The best albums ELP never made |
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verslibre
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I had the pleasure of seeing Erik and his complete synth rig, from the giant modular all the way down to the (borrowed) Mellotron, live, way back in '01. It wasn't a Rocket Scientists gig. It was Erik — no other musicians in tow. An instrumental set. He played selections from Threshold and some other pieces, like the Space: 1999 theme from the Rocket Scientists' third album Oblivion Days. Needless to say, that was awesome. That's a lot of gear to haul from your home to a stage. Erik did another solo (non-RS) gig at one of the CalProg fests, but Kelly Keeling was there on vocals. I missed that set, though. |
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presdoug
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Thought of another "other"- Trilogy-Here It Is
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dr wu23
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I think it was mentioned........but Tritonus- Between the Universes...1975?
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One more from the amazing Italians...New Trolls - Atomic System
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Gerinski
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And still another one, Barock Project from Italy. Keyboardist Luca Zabbini is a fan of Emerson and they have done quite some ELP covers.
I find that their most ELP-like album is their debut, Misteriose Voci. Edited by Gerinski - September 19 2019 at 14:20 |
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Manuel
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Illusions on a Double Dimple. Great album.
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richardh
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I just thought it would be a fun thing to do. I tend to suffer a lot with sleepness nights so stuff just starts going round my brain. It seemed like an interesting idea to try and round up artists who were influenced by ELP and perhaps ELP might even have had a little sideways glance at and thought 'yep that is good'. They were a pretty arrogant bunch though so probably didn't really notice anything else and that was maybe one of the things that brought their downfall. I really wish Emerson had done more with the classical thing. His Piano Concerto is inspired and personally I love Pirates which was apparently taken from an unused film soundtrack score. I think he was a very insecure person and probably the massive punk backlash of the seventies took it's toll on him. I do like his solo albums and its sad that they tend to be ignored . The soundtrack Inferno has some brilliant stuff imo. BTW Have you read Kevin Gilbert's thoughts on Emerson? He was another incredibly talented guy who appreciated genius when he heard it. Both of course now very sadly missed. Edited by richardh - September 20 2019 at 00:28 |
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moshkito
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Haven't checked into Kevin Gilbert yet, but will. My biggest sadness within the scope of "popular music" and it's sick obsession with some kind of "top ten" so people know what to listen to and like, is that in the middle of all this, almost everyone, from fans to musicologists, fail to find any musicality worth discussing and appreciating ... thus, a lot of contemporary musicians will never, if EVER, be appreciated in their lifetime, or after. I guess you could say, that my part in all this is to make sure that some of this does not get ignored, like it does so much ... and a lot of "admins" not having the ability to create such thought provoking threads ... that challenge your mind into expanding, the appreciation of the music ... but I have only one reservation, and it is a bit of a sick one ... I sincerely doubt that half the posters here have heard, listening style - not sampled ... that most of these folks have not heard half of these things in their entirety in order to make a "subjective" comment and choice. I, personally, have not heard 2 things in that list ... and it is one of the reasons why I am afraid to comment on them, but I have no problem discussing Keith and his abilities, and how it was the ELP fans that killed him, for not appreciating his classical material more, which probably helped record companies tell him that he was just a rock'n'roll'er ... and that was not the case.
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Or you say BEST ever made. I'll take Ys or Darwin over any ELP album any day. I voted for Ys which is what true prog dreams are made of and not sure why it's here because it's not an ELP clone in the least
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richardh
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Works Volume One was a very tricky album and yes the record company were dictating the terms very obviously. Money Talks! The fans certainly wanted Brain Salad Surgery Part Two not Works. I was one of those but all three of them were on a different page and that was in the past. I remember Greg Lake saying that he point blank refused to do another 'electronic album' as he called it. |
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richardh
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None of the albums are really. I probably should have done a narrower poll with just with Trace , Triumvirat and the UK album. They are the closest to the ELP template. If I could pick any track from any of those albums it would be Carrying No Cross . Jobson was probably the real 'heir apparent' to Keith Emerson but perhaps UK mirrored ELP a bit with John Wetton not being keen on overdoing the symphonic thing ( as Greg Lake was in ELP).
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Cannabis India around 1973 also liked ELP very much.
Archival recordins from this album prove that:
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