These guys were my first concert in 1972, I sneaked out of the house to see the concert. When I came home, I was grounded for a month. Was it worth it? HELL, YES!
What I love about this inside look is how Lake and Palmer are intent upon serving what is essentially an Emerson composition, trying their best to complement its essence, not show off their own chops, which are substantial. That coherence is what makes a supergroup like ELP work in ways that others don't.
I really like when we're able to see them rehearsing, and enjoying coming up with the music, enjoying each other, smiling and laughing. I really like the early videos when they were just starting out, you see them looking at each other on stage, smiling and laughing and it's wonderful to see. Such a shame it wasn't always like that for them. By the time they got together to do the tour with the orchestra they would barely smile or look at each other on stage. The were all so talented young men. I miss Greg and Keith.
Dan Moser all tree of them were really beyond great Greg had his voice which is precious and Carl was a work horse and yes Kieth was a genious csnt spell that cause im only average smart lol
During the Lyceum Theatre concert in 1970, in the middle of Rondo, he broke a stick, and smooth as butter, with his other hand still flying away, he pulled out a new one and kept going.
Rehearsing? No! They were literally composing in real time! Rehearsal is what you do when you have the song already. This is WAYYY more valuable footage than just a rehearsal
"This chord here..I think it's B", "B what?", "You may well ask..!". Ha! Fascinating post - it's wonderful to see a glimpse of the painstaking work they undertook to create that seemingly effortless, fluid madness. Great stuff!
@@jumphawk8836 ~ You got that right sir. I'm disheartened and bewildered that it all went away, and unlikely to ever return. Truth be told, it couldn't come back that way. No one could do it!
"B what?" indeed. This exact point in the final recording they ended up keeping something of Lake's over flat 7 voicing (the A), even though Emerson seems to be asking for the root right there (and on this video for whatever reason registers 1/2 sharp as a C chord). Maybe Lake is just anticipating where this would be going; what sounded good. Awesome to watch this collaboration, especially in view of the masterpiece that resulted.
Oh, they had to do actual WORK to create this masterpiece?! It's so organic and perfect that one might think it just appeared out of thin air for them.
1:50-2:35 is one of the most powerful and inspirational 45 seconds in prog rock history if you ask me...breathtaking....I'm 26 years old and I feel so fucking cheated to have missed this kind of originality and talent. Maybe one day like the Italians had thier Renaissance in the Middle Ages, we will one day again capture the essence of music composition and leave the dark ages of Nickleback and Kanye West behind!
brings me back 30 years when i was a teenage elp nut trying to work out on the piano just about everything Kieth and the boys put out there---great stuff,,a treasure
Great to see that just like any pub band, they go from nit picking each others parts, to messing around playing blues, and able to have a laugh at rehearsal. The only difference being the skill level! Never forgotten Keith.
Rare days here. This is pure art-music., free form compositional style with classical underpinnings. Practically zero people could ever pull this off. Keith Emerson was the brains behinds this trio, they essentially followed his cue and went to mars musically. Incredible discipline and skill. Not always a melodically pleasing product, but astounding musicianship.
That is just simply enjoyable to watch. I've never really experienced any behind the scenes footage of how these people actually interacted with one another on music anyway. Fantastic find.
these guys were pure musicians who put the music first. Ahead of selling records or having their names on the front of magazines, ( no internet).Lake did have reservations about the music.Later he did voice his opinion in a loud way and thus the 3 went there seperate ways.Fascinating to see how they once were. I was in awe of them back in the seventies.
Listening to this without the lyrics, I can hear more than ever how much of a story the music itself tells. It could be an outstanding soundtrack for a short feature. Even with two instruments (and drums), it's amazingly orchestral and grand.
Such casual brilliance! "Oh yeah, we should make this diminished instead of major" And so young! Prodigies, all of them. They create an entire genre without even knowing what they wrought.
freedumb2003::PRECISELY... they created their own fckN genre as far as I’m concerned, and I know MANY others feel the same way!! It’s all here in CZcams!!!!!
