A Supergroup Debut: The Making of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970) - Documentary
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- The untold story behind a mythical record, a product of the late 60s british music scene that saw the birth of one of the most successful progressive rock bands in history. Emerson, Lake and Palmer's groundbreaking debut laid the foundations for their entire career, innovators of arrangements, their chemistry established them as fierce competitors of PROG. Their 1970 album was the perfect summary of their strengths, a decade of artistry was born. This is HOW they did it!
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Twenty years ago I worked at a late night cocktail bar in Hove, East Sussex. The manager was Aaron Emerson. His old Dad Keith would pop by every now and then and have a few beers. Couldn't believe I was having casual conversations over the bar with him.
Am amazing story
☘ Irish Honey Badger - 😇 ^ Hall of Fame ^ 😇
That's awesome Mark, to be there in front of the the Master himself. Aaron's love for music is admirable.
How is this story not way way longer.
Please tell me more , what did you all talk about.
Wow ! Enviable ! I’ve always been afraid to meet my heroes , watch their eyes glaze over as I gabble away, then I have a recurring shiver-twitch memory to haunt me in perpetuity.
I got to see ELP five times during the first half of the Seventies. Having attended countless rock concerts there is no doubt in my mind that NO ONE combined musical brilliance and amazing showmanship like Keith Emerson.
Wish i could have witnessed that but i've always thought that. Despite me being a guitar player, Keith was just above everyone else!
Nobody gives a Fripp about Emerson.
Best concert I ever saw took place on 11/14/71, when ELP made its Chicago debut at the Auditorium Theatre, a great venue for these events. Except that ELP showed up more than hour late for a reason(s) that wasn't made public. (It played in Philadelphia the previous night) The rather obscure back-up band played overtime and impressed the hell out of me. I asked the guy next me who it was more than once, and his answer was the same -- yes. I figured that he couldn't hear above the noise, then a bolt of lightning hit me -- the band was named Yes! ELP finally arrived around 9:30 and wasted no time to put on a crazy good show. It was darn near midnight when the gig ended, and none of us seemed to care. All I could think was that I had witnessed something special that I would never forget. And 53 years later, I still haven't . . .
No way you saw YES and ELP, that's incredible. I just noticed they also played Philly together as a double feature. You witnessed the greatest prog rock bands!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories Yes! No, I mean yes. A match made in Prog heaven. And they were the original bands, which made the night that much more amazing as I look back at it.
This may sound strange to some people, but I find their music and lyrics far more relatable to me than Yes
Because Yes’ lyrics are incoherent. Yes has been my favorite band for 40 years. I still love them, but I won’t pretend otherwise.
@@PrairieMidwester I think Greg Lake just writes better lyrics than Jon Andersen
It makes sense because Greg has a different pedigree to Jon and also, as an instrumentalist Lake certainly is more skilled to say the least. The secret weapon in Yes was of course Squire. Imagine ELP + Squire...the world wasn't ready for that! Thanks for watching!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories what made Yes so individualistic was Jon Anderson’s voice, it is like velvet.
No other vocalist comes close.
Chris Squire, Steve Howe, Rick Wakeman, & latterly Trevor Rabin, all excellent musicians.
But it was Anderson’s voice that made the difference.
Yes. Jon Anderson's distinctive vocal sound was a key contributor to the band's style. I really like Yes's first two albums because Jon actually sang a bit more instead of the format of Roundabout onwards.
Thanks for doing justice to a great Prog Rock band, true pioneers. ELP's first album remains my overall favourite, an absolute masterpiece.
Thank you for tuning in Sean. ELP was PUNK , proto punk, they broke grounds very few dared to! Long live their legacy.
The debut ELP album holds a special place in my memory and heart. Back in the late 70s, a radio station in Los Angeles would play full albums on Sunday nights. I heard that one at age 15 while walking home from a friend’s house; I never fell out of love w it. While so many bands of the 60s and 70s took their inspiration from American blues, ELP took their inspiration from European composers. Definitely on the “knife edge“ for that time. I think audiences were ready for an evolution. Thanks for the film. 😊
Yes, so true on ELP offering a different source of inspiration for a change. They contributed so much to modern music! Thanks for watching!
