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Posted: June 18 2013 at 02:06

that was my fav band since i understnd music

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 03:17

The other day I got the "Welcome Back My Friends..." triple LP, and sellotaped to the inside was a 1974 ELP ticket - and, yes, it said "Emmerson" with two M's.

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 04:24

commodorejohn wrote:

Just out of curiousity, does anybody know what the choir sound at the start of "Tarkus" is? I've heard that Keith did all his non-organ/piano parts with synthesizers and didn't use the Mellotron - it's tricky to get good choral sounds out of an analog synth (especially clear, throaty sounds like this one, as opposed to "Star Trek" vocals,) but then I suppose it would be easier with a modular synth like the big ol' Moog...

I'm really curious, because the E-mu Proteus/1 MIDI module includes a sample that is exactly this sound, and I wonder if they sampled it from Keith, or if they both got it from somewhere else...?

Possibly multi-layering vocals (I don't think the Moog could make that vocal sound, if it did it had to be multilayered too, remember that it was monophonic) and the intro was not played in the live versions.

Or perhaps borrowing a Mellotron from the studio or from Eddie Offord.

Although Keith did have a Mellotron, which he did not like and eventually gave to Greg Lake. Greg used it a couple of times for supporting Keith playing Abaddon's Bolero live, but they stopped playing this song live because they used also supporting tapes and they created problems.

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 05:16

princessdua wrote:

that was my fav band since i understnd music

What is understand music?

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 05:54

ELP did go over the top a lot, but that's the nature of experimentation. I think a lot of the criticism is unfair and unbalanced.

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 06:45

Just finished watching Live 1977...marvelous.

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 09:25

my favorite band ever. keith emerson keys are just brilliant and catchy for me. carl palmer kick asses. and greg lake is the right piece to balance the technical show with his feeling.

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 10:28

Their first 4 or 5 lp's are very good but after that they simply took a nose dive.....and I simply don't understand why they didn't continue in a similar vein to BSS instead of putting out lp's like Works and Love Beach that were nothing like the earlier material. To me it seems like they either ran out of ideas or just didn't care anymore.

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 11:29

dr wu23 wrote:

.....and I simply don't understand why they didn't continue in a similar vein to BSS instead of putting out lp's like Works and Love Beach that were nothing like the earlier material.

Ture, but I still like the whole discography, but In The Hot Seat (it stinks, really).

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 11:34

dr wu23 wrote:

Their first 4 or 5 lp's are very good but after that they simply took a nose dive.....and I simply don't understand why they didn't continue in a similar vein to BSS instead of putting out lp's like Works and Love Beach that were nothing like the earlier material. To me it seems like they either ran out of ideas or just didn't care anymore.

They went as far as they could with BSS. So they wanted to try something different with Works. They were doing solo stuff anyway so decided to put it all on one album. Love Beach is a different story. An album they didn't particularly want to do any way.

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 11:57

This is what it says in the liner notes to the 2012 super-deluxe edition of Tarkus (the direct quote is Steven Wilson talking about the remastering):

"The title track itself was quite a feat to put back together because they recorded it on 16-track tape in many different sections and not necessarily in chronological order or at the same session. 'For example the piece begins with "Eruption" that fades in with a vocal texture. This was Greg overdubbing the voices twenty times done at a completely separate session. So there is just one piece of tape with a block of Greg's voice singing "Ahh" at many different pitches, so the task was to figure out how each of those voices gradually joins the ensemble to create the crescendo that opens the piece.'"

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 12:46

Originally posted by questionsneverknown

questionsneverknown wrote:

This is what it says in the liner notes to the 2012 super-deluxe edition of Tarkus (the direct quote is Steven Wilson talking about the remastering):

Nice to know, thanks (and nice to know that I had got it right Wink

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 12:49

Rush77 wrote:

Hey everybody so i was lookin at the site and noticed that ELP is rated pretty low and i was wondering y so im gonna ask everyone who reads this their opinion on this band. Personally i find them to be utterly amazing and one of my fav bands of all time but thats just my opinion plz tell me wat u think about them

