ELP tribute
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Topic: ELP tribute
Posted By: kshacklett
Subject: ELP tribute
Date Posted: November 28 2008 at 19:11
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Please check out my ELP tribute. It's only me and my machines at the moment but I'm twisting a few arms to join me. You'll get to hear the only cover of "Toccata" that I've ever heard.
http://www.youtube.com/user/kshacklett - http://www.youtube.com/user/kshacklett
Thanks,
Kerry
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: November 28 2008 at 19:21
| I'm no big fan of Toccata, but it's amazing your keys and playing, way to go man! |
Posted By: kshacklett
Date Posted: November 28 2008 at 19:36
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Thanks for being the first to reply. Hope you enjoy some of the other tunes.
BTW, I regularly play on one of Entwistle's basses. His ex ended up with it.
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Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: November 28 2008 at 19:43
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^wow cool! Do you have more videos of you playing? EDIT: Oh yeah, you got lots of Proggy tunes I'll listen to them all  Listening to Thick as a Brick your version.EDIT: BTW, NICE VOICE!  |
Posted By: kshacklett
Date Posted: November 28 2008 at 19:50
| Thanks again. Gotta go...gig. |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: November 28 2008 at 19:52
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^no prob, cya. |
Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 29 2008 at 04:28
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That's seriously impressive Kerry. I'll check out some of your other videos. Surely Tocatta is a cover already?  |
Posted By: kshacklett
Date Posted: November 29 2008 at 06:41
Thanks for checking out my stuff. If you didn't know, Toccata is basically bits and pieces of the fourth movement of Ginastera's piano concerto. I learned the rest of ELP's stuff by ear, but I quickly gave up on the atonal Toccata until I got the two piano score of the original concerto. That was thirty three years ago. I finally put it together just recently. It's easily the most outrageous thing that ELP ever released, which is one of the reasons I like it so much. I've searched youtube and google for "ELP Toccata" and haven't found another cover. As another guy pointed out, it requires a unique case of OCD to cover such a tune.
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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: December 03 2008 at 20:15
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Spoken as a fellow keyboard player: very nice job. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 03 2008 at 20:43
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wow... very impressive ...I swoon for Toccata... as far as covers of Toccata... not sure if you are talking youtubers.. or ANY covers. If you haven't heard this album... do so.. it'll knock your socks off... http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=82986 - http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=82986 ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: kshacklett
Date Posted: December 04 2008 at 22:04
| Anxious to check out the album. I'm on the road on a borrowed computer so I'll get to it later. Seems like I heard two Japanese chicks doing Tarkus on two pianos recently? Very cool. Thanks for checking out my stuff. |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 08 2008 at 18:43
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tried to hunt you up a youtube clip.. but in the middle of searching.. I remembered you had searched it and probably would have found it. check this out though... probably not as good as the album I reviewed (Zeppelin covers for god's sake hahah  ). or pertinent to you as a keyboardist... but if you REALLY have to hear that version of Toccata.. here it is for less than 8 bucks on another albumhttp://www.amazon.com/Progressive-Rock-Covers/dp/B000M5BD68 - http://www.amazon.com/Progressive-Rock-Covers/dp/B000M5BD68 ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: kshacklett
Date Posted: December 09 2008 at 13:47
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Hmm, which to buy? I'm curious about Toccata because ELP used so little of the actual concerto. If a cover doesn't sound pretty close to ELP then it's really not an ELP cover but rather another Ginastera cover. I suppose if they maintain much of the ELP structure, including the synth/guitar duet, you could call it an ELP cover. I always assumed Keith wrote that duet, but then I've never scoured the entire original score looking for it. One thing I noticed right off was that the three piano chords right before the duet are the opening chords of the concerto.
Anyway, it's music: If someone likes it, it's good.
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Posted By: carnival9uk
Date Posted: December 11 2008 at 16:53
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Hi,
I play for the UK ELP tribute http://www.noddyspuncture.co.uk - 'NODDYS PUNCTURE' .
I have been incorporating the percussion section of ELP's 'Tocatta' into the drum solo, including certain keyboard lines too:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aktdcLl9hyg&feature=channel_page - http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=aktdcLl9hyg&feature=channel_page
Enjoy!
Cheers,
Steve
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 11 2008 at 16:54
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awesome Steve.. .checking it out. ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 11 2008 at 18:18
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that was.. .hahah... impressive Steve. Need to check out that youtube clip of Rondo... micky love him some Rondo ------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: December 22 2008 at 04:32
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Wow. Real neat, got a big ole kick outta hearing "Thick as a Brick" (a big duh) and "Karn Evil 9;" the latter explaining a lot of how Keith woulda done it on stage. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
Posted By: kshacklett
Date Posted: December 22 2008 at 12:22
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Of course to REALLY be authentic I'd have to have keyboards opposite each other. It's slightly easier to play the stuff without having to whirl around. I used to do the two stacks but it takes up too much room in my studio.
Thanks for checking it out.
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Posted By: micky
Date Posted: December 22 2008 at 15:49
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yep... the classic Emerson style
------------- The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: December 22 2008 at 16:40
| excellent stuff! |
Posted By: The Whistler
Date Posted: December 23 2008 at 02:57
You also weren't stabbing knives into your keyboards...but that might hurt the equipment, so maybe it's for the best. Heh. ------------- "There seem to be quite a large percentage of young American boys out there tonight. A long way from home, eh? Well so are we... Gotta stick together." -I. Anderson |
kshacklett wrote:Posted By: kshacklett
Date Posted: December 23 2008 at 04:25
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I watched the youtube right after you posted about it. I thought I commented but I just now went there and found no comments. I meant to say: Nice job with everything. Must be fun being in the band. I wonder all kinds of stuff...where you play...do you have a nice following...do you ever actually get paid for playing such good stuff...do the young women run screaming when they hear ELP... Has Keith, Greg or Carl ever thrown you a bone... etc.
You're in England, right? Wish I could afford to run over there and sit in.
Keep on keeping the fire burning.
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Posted By: kshacklett
Date Posted: December 23 2008 at 04:29
| Oops, I thought my last reply would appear under the comment I replied to, like youtube comments. I was replying to Carnival9uk's post of Dec 11. |
Posted By: Greywoolfe
Date Posted: February 13 2009 at 09:33
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Mate, you're brilliant! I watched Karn Evil 9, Hoedown and Toccata- what can I say, apart from note-for-note perfect. I sincerely hope you find a Greg Lake soundalike and someone who can drum like Carl Palmer. Utterly amazing stuff- keep it up! ------------- 21st Century Schizoid Fan. |
Posted By: kshacklett
Date Posted: February 13 2009 at 18:19
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Thanks. Glad you found my videos. I hope to get some or all of the 2nd Impression on soon. Then it's time to bare all and post some original stuff.
I'm surviving right now, but if I get my ducks in a row I'll work on getting a tribute going.
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