Drummer reacts to "Take a Pebble" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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- Опубліковано 3 гру 2023
- My god, Keith Emerson went into the stratosphere on this one folks... top 5 ELP song easy.
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Greg Lake's voice is immaculate!
That beginning sound is Keith reaching into the Steinway piano to manually strum the piano strings.
The most beautiful sounding Christmas song ever is Greg Lakes version of “ I Believe in Father Christmas “ it was right after Vietnam war so Greg was a little reflective
All about pebbles
The song is basically jazz, if you want to put it into a category. Palmer's brushwork is amazing!
I love this song so much. Gregs voice is so georgious, and the lyrics are beautiful. When this song is over, I feel like I just listened to 6 different songs in 6 different genres. I also love the control in this song. It's the perfect song.❤I try to tell people to react to this song, but they aren't listening...oh well, their loss.
Greg Lake's voice was amazing
I think Keith was the best pianist in his genre, of all time. Check out the Trilogy album, sometime. Amazing piano parts.
Saw these guys three times in 1971 and 1972, having already been a big fan of the first KC and of the Nice. This first ELP album is still my favorite. Thanks for this!
First ELP song I ever heard...It opened me to a new kind of rock music and what would forever after be my favorite band. Saw them twice in '74.
Wowwww this was your first elp listen?? You must have been mind blown. It's so beautiful.
I have this album , but I normally listen to the version from the album , Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends ! I first heard the song Karn Evil 9 , the short radio version , over 40 years ago , but nobody could tell me who it was . It was just about 10 or 12 years ago I found out it was E . L . P . , Now I have about 10 of their albums ! Fantastic band , too bad I didn't know 40 years ago ! But now I do !!
playing the strings of the piano. brilliant.
Greg sang “ Closer to Believing “ from Works. It is the best vocal presentation Greg ever did!
A truly beautiful song, showcasing the talents of each of them. Keith did indeed write "bigger things", such as his Piano Concerto on Works Vol.1, now played by orchestras around the world, as well as a number of film soundtracks, Inferno being the best imo. If you are going to react to Pirates, may I suggest you go for the live version with orchestra from Montreal Olympic Stadium, which for me has Greg's finest vocal performance - the entire piece is epic. And I second the recommendation below to check the live version of Aquatarkus on the Welcome Back...live triple album - they were absolutely at their best live, as I was lucky enough to find out in '72, '74, '92 and 2010.
You need to listen to “Fanfare for The Common Man” by ELP. The live performance from Montreal Stadium. In freezing winter. That’s the very best ELP performance in my mind 👍😁
Long live ELP!!!!
Amen!!! 👍👍👍
You have to remind yourself that there were only the three of them, AND they could reproduce the essence of every track live. Not too bad for 1970, eh? ❤❤
Now that you've sampled the studio version, catch the live video. So tight!
Carl was probably using brushes at the start.
Musically so beautiful; lyrically, so bleak! Perfect balance with "Closer to Believing."
It just boggles the mind this musical level on their debut album.
As to bigger things for Keith, he wrote a piano concerto.
Listen to Elp live aquatarkus on triple 0:42 album welcome back my friends to the show that never ends 1974, keep up the good work
Eddie uk 🇬🇧 best wishes ❤and peace,
I love your appreciation of ELP.
Pebble is a lovely, mellow track and, one of the best things Greg ever wrote (lyrics).
Sublime piano, beautiful vocals and acoustic guitar.
Yeah this was the most beautiful piece of music I've heard from them. Absolutely gorgeous. Keith Greg and Carl are wizards.
Oh, man. I hadn’t heard this in a really long time, and I completely forgot how amazing it is. Thanks, Lee.
Such a beautiful song! This combiantion of classical and jazz was very experimental in it's time. This song is more jazz fusion than prog.
Great reaction Lee! Great choice! I saw ELP twice in the 70s and was blown away both times. If I could only choose 1 ELP song out of all of them it would probably be "Take a Pebble" or Tarkus.. both are master pieces.
It's beautiful and it makes me weep😢😢
This was their first album together. So, yeah, tight and focused~~~
When new sounds are constantly emerging, you want your first shot to count.
"Days of Future Passed" came out in '67, and "In the Court of the Crimson King" in '69,(featuring Greg Lake on bass and vocals), so the genre of "art rock" was already a thing.
Thanks for posting !!
