Pissing All Over Myself
10.11.06 (11:11 pm) [edit]I'm listening to something I never thought I'd hear. And boy oh boy do I feel like Super ProgGeek right now.(Super ProgGeek and Super ProgGeek's Mellotron sold separately.)
Emerson, Lake & Palmer at the Long Beach Auditorium on March 22,1972. The second time of the very, very few times they ever performed the song Trilogy live. The only recording of it I know of now.
The title song of one of their best albums, it's one of my favorite things they ever did, and I used to sit at the piano and play it (quite badly, I may add) and wish I could write somethng that fucking beautiful.
Keith Emerson is one of my heroes. There's NOTHING quite like the noise he used to make back then. 1972 is some special fuckin' shit for an ELP fan. Tarkus and Trilogy - these albums own a special part of me. I've got about 17 bazillion versions of the title "song" (all fucking 47 hours of it) from the '72 tour, and I need MORE, dammit. Put that stuff in capsule form, and Viagra is a limp-dick formula in comparison, baby. Keith Fucking Emerson EATING THE UNIVERSE, motherfucker.
I didn't know this recording EXISTED. I'd heard they'd done it live a few times, and that they'd NEVER done it. But they did, and since it was 1972, they had to do it with a backing tape since Keith's Moog was monophonic. How fuckin' cool is that?
This is a progboy's idea of the Holy Grail. Sonofabitch.
Love,
Dougie
posted by: OOP (reply)
post date: 10.11.06 (10:19 pm)
How's that spacebar? I do need to get rid of that keyboard, you know.
posted by: OOP (reply)
post date: 10.11.06 (10:43 pm)
How's that spacebar? I do need to get rid of that keyboard, you know.