I saw this album in a record store on sale. I bought it without any idea who ELP was, or even what the album's title was. I was drawn to the cover art, but I didn't know it was HR Giger's work. On first listen, I wondered what the hell I had bought. It wasn't until Karn Evil #9 that I realized that this album was a work of genius. It was my introduction to ELP and their entire back catalogue.
I saw ELP live at Charlotte Motor Speedway NC at the August Jam 1974 (google it )they had a Quadraphonic sound system and it was huge but the sound coming from those monster stacks was totally mind dissolving !!! The sound swirled in the hot night air like nothing I ever experienced before or since !!!
I bought myself my first stereo 'record player' as a teenager. Amazing to think we heard every recording and broadcast in mono before then! This album was one of very few to really exploit the new technology and I was gobsmacked!
ELP was the epitome of originality and creative genius. The '70's was a hugely inspired period in music and art, and ELP will be remembered as a front-runner.
As Official Archivist of ELP and Employee of Carl Palmer currently, I thoroughly enjoyed this 1000% Very well done. See you on The next Return of ELP Carl Palmer Tour. Come by the Merch table and buy something and say hello.
Wow! My heart missed a beat there! I thought you were going to tell me off over using some of your images! I’m so glad to hear you liked the video and I would consider it a great honour if you could somehow pass a link to Carl himself and (and seriously here) Jim Davidson if you know him. Seriously, I am humbled to be writing this in a way and grinning like a Cheshire cat.
I saw Carl do a show in Saratoga, CA before COVID. He was doing double duty with his own band and with Asia. He was having a blast playing the old ELP numbers and bringing out Arthur Brown to strut around the stage. The kid he has playing guitar is brilliant... he was doing a lot of Keith's keyboard parts on the guitar. From my seat fairly close to the stage, I got the impression that Carl is genuinely a nice guy. I regret never seeing Keith or Greg live. But I'm thrilled I could see Carl play the ELP classics.
Carl invited the audience to meet him at the merch table on the first date of that tour with Arthur Brown, Todd Rundgren and Yes. He was so nice to us fans, signing any merch we bought, answering questions and being the absolute cool guy I've always imagined him to be.
I saw ELP on stage in the early 1970’s and became a lifelong fan. I was heart broken to hear Keith took his own life. Rest In Peace Keith and Greg. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I totally agree with what you are saying here real nyc. Punk didn't kill Prog, Prog killed Prog, or as you say "it came to it's naturel end". People always forget to mention the ELP, Yes and Genesis all had top 10 hits around the time Punk was happening.
The first 4 ELP albums were just astounding. I especially enjoyed the first album Emerson Lake & Palmer . BSS took everything to a new level . Just brilliant. 😂❤
I am a lifelong 'foam at the mouth' ELP fan, and Brain Salad Surgery was truly their apex in every possible way; musically, creatively, lyrically, and performance-wise with the incredible 73-74 world tour that followed. Here were three of the greatest and most talented musicians in Rock, at the absolute top of their game, creating and performing some of the best music they would ever conceive of in their lifetimes, and performing it at a time when their chosen genre of Progressive Rock was cresting in popularity and acceptance. The Stars truly aligned for ELP in 73 and 74. My compliments to the creator of this documentary. I am very familiar with ELP video footage and music, and I just can't imagine where you dug up those rare video clips and audio outtakes, but I tip my hat to thee Sir !
I got through it many many times for many years. An absolute touchstone of an album for me. One of the greatest. I should add that the first time I heard it was around 1978 while playing a board game at a friends house. His older brother played it several times in a row. The first time it was alien to me. By the third time I was hooked for life.
For about four short years ELP were the greatest rock group in the world. Saw the BSS World Tour in San Diego and at the California Jam. Best concerts I ever saw, bar none.
I'm absolutely stunned. This video made me realize just how disproportionate is my love for this album as compared to what I actually know about it... Thank you rael, you are a true prophet of prog.
I saw ELP at virtually every SoCal concert, including California Jam. It is impossible to explain the effect their music had on me. The loss of Keith and Greg was a huge blow. I still listen to all their albums on a regular basis.
This album goes over the top of many people's heads but to me it is in my top two albums of all time. Together with Yes's Relayer it gets me exited and brings me to tears loving it so much. There is so much beautiful intricacy that it boggles the mind.
This has been one of my favorite bands. A Boston radio station named wbcn invited a group of us to hang out in the studio with the band. Towards the end of the night I was invited to Philadelphia Tower theaters to see the Bands dress rehearsal for the Black Moon tour in the early 90s. Greatest show in heaven hell or Earth.
I was at that Tower Theater show! I brought my then 16-year-old cousin Marty with me, and they totally blew his mind. I'll never forget hìs slack-jawed expression as he watched these three guys producing more music than should be possible from only three musicians.
You've never listened to it in one sitting??? The mind is boggled as to how else one would listen to the albums of that era... Those of us who did, would lay flat on our backs on the floor, with massive headphones on, perhaps some colored lights, or just a dim light, and listen while letting our souls be swept away by the feelings such music inspired. Peace
@@progrockdocs LOL... But then you miss that Carl Palmer ending where it sounds like it's going around in circles inside your headphones. And then it goes faster and faster and faster... amazing ending.
I truly love this album. It was basically my introduction to prog, together with Yes' Close To The Edge and Renaissance's Ashes Are Burning as I got the three of them together from someone who was inexplicably getting rid of his record collection
During this foul, wicked Russian war, each night millions of Patriotic Americans gather around their television sets to watch as Ukraine hands blow after lethal blow to their trespassers and to reclaim their blessed country. You are winning your fight. Your victory will ignite the souls of Earth. YOU ARE A GOOD AND JUST PEOPLE.
@@Keima_Katsuragi. In mainstream America, most of us understand this war is Putin's folly.....it is not the desire of the people of mainstream Russia. The Russian people are being made to suffer by a man who believes his desires are far more important than what is in the very best interests the Russian citizen. He is screwing over all of the beautiful Russian people.He hates people.
