When the gods of Music descend to earth to play for mortals like us, to reminds us how incredible their talent it is. That was one of music gods , that was Keith Emerson. ♫♪
My dad (an ELP lover in his youth) told me about this when I was very young, maybe 7 years old. Ever since then I have aspired to be the greatest at piano that I can possibly be, just to become a fraction of the awesome that Keith Emerson exhibits here. And here I am, taking piano in university. Amazing, isn't it?
Emerson, a genius!! But ONLY 300,000 views?? Nowadays a teen plays 3 or 4 keys with 2 fingers to accompany a song that he did not write and gets 54 million views! What's happened to this world?
Keith Emerson, a great musician, whose death struck me !!! 40 years and to this moment I listen to his immortal compositions ... not sated !!! His place in Paradise, Paradise !!! And my heart is with him ...............................
"What a thrill, what a thrill..." There'll never be another keyboard showman like Emerson. I had the privilege, like many of you people of good music taste out there, to see The Nice and ELP on stage( I'm pretty old). He clearly loved what he did- and it showed.
@awaken77 It's the reverb spring. Same thing if you kick a guitar amp with a built-in reverb. Emerson also did a thing where he'd switch the organ off and on to get a really warped-vinyl sort of sound with the bending notes. And of course there were the knives in the keyboard!! What a showman!!
ELP played such an integral role in shaping my musical inclination, and Kieth was the center piece of the band. So when I was informed of his death, it felt like a part of my past was gone. RIP Keith.
At 1:12 this is an excerpt from the harpsichord cadenza from the first movement of the 5th Brandenburg Concerto. I believe he has also pieced together a few Bach organ concerto excerpts to complete the theme. (its listed as Bach improvisations on the liner notes from the concert this is taken from)
Thanks for bringing back great memories, I remember this show preformed the same way during the the Emerson Lake and Powell show done at Great Woods MA. I think it was around 86 or 87.What an awesome show! What a huge loss. Keith , Greg and Cozy you are sorely missed. Rest in peace gentlemen.
Shear brilliance. Saw Keith in the Nice, elp and the Keith Emerson band. Keith was a master of the Hammond organ. I doubt if we will ever see something like this again. On other keyboard players, I found a really good hammond player named Lachy Doley, he's mainly blues and rock oriented, but he's an exciting player and master of he's Hammond C3. Get a look at him. R.I.P. Keith. My hero
@Friendulum Saw Keith and Greg last night (4/22) in Phoenix, got to watch with Chris Squire from Yes, who agreed that Keith and Greg still have it. Great show, neat stage ideas, and freaking amazing solos! They did play Pebble, plus some Bartok, all the faves, even a couple of Nice and King Crimson tunes
The part he plays from the back of the organ isn't Bach. He does play much of the cadenza from the Fifth Brandenburg first movement from the front side.
He's dropping it to get the sound. Hammonds had a reverb unit, which used springs. Sound was sent down the spring, which gave it the reverb. As you can imagine, these were sensitive to vibration. Dropping the organ induced that crashing sound you hear every time he does it.
i grew up listening to my mom & her dad both playing piano and organ ( so from then, to this day of course i luv classical music) but keith emerson kicks ass!
Saw Keith and Greg Lake last night in Phoenix, small setting, interesting stage setup, got to watch with Chris Squire from Yes, who agreed that they still have it! A couple of King Crimson and Nice tunes, plus a number of the faves, as well as experimental stuff. Outstanding show! Great solos, etc.
a demented genius....he got sounds out of abusing his organ which I have never heard the like before or since...Those bowie knives were never put to better use...lol RIP Emo. Gone but you will never be forgotten
More great musicians are passing on. David Bowie, Keith Emerson, Lemmy Kilminster, Ronnie Montrose, Daevid Allen, Edgar Froese, Pierre Boulez, Chris Squire, Pete Namlook...our era--classic progressive rock--is dying away.
The greatest of all time none of the others were even close and yes I'm talking about Rick Wakeman who would probably be the first to admit it😮 I love you Keith my idol rip there will never be another one like you😊
At 1:12 this is an excerpt from the harpsichord cadenza from the first movement of the 5th Brandenburg Concerto. I believe he has also pieced together a few Bach organ concerto excerpts to complete the theme. (its listed as Bach improvisations on the liner notes from the concert this is taken from) (and he is playing the organ backwards)
To those who said he's playing a Farfisa. It's not. Hammond and Farfisa are two different companies. He's playing a Hammond L-100. The L series have the characteristic diving board tabs. If you watch videos from the Pictures at an Exhibition concert, You'll see he has a Hammond L-100 on one side and a Hammond C3 on the other.
