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Emerson does unthinkable to his moog. (www.youtube.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by vbb@lemmy.world to c/progrock@lemmy.ml

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I going to assume that it's a moog synthesizer, maybe it's a mellotron. What's interesting though, is that I opened this live performance to play in the background and randomly noticed what Keith was doing to that poor instrument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u4HgJatKOY&t=891s (14:51) he jumped behind it and started tickling moogs innards, which resulted in a terrifying sound.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u4HgJatKOY&t=1182s (19:42) is just violent... Keith jumped on it's keyboard and started rocking it.

Jokes aside. ELP lives are quite interesting. There are these strange moments, improvisations, Lake might slide in a quatrain from Epitaph. In Karn Evil 9 there is a computer with wings.

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[–] vbb@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thanks, very interesting details! I watched newer live recording, in better quality, today and it definitely looks like that Hammond seen a lot in it's life.
Keyboards seem very confusing to me, they sound very close to each other. Eg. Fire Fortellinger has a lengthly list of keyboards, but I am not able to tell most of them apart. So that's very nice to find out something new about them.

[–] Manticore@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Cool, thanks for mentioning that album. I hadn’t heard of him before. Definitely some Keith Emerson influence in his style.

By all means, dig deep into those instruments at your own pace.

Especially in the digital age, lots of people think of MIDI controllers or big do-it-all workstations when they think of keyboards or just think of them as instruments that imitate other instruments. But there are tons of unique, distinct sounds that only certain keyboards can make, especially among acoustic and electromechanical keyboards like the ones on Fire Fortellinger.