually every SoCal concert, including California Jam. It is impossible to explain the effect their music had on me. The loss of Keith and Greg was a huge blow. I still listen to all their albums on a regular basis.
During this foul, wicked Russian war, each night millions of Patriotic Americans gather around their television sets to watch as Ukraine hands blow after lethal blow to their trespassers and to reclaim their blessed country. You are winning your fight. Your victory will ignite the souls of Earth. YOU ARE A GOOD AND JUST PEOPLE.
@@Keima_Katsuragi. In mainstream America, most of us understand this war is Putin's folly.....it is not the desire of the people of mainstream Russia. The Russian people are being made to suffer by a man who believes his desires are far more important than what is in the very best interests the Russian citizen. He is screwing over all of the beautiful Russian people.He hates people.
This album goes over the top of many people's heads but to me it is in my top two albums of all time. Together with Yes's Relayer it gets me exited and brings me to tears loving it so much. There is so much beautiful intricacy that it boggles the mind.
I stopped what I was doing just to see this. Professionally done with images and sound mixes I've never heard b/4. I loved it. One can clearly see the love you have for ELP.
This has been one of my favorite bands. A Boston radio station named wbcn invited a group of us to hang out in the studio with the band. Towards the end of the night I was invited to Philadelphia Tower theaters to see the Bands dress rehearsal for the Black Moon tour in the early 90s. Greatest show in heaven hell or Earth.
I was at that Tower Theater show! I brought my then 16-year-old cousin Marty with me, and they totally blew his mind. I'll never forget hìs slack-jawed expression as he watched these three guys producing more music than should be possible from only three musicians.
I truly love this album. It was basically my introduction to prog, together with Yes' Close To The Edge and Renaissance's Ashes Are Burning as I got the three of them together from someone who was inexplicably getting rid of his record collection
Cheers man, I really appreciate the positive feedback. It means a lot to me that I am making so many people happy and helping to celebrate this fine music.
Thank you very much for this documentary about one of the best rock albums of all time and not just prog. BSS was truly a landmark album and your documentary does ELP fair justice . Cheers! :-)
Was there also,unfortunately didn’t get inside,only had enough money for the rapid transit. I think it was played in quad ,the new innovation,it was quite loud even outside the stadium
Wonderful Historic value! Everything about ELP has always fascinated me since I discovered them with Tarkus and as they became bigger so did my passion for them. I finally got to see them live in their glory heydays for this tour (Brain Salad '73) and Works with the orchestra. There will never be another ELP, you have done them great honor with your masterful documentary, Thanks!
My brother took me to my first big gig when I was a kid, it was ELP at Liverpool Empire in 1974. When the computer exploded at the end I almost crapped myself. Loads of memories of that day. RIP Keith, Greg and our kid, and keep on rocking' Carl.
You've never listened to it in one sitting??? The mind is boggled as to how else one would listen to the albums of that era... Those of us who did, would lay flat on our backs on the floor, with massive headphones on, perhaps some colored lights, or just a dim light, and listen while letting our souls be swept away by the feelings such music inspired. Peace
@@progrockdocs LOL... But then you miss that Carl Palmer ending where it sounds like it's going around in circles inside your headphones. And then it goes faster and faster and faster... amazing ending.
As a long term ELP fan there was a lot in this video new to me to enjoy. I saw them at Wembley, on the Brain Salad Surgery tour. What a show that was. Greatest rock concert I've ever been to. I think ELP transcended the Prog Rock genre, they were much more than that. Lighthearted but very well contructed songs like Benny the Bouncer were an essential part of their work, as were the ballads by Greg Lake.
That white suit that Greg Lake had on was that the inspiration for Jimmy Page to have a white suit?....except his had poppies and dragons on it..(circa early 1977) 😉 I'd give an arm and a leg to see this band live and Led Zeppelin too and I was into EL.P. at the time I was younger.
Another great documentary. So far, your choice of bands in this series aligns perfectly with what I was listening to at the time. Can't wait for the next one! 🙂
I remember getting the flexi disc with NME. Ironically, NME hated the band and the pun on enemy in the lyrics is appropriate. My mum bought me the album for Christmas 73. To add to the joy, my school invited Carl's percussion teacher James Blades to talk to us and show us some mind boggling rhythms. This is an awesome documentary. Thank you.
NME was the New Musical Express, a music paper in England which was critical of prog bands. It usually complained about pretentious music, but it was itself full of pretentious writing.
had a nasty morning going till your magnificent vid popped up, half hour later all is bright again, thanks! What a brilliant piece of love and devotion to ELP, superb production too, thanks for this!
This was positively brilliant! You really did a great job documenting and describing what is for my money, the greatest Progressive Rock album ever made. I really applaud your efforts. I have been a die-hard ELP fan for more than 40 years, and you did their finest work true justice!!!
