A latino here, living in my "stinkhole" country. So close to the US, we we've always been under the cultural influences of the West. Radio and TV have always been powered by the top 100 and translated mainstream. The British invasion of the 60's, for example, blasted the airways along with the hippy trends. The spanish language music contended with many a progressive band so we got all the spectrum in music in many radio stations( hundreds of radio stations in my mountainous country). I grew up with some privileges and had access to room fulls of vynil. ELP was part of the repertoire and 50 years later it still resonates, now in remastered digital sound! Wow, it is now more clear why these guys, along with others, are still heard today by young generations and catalogued as great. They created masterpieces! By the way, in 1982 I directed an AM station (1600 kHz at the end of the dial) and made it #1 in my city which had 300k people then. It was , you guessed it, a Rock station. It was an ecclectic collection and you would hear everything from Yes, Jethro Tull, Rush to the Police, Van Halen, Supertramp and dozens more. And, yes, you bet ELP played a lot! Saludos amigos!
I live five miles north of the border, near Nuevo Progresso. I go into Mx every two weeks. I absolutely love it. I’m old and use a walker to move around. Everyone looks out for me, most everybody knows my nickname. Once you have friends on either side of the border, you’re a friend to everyone!
Cool story. We are sad for the Mexican people, that their leaders have failed to empower the average Mexican citizen to reach his potential. We are also sad that now the leaders in the USA are intentionally sabotaging this once great nation and turning it to rubble.
Hey man only horrible people like trump use such terms to refer to countries that are not affluent. Most Americans don't feel like that, I hope. Rock on, hermano!
Hola!......que bien que pusistes tu granito de arena para promover y dar a conocer todos estos grupos que todavía siguen influenciando a las nuevas generaciones de músicos y amantes de la buena música. 🙌
Not going to happen, because they are primarily not rock. Emerson's music is far closer to a modern form of classical music, played on rock instruments. It's no accident that most of ELP's major works are written like 3 or 4 part concertos. Trilogy, Karn Evil 9, The Three Fates, Tarkus, etc. It's also the reason so many classically trained musicians, such as myself (pipe organ), are so attracted to the Nice and ELP.
@Sevenoaks Kent But the HoF is a bit like the Oscars: it's more about whether your 'face fits' rather than genius. I'm not bothered they're not in HoF....
@@catsinhotpants 100% agree, Greg was a master vocalist along with the other 2 geniuses, are you in 7 Oaks? I am in the USA now but used to live in Sandy Lane, still have friends on Seal Road. Happy Christmas.
Have I got a story. I was 15, living in Montreal and a growing musician myself. One of my best friend’s dad, Jim McCall, was a manager for one of Canada’s largest musical instrument distributors at the time, and he often had world class musicians over at his place. Jim was friends with the gents of ELP and one evening while they toured Montreal at our old Olympic stadium for what is now a famous live album, Kieth was over and with all of us shitfaced, he played the organ all night long. Smashed out of his mind and with a bottle of Johnny Walker on the keyboard, he improvised with no loss of creativity or mental / physical dexterity…blew me away as a young teenager and I’ll never forget how fortunate I was to have enjoy nights like those at the McCall’s. Love live progressive bliss and ELP ❤
Gregg Lake’s voice is from heaven. ELP helped map out my teenage years along with Yes. The compositions were so progressive, taking us on incredible journeys. Brain Salad Surgery was exactly that. I can recall entire parts of that album in my mind, note for note.
I saw them troppo time in milan 1974 and 1992 amazing!!! GREG voce ii notte comparabile .i Was at 5 metres of him ,your voice put in my hear...celestial!!!!
@@wildrosecece Yeah, the first time I saw them ( in 1977 ) I think the ticket was about $7.50. If they were still around the tickets would probably now cost at least $50 !
Hey fella, when you say ` fucking gigantic musicians’ you mean they were over 20 feet tall?! They only look around average human size to me. You witnessed them 7 times though so I guess the trips were shit hot back in the day?! 😆
I think You Tube is the greatest thing to ever come out of technology. IT is the best thing I ever have watched.i don't have any money and I can see whatever I want.
Nowadays, the only thing that gets played on radio is singles or hits. Back in the old days, you were likely to hear just about anything that was on an album, even odd, non whistleable tunes that would never be top ten hits. That's how I learned of ELP-I heard some of Pictures at an Exhibition on the radio, and I went right out and stole the album. Became an instant fan, and still am. I don't steal albums any more, though.
... and Mussorgsky is fantastic too. I was only 13 when listened to - first time - their PIC Exhib album and after 4 minutes I fell in love forever. Their best arrangement - to me - Toccata. Never enough! THANK ELP!
Saw this tour in Miami, at the Jai alai stadium. I was 16 and went to Hialeah High School. Concerts back then, people were quiet and actually sat and listened to the concert. A friend and I snuck in early before the show. They were warming up. We were walking in a hallway giggling and goofing off, and then suddenly we see someone is walking toward us, oh shit it's Carl Palmer. We panicked, turned and walked to the restroom, and in he walks and joins us at the urinal. We thought we were done. But while he is peeing, he asked us if we were with the gaffers. We had no idea what that was. But we said yes. I will never forget that feeling of awe and dread that we were busted, but its Carl Palmer. That's my story.
Gaffers are electricians working mostly with lights in a concert tour. On a film set, their work is essential to placing light where the director wants it.
Love Carl's smile at the beginning! There are no words on how talented these musicians truly are! Saw them at Santa Monica civic in the early days of the seventys. First concert with surround sound with walls of speakers all around the whole arena! Keith's majestic organ grinding and mystifying as the music 🎵🎶 jolts and floats through one ear and out the other! Magnificent musicians unsurpassed phenomenal talent!
