“Keith Emerson on telly – Not Much Kop! Started History Project – History of Music since 1900’s – doing it wiv Dick who’s writing the soul & TM parts”
ELP collectively can ‘do no wrong’ in my 1973 eyes. Keith Emerson by himself evidently can?!
This “History of Music” project is something I was – and still [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘emerson lake & palmer’
05-12-09
July 4th, 1973
01-06-09
March 7th 1973
“Arguverge > Argument” / “Dental Appointment 2.30″ / “Went to see Pictures at an Exhibition, Emerson Lake + Palmer – damned brilliant. Plod – Scaffold – Funny. Grave New World – Strawbs – Crap”
Not just a double movie bill at the Regal, but a TRIPLE movie bill!
Actually, “movie” is a bit of a misnomer in this [...]
01-02-09
March 5th 1973
“Took back Trev’s records” / “In evening went up Nigs – battling tops wiv drawing pins – borrowed 2001 Ai Space Oddesy off of him – not bad” / “Borrowed drawing stuff off of Bernie – lent Trev my Popular Hi-Fi Mag”
Stanley Kubrick’s immense “2001 – A Space Odyssey” (erm, not Oddesy) movie was released in [...]
11-15-08
January 25th 1973
“In the evening I taped Moving Waves and emerson lake and palmer for Johnny – good recording” / “Melody Maker not in yet” / “Got records off of Nobby in xchange for him losing my pen”
No truth in the rumour that I wore an eye-patch, had a wooden leg and carried around a parrot on one [...]
11-02-08
Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Tarkus
“Tarkus” can’t really be described as my favourite ELP album, but its certainly the one I know the most intimately.
Side One features the 7-part concept Tarkus suite, mostly composed by Keith Emerson, that is supposed to tell the tale of the peculiar half-armadillo/half-tank represented on the cover.
Emerson has apparently stated in his autobiography “Pictures of an Exhibitionist” [...]
07-21-08
October 10th 1972
“dad went to school for meeting. meanwhile back on the ranch pulled off all old pictures from walls and put up ELP”
Aw, bless my teenage cotton (more likely, nylon) socks, I replaced the band pictures on my wall.
Not that I can remember what I took down.
Or put up.
If you see what I mean?
07-16-08
October 4th 1972
“Received Trilogy – Emerson, Lake + Palmer – Bloody Fantastic”
I’ve already banged on enough about Trilogy
I like my review of it though! Totally unbiased of course.
(The airbrushed cover painting of ”three barechested ELP boys” does seem a tad ’gay’ now, doesn’t it? I’m beginning to wonder if “Lucky Man” had an underlying alternate meaning?)
07-15-08
September 30th 1972
“went to Oval pop festival – E.L.P + Focus absolutely brilliant. W.A. not bad. Argent, Genesis - shit / Cort 9.47 /
So what – 36 years later – can I remember of my first ever rock gig?
Actually – and maybe surprisingly – this Oval gig was my one and ONLY rock “festival”, but very much my induction into [...]
07-09-08
An Aside (IX)
Part 2….
Can Keith Emerson sit with his legs ANY further apart in the pic on Page 5?
07-08-08
An Aside (VIII)
Part 1 of scans of the official concert programme in advance of my memories (hah!) about my big day at the Oval….
Yes, you CAN ask “Who the hell were Fudd?”
All will be revealed come my concert day post…..
07-07-08
An Aside (VII)
Behold the concert poster – scanned from my personal (framed and on my office wall) collection….
Tickets £1.00!
The mention of Harlequin Record Shops as ticket sellers reminded me that they used to advertise very heavily in the back pages of all the music papers. I believe – but can’t be 100% certain – they were eventually bought out by [...]
07-05-08
September 27th 1972
“Ticket arrived for concert at Oval. Rang up Barry Dillon to ask which LP would receive, said would more likely gt Trilogy”
Back in the days when you could rely on the postal service obviously!
One day? Good lord, that’s, like, “first class” or something? I still find it peculiar now that I won just ONE ticket [...]
07-04-08
September 26th 1972
“got letter saying I had won free ticket to the oval and LP. no-one believed me. argument between M+D becos M dont want me to go, D does”
….. and this little butterfly began to flap his wings.
A teenage life is full of turning points. I can categorically state that receiving this letter was definitely one of [...]
05-26-08
July 26th 1972
“arguverge” / “nothing at all dun all day except gordon came up in afternoon and we taped slade alive sd 2. I also taped A.Rooster etc”
Gordon?
Gordon?
Aaaaaaaargh! Who ARE these people?
Finally got that Slade album committed to cassette it would seem?
A.Rooster is shorthead for the band Atomic Rooster, more specifically their minor hit “The Devil’s Answer“. (Why I [...]
05-24-08
July 25th 1972
“nothing much in the morn. in afternoon went swimming and went to mick’s house + bor. records. Taped America + Slade 1″ / “new set batts > 59 days” / Vicarage 7.30 for rounders match. we won” (6m)
The diary entries are at least getting longer and a bit more informative this school holiday aren’t they?
There’s [...]
05-23-08
July 24th 1972
“Went up Trev’s house for day. good fun. He bt me at chess 2-1, but hospital called for him at 2:40 so I went home. on the way home I bought pictures at an exhibition – emerson, lake + palmer”
Trev was, it has to be said, a very good friend. His parents were always very [...]
03-10-08
May 27th 1972
“Recorded Yes Fragile. P.A.E – ELP ”
Ah, after all the weeks of apparently abandoning music for other teenage things, I’m back at the tape deck, sat silently in front of my record player.
Yes’ Fragile is perhaps their most complete work. With its memorable Roger Dean sleeve artwork, it’s certainly the one which catapulted them into the [...]
02-12-08
March 6th 1972 (2)
“Bought set of batteries. 18p. 33 Days”
33 days seems something of a good success rate for one set of batteries to last, given the fact that
a) the past month or so included bi-daily power cuts
&
b) during that time I must surely have listened to stuff more then usual?
I still find it funny…. no, make that [...]