Brilliant. Bravo. A lifelong ELP fan (I own the GX1 EMO played in Montreal for the Fanfare video) I hardly knew any of this. Thank you for your passion to give birth to this.
Benny the bouncer is pure filler. ELP was a cover band, they never recorded one album that contained 100% original material. So, never enter R&R Hall of Fame. They covered 10 other composers. True Fact.
@@dancochrane5577, how thoughtful. The Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra never made an album of 100% original material, either. ELP took classical music and made them their own. That is not what a cover band is. You don't think Yes borrowed heavily from classical composers? Your reasoning on why they aren't in the RRHoF is patently absurd. Now run along...
I think it was in 1976 when I became aware of this magnificent album by a band of only three members. When I finished listening to the tracks my life would not be the same as before. It was as if lightning had struck in the middle of a road and made a huge crater. This was really my impression! ⚡💥🔥✨🌟
THIS DOCUMENTARY IS EXELLENT, IS RELLY RESCUE THE ESSENCE OF THIS HUGE BAND THAT WAS ELP, THE PART WHO TALK ABOUT DE COVER OF BRIAN SALAD SURGERY IS AMAZING , ALL THE HISTORY OFTHE ARTWORK , MY BEST WISHES FOR THIS CHANNEL
You always surprise me with your videos - as a massive ELP fan Id like to thank you for your wonderful documentary, spreading the "good word"! All the best Valentin
I have much to say about all you present here, all of which boils down to sincere thanks for this. I saw ELP twice in the 70s with the “flying piano,” once with orchestra at Madison Square Garden and once without an upstate New York, I believe at Cornell University. After that, well… you put it in perspective nicely, about how and why I couldn’t go on forever. I am so glad you rebuffed The notion that “punk killed prog;” it was a reaction, surely, but that is what all music is about. Thank you again.
I was lucky to see ELP in mid-70's Curtis Hickson Hall, Tampa, FL. I rediscovered them last week and am so glad I did. Once again, I can't stop listening to this "Best of all time" band. Definitely one of the best classic rock ever!
I listened to it straight through in one sitting. What an incredible experience right to the end with the quad synth sequencer sound rolling around the room.
I have never tired of this album since first listening to it in 1974. My friend, John Oris, and I discussed how it would be the “classical” music in future generations
High school-age me would have flipped his lid for this channel. I was a massive classic prog fan (can't stomach the post-70's stuff like Marillion) at a time when American Idol was considered the peak of popular music. These days i don't revisit the classics as much as I used to religiously, but ELP and Crimson still get a spell of play a few times a year. So lucky to have chanced on this channel.
This is an excellent presentation of Brain Salad Surgery, well done. In SE Louisiana I was part of a group of hard core prog rock fans, scooping up all we could find of King Crimson, The Strawbs, YES, and more. We were anxiously awaiting BSS and we all drove up to Baton Rouge in March 1974 to see ELP at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. We got there many hours before opening and was first in-line, watched through the doors Keith walking around in his bombers jacket during sound check, then as the doors opened we were first up hanging on the stage. My good friend standing next to me was given by Keith his wine bottle he was drinking from. At the end of the computer battle with the ascending computer loop and the bat wings when the explosion went off the first 8 rows of attendees fell down (windowpane acid helped with that). Easily the best concert I ever attended out of dozens. Caught the band later in Albuquerque, NM during the Black Moon tour. I do not think punk rock was much of an effect on prog rock, YES managed to eek out through all of this though their musical journey changed back and forth and ebbed and flowed but to this day they are hanging on with new music but with so many gone now once Steve Howe and maybe even Jon Anderson finishes their careers what remains will be basically a tribute band.
This was wonderful rael nyc. I have no friends today and very few at the time of this records release and was a loner even during the time of this records release when I was a teenager of 18 yr. I almost fell to the floor when I saw the poster art of the show dates of one of the concerts that I attended at the Baltimore Civic Center. I vividly remember the spinning piano in the air along with the spinning drum set. When I tell people today about that concert and the Rick Wakeman "Journey to the Center of the Earth," concert that I saw at the same venue with inflatable dinosaurs fighting on stage with a full orchestra and rock band, people say "yeah right." Thank you for proving that these things did exist. I think that I have a new friend now.
Hey, stick around here - ever night is a party in this comments section! To be honest, I get where you are coming from and feel that these videos allow me to truly express myself in ways that people I know in (real) life don't see. It's here (by you guys) that I am truly understood.🤝
Two of the most esoteris albums of and in the 70's in my life- Pictures at an Exhibition and Brain Salad Surgery. Imagination, virtuosity and artistry are the hallmarks of ELP. What a fantastic group of rock performers. Recently saw Wmy Schafers take and review on 'Pictures'....and it became clear to me, why I love their music. Genius and a form of madness, I think. Maybe the same thing seen in different aspects...❤
Wow ! My Maiden Innocence has been shattered. BSS was one of the very the first albums that began my vinyl collection, As a young 9th grade freshmaiden... I was intrigued by the complexity of the music, and the richness of the vocals. I was mesmerized, as I sat gazing at the album cover, and the tunes carried me off & away into another dimension. 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 And now.... 50 years later.... I find out I paid for a Blow Job. I'm Mind Blown
There are two timeless, eerie, never-to-be-touched pinnacles in progressive rock: Close To The Edge and Brain Salad. Sure, there are others...Court of the Crimson King, Selling England By The Pound, Free Hand. I love them all. But THESE two...they transcend everything and stand alone.
