ELP Digest Thursday, 9 Sep 1993 Volume 3 : Issue 13 The "What I'm Really Feeling Deep Inside" Edition Today's Topics: Re: Recording RE: ELP Digest V3 #12 (about LP Recording news) Tarkus, the group re: Hello All! elp in studio ELP Reference in latest issue of Korg ProView magazine... "Harmagedon" is available on videodisc Digest, mailing address, and administrative stuff to: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com ==\ => the same for now ELP-related info that you / want to put in the digest to: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com =/ Back issues available via anonymous ftp: ftp site: ftp.uwp.edu user name: anonymous password: provide a full email address path: /pub/music/lists/elp/digests (there is a separate directory under this point for each year of the ELP Digest (1991, 1992, and 1993.) Note: The opinions, information, etc. contained in this digest are those of the original message sender listed in each message below. They are not necessarily those of the mailing list/digest administrator or those of any institution through whose computers/networks this mail flows. Unless otherwise noted, the individual authors of each entry in the Digest are the copyright holders of that entry. Please respect that copyright and act accordingly. I especially ask that you not redistribute the ELP Digest in whole or in part without acknowledging the original source of the digest and each author. Thanks! ------------------------------------------------------------ Subject: Re: Recording To: doug@tellabs.com, j.arnold@bull.com Date: Mon, 16 Aug 93 17:51:36 CDT From: Michael and Kaarin Gust [...] I can't recall offhand where I heard it, but in the back of my head is a remembrance of a new album being in the works. I will try and find out where I have this idea from - it is a rumor of a rumor. Michael Gust ..... mkgust@vpnet.chi.il.us "It's all clear, you were meant to be here... From the beginning" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 17 Aug 1993 15:42:28 +1000 From: meenaghan@molbiol.ox.ac.uk To: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com Subject: RE: ELP Digest V3 #12 In reply to the post on future ELP studio albums, I had an interesting conversation with the roadie that dragged me off Carl Palmer's kit after the concert at the Royal Albert Hall(another couple of minutes and I'd have had the cymbal under my coat!!!). On the way through the exit(at high speed) he said that the band were due to start rehearsing for a new album in the middle of this year, after the release of the live album of that very concert. A very pleasant man considering the circumstances. SPIKE ------------------------------ From: mathias@tarkus.ocis.temple.edu (mathias thallmayer) Subject: Tarkus, the group To: j.arnold@bull.com Date: Wed, 18 Aug 93 1:19:37 EDT Well, I was looking through the 1993 Prog-Rock Survey and I saw a VERY brief entry for a band named Tarkus with possibly one album, "Peru". No other info. So, you can imagine what I want to know. Thanks, Mathias [ Editor's note: Let me guess... you want to know if there is any relationship between this group and ELP. Well, I've never heard of the group but I will guess that the band was influenced by ELP but that there is no official relationship (e.g., no Keith, Greg, or Carl involvement). Maybe someone else can fill in the details of what the band is rather than what it isn't. - John - ] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1993 08:28:50 -0800 To: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com From: lenh@mail.isc-br.com (Len Humbird) Subject: re: Hello All! In ELP Digest V3 #12, "Edward S. Zuckerman" (AED-PD) writes: > I ended up buying BSS and playing it over and over and over on the family > piece-of-shit record player from Hell. I feel like I know that album > like I know how to ride a bike! I stumbled upon this list a few months back. My brother's and my story are fairly similar, but not quite as pathetic! . My first memories were getting this vintage 1971 JVC portable radio-cassette players (one of the first of its kind) and listening to all kinds of late-night A.O.R. radio late at night. One fall midnight, this Portland [OR] radio station played "Pictures" the whole way through. I fell asleep half way through (I was 11, ok?). For weeks on end, I played that tape until it the oxide wore through. My favorite part was Blues Variation at the end of S1. (Right, now try to get *that* tune out of your head!). So with hard-earned paper route money in hand I bought my first album! Ok, my older brother bought ELP #1 about the same time. Favorite tune: Tank. Why? because the drums on the segment following the solo sounds so much like blues variation on Pictures. Second favorite: Knife's edge. (Ever tried to speed up the turntable at the end to see what it originally sounded like?) We had this *old* Scott grand console (this one stood 4' tall and the radio tuner had two "eye" tubes). We played Tank on its Garrard changer... the that slaps records on top of each other, stripping the surfaces like