I've seen so many concerts, but the one I would have liked to have seen most, was ELP..I saw 'Asia',(and in 1981 or 82' when I first heard about Asia and who the line up was and THEN heard the album, it was one of my biggest musical upsets of all time! ) and enjoyed a nice "Live" Carl Palmer drum solo, but thats the closest I ever got.
The spinning Seinway routine was at the California Jam in San Francisco 1974. Keith had no safety harnesses and started to get motion sickness but he played on. ELP was the last act and were 2nd to NONE in those days. They followed Black Sabbath (with Ozzie), Deep Purple, Billy Preston, The Eagles to name a few.
What's even cooler is the pyrotechnic rig he eventually added to it. He'd get to a certain point in the solo, and hit a switch and it would fire off a sort of a Roman candle type effect.
For sure! I saw that on the video of ELP 'Live at The Royal Albert Hall', I believe the year to be 1996. Yeah that was cool! Those guys.... What I also think is amazing and I didn't really believe it until I saw it, was Emerson playing a concert Grand piano high up and hovering over the stage and audience spinning end over end, while he played.. Which is cooler, Hendrix wailing the guitar behind his head, or Emerson playing the grand piano while spinning in mid air?! ..lol....
Well, actually, there is, as what was broadcast on ABC-TV is available on ELP's "Beyond the Beginning" two disc DVD set. However, if you type in, here at You Tube "CaliforniaJammer1974", the copies there are much clearer, both audio and video, than what is available on the DVD.
I don't think it is available, Rare MusicVids. ELP were not ones to document themselves through the years they were together, on film, and it is regrettable. We have been begging for the entire Tarkus performance, from the Brain Salad Surgery era, as well as the Karn Evil 9 suite in its entirety, and its not out there. These guys broke ground, and no one thought to film them at their peak! Stupid idiots at ABC erased all Cal Jam footage, which would have given what we want in their entirety!
It's called a synth ribbon. Sliding his finger along the ribbon can change the note, or the note's frequency and some other fun stuff I'm not sure about! Cool though aye?
No it doesn't ... the Theremin is a non contact instrument. On the Ribbon Controller you have to press a metal strip against a resistive wire, and also hit a plate to trigger audio...!
Well, it MIGHT still exist, but I doubt it. It looks like something that was filmed for television, and what usually happened in those circumstances is, which television production company (whether it be the BBC, ABC or whatever) owned the footage. And a lot of times, once they edited the material down for the TV broadcast, they'd just throw the raw footage out. Or if it was videotape, they'd erase. There are of course exceptions, so maybe it does still exist somewhere.
My guess is it's pretty hard to find any decent complete live versions of Tarkus out there, Greg wasn't a big fan of performing it live, so it was cut fairly early from there live act.
lol...Now that I think of it, yeah that would be hard to mic! Was it in the 1970's that he did that spinning piano? Anyway I hear what you're saying, Hendrix.. He's in a class all himself (called ..Amazing) But in my own opinion, what Hendrix was to the 'Guitar in performance' is what Emerson was to the 'Hammond Organ in performance' and Moog..And come to think of it, I would have LOVED to have been at the "Isle of Wight" festival in August of 1970!
I'll let you in on a little secret: when Emerson did the spinning piano thing, the actual music that you heard was on tape. Think about it: there's no way you could mic up a piano that's spinning around in the air like that (at least not with 1973 era technology). When Jimi played the guitar behind his head, you were actually hearing him play guitar, so I'd say that's cooler.
I LOVE ELP.
Thanks very much!
I've seen so many concerts, but the one I would have liked to have seen most, was ELP..I saw 'Asia',(and in 1981 or 82' when I first heard about Asia and who the line up was and THEN heard the album, it was one of my biggest musical upsets of all time! ) and enjoyed a nice "Live" Carl Palmer drum solo, but thats the closest I ever got.
damn! is there any complete live version of Tarkus out there?
The spinning Seinway routine was at the California Jam in San Francisco 1974. Keith had no safety harnesses and started to get motion sickness but he played on. ELP was the last act and were 2nd to NONE in those days. They followed Black Sabbath (with Ozzie), Deep Purple, Billy Preston, The Eagles to name a few.
