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Album: Trilogy
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6.6

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Released: 1972
Length: 3:42
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 kingart wrote:

I don't know what I was thinking. A 6? I must have been temporarily hard of hearing. This rockets along at about 190 mph, so this is an 8. 
 




I gave it a TEN!   Thanx RP!   
 risingson wrote:

What the heck was that!




100mph of GREAT!!  Thanx RP!  
 thewiseking wrote:

ELP were brilliant. Aaron Copeland was brilliant. Didja know Copeland lifted this, almost entirely, from a Kentucky Bluegrass arrangement of Boneparte's Retreat by William Stepp?. I mean Copleland did not just borrow a folk tune, he stole the arrangement. At least ELP made it their own with the Moog theatrics.
here is the source material: 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yeQucos9-M




Thank You for the info!
 ziggytrix wrote:
It's like a prog version of the Chicken Dance Song! {#Dancingbanana}

 
Yeah, it's so groovy - nothing heavy-handed or ostentatious about this.
kaftans
 unclelonghair wrote:
This sounds like a bunch of teenagers playing around on their dad's electric piano.

 
This sounds like a bunch of teenagers on speed playing around on their dad's electric piano :-)
Reminds me of Focus.
ELP were brilliant. Aaron Copeland was brilliant. Didja know Copeland lifted this, almost entirely, from a Kentucky Bluegrass arrangement of Boneparte's Retreat by William Stepp?. I mean Copleland did not just borrow a folk tune, he stole the arrangement. At least ELP made it their own with the Moog theatrics.
here is the source material: 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yeQucos9-M
 unclelonghair wrote:
This sounds like a bunch of teenagers playing around on their dad's electric piano.

 
Man, I want to hang out with the teenagers that you know, as this is one of my favorite rock keyboard jams of all time. Not just me either - AllMusic describes Emerson as "perhaps the greatest, most technically accomplished keyboardist in rock history".

Not to mention Palmer beating the crap out of the drums too.
The first ELP song I ever heard, whereupon I became a big fan.  The music may not have aged all that well but even when I tire of Kieth's keys board wizardry, there is always Carl's amazing drumming.
Goofy high-energy fun (but I'd rather hear the title track).
Tofu. It's what's for dinner.
This sounds like a bunch of teenagers playing around on their dad's electric piano.
I don't know what I was thinking. A 6? I must have been temporarily hard of hearing. This rockets along at about 190 mph, so this is an 8. 
 
 risingson wrote:
What the heck was that!

 
Just ELP being awesome. That's all.
I wore the grooves out on the this album back in the day
These guys made and carried a sound like no other back when this, and subsequent LP's, came out.  Porcupine Tree and some others may be today's equivalent.  Very nice if you like that sort of thing....and who doesn't, at least....in some (small) quantities if not large?  {#Clap}

Highlow
American Net'Zen
 Pawlaw wrote:
It's so Old !

 
You're just too young.
It's so Old !
 xtalman wrote:

Yep I played the hell out of this one.  Belated RIP Keith.  Many demons I guess.

 
The guy that was the closing act for California Jam (his openers included Eagles, EWF, Deep Purple) eventually went bankrupt, sleeping on friends' couches.
His damaged ulnar nerve made it hard to use his right hand 4th/5th fingers, and - afraid he couldn't perform up to expectations, even after bringing along a second keyboard player, he killed himself.

How horrible. 
best-air drumming -song-ever{#Drummer}
 ziggytrix wrote:
It's like a prog version of the Chicken Dance Song! {#Dancingbanana}

 
I had a version of them doing that on a bootleg back in the late '70s.  That album also had a prog version of "The Alleycat" that was pretty rockin' too - lots of very loudly-mixed mellotron stuff.  The epitome of 1970s excess.
What the heck was that!
It's like a prog version of the Chicken Dance Song! {#Dancingbanana}
 seageek wrote:
One of my favorite albums in high school. RIP Keith.

 
Yep I played the hell out of this one.  Belated RIP Keith.  Many demons I guess.
Bill, please consider adding "Fanfare for the Common Man" to your library.  Seems apropos given the passing of Keith Emerson, who was not so common.
6 > 7.  
I of course can't know if Aaron Copland is cringing or hoedown-ing. Let's have some Fanfare and do the quasi-American thing: put it to a vote. 
One of my favorite albums in high school. RIP Keith.
Thank you! So glad to hear this here!
A big musician has gone. Thank you for what you left here.
R.I.P. Keith.
So happy to hear this on this very sad day. Thank you for playing it.
Such a different style from the one I remember - did they do much of this kind of hoedownish genre?  btw loved the album artwork  back in the day.
RIP Keith Emmerson....{#Daisy}  {#Daisy}  {#Daisy}
Took me some time to realize what the heck I am hearing as the main tune was present throughout my childhood at every bluegrass jam my father played at. :D
A cover of Aaron Copeland?

Keith Emerson, Keyboardist for Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Dies at 71

Keith Emerson, the flamboyant, English prog-rock pioneer who rose to fame as the keyboardist for supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer in the ’70s, died in Santa Monica on Thursday at age 71. Although the cause of death was not revealed, an official statement was issued by bandmate Carl Palmer.

 

I used to love ELP!  I'm glad to be hearing them again!!  
college daze....
Likeable. You can't fault the musicianship. Plus it got so many younguns pissed off by its excess that whole new musical genres popped up. Oh yeah...RIP Keith Emerson too.
RIP Keith

Thanks for finding this gem in your catalog, Bill 
Takes me back to high school.  Windows open, doing homework, headphones cranked!
RIP Keith! Another one bite's the dust!
RIP
Mr. Emerson
So long Keith - off to the hoedown in the sky.