Saw them in Houston in early 70.s LOVE THIS GROUP WISHED I WAS REALLY THERE ONLY SONG I REMEMBER IS BIT OF LUCKY MAN & KARN 9 BUMMER 😢 I HAVE ABOUT 5 R 6 ALBUMS COLLECT TAPES CDS ALBUMS CAUSE THE MUSIC OF TODAY IS: NOT😢
Puts tears to my eyes... i tripped on acid in my Firebird when I was 19... Went to the record store in 2004...asked for this album and the guy looked at me like I was from another planet... then I bought it and had the greatest night of my life
I had a bar of chocolate and a lemonade. I was 12 at the time. Never tripped on acid , continued to eat chocolate. Still like ELP. Still can't afford Firebird or Camaro.
"Knife-Edge" is based on the first movement of Leoš Janáček's orchestral piece Sinfonietta (1926),[5] with an instrumental middle section that includes an extended quotation from the Allemande of Johann Sebastian Bach's first French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812, but played on an organ rather than a clavichord or piano. Lake provided the lyrics, with assistance from Richard Fraser, a member of the group's road crew.
Saranno stati anche strafatti di qualunque sostanza disponibile, però riuscivano a mantenere il controllo totale (e CHE controllo) degli strumenti.. grandi!!
Keith Emerson was in a category of exactly one. ELP affects me still the way they did in 1972, just slack-jawed wonder at his facility on his instrument and unparalleled creativity. They were my music teacher and I’ve never forgotten that.
@@martintaper7997 King Crimson is a profoundly technical proficient band, but it is as well somewhat minimalistic in their composition style, whereas ELP, also technical proficient themselves, prefered the grandeur of orchestrated compositions, or in some sense the transcription of orchestral oeuvres into trio arrangements. Nevertheless, ELP always bet for grandiosity and exhuberant showmanship. That's why I consider them magnificent.
@@carlosrobertoramirezfuente2524 In my mind that makes their music "derivative". Try listening to the first four albums by Kansas, they make ELP look like learners.
@@martintaper7997 what do you means by "derivative"? I know the albums of Kansas. Kansas is AOR and ELP is prog. Even in time it is impossible that the music of ELP (69) is a "derivate" of Kansas (73).
@@wimgroart1870 ELP as the other comment states, "ELP, also technical proficient themselves, preferred the grandeur of orchestrated compositions, or in some sense the transcription of orchestral oeuvres" hence "derivative". Kansas wrote their own music in their own hybrid style and the members played in bands with an evolving style to Kansas predating ELP and 1969. Your definition of progressive rock is a moot point, and ELP is less "rock" than Kansas, that is self evident, so they ELP less fit the "rock" genre before we even start narrower definitions.
I love how all three of the members of this band played so tightly and in tune with what the others were doing. I loved seeing Greg smile at Keith. He commanded the stage and was clearly the 'leader' and heartbeat of ELP. God, he was so damned talented and he loved making music so much, and that came across with every performance. He was there for the audience, and that was very apparent. I just wish that whoever was manning the cameras in these videos actually spent more time focusing in on Greg's playing, but as it was the focus was almost always on Keith and Carl. With 3 such ridiculously talented musicians, it's gotta be hard to know who to focus on, and when. But Greg's singing and playing, and stage presence were intoxicating and mesmerizing, and I always want to see more.
A great band. One of my top 5 favs. Greg Lake was a magnificent human being who kept his head about him when others were losing their's. England produced the best progressive rock bands of all time, and after all is said and done that little island nation has produced the greatest modern musicians.
Beautifull Greg and Keith. I feel so fortunate to have seen ELP live as well as Greg solo. Their passing still hurts, and no other band will ever come close to ELP. They are one of a kind!
We used to rent this VHS video from our local record store : FULL CIRCLE, get smoked up and watch, many a times our parents would be like uhhh what are you watching? Knowing we were totally baked, I mean come on, this isn't Billy Joel😅
Totally blown away from the experience of the time I was captivated by the entire genius of a band that I will never forget. The legacy lives on into the future of our understanding and the other side of the unknown. We have to believe in the end 🙏 that our lives will live on a wonder that we can only imagine...
Even the gods have to leave us eventually. But we are better for the time they spent among us. Wherever Keith and Greg are, they're watching and smiling down on us. ❤️️
This Performance was the very Soul& ❤of the most prolific music performed by the most talented musicians I have ever seen & MET. GOD BLESS YOU KEITH AND GREG. YOU WILL BE SORRYLY MISSED. & CARL KEEP COMING TO THE LOVE AND POWER YOU HAVE DISPLAYED IN COUNTLESS TIMES ⏲️ OVER THE YEARS!!!!!
@@wildrosecece Seems like most music nowadays is only influenced by $$$...not all, but most! Thank Rock and Roll for Greta Van Fleet, The Glorious Sons, Monster Truck, YYNOT & others for still creating wonderful Music!
I saw ELP live in august 1971 on the Pictures at an Exhibition tour. I was 13 years old. They were terrific. I marvel at how accomplished they were at such a young age: 26, 24 & 22, I think. Greg had already been in King Crimson for several years touring the world before forming ELP. So much talent. As a bass player, I watch Greg closely. In addition to being a great bassist he is a superb vocalist. While I am old now, perhaps, I grew up with ELP, Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Return to Forever, Pat Metheny, Stevie Wonder, Weather Report, James Taylor, Stevie Wonder, EW&F, Joni Mitchell, The Crusaders… it really was the golden age, IMO. There is talent these days, for sure, but I think the industry is different and it doesn’t manifest in the same quality ensembles that my generation enjoyed. I’m not too interested in most of the new stuff, but I can listen to the old stuff endlessly. IMO, it really was that much better.