He definitely played a section of Tocatta and Fugue in D min backwards on a Yamaha Electone in the 1988 Atlantic Records concert. There's a partial video up called 'Keith Emerson and Carl palmer - Rondo Live@NYC' that does not include the section that I remember clearly watching.
to JimmiPage- amidst several bachstyle inputs he clearly works on a short excerpt,from the breathtaking 64 bars for harpsichord solo, of the 5th Brandenburg Concerto.
I love the reverb tank crashes. And that pitch bend stuff he's doing...that would be in this case actually varying the line voltage to the organ right? I always assumed on Genesis "Stagnation" (from Trespass) that the pitch bends in Tony Banks' solo were done w/tape varispeed - but this makes me wonder if Tony had a similar setup on his L122? That's not a standard feature is it? I never played an L series...
It's a shame that neither ELP or the Nice are in the Rock and Roll hall of fame.. However that B3 is. After almost 40 yrs of being stabbed, rocked, flung, tipped up and dropped, played from the inside, been jumped over thousands of times, played backwards ( as well as this piece, I've seen him do Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and Flight of the Bumblebees.), and having KE crouch on top of it to play, it caught fire on stage and died. Now it's in the Hall of Fame.
If you've seen the clips where he pulls the organ right down onto himself as he lies on the stage and then pushes it back up, and you've ever tried to lift a Hammond, you'll know why you wouldn't want to arm-wrestle Keith Emerson.
Are you serious? Brian Davidson was OK but compared to Carl Palmer? That is like comparing a Big Mac with Aberdeen Angus Fillet Steak. Then Lee Jackson....compared to the amazing Greg Lake, bass, acoustic and that voice?? Wake up and smell the 70s mate!
+Stewart Nicol as BILLY CONNOLLY I'm talking about The Nice as a collective unit not as individual musicians. Nobody would argue the odds that Jackson and Davidson were as good as Lake and Palmer. Why would they bother when there are people such as yourself who are always happy to oblige? The fact remains.....I saw the original four piece band several times 'Live' and believe me they were a force of nature! By the way I was also at The Isle Of Wight Festival in 1970 so I saw ELP's debut. It was some spectacle, cannons the whole nine yards! But that's all it was. The people that were most impressed by ELP, were I'm afraid.... ELP! Jackson and Davidson were more than good enough in the context of The Nice. They merely had to provide the pulse to the sound. O'List and Emerson did the rest. In my opinion they lost a whole dimension to their sound when O'List went! Incidentally, O'List was the guy Pink Floyd would go to if they needed a stand in for Syd.
Emerson is definitley one of the greatest organists in rock music, but for me, my personal favorite is Jon Lord from Deep Purple. Lord can play and orchestrate classical music, but his sense of being able to keep up with Ritchie Blackmores sense of rock riffs as well as his blues influences makes him more of an interesting player to me. my opinion only.
Like an alien-not this but when he was a kid and fitted the Brandenburg Concerto into Country Pie in the Nice. Listen to it. That is beyond the pompous classically trained.
Keith was, at the time, the most naturally musical talent in a generation of keyboard stars including Lord, Wakeman, et al but he had what Mr Cowell would doubtless refer to as the "X-Factor"!! lol he was up for being a bit of a showman as well as a serious muso - after all "serious musos" play to other "serious musos" - Keith played to the audience - whoever they were! THAT is the difference between Artiste and FUCKIN' STAR!!!!!
When the gods of Music descend to earth to play for mortals like us, to reminds us how incredible their talent it is. That was one of music gods , that was Keith Emerson. ♫♪
que bellas palabras, todos le llevaremos en nuestros corazones
Well said.
My dad (an ELP lover in his youth) told me about this when I was very young, maybe 7 years old. Ever since then I have aspired to be the greatest at piano that I can possibly be, just to become a fraction of the awesome that Keith Emerson exhibits here. And here I am, taking piano in university. Amazing, isn't it?
Emerson, a genius!! But ONLY 300,000 views?? Nowadays a teen plays 3 or 4 keys with 2 fingers to accompany a song that he did not write and gets 54 million views! What's happened to this world?
