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ELP MARATHON FIRST REACTION: The Three Fates / Tank / Abaddon's Bolero / Living Sin OUTSTANDING!!! (Patreon)

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2024-03-28 04:22:40
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This marathon was blocked on YouTube and I lost the dispute battle, so here it is! Sponsored by GREAT SCOTT, a mega thank you! PLEASE ENJOY!!

1. The Three Fates

2. Tank

3. Abaddon's Bolero

4. Living Sin

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ELP MARATHON FIRST REACTION The Three Fates / Tank / Abaddon's Bolero / Living Sin OUTSTANDING!!!

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Gail Richie

Hi Nick! I love ELP so much. This was a great reaction. You should do a reaction to them at The California Jam Festival in 1974. The youtube video I saw lasted an hour. It is really good. Greg played a few acoustical songs alone. It is magic to see them play at that time. If you don't do a reaction, you should watch it with Lex...she would love it. Also, the song "Ces't la vie" is really great. You should definitely do more of them.

Great Scott

Nick, this is great. (How many months ago did I submit this? I don't remember.) "The Three Fates" is a three-part "pseudo suite", written and predominantly performed by Emerson. Each section is named after the three sisters of Greek mythology known as the Three Fates: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. The "Clotho" movement was recorded at the Royal Festival Hall in London, with Emerson playing the venue's pipe organ. "Lachesis" is a short piano piece that features baroque and jazz influences, ending in grand, sweeping arpeggios. "Atropos", billed as a piano trio, sees Emerson play a piano vamp in 7/8 with percussion accompaniment from Palmer. An improvisational section is played on top, which transforms into a polymetrically played repeated sequence in 4/4 time. The resonance of the final chords is curtailed by the sound of explosions. Palmer's solo spot "Tank" was composed with Emerson. The first section features Emerson on clavinet and piano, Lake on bass and Palmer on drums. The middle section is a drum solo. The final section features Emerson on clavinet and Moog synthesizer. "Living Sin" is a hard rock number about an aggressive groupie that was never played live by the group, although a version with Marc Bonilla on guitar was attempted by the Keith Emerson Band. "Abaddon's Bolero" sounds like a bolero turned into a march (in 4/4 rhythm rather than the usual 3/4). The piece was originally titled Bellona's Bolero after the goddess of war. A single melody containing multiple modulations within itself is repeated over and over in ever more thickly layered arrangements, starting from a quiet Hammond organ making a flute-like sound over a snare drum, and building up to a wall of sound – Maurice Ravel's famous Boléro uses a similar effect. (swiped / edited from Wikipedia.) If you wish to "see how the sausage is made", here's a link to an international collaboration doing Living Sin, where you can see the various instruments: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmL50099a2w And here's a link to a Keith Emerson Tribute concert, which starts out with Abaddon's Bolero via orchestra (and features Rick Wakeman at the end): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wezatgjtUjY Nick, do not worry about others dissing you about your reactions. Given that it's here instead of YT, you should have a more favorable reaction to your reaction

Stephen Caruso

Really brought back memories! I had the ELP tape back in 1972 two years after it came out- my brother introduced them to me- also had Pictures at an Exhibition and Brain Salad Surgery

Stephen Caruso

I saw that on TV what a great concert that was with Deep Purple and Black Sabbath too

Michael Gray

ELP is one of my favorite bands. Love this marathon!

Gail Richie

I don't know which bands were there, but I think many were there over the few days of the festival. That would've been a fun time.🙂

So Many Shiny Objects

I was SO HAPPY to see this was available on patreon although it sucks that you got blocked. Thanks so much, Nick, for continuing to bring ELP to people's attention. LOVE them.

Gary Lewis

I had the privilege to run some of the great Rock radio stations of the U.S. during my professional career, and one of them was Z-93 in Atlanta. We put on free concerts for our listeners entitled "Z-Ninety Free" at the Lakewood Amphitheater, and of course I couldn't help but have my prog proclivities influence the acts we chose! June 16, 1997 it was ELP, and here's the setlist (and Nick, Kansas co-headlined with ELP, so I figure you'd want to see THAT set list, too!): ELP Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Part 2 Tiger in a Spotlight Hoedown Touch and Go From the Beginning Knife-Edge Bitches Crystal Piano Solo Honky Tonk Train Blues (Meade Lux Lewis cover) Take a Pebble Lucky Man Tarkus (Tarkus Parts 1-4) Pictures at an Exhibition Encore: Fanfare for the Common Man Drum Solo KANSAS Point of Know Return Miracles Out of Nowhere Song for America Cheyenne Anthem The Wall Hold On Journey From Mariabronn Portrait (He Knew) Encore: Dust in the Wind Carry On Wayward Son

Gary Lewis

For those not up on their Greek mythology, the Three Fates were sisters who wove the thread of each person's life. Clotho spun the thread and therefore controlled their birth, Lachesis drew out the thread and determined the length of life, and Atropos cut the thread and thereby set the manner of death. Now give it another listen with that in mind! As for the amazing sound from the Royal Festival Hall organ, I always had the sense you could hear it actually drawing breath like some immense musical beast...

steve murrell

Tank is just a fantastic song. Love it! As for the creativity of the time and the mind blowing array of brilliant music coming out in this period, I think it is a combination of the dawn of a new age of rock and drugs. I know that might be controversial but I think we can thank sheer well trained music talent and marijuana and LSD for this great period of music output. The creativity was through the roof.....peoples minds were being opened.

Richard Dobson

Who says rock music isn't educational? I remember buying ELP's debut album in 1970, listening to it, devouring the album cover notes and then heading for my school's library the next day to look up on Greek mythology and find out about The Three Fates. You're so right Nick, we are so lucky to have Keith, Greg and Carl's recordings to listen to for the rest of our lives. 54 years so far and still counting...