Plenty better. Honestly, that is just silly. Inspiring to teenage prog fans maybe, yes, but creatively, his meter, all not so good. Like him all you want... I saw him several times... But be honest with the reality.. do some work.
Oh what a band! They are incredible...and Gosh, Carl is so cute, strong and beautiful, he was only 20 years old here, I'm just a teenage girl but I think he's still so young, so fresh, so handsome nowadays , what a man!🥰 I would love to meet him someday. I love his talent, I admire him very much❤...
Way, way back in the "dark ages" of the '70's, my brother introduced me to a few things one day. I got stoned, and heard ELP and YES for the first time. Well, you know what happened, they imprinted themselves on my brain and have been a part of my life ever since. I'm glad to say that I was able to see them both in concert, Yes 6 or 7 times but unfortunately, I only saw ELP once.
Saw Emerson with The Nice at a hotel near Coventry in 1969. Hard to believe but yeah you could see world class musicians back then in very small venues. This was back when Emerson was stabbing his keys with giant World War 2 knives. Great times but problem was we didn’t realise at the time what the importance was of what we were witnessing. Same goes for when I saw Jimi Hendrix in 1967 at Coventry Theatre. They were just “pop stars” back then. Crazy when I look back. Glad I was there though.
Edgar Allan Poe feared, above all else, the annihilation of beauty. When we're long gone I hope that someway and somehow the beauty of ELP still resonates within the ether.
Músicos de verdad, profesionales, creativos y talentosos, una lástima inmensa que ya no los tengamos, por lo menos a dos de ellos, Greg Lake un prodigio colmado de talento y calidad musical, Keith Emerson un genio que no podrá ser replicado, cargado de una capacidad creativa muy pocas veces vista, el que queda otro prodigio, baterista lleno de magia.
This band was so far ahead of its time. These guys forged territory only dreamed of by most other bands. A trio with this amount of power, talent and creativity is hard to come by. What a fantastic era for music.
Gregg had a so sublime, exalted voice which giveth a special brand to the band, than Emerson who looks as a medieval knight which always tamed that monstrous Moog, and Palmer with his "fierce army of drums" when in motion a menace to any drummers of the time, an incredible trio they was, no match anymore.
Along time ago ,my boyfriend's father gave me the first record of E.L.P on my birthday.I like They do advenced rock music.Impossible not to love. Thank you ELP, thank you Laitche ,BERAY from İstanbul
Really loved the early ELP records when I was a teenager in the very early 70’s. The Moog synthesizer was fairly new and Keith Emerson was making the most of the new technology.
ELP introduced many of us teens to classical music, they made it palatable to our generation. I, like many, developed a real love for classical in the following years. Thank you ELP.
I work in a city with a few classic rock radio stations. They never play any ELP. One of the greatest bands of all time. And the same stations played their songs a lot in the 70s and 80s.
Cuando vi este vídeo me quedé impactado con lo q hacían en esa época tan primitiva sobre todo el sonido espacial dl moog y en realidad era la nueva era d estos 3 inmortales genios Keith Greg y Carl marcaron un mundo d grandes melodías hasta el dia d hoy memorables ¡¡¡viva por siempre emerson lake&palmer!!!👂👂👂👂👂👂👂👂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Beautiful voice and every guitar he playing, strong and smart drums & unbeliewebl keyboards any kind Ewesome band I love welcome back my friend...... at night before sleep with big headphone Every sound what i hunt in my head is masterpice
I remember Derek Jewell saying when he went to see ELP it was the LOUDEST gig he’d ever heard. You kind of get that from this clip. This gig must’ve blown people’s minds
I saw their Brain Salad Surgery tour and I can agree. It was incredibly loud - like louder than heavy metal loud. My ears were plugged for a day or so after that, but it was worth it.
I first heard ELP back in the mid 70's, when one of my brothers brought home Brain Salad Surgery, and I listened to Karn Evil 9. It was a mind altering experience, as I couldn't have been more than 14, and had never heard anything like that before. 😲
Saw them in just such a venue at about the same time playing this whole album +Tarkus and ELP-1...I didnt even know a single one of their songs before the show. Twas a religious experience
I still dearly love ELP...IMO they were the greatest prog rock band to ever make music, pure genius stuff...the talent these men possessed was at such a high level it was scary, I'm lucky I got to see them perform live ! 🎼😀🎵
Ce groupe est le reflet d'une époque éclatante révolue, un astéroïde fantôme qui revient jeter son dévolu sur l'art sonore. Une onde prodigieuse chargée de paradoxes d'où s'échappent la féérie l'enthousiasme et l'irrationnel, facteurs hypnotiques défiant les âmes vulnérables en quête d'absolu. Son architecture musicale est un court tunnel qui mène à la lumière 🤗
Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends. Guess, that the classic komponents in all ELP creations are exorbitant high quality, you come out and have new ears, brain and possibly new spirit & soul. God bless all of you(rs) and Greg Lake too.
Back in the seventy's I caught a concert at the Spectrum, Philadelphia. The sound was tremendous, in that it shook you insides. The Moog synthesizer was the culprit.
💘 LOVE YOU. BROTHER. AND THERE IS NO OTHER IM 59. GOUBG THROGH SONE HEAVY SHUT RIHGT NOW IS IT APPRILS FOILS DAY DIDNT EVEN REALIZE THAT. BECAUSE OF WHATS GOING ON. THIS@TOGHF TINES RITE NOW. HE IS BRINGING A LOT OF JOY TONIGHT SONGS ARE OLD. BUT RIGHT ON TGE MONEY
Honestly, there was a massive, overabundance of talent in this group. How in the world it came to pass that these three guys found each other is nothing short...nothing short of divine intervention. I feel the same way about Yes, the Beatles, Chicago, the Beach Boys, The Moody Blues, and a few others. They were all meant to be!
