This jazzbo (then) and jazzbo (now), saw ELP in concert probably even earlier than Keith M. because it was so long ago tours didn't have titles for marketing hooks. (Come to think of it maybe it was even The Nice!) This may have taken place at a rock festival -- remember them? --at the Montreal Forum. Anyhow, what I remember most besides the bombast and the tumult was Keith Emerson running around the stage with his mini moog cocked like a pistol,"firing" bursts of sound into the audience. If that gesture alone didn't set back the acceptance of synthesizers among "serious" musicians a good decade, I don't know what did. Ken Waxman --- Keith McMullen <keithsz@concentric.net> wrote:
My first arena rock concert was ELP on the Brain Salad Surgery Tour. Four enormous banks of speakers creating mind-numbing quadrophenia as the bombast ping-ponged around the space from corner to corner and then whirled around the perimeter with blinding speed. While it might put me to sleep from this vantage point some 30 years hence, at the time it was a gooseflesh inducing spectatcle I am pleased to have in the memory vault.
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