Can I just say, what’s been incredible about this series for me, going all the way back to the early Genesis docs, is how albums that I used to pass over time and time again have now either gained my appreciation or have become my favorite albums (I’m looking at you, Topographic). These mini documentaries are everything that “Sum of the Parts” and “Yesspeak” should have been and more. I look forward to these like a kid looks forward to the ice cream truck. With that said, this was another outstanding addition and I cannot wait for more. You’re doing a real service to the Prog community and I wanted to express my admiration. Thank you.
I get what you're saying. Considering I am making this in my spare time with basic-level software, (I barely know) the documentary output by the bands themselves is hugely disappointing. Especially when you consider they are sat on a goldmine of knowledge, outtakes, photos etc.
@@progrockdocs All the more reason I wanted to express my appreciation. They’ve become my go-to’s since coming across the “Lamb” doc last year. Really well done! Looking forward to (and donating to) future releases.
@@comfortat could not agree more! Loads of great tunes and musical moments on it, particularly “Onward” and “Release,Release”. The production is a bit lacking, but the spark and charm is still there.
Topographic has always been at my Top lol!!I get the ups and downs of it, but I'm on the I love it side since I own shirt of album cover hahahaha!!ita not my only top, very brand range I'd say!! Also,I agree about quality of this documentary as well as the genesis 1s,they're all BETTER than stuff put out by money clamoring suits,barely any quality!!!so I get it 😁✌️🍻
As a long term ELP fan there was a lot in this video new to me to enjoy. I saw them at Wembley, on the Brain Salad Surgery tour. What a show that was. Greatest rock concert I've ever been to. I think ELP transcended the Prog Rock genre, they were much more than that. Lighthearted but very well contructed songs like Benny the Bouncer were an essential part of their work, as were the ballads by Greg Lake.
That white suit that Greg Lake had on was that the inspiration for Jimmy Page to have a white suit?....except his had poppies and dragons on it..(circa early 1977) 😉 I'd give an arm and a leg to see this band live and Led Zeppelin too and I was into EL.P. at the time I was younger.
My brother took me to my first big gig when I was a kid, it was ELP at Liverpool Empire in 1974. When the computer exploded at the end I almost crapped myself. Loads of memories of that day. RIP Keith, Greg and our kid, and keep on rocking' Carl.
I remember getting the flexi disc with NME. Ironically, NME hated the band and the pun on enemy in the lyrics is appropriate. My mum bought me the album for Christmas 73. To add to the joy, my school invited Carl's percussion teacher James Blades to talk to us and show us some mind boggling rhythms. This is an awesome documentary. Thank you.
NME was the New Musical Express, a music paper in England which was critical of prog bands. It usually complained about pretentious music, but it was itself full of pretentious writing.
I stopped what I was doing just to see this. Professionally done with images and sound mixes I've never heard b/4. I loved it. One can clearly see the love you have for ELP.
As a huge ELP fan, I can't tell you how delighted I was with this. Watched it twice in succession. I still listen to ELP virtually everyday (great music to work out to). Its hard to imagine that, with the way we all felt about BSS back in the day, that this could ever be an underrated album - but it is. So much attention to detail from you- I was overwhelmed. Prog was the child of genius, but genius is hard to control- so much easier to control guys who learned to play just last week- also so much easier to replace them. (All you have to do is dumb down the taste of the listeners- Disney Radio anyone?)
Was there also,unfortunately didn’t get inside,only had enough money for the rapid transit. I think it was played in quad ,the new innovation,it was quite loud even outside the stadium
I think it was in 1976 when I became aware of this magnificent album by a band of only three members. When I finished listening to the tracks my life would not be the same as before. It was as if lightning had struck in the middle of a road and made a huge crater. This was really my impression! ⚡💥🔥✨🌟
For those that don't know, and are nerdy enough about synthesizers to care like me 🤓, the Apollo polyphonic synthesizer Keith had was the first prototype and part of the Moog Constellation system which can be seen in the lower left hand corner of the image shown between 6:45 and 6:48 of this video. It consisted of the Lyra monophonic solo synth on top of the Apollo and there was a Taurus bass pedal synth on the floor. I wanted to point this out since most of what is shown while the Apollo is being talked about is the large Moog Modular system which was also customized for Keith by Moog and looks mightily impressive indeed but isn't polyphonic, at least not in the normal sense. For those who want to know more, Marc Doty has a good video on the somewhat convoluted history of the Apollo instrument ua-cam.com/video/_AXcFobja7o/v-deo.html
This was wonderful rael nyc. I have no friends today and very few at the time of this records release and was a loner even during the time of this records release when I was a teenager of 18 yr. I almost fell to the floor when I saw the poster art of the show dates of one of the concerts that I attended at the Baltimore Civic Center. I vividly remember the spinning piano in the air along with the spinning drum set. When I tell people today about that concert and the Rick Wakeman "Journey to the Center of the Earth," concert that I saw at the same venue with inflatable dinosaurs fighting on stage with a full orchestra and rock band, people say "yeah right." Thank you for proving that these things did exist. I think that I have a new friend now.
Hey, stick around here - ever night is a party in this comments section! To be honest, I get where you are coming from and feel that these videos allow me to truly express myself in ways that people I know in (real) life don't see. It's here (by you guys) that I am truly understood.🤝
I was lucky to see ELP in mid-70's Curtis Hickson Hall, Tampa, FL. I rediscovered them last week and am so glad I did. Once again, I can't stop listening to this "Best of all time" band. Definitely one of the best classic rock ever!
Wonderful Historic value! Everything about ELP has always fascinated me since I discovered them with Tarkus and as they became bigger so did my passion for them. I finally got to see them live in their glory heydays for this tour (Brain Salad '73) and Works with the orchestra. There will never be another ELP, you have done them great honor with your masterful documentary, Thanks!
Brilliant. Bravo. A lifelong ELP fan (I own the GX1 EMO played in Montreal for the Fanfare video) I hardly knew any of this. Thank you for your passion to give birth to this.
