Thanks for the comments. I play in the keys on Welcome Back. The BSS keys sounded outrageously high for Lake to sing parts of the first and third impressions. Surely this is why they changed keys for the tour. Both versions have their advantages, soundwise. I lean toward the original keys but it all depends on who's singing. I learned the keyboards off vinyl many years ago but I still tweek a note or two now and then. I sequenced the bass and drums later; Toccata just a few weeks ago.
Each sound is perfect, this performance shows how devote you are to Emerson and his masterpieces. Of course there are a lot of good cover band around the world but I think Emerson himself would be amazed listening to this.
I could hear, clear as a bell, Greg Lake singing every nuance. In a way I know his performance better now from imagining it. Stupendously great work, Kerry.
That is amazingly accurate playing. Impressed by the fact that the synth patches and organ presets aren't a million miles away from the real thing. Nice work!
Like many other Emerson aficionados I want to hear it much as Keith played it and with his compositional intent. You're up on the upper peaks of prog-rock. You did it, about the best I have heard. Like Mallory and Everest, I imagine you did it "because it is there." ;) Very well done mate. RIP Keith.
Fantastic! I've always lamented that Part 2 gets all the airplay and that Part 1 has been relegated to the back shelf. Your virtuoso performance here just confirms that most people do not know what they are missing! You are true to the music and spirit of ELP - an amazing accomplishment!
This is seriously impressive. I'm impressed by the work you've put in to make those synth patches sound so authentic and pleasing to the ear). Excellent job.
Unbelievable ! You and Rachel Flowers are the only persons i know who can play this stuff so well* and with this SOUND !! Gratulations, please keep this music alive, thank you !! (*you play it even more in time accompanied by a drum computer - RESPECT)
Kerry, you are an immensely talented and gifted musician. Your ELP work with Keith Emerson is brilliant. Nice synthesizer pairing with the Hammond. Wow, that voicing is perfect with these complex arrangements. Thx for sharing. I am looking forward to listening to more of your music online.
A lot of videos like this I go into expecting to only listen to about 1 minute. I listened to the whole thing. Being a huge ELP fan who knows every note and tone, I am very impressed. Excellent!
This is hands down the best cover I've ever heard of this, and there's a -lot- of covers out there. The sheer energy that comes across is addictive, and if you hadn't sold me already on the piece, when the 3:39 part leaps in I got proggy musochills. Thanks for uploading this, this vid will be in my favorites for a very long time. I've always found ELPs -actual- recordings sound a bit too dated these days to fully enjoy for me somehow, so great modern covers really help keep their work alive.
WoW!!! Grew up in the ELP era, saw them in Buffalo when part of their gig was Emerson in the rotating grand piano. Wild stuff... You reproduction took me on a very welcome walk down memory lane, thanks for sharing your talents... J
Beautiful !! I love the music of ELP and Brain Salad Surgery is my personal favorite album. Got to see them in concert 3 times and treasure the memory. Very well played Kerry !! Thanks..........
There are now quite a lot of ELP tributes on YT [thank goodness!]. Many - if not most of them are rather brilliant. None I think, quite get the excitement, exhilaration and sheer technical stupendous bravado of Kerry's versions.
Kerry, my standing ovation!! You played it so softly it seemed to be an easy piece, which definitely it is *not*. Greetings from Rio and my deep admiration.
pretty cool, wow kerry, you've done it so effortlessly that it even seems quite easy to play... and we all know it's not any easy at all!!!!! congrats! ...and it is simply PERFECT!!!! BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!
Beautiful work, Kerry. Sorry, a little late commenting on the party. Just want to say I enjoyed your version based in some part on live versions of this great tune. Hope you're still playing Emerson gems like this!
Wish I could make it to NAMM. It's been quite a few years since I attended. Sound Source (if you remember them) marketed some of my sounds for the Yamaha SY77 in the early ninties so I used to go down with a pass from them. Once again I have too many commitments to go this year. Have fun there.