In the Court of the Crimson King is such a good track. It was the first KC song I ever heard. It was so good, I couldn't believe it was from the 60s lol.
This song has always been a favorite of mine. Take a pebble is a masterpiece.
Many bands also have more live playtime of the songs for the first album that they will have on later albums, so they are simply more rehearsed.
That's an interesting point~~~
Carl Palmer was only 19 when this was recorded. IMO he shows great restraint and taste here, laying out for most of the piece.@@chefren77
@@jamespuleo3269 Typically it has to do with the time required to get a record deal, and the fact that studio time tended to be limited for debut albums so they basically recorded their best (= very well rehearsed) live sets in many cases. This also explains why second albums are often a bit meh compared to the debuts.
I don't know if ELP really was affected here, as a so-called supergroup they did not have to wait long to get their first album out.
Great reaction & well said Lee. This one we ELP devotees hold close to our heart, so unique, pure ELP magnificence. Keith wrote a full piano concerto, it's on side 1 of Works vol 1 entitled Piano concerto nbr 1 with I think the London Philharmonic orchestra. It's excellent, the final movement really rocks. They performed it on the Works world tour with orchestra. Also check out the band version Keith arranged for his own Band, The Keith Emerson Band which included guitarist & singer Mark Bonilla, there's a live You tube clip from the Live in Moscow DVD, it's brilliant!! Cheers
Got to listen to "Trilogy" if you love this.
1st album. We knew great things were coming
I was into ELP before YES and still think they have more talent than any other group. Carl Palmer is ab fab. Enjoy.
Reaching inside the piano and either strumming or picking the strings. Take A Pebble - It looks like your are gong to be doing the studio version. Long absolute beautiful piano improv. I say improv because he always changes it up in live versions & they are doing something else in the middle. From the 1st album and there is yet another fantastic piano .. (The Three Fates) .. that sounds classical and absolutely beautiful & it also starts with pipe organ.
Try there C'est La Vie, it is a great song. Nice reactions.
ELP was 3 extraordinarily talented musicians that produced 4 amazing albums but unfortunately they couldn't stay together. I guess that tends to happen when talented artists try to work as a cohesive group.
I honestly had a humorous reaction when you were super impressed with Emerson’s playing ability on this track. Only because, although this is good, this absolutely pales in comparison to what he’s truly capable of. I would suggest that to REALLY appreciate his talent, and experience his ability and speed, try the video …
Keith Emerson Piano improvisations California Jam 1974 (9:40).
Great stuff. Check out Fanfare For The Common Man. ELP in an empty Olympic Stadium in Mtl. The temperature must have been -20 or lower.
Saw ELP 9 times. First time, I didn’t even know they had keyboard player. I knew Lake and Lucky Man. They didn’t play Lucky Man and no one cared. Had piano in lobby at work and some random guy played this.
Keith did compose a Concerto for Piano. It's on "Works"
There is a live version from about the same year released that is great to see of them.
Just keep going through the rest of their songs from their albums Self-titled Debut, Trilogy, Tarkus, and Brain Salad Surgery. They're all just as stellar as this.
give a listen to from the begining.
You mentioned Hoedown… another great ELP song check it out, oh and Pirates a must listen
This is just one of those songs…it will never fail to transport you. Almost too much talent for just 3 people!
Any regrets about spending your time listening to old folks music? Would you take this album with you to Fiji if you could take only 10 albums😉?
I've mentioned before about Keith's left hand being his secret weapon. "Take a Pebble" is a perfect example of how he can set up these ostinotos in the left hand and then solo almost endlessly over it. Piano, Hammond, Moog, clavinet -- whatever is at hand. I'm not sure what was his inspiration for this kind of thing. I know he was a big Oscar Peterson fan, and stride piano also features a lot of rolling left hand parts. BTW, if you enjoy this, Keith's previous band The Nice started doing this kind of thing the last year or so they were together. Check out "Hang On To A Dream" from the album 'Nice'. Also, it's better for you to review ELP's earlier stuff before moving up to things like "Pirates". I'd recommend you just take it all chronologically.
Carl Palmer drum solo !!!
Love your enthusiasm and appreciation for music and art. A suggestion I think you'll enjoy would be Trilogy (from the album 'Trilogy'), because it begins beautifully, like this track, then turns into a bombastic ELP groove.
I'm gonna be doing trilogy next! I've gotten like 10 requests for it. Sounds like a blast. Thank you for watching my friend I appreciate the kind words truly.
