I am in the front row centre with some friends. When Keith’s organ packed up, Lee (I think) threw some percussion blocks to us. You can hear this on the LP of the concert. I followed The Nice up and down the country, including to The Gliderdrome in Boston, Lincs. It was here that the organ failed again, and some wag in the audience shouted “what’s the matter, doesn’t your organ work?”, with a swift response from Lee saying “by the look on your girlfriend’s face, yours doesn’t either!” Magic.
I think you're a lucky fan to have been there at that time. I saw The Nice in their revival on 2003 at Watford Colosseum, and Lee Jackson was still (thirty something years later) verbally offensive to some members of the audience who were applauding the band. Unlike the other two, he seemed such an over privileged spoiled, self-important so-and-so.
There was a big problem with Boston Gliderdrome.The only way in was up a fire escape at the back. A roadies nightmare especially if they had to lug a Hammond in. Even though you could separate them into two more manageable units, they were still heavy. Maybe that explains the Hammond problem that night!!
I found this video on VHS at Amoeba record store in Hollywood back in 2002. The sleeve was a photocopy black and white very "home made". I wait until 2007 to find a NTSC/PAL converter to see the video and digitalized it and upload it on UA-cam (I splited it in 3 parts because it was impossible to upload long videos at the time). After few years and hundreds towhsends of view, I was strike by Emerson's copyright publishers. I'm glad to see this video still lives on on youtube. The Nice is one of the best band in history. I've read that Keith Emerson never wanted this video to be released and was supposed to own a colour version. I hope it will surface one day.
The poor old Hammond organ; such a mighty and noble beast, yet it suffered such cruelty and maltreatment at the hands of those long-haired layabouts. 😥 Great bit of footage.
No shit . That thing became Vietnam and all sorts of other horrible things going on that year . I’m surprised he didn’t cut the speaker cone or something. Pretty amazing .
This is the only footage of Nice that i have ever seen...wonderful! Thank you for posting this video.Great.Is is a shame that David O List did not solo...i think he was a really great player .He had his own unique style.This band was a ahead od their time..a precursor of bigger things to come.I really appreciate this alot.!!!!
more and more great footage of this great band appears every so often - but UK tv generally ignored them and still ignores album bands to this day - RIP Keith my friend - RIP Blinky.
The first time I saw them was at the NJF Festival in Windsor in August '67. Then they got a Thursday residency at The Marquee and I saw them several times there. In fact the first time I saw Yes, they were supporting The Nice at The Marquee. This particular gig was a bit special. Without O'List they weren't as interesting!
"A Benefit for the British Olympic Appeal Fund. Some songs recorded were aired on Colour Me Pops, on 16 November 1968." Well, it worked, but it took some 44 years...anyway, a great clip of true pioneers. I never tire of them. Ars longa, vita brevis - Art is long, Life is short. But you knew that. And it's actually Vita brevis, ars longa, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.
The Windsor Festival gi that year was in August. They played that festival the previous year. Played a twenty minute set on the main stage then another 20 minute set backing PP Arnold!
They simply can´t see the connection of Keith being able to write real melodies and put an arrangement around them with ELP - and Lee´s inability to sing real melodies with the Nice. That made the music of the Nice more loose and opened the gate to much more improvisations. I think both bands were great but you can´t compare them.
Mr. Emerson. Hammond organs do not like being stabbed! Why is Davy O'List hiding in the back? A rare chance to see his finger work and he's blocked by Lee! Like the drummers Harry Partch bit! Excellent footage!
You would hardly know David O'List was there! There is little evidence of him playing but he is there - hiding in the background. I don't think he could cope with it - the limelight or, maybe the competition for space with Keith Emerson - or both. I heard (but do not know) that alcohol was a problem - if so this would likely be a coping mechanism. Very sad. Just before I listened to this I listened to the first Roxy Music John Peel session with David O'List as the guitarist - he is pretty good - Phil Mazanera was brought in shortly after and more or less copied the guitar parts for the first Roxy Music LP.
What a treat to see a show with the quartet! A real pity that Davy O'List can barely be heard. I have heard some recordings where Davy is much louder in the mix, and he contributed a lot. BTW Davy put out a great album in 2015, called Second Thoughts, with Andy Tillison on keys. Highly recommended!
Hey got that O’List album too. Quite Nice-ish in parts. Davy was a damn good vocalist as well, pity he got kicked out of the band. Emerson’s ego probably, craving all the limelight.
@@yesman2755 Read Keith´s boo. It was basically O´List´s heavy drug problems. And he had difficulties in accepting his second row status behind Keith. But look at all the keyboard players who are condemned to stay behind the guitar player. So - nothing unusual in bands.
*@Rik K* Andy Ellison more like....together with Marc Bolan he was a member of legendary 60's group John's Children . O'List had a band "Jet" with him around 1974.
@@PAULLONDEN Nope, O'List's 2015 album "Second Thoughts" featured Andy Tillison of The Tangent. I know who Andy Ellison is, and he's not on the O'List album. This can be verified on Discogs or on Rate Your Music.
