As a keyboardist myself, I can say that the knives and stuff don't damage the organ, I mean really it's all part of the showmanship of the song, which actually is pretty badass!
@benjaminhall2496
2 жыл бұрын
Yea he totally didn’t damage the organ at all, I agree
@noinfo9130
Жыл бұрын
@@benjaminhall2496 I love that everything you read about these guys mentions about how sensitive hammonds were (looping tapes) and how much fucking around it was to set it up for a gig but only side mention what the f he used to do to them....
@chrisdb4278
Жыл бұрын
@@noinfo9130 It was the mellotron that had tape loops and was a pia to tour with. That said, Hammonds have a mechanical tone generator and tube electronics, so not really indestructible.
@anthonytucker8913
7 ай бұрын
I think it's lame
@user-tr3st4ms9g
5 ай бұрын
@@anthonytucker8913i think that nobody cares
@RasMajnouni
11 жыл бұрын
Careful with that knife,Eugene
@Kombi-1
4 жыл бұрын
Ehehehe
@williamgavalier1960
4 жыл бұрын
Or izzit axe? Lol
@erinschloeffel
3 жыл бұрын
careful with that knife, Keithene
@exceno7587
Жыл бұрын
i understood that reference
@RasMajnouni
Жыл бұрын
@@exceno7587 Blue Jay way
@earevalent1
10 жыл бұрын
I saw the band on a Halloween show. Keith donned a mask while he attacked the organ. None of it was impulsive. He puts the knives in specific places to hold the keys down, so he can play other parts
@noinfo9130
Жыл бұрын
and the throwing it around was the same again, not like the ol just plain 'lets smash this shit the fuck up' destruction of guitards and drums that started with people like The Who
@LNClubsTheaters
8 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest keyboardists of all time, RIP Keith Emerson
@florentinrekier3640
10 жыл бұрын
I didn't know that Prog Rock can be SO Badass!!!
@awaken77
Жыл бұрын
The most famous and notorious Keith Emerson' stage act. Knives show, rodeo on the organ, playing on keyboard upside down. There's no other player like this
@ballroomblitzkid1994
12 жыл бұрын
Keith is just a wonderfully weird musician that I've come to love. A true artist to appreciate.
@OlexandrIgnatov
8 жыл бұрын
This is a sad day when one of your heroes die...Keith was an inspiration to so many keyboard players around the world for decades. The greatest player, performer and showman from the keyboard world that influenced and changed the way people play keyboards today. He will be very missed! RIP Keith!
@UncleHam1337
8 жыл бұрын
+Olexandr Ignatov Changed the way people play keyboards today? I´ve never seen one riding a keyboard
@awaken77
5 жыл бұрын
modern keyboards are made of plastic and too fragile to be abused like that :-(
@noinfo9130
Жыл бұрын
man EL+P were long gone by the time i fell in love with 'Pirates' so they sure as shit sucked in multiple generations.
@eternalcolonel
9 жыл бұрын
Never mind that Rondo is a Dave Brubeck tune and few rock keyboardists had the chops or talent learn and play it OR were well studied enough to even the song until Emerson played it. Sadly-all that gets shown is the non-musical aspect of Emerson's work; which is outstanding. He stood head and shoulders above EVERY keyboardist of his and each subsequent era of rock and roll.
@wherebandshaman
Жыл бұрын
Keith was the best keyboard player within the last 100 years full stop
@lemmykilmister4919
10 жыл бұрын
Imagine if Keith Emerson was a church organist, then church attendances would go up.
@gergelyszalay9455
9 жыл бұрын
Lemmy Kilmister LOL! That's why he just WAS!
@stuarth.2554
6 жыл бұрын
Emerson actually WAS a church organist before ELP and the Nice! All those heavy early ELP organ pieces, such as The Three Fates and Infinite Space, were directly inspired by Keith's church organ playing.
@awaken77
5 жыл бұрын
Lemmy, it was YOU who gave him a knives! so you are partly responsible for this crazy performance :-)))
@knightrdrx
3 жыл бұрын
a girl I was dating asked my to come and audition for the job of keyboard player (not the organ) at her church where she sang and her mom was choir director. After trying to play with the guitar player..i'm not that good playing with others...i got to fool around with the organ and played some of Light My Fire and Tocatta and Fugue in Dminor (the death song). I don't think her mom was happy about that. Our relationship didn't last long..I think I disappointed her that I wasn't a musician like she was.