I saw ELP in both July 1977 and March 1978 and I was 15 and 16 years old! "The Greatest Show In Heaven, Hello Or Earth! ELP is the greatest progressive rock band of all time!
Wow, you witnessed not one but two shows....that's insane. Wish i could have seen these guys in their prime! Thank you for watching, stay tuned for more!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories Thanks! And still listening to the music of ELP in 2024 at age 62!
I’ve been listening to the Nice since the 80s. It’s great to see them get some love.
Yes, indeed. I asked the guy who does the "Pop Goes the 60s" channel if he would please do a deep dive on the Nice
Same here! Now i want ALL their albums. The Five Bridges specially...Thanks for watching!
You could say, they were lucky men.
Amazing ELP documentary. Its release was for us Yankees was in January 1971 and Lucky Man charted and pushed the album into the US Top 20.
The Return of the Manticore box set featured the whole album except for Three Fates and Take a Pebble which its live version was used instead
Lucky Man was the perfect single for the US market at the time. I can't enough of this song, captures so many emotions that comes with rock and roll. Thanks so much for watching!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories Your documentaries are amazing
That's some serious guitar playng in the opening segment.
Thanks Pedro! Honoring the memory of Keith and Greg. Hope you enjoyed the episode!
I prefer guitar stuff in Tarkus. lovely album
My favorite band--and I was lucky enough to see them twice in'74. That includes the Anaheim CA concert from which the live album came. Awesome.
Their peak as far as I’m concerned… I’m jealous. That album changed my life WBMFTSTNE !
Some of that triple live album came from the San Diego Sports Arena too. In the silence a fan yells "Get Crazy", that was SD Arena- I was there.
I was there in Anaheim as well ! My first concert and still one of my favorites 😊
Great video from the mammoth beginning of ELP! I learned a lot (as always!). So many tie-ins! Dam, you always get Santana in there, and I thought I knew everything that he did… But wow, you really did your homework! Another classic video documentary from JCM!
Gotta have the Santana and Zeppelin references right? Glad this episode expanded your ELP universe. I learned too, have a much better picture of the times and the band's impact. Imagine what Fripp thought in 1970....hehe.
Emerson's manic showmanship that combined his creative spirit and preternatural mastery of Classical repertoire, Rock and Jazz etc, was really something to see and hear at the time. Though pompously myopic, Rock magazine critic's brutally panned the band in print, millions of listener's readily embraced their free-wheeling approach to performance and composition. Though their last few albums were disappointing efforts at " changing with the times," on the whole, their creative output was at it's best, stunningly original.
Emerson i believe was a reincarnation of a classical composer who came back to open a new door for modern music. Critics were really $%#"%"# to treat him bad. Keith Emerson's contribution to ROCK, PROG, PUNK and Keyboards cannot be forgotten.
I agree entirely. I thought the "Works" releases should have been titled "Needs Works". Love Beach was quite droll. But for 4 short years, they were tops!
@@THE-HammerMan HA! " Needs Works:"
that's perfect! " Love Beach " was the equivalent of Beethoven following his 3rd Piano Concerto with " Love Shack."
I was very fortunate to see-Experience them, in 1974 on The Brain Salad Surgery Tour in Little Rock, Arkansas. They used a Quad Spund System and I stood as close to the Sound Mixer as I could, he was actually slightly Right of Center - for some Reason..? Possibly Keyboards Loudness issue...? Anyway, they were So ON FIRE that Night. If we'd only had the Digital Technology - Camera Phones... , etc. , That SHOW could have been a MASTERPIECE DVD!!!!