Thanks very much for upload! I grew up with elp band and "pictures at a exhibition ! Then searched for more about Keith Emerson, found and loved all THE NICE LPs in the beginning of the 70s! After all the ELP years I found and came back to THE NICE through UA-cam . I can't stop the black and white videos. :)
- Huh? What band are/were U in? Richard Ward & The Hustlers? Barrington Boys Choir? They're the only 60s bands with a Richard Ward in them that I could find...;-) Maybe you were a roadie? www.discogs.com/artist/4125032-Richard-Ward-The-Hustlers www.discogs.com/Barrington-Boys-Choir-Songs-For-Sundays-And-Weekdays/release/5067519
whats the intrest ? I am what fate brings my way and is all there !for those who look in the right places ! but none of the above ! as Im a free spirit , who has spent my life trying to discover /understand , the answer to this ! wishing you and yours , health/ happiness and good fortune , in this gift of being ! which we call life ! . .
I thought O'List had left the band by September 1968, suppose his very last gig with the Nice?? anyway, in a way, the Nice is more interesting than ELP. Love their experimental playing style and progressive sound❤️
You have to feel sorry for these guys in a way. Lee and Brian were dumped by Emerson in the Nice and Moraz in Refugee, O’List was fired and Keith sadly took his own life. I absolutely adored this band, there’s never been another even remotely like them. I remember them rolling up to a gig near Coventry in a couple of Transit vans. Must have been a squeeze getting all the gear in. Contrast that with ELP a couple of years later rolling round the USA with seven articulated trucks !
Where does all the new Nice vid material keep coming from ? Thank goodness it does- I would've creamed my jeans as a teen to have been able to see this back then..... Ooopsy, gotta go change 'em now it seems !! lol
What happens at 3:45?? Seems like the organ went dead due to a loose rectifier tube and Keith Emerson fixes it on the fly !! 60's Rock and Roll doesn't get any better. R.I.P. you greatest of all Hammond jugglers.
A few years back with my Hammond M102 set up in a studio the mains transformer went bad and died. The studio was then filled with the noxious fumes of the shellac coating on the copper winding as it broke down and melted. The acrid fumes kept us out of the studio for about ten days. The other fault I can't stand is when relays go bad on solid state Leslie's, that always seems to happen at a gig!
Yeah - due to all that rumble his L100 had to go thru the tubes lost full contact. During his prime he had eight L100s in spare .... - As much as I admired him as a player that was something I always hated. Torturing a Hammond .....
wow!!!! what a treasure!!! I saw only 1 album from The Nice for sale at a record show earlier this spring and didn't buy it b/c I didn't have the $$ at the time but after watching this, think I will contact the vendor to see if he still has it. The vendor himself is a fan of KE and said he rarely sees and/or gets anything by The Nice or King Crimson; I did buy the lone KC album he had (ITCOTCK). I know anything Keith did is collectible.
The Nice were way more fun than ELP. In the early seventies I had the Best of Nice in my record collection and Little Arabella is still my favourite song about a hippie chick.
For non-musicians the importance of Keith Emerson may be hard to understand. By then the keyboard players sat in the second or third row in every band. Guitars were dominating on records as well as on stage. And if there were any significant keyboard parts to be heard they were not really important additions to a song. And so were the skills of the keyboard players - most of them were pretty lousy. Those simple parts on "Whiter shade of pale" or "Time is tight" were regarded as demanding keyboard parts. So rock music wasn´t really a magnet for young keyboard talents - I´m writing this from my own experience. But then Keith Emerson came along and I guess he inspired thousands of young keyboard players aound the world to join a band. It wasn´t Stevie Winwood, Jon Lord or Rick Wakeman, it was Keith - at least for those who were ambitious. And shortly after the Nice a keyboard player was a symbol of progressive spirit and music for every band. Bands like Vanilla Fudge, Argent, Spooky Tooth and Deep Purple featured an emphasized keyboard sound but not one of them came even close to the Nice. Basically that didn´t change with ELP. Keith´s keyboard parts and his compositions simply overshadowed the keyboard work of other bands including Yes, Genesis and Gentle Giant. But at least during this stage of musical development one could listen to quite some interesting keyboard parts and skilled players. But without Keith Emerson I doubt if it all would have happened. Unfortunately the clocks were moved back during the last 30 years. Keyboar players are sitting in the 2nd or 3rd row of a band again and I can´t see a new Keith Emerson to change that.
Keith Emerson had two things that the other great rock keyboardists didn't: 1) sheer audacity 2) the *shit in his hands*. He was a guy who didn't take any breaks between "I could do a thing" and "I'm doing the thing." And he was immensely talented technically and compositionally.
as a keyboard player who plays Keith Emerson and ELP almost religiously and a composer that takes large inspiration from Keith Emerson, it really makes me sad how little technical skill has to do with music anymore. Not even performance skill, just sheer lack of stacked fourths and interesting parts to play. Even in the realm of drumming and bass, Carl Palmer and Greg Lake have been a huge inspiration for me compositionally, and I always try to write so that no part is relatively boring. I almost quit piano for good until my dad brought me into the world of ELP through Trilogy - Trilogy on the way home from school in 2021. His music is almost like a drug to me, and nobody else can come close to replacing him in that light. I'd also like to mention Lyle Mays. Lyle Mays is another keyboard genius that just was, and I find his compositions (along with Pat Metheny because they both complemented each other really well) really deep and satisfying. Other than that, I can enjoy listening to (but not so much performing) music by Yes, Genesis, Rush, etc. but Keith and ELP is what I live by. I really wish I could have met Keith. From what I've heard, he's a genuine guy, and I feel that we have a lot in common musically. I'm definitely biased on that statement (with regards to the commonality, he 100% is a genuine guy), but I'll die on that hill. Mixed time signatures, musical modernism, improvisation, ability to put genuine emotion into music, etc.