Benny the bouncer is pure filler. ELP was a cover band, they never recorded one album that contained 100% original material. So, never enter R&R Hall of Fame. They covered 10 other composers. True Fact.
@@dancochrane5577, how thoughtful. The Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra never made an album of 100% original material, either. ELP took classical music and made them their own. That is not what a cover band is. You don't think Yes borrowed heavily from classical composers? Your reasoning on why they aren't in the RRHoF is patently absurd. Now run along...
I have never tired of this album since first listening to it in 1974. My friend, John Oris, and I discussed how it would be the “classical” music in future generations
This is an excellent presentation of Brain Salad Surgery, well done. In SE Louisiana I was part of a group of hard core prog rock fans, scooping up all we could find of King Crimson, The Strawbs, YES, and more. We were anxiously awaiting BSS and we all drove up to Baton Rouge in March 1974 to see ELP at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. We got there many hours before opening and was first in-line, watched through the doors Keith walking around in his bombers jacket during sound check, then as the doors opened we were first up hanging on the stage. My good friend standing next to me was given by Keith his wine bottle he was drinking from. At the end of the computer battle with the ascending computer loop and the bat wings when the explosion went off the first 8 rows of attendees fell down (windowpane acid helped with that). Easily the best concert I ever attended out of dozens. Caught the band later in Albuquerque, NM during the Black Moon tour. I do not think punk rock was much of an effect on prog rock, YES managed to eek out through all of this though their musical journey changed back and forth and ebbed and flowed but to this day they are hanging on with new music but with so many gone now once Steve Howe and maybe even Jon Anderson finishes their careers what remains will be basically a tribute band.
Two of the most esoteris albums of and in the 70's in my life- Pictures at an Exhibition and Brain Salad Surgery. Imagination, virtuosity and artistry are the hallmarks of ELP. What a fantastic group of rock performers. Recently saw Wmy Schafers take and review on 'Pictures'....and it became clear to me, why I love their music. Genius and a form of madness, I think. Maybe the same thing seen in different aspects...❤
Cheers man, I really appreciate the positive feedback. It means a lot to me that I am making so many people happy and helping to celebrate this fine music.
Thank you very much for this documentary about one of the best rock albums of all time and not just prog. BSS was truly a landmark album and your documentary does ELP fair justice . Cheers! :-)
Another great documentary. So far, your choice of bands in this series aligns perfectly with what I was listening to at the time. Can't wait for the next one! 🙂
had a nasty morning going till your magnificent vid popped up, half hour later all is bright again, thanks! What a brilliant piece of love and devotion to ELP, superb production too, thanks for this!
There are two timeless, eerie, never-to-be-touched pinnacles in progressive rock: Close To The Edge and Brain Salad. Sure, there are others...Court of the Crimson King, Selling England By The Pound, Free Hand. I love them all. But THESE two...they transcend everything and stand alone.
THIS DOCUMENTARY IS EXELLENT, IS RELLY RESCUE THE ESSENCE OF THIS HUGE BAND THAT WAS ELP, THE PART WHO TALK ABOUT DE COVER OF BRIAN SALAD SURGERY IS AMAZING , ALL THE HISTORY OFTHE ARTWORK , MY BEST WISHES FOR THIS CHANNEL
I have much to say about all you present here, all of which boils down to sincere thanks for this. I saw ELP twice in the 70s with the “flying piano,” once with orchestra at Madison Square Garden and once without an upstate New York, I believe at Cornell University. After that, well… you put it in perspective nicely, about how and why I couldn’t go on forever. I am so glad you rebuffed The notion that “punk killed prog;” it was a reaction, surely, but that is what all music is about. Thank you again.
Just brilliant. I'm not an elp aficionado and this album is the only one I own but for me its the one that's defines them. The band have a little family history for me in that I inherited the album from my brother and my dad was a loss assessor who met Keith on a few occasions following the fire at Stonehill House.
I listened to it straight through in one sitting. What an incredible experience right to the end with the quad synth sequencer sound rolling around the room.
High school-age me would have flipped his lid for this channel. I was a massive classic prog fan (can't stomach the post-70's stuff like Marillion) at a time when American Idol was considered the peak of popular music. These days i don't revisit the classics as much as I used to religiously, but ELP and Crimson still get a spell of play a few times a year. So lucky to have chanced on this channel.
You always surprise me with your videos - as a massive ELP fan Id like to thank you for your wonderful documentary, spreading the "good word"! All the best Valentin
Another great video about another iconic album. What I love about ELP is there were no boundaries and they could go on this album from a faithful rendition of a classic English hymn to a sci-if epic in Karn Evil 9 (and the Moog sequencer at its conclusion!)
That were brilliant! I saw them in the Vancouver Coliseum 2/14/74, have long listened to Brain Salad Surgery, but learned a bunch today. It was the time of quad amplifiers and discs, and I'll never forget how the sound at the end went around and around ever faster until the final Boom!
Wow ! My Maiden Innocence has been shattered. BSS was one of the very the first albums that began my vinyl collection, As a young 9th grade freshmaiden... I was intrigued by the complexity of the music, and the richness of the vocals. I was mesmerized, as I sat gazing at the album cover, and the tunes carried me off & away into another dimension. 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀 And now.... 50 years later.... I find out I paid for a Blow Job. I'm Mind Blown
This was positively brilliant! You really did a great job documenting and describing what is for my money, the greatest Progressive Rock album ever made. I really applaud your efforts. I have been a die-hard ELP fan for more than 40 years, and you did their finest work true justice!!!
I really appreciate this look into an iconic Lp. I especially enjoy a lot of the back stories most of us are unaware of. I never thought of how Karn Evil 9 fits in with so many books of that era: 2001 A Space Odyssey, Fahrenheit 451, Future Shock, to name a few. I’m grateful to people like you and Rachel Flowers who keep some of best and most technically interesting music alive. Greg Lake was accurate when he said that he (and many of the Prog musicians) was well trained and rehearsed with regards to their music.