Beautiful blend of Emerson's exquisite piano work with Lake's vocals. Lost in the mix sometimes are Lake's smooth bass work and Palmer's subtle drumming and percussion. Sometimes, subtlety requires more skill and artistry and I think this song shows that.
Absolutely. Restraint takes skill and technique. His percussion in this was sublime when you could get away from not listening to Keith going crazy for a second. I always say I'm a baby because if you just dangle the keys "Keith's piano" I can't look away LOL
@@L33ReactsYeah, you get it brother. You get it. That’s why I show up. 😉
Fan Fare for the coman man LIVE!
Coolio, I Love ELP too. They were my first musical love affair. Then I found Yes... Try Aquatarkus from the triple live album..... it's crazy.
I still have that one written down I have to get to it eventually.... I know I will lol. So many hits.
ELP, each of them virtuosos, such an impossible thing now. Band members now are interchangeable, no individually, couldn't pick out a pianist, a drummer, a singer. What a huge loss for all of us.
BTW, in concert they were as good as the studio versions. Add to that crazy antics with Keith riding his spinning piano and wrestling with the small keyboard. Miss them. Very glad Carl is going strong
I wish you could have seen him playing that grand piano live on a giant hamster wheel literally going around 360 degrees for quite a while. Olympic level acrobatics! Insane.
Amazing composition so much space and improvisation it’s a unique song in their canon and they never did anything like it again which is a slight shame as the synths came in
"Carl's using different sticks" you said in the beginning section. Quite right. He was using brushes.. That's a very jazz and big band sound.
What do you even call this music... You call it Fiji music.... See what I did there.....!! Keith wrote orchestral music too.. On the double album that Pirates is on, Works Volume 1, he also has a Piano Concerto...! I understand your love of Keith... BUT.... Without Carl and Greg he wouldn't be as powerful... Honestly. The three of them created the whole music pallete. Just like the Beatles, you need all of them.. Keep on Rocking.
Thank You. Great song! Everybody had heard Lucky Man on the radio but this was a deep cut off the album and was not played so much. Bought the album and found it, I still have the CD and listen regularly.
The british music scene was very insular and relatively small in that a new thing was spread around and influenced or toss aside by those participating. Like the soil, things became part of the firmament and other styles sprung from it. This piece built upon the music styles of Dave Brubeck and Traffic.
Lucky Man is part of that early legacy. It may sound passe today, but it was a new sound that broke into the charts.
Carl is playing with brushes at that point you asked about. They’re quite common in jazz drumming.
"Take a Pebble" is my most loved Emerson, Lake & Palmer tune. So glad you loved it too. "Trilogy" is a close second. I would love for you to react to Keith's earlier music with The Nice. Their cover versions of Bob Dylan's "She Belongs to Me" & Tim Hardin's "Hang onto a Dream" are both superb & give hints of where his music was going.
You call it PROG! This is the epitome of the best PROG!
Okay, Fiji, you have to go to Knife Edge next, enjoy! 🎉
Haha sweet I'll add it to the list bro
I just love how you are into all the great progressive bands that I was into growing up. I saw all these bands year after year when they toured with their new albums in the early 70's. This is great finding reactors listening, for the first time, and really appreciating it. Also, My son has had "issues" and he has been able to "find recovery" and him, and the family, has been able to "recover". Hope you have a good support group to help you through.
Thank you for the kind words dave! I really appreciate it. I have been clean for over 3 years now it's kinda crazy tbh... but it is what it is! And the future is all that matters now.
I'm glad you enjoy the channel. Finding these classics have been a personal Renaissance to be quite frank.
11:07 I have a FIJI bottle with real FIJI island sand in it...........you're Gold, dude !
Interesting fact-- they had only been together as a band for about 6 months when they released this album. If you want to see live footage of them performing this at the time of the album release or a bit sooner here is a link though there are other live performances of it on UA-cam as well. it's not the full song but you get the idea. The annoying scenery footage superimposed over them playing goes away in a little bit.
ua-cam.com/video/xuwf3eN6bvI/v-deo.html
I have to disagree that Keith carried this entire song. That long, magnificent guitar solo. (Nice long break for Keith.) That magnificent voice. That perfect drumming.
Definitely do Pirates, but play the video of the live performance at Olympic Stadium in Montreal with the orchestra.
