Has anyone seen this? He's touring in November? Thoughts???
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Has anyone seen this? He's touring in November? Thoughts???
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I caught them at a tiny theater 3 months ago , here in Syracuse. No Keys, interesting set, all instrumental. Percussion heavy , of course. We enjoyed.
Great show here in Phoenix, Trilogy was my favorite, could've done without the stick player using Toto's "Rosanna" as his solo spotlight number, however ....
-=Will you stand by me against the cold night, or are you afraid of the ice?=-
I skipped this back to June. No keyboards means that I won't go.
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The guitar driven trio ain't grabbing me, reminds me too much of one of those Magna Carta tribute projects.
I have seen this show a few times. It's a really good show but definitely bizarre without keyboards. Personally, I would rather see the ELP tribute band out of California that I am hearing very good things about. Are the called Fanfare?
While different, the guitarist is really talented and worth at least seeing once (if your budget permits)
They are great! But, they are out of Chicago..... :-)
They will be appearing at a prog fest that Carl is also playing: http://www.fanfarerocks.com/archives/292
Sorry but no keyboards on ELP music is akin to Jimi Hendrix music played on a kazoo. Not for me.
Depends on how good the kazoo player is.
Take for instance the first couple of albums by Mastermind, Bill Behrends managed to duplicate the sound and awesome chops of ELP with his guitar trio. It was not in any way an undeserving tribute to Keith.
https://youtu.be/XxDvytWNl00
I thought you may have mentioned Crosstown Traffic
I'm a keyboard player and Emo inspired me to play (going back to The Nice days) so I just can't get my head around it.
I saw Carl Palmer's 'ELP Legacy' at BB King's in NYC back in April. For me, the band doesn't quite work because they're trying to do ELP's songs without keyboards (or vocals). This means that the guitarist & bassist have their hands full in trying to cover all the bases. On the plus side, Carl Palmer can still play very well and the Drum Solo that did towards the end of the show was great.
We saw them a few years back at le Gesu in Montreal. An interesting show (and Paul B., of Neal Morse's European band, smokes on guitar) but one we subsequently passed on when we've had the opportunity to see them again. Once was fun, but enough.
Greg Lake recorded some guitar versions of ELP with Gary Moore, for the King Biscuit Flower Hour, and it worked well. The band showed a lot of promise, but it remained mostly unfulfilled.
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I saw the Keith tribute show at a small club, I enjoyed it more than I thought I would. Yes, some of the songs don't work without keyboards but the guitarist did a good job with a lot of the parts. Didn't really like the bass player's tone --Greg used a pick and it made a difference-- and I'm sort of glad there weren't any vocals. Something I'd go to again? Nah, I wish Carl would work on original material but oh well.
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Greg Lake's main keyboard player, after ELP, was Dave Arch who scores the music for BBC1's Strictly Come Dancing. He is quite clever as he has to alter the tempo to suit the pace of the individual dances.
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According to the KBFH CD page, Tommy Eyre was the keyboardist I'm referring to from that tour, and the wiki page for him confirms he was with Gerry Rafferty on Baker Street amongst others. Live, I found him somewhat pedestrian in the same blasé way I found Julian Colbeck's fit to be in Steve Hackett's band. YMMV.
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-=Will you stand by me against the cold night, or are you afraid of the ice?=-
I've seen them six times since 2010 and we already have our tickets for November.
If you are expecting a tribute band, this ain't it.
I wish there would be at least some new material too, but it doesn't seem like Palmer wants to do that for whatever reason. It's a different interpretation of the songs. I think they are given new life or at least allowed to live in the spirit they were intended.
If by some miracle/delusion Jordan Rudess sat in and traded off with Paul Bielatowicz I wouldn't exactly be upset by that either.
On a weeknight but hard to rationalize not going when he's playing 8 miles from my house
Interesting venue, it's a recording studio designed for 30 or so,visitors. Pricy at $250/ ticket but yolo
It was fantastic.
Intimate venue perfect acoustics. I was 6 feet from the drum set up in the center. My god Carl HASNT lost a step he's nailing everything with the vigor of a 20 year old. He did a finesse thing during his solo with stick tricks that impressed the hell out of me - laying a stick across a tom and snare and without holding it used the other stick to play the loose stick for a few bars. Very humble and humerous and remorseful about the loss of Keith. The perfect tone. He played his heart out two hours, which would have required an ambulance for me. I kept watching him hold the sticks with the single hand drum roll thinking it would be funny to ask him if he needed a fork at a Chinese resteraunt (a compliment about his stick mastery)
Some of the attangements were unique and fabulous (take a pebble piano and vocals on stick). Some required an open mind not to long for a keyboard (the solos on old castle and fanfare) but even these were really well done and it's hard not to be impressed at the talent. Guitarist and bassist handled their parts quite well though I do think they'd benefit from vocals (commentary on arrangement only not the obvious first rate chops of the players)
I was trying to be respectful and not record because it was obvious they were doing pro shot video audio recording but Carl said to the audience we should record and post something. I'll figure how to upload paae to YouTube this weekend and post it here in case anyone is interested
Carl had a full house and people were buying the merch (I didn't realize Carl had painting made by stick LED). The sold out at the price but it included dinner and a one-on-one. It was weird 50 people in the audience walking around without shoes (house rule)
Lastly, I was stumped by the question, and I'm an old time fan boy, what was the first song ELP ever played together?
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