What a show to witness. That's MAGIC. Keith Emerson is one of the top 5 Rockstars EVER. If not ....the greatest? :)
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories And Keith had this Wood Plank and 'somehow', they put Felt Strips on the Top side and underneath they had Flares or Roman Candles, they were doing Toccato and Fugue in D Minor, there's this Point Where Keith would run his thumb up the Felt Pad which had cables going to his Synth, when he would hit the High Pitch Note, it would Trigger these Flares on the Bottom side of the Plank, and he would shoot them out over the audience, in RED and GREEN Colours. I think a significant percentage of the audience 'might' have been visiting " Strawberry Fields Forever ", because Everyone was like " OOO " " AHH " and turning their heads in Unison... , if Only they'd Filmed that Show!!!😉✌🖖
My older sister attended that show in LR. She was a senior in High School that year. Everybody in town that loved Rock music attended that show, and they have been talking about it for decades. The Quadrophonic sound system was utterly amazing. It was THE biggest Rock event ever to showcase in Barton Coliseum. Sadly, I was just too young to witness it.
@@aes00703 It was really spectacular!!
Loved it. The first ELP album is one of the finest rock albums ever. Its in my 5 favorite albums since I discovered it in 1972. Thanks to Lucky Man getting on the AM pop radio charts here.
☘ Irish Honey Badger - 😇 ^ Hall of Fame ^ 😇
Best album they released. Nothing like it out there by anyone. Truly unique and amazing. Prog at its finest.
After setting the Prog bar high on this debut classic, ELP absolutely deserved a day at the beach. 🌁
Hahah good one. Love Beach is not that bad. It deserves more... Love!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories Love Beach is the actual name of the beach. Another title may have better served.
Canario is an awesome track
the only thing wrong with that record was the album cover lol..ELP caught a lot of shit they didn`t deserve basically because they were good and could play
JCM,
That is a fantastic guitar performance & impression of Take A Pebble at the beginning of this video.
Very well done - beautiful.
Thank you very much for noticing. Took my time for this theme song, i love this band Howard!
I saw ELP live in November of 1971 at the University of Georgia. Opening band was Curved Air. Tickets were two dollars! Take that, Ticketmaster!
Wow...what a SHOW to witness. Amazing. Thanks for watching!
This is the best documentary on elp I've seen so far. I recommend Keith's autobiography, pictures of an exhibitionist.
Thanks for watching! Will look that bio up, i admire Keith SO Much, his death was devastating to me.
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories I highly recommend reading Keith and Greg's books side by side, so you can see how they describe the same time-frame and events.
@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories his death devastated me and my dad. March 11th 2016 was my dad's 56th birthday, and keith shot himself that day, my dad died the same year December 11th from complications of alcoholism. And Greg died like 3 days before that. I was 20 that year. Hard year
@@LoyalOpposition oh, that's cool, I'll check out Greg's book
@@SoundSymphonyBand You have my deepest sympathy.
Losing your dad, Keith, and Greg all in 9 months is a very hard blow to take 😭😭
Thank you very much for a wonderful rockumentary; great psychedelics with great music and superbly put together. Looking forward to more of your valuable work xx🎵👍❤️
My pleasure. Thank YOU for watching! I will definitely do another ELP episode soon!
An amazing band. They should be in the hall of fame. Just got the 2 box sets with all of their studio snd live albums. Great stuff.
Hope they don't make it to the hall of shame, that just makes their Legend status grow!
Nice presentation, learned some new things, thanks, I saw Atomic Rooster, ELP and King Cimson all during or before 1973.
Glad you enjoyed it Bob. You saw all three bands, now let me say, I SALUTE YOU!
BSS is their best album. Imaginative, exciting, textured and adventurous.
Excellent documentary. Very well done and enjoyable to watch.
Glad you enjoyed it! If you're new to the channel, Welcome and Thank you very much for watching!
Lucky to see them in Phoenix in 76!
Incredible! Palmer was spectacular!!!!
Very underrated band!
Great documentary as usual 🎉🎉🎉
Thank You!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! You saw the mighty ELP? That's awesome. Palmer is RELENTLESS. to this day really.
You are mistaken on the year. ELP toured extensively in 1974, but did not return to the road until the ‘Works’ album in 1977.
@@2amarok
Yes, you are correct! It was 74!!!