77; before they had to ditch the orchestra, the choir and the support staff. That I would have wanted to see. Not after. Saw the 78 tour Boston Garden. Way better. The sudden absence of the orchestra really screwed up the live performance in 77.
I'd never heard Keith or Carl talk before - not even at the one concert of theirs I saw. I think it's a shame they didn't sing, because they both sound like natural high tenors. What a lovely compliment that would have made to Greg's huge and sometimes haunting baritone. I know, they were all about instrumental music, but what a shame Keith & Carl didn't sing more! (I admit, I'm not very familiar with their catalog, but Greg was the only one with a mic on him when I saw them live.)
I'm absolutely stunned by this vid. Over 30 years i was living on the few albums which were publicly available. With the internet more and more came available (music and vid) and now i'm witnessing the CREATIVE process on Karn Evil 9. Many, many thx to the poster!!!!
They were traveling so speed with their sound, ahead of their time, there's no other band like this, at this time, getting the full atension of the people, getting fill a stadium, and maybe never we've got something like this anymore.
Was an ELP fanatic in the 70s. And heard plenty of "Who?" if I mentioned them while passing a bone or a beer. Yet they sold out every time, everywhere....
Estos son los momentos en la historia de la música que hay un antes y un después. ELP es sin duda, uno de esos grupos que logran hacer una sintesis y proyectarla muchos años adelante. Abriendo caminos Gracias por ponerlo en línea.
Tony, this is when I started listening to music....this is interesting cuz you see the rehearsal and the finished product in next one, and yes I DID go to that concert in1974.
Timeless! Cannot imagine a world without this music. Always new and I am enjoying their work 'from the beginning'. It will last and the infuence will grow. Arvydas, you with your 26 years make my point that the future will prove me right. Cascabel: Beethoven also was once simply a guy, less friendly though but also a great musician. But as with Emerson -and in a certain way also Palmer- that does not make him a less renewing and brilliant composer.
Note the large cymbal resting up side down on the skin of the tympani. That's a unique special technique percussionists use for a very dramatic swirling sound effect. You strike the cymbal and it rolls around on it's bell. The kettle drum amplifies the sound and the pitch can be changed up and down with the tuning pedal.
I think this video shows how Keith and Greg were "at it" even then. they each wanted something different. Carl was in the middle. you can hear greg ask "what DO you want" and keith answer "you may WELL ask" ouch
Wouldn't it be something if all groups had this level of knowledge and musicianship? Maybe today's music wouldn't suck so much!! I saw ELP perform BSS in January 1974 in San Francisco. I was up close to the speakers, left side of stage. It was so effin loud, I chewed up a dollar bill and stuffed it into my ears. BTW, the concert was billed as being in Quadrophonic Sound, and there were a two banks of speakers up in the balconies, kinda like the surround sound of today.
Scooter Kans :: WoW, holy shit does that sounds INTENSE, to say the least!! I’ve seen others say the same thing on other comments/vids speaking of their live performances on here, another example of their musicianship/showmanship in their concerts, “let’s pound the shit out of their eardrums, make ‘em neva forget they saw ELP!!!” Hah, mission accomplished aye!!! 👍😱😳❗️❗️❗️
I'm assuming that Carl was the youngest...I've always been in awe of the way these guys could play...and FAST. Their music is definitely an acquired taste...either you like it or you don't...Lucky man is what drew me to them, and after that discovering their more elaborate stuff, I swallowed the hook!!
These guys were my first concert in 1972, I sneaked out of the house to see the concert. When I came home, I was grounded for a month. Was it worth it? HELL, YES!
YAY for KATHY2trips !
What I love about this inside look is how Lake and Palmer are intent upon serving what is essentially an Emerson composition, trying their best to complement its essence, not show off their own chops, which are substantial. That coherence is what makes a supergroup like ELP work in ways that others don't.
