Emerson, Lake & Palmer- Pictures at an Exhibition (SIDE 1)(REACTION//DISCUSSION)
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This album was my gateway to classical music.
You are not alone!
same here
We might believe that EL&P intended that.
This album and the albums of Isao Tomita gave me an appreciation of classical music. Even Emerson's early work with The Nice intrigued me, from "Intermezzo from the Karelia Suite" to "Brandenburger." It might be a good idea for Justin to check out The Nice's "Ars Longa Vita Brevis," which sounds very much like a fledgling ELP.
czcams.com/video/LpkaBkp0dBs/video.html London Symphony version...It's great to love classical and prog just as much...I've spent half a century listening and it's a VERY DEEP WELL!...:)
On Side 2, Carl Palmer plays essentially non-stop for 10-12 minutes. The man had some serious stamina. And 50 years later, as the only surviving member, he still looks fantastic.
Emerson was the world's best keyboardist and remains even though he passed away in March 2016!!
I saw them in the 70's. I was a HUGE ELP fan then and they were fantastic. I regret that I was in my teens and, even though I loved them, I didn't have the maturity and world experiences to appreciate them enough. I'm in my 60's now and have never tired of their music and I think I actually like it more now bc of my growth over time.
As many 100s of times I’ve heard this, it just gets better and better, and the part with Lake on guitar still gives me goosebumps!
I’m also part of the hundreds of times club goosebumps included!!!
Yes "The Sage" (picture)
Immortal!
I was eleven years old when I first hear ELP in 1970 and I was hooked for life in less than five minutes, to this day I believe they are the greatest band ever.
This is a really exciting version of Mussorgsky’s piece. Of course it takes enormous liberties with the material but the violence and dark power is really brought out in a way even the superb Ravel orchestration can’t touch. I urge you to listen to the originals. Promenade is pretty much exactly the notes on the page and works nicely on organ (though adding lyrics and Lake’s voice later is a lovely touch.) Gnome is closer to the original than you might first expect - the faster tempo and use of electric instruments works really well. The Sage is pure Lake. Possibly one of his finest pieces and performances he manages to put his case as a major writer of King Crimsons first album very convincingly! The old castle is less easy to recognise - it starts in the same key (G# minor) and uses the same compound rhythm but then Emerson weaves his magic, takes the slow mournful melody and turns it into the head of a blazing 12-bar organ extravaganza. It was a shame they couldn’t have tackled more of the movements from the original but you still have side 2 to enjoy! ELP at their very best.
Great commentary!
You know, come to think of it I don't think I've ever heard the original piano version.
For me, 'The Old Castle' has always been a hugely entertaining morph from Mussorgsky's piano score lament to Emerson's phrenetic Moog invention.
First gig I ever went to. 1970 ELP at Newcastle City Hall. First track was Barbarian (awesome). Then they played Pictures starting off with Emerson on the Hall Pipe Organ and then running down the wooden steps to his best Hammond which promptly died on stage. So they went into Take A Pebble instead.
Then an unscheduled interval.
After half an hour trying to fix the organ, , the roadies gave up and it was down to the cheaper organ for the rest of the show. Then they did Pictures in full.
ELP were the first band to take the moog synthesiser on tour and it was amazing to hear it live for the first time. A gig I will never forget.
More: Regarding the synth solo in The Sage. Emerson would jump off the stage and run into the audience with the synth stick. Very visual.
The album's recording is dated in March 1971 at Newcastle, so you might have been off a year. Hard to believe it was 50 years ago. Great story.
Thats absolutely incredible Steve, thank you for sharing that
I never said I was at THAT gig. I would have got tickets for it but there was a postal strike. No. I was at the November 1970 gig the previous year.
@@steveconnor746 oh I know, but thats still incredible to be able see them live 😁😁
Epic album. Carl Palmer needs to be talked about more when discussing great drummers.
Totally agreed
You will enjoy the album Carl did with Mike Oldfield- Five Miles Out in 1982
on Carl Palmers latest solo tour , this was the center of attention , he played small places
Palmer is like the perfect fusion of a machine and a BEAST. Some guys are beasts on the drums - John Bonham, Keith Moon, while others are machines (Bill Buford, Peart?). Palmer is completely both.
