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is this Van Der Graff or ELP? |
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HarryT 
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 Topic: is this Van Der Graff or ELP?Posted: September 05 2023 at 04:39 |
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Dear Sire, I have decided to catch up on albums that passed me by years ago and one such is Pawn Heart by Van Der Graff Generator which I found on Amazon Music. The first track up was something called One Theme, I think, but it sounded very much like an ELP track I cant remember the name of. Who wrote it, was it nicked, what is the ELP track?
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Posted: September 05 2023 at 05:33 |
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"Theme One" is a bonus track on some Pawn Hearts versions/ version. It was written by George Martin (of The Beatles) and later covered by Van der Graaf Generator. I guess it reminds me a bit of ELP's cover of Aaron Copland's "Fanfare for a Common Man", or a little like ELP's version of "Peter Gunn" possibly?
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Posted: September 05 2023 at 06:13 |
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It does sound like an ELP track but I can't think of a specific one that the melody sounds like. Maybe something from Pictures at an Exhibition?
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Posted: September 05 2023 at 06:14 |
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Just discovered that Cozy Powell did a cover of this - a bit faster than the original as you might expect.
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Posted: September 05 2023 at 06:26 |
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^ What a coincidence! Only a couple of hours ago (before reading this thread), I was watching an interview with David Jackson, and the topic of "Theme One" came up. He mentioned that Cozy Powell also did a cover of this.
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Posted: September 05 2023 at 10:05 |
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Nick Magnus (keyboard player with Steve Hackett at one time) also covered it.
Theme One doesn't remind me of any ELP track (possibly Hoedown but that's a stretch) but Emerson's previous band the Nice did a track called Brandenburger (part of the Ars Longa Vita Brevis suite) in 1968. There might have been some influence there although there was a lot of organ based prog at that time.
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Posted: September 05 2023 at 19:13 |
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Posted: September 05 2023 at 19:42 |
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It sounds a bit like a cross between History of Mystery by Triumvirat and Peaches en Regalia by Zappa.
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Posted: September 06 2023 at 04:04 |
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Im amazed its not ELP or why they didnt cover it. Touch of Pictures At An Exhibition perhaps. And who knew George Martin had that under his belt?
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