When Emerson was with The Nice, they had to let their guitarist go for mental health reasons, So they had auditions for a replacement. Guess who tried out. Steve Howe. But before he could join, they decided to go on without a guitarist. Later, Yes asked Emerson to be their keyboardist. Emerson said no, and started ELP.
Terry Kath, Robert Lamm, and Peter Cetera, three great vocalists and songwriters in the same band, Chicago. The same was true of the Beatles. I am a big Gregg Lake fan.
I really wish I had been alive in a time when a progressive band could redo Mussorgsky and it would sell out massive stadiums. People just seems so much more intelligent back then.
50 years later and no other band has come close to what ELP was able to achieve!
RIP Keith and Greg!
Best wishes for Carl!
Dead right......rock on.....ELP lives
As I recall from my youth, BBC Radio 1 hardly used to play their music. Unfortunately!
Vuelo a los años más felices de mi juventut 💖
maybe only king crimson have overcome this
What? Yes, Rush and Dream Theater have done incredible things, much, much better than this. This is nothing special
A latino here, living in my "stinkhole" country.
So close to the US, we we've always been under the cultural influences of the West. Radio and TV have always been powered by the top 100 and translated mainstream. The British invasion of the 60's, for example, blasted the airways along with the hippy trends. The spanish language music contended with many a progressive band so we got all the spectrum in music in many radio stations( hundreds of radio stations in my mountainous country). I grew up with some privileges and had access to room fulls of vynil. ELP was part of the repertoire and 50 years later it still resonates, now in remastered digital sound! Wow, it is now more clear why these guys, along with others, are still heard today by young generations and catalogued as great.
They created masterpieces!
By the way, in 1982 I directed an AM station (1600 kHz at the end of the dial) and made it #1 in my city which had 300k people then. It was , you guessed it, a Rock station. It was an ecclectic collection and you would hear everything from Yes, Jethro Tull, Rush to the Police, Van Halen, Supertramp and dozens more. And, yes, you bet ELP played a lot!
Saludos amigos!
Cool
I live five miles north of the border, near Nuevo Progresso. I go into Mx every two weeks. I absolutely love it. I’m old and use a walker to move around. Everyone looks out for me, most everybody knows my nickname. Once you have friends on either side of the border, you’re a friend to everyone!
Cool story. We are sad for the Mexican people, that their leaders have failed to empower the average Mexican citizen to reach his potential. We are also sad that now the leaders in the USA are intentionally sabotaging this once great nation and turning it to rubble.
Hey man only horrible people like trump use such terms to refer to countries that are not affluent. Most Americans don't feel like that, I hope. Rock on, hermano!
Hola!......que bien que pusistes tu granito de arena para promover y dar a conocer todos estos grupos que todavía siguen influenciando a las nuevas generaciones de músicos y amantes de la buena música. 🙌
Emerson Lake and Palmer should be in the Rock N' Roll Hall and Fame, now!
who cares its a big fucking joke, these guys blew away tons of the people inducted
Why ?
Not going to happen, because they are primarily not rock. Emerson's music is far closer to a modern form of classical music, played on rock instruments. It's no accident that most of ELP's major works are written like 3 or 4 part concertos. Trilogy, Karn Evil 9, The Three Fates, Tarkus, etc. It's also the reason so many classically trained musicians, such as myself (pipe organ), are so attracted to the Nice and ELP.
@Sevenoaks Kent But the HoF is a bit like the Oscars: it's more about whether your 'face fits' rather than genius. I'm not bothered they're not in HoF....
Do yourself a favor, don’t waste your time or money going there. It’s a joke.
They wouldn’t know good music if it bit them in the ass.
Greg had a golden voice, so beautiful.
Yes...such a beautiful voice
The best!
@@catsinhotpants hey Sevenoaks are you in sevenoaks? I used to live there in Sandy Lane, now in the usa sadly
@@catsinhotpants 100% agree, Greg was a master vocalist along with the other 2 geniuses, are you in 7 Oaks? I am in the USA now but used to live in Sandy Lane, still have friends on Seal Road. Happy Christmas.
Smooth as silk !!!
Have I got a story. I was 15, living in Montreal and a growing musician myself. One of my best friend’s dad, Jim McCall, was a manager for one of Canada’s largest musical instrument distributors at the time, and he often had world class musicians over at his place. Jim was friends with the gents of ELP and one evening while they toured Montreal at our old Olympic stadium for what is now a famous live album, Kieth was over and with all of us shitfaced, he played the organ all night long. Smashed out of his mind and with a bottle of Johnny Walker on the keyboard, he improvised with no loss of creativity or mental / physical dexterity…blew me away as a young teenager and I’ll never forget how fortunate I was to have enjoy nights like those at the McCall’s. Love live progressive bliss and ELP ❤
What a wonderful role model for you
These guys didn't play by the rules. They always just improvized with their sheer greatness of skills. Godspeed ELP
no, they kinda played it the same each time.
Gregg Lake’s voice is from heaven. ELP helped map out my teenage years along with Yes. The compositions were so progressive, taking us on incredible journeys. Brain Salad Surgery was exactly that. I can recall entire parts of that album in my mind, note for note.
I saw them troppo time in milan 1974 and 1992 amazing!!! GREG voce ii notte comparabile .i Was at 5 metres of him ,your voice put in my hear...celestial!!!!