Thank You!
a great compliment for the research done for this video - this is a great standard - video editing is very good too - what a nice piece of work - thank you very much
Much appreciated! Thank YOU for watching! More deep dives coming up!
First ELP I ever heard was on KLOS Los Angeles in 1971. A friend and I just graduated high school.and we were going to celebrate by hiking from Yosemite Valley to June Lake Loop. The song that gripped me immediately, out of the blue, was “Stones of Years”. I’d Never heard anything so bewitching, And I had to let it haunt me for a week while in the backcountry.
I know your main preference is Led Zep, but your ELP videos are great , please keep up the good work !
I love ELP, they have the "Zepp" attitude i believe, that of being Rebels, Innovators and just...making the world a better musical place !
I saw them back in the 70's at the Swing auditorium, what a incredible show! JCM, thanks for all of your hard work!
What a Show you witnessed, the band at the height of their power. Insanely talented musicians. Thanks for watching!
I saw them there also in 1977, after the orchestra was disbanded.
I too found a cassette copy of Brain Salad Surgery that someone had dropped around 1974 and followed them ever since. Wonderful and otherworldly is all I can say. For a 3 piece band they created music that will last forever. A gift from the Gods!!!
What a tape to find right? I hear you, they were one of the FINEST rock bands EVER! Thanks for watching!
I found Tarkus LP on a dewy grass patch while cycling on my newspaper route!!…. I had never heard of ELP back then. Huge fan ever since !!
Take A Pebble transformed my life as a budding keyboardist, aged 14. It exploded my head, along with the Hammond in Knife Edge and the Barbarian. Emerson remains my favorite to this day. Excellent retrospective here by JCM. I learned more about the inner workings and genesis of ELP in this video than I had acquired over five decades. Well done, JCM. I subscribed.
Honored to read your comment Rick. All this a labor of admiration for these geniuses who changed the face of modern music. Keith Emerson's legacy lives! Thanks for watching!
My second ever concert. Winter of 1971 at the Academy of Music in NYC (14th & 3rd). I knew NONE of their music. Zero. A hit of Orange sunshine and a couple of doobs before hand and I was in for the ride of my life. ELP1, Tarkus and Pictures. Let me tell you I walked out of that venue with jaw agape. (Warm up band was Wild Turkey starring Glenn Cornick previously of Jethro Tull...also was great).
From Ars Long Vita Brevis and In the Wake of Poseidon to ELP’s debut. Remarkable progress in one year.
Yes, that's a monumental stat right there. I love those early works. Thanks for watching!
Greg Lake has seemed overlooked to me. Bass and guitar player was always more than adequate and singing superb.
He was an incredible musician at all these things yes. His guitar work for me is SCARY good.
Thanks for this wonderful video. I loved the debut ELP record and wore it out on vinyl when I was younger. My Dad used to listen to a lot of classical music and jazz when I was coming up. So when I heard this music combined with rock I totally got it. I was fortunate enough to see ELP in the early days when they came to Baltimore, Md. Later, when I would described the concert to friends about the levitated spinning piano and spinning drums on stage, they would say that I was sprinkled with to much hippie dust to believe me. Jackass's, some people just don't know what good is.
Dave Brubeck was my gateway to jazz.
A genius he was, great portal into jazz indeed. Thanks for watching!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories he was also touring a multi-ethnic band which puts him in the vanguard of the righteous.
I saw the band at the Paramount Theater, Seattle in 1970. I was also lucky enough to have been at a King Crimson gig in at the Marquee Club in London,1969, Greg Lake on bass and vocals. I was 15 years old at the time.
Wow you saw Crimson at the Marquee.....That's INCREDIBLE. You witnessed rock history, of the highest caliber! Thanks for watching!
Very impressive research. Many things i did not Know. Thanks
Glad you enjoyed this one Luis! Thanks for watching!
Like you, JCM, I have an uncle who had all of the ELP albums and I heard them all back in the 70s. I am particularly fond of "Trilogy". I really really like the video on YT of "Promenade/The Gnome". from "Pictures At An Exhibition ". This is a treat to watch the making of their first album. I don't believe there is another doc of it.