@@NoahtheEpicGuyyou're wise above your years. Your dad certainly gave you good advice my hat's off to him for recommending ELP. One thing I disagree with is mentioning Rush. Rush or a great band who I have been listening to since their first American tour in 1974 however there is no keyboard player in the band. Geddy Lee is a bass player who does occasional fill-ins with the synth. He even admitted in an interview that he did not belong in the keyboard rankings that he was not a keyboard wizard. Direct quote and of course he was right. He is not out there jamming on a Hammond L100 or a grand piano he is first and foremost a great bass player and a poor singer😅
Thanks. This is the best quality video of this show I have seen. Now perhaps an audio upgrade? And of course, the only decent video of the quartet. I left Glasgow in Oct/68 but saw the Nice trio in Toronto twice on the 69 tours. Awesome memories.
@@alanj9391 Yes Alan, as did I and my good friend Angus. The early show. Knew of the The Nice then, but not nearly as well as by '69. Plus that line-up, Pink Floyd, the Move etc etc, really had us swamped. Not to mention Hendrix! I was all of 15 !
@@lavallee1963 The problem was O'List didn't like how the band had become dominated by Emerson. That wasn't what he joined for. In 1967 O'List was far more prominent in the band! By the time this was recorded he was on the verge of leaving. O'List worked hard in 1967 I saw the Pink Floyd twice in '67 when he stood in for Syd Barrett because Syd was out of it! The last time I saw Syd it was at Christmas On Earth (Cont) on Dec. 22nd 1967. Acid was a problem if you had no self control!
In ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS manca il movimento del BRANDERBURGER CONCERTO n. 3 di JS Bach . Probabilmente io penso è perché questo concerto lo fecero prima dell' uscita dell'album ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS , infatti in formazione vi era sempre David O' LIST !!!!!! Quindi ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS lo realizzarono in tre KEITH EMERSON RIP tastiere LEE JACKSON basso elettrico e voce BRIAN DAVISON RIP batteria e percussioni varie , durante l'incisione della suite vi inserirono anche il movimento 3 del BRANDERBURGER CONCERTO di JS Bach !!!!
+John Smith Maybe in retrospect it was a weakness that Keith's keyboards were so dominant that there simply was no room for a solo guitarist. Hence The Nice and ELP were to become Trio's. Although I was and am a great fan of Keith keyboard work (esp. 1968-1977) I still would have loved to see the experiment with a 4 man band, just to contain the energy of Keith. I guess Davy O'List was not up to that. The way he is standing in the back gives it away. Already in 1968 there was no room for a second instrumental soloist. My .02 cents:)
Max Quibit- Concerning this, l was the girlfriend of a keyboard player, and it was a fusion band. The keyboard player, and the guitar player were _always_ fighting for the Alpha position. A constant power balance shifting from one side to the other. Incidentally, the guy's favorite keyboardist was Keith. So l understand that if someone like Keith is going to harbour that much talent, _and_ is the Alpha male, (such as Keith is), he's not going to want to have a guitar player 'diffusing' his melodies. This is not to say that he didn't need better musicians, and Greg, and Carl are far superior. But Keith was the Alpha even within ELP. You can see this in band rehearsals of ELP on YT. It's clear. The things in his personal life show it too.. He's does all kinds of things _really well_. He's an Archer, a shell shooter, a PILOT. There's nothing that he doesn't do well. My point? No guitar players, and he does nothing imperfectly. That is why he's no longer with us. RIP Keith.
All true, but for me it shows a 'weakness'. ELP ended in 74 (for me at least). They had to figure out what to do next. It took 3 years to come back with Works 1. Orchestral and Solo work. Although still great for the fans (who all probably bought the album out of habit), it wasn't good enough to survive the music scene which had changed a lot. However, if ELP had brought in a solo guitar player, they might have transformed and survived better. The early 70's was well suited for the 3 man band keyboard centered setup like Nice/ELP ... but after 75 or so that simply didn't work anymore. Keith, as keyboard soloist, could have survived the late 70's and 80's if he had brought in a solo guitarist beside him. New, young people would 'understand' the lead guitar, and from that 'accept' the lead keyboard. But by staying a trio, ELP fought a losing battle. Pleasing the fan perhaps, but not winning new, young fans. 3 (the band with guitar in 1988) of course was much to late. But ... we still have all that great early work from the Nice and ELP. And I do like Works I on occassion:)
You might be right there. Funny that l started listening to them in 1980 because l heard ''From the beginning'' on the radio at 14. What got me was that beautiful chord structure. Just _gorgeous_! Then, at the end of the song when Keith comes in with that moog.... l went CRAZY! I went out and bought 'Trilogy' immediately. When l heard ''Endless Enigma'' l couldn't believe my ears. However, my father was into jazz, I grew up with like Herbie Hancock, and Weather Report. So l didn't need guitars. l like them though. l can understand young people needing that. Especially when you have bands like Led Zeppelin and the Eagles :p l really loved Steve Howe, and Steve Hackett, and Frank Zappa. Not a lot of girls liked that stuff on their own. Only if their _boyfriends_ did.
Probably it was some kind of defeat for ELP when they first had the Mahavishnu Orchestra as their supporting band. Although equally building their sound around virtuosity - like Keith Emerson did - it was a completely different concept, as each band member had opportunities to both showing his skills and simply supporting the band sound as a quiet and reliable sideman. It is these little defeats that give us humans the chance to change and grow. Sadly, these chances are rarely welcomed, and the growth is neglected.
