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Magnificent Excess: The Story of ELP |
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Psychedelic Paul 
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 Posted: March 06 2023 at 04:42 |
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You just reminded me of Robbie Williams, who thinks he's the new Frank Sinatra, but in reality, he's more like the old Norman Wisdom.  |
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: March 06 2023 at 07:56 |
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My Top 10 ELP Songs (in alphabetical order)
All I Want is You Burning Bridges Fanfare for the Common Man The Great Gates of Kiev I Believe in Father Christmas Jerusalem Lucky Man Piano Concerto No. 1 Romeo and Juliet Take a Pebble
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: March 06 2023 at 08:33 |
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Are you ready to Dance with the Devil? I've heard he has all the best tunes, and this amazing tribute to Cozy Powell is no exception.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: March 06 2023 at 11:08 |
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COZY POWELL A legendary drummer who's been in more bands than you can shake a drumstick at. On the rainy evening of 5 April 1998, Cozy Powell danced with the devil one too many times when, having had a few drinks and not wearing a seat-belt, he drove his Saab 9000 at over 100mph on the M4 motorway with a defective tyre in appalling weather at night-time, whilst chatting with his girlfriend on a mobile phone. Somewhat inevitably, one of the defective tyres blew out and Cozy's last words (reported by his girlfriend) were "Oh s**t!" followed by a loud bang.    1986: Emerson, Lake & Powell - Emerson, Lake & Powell - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LtKb2sKbN9e7RqzfFtnb3k0 1979: Cozy Powell - Over the Top - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOZIdAeS-ZU 1981: Cozy Powell - Tilt - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7w-RksTYXo 1983: Cozy Powell - Octopuss - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjfSXN3YNgY2gWeoBx6CwlKtCJZQfwJx8 1992: Cozy Powell - The Drums Are Back - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CQuwGeCkT4 1998: Cozy Powell - Especially for You - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRqf53VfwCs 2008: Cozy Powell - Alive in Studio III: The Phenomena Years - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpP84nEcIy8Edited by Psychedelic Paul - March 07 2023 at 15:19 |
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Posted: March 06 2023 at 11:35 |
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^I love those solo Cozy albums, especially Over the Top.
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Psychedelic Paul
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Posted: March 06 2023 at 11:41 |
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^ Admittedly, I'd never listened to any of Cozy Powell's albums up until today and I also discovered he's listed on Prog Archives too (under Jazz Rock/Fusion).
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Posted: March 06 2023 at 17:02 |
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Better late than never, right? I like the first three best, but they're all good. Cozy was an exceptional talent who left us far too soon.
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Posted: March 07 2023 at 07:34 |
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I guess its doesn't do any harm to repeat the much told anecdote that Cozy turned up to his first audition for ELP without his drumsticks, but still got the job anyway. I prefer listening to the Sprocket Sessions for my ELPowell fix rather than the studio album which felt way over the top production even for ELP. Shame they didn't do another album but as soon as Palmer completed his contractual obligations with Asia then it was back to the original line up.
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Posted: March 07 2023 at 07:48 |
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Yes, it was well-worth the wait too, especially for Cozy's OTT debut album. The title of Cozy Powell's third album - Octopuss - reminded me of Procol Harum's drummer B.J. Wilson, who was once described as being like an octopus in a bathtub, mainly because he usually sat on a very low drum stool with arms flailing about all over the place, but always keeping perfect time.  Coming up next..... the forgotten member of the various ELP line-ups: Robert Berry.
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Posted: March 07 2023 at 14:52 |
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ROBERT BERRY A Californian singer and guitarist whose brief stint with supergroup GTR turned out to be fruitful when Berry met with Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer and they formed the imaginatively-named supergroup "3" together, when Emerson, Berry & Palmer would've been the more logical (and less confusing) choice of band-name. Unfortunately, the "supergroup" turned out to be not so super when barely anyone was "Talkin' 'Bout" their one and only album "To the Power of Three" in the year of its release in 1988, when the album virtually sank without trace - until many years later when "3" reappeared on ProgArchives and YouTube with a new resurgence of interest - although not always positive, it has to be said.