I always felt they were three unique and incredibly talented individuals trying to be a band or some type of musical trio. I never felt them as a cohesive unit. I mean, I love all the music and the albums up to Brain Salad Surgery. I was expecting Keith Emerson's next musical interpretation was going to be Stravinsky's The Rite Of Spring, I knew Greg Lake would include a beautiful acoustic song, and Carl Palmer could blast any drummer out of their kit!
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Posted: June 18 2013 at 13:25

It seems they ran out of ideas as a group after Works Vol. 1. Works 2 is obviously a hastily compiled contractual obligation, and Love Beach is entirely the wrong direction. By then, they were ready for separate new horizons personally as well (a nice way of saying they couldn't get along anymore): film soundtracks for Keith, solo career for Lake, and PM and later Asia for Palmer.

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 13:27

questionsneverknown wrote:

This is what it says in the liner notes to the 2012 super-deluxe edition of Tarkus (the direct quote is Steven Wilson talking about the remastering):

"The title track itself was quite a feat to put back together because they recorded it on 16-track tape in many different sections and not necessarily in chronological order or at the same session. 'For example the piece begins with "Eruption" that fades in with a vocal texture. This was Greg overdubbing the voices twenty times done at a completely separate session. So there is just one piece of tape with a block of Greg's voice singing "Ahh" at many different pitches, so the task was to figure out how each of those voices gradually joins the ensemble to create the crescendo that opens the piece.'"

Thanks for sharing. Holy cow, twenty times...

Guess I can safely conclude that the folks at E-mu sampled "Tarkus," then - which I pretty much suspected to begin with.

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 13:31

Bitterblogger wrote:

It seems they ran out of ideas as a group after Works Vol. 1. Works 2 is obviously a hastily compiled contractual obligation, and Love Beach is entirely the wrong direction. By then, they were ready for separate new horizons personally as well (a nice way of saying they couldn't get along anymore): film soundtracks for Keith, solo career for Lake, and PM and later Asia for Palmer.

Works 2 isn't a contractual obligation and technically neither was LB, but it was kind of forced on them at a time when they needed to haave a break

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 15:29

Bitterblogger wrote:

By then, they were ready for separate new horizons personally as well (a nice way of saying they couldn't get along anymore)

That's pretty much it, they lost the 'band spirit' and then everything felt forced.

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 15:52

As far as ELP being rated low, I don't wish to come across as trite but a reality check provides:

A. Ratings are for a**holes(just like broken hearts

)

B. The masses are asses(not my quote)

ELP set the standard for musicianship for actually "knowing how to play" an instrument.

The 2nd concert I ever saw was ELP with a full orchestra in New York in 1977. My life has never been

the same. All I can say is:

Brain Salad Surgery & Trilogy 5.1 remixes are coming out soon. What Lucky Men we are!

God Bless Emerson, Lake & Palmer!

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 15:58

ELP was the very first prog band I got into so they always hold a special place for me. At the age of 15 I bought "Brain Salad Surgery" because I loved the title and cover. Bought "Welcome Back My Friends..." a couple weeks later and I was on my way. Turned my best teenage friend on to them and we used say, "Of course they're great! Greg is the greatest singer, Keith the greatest keyboardist, and Carl has no equal on drums (except maybe Buddy Rich)." Bought all the early catalog and loved them...until...

Works V1 was a huge disappointment. I was expecting another Brain Salad Surgery but instead I hated the 3 solo sides, thought Fanfare was boring, and just plain couldn't stand the orchestra on Pirates. I still believe that Pirates would have been unbelievable had Keith used the Moog-Hammond combo instead of that awful Yamaha GX1 and orchestra. When I saw them in 1977 on the Works tour, they'd already dropped the orchestra which made me very happy.

When Love Beach came out, I loved "Memoirs..." much more than anything on Works V1, but it was still a far cry from BSS...a level they sadly never returned to. But what can I say, they were my first prog love!

Edited by The.Crimson.King - June 18 2013 at 16:00

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Posted: June 18 2013 at 21:06

Snow Dog wrote:

Works 2 isn't a contractual obligation and technically neither was LB, but it was kind of forced on them at a time when they needed to haave a break

That may be but they are still very mediocre music to come from such talented musicians.

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