I am considering doing a video that examines a whole 'year' as opposed to just one album next, something different perhaps? Also, I really want to move away from prog a little, except there are so many other cool albums to make videos on.
Wow! The production value on this video is amazing! You did a phenomenal job. Next to Close to the Edge by Yes, Brain Salad Surgery is my favorite Prog album. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to the next one.
I really appreciate this look into an iconic Lp. I especially enjoy a lot of the back stories most of us are unaware of. I never thought of how Karn Evil 9 fits in with so many books of that era: 2001 A Space Odyssey, Fahrenheit 451, Future Shock, to name a few. I’m grateful to people like you and Rachel Flowers who keep some of best and most technically interesting music alive. Greg Lake was accurate when he said that he (and many of the Prog musicians) was well trained and rehearsed with regards to their music.
Really? I would say my Selling England one had more original research on it. However, I did have to speak to a lot of people (in Salisbury) to find out about Benny The Bouncer, but sadly no photographs.
Thank you so much for such a brilliant documentary. I have read, watched, and heard so many things about ELP, yet your work feels fresh and insightful from beginning to end. I think it’s safe to say it’s virtually inexistent prior to this doc to put ELP and “soulful, serene and reflective” (in 4:22) art together in the same phrase, and it’s perfect. I always felt there was some sort of peaceful/serene quality in the artwork that would strangely find somehow its counterpart in the vivid music of Brain Salad Surgery. On Benny the Bouncer, I like to imagine it was made to work as a light-hearted, sort of a “comic relief”, before Karn Evil 9’s tough and long journey. Maybe just in retrospect, but when KE9 starts with that Hammond fugato, just a few seconds after the comic end of Benny, you just know you’re in a whole different place musically. Very glad you mentioned the Punk x Prog thing. I could never make any sense of it as well. I wonder if around 1977 Prog was to become a new thing, older and wiser if you will, but even fans would not see it like that. A year that has Emerson’s Concerto (but perhaps Pirates is even a better example of what I am trying to say) and Yes’ Awaken tells me Prog was heading to a new direction. Something more like a search for a different musical substance that would not necessarily mirror Prog early years. Well, apparently, the bands threw in the towel on this, and during the next decade, ELP members, Yes and Genesis would aim FM time all right. But I digress. Thanks again!
I saw this album in a record store on sale. I bought it without any idea who ELP was, or even what the album's title was. I was drawn to the cover art, but I didn't know it was HR Giger's work. On first listen, I wondered what the hell I had bought. It wasn't until Karn Evil #9 that I realized that this album was a work of genius. It was my introduction to ELP and their entire back catalogue.
I still play people "Toccata" today.......to BLOW THEIR MINDS.
It STILL sounds from the future and it's 50 years old!!!
Like Debussy too!
I saw ELP live at Charlotte Motor Speedway NC at the August Jam 1974 (google it )they had a Quadraphonic sound system and it was huge but the sound coming from those monster stacks was totally mind dissolving !!! The sound swirled in the hot night air like nothing I ever experienced before or since !!!
You gotta start somewhere ;)
Toccata way ahead of its time. Not even sure if people yet get it. Have to wait for the future when it will one day fit in.
I bought myself my first stereo 'record player' as a teenager. Amazing to think we heard every recording and broadcast in mono before then!
This album was one of very few to really exploit the new technology and I was gobsmacked!
As Official Archivist of ELP and Employee of Carl Palmer currently, I thoroughly enjoyed this 1000%
Very well done. See you on The next Return of ELP Carl Palmer Tour. Come by the Merch table and buy something and say hello.
Wow! My heart missed a beat there! I thought you were going to tell me off over using some of your images! I’m so glad to hear you liked the video and I would consider it a great honour if you could somehow pass a link to Carl himself and (and seriously here) Jim Davidson if you know him.
Seriously, I am humbled to be writing this in a way and grinning like a Cheshire cat.
Hi Chris, will Carl be bringing the show to the UK and when?