Three incredible musicians at their absolute peak. RIP Keith Emerson :(
RIP Greg Lake as well
Our Mozart and Bach-amazing all these later. Nothing close to this today- RIP Keith and Greg-keep playing Carl
I really like when we're able to see them rehearsing, and enjoying coming up with the music, enjoying each other, smiling and laughing. I really like the early videos when they were just starting out, you see them looking at each other on stage, smiling and laughing and it's wonderful to see. Such a shame it wasn't always like that for them. By the time they got together to do the tour with the orchestra they would barely smile or look at each other on stage. The were all so talented young men. I miss Greg and Keith.
.. he seemed super-human to me at the time, yet he was as human as any of us.. I shall miss you so, Emo ... crying my eyes out for you .. :(
Dan Moser all tree of them were really beyond great Greg had his voice which is precious and Carl was a work horse and yes Kieth was a genious csnt spell that cause im only average smart lol
1:02 Gotta love drummers - in the middle of drumming, without missing a beat, tightening up a loose cymbal wing nut...
During the Lyceum Theatre concert in 1970, in the middle of Rondo, he broke a stick, and smooth as butter, with his other hand still flying away, he pulled out a new one and kept going.
@@themaritimegirl he hits hard too. Even on the drum synths.
Greg Lake - a very underrated bass player. He pulls nice a tasty runs without watching his fret hand.
Greg Lake, Glenn Cornick, Tom Hamilton. My top 3 bass players.
1:03 carl takes a moment to tighten the wingnut on his ride cymbal WHILE playing.
Rehearsing? No! They were literally composing in real time! Rehearsal is what you do when you have the song already. This is WAYYY more valuable footage than just a rehearsal
I think this was already on tour, so the songs had been already recorded.
Who in their right mind can dislike this???? Someone whose parent's spent their music lesson money on cigs maybe.
Only 15 trolls so far, this is a great video, elp did things right....with class
Even during rehearsals & sound checks they sound phenomenal.
"This chord here..I think it's B", "B what?", "You may well ask..!". Ha! Fascinating post - it's wonderful to see a glimpse of the painstaking work they undertook to create that seemingly effortless, fluid madness. Great stuff!
Hey look mom, it's real musicians, who write, and play their own instruments!
Son, those aren't just musicians, they're gods.
....this must be from the olden days of music mom!....
Dont see that anymore
@@jumphawk8836 ~ You got that right sir. I'm disheartened and bewildered that it all went away, and unlikely to ever return. Truth be told, it couldn't come back that way. No one could do it!
@@jumphawk8836 yes you do. All the time
"B what?" indeed. This exact point in the final recording they ended up keeping something of Lake's over flat 7 voicing (the A), even though Emerson seems to be asking for the root right there (and on this video for whatever reason registers 1/2 sharp as a C chord). Maybe Lake is just anticipating where this would be going; what sounded good. Awesome to watch this collaboration, especially in view of the masterpiece that resulted.
Greg Lake didn't always land on the root... (As you made note above) He loves dodging around on 3rds and 7ths creating some cool tension
Oh, they had to do actual WORK to create this masterpiece?! It's so organic and perfect that one might think it just appeared out of thin air for them.
1:50-2:35 is one of the most powerful and inspirational 45 seconds in prog rock history if you ask me...breathtaking....I'm 26 years old and I feel so fucking cheated to have missed this kind of originality and talent. Maybe one day like the Italians had thier Renaissance in the Middle Ages, we will one day again capture the essence of music composition and leave the dark ages of Nickleback and Kanye West behind!
Crying of joy, this is such a great song.....they are at their peak!
brings me back 30 years when i was a teenage elp nut trying to work out on the piano just about everything Kieth and the boys put out there---great stuff,,a treasure
Elp was the best live performance I have ever seen. Saw them 3 times and every time I thought I was sitting in the studio with them.
Great to see that just like any pub band, they go from nit picking each others parts, to messing around playing blues, and able to have a laugh at rehearsal. The only difference being the skill level!
Never forgotten Keith.
Palmer mentioned once, that fence sitters were not welcome, creatively. Bouncing ideas off each other was what those guys wanted.
Sad year for those in the ELP family.