Trilogy was my entry to ELP in 1988. I was hooked!
Annette hope you are doing well! I agree with you 100%, the video for Pictures ROCKS. I am looking forward to making more of these! Wish you a great week!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories have a great weekend!
What a wonderful historical work you've put together here. Wonderfully researched and told, I learned so much about my favorite band of all time!
Many thanks! ELP is a band close to my heart! What a debut album...they never really topped that in some ways.
Thank you for this. Though Zeppelin is my all-time favorite band, Prog Rock is my favorite genre of music. Your videos continue to give me both!
Glad you like them! More stuff coming up!
Easily one of the best debut albums of all time right up there with the doors, Led Zeppelin, and a few others I can’t remember… the quality of the music ,the sophistication and complexity of the songs are just incredible. That these three young guys could create that much great music continues to impress me every time I hear it.
Absoutely. The Doors debut is tremendous. Thanks for watching James!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories bien sur
Cant describe in words how awesome ELP are!
Their early era sound, was like Hendrix on Keys, Hendrix on bass and Hendrix on Drums!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories Great description! I agree we will never see anything like them again!
🔥🔥❤️ BRILLIANT!!! Thank you JCM for starting a new fire in me for a band I already felt like I knew ! Your research and detail are awesome. I now see ELP on a totally different level. Can’t wait for more from the mind of JCM!!!
Fantastic stuff Gary! Glad a new fire has begun. I LOVE ELP, always had, it's one of them Prog bands that really were above the genre...magicians. And well, they are the reason Rush was not that impressive for me, i've always tried to get into them past Geddy's voice, but don't tell anyone haha.
Very nice, I saw ELP 3 times in the '70's ... totally mind blowing! It's a pity that so many of the videos have been ruined with the false colour effects though!
They haven't been ruined but presented in a different light, in the same way you remember the past, it has colors :) Thank you very much for watching!
21:15 that album is a highlight for including a cover of Dylan's Country Pie from his heavily underrated Nashville Skyline LP, amazing video man, i learned quite a lot from their beginnings keep it going !!
Now i wanna get every album by The Nice after working on this one. Their Five Bridges suite, man i just love it. Thanks for watching!
Good documentary well done. Some new footage I haven’t seen before 👍🏻
Thank you very much for watching!
Carl palmer was better than neil peart.
I support this comment. Don't tell anyone!
Both were great, but Carl hasn’t yet gotten his due… I somewhat agree though.
IMHO Palmer was great through 1970-77. He was an innovator of percussion and did things no one else did in times with great drummers and bands. I loved his work with Asia as well, but then I feel he stucked in the same thing. From halfway the 90s on to me he declined, lacked creativity; he's been doing the same thing for more than 20 years now.
Carl Palmer was #1 during those years; but he was overcame by a fantastic drummer like Neil Peart (and I am not that big Rush fan). Peart not only was a bigger and better drummer, but he was also very creative and one of the most prolific lyricist. You don't find many drummers who write lyrics, and Neil did .
Just my thoughts.
I talked to Peart in '80 or '81. He mentioned Bill Bruford, Carl Palmer, Stewart Copeland (who he was into at the time) and Barrie Barlow from Jethro Tull and some other British drummers. Oh, we talked about the "Buddy Rich tapes"
But I think that was in a later conversation.
In my youth CP was always talked about as o e of the greats but his name dropped off by the late 70s. All I hear these days is Bonham and Peart.
Wow!
Wow! Wow! Wow!
My second lovely group after LZ. Waiting very (no, VERY) much!!
Enjoy the Music Voyage! ELP fan for life!
A revolutionary album. The only thing I can't get into is the straight-ahead jazz trio bit... it seems out of place somehow. Awesome review!
Depends on how you hear it, the technique alone is worth hearing or watching. I think watching it is better. Thank you very much for watching!
I saw ELP when they were touring the Tarkus album, and, wow...I count myself very, very lucky. For sheer technical virtuosity combined with rock 'n' roll abandon, they held the championship until Yes came along. But of course that band had more members. Amazing what 3 highly talented and fully committed people can do.