1988: 3 (Emerson, Berry & Palmer) - To the Power of Three - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvwwylCrJEuChC68BBpb9pt 1985: Robert Berry - Back to Back - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvXlICzvcKo 1992: Robert Berry - Pilgrimage to a Point - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3yEsWoYBIk 1994: Robert Berry - In These Eyes 1995: Robert Berry - Takin' It Back - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KV96p_FMXmk 1999: Robert Berry - A Soundtrack for the Wheel of Time - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kruuxgJat1Nmzuu0l5YRMYEA95XFDCEnU 2002: Robert Berry's December People - Sounds Like Christmas - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8BAiQ1UrbA 2006: Robert Berry - Prime Cuts - http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_k3LLn62ka8oFzq4c7yhcau0fJsGsJiBlQ 2008: Robert Berry - The Dividing LineEdited by Psychedelic Paul - March 07 2023 at 15:08 |
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Posted: March 08 2023 at 01:13 |
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^ there are 2 more albums by Robert Berry under the moniker of '3'. The second one had the last remaining Keith Emerson material as he was closely collaborating with Berry before his sad demise. Worth checking out.
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Posted: March 22 2023 at 13:07 |
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 1970: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Emerson, Lake & Palmer - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LupA_HcmerhVcS72ZRm6z5fI feel such a Lucky Man to have been there From the Beginning with ELP. |
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Posted: March 25 2023 at 12:13 |
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1970: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Live at the Lyceum Theatre - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LsLAtaXzZYNdphJ2K31sGlg |
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Posted: March 26 2023 at 11:13 |
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1974: Emerson, Lake & Palmer - California Jam - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoIDt_C5y1LvlDSW-XWwVXoVF_-v5U5Nj ELP at the California Jam in 1974 with Greg Lake singing "Still You Turn Me On" - a song which features the immortal lines:- "Every day a little sadder, A little madder, Someone get me a ladder" - although it's still the best song on the Brain Salad Surgery album, but probably belongs on the Love Beach album, in all honesty. Edited by Psychedelic Paul - March 26 2023 at 13:28 |
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Posted: March 26 2023 at 12:35 |
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Greg Lake: a picture of an exhibitionist doing what he does best at Stevenage Concert Hall, Hertfordshire back in 2005.
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Posted: March 26 2023 at 13:05 |
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He did the drums on my two favorite Jeff Beck group lps....Rough and Ready and 1972 JB GRoup 'Ice Cream Cakes' lp. Killer job...the band broke up or I assume there would have been more lps. |
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Posted: March 27 2023 at 08:27 |
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and it was Ritchie Blackmore that persuaded him out of retirement. Stargazer is still one of the best exhibitions of hard rock drumming I can think of, for me he had no peers in that dept.
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Posted: March 27 2023 at 08:29 |
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Strictly Come Dancing fans will note a certain David Arch playing keys. I went to the gig at Orpington on that tour and still have the programme.
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Posted: November 23 2023 at 11:16 |
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Welcome back my friends to the concert documentaries that never end: Pictures of three exhibitionists making a comeback in 1991.
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Posted: November 24 2023 at 20:43 |
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Hi,
Interesting comment in the special that kinda makes sense, and I'm not sure how we really look at it ... the comment about creating music for the stage, as opposed to create it for your imagination. That's usually two completely different things, since not many of the things that we hear (specially today as an example of the 2023 listings), are actually designed for the stage. They were, let's say, home studio designed and thought about ... the presentation of a lot of things takes a bit different dimension ... as is the case if you were reading a poem, and tomorrow you would say it differently, because it felt different. I, for example, don't write for an audience, as I write strictly to what I see in my inner movie, and make sure I get all the details out of it as much as possible. I suppose that this can be not the "thing" for many folks that are used to things they know and are familiar with. In my "movie" I don't know what it is familiar or not, I am too tied up simply translating what is coming through ... For the time, the presentation side of it, was important, since classical music concerts were known to be ... quite boring, specially to a rock audience. But the value and quality of the work has to be present, or it falls on its face.
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