Thats so excellent, I watched this on TV about 55 years ago and never forgotten Keith stickin the knives in the keyboard. And, is that not Jimmy Paige on lead guitar skulking offstage?
I saw The Nice at a one-day festival in Brighton in 1967. The band had only released America (a very long single) and was on the buttom of the poster. But The Nice won. Keith allready had this show but guess at that time he meant it more. And here is seems that Davy O'List, the very young and very talented and too quick drugout guitarist, has almost left the band. He as all were fantastic in 1967. I never liked ELP but surely the solo cd's from Davy O'List. Later BA in fine art and MA in film edition.
yeah thats interesting - there are two eras of the Nice brief career - 67-68 with OList and 69-70 as a three piece. All Nice fans i suppose have their preferred era - mine was the later for sure - I was never an OList fan - he was probably very innovative in his day but his playing is noisey to me and at odds with Emersons virtuosity - plus Keith carried it all - guitar to me was totally unneeded IMO.
@@MichaelSmith-ig8bwactually he didn't want Jimi Hendrix he considered him only after a joking Mitch Mitchell brought up Hendrix joining and calling the band help. Keith Emerson stated many times that the only guitarist he would ever consider was Steve Howe who had filled in with the nice in the past. Steve Howell stated that the two of them used to go back and forth on their instruments referring to Emerson and himself and how much fun the two of them had playing together. Emerson never seriously considered Hendrix and actually stated that it wouldn't have worked😮 get your facts straight before you make stupid untrue remarks in the comments😢 thank you😊
This must have been one of Davy O’List’s final gigs with The Nice cause they’re doing Ars Longa Vita Brevis. But he’s only on their first LP, right? Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack.
@@andythomas706 No, the guitar parts were done by a session guitarist, whose name escapes me, but it is mentioned in either "Hang on to a Dream" biography of the Nice, or Keith's autobiography, or elsewhere..
@Rudy Overlord The version with Davy (that ended up on "Autumn 67 - Spring 68") was recorded first, but the band re-wrote it without guitar after Davy's departure.
According to Martin Hanson's bio of The Nice (unless they played the Fairfield Halls more than once in 1968, which is also possible), this was the gig where roadie 'Bazz' Ward had to run onstage to fix an issue with Brian's drums and O'List punched him in the face, later claiming 'Bazz' and Davison were conspiring against him. I wonder if someone who was there remembers that.
Brian Davison was a gifted drummer!
One day somebody should compile and put out all the Nice segments on one dvd.
The Nice was one of the best Bands of the last 60 years. Rocket fuel..
I am in the front row centre with some friends. When Keith’s organ packed up, Lee (I think) threw some percussion blocks to us. You can hear this on the LP of the concert. I followed The Nice up and down the country, including to The Gliderdrome in Boston, Lincs. It was here that the organ failed again, and some wag in the audience shouted “what’s the matter, doesn’t your organ work?”, with a swift response from Lee saying “by the look on your girlfriend’s face, yours doesn’t either!” Magic.
It's really great to read comments and anecdotes from fans who were present. Thank you for sharing with us !!!
I think you're a lucky fan to have been there at that time. I saw The Nice in their revival on 2003 at Watford Colosseum, and Lee Jackson was still (thirty something years later) verbally offensive to some members of the audience who were applauding the band. Unlike the other two, he seemed such an over privileged spoiled, self-important so-and-so.
I was at this gig! Wow! What a great find! The Fairfield Halls were a great place to see a band.
There was a big problem with Boston Gliderdrome.The only way in was up a fire escape at the back. A roadies nightmare especially if they had to lug a Hammond in. Even though you could separate them into two more manageable units, they were still heavy. Maybe that explains the Hammond problem that night!!
@@philjamieson5572 Jackson did nothing of note after The Nice!
Keith beats the ever living shit out of a innocent organ for 31 minutes.
Keith was even badass in 1968. There will never be anyone like him.
Over half a century and yet this is timeless. RIP KE
I found this video on VHS at Amoeba record store in Hollywood back in 2002. The sleeve was a photocopy black and white very "home made". I wait until 2007 to find a NTSC/PAL converter to see the video and digitalized it and upload it on UA-cam (I splited it in 3 parts because it was impossible to upload long videos at the time). After few years and hundreds towhsends of view, I was strike by Emerson's copyright publishers. I'm glad to see this video still lives on on youtube. The Nice is one of the best band in history. I've read that Keith Emerson never wanted this video to be released and was supposed to own a colour version. I hope it will surface one day.
Poor Davy O'List, crammed back there in the corner of the stage....
Keith Emerson, undoubtedly was the star of the band
And he knew it!
I Was 4yrs old in ' 68. This is mindblowin now !!!! R.I.P. Keith Emerson. .....
Mind blowing performance and back when everything happening was new.
great showman and great musician. i was lucky to be at their concerts. [they never came to north devon! - i had to travel]
The poor old Hammond organ; such a mighty and noble beast, yet it suffered such cruelty and maltreatment at the hands of those long-haired layabouts. 😥 Great bit of footage.
i always thought hammond organs were for the cinema and the odd church service. keith emerson made them worthwhile in my opinion.
No shit . That thing became Vietnam and all sorts of other horrible things going on that year . I’m surprised he didn’t cut the speaker cone or something. Pretty amazing .
This is the only footage of Nice that i have ever seen...wonderful! Thank you for posting this video.Great.Is is a shame that David O List did not solo...i think he was a really great player .He had his own unique style.This band was a ahead od their time..a precursor of bigger things to come.I really appreciate this alot.!!!!
