The Genius of Keith Emerson - Part 1

The moog solo on Lucky Man aged very well.

"A bit of a genius?" Are you joking? His genius will never be seen again.

PP Arnold gave him his first big break..that should have been in the video

No one else played like Keith! Always a sign of greatness.

Now that 'musicians" can sample and repeat, the astonishing music talent won't come back again. Music composition peaked in the 1970s, and cannot be repeated again.

ELP ROX 🔥🎶🔥

THis is a mine of GOLD 🏆.Thank you so 🙏much for putting up these wonderful videos keeping Alive these wonderful Unique heavenly talented SOUL musicians ! Going on to part 2and 3 ......................💐💐💐👍🏽

In the late 60s - I was 13 or so - my uncle enthusiastically gave me ’Switched On Bach‘ by W. Carlos. But it left me more or less cold; although I already liked Bach, the synthesizers sounded somehow interesting, but thin and less impressive than an orchestra to me. I then became a huge fan of Keith Emerson‘s organ playing with The Nice and started to play organ myself.
What really made me feel in love with synthesizers was definitely the ‘Lucky Man‘ solo. Today I have 20 synths. :)

Always amazed watching Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman playing keyboards.

He not only played, he wrote and arranged so much of the music.

My love of Keith Emerson is what brought me to building synthesizers which are based on his Moog and eventually consulting for Moog Music. I met him twice and had nothing meaningful to bring to the table. His Moog tech, the late Gene Stopp, was my friend and mentor. Thank you very deeply for this.

The guv’nor ❤

I loved listening to his music so much!

A bit of a genius is an understatement. Thanks for putting this up!

I always fantasised that I could have been in Coogan, Lake and Palmer.

Et une tarte campagnarde brandebourgeoise
J’adore !

Yeh saw him doing that live, was so exciting ELP we’re so innovative exciting and unbelievable exactly what a teenage girl wanted!

Great video, The Yak, thanks.

It's "Lemmy", not "Lenny". 😒

My fav keyboard player of all time..saw dec 18 73 msg nyc choir quad nyc sno storm..77 4× 2 orch 2 no orch..86 msg .92 thru 2000..." the best"..bobby seeds(rip) great k board player he was also. said 2me in msg.. nyc 1973..we saw 86 .92 stanhope nj .then he passed dec 92..but he saw thru my eyes after

Thank you so much Tom for putting this together, very enjoyable..

Two things about the “Lucky Man” Moog solo:
A. It sounds every bit as amazing, innovative and striking today as it did when it first came out.
B. There’s NO WAY this was just Keith just trying out the new device. The solo is structured, nailed, overdubbed and fundamentally perfect, and as great as he was, this would have taken some thought, work and multiple takes to achieve.
Just sayin’.

You did a great job! I've been following Keith Emerson since the early 70s and this is by far the best documentary I have seen about him - especially the early history before the Nice and ELP. I'm looking forward to Parts 2 and 3. Thanks for your work and I'll be checking out your other content.

I ut want to say, thank you from an old (too damn old) ELP fan.

This is an excellent piece of rock history you have put together here. THANK YOU. I grew up on the Nice, then ELP. Through out my youth i really only loved thier first 3 albums. I still mostly feel that way to this day, although in my old age i appreciate the later ELP albums more than i used to. By the way i had and loved the five bridges album by the Nice when i was quite young an it shaped my future taste in music greatly!

And I thought Jon Lord was rude with his organs 😅

I will never, ever forget seeing ELP at the Calif. Jam in 1974. The year I saw the light. RIP Keith. You were indeed a Keyboard Jedi Master.

I''m in my 50's and thought Emerson was just some old washed-up has-been, but I recently found out that he's like Eddie Van Halen since both were virtuosos who redefined their instruments with creative ways of playing them.

Technical skill
Composing skill...
I saw ELP 7 times
Plus Emerson Lake & Powell 1986
Also:
Emerson, Palmer, and Robert Berry.
I have seen Carl Palmer about 5 times since EMO'S passing...

corporate SHILLy show

Great video, thnx

When he Died, I set down at a bus stop, crying for half an hour

My idol/inspiration/teacher since 1st listen in '70. His "America" is tour de force. Thank you for this.

Il più grande 😍

❤

A modern day Mozart

Thank you for that carefully made docu. I thought I knew 'most all there was to know about The Nice but you managed to teach me some new things.
Back in 1967 (I think) a group of us teens went to see Pink Floyd at the Royal Albert Hall, on the Hendrix tour. Some group we had never heard of was also on the bill. They played a piece with a Bach-like middle-section (Emerlist Davjack) and another piece in which the Hammond-player cracked a bullwhip and then imitated its sound by glissing rapidly down the top manual (Rondo, of course). Thus began a lasting love of The Nice, fed by regular trips to The Marquee, in Wardour Street. Their stage act was riveting, as you never knew what might happen next. They were unique. ELP might not be, in Peely's words, a waste of talent and electricity, but , good as they undoubtedly were, I always preferred The Nice.

berserk!

Thank you for this insight. Well researched and the clips you found are amazing!

I think there were connections between both hemispheres of his brain, greater than normal, thus his abilities to concentrate and multitask.

I discussed America with Keith in his limo, and later I became friends with Bernstein during his residence at Harvard.

He could chew gum, rub his stomach, play two different rhythms, drink cognac, and still scan the audience...all at once. And play backwards? True genius. Read his autobiography Exhibitionist.

One other trick that Emerson did on his L100, was to reach inside and do something which sounded like de-tuning a bass guitar string. I first heard this done by The Nice, and for many years assumed it was Lee Jackson. But videos have revealed it was in fact Emerson inside his L100 making that bass sound. Does anyone know what he was doing?

Has anyone seen the fantastic Keith Emerson Tribute concert DVD that Cherry Red put out 3 years ago? So many fantastic guests, but for me the highlight was Brian Auger. His bit was the only one to include any Nice music.

Nice job. I've never understood how strong the Don Shin influence was til now. Plus I've ever seen that footage of "Daddy, Where Did I Come From?" BTW, that Emerson Trio disk is a revelation. You have to hear it to appreciate what an amazing prodigy KE was.

Genius gets bounded around a lot, but this man truly was , a genius !

Thanks for paying homage to a stellar legend

Please, put subtitles...

where is Part 2?