So true!
Actually their first work! No wonder they were catapulted into world recognition overnight after Isle of Wight Festival.
Emerson at his manic best, Lake croons beautifully but...The Drumming! He had more stamina than a factory full of Duracell bunnies! Still unbelievable after half a Century 👍 oh and ‘ferocious playing’? Just wait till Side 2!!!!
Carl Palmer is still an animal on drums in his 70s! Amazing.
You asked for our emotional reactions as teens seeing them live. I saw them before they broke Japan. In Scotland, in an old venue building. Had seen them briefly on tv and possibly a bit of their first Lp. The Beatles were going, guitars were coming back but I think we were a bit bored. Some of us looking for something cerebral? Sometimes the lights would go out it was the early 70’s . Strikes. We wanted light and some hope. My experience was disbelief, amazement, extreme emotion, fun, they made me believe stuff was possible . 3 young guys with talent and nerve. I was stuck to the spot even after the lights had gone up and most folks had gone. I knew I’d witnessed something important. I felt hope and I wanted more.
You should have waaaay more subscribers! You don’t interrupt the music, and your insights are incisive and impactful.
Appreciate that Joel!
I very much agree. No interruptions is key. And I do enjoy JP’s thoughts and his spontaneous chats
Totally agree!
it's why we love JP
The best!
This was recorded as Newcastle City Hall UK
Promenade Emerson played on the NCH Organ !!
and then he switched to his hammond (later to be destroyed !!) and moog
I think the drum & bass intro to The Gnome was planned to give Keith time to get back down from the organ console.
You can hear Greg shouting out at the beginning to Carl and Keith! I saw him do that live. He was not the typical shy balladeer! He actually emailed me in the 90’s he had a page on the new web a section called ‘were you here?’ Asking fans what gigs they attended. I answered him and he said yes I remember all the gigs and I remember that one’ Keith had jumped off the stage and him and Carl had to fill in til he returned… He was very chatty and emailed me again. So lovely and kind. Very loveable. What an angelic voice and bass player and guitarist and lyricist. I learned many years later he attributed many lyrics we were unaware of.
In the 70s. And just 3 players. So awesome
Timeless
Fun Fact: Greg Lake and Robert Fripp were roomates as King Crimson was formed. Robert taught Greg how to play guitar with his fingers.
...rather than his toes? 😎
@@lemming9984 no a guitar pick.
I saw them five times in the 70s, and each time they performed PaaE. Their concerts pushed you back in your seat. The track breaks released you to stand, as one, and scream. There was a mass-like quality to an ELP concert. RIP, Keith and Greg.
Still blown away by this - it's just three guys live! Keith Emerson plays the Newcastle Hall pipe organ at the beginning. And the layers of Moog and Hammond build from that. Enjoyed Carl's drums, and Greg's Spanish style 12 string guitar. Can't wait for side two!
I was at the City Hall when they recorded this, 15yrs old and just gobsmacked. I rememnber the night like it was yesterday. They played a full concert plus encores before they came back on and played this, awesome.
Wow. That's legendary.
Lucky man! 😄
Yep, that was their setlist back then: the first album, this, and a couple of leftovers from Emerson's days with The Nice. It's a good thing this is the official record of Pictures. The version from the Isle of Wight festival is one of their very first gigs together and it's raw as hell.
Looking inside my vinyl album, much of the music was written by Mussorgsky, but "The Sage" was written by Lake, and "Blues Variation" was written by ELP.
I saw ELP 32 times with my first being in the summer of 1972. They did the entire Pictures at an Exhibition at that concert and my young mind was blown. To this day that is in the top 3 of concerts I have seen and I have literally been to over 2,100 concerts. For 3 guys they blew the roof off of every venue every time. I will cherish the memories of those 32 shows but I am sad I will never be able to see them again.