@manifestgtr
8 жыл бұрын
meanwhile,the thing is probably still in perfectly functional order to this day...they require some maintenance but man, these things are over engineered and generally very difficult to kill
@Eamon15
8 жыл бұрын
I know his organ tech.Emerson has DESTROYED uncountable numbers of Hammond Spinet Organs like the L-100
@manifestgtr
8 жыл бұрын
+James Vincent really? that's surprising to me...I've bashed my hammonds to hell and back...moved them 15 miles in the rain in the back of a pickup truck...you name it...still good to go
@Eamon15
8 жыл бұрын
That is what Al Goff told me.He also wired Emersons Hammon to Midi controll the Moog.I trust his account to be accurate.
@bobcomment8589
4 жыл бұрын
manifest Stupid false
@caketin3287
6 жыл бұрын
This and the flying piano are some of his best tricks
@manman-wg1xn
4 жыл бұрын
How the hell did he do that by the way?
@citizenerased000
3 жыл бұрын
@@manman-wg1xn I just saw that too. I read a comment that the piano was a prop with an electric piano inside that he could play. Not feasible for an actual piano to spin like that..
@oldschoolchartist
3 жыл бұрын
More like a flying piano SHELL. The action on a grand piano will NOT WORK upside down. I think it was a taped performance in this particular case.
@awaken77
Жыл бұрын
i think it was purely visual, because acoustic grand cannot play upside down due to gravitation (the hammers would not strike the strings) . But certainly doable with electronic keyboards
@EthanWhateley
13 жыл бұрын
anybody that remembers ELP in their prime knows they were dangerous sounding. There was something a bit frightening about them to me as a kid back in the early 70s, and I loved them. Anybody that ever doubts their awesomeness needs to check out the live album from 74 "Welcome back my friends to the show that never Ends" particularly the recording of Tarkus on there. That will settle any debate about their musicianship.
@Frahamen
10 жыл бұрын
fun fact: the knives are a Hitlerjugent ceremonial knive Emerson got from Lemmy as gift for being his roady.
@hoppinonabronzeleg9477
7 жыл бұрын
I have been reading Cider with roadies by Stuart Maconie. page 53. Footnote says ' I now know that they were not in fact carving knives but genuine Nazi daggers supplied by Emerson's one-time roadie. Lemmy.'
@roy_for_real2674
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, they look special
@dalepal
7 жыл бұрын
I saw a few guitars smashed at concerts in the early 70s but the one that got me was Keith Emerson rocking and stabbing his Hammond organ with knives.
@ScarletSwordfish
8 жыл бұрын
Farewell you wonderful madman.
@christopherjamesvarela2413
8 жыл бұрын
this performance is sick af, RIP Keith Emerson, absolute madman, wizard on the keys, such sad news, you were a real inspiration...
@wherebandshaman
Жыл бұрын
Think about this, he was good enough to play on his back, upside-down, with his instrument on top of his legs. Ride the thing like a mechanical bull. And stab blades between the keys. All while still delivering a consistent and streamlined array of notes. A true legend
@fingersfan1843
3 жыл бұрын
Always love seeing this clip !!! IMHO, Keith Emerson was the greatest keyboardist ever. Saw ELP three times. The second time I saw them, in1992, when he started "abusing" the Hammond, it "died" right there during the concert ! That poor Hammond took a lot of abuse from him over the years !! RIP KEITH NOEL EMERSON !!!!
@MoonchildMindaugas2
12 жыл бұрын
First of all, showing off is part of onstage presence - if you're constantly serious, no matter how good your music is and how good you are at it, people will get bored. Like it or not, but this is how it usually is. Definitely one of the things that make concert even more memorable. Besides, it often actually works for the performance, enhancing it.
@KazBodnar
2 жыл бұрын
Bored? Have you ever been to a King Crimson concert or seen one?
@MoonchildMindaugas2
2 жыл бұрын
@@KazBodnar I haven't attended one, just seen. It has to be said, my original comment is very old and I while I still stand by what I meant by it I should have chosen better words. Basically, what I meant was don't just stand still there like a mummy. It's nice that you can play well, but what about some body language that shows you're having fun which transcribes to the audience? It's no fun just being there emotionless for 1-2 hours straight.
@FernieCanto
Жыл бұрын
@@MoonchildMindaugas2 "Basically, what I meant was don't just stand still there like a mummy." > Kraftwerk has entered chat
@DavidAlejandroYT
9 ай бұрын
@@FernieCantoStill though, Kraftwerk’s image is about being robotically still and mechanical. To me, boring would be a skinny jeans indie band mumbling over a boring riff while moving less than a corpse
@JimButler1234567890
14 жыл бұрын
I can appreciate the artistry and the desire to do something completely different - to lend a signature style to the way you play or to the stage theatrics. However, I repair these for a living, and I know this organ probably better than anyone alive today. That's a Hammond M100, and what's bad is that the keys on this organ are plastic, and weren't made to withstand a lot of stress the way the earlier full-size Hammonds were. I imagine that this guy kept their keyboard tech busy FULL TIME.