I didn’t have to write anything because you wrote Word for Word my thoughts and experience! Note for note!
I do that with Surrealistic Pillow note for note in my brain!
@@fabriziospinelli6356 saw them at caljam1 in 74 at 16
You obviously didn't ever hear the New York Dolls.
Their first album is phenomenal..so much sophisticated music from 3 very talented YOUNG men….stunning stuff
ELP is one of the best things that could happened to music
yes, it made people move past it, as they saw it as a bloated ego dinosaur. that, coming from a fan.
I witnessed ELP live 7 times. They were fucking gigantic musicians who took prog rock to unseen and unheard levels.
Live 7 times! Oh, what a lucky man, he was!
Yeah tickets were probably $8.00 you could go to any concerts as long as you had a ride.
@@wildrosecece Yeah, the first time I saw them ( in 1977 ) I think the ticket was about $7.50. If they were still around the tickets would probably now cost at least $50 !
Hey fella, when you say ` fucking gigantic musicians’ you mean they were over 20 feet tall?! They only look around average human size to me. You witnessed them 7 times though so I guess the trips were shit hot back in the day?! 😆
so jealous. I was too young.
In an earlier time Greg Lake would have been a minstrel bringing stories from town to town across the English countryside.
I think You Tube is the greatest thing to ever come out of technology. IT is the best thing I ever have watched.i don't have any money and I can see whatever I want.
I can watch full concerts of bands that I had only seen in still pictures before RUclips.
Nowadays, the only thing that gets played on radio is singles or hits. Back in the old days, you were likely to hear just about anything that was on an album, even odd, non whistleable tunes that would never be top ten hits. That's how I learned of ELP-I heard some of Pictures at an Exhibition on the radio, and I went right out and stole the album. Became an instant fan, and still am. I don't steal albums any more, though.
Bet that was the best money you never spent
And that would be played on the Alan freeman show fluff got me into pink Floyd,E L P, Camel,tomita, tangerine dream + many many more
Sheriff: “You’re under arrest for stealing an album”
You: “But it’s ELP”
Sheriff: “Oh ok, take it and get outta here”
😁
non whistleable?
@@myearsloveit not this
Like maybe "abbadons bolero"? 😉
I seen Emerson Lake and Palmer when they where on there Brain Salad Surgery Tour in 1977 at the Boston Gardens 💯Amazing!!!!
🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶😊💜
Me, too. First concert ever, and first time I ever got high! Still have my ticket stub.
Brain salad surgery was released in late 73. Either the tour is wrong or the year when you seen them
... and Mussorgsky is fantastic too. I was only 13 when listened to - first time - their PIC Exhib album and after 4 minutes I fell in love forever. Their best arrangement - to me - Toccata. Never enough! THANK ELP!
Oh yes! Me too!!!!
This was my first album...... 1972 still unbeatebel .but still you turn me on. RIP Keith and Greg
Saw this tour in Miami, at the Jai alai stadium. I was 16 and went to Hialeah High School. Concerts back then, people were quiet and actually sat and listened to the concert. A friend and I snuck in early before the show. They were warming up. We were walking in a hallway giggling and goofing off, and then suddenly we see someone is walking toward us, oh shit it's Carl Palmer. We panicked, turned and walked to the restroom, and in he walks and joins us at the urinal. We thought we were done. But while he is peeing, he asked us if we were with the gaffers. We had no idea what that was. But we said yes. I will never forget that feeling of awe and dread that we were busted, but its Carl Palmer. That's my story.
Love it
Gaffers are electricians working mostly with lights in a concert tour. On a film set, their work is essential to placing light where the director wants it.
Ahahahaha great story
and you can tell it any way you want to .
Love Carl's smile at the beginning! There are no words on how talented these musicians truly are! Saw them at Santa Monica civic in the early days of the seventys. First concert with surround sound with walls of speakers all around the whole arena! Keith's majestic organ grinding and mystifying as the music 🎵🎶 jolts and floats through one ear and out the other! Magnificent musicians unsurpassed phenomenal talent!
Saw them in Houston in early 70.s LOVE THIS GROUP WISHED I WAS REALLY THERE ONLY SONG I REMEMBER IS BIT OF LUCKY MAN & KARN 9 BUMMER 😢 I HAVE ABOUT 5 R 6 ALBUMS COLLECT TAPES CDS ALBUMS CAUSE THE MUSIC OF TODAY IS: NOT😢
Carl has a beautiful smile. They looks like kids having so much fun!. Very talented young musicians.
Puts tears to my eyes... i tripped on acid in my Firebird when I was 19...
Went to the record store in 2004...asked for this album and the guy looked at me like I was from another planet... then I bought it and had the greatest night of my life
comment of the decade
Well for me, it was a '69 Camaro... but yeah.
I had a bar of chocolate and a lemonade. I was 12 at the time. Never tripped on acid , continued to eat chocolate. Still like ELP. Still can't afford Firebird or Camaro.
👏🤣
Charger i was 12
"Knife-Edge" is based on the first movement of Leoš Janáček's orchestral piece Sinfonietta (1926),[5] with an instrumental middle section that includes an extended quotation from the Allemande of Johann Sebastian Bach's first French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812, but played on an organ rather than a clavichord or piano. Lake provided the lyrics, with assistance from Richard Fraser, a member of the group's road crew.
What a voice, only got better the older he got, I can always listen to Greg
00:00 Presentation for Keith Emerson
00:27 Promenade
02:18 The Gnome
08:00 Promenade
09:24 The Sage (intro)
#RIP Keith
#RIP Greg
Как я люблю этих мальчишек! Они втроём стоят симфонического оркестра. Думаю, от такой интерпретации Мусоргский был бы просто в восторге!
