ELP Digest Wednesday, 1 Jun 1994 Volume 4 : Issue 7 The "Running with the Devil" Edition Today's Topics: Tour and album date, arm, voice and various California Jam For Mosiac/World-Wide-Web fans: Mobile Fidelity "Tarkus" html... Keith Emerson and Peter Hammill? Record Collector Poll I like Lake's new voice! Works Live Re: Lake's Voice Release Date ELP CD w/Shy Limbs and The Shame? Brian Newman ELP "Welcome Back" video Tour Update Re: Tour Update Re: ELP Sheetmusic Re: Bootlegs vs. Unofficial Releases Origin of Brain Salad Surgery ELP Sheet Music elp digest rpeck mail More on sheet music Even more on sheet music Prelude ======= Thanks for all the responses re: ELP sheet music. I've included many responses here and (thanks to Greg Utas!) got an entry for the FAQ that I'll start compiling. I didn't include Greg's FAQ entry on sheet music because other messages in this digest include the same information. I'll put Greg's entry in the next Digest. I've caught up on the ELP Digest backlog now. And I'm really going to try to get back on an every 2 or 3 weel schedule. This will be especially exciting as we wait for the new album and wait for the answer to the question: "Is the tour on or not?". Thanks for your patience with the infrequent Digest overt the spring. I hope that things are more under control now. We now resume our normal programming. - John - 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 through 1994).) 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! ------------------------------------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 09:55:13 +0200 From: bjorn-are.davidsen@s.televerket.tele.no To: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com Subject: Tour and album date, arm, voice and various Hi all fearing and hoping fans! There are of course a lot of hope, fear and rumours regarding the well being of the world's greatest rock group (besides The Beatles and Gentle Giant). How will Keith's arm progress? What about Greg's voice? And when will we hear about something wrong with Carl? The latest I have heard is from an official letter from Victory Records to Liv G. Whetmore in England (a devoted fan, unfortunately with no Internet access), dated April, 21 (I think), which quite simply states that Keith is recovering, the new album will be released on July 12 and the tour will start later. Keith's arm: I really hope that his arm is getting to be as well as before. However, the important thing for me is Emerson's ability as a composer. There are a lot of good keyboard players around. There are very, very few which also are able to compose well (e.g. Rick Wakeman is not!). So if he has to have a back up keyboardist on the tour, that is a pity, but no catastrophe. Greg's Voice: Of course Greg's voice is far from his glorious days in the 70's (and even on the ELPowell album). But, it still has a charm of it's own, and even seems at long last like other rock singers! Some people have actually had a dislike for ELP because Lake was not a "proper" rock singer, like Jagger, Dylan or Roger Waters. It quite simply lacked that raspy rhytm and blues feeling, which for most rock fans is what it's all about, or at least that's what they say. Comparing Lake's singing on the RotM Pictures from 1993 whith his singing in Newcasle City Hall March 26, 1971 is a bit unfair! In March 71 he was only 23 years old, and now he is 46. Something tend to happen to rock singers in that many years, as they do neither sing nor (usually) live "properly". Classical singers keep their voices till they are 60, rock singers do not. And, as with Keith, for me it is Greg's ability to compose which is important. A back up gospel choir, Pavarotti or others as stand ins will of course not be the same as Greg in the 70's, but let's get some more music from him at least! As far as I have heard Greg did quit smoking last year, however, so far to no effect? He has at the same time had several attacks of throat infection and his voice was very varied during the 92/93 Tour. Let's hope that the new RotM recordings was done during one of his bad days, and that his voice is progressing for the 94 tour! And even if it is not, I will be at every concert in my area, buy the 1995 live album (let's hope for one!) and enjoy the happening! Carl's fingers: Nothing wrong with them, if he could just return to his inspired use of them as on the first five ELP albums. Live Trilogy: As far as I have been able to find out, neither "Living Sin", nor "Trilogy" has ever been performed live (it's all in my "A Time and a Place" list as mentioned in the previous ELP Digestl). "Jerusalem" in 1972: Glenn Mandelkern told about a 1972 Italy concert