Happy new year 2009!!! Danke für deine tollen Videos! Insbesonders ELP!!! Ich liebe sie und höre regelmäßig. Ich war und bin ein extremer ELP fan. Jetzt kommt Kerry dazu. Bitte mehr davon, soviel du kannst :-) Wenn du mal mixing oder mastering brauchst, melde dich! Liebe Grüße Nitro
Thanks. I'm sure Keith wishes he could play the way he did in the old days. He played with power and conviction that I attain only on rare occasions. But as a superior artist Keith's real forte has always been creativity. My problem is that I love other peoples' music so much that I've never felt much need to be creative. I do have some original stuff that I'm proud of. I will eventually post it...it just takes more commitment than playing covers...even ELP.
If you can tell exactly what "the organ plays" from this low quality video, whose sound is that of 18 year old PA speakers recorded from across the room into cheap camcorder mics, then I'm very anxious to hear your transcriptions. The only thing I feel I need to "explain" is why I would use up some of my life to trifle with this... I ought to be in faking another video.
Congratulation! This is the nicest cover of Karn Evil 1st impression I've had a chance to watch/listen to. I wish you could play it with a band as well!...:-)))
@kshacklett Amazing how good that camcorder picked it up. This is great , thanks for posting, great playing, I can't wait to hear you when you aren't rusty.lol. please make more.
I wouldn't break down whole pieces, or even whole sections, but just a few parts that I think are noteworthy. My production is different than ELP because I'm using newer gear, so I might explain a few of the translations.
Wow Bro! Totally nailed that. I wish I had run into you when I was trying to get an ELP tribute band together. (I'm a Vocalist/Bassist/Guitarist) If you're ever in Southwest Florida look me up.
Thanks, Eric. Who knows when I might be in SW Florida. I did a one nighter with Craig Chaquico in Melborne last year. Maybe friend me on facebook. I always post when I have a good gig.
Keith's gone...But Kerry is here...There is even a physical resemblance ...I know this is ten yrs from upload and probably twenty from original take...Hope you are well ...A friend...
Kerry Shacklett keep it up, Elp was my first band when I got to discover music, english music that is, and I did not know that they were the best that I would come to love after all those years, i love genesis, yes, but Elp has a level of composition mix with Gregs voice that no one could surpass. Some people are intense and Keith was one hell of a guy, I like your transcription...how did you managed to squeeze all these notes in your brain? Did you slowdown the song using some speed converter? take care and keep it up musically 🍻
Hi Kenny, When you get the 1st ever,1st Impression on YT let me know, it is long awaited. By the way, at 2:19 you sound just like CP when he hits his sticks together at the beginning of "The Sheriff" Also, by the way, Yes cancelled their tour 3 days before we saw them. Squire had a blood clot in his leg so they won't be coming to Reno either. Damn, those guys are getting old, I should talk! Danny
Keep in touch then and we can meet up maybe. I wonder if Kerry is going? I'm really surprised they're just doing one gig; you'd think they'd at least a couple of gigs in the States.
Kerry mate....don't take any notice of the critics...Bet some of them don't know one note form another. Its a great job you have done on ALL your pieces....And Keith is aware also..he hasn't mad a crtitcal comment...
Wow, beautiful. I play drums and am learning guitar, and since discovering Tarkus, Karnevil, Trilogy, and Rick Wakeman, I am temped to learn keyboards, and your playing certainly encourages anyone that you don't need 4 years at Berklee where my drum teacher studied to master some great prog rock like ELP. Maybe with some hard work like yours, maybe some day I might do a little of your justice to this brilliant composition. My teacher has Carpal, has Keith recovered his right hand fully? Thanks
Thanks for the comments. I play in the keys on Welcome Back. The BSS keys sounded outrageously high for Lake to sing parts of the first and third impressions. Surely this is why they changed keys for the tour. Both versions have their advantages, soundwise. I lean toward the original keys but it all depends on who's singing. I learned the keyboards off vinyl many years ago but I still tweek a note or two now and then. I sequenced the bass and drums later; Toccata just a few weeks ago.
Each sound is perfect, this performance shows how devote you are to Emerson and his masterpieces. Of course there are a lot of good cover band around the world but I think Emerson himself would be amazed listening to this.