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Thank you for blowing my mind since I was 8 yrs old, RIP Maestro Emerson!
Keith Emerson, a great musician, whose death struck me !!! 40 years and to this moment I listen to his immortal compositions ... not sated !!! His place in Paradise, Paradise !!! And my heart is with him ...............................
How true. Every word.
I saw him do this in Leicester on 27th September 1970
You 'Lucky Man' You were there when it all started. . I caught him 3 years later at The Empire in Liverpool.
40 people have no idea of the skill involved in playing like this.
They don´t even know who Bach was! :-(
Now, 24th Dec 20, they are 52 people
@@hartonorahardjo8637 I was thinking the same thing. Dec 24 2020 for me too!
Funny part is more people like your comment then dislike this video
He was the Jimi Hendrix of the keyboard. Hendrix played his guitar the wrong way. Think about it!
Rest in Peace Keith, I got to see you a perform live a few times and you always left me uber inspired! Thank you!
RIP to the wildman of keyboardists.
There is a man in control of his instrument...a true master, and of course a picture of an exhibitisionist!
.. shedding a tear for my favorite musician of all time .. I'll miss you, Emo.. :(
"What a thrill, what a thrill..." There'll never be another keyboard showman like Emerson. I had the privilege, like many of you people of good music taste out there, to see The Nice and ELP on stage( I'm pretty old). He clearly loved what he did- and it showed.
Mighty but ultimately as fragile as any of us.
There was nobody in the history of the universe like him.
finally, so much energy coming from a guy behind the keyboard. Keith Emerson, you are the best!
Turning the B-3 on and off while holding a key....Bouncing the spring reverb around....he got tones no one else ever thought of.
@awaken77 It's the reverb spring. Same thing if you kick a guitar amp with a built-in reverb. Emerson also did a thing where he'd switch the organ off and on to get a really warped-vinyl sort of sound with the bending notes. And of course there were the knives in the keyboard!! What a showman!!
Listening to Keith Emerson is like discovering life. He will live on through his gift to all of us. Genius.
THE BEST KEY BOARD PLAYER WHO EVER LIVED Love that sexy man rest in peace Keith !
ELP played such an integral role in shaping my musical inclination, and Kieth was the center piece of the band. So when I was informed of his death, it felt like a part of my past was gone. RIP Keith.
+gdkangas
I felt the same way
He made me a Hammond organ donor.
At 1:12 this is an excerpt from the harpsichord cadenza from the first movement of the 5th Brandenburg Concerto. I believe he has also pieced together a few Bach organ concerto excerpts to complete the theme. (its listed as Bach improvisations on the liner notes from the concert this is taken from)
Rest in Paradise, Keith. I last saw your concert in Toronto, Aug 19, 1998, Molson Amphitheatre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada. You are missed!
Thanks for bringing back great memories, I remember this show preformed the same way during the the Emerson Lake and Powell show done at Great Woods MA. I think it was around 86 or 87.What an awesome show! What a huge loss. Keith , Greg and Cozy you are sorely missed. Rest in peace gentlemen.
Keith, Rick, the great Jon Lord & yes! The very athletic Steve Walsh! John Evan! Very great entertainers!
Shear brilliance. Saw Keith in the Nice, elp and the Keith Emerson band. Keith was a master of the Hammond organ. I doubt if we will ever see something like this again. On other keyboard players, I found a really good hammond player named Lachy Doley, he's mainly blues and rock oriented, but he's an exciting player and master of he's Hammond C3. Get a look at him.
R.I.P. Keith. My hero
One of the best concerts in my life that time in Brussels. thank you Keith! RIP
No other words than the best...RIP Keith
@Friendulum Saw Keith and Greg last night (4/22) in Phoenix, got to watch with Chris Squire from Yes, who agreed that Keith and Greg still have it. Great show, neat stage ideas, and freaking amazing solos! They did play Pebble, plus some Bartok, all the faves, even a couple of Nice and King Crimson tunes
The part he plays from the back of the organ isn't Bach. He does play much of the cadenza from the Fifth Brandenburg first movement from the front side.
He's dropping it to get the sound. Hammonds had a reverb unit, which used springs. Sound was sent down the spring, which gave it the reverb. As you can imagine, these were sensitive to vibration.