where ELP seems to have played Jerusalem. I would be very surprised if they did that in 1972. However, bootlegs are notoriosly wrong with dates and places, so my guess is that the CD (or the Jerusalem partt) must have been from a 1973 concert in Italy (where they were at the beginning of May that year). New Tarkus: Glenn also mentioned a new versin of Tarkus. That is interesting! What is the difference? Does anyone know? Or was it a misspelling for the Brain Salad Surgery Digipak? By the way, is there any difference in SOUND quality between RotM BSS, "common" Victory BSS and BSS Digipack? If so, how and why? To all: Keep up the good work of finding classical quotes! Very interesting!! Bjorn Are, Oslo, Norway ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 13 May 1994 16:17:17 +0200 From: bjorn-are.davidsen@s.televerket.tele.no To: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com Subject: California Jam After having sent my comments and updates on Vol 4, Issue 5, I discovered some more points where I may have some glad tidings: To Doug (and others!) on California Jam: This video really do exist, in various versions and levels of quality. The original seems to be withheld from the market for peculiar reasons (it should be sold and marketed with blaring trumpets, along with the Lyceum concert from December 1970 - the one with the Pictures video and psychedelic mixing - and the one from Montreal in 77). However, I would suggest that you write to one of the following (with some IRC's) and ask for their lists: Dave Jones. P.O. Box 9364, Wyoming MI 49509-0354, USA (for European readers/viewers: also conversions to PAL) Massimo Cavalucci, Via Rapisardi, 15, 05100 TERNI, ITALY (4 IRC's for his "Take a Ladder" list of videos and LOTS of audio material). (PAL only?). Has perhaps the world's biggest collection of ELP material of all kinds. E.W. Harvey, 43 Withy Croft, George Green, Slough., Bucks., SL3 &BH, United Kingdom. (PAL only?). SOUNDS DEMENTED, P.O. BOX 9543, Hampton, Virginia, 23670-9543, USA. (Not PAL). I will not guarantee for the quality. I have seen several versions, ranging from fair to good, though none excellent. Parts of the video (e.g. the rotating piano) is terrible. Also the sound quality tend to vary. But it is worth a try! The collectors keep upgrading their material when possible, so maybe they have got better versions now. Bjorn Are, Oslo, Norway ------------------------------ To: arnold Subject: For Mosiac/World-Wide-Web fans: Mobile Fidelity "Tarkus" html... Reply-To: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com Date: Wed, 18 May 94 11:27:44 -0400 From: arnold Hi! For those of you Internet surfers who troll the World Wide Web, I found an ELP/Tarkus page as part of the Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs information found in URL (Uniform Resource Locator): http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/meta/internet/mkt/mfsl/catalog/udcd-598.desc.html This page has a little blurb about ELP and Tarkus and a GIF of the MoFi (Mobile Fidelity) version of Tarkus. Just thought some of you would be interested. - John - P.S. I'm also working on an ELP Diget Home Page for WWW/Mosaic that should be ready once my employer opens up a publicly accessible WWW server. Stay tuned. ------------------------------ From: telical@isumataq.eskimo.com (Robert Pearson) Subject: Keith Emerson and Peter Hammill? To: j.arnold@bull.com Date: Thu, 19 May 1994 21:42:11 -0700 (PDT) I have a Peter Hammill work called "and close as this" which has a song called "Empire of Delight" which is written by Emerson/Hammill. The keyboard work is elaborate piano work. Does anyone know if this is Keith Emerson? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 20 May 1994 14:43:14 +0200 From: bjorn-are.davidsen@s.televerket.tele.no To: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com Subject: Record Collector Poll As the results of the various 1993 Polls comes out, it is clear that ELP still makes their mark on the music business (or at least on the fans). In Circus Magazine none of the readers polls had anything with ELP. However, the (I think) Japanese editor (one of several editors) had a certain Emerson on first place as Best keyboardist. In Record Collectors yearly poll on the 500 most collectible artists, The Beatles won (not a surprise). ELP did not score especially high, but the interesting thing is that they made a very good climb from something like position 205 last year to 132 this year. Gentle Giant made a similiar climb from about position 130 to about 65. If more of the ELP digesters would fill in the form next year, ELP may make another big leap! By the way, the