Whoever filmed this deserves a fucking medal. Priceless. So we'll done. The man. Bless.
they didn't film the guitarist which was an oversight. when i saw nice they didn't have a guitarist
Davy O'List was a great guitarist and the camera man or film director basically wrote him out of the script. Execrable.
Stunning concert...¡¡¡😎😎😎
This is a real clasic tone for PROGRESSIVE ROCK...¡¡¡ YEAH...
more and more great footage of this great band appears every so often - but UK tv generally ignored them and still ignores album bands to this day - RIP Keith my friend - RIP Blinky.
I’m adding this concert to my list of time travel goals.
Saw KE with daggers and rocking the Hammond at Winter Garden Pavillion Weston Super Mare in the 60’s.
Holy cow.This band is amazing
O’List hiding back there, my fave axe man!
Fairfield Hall, Croydon September 29th 1968. I was at this gig! It was great venue back then!
You were at that gig? Lucky you!
The first time I saw them was at the NJF Festival in Windsor in August '67. Then they got a Thursday residency at The Marquee and I saw them several times there. In fact the first time I saw Yes, they were supporting The Nice at The Marquee. This particular gig was a bit special. Without O'List they weren't as interesting!
So was I. My first concert. Great stuff!
This Croydon gig I mean.
And me .!!
"A Benefit for the British Olympic Appeal Fund. Some songs recorded were aired on Colour Me Pops, on 16 November 1968." Well, it worked, but it took some 44 years...anyway, a great clip of true pioneers. I never tire of them. Ars longa, vita brevis - Art is long, Life is short. But you knew that. And it's actually
Vita brevis, ars longa, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile.
O'List not even allowed to stand next to Emerson at this point. Apparently it was after this very gig that the band decided he needed to go.
We love you Keith.
i was at this concert..i also saw them in the windsor j n blues fest bear tent in march
The Windsor Festival gi that year was in August. They played that festival the previous year. Played a twenty minute set on the main stage then another 20 minute set backing PP Arnold!
I lived in Croydon then. I was 7.
Many people who love The Nice don’t like ELP, which is quite silly since Keith’s musical vision was undeniably developing from one band to the other.
They simply can´t see the connection of Keith being able to write real melodies and put an arrangement around them with ELP - and Lee´s inability to sing real melodies with the Nice. That made the music of the Nice more loose and opened the gate to much more improvisations. I think both bands were great but you can´t compare them.
Mr. Emerson. Hammond organs do not like being stabbed! Why is Davy O'List hiding in the back? A rare chance to see his finger work and he's blocked by Lee! Like the drummers Harry Partch bit! Excellent footage!
Amazing! Keith was the hammond king.
You would hardly know David O'List was there! There is little evidence of him playing but he is there - hiding in the background. I don't think he could cope with it - the limelight or, maybe the competition for space with Keith Emerson - or both. I heard (but do not know) that alcohol was a problem - if so this would likely be a coping mechanism. Very sad. Just before I listened to this I listened to the first Roxy Music John Peel session with David O'List as the guitarist - he is pretty good - Phil Mazanera was brought in shortly after and more or less copied the guitar parts for the first Roxy Music LP.
Wow! Fantastic footage of The Master at work.
What a treat to see a show with the quartet! A real pity that Davy O'List can barely be heard. I have heard some recordings where Davy is much louder in the mix, and he contributed a lot.
BTW Davy put out a great album in 2015, called Second Thoughts, with Andy Tillison on keys. Highly recommended!
Pity O' List
Hey got that O’List album too. Quite Nice-ish in parts. Davy was a damn good vocalist as well, pity he got kicked out of the band. Emerson’s ego probably, craving all the limelight.
@@yesman2755 Read Keith´s boo. It was basically O´List´s heavy drug problems. And he had difficulties in accepting his second row status behind Keith. But look at all the keyboard players who are condemned to stay behind the guitar player. So - nothing unusual in bands.
*@Rik K*
Andy Ellison more like....together with Marc Bolan he was a member of legendary 60's group John's Children .
O'List had a band "Jet" with him around 1974.
@@PAULLONDEN Nope, O'List's 2015 album "Second Thoughts" featured Andy Tillison of The Tangent. I know who Andy Ellison is, and he's not on the O'List album. This can be verified on Discogs or on Rate Your Music.
Fantastico performer e musicista. Keith Emerson forever !!
Thanks very much for upload! I grew up with elp band and "pictures at a exhibition ! Then searched for more about Keith Emerson, found and loved all THE NICE LPs in the beginning of the 70s! After all the ELP years I found and came back to THE NICE through UA-cam . I can't stop the black and white videos. :)
Avec le respect de ces musiciens
Davy O'List seems to be standing in the shadows the whole time, even during his solo on America. Is this the concert after which he left the group?
they where a great band ! and on a shared gig , our van broke down , and they give us a lift home !
- Huh? What band are/were U in? Richard Ward & The Hustlers? Barrington Boys Choir? They're the only 60s bands with a Richard Ward in them that I could find...;-) Maybe you were a roadie?
www.discogs.com/artist/4125032-Richard-Ward-The-Hustlers
www.discogs.com/Barrington-Boys-Choir-Songs-For-Sundays-And-Weekdays/release/5067519
whats the intrest ? I am what fate brings my way and is all there !for those who look in the right places ! but none of the above ! as Im a free spirit , who has spent my life trying to discover /understand , the answer to this ! wishing you and yours , health/ happiness and good fortune , in this gift of being ! which we call life ! . .