I could hear, clear as a bell, Greg Lake singing every nuance. In a way I know his performance better now from imagining it. Stupendously great work, Kerry.
Seeing this just affirms to me why this is my favorite song of all time by any group. Well done👍
Joy to the ears. Ask Carl Palmer if you and Rachel Flowers could do a tour. I'd go. Thanks.
That is amazingly accurate playing. Impressed by the fact that the synth patches and organ presets aren't a million miles away from the real thing. Nice work!
Like many other Emerson aficionados I want to hear it much as Keith played it and with his compositional intent. You're up on the upper peaks of prog-rock. You did it, about the best I have heard. Like Mallory and Everest, I imagine you did it "because it is there." ;)
Very well done mate. RIP Keith.
Very impressive... I love this composition!
You kept exactly the mood of this piece...
Perfect!
Fantastic! I've always lamented that Part 2 gets all the airplay and that Part 1 has been relegated to the back shelf. Your virtuoso performance here just confirms that most people do not know what they are missing!
You are true to the music and spirit of ELP - an amazing accomplishment!
This is seriously impressive. I'm impressed by the work you've put in to make those synth patches sound so authentic and pleasing to the ear). Excellent job.
Absolutely fantastic, keep up the memories. My youth is being saluted on my screen today! Thank You.
Unbelievable ! You and Rachel Flowers are the only persons i know who can play this stuff so well* and with this SOUND !! Gratulations, please keep this music alive, thank you !!
(*you play it even more in time accompanied by a drum computer - RESPECT)
Kerry, you are an immensely talented and gifted musician. Your ELP work with Keith Emerson is brilliant. Nice synthesizer pairing with the Hammond. Wow, that voicing is perfect with these complex arrangements. Thx for sharing. I am looking forward to listening to more of your music online.
A lot of videos like this I go into expecting to only listen to about 1 minute. I listened to the whole thing. Being a huge ELP fan who knows every note and tone, I am very impressed. Excellent!
This is hands down the best cover I've ever heard of this, and there's a -lot- of covers out there. The sheer energy that comes across is addictive, and if you hadn't sold me already on the piece, when the 3:39 part leaps in I got proggy musochills.
Thanks for uploading this, this vid will be in my favorites for a very long time. I've always found ELPs -actual- recordings sound a bit too dated these days to fully enjoy for me somehow, so great modern covers really help keep their work alive.
WoW!!! Grew up in the ELP era, saw them in Buffalo when part of their gig was Emerson in the rotating grand piano. Wild stuff... You reproduction took me on a very welcome walk down memory lane, thanks for sharing your talents...
J
RIP Keith and Greg.
Not a small feat for anyone at any level. Fantastic and very inspiring.
PHENOMINAL!Im floored(again!)will write back soon when i can put some lucid thoughts together!For now,im speechless.
Beautiful !! I love the music of ELP and Brain Salad Surgery is my personal favorite album. Got to see them in concert 3 times and treasure the memory. Very well played Kerry !! Thanks..........
Proud you! Fantastic Keyboards! Fantasticos Teclados! ajc 2018
There are now quite a lot of ELP tributes on YT [thank goodness!]. Many - if not most of them are rather brilliant. None I think, quite get the excitement, exhilaration and sheer technical stupendous bravado of Kerry's versions.
Unbelievably good! Excellent from the beginning to the end.
Something to be proud of that from 3:37...
Thanks, man.
hey brother ! just an excellent job there.coming from a big elp fan from the by-gone era.
Congratulations, you absolutely nailed parts 1 2 and 3 and was a pleasure to listen to, ELP was my favourite band for many years.
Bravo. Il migliore che ho sentito!!!!!!
Kerry, they should make a movie about Keith, and you should play him!
he even looks like Keith...
Outstanding performance! Thanks for posting this gem.
damn i have never been so glad to watch an entire video of someone playing emerson lake and palmer as good as you do! keep on the good work buddy!!!
Seriously! I listened to this while looking at the lyrics, and forgot this was a cover. Amazing work!
Magnifique travail !
On retrouve la fougue et le swing du sieur Keith.
