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Jack Straw Inner circle Wichita 1020 Posts |
Looks like he committed suicide at the age of 71.
I saw ELP in 1973 at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City. He was throwing knives at his keyboard (Moog?). It blew my teenage mind. "Lucky Man" and "From The Beginning" are two of my favorites. RIP Keith Emerson.
Jack Straw from Wichita, cut his buddy down
And dug for him a shallow grave, and laid his body down Half a mile from Tucson, by the morning light One man gone and another to go, my old buddy you're moving much too slow We can share the women, we can share the wine |
Tom Cutts Staff Northern CA 5925 Posts |
It's sad and strange. He was very influential in the early use of synthesizers in rock.
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arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1773 Posts |
Great keyboardists, fantastic performer. RIP.
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Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Anyone know if he ever ended up paying royalties to tbe Bartok or Janacek estates. His plagiarism was blatant.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
The Hermit Veteran user 301 Posts |
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On Mar 13, 2016, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: Geez is the body cold yet? That is a lame comment. The guy was a keyboard genus and had a huge influence on prog rock. Here is the story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Barbarian_(song) |
Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
Lame comment? The fact is that he stole other people's work and claimed it as his own.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
0pus Inner circle New Jersey 1739 Posts |
Gee. When Ravel arranged Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition" for orchestra (it was originally a piano piece), it did not become Ravel's "Pictures at an Exhibition" - it was still Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition."
Ravel's arrangement is, more often than not, what is heard today as Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." Why should things be different for Emerson? |
Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
FWIW, here's Bartok's "Allegro Barbaro", played by Zoltan Kocsis.
And here's the ELP arrangment, called "The Barbarian". I rather like them both.
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1773 Posts |
Magus has a good point, because ELP never gave credit to the original composers whose works they interpreted.
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The Hermit Veteran user 301 Posts |
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On Mar 14, 2016, Magnus Eisengrim wrote: Did you read the link. He apologized for that and in other cases it was his arrangement of classical pieces duly noted. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictures_a......r_album) I would postulate that he helped turn a lot of young people onto classical music. I had never listened to Mussorgsky until after ELP's version. Moved me to other classical as well. You can rightfully criticize his lame sponge bunny routine, but let's cut the dead guy some slack on his musical inspiration. |
The Hermit Veteran user 301 Posts |
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On Mar 14, 2016, arthur stead wrote: Other than the one I cited. Can you cite a reference? |
arthur stead Inner circle When I played soccer, I hit 1773 Posts |
From Wikipedia:
Occasionally Emerson quoted from classical and jazz works without giving credit, particularly early in his career, from the late 1960s until 1972. An early example of Emerson's arranging was the song "Rondo" by the Nice, which is a 4/4 interpretation of Dave Brubeck's 9/8 composition "Blue Rondo a la Turk". The piece is introduced by an extensive excerpt from the 3rd movement of Bach's Italian Concerto. On ELP's eponymous first album, Emerson's classical quotes went largely uncredited. Classical pianist Peter Donohoe has said that "The Barbarian" was an arrangement of "Allegro Barbaro" by Bartók, and that "Knife Edge" was based on the main theme of the opening movement of "Sinfonietta" by Janáček. By 1971, with the releases Pictures at an Exhibition and Trilogy, ELP began to fully credit classical composers, including Modest Mussorgsky for the piano piece which inspired the Pictures album, and Aaron Copeland for "Hoedown" on the Trilogy album. Emerson indicated in an interview that he based his version of Pictures at an Exhibition on Mussorgsky's original piano composition, rather than on Maurice Ravel's later orchestration of the work. |
Magnus Eisengrim Inner circle Sulla placed heads on 1053 Posts |
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On Mar 14, 2016, The Hermit wrote: I see no evidence that either Bartok's nor Janacek's estates received a penny. Neither had been dead for 50 years when their music was appropriated by Emerson. Why should he get off with an apology, when he owed them money?
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.--Yeats |
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