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great hammond moments
click *soundclips*
Jimmy Smith yay! What, no Band Chest Fever? ELP (or Nice)? "Green Eyed Lady"?
Incomplete without Keith Emerson. The Hendrix of the Hammond was the biggest Leslie spinner of his era.
I like Keith Emerson. I have some soundtrack work he did in the 80s that I play over and over. There's a poorly chosen clip of him in the Ramones movie--Joey's talking about his early realization that he could never play as fast or as well as the prog bands. The clip should have been Rick Wakeman in a cape playing arpeggios but instead it's Emerson holding a Moog linear controller and making pure noise and being a spaz. I'd like to hear that solo acoustic thing he just did.
I think I’ve mentioned my late friend Larry Rosa; he was an Emerson freak, which led me to several ELP shows in my youth. Larry was a talented self-taught keyboardist, mostly learning by imitating Emerson. He jury-rigged a key-bass into a “synthesizer” and eventually got his sister to finance a minimoog. In junior high he had a band together that did a surprisingly convincing prog-rock show for a bunch of 15 year olds. This was certainly in contrast to the Ramones attitude. I’ve always given the “doability factor” a certain amount of weight in the development of Punk, but kids like Larry in the early 70s showed that they could do sophisticated music if they really wanted to, which leads me to believe that the final dissolution of the progressive and positive hippie ethos was perhaps the determinative factor for Punk as a widespread phenomenon. Up from the ashes, and back to square one.
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- bill 9-08-2004 12:49 am
great hammond moments
click *soundclips*
- bill 9-08-2004 4:53 am [add a comment]
Jimmy Smith yay! What, no Band Chest Fever? ELP (or Nice)? "Green Eyed Lady"?
- tom moody 9-08-2004 5:17 am [add a comment]
Incomplete without Keith Emerson. The Hendrix of the Hammond was the biggest Leslie spinner of his era.
- alex 9-08-2004 5:40 am [add a comment]
I like Keith Emerson. I have some soundtrack work he did in the 80s that I play over and over. There's a poorly chosen clip of him in the Ramones movie--Joey's talking about his early realization that he could never play as fast or as well as the prog bands. The clip should have been Rick Wakeman in a cape playing arpeggios but instead it's Emerson holding a Moog linear controller and making pure noise and being a spaz. I'd like to hear that solo acoustic thing he just did.
- tom moody 9-08-2004 8:16 am [add a comment]
I think I’ve mentioned my late friend Larry Rosa; he was an Emerson freak, which led me to several ELP shows in my youth. Larry was a talented self-taught keyboardist, mostly learning by imitating Emerson. He jury-rigged a key-bass into a “synthesizer” and eventually got his sister to finance a minimoog. In junior high he had a band together that did a surprisingly convincing prog-rock show for a bunch of 15 year olds. This was certainly in contrast to the Ramones attitude. I’ve always given the “doability factor” a certain amount of weight in the development of Punk, but kids like Larry in the early 70s showed that they could do sophisticated music if they really wanted to, which leads me to believe that the final dissolution of the progressive and positive hippie ethos was perhaps the determinative factor for Punk as a widespread phenomenon. Up from the ashes, and back to square one.
- alex 9-08-2004 5:36 pm [add a comment]