Yeah this song has Lake written all over it, I can just picture Emerson trying to morph it into a crazy synth hell, pretty strong personalities in this band, it's amazing they stayed together as long as they did. Lake really hated Tarkus and didn't want to do it. If you listen to the lyrics of still you turn me on you can get an inkling of how crazy it was. The genius of madness I guess
Beauty intersects Compositional depth .
Became their signature .
On the shoulders of the greatest Classical Composers ...
Tim, that's a beautiful and apt description of the talent of these dudes.
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Their "Brain Salad Surgery" irreversibly altered my musical course when it was released .
Being raised in the Big Band/Jazz/Classical genres , it was a no brainer to recognize the utter brilliance of ELP , among others (Yes ; Early Chicago with guitarist Terry Kath ; Blood Sweat & Tears ; Jethro Tull ; Santana ; Tower Of Power...and all connections to Jazz Fusion - Miles Davis ; Herbie Hancock ; Chick Corea ; Alan Holdsworth ; Pat Matheny ...etc.) .
Top Shelf virtuosity woven into compelling Compositions always "withstands the test of time".
I appreciate your openness to these timeless masterpieces that elevate what's undeniably good in this life .
More , please & thank you !
Keith Emerson = The best keyboardist ever. Second is Tony Banks of Genesis, followed closely by Rick Wakeman of Yes. By the way, the vocals by Greg Lake are superb!
All three are phenomenal Keyboardists…
Listen to more keyboardists lol wakeman and banks aren't even top 10 😂
@@nikelodeon6852who do you love??? Taylor Swifts Keyboardist??
@@ronjm945 So you don't know anyone else and are stuck in your bubble cool👍
It's called JAZZ!! Lee, have you ever seen that movie "Whiplash"? Love that movie.
I have! It's one of the best movies I've seen In the past few years. I definitely could see myself in both the drummer and the teacher. Miles teller and jk Simmons were dynamite.
Very cool. You could be as mean as that teacher? YIKES!!
Oh no not as mean... just an imperfect perfectionist
Oh ok. I didn't think you could be that mean. haha 🤣
Anything I would say has been posted here. This and Trilogy are my two fav ELP tracks. Only thing left to say is from now on whenever I hear this song I will automatically think FIJI.
By the way Karn Evil 9 parts 1 and 3 are about computers taking over.
1:19 pst Enigineered by Eddie Offord who also worked with Yes
I think Keith wrote the soundtrack for a show called Nighthawks Maybe, quite good.
Start has a bit of Uriah Heep then Quick Silver. Voice very Peter Murphy!
Lee-- have you reacted to their 'Trilogy' album yet? If not..dive in--it's tremendous! T
Keith has been voted #1 by Rolling Stone magazine for many , many years ! Did you know that he used to be on cables to lift him and his piano up in the air , on stage , and slowly spin around ? Yes , he would turn upside down while he is playing the piano , then turn back upright ! The drummer , Lake , he was on an elevator lift , go about 15 feet up then come back down while he was doing his drum solo . Well one time the lift didn't come all the way down , he was still 10 feet in the air , finished his drum solo , and jumped over the drums to take a bow , then fell the 10 feet and broke his arm ! Ooch ! That sucks for a drummer ! They quit doing that after the accident !!
Sometime you have to listen to something almost completely different and awesome which would be Keith's Piano Concerto.
I'm definitely gonna check that out. Everyone keeps mentioning it AND I know Keith won't disappoint
This song, more than any other, shows what The Nice (Emerson's previous band) could have been with a great singer and perfect production - both of those things being Greg Lake's contributions. The Nice was a good experiment, but their production was ALWAYS garbage and Lee Jackson sounded like Ian Anderson with laryngitis. Lake definitely elevated things for Emerson.
Pirates, studio version from Works Vol. 1, definitely.
Check out From the Beginning from the Trilogy album. It's my favorite ELP song though I love all of their music!
Check out Rachel Flowers. She plays as well as Keith - oh, and she’s totally blind.
You need to check out Karn Evil #9 from the Brain Salad Surgery album if you haven't already.
And now Pink Floyd and Echoes, go for the Live in Gdańsk version, stunning, tempered by this being Richard Wright’s last appearance before his tragic demise. ❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉
I'll write that one down, thanks Simon.
When you get a chance, go back to Keith’s time with the Nice. Any band that Hendrix liked can’t be bad, eh?
I'll check it out! Thanks simon!!
