Daily Doug talks of Triumvirat

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 presdoug wrote:

 richardh wrote:

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 richardh wrote:

Triumvirat were obviously influenced by ELP and Fritz was a huge Emerson fan as were many keyboard players. He also did copy Emerson's rig to some extent and also decided to use the Yamaha GX-1. That wasn't a given as very few prog keyboard players used that. It was mainly Emerson and John Paul Jones. There were plenty of other options out there.

I've always thought of T'rat as "the German ELP." So have many others. It never seemed like a bad thing.

IOADD was an excellent ELP type album but not a copy. That's the only thing they did that I care about but then it well up there as one of the keyboard lead albums of the 70's. ELP were imperious though in that period 1970-1974 so it's dangerous to try and be anything like them I suspect. That said I'm always on the look out for great keyboard prog albums of course  
  ^^Thanks, both of you,  for your input. I guess I'm not totally divorced from the ELP association (though it usually seems like I am) but having said that, I still feel that there is a uniqueness about Triumvirat and their sound that for me, overrides any influence. This is something that I find hard to express in words, but it is like they had an overall "vibe" or "feel" to their music that I find missing in other groups. (an even more descriptive word might be "atmosphere")  I touched on that in the mini documentary I did on the band, where I even go as far as to saying it is "the thing I love about them the most". I have come across other fans of Triumvirat who feel they sort of "went their own way" musically.

Triumvirat certainly never went down the dystopian sci-fi route that ELP did quite often. I suspect that T'rat wanted to keep it lighter while ELP were very pretentious at times (that doesn't bother me obviously). Arguably T'rat were more focused as well as ELP were always getting side tracked by internal strife and conflict on direction. T'rat seems like a much friendlier affair altogether!