This album introduced me to Mussorgsky and classical music, brain salad surgery introduced me to Geiger and William Blake, the 3 fates off the first album sparked my interest in mythology. I miss that band
My freshman music teacher turned me on the Tarkus in 1071 and I was hooked. I saw ELP about 6 or 7 times, I lost track, one time I saw them twice in two nights at different venue's. I followed the three trailer trucks from Providence RI to Cape Cod, first quadraphonic concert I had ever been to; the ending of Karn Evil 9 blew my mind. The first time I had seen them was when Keith lifted his piano in the air and started spinning while he was still playing. Unbelievable showmanship, especially Keith. Carl was simple the fastest drummer I had ever seen and non-stop, his drum set weighed over a ton, revolving drum stand pedestal, with synthesized kits, it was just phenomenal. And what can I say about Greg, he had the smoothest voice and he was so underrated as a musician, he could really play both the guitar and bass and a great song writer. I just love how they adapted classical, jazz and ballads together, they had it all. I feel fortunate to have been able to see them live, you should've been there, it was great.
This was originally written for piano, Ravel developed it for Orchestra, ELP pushed it into the stratosphere.
written in 1874
Great reaction! You can imagine what this sounded like in 1971 the old world meets the new world. Rock and roll meets classical. Check out the live version of Tarkus. The inclusion of Epitaph and the improv on Aquatarkus is one of the greatest ELP moments.
Aquatarkus live from WBMFTTSTNE is mind-blowing and jaw-dropping. 🤪
@@patrickdunnett2447 To bad that version in 74 did not get put on the album.
have a few bootlegs from that tour and do not know why it was not included.
Mussorgsky went to an art festival and saw paintings for which he wrote music for piano. Both Ravel and Rimsky-Korsakov orchestrated it for full orchestra, Ravel's being the most renowne. It's very much worth listening to. ELP pretty much follows the composition in Promenade(s) and The Gnome after which the pieces divert a bit from the original, the biggest diversion being Blues Variations which is completely ELP's own work in which they choose for the past to meet the present of 1971. If you do listen to the original Ravel orchestration be sure to find the very vest recording because it's been recorded many times. Mussorgsky's original piano work was composed in 1874.
Greg is playing a Gibson J-500 acoustic. It’s their largest acoustic which gives it depth.
@@kathyratino962 I have no idea how that got there. I’ll correct it as soon as I recall what it said in my head.
He loved that guitar. I prefer a smaller Martin but Greg made anything he played sing.
@@davidmiles533 and in 1977 his custom Zemaitis acoustic.
@@shyshift just looked it up. Pretty axe.
My very first ELP album. The recording is perfect and everything went right that evening. There is also a video of the same name which is a total nightmare to watch. Keith had a few problems tuning his Moog but the guy who edited the video was on a bad acid trip during working hours. I think it is available on YT.
Thanks, Justin, for uploading this. It is just as fresh as the day it was released. ELP did an amazing job introducing young people to classical music. And remember, synths were in short supply at the time and very expensive. It was the first time many of us were hearing these amazing sounds that came from another world.
I saw ELP when Trilogy came out in 1972. They played some stuff from the first album, all of Pictures, Tarkus and most of the new album. It was just an unbelievable experience and they were worth 10 times the ticket price.
Completely agree with you about the video. It’s such a let down to hear that I stopped it before the end…
That concert must have been mind blowing. It would have blown my 12 year old mind. I got into them around 1973
I saw the film at a theater in Ocean Beach, San Diego around 1973. I was just getting into ELP. The film blew me away. I found the film on VHS years later and yeah, it was kinda bad but still cool to see those guys play. Too bad they did not film the concert that was recorded for this album. This is a great album.
@@57cire Too bad they did film the concert that this GREAT album came from.
@@57cire Same here - I love ELP but I couldn't take more than about 5 minutes of that video - dire!
That crowd is just ROARING their approval at this show !! Where was it ? If memory serves, Newcastle ?
🚬😎
Also like a lot the Tomita version of this piece... amazing synth and Unbelievable vinyl sound! Really worth it!
grew up with this lp... that cool little motif emerson plays in blues variation is from a bill evans tune named interplay...
