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[ByeByeBye 1,747]

talking of emmerson lake and palmer

just loved that band

 

my favourite track

written by greg lake when he was 12 years old

talented guy

 

 

 

Interestingly this is not the original version...at least not all of it at the end.  In the original, you can hear Emerson's Moog going a tad flat on a sustained pitch.  It was a garf in the studio but they left it in and, to me, the dissonance it created always added a mesmerizing color to the ending...almost eerie in nature.  A great song and probably my favorite of from ELP also :)

 

 

This one one of the first uses of a synthesizer in pop music.  Moogs had been around for awhile already an there was lots of music featuring them as a solo instrument similar to a piano or organ (Dick Hyman comes to mind), but this is one of the first improvisational-like solos incorporated into a normal rock band piece.  Emerson does a masterful job forcing that wave-form to his will...it wasn't easy like it is today.  And that ancient Moog sound is so very very phat.  A very hard sound to get now-a-days in the sampling era.  Guys are refurbishing old Moogs and Leslie amps just to get that vacuum tube rich phat tone.

 

I had no idea he wrote it that young...pretty amazing.

 

Gosh, I feel dumb as a flat rock.  I must be getting old.  After listening to Lucky Man a few more times, the thing I said here is seeming less true.  Now I'm pretty sure this is the original version.  My memory was playing tricks on me.  The garf flat note is still in there but doesn't take center stage like my memory was telling me.  It also was only a tad flat instead of being as off as I remembered.  I thought it carried on through the ending fade where the drums stay at the same-ish volume.

 

In fact, now to my better trained ear than when I was a kid, I am kind of thinking that it wasn't even a garf.  I think Emerson went a bit less than a half step lower to blend the pitch up to end on the minor third(?).  If it were written it might have looked like a quick key change.  I'm not inclined to over analyze it though...too lazy. 

 

Anyway the pitch I'm referring to is at 4:13 and acts as kind of a grace note to the actual minor.  I am left wondering if it was intentional or a garf...with Emesron gone, we will probably never know.

Edited December 5, 2018 by ByeByeBye

[smokeyh2 1,512]

just incredible music

carl palmers drumming is fantastic

3 very very talented guys

i doubt we will ever see the like again

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ie1wU9BLGn8

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE3AUr1AIgs&list=RDKE3AUr1AIgs&start_radio=1

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[smokeyh2 1,512]

my absolute fave christmas song

you gotta love this

 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNyD8xHiLdQ

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[smokeyh2 1,512]

wow this makes my hair stand on end

recent x factor winner dalton harris together with former x factor winner james arthur

together what a combination just a mesmerising performance from both

 

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OXHajDPftwo

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so pure and true

 

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I love this one!   :wub:

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Edited December 17, 2018 by CooperO
Video containing profanity and violence removed.