Dropping the organ induced that crashing sound you hear every time he does it.
i grew up listening to my mom & her dad both playing piano and organ ( so from then, to this day of course i luv classical music) but keith emerson kicks ass!
Omg, saw him do this live! Cried my eyes out...I was 15!
Me too 1971 I was 14😮
He was a real grandmaster! May he play in heaven again!
musica intramontabile grandissimi Keith Emerson & Rick Wakeman
i remember too ..KE was so tall and his hammond or synth looked so huge and clumsy...and what sound !!!! This Pict..was ..thnx Taf for reminding me
Well, I got to see this GROUP at the Fillmore East! The NICE!, they were unreal for there time! Thanx for posting! He destroyed the Hammond!
Keith Emerson plays Bach! I love this!
R.I.P. Keith Emerson... ❤
Saw Keith and Greg Lake last night in Phoenix, small setting, interesting stage setup, got to watch with Chris Squire from Yes, who agreed that they still have it! A couple of King Crimson and Nice tunes, plus a number of the faves, as well as experimental stuff. Outstanding show! Great solos, etc.
Gonna see Emerson and Lake TONIGHT in Colorado Springs. Can't wait.
a demented genius....he got sounds out of abusing his organ which I have never heard the like before or since...Those bowie knives were never put to better use...lol RIP Emo. Gone but you will never be forgotten
Exelente. Keith Emerson em plena forma. Power trio prog perfeito!
E.L.P Brasil
In Classical music playing something backwards is called "retrograde."
@jcracker It's not uncommon for people to hate those who are better than them and emerson was better than everyone in else in rock on keyboards.
Emerson is a great musician. The most daring in all his work must be the halfnotes he´s using. It almost creates something between minor and harmony.
What an absolute maniac!! Like Hendrix on the organ!!!
Keith Emerson ,most talent keyboard player.
More great musicians are passing on. David Bowie, Keith Emerson, Lemmy Kilminster, Ronnie Montrose, Daevid Allen, Edgar Froese, Pierre Boulez, Chris Squire, Pete Namlook...our era--classic progressive rock--is dying away.
@Friendulum , Hey thanks for that great info.....Keith is AMAAAAAAZING!!!
The greatest of all time none of the others were even close and yes I'm talking about Rick Wakeman who would probably be the first to admit it😮 I love you Keith my idol rip there will never be another one like you😊
Time to listen to an excellent music
I have The m100 series with the same features! and the reverb crashes like an thunder storm! driven through a stack it sounds amazing !
At 1:12 this is an excerpt from the harpsichord cadenza from the first movement of the 5th Brandenburg Concerto. I believe he has also pieced together a few Bach organ concerto excerpts to complete the theme. (its listed as Bach improvisations on the liner notes from the concert this is taken from)
(and he is playing the organ backwards)
R.I.P. Keith ;-(
To those who said he's playing a Farfisa. It's not. Hammond and Farfisa are two different companies. He's playing a Hammond L-100. The L series have the characteristic diving board tabs. If you watch videos from the Pictures at an Exhibition concert, You'll see he has a Hammond L-100 on one side and a Hammond C3 on the other.
RIP, sweetie.
Genius and Mad
A real showman from the rock era!!!
great just listend to keith emerson in garage with nice great record
I'm looking for the one where he chucked it into the audience first and the played Toccata upside down. What a geezer.
He is good indeed.Very good.
Nothin' but pure soul.
Oh, Keith...can he do anything wrong? Of course, he can't! This guy is AWESOME! He sure knows how to entertain, too.
He definitely played a section of Tocatta and Fugue in D min backwards on a Yamaha Electone in the 1988 Atlantic Records concert. There's a partial video up called 'Keith Emerson and Carl palmer - Rondo Live@NYC' that does not include the section that I remember clearly watching.
GENIUS!!!
simply the best
to JimmiPage- amidst several bachstyle inputs he clearly works on a short excerpt,from the
breathtaking 64 bars for harpsichord solo,
of the 5th Brandenburg Concerto.
Quello che ha fatto lui sulle tastiere è qualcosa di unico... irripetibile grande manchi ❤️
That's some belt!
@JaUhdeEsparta The excerpt of Bach is from the harpsichord solo from brandenburg concerto no. 5
@Friendulum Hey, I was there!! Man, when I saw the smoke blowing over that medieval looking backdrop I just knew they were gonna rock.