You wanted someone to describe what it was like to hear it live...magical!!! If you notice, you hear every note..no distortion...their live shows were always the epitome of professionalism. I can not tell exactly how many times I have seen them..probably 20 or so...never disappointed
The original is about a tour of an exhibition. The first theme, which is repeated again and again in variations, describes the path and the sensations between the images, in between the individual images are always described musically. ELP has left out a few pictures from the original and added a few of their own. It is definitely worth listening to the original, or perhaps even better, the orchestral version by Ravel.
I don't think Promenade in Mussorgsky has such a profound meaning; it simply symbolized walking ("promenade" means "walk") from one picture to the next. Ravel's version has beautiful colours as of course you would expect from an Impressionist, but it loses much of the original Russian character in my view, it's a bit too perfumed I'd say, but ok, that's a different discussion I guess.
@@voiceover2191 Ohhhhhh, do I have *opinions* about the Mussorgsky piano original and Ravel's orchestration. The only big symbolism I know of in the promenade theme is the odd meter (it's written in anything BUT 4/4) could be representative of Mussorgsky's fat-man-waddle around the picture gallery.
I'd definitely recommend that Justin listen to the original Mussorgsky suite to compare with ELP's prog-saturated re-imagination of the music.
CONGRATS at last!! One of the best Live albums ever. Your my favourite reaction channel on YT, Cant wait for 20k a passion play. Im so glad you got into ELP very quickly on your channel, still remember your first reaction to them.
Appreciate it Cadan! The Barbarian charged in and made me want more😅
Reasons to be impressed:
It's live and the imperfections help the piece breathe
It's a clever adaptation of Mussorgsky. Classical meets rock head on and we're all the winners
The vocals are excellent/warm/powerful in turns
Plenty of Moog and Hammond
Palmer is in the top 5 rock drummers ever
The bass does everything it needs to
It's a crying shame that we've lost Emerson and Lake but Palmer is still going (very) strong and can do a really good version of this with his current band.
I remember this album dropping, bought it straight away, I was blown away then and I still am by their playing. R.I.P. Greg and Keith. Never forgotten.
One additional note on this recording that you may have missed when you read the Wikipedia entry regarding the organ Keith plays at the beginning and Palmer's drum roll which affords Emerson time to run down to the stage along with his band mates:
"The opening section, "Promenade", features Emerson playing a Harrison & Harrison pipe organ which was installed at the venue in 1928. The organ console is some way above stage level, at the top of a stepped terrace typically used for choral performances. Palmer's drum roll connecting "Promenade" to the following section was added to give Emerson time to return to his keyboards."
So during that Palmer drum roll, Emerson is running down to the stage.
Ahhhhhhh gotcha, ty for letting me know. Makes sense
Pete Sinfield's lyrics are a large and overlooked contribution.
I know Pete collaborated with ELP on later albums, and on I believe in Father Christmas, but I thought the lyrics on Pictures at an Exhibition were entirely Greg's. I know he's famous for King Crimson Lyrics and some of ELP's but my favourite, and I know I'm in a minority here, are the English lyrics he wrote for PFM. By the way @Justin, when are you getting back to PFM for some more reactions?
@@PaulMDove2 You may be right, I thought he wrote the lyrics for this too, sure sounds like something he would have written away.
This is Mussogrsky's orignal piano composition: czcams.com/video/rH_Rsl7fjok/video.html
And this is the orchestration by Maurice Ravel: czcams.com/video/ADTJ3sr3-5c/video.html
They are really worth the listen
Regarding the question about Greg’s guitar, this is from a Melody Maker Q&A about ELP from 1972:
“On "Pictures," Keith played Hammond L100, Hammond C3 and Moog Synthesiser, with two 100-watt Hiwatt amps driving two Hi-watt 4 W 12 cabinets. He had three Leslies, one of which was a PRO 900. The other two have been modified and there are special hi-frequency units on top. The Moog was custom-built, specially modified by Bob Moog. Greg Lake played a Fender bass guitar and a Gibson J200 acoustic and used two 200-watt Hiwatt amps with two 4x12 and two 4x5 cabinets. Carl Palmer used a Gretsch drum kit with Paiste cymbals and gongs.”