Да ,мне повезло слушать феноменальную игру этих музыкантов и каждый раз вновь и вновь поражаешься их мастерству . RIP Kиту и Грегу
И я люблю, а как улыбаются! Прелесть. Каждый день слушаю пару вещей!
Хрен Его знает, может и повесился бы сразу...
Saranno stati anche strafatti di qualunque sostanza disponibile, però riuscivano a mantenere il controllo totale (e CHE controllo) degli strumenti.. grandi!!
When I first watched Keith brutalise and pushing around his Hammond like it owed him money I was just joyously shocked. What a performer.
Like it owed him money.......ha ha ha
Funny .!
Lol what a way to put it hahaha
Immer wieder Gänsehaut
Nach den Jahrzehnten ...
Keith Emerson was in a category of exactly one. ELP affects me still the way they did in 1972, just slack-jawed wonder at his facility on his instrument and unparalleled creativity. They were my music teacher and I’ve never forgotten that.
I saw them in Nashville in 1977. Best concert I've EVER seen!
Was that the one with the orchestra? I was there! Unless that was 78. If so, we were lucky. I hear they ditched the orchestra shortly afterward.
ELP had the ability to make any music composition an exciting, impressive journey. There will be no one as magnificent as them.
Not even King Crimson?
@@martintaper7997 King Crimson is a profoundly technical proficient band, but it is as well somewhat minimalistic in their composition style, whereas ELP, also technical proficient themselves, prefered the grandeur of orchestrated compositions, or in some sense the transcription of orchestral oeuvres into trio arrangements. Nevertheless, ELP always bet for grandiosity and exhuberant showmanship. That's why I consider them magnificent.
@@carlosrobertoramirezfuente2524 In my mind that makes their music "derivative". Try listening to the first four albums by Kansas, they make ELP look like learners.
@@martintaper7997 what do you means by "derivative"? I know the albums of Kansas. Kansas is AOR and ELP is prog. Even in time it is impossible that the music of ELP (69) is a "derivate" of Kansas (73).
@@wimgroart1870 ELP as the other comment states, "ELP, also technical proficient themselves, preferred the grandeur of orchestrated compositions, or in some sense the transcription of orchestral oeuvres" hence "derivative". Kansas wrote their own music in their own hybrid style and the members played in bands with an evolving style to Kansas predating ELP and 1969. Your definition of progressive rock is a moot point, and ELP is less "rock" than Kansas, that is self evident, so they ELP less fit the "rock" genre before we even start narrower definitions.
Oh boy what memories .... Saw ELP concert first time in 1972 at Palasport in Rome. Will never forget
8:17 Never get tired of listening to Greg Lake’s voice here
I love how all three of the members of this band played so tightly and in tune with what the others were doing. I loved seeing Greg smile at Keith. He commanded the stage and was clearly the 'leader' and heartbeat of ELP. God, he was so damned talented and he loved making music so much, and that came across with every performance. He was there for the audience, and that was very apparent. I just wish that whoever was manning the cameras in these videos actually spent more time focusing in on Greg's playing, but as it was the focus was almost always on Keith and Carl. With 3 such ridiculously talented musicians, it's gotta be hard to know who to focus on, and when. But Greg's singing and playing, and stage presence were intoxicating and mesmerizing, and I always want to see more.
And then Lake went on with his master piece "The Sage", that he composed when he was in his early 23 year of age!!
I love The Sage. Oneof my all time favorite songs
A great band. One of my top 5 favs. Greg Lake was a magnificent human being who kept his head about him when others were losing their's. England produced the best progressive rock bands of all time, and after all is said and done that little island nation has produced the greatest modern musicians.
Amused to see the old-fashioned frequency counter sitting on the Moog, 'cos that was the only way to keep those early synthesizers in tune! ♥
REST IN PEACE KEITH EMERSON ...YOU WILL BE MISSED :(
Carl Palmer lives on in his new band, the ELP Legacy.
They are deeply missed... I saw ELP Legacy, they are awesome!
Such a great talent has left us 😔
Beautifull Greg and Keith. I feel so fortunate to have seen ELP live as well as Greg solo. Their passing still hurts, and no other band will ever come close to ELP. They are one of a kind!
I remember buying PAAE back 1972. It is still astounding today. Not to mention what they do to Kim Fowley's Nutrocker.
We used to rent this VHS video from our local record store : FULL CIRCLE, get smoked up and watch, many a times our parents would be like uhhh what are you watching? Knowing we were totally baked, I mean come on, this isn't Billy Joel😅
REST IN PEACE GREG LAKE, YOU WILL BE SOLELY MISSED.....
Totally blown away from the experience of the time I was captivated by the entire genius of a band that I will never forget. The legacy lives on into the future of our understanding and the other side of the unknown. We have to believe in the end 🙏 that our lives will live on a wonder that we can only imagine...
GREG LAKE was an AWESOME GUITARIST and SINGER ! ! 👍 And Absolutely HANDSOME !! 💜😘
And Keith Emerson
One of the richest vocal talents ever recorded!
*Solely, surely?! 😆edit: Greg did surely have soul though.
Even the gods have to leave us eventually. But we are better for the time they spent among us. Wherever Keith and Greg are, they're watching and smiling down on us. ❤️️
This Performance was the very Soul& ❤of the most prolific music performed by the most talented musicians I have ever seen & MET. GOD BLESS YOU KEITH AND GREG. YOU WILL BE SORRYLY MISSED. & CARL KEEP COMING TO THE LOVE AND POWER YOU HAVE DISPLAYED IN COUNTLESS TIMES ⏲️ OVER THE YEARS!!!!!