Very well-done video. One particular missing note: I was there for the world debut of "Laserium" in the fall of 1973 at the Griffith Observatory, in Los Angeles. 1st Impression Part 2 opened the show, leaving an indelible mark upon my 8-year-old self, at the time. It was around this point in my life that I quit studying the keyboard instruments, which I sometimes regret. Then again, I saw Emo as the standard that I could not possibly hope to meet. Maybe I was smarter than I realize.
I saw the same laserium show in St Louis 1973. They played Karn Evil 9 and tank which was the highlight for me. If I remember there was some Dark Side of the Moon in there as well however I really don't care for Pink Floyd.
Pensei que só eu não conseguia ouvir esse álbum do início ao fim de uma só vez. Essa obra tem tanta coisa, é tão densa que é demais para meu cérebro. O descobri na década de 80 e o aprecio até hoje. Por coincidência hoje pela manhã saí para caminhar por uma hora e ouvi toda Karn Evil 9. Esse documentário ficou sensacional! Parabéns ao criador!
Couldn't be more thrilled that you're now looking at the ELP catalogue. More, more more please. And I'm devastated to learn that Manticore is now a Waitrose...
I was at the California Jam in 1974, and they were awesome, though I was pretty stoned and have only sporadic memories!! I'm also a lead singer who has sung Karnievil 9 many times and it is a blast to sing! They were such an original band!
I think that this album was suggested to me by one of the stores ( a 70's head shop ) owners employees. It is one of my favorite albums of all time. I can listen to it again and again and never get tired of it. In fact I had two copies of the cd ; one at home and the other in my vehicle so I could listen to it when ever I felt like it and didn't have to remember to take the copy from home. I saw ELP in concert at Grand Casino in Hinkley ,MN. They were promoting their new album Black Moon . Great show and I'm glad I finally got to see this great band. RIP: Keith, Greg.
I waited 40 years to get the opportunity to see ELP in concert I was fortunate enough to get two tickets from my friend. Dream Theater Emerson Lake and Palmer and Deep Purple in Hinckley Minnesota no it's incredible show I've ever seen hundreds. They played most of this album are seats for an 11th throwing by the second song I ended up in the second row and stayed there for the entire show they were just incredible shortly thereafter they were no longer I'm happy I got to see it
I am considering doing a video that examines a whole 'year' as opposed to just one album next, something different perhaps? Also, I really want to move away from prog a little, except there are so many other cool albums to make videos on.
![Lp. Сердце Вселенной #60 РОЖДЕНИЕ ЛОЛОЛОШКИ [Финал] • Майнкрафт](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/YoR0pAV9FVQ/mqdefault.jpg)
I saw this album in a record store on sale. I bought it without any idea who ELP was, or even what the album's title was. I was drawn to the cover art, but I didn't know it was HR Giger's work. On first listen, I wondered what the hell I had bought. It wasn't until Karn Evil #9 that I realized that this album was a work of genius. It was my introduction to ELP and their entire back catalogue.
I still play people "Toccata" today.......to BLOW THEIR MINDS.
It STILL sounds from the future and it's 50 years old!!!
Like Debussy too!
I saw ELP live at Charlotte Motor Speedway NC at the August Jam 1974 (google it )they had a Quadraphonic sound system and it was huge but the sound coming from those monster stacks was totally mind dissolving !!! The sound swirled in the hot night air like nothing I ever experienced before or since !!!
You gotta start somewhere ;)
Toccata way ahead of its time. Not even sure if people yet get it. Have to wait for the future when it will one day fit in.
I bought myself my first stereo 'record player' as a teenager. Amazing to think we heard every recording and broadcast in mono before then!
This album was one of very few to really exploit the new technology and I was gobsmacked!
ELP was the epitome of originality and creative genius. The '70's was a hugely inspired period in music and art, and ELP will be remembered as a front-runner.
I was awake at 2am thinking "what the hell is there to watch???" THEN I saw the thumbnail for this! THANK YOU!
As Official Archivist of ELP and Employee of Carl Palmer currently, I thoroughly enjoyed this 1000%
Very well done. See you on The next Return of ELP Carl Palmer Tour. Come by the Merch table and buy something and say hello.
Wow! My heart missed a beat there! I thought you were going to tell me off over using some of your images! I’m so glad to hear you liked the video and I would consider it a great honour if you could somehow pass a link to Carl himself and (and seriously here) Jim Davidson if you know him.
Seriously, I am humbled to be writing this in a way and grinning like a Cheshire cat.
Hi Chris, will Carl be bringing the show to the UK and when?
My drum Idol. I've seen every one of their Saint Louis concerts starting in 1971
I saw Carl do a show in Saratoga, CA before COVID. He was doing double duty with his own band and with Asia. He was having a blast playing the old ELP numbers and bringing out Arthur Brown to strut around the stage. The kid he has playing guitar is brilliant... he was doing a lot of Keith's keyboard parts on the guitar. From my seat fairly close to the stage, I got the impression that Carl is genuinely a nice guy. I regret never seeing Keith or Greg live. But I'm thrilled I could see Carl play the ELP classics.
Carl invited the audience to meet him at the merch table on the first date of that tour with Arthur Brown, Todd Rundgren and Yes.
He was so nice to us fans, signing any merch we bought, answering questions and being the absolute cool guy I've always imagined him to be.
Thank God I'm born in the right time 1957 to listen to the great music
This was my first ELP album my mom gave to me together with Rick Wakeman's Journey for my 15 birthday! What a gift!
Indeed. Your mom's terrific! Happy mother's day!
My mum bought me Brain Salad Surgery for Christmas 73. I saved up my Xmas money and bought Topographic on the day it came out.
I think I’m in love with your mom.
No what a mom,
I saw ELP on stage in the early 1970’s and became a lifelong fan. I was heart broken to hear Keith took his own life. Rest In Peace Keith and Greg. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I totally agree with what you are saying here real nyc. Punk didn't kill Prog, Prog killed Prog, or as you say "it came to it's naturel end". People always forget to mention the ELP, Yes and Genesis all had top 10 hits around the time Punk was happening.