group which made it best of the newcomers on the list was another prog group "surprisingly" (at least according to Record Collector) Camel. It seems in other words as if the prog bands are on their way back again in the polls! Bjorn Are, Oslo, Norway P.S. Did anyone notice that Musician in the December issue (or January?) had a cartoon which showed three people dancing on stage whith an armadillo-tank in the bakground. The text run something like "After The Who's Tommy we may predict a Tarkus musical in 1994". ------------------------------ From: MikelBiko@aol.com To: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com Date: Sun, 22 May 94 01:53:32 EDT Subject: I like Lake's new voice! Enjoyed the last digest, but I gotta say that I really like Greg's new "husky" voice. It sounds more mature and weathered, but I like it. I also disagree with the comments about longer being better when it comes to ELP - I loved the last LP, thought it there best since "Trilogy". I dislike many of the later longer pieces, as they seem to come up short melodically, and seem to me to be indulgent noodling on the bands' part. I never liked the "classical covers", even though I like classical music, as I prefer to listen to the original rather than a rock band cover version. "Fanfare for Common Man" by Atlanta Symphony was the first CD I bought, and in fact I used it to demo CD players' when I was considering my first player purchase. But I HATE teh ELP version. Same goes for "Romeo..", "Pictures", etc. I much prefere their originals, and in fact like the shorter "pop" pieces most of all. Of all their "long" songs, the only one I truly love is "The Endless Enigma". Guess that makes me a heretic, huh? I loved almost all of the last LP, except "Romeo and Juliet", and hated "Love Beach". By the way, I have a 43 page audio/video trade list, chock full of Genesis/Gabriel/Floyd/Marillion/Oldfield/Bush/Icehouse, even some ELP video. Cannot Email it, so for a copy please send a self-addressed (large) envelope and 87 cents postage to Mikel Orsborn 317 SW 112th St. #314 Seattle WA 98146 ------------------------------ From: WCHALLENGE@aol.com To: j.arnold@ma30.bull.com Date: Tue, 24 May 94 13:56:46 EDT Subject: ELP Digest Has anyone listened to "Works Live" yet (and would care to give a review). I say the CD yesterday in the record store but didn't want to spend the 27 dollars at the time. The cover art was the same as the "In Concert" album so at first I didn't even notice it. Upon further inspection it seemed to include the remastered songs from In Concert but with some new stuff (Abaddon's Bolero, etc). Is this worth buying? Also, has anyone heard of an alternative to shelling our 60 bucks for the "Atlantic Years" box set? I would like to hear the new releases but you have to draw the line somewhere! --S.G. [ Editor's note: I have Works Live. It is, as you suspect, In Concert + more from the same concert. This new version is, supposedly, what ELP submitted to Atlantic as a 2-disc concert album from their Montreal concert but Atlantic went for a 1-disc version. The new "Works Live" is remastered and sounds pretty good. I don't understand the ordering of the songs, though. I was at that Montreal concert and know that (a) this isn't the order in which they played the songs and (b) isn't the complete concert. Still, it's a good CD especially to hear how they used the orchestra to enhance some songs like Knife Edge. - John - ] ------------------------------ From: Maureen@eworld.com To: j.arnold@ma30.bull.com Date: Tue, 24 May 94 17:08:36 PDT Subject: Re: Lake's Voice JK> ...I disagree with one reader's comment that his voice sounds JK> good on Black Moon. It sounds like he went through puberty JK> again. I saw them in concert in 2/93 in Minneapolis and he JK> always would take the easy way out on high notes and it did JK> sound raspy.... Guys, he's not 20 anymore... My sisters and I saw them at Irvine in '92 and at both shows at the Wiltern in '93; he did skip some of the higher notes, but man, he still sounded pretty good. He is a baritone, after all, not a tenor (and certainly not an Irish tenor ;-) "I Believe in Father Christmas" is my absolutely favorite Lake/ELP song, so I'm naturally thrilled that there are three versions around. I was quite torn between which I liked the best, until recently. I've been listening to "The Return of the Manticore" a lot lately and I pulled out "Works II." I was stunned by how bland (I think that's the word I want) Greg's voice sounded on the Works "Father Christmas," compared to the Manticore "Father Christmas"!! There's so much more depth/resonance/character in the Manticore version. He's still got