My drum Idol. I've seen every one of their Saint Louis concerts starting in 1971
I saw Carl do a show in Saratoga, CA before COVID. He was doing double duty with his own band and with Asia. He was having a blast playing the old ELP numbers and bringing out Arthur Brown to strut around the stage. The kid he has playing guitar is brilliant... he was doing a lot of Keith's keyboard parts on the guitar. From my seat fairly close to the stage, I got the impression that Carl is genuinely a nice guy. I regret never seeing Keith or Greg live. But I'm thrilled I could see Carl play the ELP classics.
Carl invited the audience to meet him at the merch table on the first date of that tour with Arthur Brown, Todd Rundgren and Yes.
He was so nice to us fans, signing any merch we bought, answering questions and being the absolute cool guy I've always imagined him to be.
ELP was the epitome of originality and creative genius. The '70's was a hugely inspired period in music and art, and ELP will be remembered as a front-runner.
I was awake at 2am thinking "what the hell is there to watch???" THEN I saw the thumbnail for this! THANK YOU!
This was my first ELP album my mom gave to me together with Rick Wakeman's Journey for my 15 birthday! What a gift!
Indeed. Your mom's terrific! Happy mother's day!
My mum bought me Brain Salad Surgery for Christmas 73. I saved up my Xmas money and bought Topographic on the day it came out.
I think I’m in love with your mom.
No what a mom,
I am a lifelong 'foam at the mouth' ELP fan, and Brain Salad Surgery was truly their apex in every possible way; musically, creatively, lyrically, and performance-wise with the incredible 73-74 world tour that followed. Here were three of the greatest and most talented musicians in Rock, at the absolute top of their game, creating and performing some of the best music they would ever conceive of in their lifetimes, and performing it at a time when their chosen genre of Progressive Rock was cresting in popularity and acceptance. The Stars truly aligned for ELP in 73 and 74. My compliments to the creator of this documentary. I am very familiar with ELP video footage and music, and I just can't imagine where you dug up those rare video clips and audio outtakes, but I tip my hat to thee Sir !
I agree. It's ELP's Dark Side of the Moon.
They must have been saying, "How can we top THIS?"
I got through it many many times for many years. An absolute touchstone of an album for me. One of the greatest. I should add that the first time I heard it was around 1978 while playing a board game at a friends house. His older brother played it several times in a row. The first time it was alien to me. By the third time I was hooked for life.
I totally agree with what you are saying here real nyc. Punk didn't kill Prog, Prog killed Prog, or as you say "it came to it's naturel end". People always forget to mention the ELP, Yes and Genesis all had top 10 hits around the time Punk was happening.
The first 4 ELP albums were just astounding.
I especially enjoyed the first album Emerson Lake & Palmer .
BSS took everything to a new level .
Just brilliant. 😂❤
I saw ELP on stage in the early 1970’s and became a lifelong fan. I was heart broken to hear Keith took his own life. Rest In Peace Keith and Greg. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Thank God I'm born in the right time 1957 to listen to the great music
For about four short years ELP were the greatest rock group in the world. Saw the BSS World Tour in San Diego and at the California Jam. Best concerts I ever saw, bar none.
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
I wonder how on earth do you find such rare footages of the band. Great job mate
Can I just say, what’s been incredible about this series for me, going all the way back to the early Genesis docs, is how albums that I used to pass over time and time again have now either gained my appreciation or have become my favorite albums (I’m looking at you, Topographic). These mini documentaries are everything that “Sum of the Parts” and “Yesspeak” should have been and more. I look forward to these like a kid looks forward to the ice cream truck. With that said, this was another outstanding addition and I cannot wait for more. You’re doing a real service to the Prog community and I wanted to express my admiration. Thank you.
I get what you're saying. Considering I am making this in my spare time with basic-level software, (I barely know) the documentary output by the bands themselves is hugely disappointing. Especially when you consider they are sat on a goldmine of knowledge, outtakes, photos etc.
@@progrockdocs All the more reason I wanted to express my appreciation. They’ve become my go-to’s since coming across the “Lamb” doc last year. Really well done! Looking forward to (and donating to) future releases.
@@joeydeezer One of the most underrated and underappreciated albums ever is Tormato. I love the musicianship of it, cover to cover.
@@comfortat could not agree more! Loads of great tunes and musical moments on it, particularly “Onward” and “Release,Release”. The production is a bit lacking, but the spark and charm is still there.
Topographic has always been at my Top lol!!I get the ups and downs of it, but I'm on the I love it side since I own shirt of album cover hahahaha!!ita not my only top, very brand range I'd say!!
Also,I agree about quality of this documentary as well as the genesis 1s,they're all BETTER than stuff put out by money clamoring suits,barely any quality!!!so I get it 😁✌️🍻
I'm absolutely stunned.
This video made me realize just how disproportionate is my love for this album as compared to what I actually know about it...
Thank you rael, you are a true prophet of prog.