The first 4 ELP albums were just astounding.
I especially enjoyed the first album Emerson Lake & Palmer .
BSS took everything to a new level .
Just brilliant. 😂❤
I am a lifelong 'foam at the mouth' ELP fan, and Brain Salad Surgery was truly their apex in every possible way; musically, creatively, lyrically, and performance-wise with the incredible 73-74 world tour that followed. Here were three of the greatest and most talented musicians in Rock, at the absolute top of their game, creating and performing some of the best music they would ever conceive of in their lifetimes, and performing it at a time when their chosen genre of Progressive Rock was cresting in popularity and acceptance. The Stars truly aligned for ELP in 73 and 74. My compliments to the creator of this documentary. I am very familiar with ELP video footage and music, and I just can't imagine where you dug up those rare video clips and audio outtakes, but I tip my hat to thee Sir !
I agree. It's ELP's Dark Side of the Moon.
They must have been saying, "How can we top THIS?"
I got through it many many times for many years. An absolute touchstone of an album for me. One of the greatest. I should add that the first time I heard it was around 1978 while playing a board game at a friends house. His older brother played it several times in a row. The first time it was alien to me. By the third time I was hooked for life.
For about four short years ELP were the greatest rock group in the world. Saw the BSS World Tour in San Diego and at the California Jam. Best concerts I ever saw, bar none.
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.
I wonder how on earth do you find such rare footages of the band. Great job mate
My favourite ELP album. I love everything about it. The music is incredible and the album cover is one of the greatest ever imo.
I'm absolutely stunned.
This video made me realize just how disproportionate is my love for this album as compared to what I actually know about it...
Thank you rael, you are a true prophet of prog.
I saw ELP at virtually every SoCal concert, including California Jam. It is impossible to explain the effect their music had on me. The loss of Keith and Greg was a huge blow. I still listen to all their albums on a regular basis.
This album goes over the top of many people's heads but to me it is in my top two albums of all time. Together with Yes's Relayer it gets me exited and brings me to tears loving it so much. There is so much beautiful intricacy that it boggles the mind.
You certainly get your money's worth.
This has been one of my favorite bands. A Boston radio station named wbcn invited a group of us to hang out in the studio with the band. Towards the end of the night I was invited to Philadelphia Tower theaters to see the Bands dress rehearsal for the Black Moon tour in the early 90s. Greatest show in heaven hell or Earth.
I was at that Tower Theater show! I brought my then 16-year-old cousin Marty with me, and they totally blew his mind. I'll never forget hìs slack-jawed expression as he watched these three guys producing more music than should be possible from only three musicians.
I love E.L.P. Great composer and musician. R.I.P. Keith and Greg.
You've never listened to it in one sitting???
The mind is boggled as to how else one would listen to the albums of that era...
Those of us who did, would lay flat on our backs on the floor, with massive headphones on, perhaps some colored lights, or just a dim light, and listen while letting our souls be swept away by the feelings such music inspired.
Peace
Yep, I tried that but when that stupid robot voice comes in at the end I get up and do the hoovering.
@@progrockdocs LOL... But then you miss that Carl Palmer ending where it sounds like it's going around in circles inside your headphones. And then it goes faster and faster and faster... amazing ending.
I truly love this album. It was basically my introduction to prog, together with Yes' Close To The Edge and Renaissance's Ashes Are Burning as I got the three of them together from someone who was inexplicably getting rid of his record collection
One of the greatest prog albums ever produced, period.
This is one of the wonderful stories of prog rock! Rael, please don't stop. I send you greetings from Ukraine.
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🙏
During this foul, wicked Russian war, each night millions of Patriotic Americans gather around their television sets to watch as Ukraine hands blow after lethal blow to their trespassers and to reclaim their blessed country.
You are winning your fight. Your victory will ignite the souls of Earth. YOU ARE A GOOD AND JUST PEOPLE.
@@sustayne Sustayne, thanks for your support. We will definitely win.
Greetings from Russia too
@@Keima_Katsuragi. In mainstream America, most of us understand this war is Putin's folly.....it is not the desire of the people of mainstream Russia. The Russian people are being made to suffer by a man who believes his desires are far more important than what is in the very best interests the Russian citizen. He is screwing over all of the beautiful Russian people.He hates people.
Can I just say, what’s been incredible about this series for me, going all the way back to the early Genesis docs, is how albums that I used to pass over time and time again have now either gained my appreciation or have become my favorite albums (I’m looking at you, Topographic). These mini documentaries are everything that “Sum of the Parts” and “Yesspeak” should have been and more. I look forward to these like a kid looks forward to the ice cream truck. With that said, this was another outstanding addition and I cannot wait for more. You’re doing a real service to the Prog community and I wanted to express my admiration. Thank you.
I get what you're saying. Considering I am making this in my spare time with basic-level software, (I barely know) the documentary output by the bands themselves is hugely disappointing. Especially when you consider they are sat on a goldmine of knowledge, outtakes, photos etc.
@@progrockdocs All the more reason I wanted to express my appreciation. They’ve become my go-to’s since coming across the “Lamb” doc last year. Really well done! Looking forward to (and donating to) future releases.
@@joeydeezer One of the most underrated and underappreciated albums ever is Tormato. I love the musicianship of it, cover to cover.
@@comfortat could not agree more! Loads of great tunes and musical moments on it, particularly “Onward” and “Release,Release”. The production is a bit lacking, but the spark and charm is still there.
Topographic has always been at my Top lol!!I get the ups and downs of it, but I'm on the I love it side since I own shirt of album cover hahahaha!!ita not my only top, very brand range I'd say!!
Also,I agree about quality of this documentary as well as the genesis 1s,they're all BETTER than stuff put out by money clamoring suits,barely any quality!!!so I get it 😁✌️🍻
As a long term ELP fan there was a lot in this video new to me to enjoy. I saw them at Wembley, on the Brain Salad Surgery tour. What a show that was. Greatest rock concert I've ever been to. I think ELP transcended the Prog Rock genre, they were much more than that. Lighthearted but very well contructed songs like Benny the Bouncer were an essential part of their work, as were the ballads by Greg Lake.