I don't think it's different for them. It is exactly their style of music. The program of Prog Rock is "Don't accept the borders of a genre". So talking about Prog Rock as a genre is somewhat like a paradoxon.
Since you are impressed by Emerson's technique and the speed he runs down the whole keyboard you might be interested in watching another great pianist.
Have fun with the magnificent Martha : ua-cam.com/video/LhInwkq4nAw/v-deo.html
Dude wait till u do another Live song. And see the giant Moog and gear also Carl Palmers 2 giant gongs….. check out Pictures @ and Exhibition/Tarkus from 1997 Montreux Jazz Festival
You asked for Keith with an orchestra spin Pirate then you will drop into a fog with his piano concerto
Did Keith write for orchestra? Yes ...
Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Piano Concerto No. 1, 3rd Movement - Live In Montreal, 1977
Both he and Greg wrote music for movies and video games. Harry Potter was Greg. Iron Man video was Keith and you would lhave to ook up the others.
I'm gonna be checking that one out for sure. Sounds amazing. I knew he could do it lol
Carl Palmer was only 19 here
keith used to stab his organ with a large knife during solos.
The bass players of this Era listened to Paul McCartney! He did write some really great stuff. All three were true masters of their craft. I'm a big fan of sci-fi and actually listened to ELP and Yes reading Dune lol. Back in the day we called this stuff fusion, but perhaps we have compartmentalize our music too much by labels. The secret is to at times step away from the machine and stare off into stars. Figi is too damm hot. lmao
Damn I gotta check out some Beatles... I don't know much about them outside of the hits. Which were many. Lol
@@L33Reacts I was editing while you were replying lmao. Yeah I think I told you before there's a lot of stuff in the early 60s that radically changed music you've got to go to. Lol. Look for a yes song that has machine in the title. MB On the threshold of a dream there's a interesting little bit about magnetic ink. Oh and of course welcome to the machine by pf lots of computer stuff out there during this Era. Funny there is a very old tune called Telstar circa 60~64 that is associated with the space age. The secret is ya got to unplug didn't you watch matrix
So was Greg Lake or Justin Hayward the best male prog vocalist?
Keith didn't like mellotrons although he once owned one which he later gave to Greg. He never played it on stage although he made some recordings of it for the stage show which were not used for long.
It's philosophy
Dude "Working Man" is Rush, not ELP!
English drummers in the 1970s knew they didn't have to play on everything.
the beginning part was Keith strumming his piano strings, NOT an acoustic guitar. FIJI
That's crazy dude. I heard Keith was a little wild up there 🤪
You young people have female pop singers and rap....😆
Please reacting to BLACKPINK - HOW YOU LIKE THAT
Brushes... Carl switches between mallets brushes and sticks in Take a Pebble
I could hear it! I was like wtf there's no way he's barely tapping these heads like that and that fast 🤣🤣
ELP did not play Working Man.
Rush wrote and played Working Man.
Yeah I know it's lucky man. I misspoke, my apologies 🙂
There are quite a few songs that are of the more beautiful type, the difference is the writer, Lake wrote more like this song, others of his include Cest le Vie, the sage, I believe in father Christmas etc. Often Lake would release them solo and the band would pick them up later, sometimes not for the better as Emerson would tend to over orchestrate them, changing the mood of the song. Still good but some of Lakes solo versions were better for those songs. From what I understand it was always pretty tense working in that band, with a big ego like Emerson it's pretty much enevitable. Hecpretty much valued his art more than his life, literally, which is pretty sad. He committed suicide when he started having problems with his hands and couldn't play like he used to, I mean I love his playing but the mindset that his life was worthless without his extraordinary ability, well I think he would have been better off without the talent he had as it warped his self image causing his own self destruction. Pretty sad indeed as his love of music turned into mental illness. Peace of mind is something nobody should lose
Smoking and pulling your hair out of your mouth might not be the best way to appear on video. But I love the music.
Welcome to L33Reacts. I hope everyone's having a good day, I know I am.
I’m happy you’re hearing all this great music for the first time. Genesis, ELP and Yes changed my life when I was 14 in the 70s. “Take a Pebble” is one of my favourites. Beautiful song; beautiful piano playing.
He's playing brushes .
Typical Carl, playing brushes, sticks and mallets in one song..
Crazy shit haha I knew that couldn't just be sticks. My face was so confused lol
You’re not a drummer if u didn’t realize that’s brushes, I mean really?