i am not impressed with anything they did!
― xzanfar, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 00:57 (three years ago) link
https://ibb.co/bzQHczp
― J. Sam, Tuesday, 23 February 2021 01:15 (three years ago) link
I will always owe Emerson a debt of gratitude for introducing me to barrelhouse/boogie woogie on Works Vol. 2
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 24 February 2021 05:03 (three years ago) link
“Show me the way to go home.”“I’m tired.”“And I want. To go to bed.”
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 27 February 2021 06:36 (three years ago) link
ELP were musically conservative, almost regressive for a prog band and they had no personal demons and nothing to say.
― Naive Teen Idol, Saturday, 27 February 2021 06:54 (three years ago) link
They're my least favourite of the big six prog bands, and the most forgotten too. Not one of their records is free of boring or tasteless tracks, but on those occasions when they agreed to collaborate rather than self-satisfy, the unlikely mix had its unique flavours. I like the freshness of the debut, but the overbearing Brain Salad Surgery might actually have more good music.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 27 February 2021 16:06 (three years ago) link
Big six = Floyd, Yes, Genesis, Tull, ELP, ... KC? Anyway I'm p sure I would agree with you whoever the other five are but I do enjoy the first album and a few other things. I actually like that they attempted rock versions of Janacek, Bartok, Mussorgsky, and Ginastera (which are choices that imo challenge "conservative"/"regressive"; not like they were doing Pachelbel's Canon like TSO or someone).
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Saturday, 27 February 2021 16:19 (three years ago) link
They're my least favourite of the big six prog bands, and the most forgotten too.
I guess my own Big Six would probably be:
YesKing CrimsonPink FloydELPVan Der Graaf GeneratorGenesis
Jethro Tull were (are?) awful. ELP at their best are wild, unhinged and joyously self-indulgent.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 27 February 2021 16:35 (three years ago) link
I love couple of VdGG albums. I just thought he meant big 6 in terms of popularity.
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Saturday, 27 February 2021 16:43 (three years ago) link
sund4r, that list is correct. I'm not sure who came up with that term, I first heard it in the 90s sometime.
Tull have a whole lot of banal music that sounds like itself, but it helps that Ian Anderson is a witty and canny lyricist. I can't listen to him after he blew his voice out in the 80s.
My personal top prog acts would include VDGG, Gentle Giant and Henry Cow (plus Oldfield if he counts) above ELP. As a kid born in 70s Toronto, Rush will always be "metal" rather than prog to me.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 27 February 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
And I do hear that wild, unhinged quality at their best, yeah. I don't really hear them, or much early 70s prog, as "just very fast and precise" tbh, esp with the hindsight of a few decades of progressive metal or even any post-EVH hard rock guitar shredding. xp
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Saturday, 27 February 2021 16:49 (three years ago) link
A lot of what I enjoy about ELP is the ballads (though not "Lucky Man"). Emerson calms down a little behind the piano.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 27 February 2021 16:54 (three years ago) link
Yeah, I love "From the Beginning".
― to party with our demons (Sund4r), Saturday, 27 February 2021 17:01 (three years ago) link
The mellow Mimimoog solo on that one is the bees knees.
― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 28 February 2021 03:51 (three years ago) link
my dad played Trilogy all the time when I was 6...hearing that solo again on the radio at 13 was a trip
― frogbs, Sunday, 28 February 2021 04:17 (three years ago) link
If Leonard Cohen had written these lyrics from The Only Way (off Tarkus) they'd be hailed as mordant genius rather than wittering stupidity:
Can you believeGod makes you breathe?Why did he loseSix million Jews?
― someone get me a bladder (Matt #2), Sunday, 31 October 2021 13:17 (two years ago) link
elp planning reunion tour with e & l on film.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/emerson-lake-palmer-reunion-tour-interview-1247408/
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 1 November 2021 12:44 (two years ago) link
lmao it's footage from the Black Moon tour
― frogbs, Monday, 1 November 2021 13:37 (two years ago) link
THE REUNION'S ON
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2pYeyJCykc
― born on the bayeux (Matt #2), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 08:37 (one year ago) link
I do enjoy the OTTness of their early live stuff but not a big fan of the studio stuff. Do have first couple and they do have a few moments bit think I'd only really listen to them live from first couple of years of the 70s. Do like The Nice when Davy O'List was still on guitar.
There's a South American hard rock band called Tarkus that are supposed to be pretty good
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 09:57 (one year ago) link
i saw them in dec. 1973 at the nassau coliseum. admittedly not the first *couple* of years in the 70s and maybe it would have been cooler to have seen them earlier but it was cool nonetheless. in quad! this is, apparently, what we got. any earlier tour and there would have been no karn evil 9.
HoedownJerusalemToccataTarkusBenny the BouncerTake a PebbleStill… You Turn Me OnLucky ManPiano ImprovisationKarn Evil 9Pictures at an Exhibition
― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
playing now on bass, there is Greg with younger face
― frogbs, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
(not my comment by the way but it makes me laugh)
I saw Carl Palmer with Asia on their first tour. He is indeed a monster. The other two were talentless douchebags.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 7 September 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
i know it's not exactly groundbreaking as composed music but i still genuinely like piano concert no.1 -- it has a nice bony momentum
someone shd actually write up their approach to rescoring the classical classics (i once had a discussion with chris cutler at a bar where he made a p good case for pictures at an exhibition as a genuine contribution to whatchamacallit)
maybe someone already wrote this
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 15:42 (one year ago) link
nice bony momentum and no greg lake 🥰
― mark s, Wednesday, 7 September 2022 15:58 (one year ago) link