a grand set of pipes!!!!! JK> ... I can't understand even fans liking that album!! ("Love JK> Beach")... Not having heard the whole album, I couldn't say, but "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman" and "Canario" are both _awfully_ nice. Sla/n, Mo! ------------------------------ From: Maureen@eworld.com To: j.arnold@ma30.bull.com Date: Tue, 24 May 94 19:18:25 PDT Subject: Release Date According to Linda Schultz, on Prodigy, the June ICE (I'm looking into what an ICE might be) reports that July 28 is the release date for "The Best Seat in the House." Sla/n, Mo! ------------------------------ From: StephenBkr@aol.com To: j.arnold@bull.com Date: Tue, 24 May 94 23:37:36 EDT Subject: ELP CD w/Shy Limbs and The Shame? Before Greg Lake was in Crimson, he was in a band called Shy Limbs with Andy McCulloch (Arthur Brown, Crimson, Fields, Greenslade). They released one single, "Reputation". Even earlier, Greg was in a band called The Shame, and they too, released one single called "Little Girl" (or something like that). Of course, the vinyl 45s are very rare. But I have been told that these songs are included on a recent Japanese promo-only ELP retrospective CD. Has anyone else heard of this CD? Does it exist? I am looking to purchase or trade for the CD or the vinyl 45s. Please e mail or post if anyone out there can help. Thanks. Stephen stephenbkr@aol.com. ------------------------------ From: dave.bentley@ps.com (DAVE BENTLEY) Subject: Brian Newman Date: Wed, 25 May 1994 01:02:00 GMT To: j.arnold@ma30.bull.com Last July I happened to meet up, along with another fellow ELPophile, with Brian Newman, who was Keith Emerson's manager during the early eighties. My friend was approached by Newman following an advert he placed in a local westcountry (England) classifieds paper requesting ELP memorabilia. Newman, who also ran Chord Records, now runs a classical music CD store in Honiton, Devon. We were told that he had the master tapes of unreleased stuff that ELP recorded during BSS period (in case Ginestera wouldn't give his approval for Toccatta) plus demos Keith did with Roger Daltrey, Jack Bruce, Steve Hackett and loads of solo stuff, including the unreleased PIANO SYMPHONY. In addition he had the master slides from all the photo sessions for the *Works* albums, Greg Lake's Israel photo shoot for Father Xmas, plus slides taken at the Fulham Road Manticore rehearsal studios (featured in the BBC Manticore Documentary) and many "snapshots" taken over several years at their homes etc. We went to see him with eager anticipation and could't believe our eyes...he had thousands of slides and he was selling them for L5 each. He also had the platinum disc that was presented to Keith by the Japan branch of Atlantic Records for sale of "In Concert" which he would sell for L700. After talking to him for a while I began to realise that he was a jerk. He has little respect for L and P, didn't even bother going to see ELP at the Albert Hall and was only interested in making some money by virtue of his brief association with Keith. (Keith tried to sue him over the release of "The Emerson Collection" on Chord Records.) The master tapes were apparently left with Newman. His version of events is that Keith said "do what you like with them" after he returned to England from the Bahamas...but I take this with a pinch of salt...I cannot believe that Keith would say such a thing. Newman offered to make copies of all he had at L10/C90 cassette and he had at least 10 cassettes worth of material. This was an offer I could not refuse, so I sent my money and waited. Three weeks later he sends me 7 tapes back. Two of them contained Nighthawks, Inferno and Best Revenge which were no different from the originals. Another was just a recording of Jim Ladds "Innerview" with K.E. in 1981. The "Piano Symphony" was a 5 minute track which could have been anyone. There were, however, various demos of ELPowell's "Lay Down Your Guns", "Learning to Fly" and some bits from "The Score" using different vocalists and some of them with electric guitar taking what would be the synth lines on the actual album. There were demos of Roger Daltrey with Keith (Newman recalls Roger saying to Keith, "How do you expect me to sing this crap!") and a very poor demo with Jack Bruce. The rest of the material were various "audio visual demos" and jingles which sound like they could be Keith (apparently Newman was trying to get Keith working with the media more.....If this is true Keith must have been pretty desperate during this period). The biggest con, however, was a tape entitled "Keith Emerson--Music Library Albums". When I first heard this tape I couldn't