That's a ribbon controller. It functions on the same principal as a theramin and it's wired to the modular Moog.
i always loved that jacket
awesome vid dude
What's even cooler is the pyrotechnic rig he eventually added to it. He'd get to a certain point in the solo, and hit a switch and it would fire off a sort of a Roman candle type effect.
wow !
For sure! I saw that on the video of ELP 'Live at The Royal Albert Hall', I believe the year to be 1996.
Yeah that was cool! Those guys.... What I also think is amazing and I didn't really believe it until I saw it, was Emerson playing a concert Grand piano high up and hovering over the stage and audience spinning end over end, while he played.. Which is cooler, Hendrix wailing the guitar behind his head, or Emerson playing the grand piano while spinning in mid air?! ..lol....
it is from the "manticore special" to promote brain salad surgery in '73/74. the re-used on the "welcome back" tape in 1993
Well, actually, there is, as what was broadcast on ABC-TV is available on ELP's "Beyond the Beginning" two disc DVD set. However, if you type in, here at You Tube "CaliforniaJammer1974", the copies there are much clearer, both audio and video, than what is available on the DVD.
I don't think it is available, Rare MusicVids. ELP were not ones to document themselves through the years they were together, on film, and it is regrettable. We have been begging for the entire Tarkus performance, from the Brain Salad Surgery era, as well as the Karn Evil 9 suite in its entirety, and its not out there. These guys broke ground, and no one thought to film them at their peak! Stupid idiots at ABC erased all Cal Jam footage, which would have given what we want in their entirety!
@Boujonzu no, it's a touch-sensitive ribbon controller that's controlling his modular.
sick!
superior noise!! ans what a pleasure...
Wait till they see that Moog board be used again in a Rock act with amp spring reverb 🌩
It's called a synth ribbon. Sliding his finger along the ribbon can change the note, or the note's frequency and some other fun stuff I'm not sure about! Cool though aye?
@vachalia Me too, but I liked ELP in parts. Tarkus and Brain Salad Surgery were good albums.
No it doesn't ... the Theremin is a non contact instrument. On the Ribbon Controller you have to press a metal strip against a resistive wire, and also hit a plate to trigger audio...!
Well, it MIGHT still exist, but I doubt it. It looks like something that was filmed for television, and what usually happened in those circumstances is, which television production company (whether it be the BBC, ABC or whatever) owned the footage. And a lot of times, once they edited the material down for the TV broadcast, they'd just throw the raw footage out. Or if it was videotape, they'd erase.
There are of course exceptions, so maybe it does still exist somewhere.
My guess is it's pretty hard to find any decent complete live versions of Tarkus out there, Greg wasn't a big fan of performing it live, so it was cut fairly early from there live act.
what is that strange rectangular musical tool?
kindly answer me, it's an instrument that emerson also uses in pictures at an exhibition.
There were wireless mics then, too.
hey plan x where did you get this and the video from the sessions man this is interesting?? let me know thanx
@Boujonzu i am actually getting A modular synth with ribbon controller made from a guy who did the synths for linkin park
@Aidanloveskeyboards Ah right, thats fuckin sweet!!
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Yeah but I thought for sure there was a Cal Jam dvd out there!!
Is that a theremin he's playing at the end?
Is that interview with Greg on here?
Man, how about that bank of Leslie's off to KE's right. What I would'nt give for just one!
Why would it be banned?
health and safty would find a way
lol...Now that I think of it, yeah that would be hard to mic! Was it in the 1970's that he did that spinning piano? Anyway I hear what you're saying, Hendrix.. He's in a class all himself (called ..Amazing) But in my own opinion, what Hendrix was to the 'Guitar in performance' is what Emerson was to the 'Hammond Organ in performance' and Moog..And come to think of it, I would have LOVED to have been at the "Isle of Wight" festival in August of 1970!
What KE did on a daily basis was 100x more complex than what Hendrix did, no offense at all meant for Jimi.
@@kathyratino962 For sure!!
I'll let you in on a little secret: when Emerson did the spinning piano thing, the actual music that you heard was on tape. Think about it: there's no way you could mic up a piano that's spinning around in the air like that (at least not with 1973 era technology).
When Jimi played the guitar behind his head, you were actually hearing him play guitar, so I'd say that's cooler.