There were giants in the earth in those days. Sorry, yutes, there is nothing produced today that is even remotely comparable, NOTHING.
ELP epitomized everything that was good and bad about Progressive Rock from the early 70's: virtuosic playing, compositional sophistication, jazz and classical leanings wedded to bombastic pomp, bare chested gravitas and Cecil B DeMille panto theatrics. I've always loved them because they were never what they were most often accused of being i.e. pretentious as they never actually took themselves too seriously.
Saw ELP at Rich Stadium in Buffalo in 1975. Great show!
Fun Fact the LP and Single version of I Believe in Father Christmas differ. One has the orchestra
Excelente video! Hay mucho qué decir sobre éste primer disco de Emerson, Lake & Palmer que dista de sólo 8 años del Love Beach pero pareciera que hubieran pasado mil años! Y ciertamente ése primer disco de ellos fue el mejor, asi como el primero de King Crimson, aunque allí si difiero contigo ya que para mi la formación de 1972 a 1974 de Bruford, Cross, Fripp y Wetton fue tan buena como la primera (Soy gran fan de John Wetton) Pero bueno... Y en cuánto a ésa suite francesa de Bach a mi me la mandaron a estudiar en el conservatorio de música, no la conocía, y apenas empiezo a estudiarlas me dije "Ésto es de Emerson, Lake & Palmer!" 😂😂😂
Christian ciertamente la formación 1972-1974 es musicalmente superior (jamás diría lo contrario), lo que esa primera alineación tiene es una mística muy particular y es quizás lo que me ha cautivado todos estos años. Como sabes soy instrumentista sin embargo, como "album" siento que esa etapa de Bruford/Wetton/Cross, se proyecta mucho mejor en vivo. Pienso que Fripp se desilusionó del formato de hacer discos cuando se fue LAKE y cómo culparlo no? Que buen dato el de Bach, estudiaste la pieza con más ganas porque eso era de ELP hahahah genial, me puedo imaginar la reacción!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories Es que creo que a Fripp siempre le gustó más la improvisaión, como los políticos latinoamericanos 🤣🤣 Emerson volvió a usar a Bach en la canción "Hymn" del disco Tarkus, pero no me acuerdo cuál pieza de Bach es...
When did Emerson play with Santana? I cant find anything on it online.
Check out this 1970 program, they do Soul Sacrifice! ua-cam.com/video/4OwRd0beqFs/v-deo.htmlsi=dfVcvn8oAbEOOA4L
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Storiesthank you!
Amazing. Thankyou. Yes they really did set the bar high for themselves. But tarkus and BSS are the 💣 🔥
Absolutely. Tarkus is their greatest piece i believe. Monumental.
Tarkus RULES!!!! What a wonderful work of art both musically and gatefold!
ELPs lyrics were better because Lake performed Word Salad Surgery on them.
JCM: Your research and work displayed in this documentary is second to none. It's presented delightfully. Thank you for this extraordinary piece.
The synth was actually owned by Mike Vickers from Manfred Mann.
I appreciate that you mentioned connecting aspects not only to King Crimson but Led Zeppelin also. Mentioning other bands with success that year although their music was not similar (i.e. Yusuf/Cat Stevens, Bread, etc.) was a classy touch.
I tend to like a wide swath of artists and genres, and back in the late 60’s/early 70’s, it was possible to have what I refer to as “personal musical crossover”.
And part of the reason (spoiler alert!) why I still like ELP is because they did a number of different styles, and did them all well.
Keep up the good work!
Just started the episode....
God bless you for such great content!!!
Everyone, please share with your old school music fans so the channel can grow further.
My favorite ELP is Trilogy 😊
Hey Dan! Thanks for watching! Editing this one was quite the history lesson and i couldn't help to think in parallel to Zepp 1. Trilogy has a wide variety of textures, i can see why you love it!
@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories I can remember in 1988 listening to Trilogy for the first time and The Endless Enigma part I comes on and.... I was like, what the heck is going on here?... I love it.