Fantastic performance although David O'List looks kind of lost and scared back there.
I was 47 days old when this was performed.
I thought O'List had left the band by September 1968, suppose his very last gig with the Nice?? anyway, in a way, the Nice is more interesting than ELP. Love their experimental playing style and progressive sound❤️
Emerson is always a pleasure.
Emerson el genio
You have to feel sorry for these guys in a way. Lee and Brian were dumped by Emerson in the Nice and Moraz in Refugee, O’List was fired and Keith sadly took his own life. I absolutely adored this band, there’s never been another even remotely like them. I remember them rolling up to a gig near Coventry in a couple of Transit vans. Must have been a squeeze getting all the gear in. Contrast that with ELP a couple of years later rolling round the USA with seven articulated trucks !
Lee got the moves😊
Emerson The Best.
Where does all the new Nice vid material keep coming from ? Thank goodness it does- I would've creamed my jeans as a teen to have been able to see this back then..... Ooopsy, gotta go change 'em now it seems !! lol
what a Band!
So the first song was born well before ELP was. way ahead of his time! RIP
sempre preferiti a ELP
many quotes later used in elp jams
Amazing Show 👍
What happens at 3:45?? Seems like the organ went dead due to a loose rectifier tube and Keith Emerson fixes it on the fly !! 60's Rock and Roll doesn't get any better. R.I.P. you greatest of all Hammond jugglers.
Yeah! All in a day's work I guess. I think I've now seen a few clips of him doing the same thing.
+Christian Scharlipke haha yeah!
Looks like he had to re-seat a valve that came loose.
A few years back with my Hammond M102 set up in a studio the mains transformer went bad and died. The studio was then filled with the noxious fumes of the shellac coating on the copper winding as it broke down and melted. The acrid fumes kept us out of the studio for about ten days. The other fault I can't stand is when relays go bad on solid state Leslie's, that always seems to happen at a gig!
Yeah - due to all that rumble his L100 had to go thru the tubes lost full contact. During his prime he had eight L100s in spare .... - As much as I admired him as a player that was something I always hated. Torturing a Hammond .....
Ich höre immer wieder atemlos zu!
thanks EXELLENT FOOTAGE! !
What a truly glorious racket!
wow!!!! what a treasure!!! I saw only 1 album from The Nice for sale at a record show earlier this spring and didn't buy it b/c I didn't have the $$ at the time but after watching this, think I will contact the vendor to see if he still has it. The vendor himself is a fan of KE and said he rarely sees and/or gets anything by The Nice or King Crimson; I did buy the lone KC album he had (ITCOTCK). I know anything Keith did is collectible.
Wow!
No wonder Keith Emerson was called the jimi Hendrix of the keyboard,rock on
Great to see this archive material. Emerson in full flight as usual. Even O'List's guitar comes over well in parts. Thanks for posting
O'List is an underrated guitarist. He was the youngest member of the band, only 19 years old at that time.
The camera doesn't even go to him during his solo in America. What a shame.
He also studied music at The Royal Academy Of Music! O'List was no slouch!
Keith Emerson is ever interesting !
Magnificent.......
This would have been in pristine colour but like most of the BBC's Colour Me Pop shows the original tape was erased. Still great to see it anyway.
The Nice were way more fun than ELP. In the early seventies I had the Best of Nice in my record collection and Little Arabella is still my favourite song about a hippie chick.
For non-musicians the importance of Keith Emerson may be hard to understand. By then the keyboard players sat in the second or third row in every band. Guitars were dominating on records as well as on stage. And if there were any significant keyboard parts to be heard they were not really important additions to a song. And so were the skills of the keyboard players - most of them were pretty lousy. Those simple parts on "Whiter shade of pale" or "Time is tight" were regarded as demanding keyboard parts. So rock music wasn´t really a magnet for young keyboard talents - I´m writing this from my own experience. But then Keith Emerson came along and I guess he inspired thousands of young keyboard players aound the world to join a band. It wasn´t Stevie Winwood, Jon Lord or Rick Wakeman, it was Keith - at least for those who were ambitious. And shortly after the Nice a keyboard player was a symbol of progressive spirit and music for every band. Bands like Vanilla Fudge, Argent, Spooky Tooth and Deep Purple featured an emphasized keyboard sound but not one of them came even close to the Nice. Basically that didn´t change with ELP. Keith´s keyboard parts and his compositions simply overshadowed the keyboard work of other bands including Yes, Genesis and Gentle Giant. But at least during this stage of musical development one could listen to quite some interesting keyboard parts and skilled players. But without Keith Emerson I doubt if it all would have happened. Unfortunately the clocks were moved back during the last 30 years. Keyboar players are sitting in the 2nd or 3rd row of a band again and I can´t see a new Keith Emerson to change that.
Keith Emerson had two things that the other great rock keyboardists didn't: 1) sheer audacity 2) the *shit in his hands*. He was a guy who didn't take any breaks between "I could do a thing" and "I'm doing the thing." And he was immensely talented technically and compositionally.
There will NEVER be another like Emo. Times have changed.
as a keyboard player who plays Keith Emerson and ELP almost religiously and a composer that takes large inspiration from Keith Emerson, it really makes me sad how little technical skill has to do with music anymore. Not even performance skill, just sheer lack of stacked fourths and interesting parts to play. Even in the realm of drumming and bass, Carl Palmer and Greg Lake have been a huge inspiration for me compositionally, and I always try to write so that no part is relatively boring. I almost quit piano for good until my dad brought me into the world of ELP through Trilogy - Trilogy on the way home from school in 2021. His music is almost like a drug to me, and nobody else can come close to replacing him in that light. I'd also like to mention Lyle Mays. Lyle Mays is another keyboard genius that just was, and I find his compositions (along with Pat Metheny because they both complemented each other really well) really deep and satisfying. Other than that, I can enjoy listening to (but not so much performing) music by Yes, Genesis, Rush, etc. but Keith and ELP is what I live by.