And from Gibson.com (via archive.org)
“Ask a guitarist to name the ultimate Gibson acoustic, and many will reply - it’s the J-200. Elegant and flamboyantly curvaceous even by Gibson’s top-line standards, the J-200 has found fame in the hands of numerous legends: Elvis Presley, John Lennon, Pete Townshend, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Jimmy Page, Neil Young and The Edge, to name but a few. Heck, even kids’ TV cowboy Rex Traylor played a J-200.
The J-200 entered production in 1937, and continues to this day as one of the most-desirable guitars in history. The J-200 is known as the “king of the flat-tops” for good reason.”
Justin, you really should listen to a recording of Mussorgsky's original piece. It's really good, and it's pretty cool to compare ELP's adaptation to the original.
Also, there are two classical versions: Mussorgsky's original piano work, and then Ravel's orchestral version. I prefer Ravel's, but the piano work is a real tour de force in its own right.
A masterpiece! One of rock's greatest albums. ELP are maestros of their trade.
34:35 PICTURES was released after TARKUS but was recorded before it. They were playing PICTURES at their first major gig, the 1970 Isle of Wight festival, so by the time the recording of PICTURES was made for release they'd been playing it on the road for half a year already. That's part of why they sound so tight and the operation of the Moog was so well sorted out.
Lyrics were written by Greg Lake and one of their roadies, Richard Fraser. The Sage is a new "picture" written by Lake, and Blues Variation is a blues break during the middle of this classical piece of music by Mussorgsky. This classical piece is about a real exhibition of paintings in 1874 by Mussorgsky's friend Viktor Hartmann (who died in 1873), and the "Promenades" are promenades, i.e., walking between each picture. Thus there is no picture in the ELP album for the Promenades. And those paintings in the album cover were made for the album, they are not at all like the real ones from the 1800's. I'm sure you have heard at least one other work by Mussorgsky without knowing it: Night On Bald Mountain.
"Turn it down!" Man, that must've been some gig. Been listening to this for nearly 40 years now. Nice.
*Finally, This is the greatest thing I've ever woken up to*
*Thank you for making my morning*
Happily! Enjoy and have a nice morning🌄
INCREDIBLE ! ( your words ) sad you never got to see them live......the POWER and the excellence of this group is unsurpassed. I saw them over 25 times in thier time together. I was hooked....From the Beginning...excellent..Gotta love that ribbon controller ..that was what its called ..when u asked the instrument.it was used sparingly.Pic's was the first time Keith used it. Pete Sinfield helped with the writing
When you're 16 years old and you love classical music, yet want to rock...and then your friends turn you on to this, well...you can imagine. ELP, Yes, Genesis, King Crimson, Gentle Giant...these were our titans. GOSH they made such great music. SO powerful. ELP were beyond great, and to think this was LIVE. Damn.
Imagine going from disco and top 40 to Styx to Led Zeppelin to Rush and then Yes "Fragile" and ELP "Pictures At An Exhibition" as a young teen in the early 80s. To say this album changed my outlook on music is an understatement. Huge impact on me.
I saw them do this pretty much around the same time, before the LP was released even, just the first album had been released at that point. Hard to describe, but I knew it was something special. Palmer did a solo that convinced me he was immortal and set me on a path in my own drumming. Emerson whipping his organ around and stabbing it during Rondo was disturbing, in the best way.
Ditto! I was 14 years old and still remember that show at Madison Square Garden.
When ever they played The Gnome, the lights were always green, to highlight the creepiness. Baba Yaga was lit in red and The Gates of Kiev was always in gold and amber.
One of the best recorded live albums ever, by the best band! Saw ELP in 72 and 74 and they were unstoppable live - that three musicians could play such demanding music on stage was and remains a source of wonder. This and Welcome Back My Friends etc are superb documents of a band at the height of their powers. Side two is even more amazing, with incredible energy and playing from all three. You will love it!
Remember this was in the days before digital synthesizers. The synth used by Keith was an analog modular Moog dating from 1968 that Keith used to his dying day.