I love the reverb tank crashes. And that pitch bend stuff he's doing...that would be in this case actually varying the line voltage to the organ right? I always assumed on Genesis "Stagnation" (from Trespass) that the pitch bends in Tony Banks' solo were done w/tape varispeed - but this makes me wonder if Tony had a similar setup on his L122? That's not a standard feature is it? I never played an L series...
You nailed it!
divino!! el organista más grande del pop,
bachwards! ;-)
The Best!!
A Master!..
Only Keith...LOL. What skill.
It's a shame that neither ELP or the Nice are in the Rock and Roll hall of fame..
However that B3 is. After almost 40 yrs of being stabbed, rocked, flung, tipped up and dropped, played from the inside, been jumped over thousands of times, played backwards ( as well as this piece, I've seen him do Toccata and Fugue in D minor, and Flight of the Bumblebees.), and having KE crouch on top of it to play,
it caught fire on stage and died. Now it's in the Hall of Fame.
Emerson Keys, Greg Lake vocals bass some guitar, Steve Howe guitar, Carl Palmer drums
H.E.L.P.!
@@PepeLuguillo 😁🤣😁
rest in peace...
RIP Genio Keith!!!!
you are right
Damn.
god, when he started the 5th brandenburg cadenza, i couldn't believe what he was doing, astonishing
AMAZING !!!
I saw them perform this in Sheffield and he played it with daggers and threw them into the amps :)
If you've seen the clips where he pulls the organ right down onto himself as he lies on the stage and then pushes it back up, and you've ever tried to lift a Hammond, you'll know why you wouldn't want to arm-wrestle Keith Emerson.
Ha, and I thought Liberace was the showman! :)
taught me all I know about attitude to keyboard playing...
one of his cantata & prelude on organ solo
the master
This remindes me the Space Truckin live in Japan.
genial y grandioso, keith emerson,
This is good stuff but Not A Patch on the 'original' four piece with O'List! Live in a heaving 'Marquee Club' in '68 they were incendiary!
Are you serious? Brian Davidson was OK but compared to Carl Palmer? That is like comparing a Big Mac with Aberdeen Angus Fillet Steak. Then Lee Jackson....compared to the amazing Greg Lake, bass, acoustic and that voice?? Wake up and smell the 70s mate!
+Stewart Nicol as BILLY CONNOLLY I'm talking about The Nice as a collective unit not as individual musicians. Nobody would argue the odds that Jackson and Davidson were as good as Lake and Palmer. Why would they bother when there are people such as yourself who are always happy to oblige? The fact remains.....I saw the original four piece band several times 'Live' and believe me they were a force of nature! By the way I was also at The Isle Of Wight Festival in 1970 so I saw ELP's debut. It was some spectacle, cannons the whole nine yards! But that's all it was. The people that were most impressed by ELP, were I'm afraid.... ELP! Jackson and Davidson were more than good enough in the context of The Nice. They merely had to provide the pulse to the sound. O'List and Emerson did the rest. In my opinion they lost a whole dimension to their sound when O'List went! Incidentally, O'List was the guy Pink Floyd would go to if they needed a stand in for Syd.
Nutters! :o)
It's the same as the Live in Switzerland 1970 video only cut.
Emerson is definitley one of the greatest organists in rock music, but for me, my personal favorite is Jon Lord from Deep Purple. Lord can play and orchestrate classical music, but his sense of being able to keep up with Ritchie Blackmores sense of rock riffs as well as his blues influences makes him more of an interesting player to me. my opinion only.
Like an alien-not this but when he was a kid and fitted the Brandenburg Concerto into Country Pie in the Nice. Listen to it. That is beyond the pompous classically trained.
Keith was, at the time, the most naturally musical talent in a generation of keyboard stars including Lord, Wakeman, et al but he had what Mr Cowell would doubtless refer to as the "X-Factor"!! lol he was up for being a bit of a showman as well as a serious muso - after all "serious musos" play to other "serious musos" - Keith played to the audience - whoever they were! THAT is the difference between Artiste and FUCKIN' STAR!!!!!
One of the greatest keyboard players ever. The only one who comes close, in my opinion, is Rick Wakeman.
terrifaic stuff!!You can hear where Deep Purple may have got their idea for the live Space Truckín´Jam groove.
craizyness..