@noddyspuncture
3 ай бұрын
... you don't know it as well as I do... it's actually a L100. You'd not be able to lay down under an 'M' and have the strength to get it up again..!
@fermiLiquidDrinker
8 жыл бұрын
Let's hope Keith didn't treat his women how he treated his organs.
@TheJargonKing
7 жыл бұрын
He definitely didn't.
@fermiLiquidDrinker
7 жыл бұрын
H4RDC0R3 P14Y3R It was a joke.
@TheJargonKing
7 жыл бұрын
Bubbadoobop I understood. Just sayin, m8
@88omair
7 жыл бұрын
Let's hope he didn't treat his organs like he treated his hammond organs
@fermiLiquidDrinker
7 жыл бұрын
Omair Sheikh same
@Wonka275
8 жыл бұрын
Keith Emerson 1944-2016 :( RIP
@rcknrol1
13 жыл бұрын
My big sis took me to see these guys at the Swing Auditorium in San Bernardino in '77. It was my first rock concert ever. I was just seven years old, and perhaps the youngest ELP fan at the time. I loved every minute of it! I remember smelling something really aromatic in the stands, and I learned it was pot smoke! LOL. And I remember seeing Keith doing all kinds of crazy shit and knocking the Hammond on top of him and playing it backwards down while laying on his back. Good times. :)
@frombeneaththegarage
8 жыл бұрын
RIP Just picked up a L133 circa '69 yesterday and listened to my Tarkus CD on the way home today then heard this news, spooky.
@clavdig
14 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! It's hard to rock out as a keyboard player, he found a way and made it his own and it's wonderful to watch, the pure physicality as well as the technical playing is amazing. Read his autobiography, he never touched drugs after a couple of bad experiences, adrenalin was enough. At the end of the day the organ is just a machine in abundance at the time, not treasured as they were now.
@analogpix1
13 жыл бұрын
He used the dagger to sustain notes so he could go to do other things. It is not a violent act at all. It's true artistry. Keith pushed the limits of the Hammond. FYI: Lemmy from Motorhead gave him that dagger.
@Carlito1988
14 жыл бұрын
Ahhh...for the good old days, great musicians who also had a sense of adventure!! That intensity is missing in today's musicians & recordings...
@WalterWisniewski
8 ай бұрын
That's a avantgarde classical music technique used in the sixties, and strumming the piano strings. Only Keith Emerson had the talent to play his music with such. Veriousity. He was also a rocker whose showmanship was as good as the best could do.i think emo was and remains the greatest keyboardist of our time. We were lucky he was here
@Tarkus-Ivalice-dweller
4 жыл бұрын
He actually did it, the absolute madman!
@puddypuss
11 жыл бұрын
seeing them doing rondo in a similar way to the nice is good for me. I think elp never had that unspoken unity and feel of the nice, though good in places. I think it shows that a good performer and good music can sound great at any time. I remember seeing the nice in1968 with emerson doing the knife act. funny how no one calls jimi hendrix 'the keith emerson of the guitar'...
@EricBBarker
5 жыл бұрын
puddypuss agreed, ELP never felt like a band, they always sounded like 3 dudes fighting for control. Never could groove.
@ZmajSnoshaj
15 жыл бұрын
This man is a goddamn fucking genius.... I'm a budding Hammond technician and would have loved and been honored to fix his L-100 after every show just for a chance to ween some of his playing wisdom....
@adalaku
13 жыл бұрын
He bought the organ. He can do whatever he wants. As for his musical prowess, it doesn't need defending. He is one of the titans of keyboards.
@josecarlos1955
13 жыл бұрын
I saw them in concert about the time "from the beggining" came out; I have a memory of Keith strapped to the organ and it spinning around, plus all the other antics such as smashing the organ to get feedback. It was a great show, unfortunately not to be seen ever again! Prog Rock Rocks!
@deanevangelista6359
6 ай бұрын
From what I’ve heard, that organ had it coming!
@yosoylesteeg
16 жыл бұрын
how can he just move it around like that? they're HEAVY
@Ingersent
13 жыл бұрын
Great video I saw ELP in 71 and 73, brings back memories.
@incongra
14 жыл бұрын
@magicmike618 I saw emerson doing this at the Usher Hall in Edinburgh in , I think 1971. It was hard to understand his motivations, and a lot of people questioned whether the organ was stil plugged into the mains ( i.e., energised) during this sequence, or whether it was a tape being played. It is almost of "spinal tap" proportions, a stunt like this.