That white suit that Greg Lake had on was that the inspiration for Jimmy Page to have a white suit?....except his had poppies and dragons on it..(circa early 1977) 😉 I'd give an arm and a leg to see this band live and Led Zeppelin too and I was into EL.P. at the time I was younger.
My brother took me to my first big gig when I was a kid, it was ELP at Liverpool Empire in 1974. When the computer exploded at the end I almost crapped myself. Loads of memories of that day. RIP Keith, Greg and our kid, and keep on rocking' Carl.
I remember getting the flexi disc with NME. Ironically, NME hated the band and the pun on enemy in the lyrics is appropriate. My mum bought me the album for Christmas 73. To add to the joy, my school invited Carl's percussion teacher James Blades to talk to us and show us some mind boggling rhythms.
This is an awesome documentary. Thank you.
What is nme?
NME was the New Musical Express, a music paper in England which was critical of prog bands. It usually complained about pretentious music, but it was itself full of pretentious writing.
@@donaldanderson6604 I get it John peel type crap. Thanks
@@donaldanderson6604 Pretentious writing and then some!
California Jam! What a gas! Really enjoyed the show. Thank you ELP
I stopped what I was doing just to see this. Professionally done with images and sound mixes I've never heard b/4. I loved it. One can clearly see the love you have for ELP.
As a huge ELP fan, I can't tell you how delighted I was with this. Watched it twice in succession. I still listen to ELP virtually everyday (great music to work out to). Its hard to imagine that, with the way we all felt about BSS back in the day, that this could ever be an underrated album - but it is. So much attention to detail from you- I was overwhelmed. Prog was the child of genius, but genius is hard to control- so much easier to control guys who learned to play just last week- also so much easier to replace them. (All you have to do is dumb down the taste of the listeners- Disney Radio anyone?)
My first concert was ELP at Cleveland stadium in the summer of 1974. What a baptism.
Was there also,unfortunately didn’t get inside,only had enough money for the rapid transit. I think it was played in quad ,the new innovation,it was quite loud even outside the stadium
That was a tremendous show.
I think it was in 1976 when I became aware of this magnificent album by a band of only three members. When I finished listening to the tracks my life would not be the same as before. It was as if lightning had struck in the middle of a road and made a huge crater. This was really my impression! ⚡💥🔥✨🌟
Another amazing documentary. It's crystal clear that an insane amount of research and dedication goes into them. Awesome!
For those that don't know, and are nerdy enough about synthesizers to care like me 🤓, the Apollo polyphonic synthesizer Keith had was the first prototype and part of the Moog Constellation system which can be seen in the lower left hand corner of the image shown between 6:45 and 6:48 of this video. It consisted of the Lyra monophonic solo synth on top of the Apollo and there was a Taurus bass pedal synth on the floor. I wanted to point this out since most of what is shown while the Apollo is being talked about is the large Moog Modular system which was also customized for Keith by Moog and looks mightily impressive indeed but isn't polyphonic, at least not in the normal sense. For those who want to know more, Marc Doty has a good video on the somewhat convoluted history of the Apollo instrument ua-cam.com/video/_AXcFobja7o/v-deo.html
The Lyra was a one-off. The single Lyra in existence was used on this album, and on the tour. (more nerdy trivia!)
@@OboeCanAm 😎👍 I've read that the Lyra synth eventually morphed into the MultiMoog.
Obrigado por compartilhar essas informações.
@@danielsalvador19234 De nada 🙂
I had read somewhere where Keith also had "pre-sets" made by Moog for him so he could switch between patches on the giant modular Synth quicker.
Benny was included because it is great ! 😊😊
This was wonderful rael nyc. I have no friends today and very few at the time of this records release and was a loner even during the time of this records release when I was a teenager of 18 yr.
I almost fell to the floor when I saw the poster art of the show dates of one of the concerts that I attended at the Baltimore Civic Center. I vividly remember the spinning piano in the air along with the spinning drum set.
When I tell people today about that concert and the Rick Wakeman "Journey to the Center of the Earth," concert that I saw at the same venue with inflatable dinosaurs fighting on stage with a full orchestra and rock band, people say "yeah right."
Thank you for proving that these things did exist. I think that I have a new friend now.
Hey, stick around here - ever night is a party in this comments section! To be honest, I get where you are coming from and feel that these videos allow me to truly express myself in ways that people I know in (real) life don't see. It's here (by you guys) that I am truly understood.🤝
O boy you nailed it. Thanks again. Your closing sentence about the space aliens is spot on. Cheers
En mi opinión el mejor albun de ELP,una verdadera obra maestra,saludos
I was lucky to see ELP in mid-70's Curtis Hickson Hall, Tampa, FL. I rediscovered them last week and am so glad I did. Once again, I can't stop listening to this "Best of all time" band. Definitely one of the best classic rock ever!
What a wonderful cover and then we got.........Love Beach.
@johnv467 Love Beach was five years and a lot happened later.
Incredible video ty such a fine band at the time so refreshing. What amazing concert, and time...
Wonderful Historic value! Everything about ELP has always fascinated me since I discovered them with Tarkus and as they became bigger so did my passion for them. I finally got to see them live in their glory heydays for this tour (Brain Salad '73) and Works with the orchestra. There will never be another ELP, you have done them great honor with your masterful documentary, Thanks!
Brilliant. Bravo. A lifelong ELP fan (I own the GX1 EMO played in Montreal for the Fanfare video) I hardly knew any of this. Thank you for your passion to give birth to this.
Benny the bouncer is pure filler. ELP was a cover band, they never recorded one album that contained 100% original material. So, never enter R&R Hall of Fame. They covered 10 other composers. True Fact.
