Elton John - Where to Now St.Peter (live Rainbow Theatre 77)
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Elton John - Where to Now St.Peter
Live at the Rainbow Theatre in London 1977
This is a link to Where To Now St.Peter Live in MSG for his 60th birthday!
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Thank you for this. It has always been amongst my very favorite of all his stuff. I never understood why it remained so"hidden". Always beautifully performed live however the "creative spirit" is moving is moving through him that particular night. I could listen to it over and over and yet come away in a different mood each time. .. serious,deep thought,mindful,melancholy,sad,sense of urgency. ... Very underrated song.
This is a song where the lyrics fit perfectly to the music; you can almost see the "blue canoe floating like a leaf"; in the top five of my favorte songs.
For the record... circa 1970? Elton was playing at the Baltimore civic center when a young lady approached the stage to take a photo, when a cop knocked her down!! Elton witnessed this and stopped mid song and shouted, "I want all you fucking pigs outta here and Im not playing till your all out of here"!!! 20 minutes later Elton came back out and waved people up on the stage and finished the concert that way!! PEACE!!!
This was a popular song back in the 70's where i come from :)
This is _brilliant._ Beautiful and transporting, and a great live version of this song. Puts a whole different spin on it, very atmospheric.
I agree with linzie78, this is--for what reason I have no idea--a very underrated Elton song, considering how seldom it gets played on the radio (in my neck of the woods, anyway). This is my very favorite Elton John song.
Where to now St Peter - amazing Elton song. Definitley in the top 3 ( for me anyway :D )
happy holidays to you too Janie!
search on google for streaming audio ripper, you ll find plenty of programs!
to be honest i have all his official records on mp3, thanks to the shuffle function in winamp:P thats what you get with 15000 mp3's hehe. But then i found this bootleg and i fell in love with it! And i have never heard anybody some song like this...
There are Elton and Bernie. And then there are people who'd give their left hand to be Elton and Bernie. My fav "Elton song you never hear on the radio". Excellent live version when his voice was still simply kick-ass.
So beautiful.
Most beautiful version of this in my opinion. It is just perfection. I have always adored this song.
valerie kuhn Iam old and this song and others from him in the 70 were great and my son who is 43 sent me this for my B Day and I loved every minute of it
thanks!
5/13/2015 38 years ago today. love it,
Elton at his best.
This song is a metaphor about Ambrosius Aurelianus, a war leader in the 5th century of Romano-British origin. He is also the figure on which Gildas based Merlin. This song brilliantly represents a soldier shot in battle and passing to the other side. "young gun". Can't believe it doesn't get more play.
@alreltney -though from 1970-1977 Elton and Bernie produced an amazing amount of great music, you can't expect any artist to sustain that output forever. And that should not take away from the fact that Elton is still a great performer, a great singer, a brilliant pianist, and performs over 100 concerts a year.
I agree with what's said above 100%. Has been my fav EJ song since I discovered it way back when. Tumbleweed is awesome but then again Yellow Brick Road is too. Than You for posting this as I'd never heard Elton do it live before. I'll check out the 60th but this will be hard to beat ! Whatever is giving the piano that rinky effect is wonderful - anyone know ?
dirty was the day break,
sudden was the change,
is such a silent place as this,
beyond the rifle range,
I have no idea what these lyrics mean but you can just feel how great they are.
Sing them when you're walking down the road and they really bring the spirit alive.
Sod ipods and all this other stuff were plugged into, let's just sing melodies and lyrics like EJ's nand Bernie's to ourselves and we can experience no greater soundtrack to our lives.
great song, still, captain fantastic was my fave album
@alreltney yeah..but we can stil lenjoy this piece of art.
its brilliant.....the performance was still there...all through 1984.
86 it was gone.... and why are we talking abotu this...he is a Music
God. Despite...his REAL TIME IN....TUNE WITH THE UNIVERSE
Mullah. I think Elton was at his best in '73; the double album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Other more than decent stuff followed...but EJ was untouchable from 1970 to 1973. Untouchable. Cheers.
on the internet...or just rip it from the video..:)
i got no idea what you just said but i think its good:)!
Steffen - thanks for posting this great tune. I've just posted mine own cover of this and would welcome comments....
David
I love this version (And every version of his songs) without the band. I've always loved the beginning, and thought that the band ruins it when they come in. He should play this one now, except he can't hit the one falsetto on "bluuuue"
Tumbleweed was Elton's zenith, IMHO; he always came close afterwards, but never really hit these heights...
I agree..."Chateau" came in a somehwat distant 2nd, for me...
Some one please post how to play this song on pianny!
I'm thinking (hopefully 2 yrs of HS Spanish and two classes in college pay off ^_^) that it is "His voice is incomparable"...I think...lol
A bit late, but i had a good holiday. Im from the netherlands. What kind of band are you in???
haha, your welcome, keep on looking on my channel, cause i plan to bring you some more new stuff! The Dick James Demo's Volume 1!!!
Cheers
@alreltney he has Shown flashes on the OLD Elton sine Blue Moves...but YES--not oen complete LP since Blye moves has been about His SOUL. YES--you are right, anger, bitterness, Hollywood (lion songs) , broadway, show tunes. nothing eathereal or straight out ROCK (Crocodile Rock etc). But you short change song great songs cutting him at BLUE. Ex: the North, Cry to Heaven, Empty Garden!!
how do you rip it from the video??
@hethquilord hELLO. yes..a 2 year old comment.
At tyhis exact moment in my empty life
tyhis is where I stop at 3:20 AM on a Saturday night.
I should be out ducking some tart
I cant
Life is what it is.
And Where to Now..YOU are right-
Nothing sounded like this then or now.
no match
at least as an artist
are there other worthy
markers
of a man
david
I took myself a blue canoe
And I floated like a leaf
Dazzling, dancing
Half enchanted
In my Merlin sleep
Crazy was the feeling
Restless were my eyes
Insane they took the paddles
My arms they paralysed
So where to now St. Peter
If it's true I'm in your hands
I may not be a Christian
But I've done all one man can
I understand I'm on the road
Where all that was is gone
So where to now St. Peter
Show me which road I'm on
Which road I'm on
It took a sweet young foreign gun
This lazy life is short
Something for nothing always ending
With a bad report
Dirty was the daybreak
Sudden was the change
In such a silent place as this
Beyond the rifle range
So where to now St. Peter
If it's true I'm in your hands
I may not be a Christian
But I've done all one man can
I understand I'm on the road
Where all that was is gone
So where to now St. Peter
Show me which road I'm on
Which road I'm on
I took myself a blue canoe
tiny dancer
I agree with what's said above 100%. Has been my fav EJ song since I discovered it way back when. Tumbleweed is awesome but then again Yellow Brick Road is too. Than You for posting this as I'd never heard Elton do it live before. I'll check out the 60th but this will be hard to beat ! Whatever is giving the piano that rinky effect is wonderful - anyone know ?