the clutch plate of my brother's VW. It had pennies taped to the cartridge to keep it from plowing through the vinyl because the tracking was so far off! (Ah, those were the days.) I was also doing the air-keyboards on uneven parallel surfaces well into my 20's! Well between BSS and WV1, we both fell out of our fanatacism, but continued to be interested. Seeing the revival of ELP last fall was quite a thrill. The gigs, now small, and for a smaller more mature audience, have the thrill and much of the kick as the 20 tons of equipment with which they filled the stage for the stadiums of half-brain-damaged punks. I can say that because I was a then-brain-damaged punk. Since subscribing to the list, I have passed hard copies of the digest to my brother in Portland, who forwards it to at least one other person. I hope others on this list are doing the same. __________________________________________________________________________ Len Humbird | lenh@mail.isc-br.com | Phone: 509-927-4059 Macintosh Bigot | Olivetti North America (Oli North) | Spokane, WA USA & Document Czar | --This space wastes bandwidth.-- | Comments are my own ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1993 7:16:08 -0400 (EDT) From: "GAUSS::KEELEY"@PHYSICS.HOPE.EDU To: j.arnold@ma30.bull.com Subject: elp in studio from International CD Exchange (ICE), Sept 93 "Emerson, Lake and Palmer are back in the studio, recording new tracksn for the group's upcoming Polygram Chronicles box set in November. About 40-50 minutes of new recordings will be featured, including versions of King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man," The Nice's "Hang On To A Dream," The crazy World Of Arthur Brown'sream" "Fire" and Emerson Lake and Powell's " "Touch and Go" plus a new studio version of "Father Christmas" and a first-ever studio version of "Pictures at an Exhibition."" ICE is VERY reliable and unless ELP changes its plans this is the official word. ------------------------------ To: arnold Subject: ELP Reference in latest issue of Korg ProView magazine... Reply-To: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com Date: Thu, 09 Sep 93 14:18:07 -0400 From: arnold In Issue 3 (Summer 93) of Korg ProView magazine (a Korg keyboard mag sent to customers and music stores), there is an article about "Making Music for Movies and Television." One of the artists talked about/profiled is Snuffy Walden. The article starts out... "Snuffy Walden The man responsible for the distinctive musical themes and soundtracks that enhance critically acclaimed TV shows like "The Wonder Years", "thirtysomething", "I'll Fly Away" and, more recently, "The Jackie Thomas Show", guitarist Snuffy Walden made the transition from rock and roll to Hollywood several years ago and never looked back. Walden started his musical career playing theblues in Texas and went on to join a succssion of rock bands throughout the 60s, ending up in England where he recorded with Free (their last LP, Heartbreaker) and worked with Emerson, Lake & Palmer. ..." Can anyone tell me how/when Snuffy Walden worked with ELP? I've never really heard of anyone working with ELP other than Pete Sinfield. I think Snuffy may have played guitar on a track or 2 with Keith Emerson on an obscure album called "Music from Free Creek". But I've never heard of him working with ELP as a band. Can anyone provide more details? Just wondering, - John - ------------------------------ To: arnold Subject: "Harmagedon" is available on videodisc Reply-To: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com Date: Thu, 09 Sep 93 14:33:07 -0400 From: arnold Hi! I just picked up my copy of the "Harmagedon" laserdisc and wanted to let the ELP Digest readers know of its availability. "Harmagedon" is a Japanese animated movie (the laserdisc has English subtitles) for which Keith Emerson was the musical director. In this role, Keith wrote about half of the music for the film and a Japanese musician (whose name I have unfortunately forgotten) provides the rest. I've only watched the first 30 minutes (it's about 134 minutes total, as I recall) and really quite good so far. For those not as completely absorbed in the "completist" mentality, I think the soundtrack CD is occasionally available as an import. It has the equivalent of one side of an LP of Emerson stuff from the movie and is quite good, I think. So, now I've got Nighthawks, Harmagedon, and the "Pictures at an Exhibition concert film" (occasionally refered to as "Rock and Roll Your Eyes") on laserdisc. I've seen Inferno on videotape (another Keith soundtrack). I've got "Welcome Back" (the video history releasd when "Live at Albert Hall" was released) on videotape. Does anyone know of any more videotapes or laserdiscs with ELP content? I'd like to keep a "videography" going. Please let me know if I've left something out. (Oh yes, I'm only listing official releases. I know there are a number of unofficial concert films, too.) Thanks! - John - ------------------------------ End of ELP Digest [Volume 3 Issue 13] *************************************