@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories it's intriguing how many guitarists love this album.
For it's not a guitar album.
I believe it's down to Keith's guitarist mind sorta speak and Lake"s incredible bass lines those of Bach counterpoint level. This takes the listener for a ride. Let me tell you one of my dreams is playing ELP tunes ON BASS with a band!
@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories elp really click but are odd at the same time. It makes sense.
It is a CRIME that ELP are not in the rock and roll hall of fame.
Common Sense & Logic called... they are offended beyond belief that Emerson, Lake, & Palmer are not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. It's an affront to all genera of music, unlikely to be remedied given many of the Inductee's in recent years. What a shame...
Impressive report! 👍
Glad you enjoyed it
have you read Gospel of Jesus Christ with the hope of joining keith and greg in Heaven and hopefully not in the near future carl. a life long fan of elp since 1970
Excellent job as always, JCM! About a month ago, I discussed the early days of ELP in two programs on my new channel as well. Between the two of us, I think we covered most of this history, with very little overlap.
Part 1: ua-cam.com/video/SaC8mnS4fXg/v-deo.html
Part 2: ua-cam.com/video/qgeryqIlRG4/v-deo.html
Great stuff man i will check them out! Thank you very much for watching!
This album never gets as much mention as it should as one of the top albums of the classic rock era, maybe because ELP were considered "prog" as opposed to just being a classic rock band. Personally, I never could get into the albums after this first ELP opus. They were good, yes, but much of the music was way out there, with tons of keyboard riffing and noodling, whereas the pieces on this LP are more concise and more simply constructed. The later stuff was hard to follow in many respects, aside from their hits. But this album was very accessible to a non-prog rock fan (like myself). And the music on this album is perfect. It's a prime example of where avante-garde / neo-classical / jazz tinged rock was heading at the time. And the use of the Moog Synthesizer is some of the best on any record..... Genius. Can't say which track is my favorite. Probably Tank.
I 100% understand what you felt and say here. The first LP is the summary of their powers. While i love Brain Salad, yes and it's my favorite, their debut is so MATURE and well executed, it's quite HARD to follow. I think Tarkus the 20min piece is their closest attempt at this. I don't really like Works vol 1. nor 2....Thanks for watching!
Amazing!
Thank you very much for watching!
ELP said it all on Tarkus, brilliant album. ... I saw them live in Toronto do that album but by BSS I'd had enough.
Tarkus is their greatest composition , hands down. Do you think BSS was too much?
Zeppelin thieved from old blues artists and ELP thieved from old classical artists. Both thieving gits! Kidding :) I was an ELP freak in the 70's. I still listen to them. Thank you JCM for another great docu. More ELP vids! Brilliant!
Creative borrowing is more like it haha. The comparisons to Zepp are all around ELP! Gotta love them prog giants right? Thanks for watching!
Just had a thought..ELP was the Prog version of Cream. RIP Old PC.
Hey Mike! I can definitely see the comparison although their attitude on stage was more like Zepp!
If I were a concert promoter in 1968-69, I think I would have paired the Nice with the Vanilla Fudge on the road. That would have made for an interesting show. I understand Mark Stein later became friends with Keith Emerson. I'm not surprised, They both have a lot in common
That's a great idea, both bands were rocking in similar ways , conceptually i mean. A crossover there would have been ....NICE (pun super intended).
Strangely enough, I bought this album on vinyl, 2nd hand, a few days ago. I only have this and " Brain salad surgery".
I hear you. Glad you purchased it, its So good. The other one i have is Pictures which is probably my third favorite. Will do a Doc on this album :) Thanks for watching!
I saw them three time in Toronto during the seventies, amazing shows all of them, even the one when seat was behind a piller 😆. I learned to appreciate the masters through them, and of course, The Nice.
I think many rock fans fail to comprehend the epic proportions of their shows right? They were truly a power trio like no other. Glad you witnessed their magic, wish i could go back in time! Thanks for watching!