believe my ears...very new age-like material, a cross between Vangelis/Enya/Mike Oldfield. I've listened to all of Keith's music since The Nice and I think you would agree that no matter what style he is playing, you can always tell that it is Keith Emerson playing....well this was definitely NOT. I rang Newman up and quizzed him about this tape...."Oh...this was a phase Keith went through...he thought he would experiment in New Age music". (After sending copies to another ELP fanatic, Robert Ashmore I now find out that this tape is straight off an album by the Japanese New Age Keyboardist, Yanni). I've mentioned this as copies of these tapes are now in America via another ELP fanatic Adam Fenton. There were no ELP circa 1973 unreleased tracks and to make up for the shortage of material Newman sent me some CDs of Honkey, Best Revenge/Murderock and The Manhatten Collection. By the way, "Golliwog's Cakewalk" on that CD is played by Derek Austin, not Keith (a question from Rainer Kayser in Vol 3 #17). As you can imagine I felt cheated. I am not surprised that Keith fell out with the guy. Newman also slagged of Stewart Young saying that he screwed loads of money out of the band in the 70s.."...and now they've taken him on again!", slagged Carl off, questioning his sexuality. But after reading one of last years' issues of the digest about "Keith'n Greg...Ladies Men?" maybe what he said about Keith having an eye for the Ladies is true! I now have the impression that Newman is a bullshitter of the first order as several things he told me have since been found untrue, but at least he does (did) have an amazing collection of slides which I did get to see. I've since been told that Greg fell out with Newman just before ELPowell, as he was owed some money and it came to a head when Greg punched him in the face...sounds like the guy probably deserved it. On a diffent note...does anyone out there now how many tracks were recorded for the Black Moon album? I never cease to laugh when I see the Carl Palmer interview at Verona which was broadcast on TV-AM in Britain "... we went into a rehearsal complex for a month an came out with a TON OF IDEAS!" bye for now dave.bentley@ps.com * OLX 2.1 TD * ..out with a ton of ideas...ha ha...where are they Carl? ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 May 94 14:19:20 EDT From: benson@ICD.teradyne.com (Henry Benson) To: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com Subject: ELP "Welcome Back" video > When the video first came out, it became obvious to most all of us who > bought it that the sound was wrong. Someone called Strand Home Video and > complained and they were told that the stereo track on the tape got messed > up. There was talk of re-doing them but I don't know if that ever happened. > At least this is the way I remember things. Now, it's hard to find the > video at all so I've been thankful to have a copy, even with the suspect > sound. For those in the Boston area, about 2 weeks ago I saw 2 copies of the Welcome Back video in the video store on the second floor in Copley Place (I don't remember the name of the store, but it's connected to a CD store, near the exit onto Dartmouth Street). My copy of the video has a little sticker that says "/MONO" pasted next to the " STEREO". The 2 in the store had this also. I don't think they ever re-recorded it, and I remember reading somewhere on the net that Strand has gone out of business. Henry ------------------------------ From: Maureen@eworld.com To: j.arnold@ma30.bull.com Date: Wed, 25 May 94 16:31:04 PDT Subject: Tour Update The afternoon DJ on KLSX (Los Angeles) just said that the boys would be appearing at the Greek Theatre in August, and that Steve Howe would opening for them. There was no equivocation about this. I hope he's correct. Sla/n, Mo! ------------------------------ From: Maureen@eworld.com To: j.arnold@ma30.bull.com Date: Fri, 27 May 94 13:56:08 PDT Subject: Re: Tour Update Doom and gloom!!! I just got off the phone with the Greek Theatre, here in L.A. The otherwise charming lady with whom I spoke told me that the ELP concert on the 17th of August was definitely cancelled. She was quite surprised to hear that the local DJs were not aware of this. Let us hope this is an indication that Keith is being sensible about his arm, and not of something terrible... Sla/n, Mo! ------------------------------ From: MikelBiko@aol.com To: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com Date: Fri, 27 May 94 16:57:25 EDT Subject: Re: ELP Sheetmusic All this talk of sheet music made me go out to my garage and pull out the mid-70's piano music I had, and lo and behold I discovered the following: Emerson, Lake & Palmer #VF0392 $6.95 in USA , exclusive selling agent for USA and Canada WARNER BROS. PUBLICATIONS INC. The book is copyright 1977 Manticore Music Ltd, and is keyboard transcriptions by Keith Emerson and John Curtin. Contents are Benny the Bouncer/The Endless Engima (Part 1)/ The Endless Enigma (Part II)/Jeremy Bender/The Sheriff/Take A Pebble/Trilogy. It is 64 pages long, with about 5 pages of color photos also. Anyone want to purchase it? Serious offers only please. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 May 94 13:58:53 -0700 From: Gordon Van Huizen To: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com Subject: Re: Bootlegs vs. Unofficial Releases > [ Editor's note: I do not condone discussion in ELP Digest of "real > bootlegs", that is: copies of albums that available as official releases > by ELP's various labels. However, "unofficial releases" seem to be OK to > discuss since they seem directed to fans who already have all of the > official releases. So that's why this message was left in the Digest even > though it uses the word "bootleg". Just thought I'd explain. - John - ] As a long-time vinyl collector, it's been my experience that the term "bootleg" refers to what you would call an unofficial release, and a "pirate" refers to a copy of a legitimate release. The de facto bootleg reference of many years (Hot Wax) made the distinction quite clear. I think you'll find that to be a universal set of definitions in the collector arena, and that the widespread viewpoint amongst collectors is that bootlegs are OK while pirates most definitely are not. I believe the original poster used the term "bootleg" correctly. Gordon [ Editor's note: Ok, now I get it. I always thought "bootleg" was a ripoff of a legitimate release. If the accepted term for that is "pirate", I guess I misunderstood. Glad to know that there are accepted terms for this hazy subject area. Thanks for helping me understand! - John - ] ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 27 May 94 14:25:21 -0700 From: Gordon Van Huizen To: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com Subject: Origin of Brain Salad Surgery A few issues back there was a discussion of the origin of the title/expression Brain Salad Surgery, with a few people correctly commenting that it means oral sex. The whole story is that E, L and P had been using the expression "Whip Some Skull On Me", which at the time was a British euphemism for fellatio. It seems they used it quite a bit, and it slowly changed into their own expression "Brain Salad Surgery", which in turn became somewhat of an inside joke. Reportedly Lake would even ask for Brain Salad Surgery at restaurants as a stab at humor. A Melody Maker interview of Emerson during the recording of the album was conducted prior to the metamorphosis and states that the new album (which they were having a very hard time coming up with material for) was possibly going to be titled "Whip Some Skull On Me". Apparently BSS was a very difficult album for ELP, ironically. Well into the recording of it they had very little material, which was highly unusual for them - they'd always had a lot of material written for upcoming albums prior to entering the studio. There was a lot of stress and they had become almost despondent. The above-mentioned MM interview is fascinating in that it contains info on the European tour between Trilogy and BSS (the same one covered by the Manticore documentary), which reveals how much of today's rock stage shows and touring methods were pioneered by none other than ELP. For extra trivia points, can anyone happen to think of the other title for BSS that was abandoned, and the humorous incident that helps explain why they abandoned it? Gordon ------------------------------ Subject: ELP Sheet Music To: j.arnold@ma30.bull.com Date: Fri, 27 May 94 15:30:42 PDT From: Glenn Mandelkern John, ELP has released the following three sheet music books: 1. ELP--this is a black book with gold lettering along the bottom showing Emerson, Lake and Palmer in a cursive-type italic font. The logo is on top. It contains a foreword by Keith. ELP has the following: The Endless Enigma The Endless Enigma Part II Benny the Bouncer Jeremy Bender Take a Pebble Trilogy Some of the songs are written in their entirety, like the solo from Benny the Bouncer. Other sections state to improvise. That's found in portions of Take a Pebble and Trilogy. 