@@dancochrane5577 get lost
@@dancochrane5577, how thoughtful. The Philadelphia Philharmonic Orchestra never made an album of 100% original material, either. ELP took classical music and made them their own. That is not what a cover band is. You don't think Yes borrowed heavily from classical composers? Your reasoning on why they aren't in the RRHoF is patently absurd. Now run along...
I have never tired of this album since first listening to it in 1974. My friend, John Oris, and I discussed how it would be the “classical” music in future generations
Stunning tale...¡¡¡ YEAH...😎😎😎
I saw ELP in Nashville in 1977 with the orchestra..still one of the top 5 gigs of my life!
Great show I saw the same thing in st. Louis in 1977 with journey as the opening act. The best was 1973 it's a shame you didn't see that one
I am 67 years old i am so glad to see this docomounteri before i pass. Magnificent production. GREAT, SALUD.
The talent of this trio is unique. I doubt their will be anything like them again. The best live show that I've ever seen, and Ive seen many.
You put serious work into this. Including meshing audio tracks together...massive respect! The Greatest Prog Album of all time!!!
This is an excellent presentation of Brain Salad Surgery, well done. In SE Louisiana I was part of a group of hard core prog rock fans, scooping up all we could find of King Crimson, The Strawbs, YES, and more. We were anxiously awaiting BSS and we all drove up to Baton Rouge in March 1974 to see ELP at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, LA. We got there many hours before opening and was first in-line, watched through the doors Keith walking around in his bombers jacket during sound check, then as the doors opened we were first up hanging on the stage. My good friend standing next to me was given by Keith his wine bottle he was drinking from. At the end of the computer battle with the ascending computer loop and the bat wings when the explosion went off the first 8 rows of attendees fell down (windowpane acid helped with that). Easily the best concert I ever attended out of dozens. Caught the band later in Albuquerque, NM during the Black Moon tour. I do not think punk rock was much of an effect on prog rock, YES managed to eek out through all of this though their musical journey changed back and forth and ebbed and flowed but to this day they are hanging on with new music but with so many gone now once Steve Howe and maybe even Jon Anderson finishes their careers what remains will be basically a tribute band.
Another fantastic documentary, my first and still my favourite ELP album.
What an incredible rockumentary you have produced here , very clever .
Two of the most esoteris albums of and in the 70's in my life- Pictures at an Exhibition and Brain Salad Surgery. Imagination, virtuosity and artistry are the hallmarks of ELP. What a fantastic group of rock performers. Recently saw Wmy Schafers take and review on 'Pictures'....and it became clear to me, why I love their music. Genius and a form of madness, I think. Maybe the same thing seen in different aspects...❤
Very good doc.
Saw ELP about 70 times and never missed a tour.
I appreciate growing up in the 70's with amazing musicians like these.
This is one of the best music documentaries I’ve ever seen , definitely the best ELP one , I must have watched this about 5 times already ! Brilliant!
Cheers man, I really appreciate the positive feedback. It means a lot to me that I am making so many people happy and helping to celebrate this fine music.
Fantastic work - another amazing documentary! My favorite ELP album, and arguably Keith's greatest compositions.
I'll be there
I'll be there
I WILL BE THERE....
total awesomeness....
Thank you very much for this documentary about one of the best rock albums of all time and not just prog. BSS was truly a landmark album and your documentary does ELP fair justice . Cheers! :-)
Emerso a voluto ripropore musiche classiche e portarle in vita 😊😊😊
Fortunate enough to see ELP on this tour. Unbelievable concert! Lifetime fan! These guys were genius! Great days for music in 60s and 70s!
Another great documentary. So far, your choice of bands in this series aligns perfectly with what I was listening to at the time. Can't wait for the next one! 🙂
Beautifully Create. Thank YOU for Focusing on My Favorite Album of All-Time 😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
Great video, as always. This was a foundational album for me when I got into prog in the mid-80s.
had a nasty morning going till your magnificent vid popped up, half hour later all is bright again, thanks! What a brilliant piece of love and devotion to ELP, superb production too, thanks for this!
There are two timeless, eerie, never-to-be-touched pinnacles in progressive rock: Close To The Edge and Brain Salad. Sure, there are others...Court of the Crimson King, Selling England By The Pound, Free Hand. I love them all. But THESE two...they transcend everything and stand alone.
Brilliant docu!
This documentary on the best ELP album holds up to repeated viewings.
THIS DOCUMENTARY IS EXELLENT, IS RELLY RESCUE THE ESSENCE OF THIS HUGE BAND THAT WAS ELP, THE PART WHO TALK ABOUT DE COVER OF BRIAN SALAD SURGERY IS AMAZING , ALL THE HISTORY OFTHE ARTWORK , MY BEST WISHES FOR THIS CHANNEL
This is in my Top 10 Desert Island Discs. I didn’t discover ELP until around 1980. Carl became my favorite drummer and has been to this day.
Sadly 1980 was the year Led Zeppelin broke up after their drummer John Bonham suddenly passed away 😢
I have much to say about all you present here, all of which boils down to sincere thanks for this. I saw ELP twice in the 70s with the “flying piano,” once with orchestra at Madison Square Garden and once without an upstate New York, I believe at Cornell University. After that, well… you put it in perspective nicely, about how and why I couldn’t go on forever. I am so glad you rebuffed The notion that “punk killed prog;” it was a reaction, surely, but that is what all music is about. Thank you again.
(^ My typos above are free of charge!)
Just brilliant. I'm not an elp aficionado and this album is the only one I own but for me its the one that's defines them. The band have a little family history for me in that I inherited the album from my brother and my dad was a loss assessor who met Keith on a few occasions following the fire at Stonehill House.
Their first five albums are landmarks every home should own.
Seriously.
Their FIRST album does not get 1% the credit it deserves.
Don't neglect to get trilogy if you've never heard that you're in for a great surprise.
Yep Trilogy is your next step!
@@WaterWorld1 especially the Endless Enigma.
Who cares?
I listened to it straight through in one sitting. What an incredible experience right to the end with the quad synth sequencer sound rolling around the room.