Is it just me or are they hard to tell apart in their early years because of the similar haircuts
Emerson lake and palmer is 1 of the greatest super groups ever had brain salad surgery on LP What a great album that was
Thank you very much for watching!
I WANT ELP BACK!
Ooooooo looking forward to this one 😊
This was extremely well done! Like you, I became a hardcore fan after BSS was released, and I've been with them ever since. I have never seen such a combination of musicianship AND showmanship in all my years as a Rock music fan!!!
Another Great Episode-Thanx Jose !!!
Glad you enjoyed it Ian! I love ELP!
Another great video with painstaking research!
The pain is worth with coffee :) Thanks for watching!
Love Beach sold more than any previous ELP recording?! Wow.
Can you believe it? Despite the hate it paid for those expensive Atlantic Record exec lunches hehe.
Great job, JCM, thank you.
Thanks for watching Francisco!
ELP is one of my Top FIve bands (along with Elton, Zep, Yes and The Floyd) of all time. I've always thought that Trilogy is one of the most underrated albums ever, and the live Welcome Back... was pure triple-disc classic prog heaven! Triumvitrat had a great run of ELP styled albums ('74-'77 or so) - they were excellent, not just copycats.
It has underrated moments yes! Thing is Trilogy never found it's niche, because it lives in between two very popular albums. Trilogy has one problem i believe, the song selection. And i say this as a huge ELP fan. What do you think?
ELP probably the most incredible Prog band EVER that have recorded 6 masterpieces : ELP...Trilogy....Tarkus....Picture at an exhibition ...Brian Salad Surgery and Works.
A flawless run indeed! Thanks for watching!
Fantastic tribute!
What a shame you ruined this documentary with completely unnecessary video effects. I turned off after 5 minutes...
I like colors! Thanks for watching!
My older brother got to see them in 74 at the first California Jam show I went to the second show 4 years later but with a bigger line up including Bob Welch Dave Mason Santana Heart Ted Nugent Foreigner Aerosmith and Mohogany Rush. You can watch them both here on UA-cam
You went to Cal Jam 78', so cool, there's little info on that festival, while there's footage, it doesn't get praised as 74 and it SHOULD. Thanks for watching!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories my first ever rock show we ditched school and hitched a ride and with no money or a ticket I talked my way in had a great time 😀
Great video! From a fellow Led Zeppelin fan, your channel is really good! 👍🏾 😊
Glad it feels this way! Lots of coffee and effort go into these :) Thank you very much for watching!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories ❤️ you do a good job! As a content creator, it's very challenging! Hehe 😅
Good luck 🤞🏾 👍🏾
La menta europea per la musica e il top😊❤
ELP 👍
Gruppo spazziale❤😊
Curious to know where you got the live Palmer drum solo segment with Atomic Rooster ? Thanks
It was a strange bootleg given to me by old school prog rock collectors who travelled a lot and actually met these guys. I can't get enough of Carl's frantic soloing.
Wow ,not aware of any live boots of that era , any chance of you posting his solo ? Thanks
Great look at this band and it’s genesis and the debut album! Luck enough to see them in 1992
The Black Moon tour rocks man!
@@JCM-LedZeppelin-Stories incredible set list! I didn’t remember all that much so I checked set list fm lol
Could be
WHY? The video color effects throughout brought back sad memories of the horror-show that was the ELP concert film "Rock and Roll Your Eyes." A perfectly good early show that was completely ruined... destroyed by terrible colour comic book video effects. The director, I think his name was Ferguson was trying to be Kubrick on a budget. It was like taking bad acid and doing a psychedelic four-colour Mona Lisa neon paint by numbers kit with the numbers mixed up.
Roll your Eyes Indeed! Remember reading it was re-released as "Pictures at an Exhibition"? on DVD.
Somewhere in storage I have a stack of folded one-sheet posters in different colours from that film. Shown as a midnight movie in the mid-70s...
Palmer doing Gershatzer with AR.
Excellent documentary
Thank you very much for watching!
Their debut album is still my favorite of all.
It's so powerful right? Concise and spare no expense in the virtuoso side of things, much range, much textures.