As a huge ELP fan, I can't tell you how delighted I was with this. Watched it twice in succession. I still listen to ELP virtually everyday (great music to work out to). Its hard to imagine that, with the way we all felt about BSS back in the day, that this could ever be an underrated album - but it is. So much attention to detail from you- I was overwhelmed. Prog was the child of genius, but genius is hard to control- so much easier to control guys who learned to play just last week- also so much easier to replace them. (All you have to do is dumb down the taste of the listeners- Disney Radio anyone?)
One of the greatest prog albums ever produced, period.
For those that don't know, and are nerdy enough about synthesizers to care like me 🤓, the Apollo polyphonic synthesizer Keith had was the first prototype and part of the Moog Constellation system which can be seen in the lower left hand corner of the image shown between 6:45 and 6:48 of this video. It consisted of the Lyra monophonic solo synth on top of the Apollo and there was a Taurus bass pedal synth on the floor. I wanted to point this out since most of what is shown while the Apollo is being talked about is the large Moog Modular system which was also customized for Keith by Moog and looks mightily impressive indeed but isn't polyphonic, at least not in the normal sense. For those who want to know more, Marc Doty has a good video on the somewhat convoluted history of the Apollo instrument ruclips.net/video/_AXcFobja7o/видео.html
The Lyra was a one-off. The single Lyra in existence was used on this album, and on the tour. (more nerdy trivia!)
@@OboeCanAm 😎👍 I've read that the Lyra synth eventually morphed into the MultiMoog.
Obrigado por compartilhar essas informações.
@@danielsalvador19234 De nada 🙂
I had read somewhere where Keith also had "pre-sets" made by Moog for him so he could switch between patches on the giant modular Synth quicker.
I saw ELP at virtually every SoCal concert, including California Jam. It is impossible to explain the effect their music had on me. The loss of Keith and Greg was a huge blow. I still listen to all their albums on a regular basis.
This is one of the wonderful stories of prog rock! Rael, please don't stop. I send you greetings from Ukraine.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙏
During this foul, wicked Russian war, each night millions of Patriotic Americans gather around their television sets to watch as Ukraine hands blow after lethal blow to their trespassers and to reclaim their blessed country.
You are winning your fight. Your victory will ignite the souls of Earth. YOU ARE A GOOD AND JUST PEOPLE.
@@sustayne Sustayne, thanks for your support. We will definitely win.
Greetings from Russia too
@@Keima_Katsuragi. In mainstream America, most of us understand this war is Putin's folly.....it is not the desire of the people of mainstream Russia. The Russian people are being made to suffer by a man who believes his desires are far more important than what is in the very best interests the Russian citizen. He is screwing over all of the beautiful Russian people.He hates people.
This album goes over the top of many people's heads but to me it is in my top two albums of all time. Together with Yes's Relayer it gets me exited and brings me to tears loving it so much. There is so much beautiful intricacy that it boggles the mind.
You certainly get your money's worth.
I stopped what I was doing just to see this. Professionally done with images and sound mixes I've never heard b/4. I loved it. One can clearly see the love you have for ELP.
This has been one of my favorite bands. A Boston radio station named wbcn invited a group of us to hang out in the studio with the band. Towards the end of the night I was invited to Philadelphia Tower theaters to see the Bands dress rehearsal for the Black Moon tour in the early 90s. Greatest show in heaven hell or Earth.
I was at that Tower Theater show! I brought my then 16-year-old cousin Marty with me, and they totally blew his mind. I'll never forget hìs slack-jawed expression as he watched these three guys producing more music than should be possible from only three musicians.
Another amazing documentary. It's crystal clear that an insane amount of research and dedication goes into them. Awesome!
California Jam! What a gas! Really enjoyed the show. Thank you ELP
I love E.L.P. Great composer and musician. R.I.P. Keith and Greg.
You put serious work into this. Including meshing audio tracks together...massive respect! The Greatest Prog Album of all time!!!
I truly love this album. It was basically my introduction to prog, together with Yes' Close To The Edge and Renaissance's Ashes Are Burning as I got the three of them together from someone who was inexplicably getting rid of his record collection
My favourite ELP album. I love everything about it. The music is incredible and the album cover is one of the greatest ever imo.
This is one of the best music documentaries I’ve ever seen , definitely the best ELP one , I must have watched this about 5 times already ! Brilliant!
Cheers man, I really appreciate the positive feedback. It means a lot to me that I am making so many people happy and helping to celebrate this fine music.
Thank you very much for this documentary about one of the best rock albums of all time and not just prog. BSS was truly a landmark album and your documentary does ELP fair justice . Cheers! :-)
My first concert was ELP at Cleveland stadium in the summer of 1974. What a baptism.
Was there also,unfortunately didn’t get inside,only had enough money for the rapid transit. I think it was played in quad ,the new innovation,it was quite loud even outside the stadium
That was a tremendous show.
Wonderful Historic value! Everything about ELP has always fascinated me since I discovered them with Tarkus and as they became bigger so did my passion for them. I finally got to see them live in their glory heydays for this tour (Brain Salad '73) and Works with the orchestra. There will never be another ELP, you have done them great honor with your masterful documentary, Thanks!
