The Poojer Posted May 11, 2010 Posted May 11, 2010 been a lifelong ELP fan, never got to see them live...saw Palmer with Asia a couple times....E & L are doing a small tour to get ready for an ELP reunion later in the summer in England. 7th row center at Trump's Taj Mahal in AC...i am so stoked for this show....
Vark Posted May 11, 2010 Posted May 11, 2010 Saw them in the Aud when I was in High School. Good show, Emerson was staring down all the young ladies at the front and a couple of them were escorted backstage. Best seats I ever had to that point, 5th row center. Biggest regret: Palmer threw his sticks into the crowd and one bounced off the palm of my hand...and out
Spiderweb Posted May 11, 2010 Posted May 11, 2010 been a lifelong ELP fan, never got to see them live...saw Palmer with Asia a couple times....E & L are doing a small tour to get ready for an ELP reunion later in the summer in England. 7th row center at Trump's Taj Mahal in AC...i am so stoked for this show.... I guess that makes you a "Lucky Man"....but hey, let's not have any, "Fanfare for the Common Man"..... (oldies but classics)
Jim in Anchorage Posted May 11, 2010 Posted May 11, 2010 Posh. Amateur. Saw them in 74 at Rich.Might remember them if all the girls were not taking their shirts off.
LewPort71 Posted May 11, 2010 Posted May 11, 2010 That concert at Rich in 1974 was great. Lynryd Skynyrd was the warmup group and they were very good. The James Gang (Joe Walsh) was in the middle... Ho-Hum ELP was great and the speakers in each corner of the endzone provided great sound. I remember how hard the astroturf was and that would have been terrible to play football on
DrFishfinder Posted May 11, 2010 Posted May 11, 2010 been a lifelong ELP fan, never got to see them live...saw Palmer with Asia a couple times....E & L are doing a small tour to get ready for an ELP reunion later in the summer in England. 7th row center at Trump's Taj Mahal in AC...i am so stoked for this show.... Oh man.....they were so effing awesome live. Saw them twice. Weirdest concert opening/main act I EVER saw was.....Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show opening for ELP. Holy crap.
Astrojanitor Posted May 11, 2010 Posted May 11, 2010 That concert at Rich in 1974 was great.Lynryd Skynyrd was the warmup group and they were very good. The James Gang (Joe Walsh) was in the middle... Ho-Hum ELP was great and the speakers in each corner of the endzone provided great sound. I remember how hard the astroturf was and that would have been terrible to play football on In James Gang's defense, Joe Walsh left the band in 1971 or 72. That post Walsh stuff was pretty terrible. I envy this show. I don't really dig on prog, but I've always loved ELP. For some unknown reason I became obsessed with Tarkus in college. I used to get high to that record 2-3 times a week for years.
LewPort71 Posted May 12, 2010 Posted May 12, 2010 Astro guy, you are correct ,,, Joe Walsh left in late 1971. and Tarkus is a GREAT album IMHO
The Poojer Posted May 18, 2010 Author Posted May 18, 2010 awesome show this weekend....they sounded fabulous...1500 seat theater in the Trump Taj Majal. Played for almost 2 hours....set list was as follows. Ian McDonald joined them on stage for some flute parts....all in all a great great show.....so happy i got to see my favorite band(or at least the last 2 parts of my favorite band) after 30+ years From The Beginning Audience Banter I Talk To The Wind Audience Banter Bitches Crystal Take A Pebble Tarkus Set 2 Audience Banter C'est La Vie Prelude To A Hope Tocata Audience Banter America>Rondo Q&A with audience Pirates Lucky Man
Chef Jim Posted May 18, 2010 Posted May 18, 2010 awesome show this weekend....they sounded fabulous...1500 seat theater in the Trump Taj Majal. Played for almost 2 hours....set list was as follows. Ian McDonald joined them on stage for some flute parts....all in all a great great show.....so happy i got to see my favorite band(or at least the last 2 parts of my favorite band) after 30+ years From The Beginning Audience Banter I Talk To The Wind Audience Banter Bitches Crystal Take A Pebble Tarkus Set 2 Audience Banter C'est La Vie Prelude To A Hope Tocata Audience Banter America>Rondo Q&A with audience Pirates Lucky Man
dhg Posted May 18, 2010 Posted May 18, 2010 awesome show this weekend....they sounded fabulous...1500 seat theater in the Trump Taj Majal. Played for almost 2 hours....set list was as follows. Ian McDonald joined them on stage for some flute parts....all in all a great great show.....so happy i got to see my favorite band(or at least the last 2 parts of my favorite band) after 30+ years From The Beginning Audience Banter I Talk To The Wind Audience Banter Bitches Crystal Take A Pebble Tarkus Set 2 Audience Banter C'est La Vie Prelude To A Hope Tocata Audience Banter America>Rondo Q&A with audience Pirates Lucky Man Saw them 4 times. Always a great show. They had a Q&A with the audience? Also, who played drums?