There is a video on CZcams of Keith explaining the mighty Moor.
It was through ELP that I got interested in classical music, looking up the originals to see what they sounded like. I highly encourage you to hear Mussorgky's original version on solo piano as well as Ravel's orchestration of it to really appreciate what ELP brought to it. I must say the remastering really brings out the concert experience quite well. I have always loved Greg Lake's romanticism, and it was such an important foil to Keith Emerson's tendency towards chaos (although Emerson certainly could be beautifully romantic when he wanted to, as demonstrated on "Take A Pebble"). The choice of classical composers that ELP "covered" was always interesting, and showed how knowledgeable they were, as well as how curious they were as musicians. Fun, fun reaction!
I was a serious musician when I was young. I composed music and I listened mostly to classical music. A friend told me I needed to hear this album. I already knew both Moussorgsky's original work for piano and the Ravel arrangement for orchestra. This piece made me an ELP fan. I recognized exactly what Keith Emerson was doing, popularizing and updating classical music, playing up the drama for young modern audiences.
The same friend introduced me to Rick Wakeman's Six Wives of Henry VIII, and I was done. A prog fan for life.
Moussorgsky's program notes identify the museum and the specific paintings that are described in each movement. The promenade sections are supposed to represent the viewer walking from one painting to another in the museum.
I just want to reinforce that Mussorgsky's original was a piano piece, and that Ravel made a wonderful transcription for orchestra, and most people only know of Ravel's version of this great work. My opinion is that the ELP version is an artistically valid transcription of the original, and as such has as much value as Ravel's imaginaton of the original.
Your experiencing a masterpiece of live music. Three monsters of prog. Never gets old and skill level off the charts
It's their best-sounding live album, the mix is stellar on this one. Perfectly captures the raw energy.
I was there the night that was recorded, great show by ELP, as they usually were. It was a great night, and like has been said, this proved to be a bit of a gateway to classical. Bought Mussorgsky's version the next day. This isn't an entirely faithful rendition of the original, but it was 100 or so years later and music moved on. My favourite parts haves always been Blues Variation (which was a variation on The Old Castle) and The Great Gates of Kiev. I remember after the end of nutrocker, I just sat/stood totally shell-shocked by the concert.
I was there too-it was mesmeric?
Apparently the opening organ promenade is played on the organ in the town hall and Keith had literally just enough time to run/jump down the stairs while the drum rolled to join the rest of the band
In Alaska, in Juneau, 1971...
We dropped acid and listened to ELP... PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION...
HOLY CHEESE MUFFINS...
Cannot begin to tell you what it was like...
But the emotions were intense awe and overwhelming emotional highs and lows...
After The Sage is Keith using a ribbon controller hooked to the Moog Synthesizer and it gets really shaky because he’s rubbing it up and down his bum. He would do this for decades.
In 1986 Zappa asked in a title of a record "Does Humor Belong in Music".........YES, Sure it does.
You are the one who will be the painter of those empty cavases!canvases!! It's a trip through the artists self!! They are painting with music instead of paint, so sit back and relax and paint along with ELP. And enjoy the experience!!
I was there, Newcastle City Hall. The huge pipe organshivered my bones and took my breath. Emerson was using early synths and rgere was a smell like sunray lamps.
Masters at work, this is music. 😊
Story goes that that little drum roll after the initial Promenande is so Keith could run downstairs from the pipe organ upstairs (it was already in the building) to the stage.
hi justin i was at the concert in bradford the night before this was recorded met keith emmerson shopping in bradford i will never forget how great this band was i now am 73 but still love my music
Hey there! Thats really really amazing, I'm sure it was a great concert and lovely meeting Keith!
Nice to see ya doing ELP again...your grins during Blues Variation were totally infectious. 😁 You reflected the obvious fun the band was having with that wild piece.
I'll always be here for your ELP reactions...
And, for the record, Blues Variation was 100% ELP and not in Mussorgsky's original opus.
Watching ELP live was simply mesmerising. Your brain can barely take it all in.