Rare days here. This is pure art-music., free form compositional style with classical underpinnings. Practically zero people could ever pull this off. Keith Emerson was the brains behinds this trio, they essentially followed his cue and went to mars musically. Incredible discipline and skill. Not always a melodically pleasing product, but astounding musicianship.
Carl was 23, Greg was 26, and Keith was 29 at the time.
carl palmer is a really amazing drummer
a great man lost !
RIP Keith.
That is just simply enjoyable to watch. I've never really experienced any behind the scenes footage of how these people actually interacted with one another on music anyway. Fantastic find.
i wish i was alive during the Prog Rock glory days of the late 60s to mid 70s all those bands especially this band and Carl Palmer are my heroes
I saw it all thru a stoned haze that was the 70s. Would not trade that time for anything...
There are at least six geniuses in these three guys.
Taken from the DVD 'Beyond The Beginning', with optional subtitles in several languages.
Que bajista Lake, porrrr favoooooooooooooorrrrr!!!
I LOVE this stuff! ELP friggin' RULES!
RIP KEITH😥
An assemblage of genius.
these guys were pure musicians who put the music first. Ahead of selling records or having their names on the front of magazines, ( no internet).Lake did have reservations about the music.Later he did voice his opinion in a loud way and thus the 3 went there seperate ways.Fascinating to see how they once were. I was in awe of them back in the seventies.
The masters at work….such talent and chemistry.
Just.....
Listening to this without the lyrics, I can hear more than ever how much of a story the music itself tells. It could be an outstanding soundtrack for a short feature. Even with two instruments (and drums), it's amazingly orchestral and grand.
Such casual brilliance!
"Oh yeah, we should make this diminished instead of major"
And so young!
Prodigies, all of them. They create an entire genre without even knowing what they wrought.
freedumb2003::PRECISELY... they created their own fckN genre as far as I’m concerned, and I know MANY others feel the same way!! It’s all here in CZcams!!!!!
Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Simply brilliant. An oasis in a desert of 70's music. I had the pleasure of seeing them play live in 1977.
77; before they had to ditch the orchestra, the choir and the support staff. That I would have wanted to see. Not after. Saw the 78 tour Boston Garden. Way better. The sudden absence of the orchestra really screwed up the live performance in 77.
true, all the footage on the special is in colour. i have the dvd. still good man...
I'd never heard Keith or Carl talk before - not even at the one concert of theirs I saw. I think it's a shame they didn't sing, because they both sound like natural high tenors. What a lovely compliment that would have made to Greg's huge and sometimes haunting baritone. I know, they were all about instrumental music, but what a shame Keith & Carl didn't sing more! (I admit, I'm not very familiar with their catalog, but Greg was the only one with a mic on him when I saw them live.)
how in the hell did greg know what to play on the bass? Each one of them is a very talented induvidual.
This is a great vid. I love seeing the creative process musicians take to crete their music.
Genius at work.Kinda funny seeing Keith jumping around like he's got to take a leak,lol.Great musicians, great guys.
creation of a great music from 3 fabulous musicians. we want more from this stuff... thankss
What a fantastic piece of footage, a big thank you to you for uploading this.
they were on a whole other level..I suppose that`s why some people had a problem with them..I always loved their musi
Best band ever!
Probably the best supergroup ever, and surely one of my favorite Symphonic Rock groups.
GAWD!!! hearing it gradually coming together...what a treat! ... thanks for the post.
Happier times.
Wow. This is a super fantastic find. It belongs in a museum or something.
Great rare footage of three of the most talented musicians ever. Awesome stuff.
The genious of E......L.....P
Keith Emerson is the fucking man! respect that!
I'm now the same age Carl was when the band recorded BSS....amazing what he was already able to to at such a young age, and he's only gotten better!
awesome video thanks for uploading it.
I'm absolutely stunned by this vid. Over 30 years i was living on the few albums which were publicly available. With the internet more and more came available (music and vid) and now i'm witnessing the CREATIVE process on Karn Evil 9. Many, many thx to the poster!!!!
Fantastic video that show us how they go through the composition.
WOW! Thanks for this. Somehow this had escaped me.
At their peak, no one was better.
Thank you for this great video!!