DrFishfinder Posted May 18, 2010 Posted May 18, 2010 awesome show this weekend....they sounded fabulous...1500 seat theater in the Trump Taj Majal. Played for almost 2 hours....set list was as follows. Ian McDonald joined them on stage for some flute parts....all in all a great great show.....so happy i got to see my favorite band(or at least the last 2 parts of my favorite band) after 30+ years From The Beginning Audience Banter I Talk To The Wind Audience Banter Bitches Crystal Take A Pebble Tarkus Set 2 Audience Banter C'est La Vie Prelude To A Hope Tocata Audience Banter America>Rondo Q&A with audience Pirates Lucky Man Very nice set. Even some King Crimson thrown in! This got me thinking....I would love to hear ELP do In the Court of the Crimson King. Hope they come to Ef El Ay. Was there an opening act?
The Poojer Posted May 18, 2010 Author Posted May 18, 2010 they had a drum track in a couple of spots.... no opening act... the q & a was pretty innocuous...i was going to ask about the whole Jimi Hendrix angle that was allegedly supposed to happen, but the guy said they address that every nite....oh well....great show Saw them 4 times. Always a great show. They had a Q&A with the audience? Also, who played drums?
Chef Jim Posted May 18, 2010 Posted May 18, 2010 they had a drum track in a couple of spots.... no opening act... the q & a was pretty innocuous...i was going to ask about the whole Jimi Hendrix angle that was allegedly supposed to happen, but the guy said they address that every nite....oh well....great show
The Poojer Posted May 19, 2010 Author Posted May 19, 2010 ok...let me try to 'splain....ELP is getting together for the 'high voltage' concert in london this summer....they are the headliners....Palmer is busy touring and honing his chops with Asia and The Carl Palmer Trio....Keith and Greg are using this unassuming tour to get themselves ready to play the old stuff...rather than get some hack to pretend to matter behind them, they are doing a somewhat acoustic tour to fine tune their skills to get ready to prep for this big show in london....they didn't have a full blown drum machine...they had a sound engineer in a sound booth behind them putting down some percussion tracks when the moog or Greg couldn't because of other musical directions they were focusing on....this little tour was nothing more than a warm up for Keith and Greg while Carl is doing some real gigs and keeping himself in form....
Jim in Anchorage Posted May 19, 2010 Posted May 19, 2010 ok...let me try to 'splain....ELP is getting together for the 'high voltage' concert in london this summer....they are the headliners....Palmer is busy touring and honing his chops with Asia and The Carl Palmer Trio....Keith and Greg are using this unassuming tour to get themselves ready to play the old stuff...rather than get some hack to pretend to matter behind them, they are doing a somewhat acoustic tour to fine tune their skills to get ready to prep for this big show in london....they didn't have a full blown drum machine...they had a sound engineer in a sound booth behind them putting down some percussion tracks when the moog or Greg couldn't because of other musical directions they were focusing on....this little tour was nothing more than a warm up for Keith and Greg while Carl is doing some real gigs and keeping himself in form.... Pathetic. I will stick with my 36 year old Rich Stadium memories.
The Poojer Posted May 19, 2010 Author Posted May 19, 2010 enjoy those memories...i made some new ones and loved every minute of it Pathetic. I will stick with my 36 year old Rich Stadium memories.
Jim in Anchorage Posted May 19, 2010 Posted May 19, 2010 enjoy those memories...i made some new ones and loved every minute of it But how many girls took off their shirts? Thats the real test of a concert.
DrFishfinder Posted May 20, 2010 Posted May 20, 2010 ok...let me try to 'splain....ELP is getting together for the 'high voltage' concert in london this summer....they are the headliners....Palmer is busy touring and honing his chops with Asia and The Carl Palmer Trio....Keith and Greg are using this unassuming tour to get themselves ready to play the old stuff...rather than get some hack to pretend to matter behind them, they are doing a somewhat acoustic tour to fine tune their skills to get ready to prep for this big show in london....they didn't have a full blown drum machine...they had a sound engineer in a sound booth behind them putting down some percussion tracks when the moog or Greg couldn't because of other musical directions they were focusing on....this little tour was nothing more than a warm up for Keith and Greg while Carl is doing some real gigs and keeping himself in form.... Thanks for the info. How did Greg sound? I always thought he had one of the best voices in the biz.
Chef Jim Posted May 20, 2010 Posted May 20, 2010 ok...let me try to 'splain....ELP is getting together for the 'high voltage' concert in london this summer....they are the headliners....Palmer is busy touring and honing his chops with Asia and The Carl Palmer Trio....Keith and Greg are using this unassuming tour to get themselves ready to play the old stuff...rather than get some hack to pretend to matter behind them, they are doing a somewhat acoustic tour to fine tune their skills to get ready to prep for this big show in london....they didn't have a full blown drum machine...they had a sound engineer in a sound booth behind them putting down some percussion tracks when the moog or Greg couldn't because of other musical directions they were focusing on....this little tour was nothing more than a warm up for Keith and Greg while Carl is doing some real gigs and keeping himself in form.... Being a drummer I find that very, very sad. There are plenty of kick ass drummers out there that would have filled in nicely. Either do a full acoustic set with no drums or full electric with a drummer or a combination.
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