I really wish I could have met Keith. From what I've heard, he's a genuine guy, and I feel that we have a lot in common musically. I'm definitely biased on that statement (with regards to the commonality, he 100% is a genuine guy), but I'll die on that hill. Mixed time signatures, musical modernism, improvisation, ability to put genuine emotion into music, etc.
Well-put very well put😊 thank you😊
@@NoahtheEpicGuyyou're wise above your years. Your dad certainly gave you good advice my hat's off to him for recommending ELP. One thing I disagree with is mentioning Rush. Rush or a great band who I have been listening to since their first American tour in 1974 however there is no keyboard player in the band. Geddy Lee is a bass player who does occasional fill-ins with the synth. He even admitted in an interview that he did not belong in the keyboard rankings that he was not a keyboard wizard. Direct quote and of course he was right. He is not out there jamming on a Hammond L100 or a grand piano he is first and foremost a great bass player and a poor singer😅
Keith with Judy Garland's hat
Thanks. This is the best quality video of this show I have seen. Now perhaps an audio upgrade? And of course, the only decent video of the quartet. I left Glasgow in Oct/68 but saw the Nice trio in Toronto twice on the 69 tours. Awesome memories.
I saw the 4-piece band in Glasgow in Dec 67 on the Jimi Hendrix tour.
@@alanj9391 Yes Alan, as did I and my good friend Angus. The early show. Knew of the The Nice then, but not nearly as well as by '69. Plus that line-up, Pink Floyd, the Move etc etc, really had us swamped. Not to mention Hendrix! I was all of 15 !
David O'List is just like...whatever man.
shame Davy was so quiet - even the cameraman didn't seem to know he was there...
It´s was her last day with the band, relationship with other members and crew was bad at that time. He wasn´t in good shap at all at this moment.
@@lavallee1963 The problem was O'List didn't like how the band had become dominated by Emerson. That wasn't what he joined for. In 1967 O'List was far more prominent in the band! By the time this was recorded he was on the verge of leaving. O'List worked hard in 1967 I saw the Pink Floyd twice in '67 when he stood in for Syd Barrett because Syd was out of it! The last time I saw Syd it was at Christmas On Earth (Cont) on Dec. 22nd 1967. Acid was a problem if you had no self control!
In ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS manca il movimento del BRANDERBURGER CONCERTO n. 3 di JS Bach . Probabilmente io penso è perché questo concerto lo fecero prima dell' uscita dell'album ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS , infatti in formazione vi era sempre David O' LIST !!!!!! Quindi ARS LONGA VITA BREVIS lo realizzarono in tre KEITH EMERSON RIP tastiere LEE JACKSON basso elettrico e voce BRIAN DAVISON RIP batteria e percussioni varie , durante l'incisione della suite vi inserirono anche il movimento 3 del BRANDERBURGER CONCERTO di JS Bach !!!!
fantastic m8
Yeah when you stick knives in your keyboard those things tend to happen, lol.
Adesso Emerson e in paradiso con una grande tastiera 😅nfinita che sta suonando la
Davy the ghost
Grande emerson❤
Funny how Davy O'List is so far in the background. Until one day he just wasn't there.
+John Smith Maybe in retrospect it was a weakness that Keith's keyboards were so dominant that there simply was no room for a solo guitarist. Hence The Nice and ELP were to become Trio's. Although I was and am a great fan of Keith keyboard work (esp. 1968-1977) I still would have loved to see the experiment with a 4 man band, just to contain the energy of Keith. I guess Davy O'List was not up to that. The way he is standing in the back gives it away. Already in 1968 there was no room for a second instrumental soloist. My .02 cents:)
Max Quibit- Concerning this, l was the girlfriend of a keyboard player, and it was a fusion band. The keyboard player, and the guitar player were _always_ fighting for the Alpha position. A constant power balance shifting from one side to the other. Incidentally, the guy's favorite keyboardist was Keith. So l understand that if someone like Keith is going to harbour that much talent, _and_ is the Alpha male, (such as Keith is), he's not going to want to have a guitar player 'diffusing' his melodies. This is not to say that he didn't need better musicians, and Greg, and Carl are far superior. But Keith was the Alpha even within ELP. You can see this in band rehearsals of ELP on YT. It's clear. The things in his personal life show it too.. He's does all kinds of things _really well_. He's an Archer, a shell shooter, a PILOT. There's nothing that he doesn't do well. My point? No guitar players, and he does nothing imperfectly. That is why he's no longer with us. RIP Keith.
All true, but for me it shows a 'weakness'. ELP ended in 74 (for me at least). They had to figure out what to do next. It took 3 years to come back with Works 1. Orchestral and Solo work. Although still great for the fans (who all probably bought the album out of habit), it wasn't good enough to survive the music scene which had changed a lot. However, if ELP had brought in a solo guitar player, they might have transformed and survived better. The early 70's was well suited for the 3 man band keyboard centered setup like Nice/ELP ... but after 75 or so that simply didn't work anymore. Keith, as keyboard soloist, could have survived the late 70's and 80's if he had brought in a solo guitarist beside him. New, young people would 'understand' the lead guitar, and from that 'accept' the lead keyboard. But by staying a trio, ELP fought a losing battle. Pleasing the fan perhaps, but not winning new, young fans. 3 (the band with guitar in 1988) of course was much to late.