@jojothepojo
8 жыл бұрын
still remember that brussels concert in 1971. waauw! thanks Keith!!
@incongra
14 жыл бұрын
Imagine what Simon Cowell would have to say about it....... hahahahaha
@MojoStrummer
14 жыл бұрын
@harmonycostal its not to destroy the organ, its just the way he got the sounds that he used a lot.
@pattimherbst
8 жыл бұрын
:(
@SonataFanatica
8 жыл бұрын
But mom!! This *IS* music!!
@ifyoureinmarketing-killyou3111
Жыл бұрын
I believe these might be the knives that Lemmy from Motorhead gave him; they were WW2 era German knives
@mikepatrick5909
10 жыл бұрын
The guy could really abuse his organ.
@rockrollkidd
13 жыл бұрын
Wow, alot of people have opinions about things they know nothing about, the 8 contact bars for the Hammond tonewheel organs are behind the keys.. theres nothing under the keybed nothing to break, no one flipped out when Keith Moon killed his drum kit on stage, it was a great moment in rock history.. besides, Hammonds are tanks, I love my M3, L100 and M100. Kieth Emerson is one of if not THE most Iconic rock synthists ever.
@juankgonzalez6230
4 жыл бұрын
1:32 He was already hinting at what Toccata from Brain Salad Surgery would sound like!
@WilliamSlaght
15 жыл бұрын
This is as intense as Hendrix lighting his guitar on fire...
@fryBASS
13 жыл бұрын
Fools! This is how a true artist uses their instrument! It's just that, an INSTRUMENT. You don't worry about your hammers and screwdrivers getting bashed up do you? These things are meant to be played, used; how ever the user desires. Not to be put into some dust-free case and barely touched. I applaud Keith for his inventive style and technique.
@Orygyn
15 жыл бұрын
I think I know why no-one does stuff like that today. Imaging breaking a Korg Oasys while trying to do something similar. The words MAJOR DEBT come to mind.
@theodorecurtin1975
11 жыл бұрын
listen to the classical piece he composed, piano concerto number 1 and then say hes not a real musician
@rorrante
8 жыл бұрын
Say it ain't so. Keith ROCKS ! Rest in Peace.
@sofalugger
11 жыл бұрын
November 1971 Sheffield City Hall AWESOME
@BlackTomorrowMusic
12 жыл бұрын
If you listen to other performances by ELP, you'd see that they CAN concentrate on music, too. And they do it phenomenally. They were actually classically trained. Besides, performances like this are more memorable than someone on stage lip syncing.
@details78
15 жыл бұрын
A mad genious. He knew what he was doing.
@threalismaradona9899
2 жыл бұрын
I am pretty certain that L100 took out a restraining order after this performance
@wyrdscynce
11 ай бұрын
holy shit, i mean, its tough being a keyboard player, not haveing the maneverability of a guitar player, but what showmanship, he was having sex with his whole rig, i feel like this sometimes but cant express it on stage.
@lenini056
16 жыл бұрын
From my opinion, Keith Emerson is the Jimi Hendrix of the keyboards
@saulocpp
11 жыл бұрын
Damn Keith Moon exploding his drumkits... what a sucker he was...
@Yakkymania
3 жыл бұрын
Wrong Keith….. In all honesty, I love Keith Moon, but Keith Emerson had cooler things to do to the organ than Moon had for drumkits.
@spookypatchouli
12 жыл бұрын
I think it would be dangerous to be backstage at an ELP gig, at least in the range where you could get stabbed by thrown knives!
@colinwhite5355
3 жыл бұрын
It was the 70’s - Leeds, I think - and I’d seen ELP before. I knew Keith Emerson would be leaping over his screaming Hammond at some point and I was ready with my newly acquired Praktica SLR. As he vaulted upwards and over I pressed the shutter release. Perfect, except I’d left the lens cover on. One of my life’s many ‘Oh f**k’ moments.
@selfhelp69
3 жыл бұрын
using a prussian dagger for a key hold....next level.
@gwanaway
11 жыл бұрын
Of course there was, but it's called showmanship. Keith was and still is the King of Keyboards.
@sofalugger
5 жыл бұрын
A True Legend. . Brilliant performer. . He,d be arrested today carrying knives!!!!
@casamagneticaviva
14 жыл бұрын
incredible organ noise! It's a wonder that nobody got hurt - CRAZY!
@Fredrockroll
12 жыл бұрын
Yes, just saw on TV a concert they did in 2010.
