Zachary Ross
Zachary Ross
Jack the Ripper.
Tempted to look for a bottle from VOS selections
- Thread starter Cole Kendall
- Start date
Keith Levenberg
Keith Levenberg
Too many notes
Pavel Tchichikov
Pavel Tchichikov
too many keyboards
Eden Mylunsch
Eden Mylunsch
Too many knives!
I was about 15 when ELP played the Hollywood Bowl* with Edgar Winter's White Trash and Humble Pie (with Peter Frampton) opening for them. Could there have been a better bill for a 15 year-old? No way. At some point toward the end of the show, Emerson attacked the Hammond, using knives to hold down keys** which he'd solo around, and then he rolled the organ over and started to hump it. So much for subtlety, but look at who his audience was. Tough to do with a Farfisa or a Moog and back up in the bench seats it made an impression. A memorable evening to be sure, with no lack of psychological subtext, most of which was lost on me at that point.
WRT my use of the wanton word "varietal," I normally subscribe to Josh Raynolds' dictum of "just don't use the damn word at all" but occasionally it slips out when I'm referring to a wine made with just one variety.
-Eden (Fats Waller was cool, but the pipe organs he played always remind me of roller rink music, where his piano work is best in class in that era. much as Mr. Smith was in his -- he kinda invented the whole organ trio genre)
* Hollywood Bowl lost that one.
** Jimmy Smith, Groove Holmes, and Jimmy McGriff seemed to be able to hold similar long pedal tones using fingers, without resorting to knives, bricks, or even the pedals
Oswaldo Costa
Oswaldo Costa
That is perfectly correct, it was the use of varietal to mean variety (Gamay) that I was incompetently objecting to.
I was lucky enough to see Keith Emerson with The Nice, one of the privileges of living in London at the time. Also saw Humble Pie with Frampton. And Johnny Winter with Edgar as a sideman. Heady days.
Odd Rydland
Odd Rydland
David Greenslade in Colosseum live.