ELP Digest Thursday, 23 Jan 1992 Volume 2 : Issue 2 Today's Topics: Re: H.R. Giger au privave and Sceriffo o Bandito Re: Carl in PM (and Asia) Brain Salad Surgery Question ------------------------------------------------------------ Digest, mailing address, and administrative stuff to: elp-request@xero.cbm.dec.com ELP-related info that you want to put in the digest to: elp@xero.cbm.dec.com Note: The opinions, information, etc. contained in this digest are those of the original message sender listed in each message below. They are not necessarily those of the mailing list/digest administrator or those of any institution through whose computers/networks this mail flows. ******************MODERATOR'S NOTE****************** I will on vacation (and `off the net') from January 28 through February 7, 1992. You can still send stuff to the elp@xero.cbm.dec.com accounts, however. I'll gather it together and send out the next issue shortly after I get back from vacation. Thanks for your patience and continued interest in this ELP information exchange. - John, the list administrator - ------------------------------------------------------------ Return-Path: rbhardin@descartes.waterloo.edu From: Ron Harding Subject: Re: H.R. Giger Date: Mon, 13 Jan 92 11:48:37 EST Another tidit bit on H.R. Giger, and more directly E.L.P. related: In Giger's book, _Biomechanics_, there is a group of paintings which look like covers for an ELP album. Some of them have the Sacred Initials and a title painted in. The title is "The Environment." The paintings are mostly of a waterfall with a sexy pair of lips in it. Some include a faint hint of a penis subtly pointed at the lips. (Giger just can't resist those phallic symbols!) Judging by the date of the paintings (mid 80's) I'd say this was a proposed cover for ELPowell. It would have been great if they'd used it. I wonder why they didn't :-) Incidentally, Biomechanics also includes a bunch of Giger's design sketches for Poltergeist 2, and the aforementioned Debbie Harry painting. ============================================================================= Nuke'Em: Get them before they get you! | Ron Harding Another quality home game from Butler | rbharding@descartes.waterloo.edu Bros. | ============================================================================= ------------------------------ Return-Path: smithj@hpsadlu.sad.hp.com Date: Mon, 13 Jan 92 17:45:26 pst From: Jim Smith Subject: au privave and Sceriffo o Bandito I have seen a couple of references to a piece performed in the late 80's by Keith Emerson, called "au privave." Apparently he performed this on the Italian show "DOC Special" in 1989, and a fragment of it was published in a European (French or Italian) edition of "Keyboard" magazine. Has anyone ever heard this piece? Does anyone have a recording of it? Does anyone have any more information? I'm curious about it. One of the songs that Emerson performed with Italian pop singer Jovanotti is called "Sceriffo o Bandito." It is interesting to note the parallels between this song and ELP's "The Sheriff." Both begin with good-natured, spoken goofing-around. Jovanotti whistles at the beginning of Sceriffo.. Both are about a sheriff and a bandit. I don't speak Italian, but there is a line in the chorus of Sceriffo o Bandito that sounds like "Say you no sceriffo yo bandito." Both use a storytelling narrative style in their lyrics (at least it sounds that way to me). The song form is the same, with a rollicking lead (by Emerson) in the middle (He does a bit of barrelhouse piano, followed by a synthesized parody of a Spaghetti Western soundtrack in Sceriffo), and a piano tag (At the end of Sceriffo, Emerson plays a bit of the Maple Leaf Rag). All of this makes me wonder if Sceriffo o Bandito was meant as a sort of tribute to ELP, or if it was just a cheap rip! heh.. I recently visited the Tower Records store in Mountain View, California, and noted that they had quite a few albums by The Nice there, on CD: The Nice, Ars Longa Vita Brevis, Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack, and maybe one more. They also had the CHORD CD of Honky, and a copy of Keith Emerson With The Nice, inside of a CD package that was mislabeled as Elegy. (Come to think of it, every copy of the "KE with the Nice" CD that I've ever seen was inside a package mislabeled as Elegy, and I've never seen a REAL copy of the Elegy CD!) The November issue of "Keyboard" magazine was devoted to the Hammond organ. Lots of interesting history and technical information on the Hammond, and a bit of information on Keith Emerson's use of the organ, including a couple of drawbar settings. I emulated these drawbar settings on my synthesizer, and they do indeed sound like the most common organ sound (minus rotating speakers and distortion and other "stuff") used by Emerson. There was also a statement in that issue that Emerson preferred the Hammond L-100 over the C3, because it was easier to haul around, but I suspect that this is untrue, since he used a C3 for most of the organ parts he played after he acquired it. - Jim Smith smithj@hpsad.sad.hp.com ------------------------------ Return-Path: John.McCartney@EBay.Sun.COM Date: Wed, 15 Jan 92 15:07:46 PST From: John.McCartney@EBay.Sun.COM ( The Lion of Symmetry ) Subject: Re: Carl in PM (and Asia) PM: 1 PM Yeah, I've got it, I believe I picked it up for about $2. Believe me, that's about all it's worth - generic lifeless pop-rock..... Asia: Mockba - Live 09-X1-90 >it's a Japanese import Actually not, it states "product of the ECC", but I suspect UK origins as the label is Cromwell Records. Overall, it's ok, but nothing outstanding. Kari-anne is so-so, an Alpha or Astra outtake by the sound of it. The King Crimson songs are not too badly done, a pleasant surprise. They're The Book Of Saturday and Starless. scorch ------------------------------ Return-Path: amix@gvlf6.GVL.Unisys.COM Date: Fri, 17 Jan 92 09:47:13 EST From: amix@gvlf6.GVL.Unisys.COM (Andy Mix) Subject: Brain Salad Surgery Question I remember reading on the net a while ago that there's a version of the Brain Salad Surgery CD from Germany(?) on the Manticore(?) label that does NOT split Karn Evil 9 1st Impression into two parts like the record and cassette have to do. Does anybody have this version and/or could verify the fact. If so, does anybody know where I could get a copy? Or at least a definite way of identifying the version if I were to mail order it somehow. Thanks, Andy amix@gvl.unisys.com ------------------------------ End of ELP Digest [Volume 2 Issue 2] ************************************