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Joined: March 12 2005
Location: Neurotica
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Posted: November 10 2011 at 02:31
Cinema Show by a large margin.
Dig me...But don't...Bury me I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
Even as a self confessed ELP fanboy I'm always surprised at how incredibly highly many people rate Take a Pebble. Sure, it has a strong and memorable melody beautifully sung by Lake but despite the ingenious and elaborate extemporisation that Emerson coaxes from a rather limited harmonic palette (see My Back Pages and Hang On to A Dream for similar snacks he turned into banquets)for me it can never completely disguise its origins as a finger picked Greg balladthat Keith heard in demo form from a cassette. Once we reach the live incarnation as represented by Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends, the original conception is merely a launching pad for a brilliant boogie via jazz piano extravaganza from Keith.
Joined: April 26 2005
Location: Belgium
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Posted: November 10 2011 at 06:15
ExittheLemming wrote:
Even as a self confessed ELP fanboy I'm always surprised at how incredibly highly many people rate Take a Pebble. Sure, it has a strong and memorable melody beautifully sung by Lake but despite the ingenious and elaborate extemporisation that Emerson coaxes from a rather limited harmonic palette (see My Back Pages and Hang On to A Dream for similar snacks he turned into banquets)for me it can never completely disguise its origins as a finger picked Greg balladthat Keith heard in demo form from a cassette. ..
I can see that concerning the composition there is a Lake part and an Emerson part, but I think both parts are fantastic and really fit well together, and for me it doesn't sound like a Lake song with some Emerson parts. I never have the impression that I'm listening to two songs, or to one song ornamented with sounds. In my ears it sounds like a unity, but then again, I never listened much to Welcome Back which might change my attitude, so I don't know.
I think Emerson's piano parts sound absolutely fantastic, and I think the parts with the clapping and the guitar are quite original and for some reason sound fantastic too.
Hard to say why Take A Pebble is one of my favorite ELP songs, but it is.
Joined: February 18 2004
Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: November 10 2011 at 14:54
I have to confess that I used to put on Take A Pebble to have a nap at one time before I got older and found napping a lot easier. I'm not that great a fan of Cinema Show (in its studio album form) either. Seems to be building up to something then just fizzles out. I feel a bit cheated listening to it. Its okay though. Neither would ever end up on a compilation of my favourite prog tracks thats for sure.
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