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FULL ALBUM: ELP - Brain Salad Surgery (Patreon)

Published:
2023-07-30 00:54:44
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2023-07-31 01:33:49
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Hi to our La Familia, Casa Nostra & Dan Members!

We hope you are having a wonderful weekend. We have returned from our trip just two days ago and were so ready to get back to recording that we did this masterpiece as a FULL ALBUM! So excited to share this with you and please expect TWO polls you can vote for next month, as we will be selecting both full album releases this month and you will be selecting both for next month.

Hope you feel we delivered by choosing this option... can't wait to share the second full album with you later this weekend - stay tuned!

Thank you for all you do for us!

Sending love, Lex, Nick & Marley

Link for video (in case you're unable to open above):https://vimeo.com/849780739/3e6c10f7a2?share=copy

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FULL ALBUM: ELP - Brain Salad Surgery

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Wayne

Just a brief word about the sequence at the end of 3rd Imp... if you follow the theme of the lyrics, man and computer are united in battle at the beginning but by the end the computer begins to question the necessity of man and the sequence is the computers beginning to assert dominance, taking control. In concert, ELP used a quadrophonic sound system with speakers in front and behind the audience. When this sequence was played, it simulated surrounding the audience with technology which is rather prophetic considering that is where we are today.

JK

Great choice! Thanks and welcome back!

So Many Shiny Objects

I'm one song in, and I have to add that Jerusalem is like a second national anthem (after God Save the Queen) in England. The members of ELP learned it as children, and everyone in the country knows it like we know our own national anthem. It was played at William and Kate's wedding. The line about chariots of fire became the title of an Oscar-winning film by the same name. They sing the song at the end of the film. :)

So Many Shiny Objects

OK, first of all, Lex should sing more! I'm sort of live commenting here, but a few things since the last comment: Toccata was an adaptation of a movement of a modern piano concerto by Argentinian composer Ginestera. Carl was the first drummer to ever use synthesized percussion, and he basically "invented" it. The swooping and crazy fast stuff in his solo is caused by a drum that triggered synthesized sound. Most think it's Keith, but it isn't. It's Carl. :) Still. . . You Turn Me On live at Cal Jam in 1974 is available on YouTube. Lake does it solo sitting on a stool, chewing gum, picking every string, and singing it perfectly to 250,000 people. Mesmerizing. Stunning. And he was absolutely gorgeous. Benny the Bouncer is based on a real bouncer Greg ran into in an English dance hall. That's a rough Cockney accent he's using at times and his own usual voice at others. (To answer your question, Greg sang everything for this band.) ELP has a number of these novelty pieces that I love. They're always funny with an ironic twist at the end. Some people hate them because they think they aren't prog, but ELP never claimed the prog label. They didn't want to be chained to that genre. They played whatever they liked, and they liked everything. In KE9's first impression, the second part was the rare ELP piece that was short enough to be played on the radio. (That's why it has so many more listens on Spotify.) I didn't know when I heard it on the radio as a teen that there were other sections to it. In many of the parts where Nick was miming the keys, Keith was just playing chords, and Greg was playing lead guitar. I think Nick's mind was like, wait, guitar? Is it? But there isn't a guitarist! Or at least not a lead guitarist. . . But that is Greg, who was a guitarist for eight years before he switched to bass for The Gods and then famously for King Crimson. He really liked guitar much better but took one for the team because bass and vocals were what KC and ELP needed. He did get to show his guitar chops with his acoustic ballads and a rare lead guitar as in KE9 and Tarkus. Mind you, he had to play these intense guitar and bass parts in a long piece like this LIVE while switching instruments and singing these incredibly fast, complex lyrics. As you've said many times, they are all three UBER virtuosos.

So Many Shiny Objects

Yes! And it's worth mentioning that Peter Sinfield worked with Greg on the lyrics to this last part. Pete had been a computer programmer in a previous life, and the theme here is decades before its time. And Keith voiced the computer. :)

Michele

“Welcome back, my Friends, to the show that never ends.” The NicknLex show! Even during vacation, you had videos for us. 😻

Mark Alexander

Great! The 2nd impression has the most plays because in the 1970s it was a radio hit. Now, should Yes’s Tormato be on your album poll? 🔥

Richard Dobson

It's great to have you back on Patreon. You should sing more Alexia, just think.... Emerson, Lex & Palmer!! Seriously, coming back with a bang, this album is such a classic. 50 years on I tend to play mostly Karn Evil 9 whole and not the rest so it was great to hear the whole album. The older I get, the more I realise that I would have been just as happy if ELP had just been a piano led jazz trio. The second impression is so atmospheric and haunting. Thanks guys and I'm glad you enjoyed this amazing album.

Stephen Caruso

I had the album in 1974 and played it to death

Eric Meredith

for the most part this was excellent. I don't know why but Benny and the bouncer , felt very out of place on this record. like it did not belong on it everything else on this was so good. I cannot wait to re-listen ! thank you!

Doug Fenske

"...and now for something completely different." - Monty Python

KevB(rewski)

Emerson had this penchant for adding short "saloon tunes" or honky tonk ragtime that were intended to be humorous. Benny the Bouncer, Jeremy Bender, The Sheriff, a few others. They always seemed like space filler throwaways to me, and yes they seemed out of place. Maybe they felt the need to break up the serious long epics with some light "humor".

Debra Brabenec

It was a very busy August for me so I'm just now getting to this! Wonderful reaction to a favorite since it was new! I had never heard "Jerusalem" before this album, and didn't know it was a popular hymn in England, until touring in England with my college madrigal group in 1979. Some of our 35 concerts we sang were for schoolchildren, and at one school, the children sang it for us! As I and others commented when Nick reacted to Karn Evil 9, there is, indeed, a latin-tinged quote from Sonny Rollins' "St. Thomas", complete with synthesized Caribbean steel drums. Thanks for doing this whole album! 🎵❤️🎵 Debbie

Debra Brabenec

Mark, I think you mean part 2 of the 1st Impression- "Welcome back my friend..."🙂

Mark Alexander

Great to be part of a group that can correct such things. Thanks, Debra!

Ken Thomas

I’ve loved this album since it came out. I had no previous experience with classical music and thought it was just for rich people in stuffy smoking jackets. I had no idea what ELP was doing here but only knew that I loved it. Also had no idea that they were providing me with a classical music education. Years later I found that I actually could get a feel for classical music with little effort, and although I don’t listen that often it now makes sense. It did take dozens of listens to Brain Salad Surgery before the chaos began to ease but now feel like I am meeting an old beloved friend every time I hear it. Thank you for reviewing this masterpiece. Your reactions are so fresh and it’s a joy to see young people adding this to the soundtrack of their lives.

Stefano Lentini

Thank you very much! Grazie a Scott e a Voi, perché insieme avete dato la possibilità, a tante persone, di conoscere questo fantastico trio molto avanti per i loro tempi. Pensare ad una guerra fra esseri umani e intelligenza artificiale 50 anni prima è pazzesco. E come metterono tutto in musica è assolutamente eterno.