@Kombi-1
4 жыл бұрын
He literally feels the spring reverb
@albatros777
14 жыл бұрын
It's funny to see him teetering on top of that organ while holding a knife out. One slip and we have a new an original end to a rock hero.
@chickberth
10 жыл бұрын
When men were men and they used to knock around 200lb hammonds on stage, not these little 6lb guitars, lol.
@JayHawke84
9 жыл бұрын
I think this is a Wurlitzer Electrostatic Theatre Organ he's playing
@mjtgough
7 жыл бұрын
Hammond L-100
@williamneumann2644
7 жыл бұрын
It's a Hammond A 100. He normally used this instrument as a part of his stage act. He also had a Hammond C-3. That's the one you see under his MOOG modular system keyboard.
@mjtgough
7 жыл бұрын
It is actually a Hammond L-100. It's smaller than the A-100 and it's what he always used when he was jumping, twirling, plunging knives etc. The A-100 is much heavier and has two full manuals unlike the L series which had shorter, staggered manuals. The one under the Moog Modular is the B-3.
@lenini056
4 жыл бұрын
Poor Greg Lake! :(
@owlperchedsilo3745
14 күн бұрын
these 3 musicians always burned off a lot of calories by the end of every show.
@dudewhosaysarrh
14 жыл бұрын
When he jumped on top of his hammond with the dagger between his teeth I thought I heard Heath Ledgers voice asking "Do you wanna know how I got these scars?"
@KazooK-gx2sv
6 жыл бұрын
How far can the ecstasy of creativity go?
@Pibbs1
13 жыл бұрын
Happy 67th birthday Keith !
@magneteye
14 жыл бұрын
This guy was fucking epic.
@mootbooxle
15 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I totally agree. That goes double if it were a Mellotron or a Minimoog. But I have to say...I kinda dig it even though it is painful to watch! Now THAT'S showmanship!
@Surixurient
15 жыл бұрын
so beyond awesome. The only place you can hear bands like this now is in some crusty hippy bar when you get really(extremely) lucky about the band playing that night
@auroreboreale69
12 жыл бұрын
just amazing !!
@_Majoras
15 жыл бұрын
this is how i practice on my hammond in the morning, and thats before i had glass dentures
@bernacha
5 ай бұрын
1:10 poor hammond, he is screaming in pain :(
@saberjett6
13 жыл бұрын
Guess this is what it takes to make organ solos exciting...
@vanamonde2
15 жыл бұрын
They usually did the organ freakout bit when they played the Nice tune Rondo. That's what they are doing in this vid. The Nice was Emerson's band before ELP.
@yoshifumiism
9 жыл бұрын
Thank you !! I have shared.
@54spiritedwill54
16 жыл бұрын
wow. the power of mind-altering substances.
@MoonchildMindaugas2
12 жыл бұрын
And third, don't you think showing off was hardly a problem for virtuosos? On the very opposite, it gives such energy (I know from own experience) that it actually unlocks something in musicians and makes them kind of "go for it".
@donottakethisname
14 жыл бұрын
Yee-haw!
@SmugPug1
15 жыл бұрын
Awesome!
@cypressdev
13 жыл бұрын
I saw him do the same thing in around '96 or '97 in St. Louis.
@mrprogjazzgto
13 жыл бұрын
Keith got a job moving furniture with United Van lines. He was fired on his second day.....
@Medfordbjj
12 жыл бұрын
SAW THIS IN 75 !!!
@rijden-nu
14 жыл бұрын
This video makes me somehow heavily contemplate the meaning of life. This might just have been it. ROCK ON
@OZRIC1985
14 жыл бұрын
That poor Hammond is sure taking a beating. :-(
@smartlamppost
14 жыл бұрын
@sabbath231 A roadie rebuilds it after every concert.
@channelsabored
15 жыл бұрын
if he didn't chop up the Hammond to begin with it would have killed him, he would have been trapped until someone helped him back up
@brucey39
13 жыл бұрын
Sound similar to deep purple doing mandrake route live .Has the same vibe to it
@EvanPalumbo
13 жыл бұрын
@organmastr Hammonds are beasts. They ain't made like they used to.
@intotheblue96
11 жыл бұрын
keith emerson you are my hero ok
@rozeem6
13 жыл бұрын
I read somewhere that those knives were given to Keith by Lemmy, who apparently worked for The Nice as a roadie. Interesting huh?
@MoonchildMindaugas2
12 жыл бұрын
People don't do THAT on stage anymore... I'm not saying modern rock is bad, there are still some worthy artists, but it certainly lost a whole chunk of its madness and danger, alas.
@grasshole128
8 жыл бұрын
It's a tragedy when keith emerson is dead and dick cheney is still alive.
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