My brother took me to my first big gig when I was a kid, it was ELP at Liverpool Empire in 1974. When the computer exploded at the end I almost crapped myself. Loads of memories of that day. RIP Keith, Greg and our kid, and keep on rocking' Carl.
Beautifully Create. Thank YOU for Focusing on My Favorite Album of All-Time 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
You've never listened to it in one sitting???
The mind is boggled as to how else one would listen to the albums of that era...
Those of us who did, would lay flat on our backs on the floor, with massive headphones on, perhaps some colored lights, or just a dim light, and listen while letting our souls be swept away by the feelings such music inspired.
Peace
Yep, I tried that but when that stupid robot voice comes in at the end I get up and do the hoovering.
@@progrockdocs LOL... But then you miss that Carl Palmer ending where it sounds like it's going around in circles inside your headphones. And then it goes faster and faster and faster... amazing ending.
I am 67 years old i am so glad to see this docomounteri before i pass. Magnificent production. GREAT, SALUD.
As a long term ELP fan there was a lot in this video new to me to enjoy. I saw them at Wembley, on the Brain Salad Surgery tour. What a show that was. Greatest rock concert I've ever been to. I think ELP transcended the Prog Rock genre, they were much more than that. Lighthearted but very well contructed songs like Benny the Bouncer were an essential part of their work, as were the ballads by Greg Lake.
That white suit that Greg Lake had on was that the inspiration for Jimmy Page to have a white suit?....except his had poppies and dragons on it..(circa early 1977) 😉 I'd give an arm and a leg to see this band live and Led Zeppelin too and I was into EL.P. at the time I was younger.
What an incredible rockumentary you have produced here , very clever .
Another great documentary. So far, your choice of bands in this series aligns perfectly with what I was listening to at the time. Can't wait for the next one! 🙂
I remember getting the flexi disc with NME. Ironically, NME hated the band and the pun on enemy in the lyrics is appropriate. My mum bought me the album for Christmas 73. To add to the joy, my school invited Carl's percussion teacher James Blades to talk to us and show us some mind boggling rhythms.
This is an awesome documentary. Thank you.
What is nme?
NME was the New Musical Express, a music paper in England which was critical of prog bands. It usually complained about pretentious music, but it was itself full of pretentious writing.
@@donaldanderson6604 I get it John peel type crap. Thanks
@@donaldanderson6604 Pretentious writing and then some!
had a nasty morning going till your magnificent vid popped up, half hour later all is bright again, thanks! What a brilliant piece of love and devotion to ELP, superb production too, thanks for this!
Fantastic work - another amazing documentary! My favorite ELP album, and arguably Keith's greatest compositions.
Benny was included because it is great ! 😊😊
This was positively brilliant! You really did a great job documenting and describing what is for my money, the greatest Progressive Rock album ever made. I really applaud your efforts. I have been a die-hard ELP fan for more than 40 years, and you did their finest work true justice!!!
Brilliant. Bravo. A lifelong ELP fan (I own the GX1 EMO played in Montreal for the Fanfare video) I hardly knew any of this. Thank you for your passion to give birth to this.
Benny the bouncer is pure filler. ELP was a cover band, they never recorded one album that contained 100% original material. So, never enter R&R Hall of Fame. They covered 10 other composers. True Fact.
@@dancochrane5577 get lost
@@dancochrane5577, how thoughtful. The Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra never made an album of 100% original material, either. ELP took classical music and made them their own. That is not what a cover band is. You don't think Yes borrowed heavily from classical composers? Your reasoning on why they aren't in the RRHoF is patently absurd. Now run along...
I think it was in 1976 when I became aware of this magnificent album by a band of only three members. When I finished listening to the tracks my life would not be the same as before. It was as if lightning had struck in the middle of a road and made a huge crater. This was really my impression! ⚡💥🔥✨🌟
What a wonderful cover and then we got.........Love Beach.
@johnv467 Love Beach was five years and a lot happened later.
THIS DOCUMENTARY IS EXELLENT, IS RELLY RESCUE THE ESSENCE OF THIS HUGE BAND THAT WAS ELP, THE PART WHO TALK ABOUT DE COVER OF BRIAN SALAD SURGERY IS AMAZING , ALL THE HISTORY OFTHE ARTWORK , MY BEST WISHES FOR THIS CHANNEL
Stunning tale...¡¡¡ YEAH...😎😎😎
As in everything you do, it’s absolutely brilliant yet again, thanks very much.
Another fantastic documentary, my first and still my favourite ELP album.
You always surprise me with your videos - as a massive ELP fan Id like to thank you for your wonderful documentary, spreading the "good word"!