Et magnifique matériel.
i'm sorry my no speak english
Kerry, my standing ovation!! You played it so softly it seemed to be an easy piece, which definitely it is *not*. Greetings from Rio and my deep admiration.
Nice work Kerry. I've watched a few of your vids, and this one is by far my favorite so far.
-Former keyboard Player who still loves this stuff!
pretty cool, wow kerry, you've done it so effortlessly that it even seems quite easy to play... and we all know it's not any easy at all!!!!!
congrats! ...and it is simply PERFECT!!!!
BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!
Spot cover of this ELP classic! Nice job!!!
Beautiful work, Kerry. Sorry, a little late commenting on the party. Just want to say I enjoyed your version based in some part on live versions of this great tune. Hope you're still playing Emerson gems like this!
Wish I could make it to NAMM. It's been quite a few years since I attended. Sound Source (if you remember them) marketed some of my sounds for the Yamaha SY77 in the early ninties so I used to go down with a pass from them. Once again I have too many commitments to go this year. Have fun there.
WOW! AGAIN! Your timing and accuracy is incredible! Well done!
Great work. Lots hours to learn that!
WOW 6:18, that was unexpected and AWESOME!
Congratulations from Portugal, you just got yourself another fan :O
Kerry, These are all very weel. I am also a long time Emerson fan and player. Nicely done!
If that's rusty .. my god I'd love to hear it after you've rehearsed! Brilliant!
Awesome!!! Congratulations!!!
Perfect, far as me a former drummer can tell.
Would like to see you do 'Mars'. Saw EL&Powell do it in 1987. Amazing!
Increible!!1nunca he visto algo tan bueno.
Man,you are really good! second to none my congratulations,yoy are the best...keep the same way
Best interpretation I have ever seen!!
Happy new year 2009!!!
Danke für deine tollen Videos!
Insbesonders ELP!!!
Ich liebe sie und höre regelmäßig.
Ich war und bin ein extremer ELP fan.
Jetzt kommt Kerry dazu.
Bitte mehr davon, soviel du kannst :-)
Wenn du mal mixing oder mastering brauchst, melde dich!
Liebe Grüße
Nitro
This is awesome, you play a great piece of music with everything that has to be in it. Envious...😉
Excelente interpretación !!!!!!!!!1
Very good job! Thanks!
Hi Kerry - very good performance. Though far distanced we are brothers in taste and musicianship. Cheers!
I loved this video from the begining, but once 6:13 happened I became really happy, great job
Hello!(Kerry)It's a most amazing show!!!
WOWOWOWOW!!! F'ing Awsome! And this from a die hard ELP fanatic.
Dude...nice stack, performance, and tones!!! I'm gonna be studying your choices here.
great brother. fine work indeed. alot of playing along to ELP i know you did
Awesome Job Kerry! Spot on!!!
Thanks. I'm sure Keith wishes he could play the way he did in the old days. He played with power and conviction that I attain only on rare occasions. But as a superior artist Keith's real forte has always been creativity. My problem is that I love other peoples' music so much that I've never felt much need to be creative. I do have some original stuff that I'm proud of. I will eventually post it...it just takes more commitment than playing covers...even ELP.
If you can tell exactly what "the organ plays" from this low quality video, whose sound is that of 18 year old PA speakers recorded from across the room into cheap camcorder mics, then I'm very anxious to hear your transcriptions. The only thing I feel I need to "explain" is why I would use up some of my life to trifle with this... I ought to be in faking another video.
Congratulation!
This is the nicest cover of Karn Evil 1st impression I've had a chance to watch/listen to.
I wish you could play it with a band as well!...:-)))
Awesome!
Im sure lots of people would love to
Hear your Compositions if and when
You are able to...Thanks, Getredy.
@kshacklett Amazing how good that camcorder picked it up. This is great , thanks for posting, great playing, I can't wait to hear you when you aren't rusty.lol. please make more.
Shit... I've been wanting to learn that stuff since high school. Spot-freakin'-on, Kerry! Congrats.
OK, 1st Impression is a thrill!
3rd Impression - Perfect!
What about what's in between?