As you are trying to enter the realm of classical music I recommend you to listen the original Mussorgsky piano suite and the Rimsky Korsakov orchestral transcription that tried to “correct” the Mussorgsky mistakes in the music and finally the Ravel’s orchestral adaptation that I believe was used by ELP as basis for their version.
Are you perhaps meaning Rimsky's straightening out The Night on Bald Mountain instead of Pictures, as I believe he never made an orchestration of Pictures.
@@JBuddis You are right, I the first orchestral adaptation was made by a Korsakov's student.
This remastered version sounds better than ever, can you believe this is the type of music punks were railing against? Total envy. This music reaches me like no punk song ever could. 3 master musicians at their craft.
I disagree, punk music was not a reaction against prog rock but the main stream commercial rock scene that had grown stale and unimaginitive.
@@voiceover2191 To some extent true sure, but punk was also 'invented' by the likes of Malcolm McLaren to make money.
I saw them in St. Louis in 1974 when they did the Welcome Back tour. It was in live in quad sound. I never forgot that show. They made a 4 sided live album of that tour, Welcome Back My Friends....some day you need to react to it.
Shout out to @Dave King! I definitely remember that he sent the vinyl, and I'm pretty sure he also sent the CD, so Justin had a version he could currently play.
Finally finally finally. I was 5 when this came out. My older brother came home and played it. I was so blown away. This is why i drum. Carl is a monster.
The Moog Modular sounds fantastic!! Emerson called it his Beast!!
There is the film of this concert. Greg Lake to me is one of the best voice ever and his music is genial, The sage is so beautiful. I saw them in concert when they reunited in the 90s and when on a world tour, man....when the concert ended I had the weird feeling of walking on air going back home, their energy is so strong, that impact your brain in a way that I've never felt ever since, the stimulation to your brain is so strong that is the equivalent of taking drugs, without taking them.
By the way Still you turn me on is a fantastic song, period, Greg Lake voice is as sexy as a male voice can be.
The recording here in Newcastle City Hall in March of 1971 was one of the earlier times Keith's modular MOOG synthesizer ever went out on the road. They had awful tuning problems with the oscillators fluctuating due to temperature and humidity. Very hard to keep the modular in tune.
First time I heard this album I was a young concert violinist. I listened to it non-stop. Dad put the boots to me. Well that led to Pink Floyd, Yes, Led Zeppelin and as they say the rest is just a drug fuelled never ending dance with God.
Thanks for this Justin. My late brother was at the concert in my home city. The opening Promenade was played on the pipe organ at the back of the stage in Newcastle City Hall. I think Emerson had an affinity with Newcastle as he had been commissioned by Newcastle Arts in 1969 to write The Five Bridges Suite which was performed by his then band The Nice - you might want to check it out , it's another live recording but with an orchestra as well as the band.
5 Bridges Suite by THE NICE is highly recommended (even though their vocalist wasn't very good)!!
Fabulous - magic memories for me as I saw them perform this in 1971 on the very tour that this was recorded although the gig I saw was Manchester. The volume was loud, the quality pristine and it blew all our minds. Strangely enough, I met Keith Emerson in a record shop in Manchester during the afternoon of that day - he was browsing classical and jazz albums. I said Hi nervously and he said Hi back -that was it but what a concert they produced that night. Love your channel mate!!
Amazing! Thank you Neil!
The knives reference is because Keith used to push knives in between the keys of his Hammond L-100 organ to keep them held down. His party piece was to also drag it across the stage, swing it around and climb on it. I saw him doing this live, I think on their Tarkus tour but may have been later for Brain Salad Surgery. Probably both because I think he used to do it every chance he got and had been doing it for years before ELP with The Nice.
I would like to deeply thank you for continuing to play Emerson Lake and Palmer because you continue to play the outstanding Carl Palmer the drummer I can't stop the think about my father who died of a tragic huge skin cancer tumor on his head as Carl Palmer he felt was one of the most underrated drummers in rock and I just want to thank you because you're more you play LP I get to listen to the outstanding Karl thank you so much this is a channel where you can hear some outstanding drumming Charlie Watts just passed he was very underrated he was a jazz drummer so what's Carl Palmer I believe in that fashion to Carl Palmer was also extremely under-rated & never got the Limelight at all
'Ole Audiophile to JP: Led Zeppelin got played to death with the Floyd, we avoided playing them very often. THIS was the album that got played over & over in our house for the last 45 years. I loved side one, my wife side two, thus the entire album was played every time...more than I can count. I was thrilled when the Victory remasters came out at one time.