Emerson was the brain.
They were traveling so speed with their sound, ahead of their time, there's no other band like this, at this time, getting the full atension of the people, getting fill a stadium, and maybe never we've got something like this anymore.
Was an ELP fanatic in the 70s. And heard plenty of "Who?" if I mentioned them while passing a bone or a beer. Yet they sold out every time, everywhere....
Great video... 3 of the best.!!!
Check out all those Leslie Tone cabinets in the background... SWEEEET Studio.!
God damn, that organ.
Estos son los momentos en la historia de la música que hay un antes y un después.
ELP es sin duda, uno de esos grupos que logran hacer una sintesis y proyectarla muchos años adelante.
Abriendo caminos
Gracias por ponerlo en línea.
i could watch this all day
Madonna Santa ... cuanto talento. Gracias por la música.
I have not heard it yet. I won't be surprised. Emerson always produced great music !
Love them so much
Tony, this is when I started listening to music....this is interesting cuz you see the rehearsal and the finished product in next one, and yes I DID go to that concert in1974.
Just awesome!
This is special!
Man I LOVE this stuff! ELP friggin RULES! It's great to see them work this stuff out in rehearsals!
So young, so beautiful, so talented.
Merci Planche via Emerson Lake and Palmer ♥️🌺🎧🎹🎹🥁
saw them with the orchestra... it was great...
So fascinating 👏
Thanx from Argentina!
How amazing, watching elp in the studio working out karn evil #9 WOW
Amazing behind the scenes filming !
What a historical document! 1000 thanks.
- c.a.t.
Wonderful love ELP
I LOVE THEIR SOUND !!
Such young voices...
What a treat!
Timeless! Cannot imagine a world without this music. Always new and I am enjoying their work 'from the beginning'. It will last and the infuence will grow.
Arvydas, you with your 26 years make my point that the future will prove me right. Cascabel: Beethoven also was once simply a guy, less friendly though but also a great musician. But as with Emerson -and in a certain way also Palmer- that does not make him a less renewing and brilliant composer.
the 1st cd I've bought was ELP works vol 1, I love these guys....
Emerson is the god of keyboards, ELP rulz man, thnks for postª
oh bless you for that.
if i had a wish, it would be to go back to 1974 for the anahiem shows(live set for the tripple LP)and cal jam
Note the large cymbal resting up side down on the skin of the tympani. That's a unique special technique percussionists use for a very dramatic swirling sound effect. You strike the cymbal and it rolls around on it's bell. The kettle drum amplifies the sound and the pitch can be changed up and down with the tuning pedal.
I think this video shows how Keith and Greg were "at it" even then. they each wanted something different. Carl was in the middle.
you can hear greg ask "what DO you want"
and keith answer "you may WELL ask"
ouch
Wouldn't it be something if all groups had this level of knowledge and musicianship? Maybe today's music wouldn't suck so much!!
I saw ELP perform BSS in January 1974 in San Francisco. I was up close to the speakers, left side of stage. It was so effin loud, I chewed up a dollar bill and stuffed it into my ears. BTW, the concert was billed as being in Quadrophonic Sound, and there were a two banks of speakers up in the balconies, kinda like the surround sound of today.
Scooter Kans :: WoW, holy shit does that sounds INTENSE, to say the least!! I’ve seen others say the same thing on other comments/vids speaking of their live performances on here, another example of their musicianship/showmanship in their concerts, “let’s pound the shit out of their eardrums, make ‘em neva forget they saw ELP!!!” Hah, mission accomplished aye!!! 👍😱😳❗️❗️❗️
Sin palabras... excelente
@Interst890 It's Progressive Rock. There are lots of websites. And new bands still coming up. But ELP is All, far as I'm concerned.
3 guys -----just pure creative talent
Wonderful.
What a GREAT power Trio!
I'm assuming that Carl was the youngest...I've always been in awe of the way these guys could play...and FAST. Their music is definitely an acquired taste...either you like it or you don't...Lucky man is what drew me to them, and after that discovering their more elaborate stuff, I swallowed the hook!!