But ... we still have all that great early work from the Nice and ELP. And I do like Works I on occassion:)
You might be right there. Funny that l started listening to them in 1980 because l heard ''From the beginning'' on the radio at 14. What got me was that beautiful chord structure. Just _gorgeous_! Then, at the end of the song when Keith comes in with that moog.... l went CRAZY! I went out and bought 'Trilogy' immediately. When l heard ''Endless Enigma'' l couldn't believe my ears. However, my father was into jazz, I grew up with like Herbie Hancock, and Weather Report. So l didn't need guitars. l like them though. l can understand young people needing that. Especially when you have bands like Led Zeppelin and the Eagles :p l really loved Steve Howe, and Steve Hackett, and Frank Zappa. Not a lot of girls liked that stuff on their own. Only if their _boyfriends_ did.
Probably it was some kind of defeat for ELP when they first had the Mahavishnu Orchestra as their supporting band. Although equally building their sound around virtuosity - like Keith Emerson did - it was a completely different concept, as each band member had opportunities to both showing his skills and simply supporting the band sound as a quiet and reliable sideman. It is these little defeats that give us humans the chance to change and grow. Sadly, these chances are rarely welcomed, and the growth is neglected.
muito bom
Keith Emerson was too good at the keyboard
Thats so excellent, I watched this on TV about 55 years ago and never forgotten Keith stickin the knives in the keyboard. And, is that not Jimmy Paige on lead guitar skulking offstage?
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21:18 Imagine the lactic acid building up in his fingers!
Boy KE musta had a double serving of Wheaties before this gig ;)
3:50 Men, know your gear! This is what im talking about!
ELPよりTHE NICEの方が凄い事がよく分かる。ご冥福を祈るばかりである。
17:55 a little rootie tootie
I saw The Nice at a one-day festival in Brighton in 1967. The band had only released America (a very long single) and was on the buttom of the poster. But The Nice won. Keith allready had this show but guess at that time he meant it more.
And here is seems that Davy O'List, the very young and very talented and too quick drugout guitarist, has almost left the band. He as all were fantastic in 1967. I never liked ELP but surely the solo cd's from Davy O'List. Later BA in fine art and MA in film edition.
O'list was really in the shadows in this band, eh?
Unfortunately he was on his way soon after this gig!
I wonder if that was Mr. E's first fringed jacket
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Critics hated this music
Makes you want to burn flags n stuff
David O'List hidden away almost back stage. When this great band became three piece the end was near. They needed a guitar player.
yeah thats interesting - there are two eras of the Nice brief career - 67-68 with OList and 69-70 as a three piece. All Nice fans i suppose have their preferred era - mine was the later for sure - I was never an OList fan - he was probably very innovative in his day but his playing is noisey to me and at odds with Emersons virtuosity - plus Keith carried it all - guitar to me was totally unneeded IMO.
@@mr.kilpatrick2991 I like both Nice versions. Can understand though why Emerson wanted a change.
Emerson was looking for a guitarist for his new band after The Nice. He wanted a guy named Jimi Hendrix.
@@MichaelSmith-ig8bwactually he didn't want Jimi Hendrix he considered him only after a joking Mitch Mitchell brought up Hendrix joining and calling the band help. Keith Emerson stated many times that the only guitarist he would ever consider was Steve Howe who had filled in with the nice in the past. Steve Howell stated that the two of them used to go back and forth on their instruments referring to Emerson and himself and how much fun the two of them had playing together. Emerson never seriously considered Hendrix and actually stated that it wouldn't have worked😮 get your facts straight before you make stupid untrue remarks in the comments😢 thank you😊
@@edljnehan2811 Well excuuuuuuuse me! I shouldn't be sharing any well known rumors. I stand corrected, sir.
This must have been one of Davy O’List’s final gigs with The Nice cause they’re doing Ars Longa Vita Brevis. But he’s only on their first LP, right? Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack.
O'List does feature on Ars Longa (the guitar on the title track for example)!
@@andythomas706 No, the guitar parts were done by a session guitarist, whose name escapes me, but it is mentioned in either "Hang on to a Dream" biography of the Nice, or Keith's autobiography, or elsewhere..
This was Davy's last gig. He punched a roadie (off camera) during the set and that was it.
@Rudy Overlord The version with Davy (that ended up on "Autumn 67 - Spring 68") was recorded first, but the band re-wrote it without guitar after Davy's departure.
@@pmould0007 I think you're thinking of "Daddy Where Do I Come From?". This piece isn't found on "Autum 67--Spring 68".
the nice were great exponents at orch/pop but what they did live was best too stilted in the studio.
Is David casting a shadow or is this a 5th person on the stage?
The vocalist is no Greg Lake, but the drummer is pretty good.
A very sensitive drummer! The drummer enhances the melody of the music piece.
Was this the gig where O'List had a row with Emerson and he got fired soon after?
Emerson and O'List had many disagreements.
According to Martin Hanson's bio of The Nice (unless they played the Fairfield Halls more than once in 1968, which is also possible), this was the gig where roadie 'Bazz' Ward had to run onstage to fix an issue with Brian's drums and O'List punched him in the face, later claiming 'Bazz' and Davison were conspiring against him. I wonder if someone who was there remembers that.