Members Mark L Posted September 4, 2009 Members Share Posted September 4, 2009 Probably one good song on that album Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff da Weasel Posted September 4, 2009 Members Share Posted September 4, 2009 At least it's a long one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members coyote-1 Posted September 4, 2009 Members Share Posted September 4, 2009 Yeah, TOCCATA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted September 4, 2009 Author Members Share Posted September 4, 2009 At least it's a long one. You can't lick a good long one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jeff da Weasel Posted September 4, 2009 Members Share Posted September 4, 2009 Speak for yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Yeah, TOCCATA. You mean Karn Evil 9. Maybe you don't... but I do. Best song on the album IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Sayers Posted September 4, 2009 Members Share Posted September 4, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted September 4, 2009 Author Members Share Posted September 4, 2009 Nice bit of airbrushing there, John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members the stranger Posted September 4, 2009 Members Share Posted September 4, 2009 Get Friendly Dog Salad, instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members techristian Posted September 5, 2009 Members Share Posted September 5, 2009 One of my favorites. Love Palmer's drumming. "Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.We're so glad you could attend. Come inside. Come inside." Dan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 5, 2009 Members Share Posted September 5, 2009 Soon the gypsy queen in a haze of Vaseline will perform on guillotine... What a scene, what a scene! Gotta love that lyric. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rjt Posted September 5, 2009 Members Share Posted September 5, 2009 I just loved ELP (still do.) Saw them as the warm up for Procol Harum at the Spectrum in Philly around 69 or 70. Seen them about 14-15 times in all. I like all of Brain Salad Surgery... although I like ELP and Tarkus better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 5, 2009 Members Share Posted September 5, 2009 Is this the album that contains the hymn called "Jerusalem"? This choral song, which every English schoolchild knows, used to be parodied often by Monty Python. UQ0oCmDXrVk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted September 5, 2009 Author Members Share Posted September 5, 2009 Indeed it is It's a patchy album, to be sure Benny The Bouncer?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dave Bryce Posted September 5, 2009 Members Share Posted September 5, 2009 Benny The Bouncer?? Obviously there just for fun, and I think it sets the stage nicely for 1st Impression. Some pretty nasty piano playing in that, actually. dB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted September 5, 2009 Author Members Share Posted September 5, 2009 If you mean the phallus under her throat, that is actually on the cover.... I know Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cooterbrown Posted September 5, 2009 Members Share Posted September 5, 2009 Hate everything about that abomination of a band...they are like the grandaddys of soulless, wank-a-rama bands like Dream Theater. Carl Palmer is a crazy soloist..and that's about it...he's still a crazy soloist even when he's simply attempting to keep time.In some misguided judgement, Scott Henderson once hired him for a session. He later said "needless to say...it didn't work out, at all...Carl thinks drums are something you just set up and wail on, with no rhyme or reason." Greg Lake - a reviewer once called him the Don Pardo of rock - that's very apt...he's a stiff, booming voiceover...as out-of-sync as the rest of the musical melee going on around him. Emerson's kinfe-chucking-and-stabbing rape of Hammond organs, spaghetti-hell of patch cords, and vertically rotating piano solos are the sole reason for the invention of Punk...so thank god for Keith, I guess. All that being said....the beginning of "Tarkus" was pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil O'Keefe Posted September 5, 2009 Share Posted September 5, 2009 Guilty as charged Brother Dave - I should have said "composition" or "piece". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mark L Posted September 5, 2009 Author Members Share Posted September 5, 2009 Guilty as charged Brother Dave - I should have said "composition" or "piece". I think he was quoting me, Phil Then again, I could be wrong - I usually am Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rasputin1963 Posted September 5, 2009 Members Share Posted September 5, 2009 This one surely ranks as one of the most stunning album covers ever designed. Disturbing, too. What could it possibly mean? IIRC, the phallus was airbrushed out on American copies of the album? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nice keetee Posted September 6, 2009 Members Share Posted September 6, 2009 I liked ELP and saw them live 2x... caused me to check out some of the classics too like Mussorgsky etc...Copeland too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bp Posted September 6, 2009 Members Share Posted September 6, 2009 I loved ELP when I was young. Much of their music hasn't aged too well for me. I do like The Carl Palmer Band's take on some of the ELP tunes. Paul Bielatowicz does some interesting takes of Emo's parts on guitar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nice keetee Posted September 6, 2009 Members Share Posted September 6, 2009 I found ELP heavy and complex and also intricate on some tracks. Got into the whole Prog rock Genesis, Yes, Giant stuff along with Beatles and /Stones back then. Real orchestras too. Makes me want to hook up the 'table and play some old vinyl...I liked Black Oak Arkansas too They were opening for ELP here in...''72? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members nice keetee Posted September 6, 2009 Members Share Posted September 6, 2009 Seems like music was less niche back when... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Ed A. Posted September 6, 2009 Members Share Posted September 6, 2009 I loved ELP when I was young. Much of their music hasn't aged too well for me. Same here. I was a big ELP fan like 35 years ago, I'm not so much into the prog stuff now. But I did see The Keith Emerson Band at Toad's Place a couple years ago and they were great. It was cool seeing Emerson play his modular Moog from about 10 feet from where I was standing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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