All the best
Valentin
I have much to say about all you present here, all of which boils down to sincere thanks for this. I saw ELP twice in the 70s with the “flying piano,” once with orchestra at Madison Square Garden and once without an upstate New York, I believe at Cornell University. After that, well… you put it in perspective nicely, about how and why I couldn’t go on forever. I am so glad you rebuffed The notion that “punk killed prog;” it was a reaction, surely, but that is what all music is about. Thank you again.
(^ My typos above are free of charge!)
I was lucky to see ELP in mid-70's Curtis Hickson Hall, Tampa, FL. I rediscovered them last week and am so glad I did. Once again, I can't stop listening to this "Best of all time" band. Definitely one of the best classic rock ever!
I listened to it straight through in one sitting. What an incredible experience right to the end with the quad synth sequencer sound rolling around the room.
Brilliant docu. Thanks Lee. From one ELP fan to another. Paypal donation done. Now tell your wife to stop complaining - you're doing a great job!
I have never tired of this album since first listening to it in 1974. My friend, John Oris, and I discussed how it would be the “classical” music in future generations
Fabulous! Bravo, Rael. Bravo!
This documentary on the best ELP album holds up to repeated viewings.
High school-age me would have flipped his lid for this channel. I was a massive classic prog fan (can't stomach the post-70's stuff like Marillion) at a time when American Idol was considered the peak of popular music. These days i don't revisit the classics as much as I used to religiously, but ELP and Crimson still get a spell of play a few times a year. So lucky to have chanced on this channel.
This is an excellent presentation of Brain Salad Surgery, well done. In SE Louisiana I was part of a group of hard core prog rock fans, scooping up all we could find of King Crimson, The Strawbs, YES, and more. We were anxiously awaiting BSS and we all drove up to Baton Rouge in March 1974 to see ELP at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. We got there many hours before opening and was first in-line, watched through the doors Keith walking around in his bombers jacket during sound check, then as the doors opened we were first up hanging on the stage. My good friend standing next to me was given by Keith his wine bottle he was drinking from. At the end of the computer battle with the ascending computer loop and the bat wings when the explosion went off the first 8 rows of attendees fell down (windowpane acid helped with that). Easily the best concert I ever attended out of dozens. Caught the band later in Albuquerque, NM during the Black Moon tour. I do not think punk rock was much of an effect on prog rock, YES managed to eek out through all of this though their musical journey changed back and forth and ebbed and flowed but to this day they are hanging on with new music but with so many gone now once Steve Howe and maybe even Jon Anderson finishes their careers what remains will be basically a tribute band.
This was wonderful rael nyc. I have no friends today and very few at the time of this records release and was a loner even during the time of this records release when I was a teenager of 18 yr.
I almost fell to the floor when I saw the poster art of the show dates of one of the concerts that I attended at the Baltimore Civic Center. I vividly remember the spinning piano in the air along with the spinning drum set.
When I tell people today about that concert and the Rick Wakeman "Journey to the Center of the Earth," concert that I saw at the same venue with inflatable dinosaurs fighting on stage with a full orchestra and rock band, people say "yeah right."
Thank you for proving that these things did exist. I think that I have a new friend now.
Hey, stick around here - ever night is a party in this comments section! To be honest, I get where you are coming from and feel that these videos allow me to truly express myself in ways that people I know in (real) life don't see. It's here (by you guys) that I am truly understood.🤝
O boy you nailed it. Thanks again. Your closing sentence about the space aliens is spot on. Cheers
Two of the most esoteris albums of and in the 70's in my life- Pictures at an Exhibition and Brain Salad Surgery. Imagination, virtuosity and artistry are the hallmarks of ELP. What a fantastic group of rock performers. Recently saw Wmy Schafers take and review on 'Pictures'....and it became clear to me, why I love their music. Genius and a form of madness, I think. Maybe the same thing seen in different aspects...❤
Another amazing and incredible video !!! Thank you for the excellent work !! Cheers from South América !!
These videos are all fantastic, man. Keep up the good work!
Already liked without watching all, because your work is AMAZING. ❤
The talent of this trio is unique. I doubt their will be anything like them again. The best live show that I've ever seen, and Ive seen many.
Wow ! My Maiden Innocence has been shattered.
BSS was one of the very the first albums that began my vinyl collection,
As a young 9th grade freshmaiden... I was intrigued by the complexity of the music, and the richness of the vocals.
I was mesmerized, as I sat gazing at the album cover, and the tunes carried me off & away into another dimension.
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
And now.... 50 years later....
I find out I paid for a
Blow Job.
I'm Mind Blown
Glad to be of 'service' !! 😘
Well done for a superb look at this important band and it's work. It takes a lot of work to get to this standard and we do appreciate it. 👏👏👏🙂
There are two timeless, eerie, never-to-be-touched pinnacles in progressive rock: Close To The Edge and Brain Salad. Sure, there are others...Court of the Crimson King, Selling England By The Pound, Free Hand. I love them all. But THESE two...they transcend everything and stand alone.