2. ELP Anthology--this is a black book with a nice cover, the pages have this beige background making them easy to read without any glare. ELP Anthology has the following: Pirates Memoirs from an Officer and a Gentleman Still You Turn Me On The Fugue Lucky Man 3. ELP Tarkus--this book has the Tarkus armadillo and album cover drawn on it, with a large flap to be used as a bookmark. The pages are sky blue, with the music written in a navy blue ink. ELP Tarkus contains the entire Tarkus album, although some places are marked as improvisations over chords, such as one place in Stones of Years after first two verses and another section of Bitches' Crystal. As far as availability is concerned, they have long been out of print. However, if you try hard enough, you will find them. One time, a friend of mine called me from New York to tell me he saw the ELP book in the front window of a music store on Broadway and 50th Street. Look in the yellow pages of the sleepiest towns around for sheet music places. That's how I found my ELP (#1 above), in the little town of Porterville, CA. If you look for it on the map, you'll see it's in the middle of nowhere. I went to this place called Meade Music which was really gross looking and disgusting. This old man was sitting with his cat on the desk with papers falling all around him, cigarette ash on the dingy carpet. I looked around, he had a lot of out of print stuff. When I went there, I saw some Barry Manilow stuff, but more important, I saw Alan Parson's I Robot. Guess what was behind the I Robot? I told him he had a cute cat. He said it belonged to his wife, that before passing away, she wanted him to "always keep [her] pussy warm." :-) Then he looked at the I Robot cover and the ELP book. He asked, "Who are these people?" I said, "They're two of my favorite rock bands, especially ELP." He said, "You young people are crazy! Whatever happened to Bach, Beethoven and Brahms, the Killer B's?" I said, "Well, you'd be surprised, Emerson knows about them!" Yours truly, Glenn ------------------------------ From: Fab60@aol.com To: j.arnold@ma30.bull.com Date: Sat, 28 May 94 17:30:42 EDT Subject: elp digest rpeck mail Dear Ray, 1) I will check out some of the names you graciously mentioned , like John Zorn or Glenn Branca. Not Eno, Fripp or Sylvian, because I have all their records and during the last 5 years they have been only repeating their old music. Not other guys, because I know them, and they only produce weird noises, even if well assembled. 2) What I find ridicolous is to flame on music opinions. 3) If you think I only like "symphonic progressive rock with songs over 10 minutes", please rush to buy eye glasses and try to read ALL my message: for me the best is classic music. period. 4) Against stupid flaming: before going to bed, relax and have a glass of hot milk. If it s not enough, call mama and\or take 5mg of Valium. Bye Bye Fab 60. ------------------------------ From: WCHALLENGE@aol.com To: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com Date: Tue, 31 May 94 12:26:10 EDT Subject: Re: ELP Digest V4 #6 Responding to: jsouthwo@keller.clarke.edu >I was wondering if anyone could help me find ANY ELP sheet >music (hopefully something remotely accurate, however). If >you could e-mail me the names of the books as well as the >publisher (very important, or I'll never be able to find it >around here) it would be greatly appreciated. My address is: >jsouthwo@keller.clarke.edu. Unfortunately, most of it (all of it?) is out of print. I was lucky to purchase mine years ago while it was still in the stores. I have three sheet music books: "Tarkus" (the whole album), and two anthologies (I'm at work and can't run and get them off the bookshelf). The older anthology has "Trilogy," "Take a Pebble," and other pieces. The newer one has "Pirates," "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentlemen," and others. I also have via a friend in New York, the complete piano score to "Piano Concerto #1." As I remember a company in Pennsylvania made (makes?) that available. Keyboard Magazine has also printed various things over the years, including an excerpt from "Barrel House Shakedown," the synth solo from "Lucky Man," and an unreleased adaptation of "Good King Wenceles." There is probably more that I am forgetting, but I am fortunate enough to have collected this over the years. Now if only I could play it all ("Trilogy" is probably my most prodigous effort, someday I'll finish learning "Fugue.") --Steven ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 01 Jun 94 08:37 CDT From: Janell Duxbury To: J.Arnold@ma30.bull.com RE:ELP sheet music Keith Emerson's Piano Concerto No.1 is available for sale (piano score) or rental (full orchestra score) from publisher Theodore Presser in Bryn Mawr, PA. Bye, Janell Duxbury ------------------------------ End of ELP Digest [Volume 4 Issue 7] ************************************