The wonderful voice of Greg Lake (early King Crimson).
Fun. We used to geek out over this back in the day. Haven’t listened to it in a long time. I guess I needed company.
Interesting fact (to me at least) is that the knife that Keith Emerson would use to stab keys into place was given to him by a roadie when he was in The Nice, one Ian Kilmister, better known to the world as Lemmy from Motorhead.
Nice reaction - it's amazing how close this is to the original by Moussorgsky.That Newcastle City Hall pipe organ is awesome! Two of the greatest exponents of their chosen instruments in "rock". And Greg Lake. Thanks for playing this.
I love this band j. P , I saw this band three times . First I saw them at the Arie crown theater and doctor hook and the medicine back them up , but When E.l P took the stage , they open up with hoedown and none of us knew of this song. Because the album trilogy was not out yet. The seats I had were nose bleed and the band looked like ants.They did all of pictures at an Exhibition and tarkus etc. The second time I saw them was at the Chicago ampltheater Brain salad surgery , great tour The third time at Chicago soldiers field with two bands backing them up, 1 climax blues band 2 the j girls band. This was the works vol ,1 tour with a orchestra and it was awesome to see it . , Today is Aug ,29 , the day when Emerson Lake and Palmer played the isle of Wight, but originally sat 1970. I recommend buying the dual disc , one side cd and the other side DVD.
Watching them perform some of these intricate pieces like the full Pictures or Tarkus -- you watch them and you expect intense concentration and effort. What you see is three men who are ridiculously at ease. They make it look soooooooo easy and yet your ears are telling you this is unbelievably difficult. For the record, Lake DID write the lyrics (Mussourgsky's piece and Ravel's adaptation were instrumental only). The Sage is a totally original piece by Lake and the Blues Variations are essentially Emerson and not part of the original.
This live album was supposed to be ELP's debut album but the studio executives got scared and wanted to release it under their classical label, but ELP refused and shelved the album until after their studio debut, which convinced the execs to release it as a Rock album. It went to #1 in the UK and #10 in the U.S.
I would like to add that, ELP wanted to add this LP with Tarkus that was issued later in
July but did not happen. Pictures did get released in the UK later and not in the States.
ELP went to Atlantic and were told what you posted. Later, Atlantic called their
management for the masters because Atlantic noticed UK copies being imported.
Congratulations
Ty!
This is a great album and only exists live, at the time the record company did not know what to do with this album was it rock or classical? They could not figure it out and would not publish it. Bit the US label liked and published it in the US and it went gang-busters. I am sure this was my second ELP record and what a fusion of sounds, genres and ideas from so many parts of music and it sounds really great. Plus they add there own stamp. It is a really is a great live album. When it comes to live albums please try Yessongs by Yes that is also so amazing. The live energy really pushes them to a new level. Great review and thank you greatly for doing this review.
their rendition of Promenade is one of my all time favourite pieces of music ever
When Keith was with The Nice he also used several classical pieces with Jazz overtones
Great ending jam with Keith Emerson. Love the bluesy feel of this. Gotta love that Hammond sound. The Sage is so Court of the Crimson King-ish. Absolutely beautiful.
Ps, Ryo Okumoto, the keyboardist of Spock's Beard, was a devotee and friend of Mr Emerson. See the song Ladies and Gentlemen, Ryo Okomoto on the Keyboards from the live version of Snow.
Lake’s vocals. My favorite part of ELP.
The abridged studio version of _Pictures at an Exhibition_ ELP recorded 22 years later is also worth checking out. I don't think it works as well as this raw, live version, but there are definitely moments that stand out. The 1993 version of "The Sage" is incredibly moving, I think even more so than this original performance.