I was blessed to finally see ELP at a smaller ventue after they reunited. They didnt disappoint.
Rip Keith, Greg.
RIP Emerson, here's hoping your contribution to music influences future artists and generations
never gonna happen
All music influences someone.
@@wildrosecece Seems like most music nowadays is only influenced by $$$...not all, but most! Thank Rock and Roll for Greta Van Fleet, The Glorious Sons, Monster Truck, YYNOT & others for still creating wonderful Music!
I saw ELP live in august 1971 on the Pictures at an Exhibition tour. I was 13 years old. They were terrific. I marvel at how accomplished they were at such a young age: 26, 24 & 22, I think. Greg had already been in King Crimson for several years touring the world before forming ELP. So much talent. As a bass player, I watch Greg closely. In addition to being a great bassist he is a superb vocalist. While I am old now, perhaps, I grew up with ELP, Chicago, the Allman Brothers, Return to Forever, Pat Metheny, Stevie Wonder, Weather Report, James Taylor, Stevie Wonder, EW&F, Joni Mitchell, The Crusaders… it really was the golden age, IMO. There is talent these days, for sure, but I think the industry is different and it doesn’t manifest in the same quality ensembles that my generation enjoyed. I’m not too interested in most of the new stuff, but I can listen to the old stuff endlessly. IMO, it really was that much better.
After 50 years, Carl is still a great drummer! ...no, better!
yes
Plenty better. Honestly, that is just silly. Inspiring to teenage prog fans maybe, yes, but creatively, his meter, all not so good. Like him all you want... I saw him several times... But be honest with the reality.. do some work.
Bravissimo. C'è però anche John Bonham dei mitici Zeppelin..
Palmer spielt mit 90 noch alle an die Wand
Oh what a band! They are incredible...and Gosh, Carl is so cute, strong and beautiful, he was only 20 years old here, I'm just a teenage girl but I think he's still so young, so fresh, so handsome nowadays , what a man!🥰 I would love to meet him someday. I love his talent, I admire him very much❤...
Way, way back in the "dark ages" of the '70's, my brother introduced me to a few things one day. I got stoned, and heard ELP and YES for the first time. Well, you know what happened, they imprinted themselves on my brain and have been a part of my life ever since. I'm glad to say that I was able to see them both in concert, Yes 6 or 7 times but unfortunately, I only saw ELP once.
Saw Emerson with The Nice at a hotel near Coventry in 1969. Hard to believe but yeah you could see world class musicians back then in very small venues. This was back when Emerson was stabbing his keys with giant World War 2 knives. Great times but problem was we didn’t realise at the time what the importance was of what we were witnessing. Same goes for when I saw Jimi Hendrix in 1967 at Coventry Theatre. They were just “pop stars” back then. Crazy when I look back. Glad I was there though.
Still love them forever. Never missed a concert
Edgar Allan Poe feared, above all else, the annihilation of beauty. When we're long gone I hope that someway and somehow the beauty of ELP still resonates within the ether.
Músicos de verdad, profesionales, creativos y talentosos, una lástima inmensa que ya no los tengamos, por lo menos a dos de ellos, Greg Lake un prodigio colmado de talento y calidad musical, Keith Emerson un genio que no podrá ser replicado, cargado de una capacidad creativa muy pocas veces vista, el que queda otro prodigio, baterista lleno de magia.
Tambien es una lástima q palmemos mosotros con 71...bueno seguiré escuchandp hasta q los timpanos aguanten
ELP brought me to classical music and my music professor gray hair. Greetings from Austria, the country in which cows fart in polyphonic voices!
This band was so far ahead of its time. These guys forged territory only dreamed of by most other bands. A trio with this amount of power, talent and creativity is hard to come by. What a fantastic era for music.
saw them 1974 roosevelt stadium, jersey city n.j. amazing show!!
Потрясающая музыка. ELP, вы великие музыканты!
Gregg had a so sublime, exalted voice which giveth a special brand to the band, than Emerson who looks as a medieval knight which always tamed that monstrous Moog, and Palmer with his "fierce army of drums" when in motion a menace to any drummers of the time, an incredible trio they was, no match anymore.
Along time ago ,my boyfriend's father gave me the first record of E.L.P on my birthday.I like They do advenced rock music.Impossible not to love. Thank you ELP, thank you Laitche ,BERAY from İstanbul
3 monster musicians. Thanks fellas.
Grateful I got to see them in the early 70s.
Me too
They bring me back to a time ,playing these classics over and over
Can't get over how young they look. So talented to be so young.
Really loved the early ELP records when I was a teenager in the very early 70’s. The Moog synthesizer was fairly new and Keith Emerson was making the most of the new technology.
ELP introduced many of us teens to classical music, they made it palatable to our generation. I, like many, developed a real love for classical in the following years. Thank you ELP.
I couldn't agree more!
The brilliance of. these performances lives on! ... God Bless.
did god bless that shot gun Keith used... or Kurt Cobain? Just wondering why he would step in now for your blessing? Confusing..
This is the song that opened my eyes to classical music, even though I only played rock music. EL&P was an intelligent band.
All fabulous musicians, and the showmanship of Keith Emerson blew me away the first time I saw a live video of them!
I work in a city with a few classic rock radio stations.
They never play any ELP.
One of the greatest bands of all time. And the same stations played their songs a lot in the 70s and 80s.
Pure talent, brilliant geniuses! GL and KE never forgotten!
