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    Posted: October 11 2012 at 01:23
Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

ELP should have covered Bach's Toccata, it just screams to be played by them.
I guess Keith Emerson did Bach 'to death' in his days with The Nice and wanted to to leave it behind. That said there was that lovely use of Bach on The Only Way.

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ELP should have covered Bach's Toccata, it just screams to be played by them.
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Originally posted by digdug digdug wrote:

ELP or Sky !
It would have made a more interesting poll for sure. I like Sky's Toccata although of course that was Bach not Ginastera.
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The ELP version for sure. The Mekong Delta version is terrible, sorry. Sick 
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ELP or Sky !
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Ginastera's.

LOL !

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ELP of course.


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Points: 28075 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 08 2012 at 15:17
I think I read somewhere that only one album of Ginastera's music had ever been released in the UK. ELP doing a version of it was not exactly meddling with the classics. Any other version by a band was always going to a copy of the ELP adapation. Gerards is also very similar to Mekong Delta although at least it has some rabid drumming thats a lot of fun. No Carl Palmer but I once saw the guy live with Ars Nova in London when he broke the gong for a Pink Floyd tribute band. Perhaps one of the funniest and most memorable things I ever saw at a live show.
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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

ELP adapted Ginastera. Mekong Delta copied ELP's version. Palmer's drumming is far better and ELP has a far more original take on the...ummm....original.

Exactly!
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There's also a version on the Magna Carta tribute featuring Jordan Rudess and Japanese outfit Gerard also give a suitable battering on the Keyboards Triangle tribute album.
ELP's version is one of my favourite things by ELP and any prog band for that matter. It has a delicious production particularly the percussion sounds that are embedded deep in the mix on the quieter moments. Its a work of art imo.Ginastera loved it of course and remarked 'terrible , terrible' when he first heard it during a lunch at his house with Keith Emerson. Ginastera's wife thankfully spoke some English and pointed out to a slightly perplexed Keith Emerson that he was complimenting it!
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ELP adapted Ginastera. Mekong Delta copied ELP's version. Palmer's drumming is far better and ELP has a far more original take on the...ummm....original.
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Voted for ELP in the end. What a salad!
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Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

 The Delta one, even though it is somewhat heavier, isn't nearly as Crazy as ELP's one.

Yeah, the MD version is more tame in comparison.
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Points: 12732 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2012 at 14:08
Only just heard the Delta version, so I might have needed a little more getting used to it, but I like better the ELP one. The Delta one, even though it is somewhat heavier, isn't nearly as Crazy as ELP's one.
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 06 2012 at 14:00
Originally posted by zravkapt zravkapt wrote:

Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

Jaga Jazzist anyone?

Great but completely different song. Never heard the Sky version.

I still prefer it. Tongue
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Originally posted by Horizons Horizons wrote:

Jaga Jazzist anyone?

Great but completely different song. Never heard the Sky version.
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How about Sky?

anyway...elp
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Jaga Jazzist anyone?
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I've always thought that Toccata sounds like a salad....
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