I'll bet that's not on RUclips!!!
Brilliant. Shame he's gone.
You mean Keith?
I wouldn't break down whole pieces, or even whole sections, but just a few parts that I think are noteworthy. My production is different than ELP because I'm using newer gear, so I might explain a few of the translations.
Awsome job buddy..... I am sooo impressed
Fantastic! Are you going to see ELP this summer then? We're seeing them in London in July.
Wow Bro! Totally nailed that. I wish I had run into you when I was trying to get an ELP tribute band together. (I'm a Vocalist/Bassist/Guitarist) If you're ever in Southwest Florida look me up.
Thanks, Eric. Who knows when I might be in SW Florida. I did a one nighter with Craig Chaquico in Melborne last year. Maybe friend me on facebook. I always post when I have a good gig.
@@kshacklett Will do. Thanks for the reply.
I can't even explain how jealous of you I am man... sick Hammond skills dude :)
I want to see you live!!
See my other comments...
Just discovered you tonight... instant fan!!!
I need to bring my bass over to your house. Dude, you even look like Keith!!
Well done, maestro !!!
Ganz schön gut der Mann!
Respekt!!!
The tempo is perfect. Key high but excellent take!
Keith's gone...But Kerry is here...There is even a physical resemblance ...I know this is ten yrs from upload and probably twenty from original take...Hope you are well ...A friend...
Thanks, getredy.... I posted as soon as I finished the videos. Haven't played much ELP lately but it never stops influencing my playing and composing.
Kerry Shacklett keep it up, Elp was my first band when I got to discover music, english music that is, and I did not know that they were the best that I would come to love after all those years, i love genesis, yes, but Elp has a level of composition mix with Gregs voice that no one could surpass.
Some people are intense and Keith was one hell of a guy, I like your transcription...how did you managed to squeeze all these notes in your brain? Did you slowdown the song using some speed converter?
take care and keep it up musically 🍻
Very good!!! Bravo!!!
Hi Kenny,
When you get the 1st ever,1st Impression on YT let me know, it is long awaited. By the way, at 2:19 you sound just like CP
when he hits his sticks together at the beginning of "The Sheriff"
Also, by the way, Yes cancelled their tour 3 days before we saw them. Squire had a blood clot in his leg so they won't be coming to Reno either. Damn, those guys are getting old, I should talk!
Danny
awesome job!!!
just two or three weeks of rust..but the only serious mistake I made was when I was fishing for my volume pedal..otherwise I was pretty happy with it.
Mind-blowing!
Female (apparently), ELP fan, and libertarian? I think I'm in love!😉
Keep in touch then and we can meet up maybe. I wonder if Kerry is going? I'm really surprised they're just doing one gig; you'd think they'd at least a couple of gigs in the States.
Spectacular,Spectacular!
I learned it off vinyl, but there's a good transcription here:
Hmm, it won't let me post...
Kerry mate....don't take any notice of the critics...Bet some of them don't know one note form another. Its a great job you have done on ALL your pieces....And Keith is aware also..he hasn't mad a crtitcal comment...
@kshacklett
Fantastic!
As far as I know, Keith is having a lot of trouble to this day. I don't know if there's much that can be done, but I'm hoping.
Great job!
Wow, beautiful. I play drums and am learning guitar, and since discovering Tarkus, Karnevil, Trilogy, and Rick Wakeman, I am temped to learn keyboards, and your playing certainly encourages anyone that you don't need 4 years at Berklee where my drum teacher studied to master some great prog rock like ELP. Maybe with some hard work like yours, maybe some day I might do a little of your justice to this brilliant composition. My teacher has Carpal, has Keith recovered his right hand fully? Thanks
Outstanding!
That's cool. Very nicely done
consistently awesome ! Keith should hire you as a stunt double ;)
@SkyP1e
Google the words "ELP piano bench"
You'll find the transcriptions there
Very nice
Fantastic!!!!!!!!
Brilliant, KS!
This is right on the mark!!!!
I subbed !!!
This is awesome !
M3s are really great, I own one. But now that the Kronos is out, just get one of those for not much more :)