This was my very first concert l was 14 or 15. Years old Anaheim convention center S. Calif l was blown away it was incredible
High school-age me would have flipped his lid for this channel. I was a massive classic prog fan (can't stomach the post-70's stuff like Marillion) at a time when American Idol was considered the peak of popular music. These days i don't revisit the classics as much as I used to religiously, but ELP and Crimson still get a spell of play a few times a year. So lucky to have chanced on this channel.
You always surprise me with your videos - as a massive ELP fan Id like to thank you for your wonderful documentary, spreading the "good word"!
All the best
Valentin
Another great video about another iconic album.
What I love about ELP is there were no boundaries and they could go on this album from a faithful rendition of a classic English hymn to a sci-if epic in Karn Evil 9 (and the Moog sequencer at its conclusion!)
Fabulous! Bravo, Rael. Bravo!
That were brilliant! I saw them in the Vancouver Coliseum 2/14/74, have long listened to Brain Salad Surgery, but learned a bunch today.
It was the time of quad amplifiers and discs, and I'll never forget how the sound at the end went around and around ever faster until the final Boom!
Wow ! My Maiden Innocence has been shattered.
BSS was one of the very the first albums that began my vinyl collection,
As a young 9th grade freshmaiden... I was intrigued by the complexity of the music, and the richness of the vocals.
I was mesmerized, as I sat gazing at the album cover, and the tunes carried me off & away into another dimension.
💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀
And now.... 50 years later....
I find out I paid for a
Blow Job.
I'm Mind Blown
Glad to be of 'service' !! 😘
As always, a terrific job with a terrific album. And awesome inclusion of my alma mater's marching band, the OU 110! :-)
I had to include them - they were excellent!
Never mind the bollocks - You are an amazing filmmaker!!!
Ha! Cheers mate!
This was positively brilliant! You really did a great job documenting and describing what is for my money, the greatest Progressive Rock album ever made. I really applaud your efforts. I have been a die-hard ELP fan for more than 40 years, and you did their finest work true justice!!!
I really appreciate this look into an iconic Lp. I especially enjoy a lot of the back stories most of us are unaware of. I never thought of how Karn Evil 9 fits in with so many books of that era: 2001 A Space Odyssey, Fahrenheit 451, Future Shock, to name a few.
I’m grateful to people like you and Rachel Flowers who keep some of best and most technically interesting music alive. Greg Lake was accurate when he said that he (and many of the Prog musicians) was well trained and rehearsed with regards to their music.
As in everything you do, it’s absolutely brilliant yet again, thanks very much.
Very well-done video. One particular missing note: I was there for the world debut of "Laserium" in the fall of 1973 at the Griffith Observatory, in Los Angeles. 1st Impression Part 2 opened the show, leaving an indelible mark upon my 8-year-old self, at the time. It was around this point in my life that I quit studying the keyboard instruments, which I sometimes regret. Then again, I saw Emo as the standard that I could not possibly hope to meet. Maybe I was smarter than I realize.
I saw the same laserium show in St Louis 1973. They played Karn Evil 9 and tank which was the highlight for me. If I remember there was some Dark Side of the Moon in there as well however I really don't care for Pink Floyd.
Brilliant docu. Thanks Lee. From one ELP fan to another. Paypal donation done. Now tell your wife to stop complaining - you're doing a great job!
I was at the California Jam, and they were amazing. I've been a huge fan ever since ❤
real nye, If you created this documentary, you clearly are 'BRILLIANT'! "Thank You", somehow just doesn't say 'IT'.
Grateful,
T.F.
Yep. I made the whole thing. A part-time hobby I wished was a full-time job!
Already liked without watching all, because your work is AMAZING. ❤
Well done for a superb look at this important band and it's work. It takes a lot of work to get to this standard and we do appreciate it. 👏👏👏🙂
These videos are all fantastic, man. Keep up the good work!
Pensei que só eu não conseguia ouvir esse álbum do início ao fim de uma só vez. Essa obra tem tanta coisa, é tão densa que é demais para meu cérebro. O descobri na década de 80 e o aprecio até hoje. Por coincidência hoje pela manhã saí para caminhar por uma hora e ouvi toda Karn Evil 9. Esse documentário ficou sensacional! Parabéns ao criador!
Couldn't be more thrilled that you're now looking at the ELP catalogue. More, more more please. And I'm devastated to learn that Manticore is now a Waitrose...
Great one. Thanks.
I was at the California Jam in 1974, and they were awesome, though I was pretty stoned and have only sporadic memories!! I'm also a lead singer who has sung Karnievil 9 many times and it is a blast to sing! They were such an original band!
I think I remember you at Cal Jam.. we really had a ball didn't we? Cheers!
Great documentary of a classic album and rare footage, well done 👍🏻
I think that this album was suggested to me by one of the stores ( a 70's head shop ) owners employees.
It is one of my favorite albums of all time.
I can listen to it again and again and never get tired of it.
In fact I had two copies of the cd ; one at home and the other in my vehicle so I could listen to it when ever I felt like it and didn't have to remember to take the copy from home.
I saw ELP in concert at Grand Casino in Hinkley ,MN.
They were promoting their new album Black Moon .
Great show and I'm glad I finally got to see this great band.
RIP: Keith, Greg.
Brain salad was unreal 👌 that kind of music is of no other,there's no bad songs off of any elp!
I waited 40 years to get the opportunity to see ELP in concert I was fortunate enough to get two tickets from my friend. Dream Theater Emerson Lake and Palmer and Deep Purple in Hinckley Minnesota no it's incredible show I've ever seen hundreds. They played most of this album are seats for an 11th throwing by the second song I ended up in the second row and stayed there for the entire show they were just incredible shortly thereafter they were no longer I'm happy I got to see it
oh my God , what kind story...Please keep doing the videos. 1973 was the best year in music
I am considering doing a video that examines a whole 'year' as opposed to just one album next, something different perhaps? Also, I really want to move away from prog a little, except there are so many other cool albums to make videos on.