Cuando vi este vídeo me quedé impactado con lo q hacían en esa época tan primitiva sobre todo el sonido espacial dl moog y en realidad era la nueva era d estos 3 inmortales genios Keith Greg y Carl marcaron un mundo d grandes melodías hasta el dia d hoy memorables ¡¡¡viva por siempre emerson lake&palmer!!!👂👂👂👂👂👂👂👂❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Beautiful voice and every guitar he playing, strong and smart drums & unbeliewebl keyboards any kind
Ewesome band
I love welcome back my friend...... at night before sleep with big headphone
Every sound what i hunt in my head is masterpice
This _cuvée_ is one of the best of them. Those years was pure mind elevation.
I remember Derek Jewell saying when he went to see ELP it was the LOUDEST gig he’d ever heard. You kind of get that from this clip. This gig must’ve blown people’s minds
I saw their Brain Salad Surgery tour and I can agree. It was incredibly loud - like louder than heavy metal loud. My ears were plugged for a day or so after that, but it was worth it.
@@wardka That was actually the tour he was talking about
I first heard ELP back in the mid 70's, when one of my brothers brought home Brain Salad Surgery, and I listened to Karn Evil 9. It was a mind altering experience, as I couldn't have been more than 14, and had never heard anything like that before. 😲
Saw them in just such a venue at about the same time playing this whole album +Tarkus and ELP-1...I didnt even know a single one of their songs before the show. Twas a religious experience
Goodbye Greg. Miss you
Senza tempo...avevo 14 anni quando sentii Pictures la prima volta. A 65 anni ancora rimango ammirato dal talento di questo trio ❤
Holy holy holy and these young men created this music for my generation and yours and generations to come.
Thank-you gentle men !
I still dearly love ELP...IMO they were the greatest prog rock band to ever make music, pure genius stuff...the talent these men possessed was at such a high level it was scary, I'm lucky I got to see them perform live ! 🎼😀🎵
You were a " Lucky Man", alright.
Ce groupe est le reflet d'une époque éclatante révolue, un astéroïde fantôme qui revient jeter son dévolu sur l'art sonore. Une onde prodigieuse chargée de paradoxes d'où s'échappent la féérie l'enthousiasme et l'irrationnel, facteurs hypnotiques défiant les âmes vulnérables en quête d'absolu. Son architecture musicale est un court tunnel qui mène à la lumière 🤗
One the best groups without question. I've been a fan since I was in the seventh grade, I'm 59 now.
Best Trio in Rock Prog History.. No question
Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends. Guess, that the classic komponents in all ELP creations are exorbitant high quality, you come out and have new ears, brain and possibly new spirit & soul. God bless all of you(rs) and Greg Lake too.
Enorme esa obra del ELP escuchen cuidadosamente la entrada un excelente tributo a mussorski y sus Cuadros... Saludos desde Mexico
Back in the seventy's I caught a concert at the Spectrum, Philadelphia. The sound was tremendous, in that it shook you insides. The Moog synthesizer was the culprit.
We all were so young back then!
Back in the 80's I spent like 30 bucks on an 8th or 50th generation vhs tape of this still love it
Que som poderoso. Emerson Lake and Palmer é uma das minhas bandas favoritas.
Genios virtuosos e irrepetibles. Unicos y privilegiados. For ever and never
I miss these guys
すげえバンドだったよね👍メンバーもすごい。今や音楽もイントロいらないなんて言う聞きこまず、入りきれない普通な人達ばかり。音楽の復活を🦜👍
Doraemon ngewe sizuka nobita
Born in 1969....was lucky enough to see them in the 90's. Brilliant
Never gets old.
The Days When Real Musicians Ruled the Earth,RiP Keith,Gregg and Keep Well Carl.
Greatest keyboard player on Earth
💘 LOVE YOU. BROTHER. AND THERE IS NO OTHER IM 59. GOUBG THROGH SONE HEAVY SHUT RIHGT NOW IS IT APPRILS FOILS DAY DIDNT EVEN REALIZE THAT. BECAUSE OF WHATS GOING ON. THIS@TOGHF TINES RITE NOW. HE IS BRINGING A LOT OF JOY TONIGHT SONGS ARE OLD. BUT RIGHT ON TGE MONEY
Probably the best ROCK keyboard player
@@moogymiss Not probably.
Absolut
Ya think?
So great to see young kids having fun playing music --- Carl just keeps smiling.
Coming back to this piece again and again. Magic. Pure magic!
Honestly, there was a massive, overabundance of talent in this group.
How in the world it came to pass that these three guys found each other is nothing short...nothing short of divine intervention.
I feel the same way about Yes, the Beatles, Chicago, the Beach Boys, The Moody Blues, and a few others.
They were all meant to be!
And to think they almost convinced Jimy Hendrix to join.. could you imagine "H.E.L.P."??
When Emerson was with The Nice, they had to let their guitarist go for mental health reasons, So they had auditions for a replacement. Guess who tried out. Steve Howe. But before he could join, they decided to go on without a guitarist. Later, Yes asked Emerson to be their keyboardist. Emerson said no, and started ELP.
Terry Kath, Robert Lamm, and Peter Cetera, three great vocalists and songwriters in the same band, Chicago. The same was true of the Beatles. I am a big Gregg Lake fan.
@@TheCowfart1 I am reading greg Lake autobiography now.. pretty bittersweet .
@@TheCowfart1
I saw ELP once in Margate UK in March 1971, unforgettable experience, RIP Keith and Greg
Outstanding musicianship all along. Long live ELP!
Abso-bloody-lutely su-bloody-perb !!! Goosebumps !!!
I really wish I had been alive in a time when a progressive band could redo Mussorgsky and it would sell out massive stadiums. People just seems so much more intelligent back then.
Truly incredibly artistic! Love them!
Величайшая группа! Величайшие музыканты!🎹🎸🥁✌️