I saw ELP in Nashville in 1977 with the orchestra..still one of the top 5 gigs of my life!
Great show I saw the same thing in st. Louis in 1977 with journey as the opening act. The best was 1973 it's a shame you didn't see that one
Very good doc.
Saw ELP about 70 times and never missed a tour.
I appreciate growing up in the 70's with amazing musicians like these.
As always, a terrific job with a terrific album. And awesome inclusion of my alma mater's marching band, the OU 110! :-)
I had to include them - they were excellent!
Another amazing video. You really are something!!! Thank you for all your hard work.
oh my God , what kind story...Please keep doing the videos. 1973 was the best year in music
I am considering doing a video that examines a whole 'year' as opposed to just one album next, something different perhaps? Also, I really want to move away from prog a little, except there are so many other cool albums to make videos on.
Brilliant docu!
Great video, as always. This was a foundational album for me when I got into prog in the mid-80s.
Great documentary of a classic album and rare footage, well done 👍🏻
real nye, If you created this documentary, you clearly are 'BRILLIANT'! "Thank You", somehow just doesn't say 'IT'.
Grateful,
T.F.
Yep. I made the whole thing. A part-time hobby I wished was a full-time job!
Fortunate enough to see ELP on this tour. Unbelievable concert! Lifetime fan! These guys were genius! Great days for music in 60s and 70s!
En mi opinión el mejor albun de ELP,una verdadera obra maestra,saludos
This is in my Top 10 Desert Island Discs. I didn’t discover ELP until around 1980. Carl became my favorite drummer and has been to this day.
Sadly 1980 was the year Led Zeppelin broke up after their drummer John Bonham suddenly passed away 😢
Wow! The production value on this video is amazing! You did a phenomenal job. Next to Close to the Edge by Yes, Brain Salad Surgery is my favorite Prog album. Keep up the great work. Looking forward to the next one.
Great one. Thanks.
This is one of the best rock documentaries I’ve ever seen because it’s such a nice combination of fact and editorial.
Emerso a voluto ripropore musiche classiche e portarle in vita 😊😊😊
I'll be there
I'll be there
I WILL BE THERE....
total awesomeness....
Best documentary so far!....Great indeed!!!! Huge Thanks
I really appreciate this look into an iconic Lp. I especially enjoy a lot of the back stories most of us are unaware of. I never thought of how Karn Evil 9 fits in with so many books of that era: 2001 A Space Odyssey, Fahrenheit 451, Future Shock, to name a few.
I’m grateful to people like you and Rachel Flowers who keep some of best and most technically interesting music alive. Greg Lake was accurate when he said that he (and many of the Prog musicians) was well trained and rehearsed with regards to their music.
This was my very first concert l was 14 or 15. Years old Anaheim convention center S. Calif l was blown away it was incredible
Your best video yet in terms of new insights. Many thanks, Dude.
Really? I would say my Selling England one had more original research on it. However, I did have to speak to a lot of people (in Salisbury) to find out about Benny The Bouncer, but sadly no photographs.
Wow - really well-done. I'm pleased to see this footage and photos looking so good!
Thank you so much for such a brilliant documentary. I have read, watched, and heard so many things about ELP, yet your work feels fresh and insightful from beginning to end. I think it’s safe to say it’s virtually inexistent prior to this doc to put ELP and “soulful, serene and reflective” (in 4:22) art together in the same phrase, and it’s perfect. I always felt there was some sort of peaceful/serene quality in the artwork that would strangely find somehow its counterpart in the vivid music of Brain Salad Surgery.
On Benny the Bouncer, I like to imagine it was made to work as a light-hearted, sort of a “comic relief”, before Karn Evil 9’s tough and long journey. Maybe just in retrospect, but when KE9 starts with that Hammond fugato, just a few seconds after the comic end of Benny, you just know you’re in a whole different place musically.
Very glad you mentioned the Punk x Prog thing. I could never make any sense of it as well. I wonder if around 1977 Prog was to become a new thing, older and wiser if you will, but even fans would not see it like that. A year that has Emerson’s Concerto (but perhaps Pirates is even a better example of what I am trying to say) and Yes’ Awaken tells me Prog was heading to a new direction. Something more like a search for a different musical substance that would not necessarily mirror Prog early years. Well, apparently, the bands threw in the towel on this, and during the next decade, ELP members, Yes and Genesis would aim FM time all right. But I digress.
Thanks again!
Again a superb video. Well done, rael nyc!
Another 5 star presentation. Greatly appreciate the work you put into your documentaries for others to enjoy.
What an amazing documentary rael nyc, these videos are incredible
What a wonderful job as always! I love those documentaries, it make me diggin even more into those bands.
All of my respect! ^^
THANK YOU! These prog documentaries are a huge treat.