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

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

4 ай бұрын

I think it's lame

@user-tr3st4ms9g

3 ай бұрын

​@@anthonytucker8913i think that nobody cares

I didn't know that Prog Rock can be SO Badass!!!

One of the greatest keyboardists of all time, RIP Keith Emerson

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

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

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.

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

5 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.

Keith is just a wonderfully weird musician that I've come to love. A true artist to appreciate.

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

11 ай бұрын

Keith was the best keyboard player within the last 100 years full stop

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

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

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.

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

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, they look special

Farewell you wonderful madman.

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.

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

7 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

this performance is sick af, RIP Keith Emerson, absolute madman, wizard on the keys, such sad news, you were a real inspiration...

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 !!!!

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

Keith Emerson 1944-2016 :( RIP

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.

He actually did it, the absolute madman!

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. :)

Great video I saw ELP in 71 and 73, brings back memories.

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

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..!

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.

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!

still remember that brussels concert in 1971. waauw! thanks Keith!!

Ahhh...for the good old days, great musicians who also had a sense of adventure!! That intensity is missing in today's musicians & recordings...

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

4 жыл бұрын

puddypuss agreed, ELP never felt like a band, they always sounded like 3 dudes fighting for control. Never could groove.

how can he just move it around like that? they're HEAVY

But mom!! This *IS* music!!

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.

The guy could really abuse his organ.

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

Imagine what Simon Cowell would have to say about it....... hahahahaha

just amazing !!

Thank you !! I have shared.

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....

@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.

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.

:(

Yes, just saw on TV a concert they did in 2010.

How far can the ecstasy of creativity go?

This is as intense as Hendrix lighting his guitar on fire...

November 1971 Sheffield City Hall AWESOME

Say it ain't so. Keith ROCKS ! Rest in Peace.

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

1:32 He was already hinting at what Toccata from Brain Salad Surgery would sound like!

wow. the power of mind-altering substances.

incredible organ noise! It's a wonder that nobody got hurt - CRAZY!

Awesome!

He literally feels the spring reverb

@harmonycostal its not to destroy the organ, its just the way he got the sounds that he used a lot.

A mad genious. He knew what he was doing.

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.

listen to the classical piece he composed, piano concerto number 1 and then say hes not a real musician

I saw him do the same thing in around '96 or '97 in St. Louis.

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.

I believe these might be the knives that Lemmy from Motorhead gave him; they were WW2 era German knives

From what I’ve heard, that organ had it coming!

Happy 67th birthday Keith !

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.

The Master!!!

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.

From my opinion, Keith Emerson is the Jimi Hendrix of the keyboards

A True Legend. . Brilliant performer. . He,d be arrested today carrying knives!!!!

using a prussian dagger for a key hold....next level.

This video makes me somehow heavily contemplate the meaning of life. This might just have been it. ROCK ON

this is how i practice on my hammond in the morning, and thats before i had glass dentures

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.

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

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.

that is f**kin great!

This is pretty metal

legend.

Damn Keith Moon exploding his drumkits... what a sucker he was...

@Yakkymania

2 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.

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!

Anyone knows if Emerson had full-foldback spinets or non-modified ones? The sound is pretty good, and I don' t know how he avoided elecrical shock during his career.... .....Had he?!?

Of course there was, but it's called showmanship. Keith was and still is the King of Keyboards.

what are they playing in the background? it sounds so familiar... maybe the same thing Deep Purple did at the end of Space Truckin'?

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!

Brutal

This video always feels so dark

keith emerson you are my hero ok

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?"

for some reason I find this hilarious what am I watching hahaha

The Hendrix of the Hammond

SAW THIS IN 75 !!!

I am pretty certain that L100 took out a restraining order after this performance

Guess this is what it takes to make organ solos exciting...

This guy was fucking epic.

What is it they say about bands that need a gimmik ?

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.

I am having organ lessons at the moment... it seems I have not had the lesson that covers this technique yet! Do you thank that organ would be a good buy secondhand? It seems to work ok what ever way up it is!

Why did it catch on fire? don't know if it happened here but heard it did happen

Hi. Is there a big difference between the "R-100" and the "K-100", soundwise? Thanks

That poor Hammond is sure taking a beating. :-(

Shock rock at its best, man!!!