Keith Emerson Band - Review

[richmon]

I knew you'd like it Barry, it's one of my favorite finds in the last year. I hear some echo's of the Trilogy album in the beginning piece. Marc Bonilla has a great voice and doesn't try to upstage Keith, he knows the Keys are the alpha feature.

Looking forward to seeing this tour in early June, haven't seen any Toronto dates, but they're in Boston and may venture a bit north. You have to search ticketmaster.com for 'keith emerson' to see when new dates are added, doen't seem to be any promotion for this.

[BarryL]

I was listening to Emerson's At The Movies compilation on Rhino last week. Three disks for a low price. A lot of it is airy fairy, but if you like Emo, it's worth having. Some good stuff there, and it all has the Emerson sound. Nighthawks and Best Revenge are the most progressive, and the Japanese soundtracks are the weakest IMO.

I'd love to see the old man again.

Moraz has a new album out which claims to be more progressive. No kidding. His last album was classical piano music! (Any Moraz is fine by me. Get him back with Bruford, I say.)

[richmon]

[QUOTE=BarryL]Moraz has a new album out which claims to be more progressive/QUOTE]

Don't do it Barry! I did a 2 hour road trip last weekend to see John Wetton with the paul green school of rock. My passenger is a big Moraz fan and brought along the new disc. It's got african rhythms, sound track type stuff and lots of songs where the keys are buried or just absent.

Both of us looked at each other and said 'WTF?'. When he got out of the car he pretended to throw the disc under my wheels.

By the way the Wetton show was incredible. They did all of Red, the best cuts from Larks Tongue and Starless + BB, Three UK songs, two Asia songs. Killer set list and was refreshing to see these songs performed with enthusiasm, instead of a recluse surround by amps. Wetton's voice is in top form.

[BarryL]

[QUOTE=richmon]

Moraz has a new album out which claims to be more progressive/QUOTE]

Don't do it Barry!

Thanks for the warning.
I'll eventually do it. But thanks for the warning. I won't be rushing into it. I'll have to scrounge around and see if I can find any samples to listen to.

Have you seen the BBC show on prog rock? Check out YouTube. It's called Progressive Rock Britannia, in three parts. Here's part 1.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8T904BrY_k

[richmon]

[QUOTE=BarryL][QUOTE=richmon]

Thanks for the warning.
I'll eventually do it. /QUOTE]

You have to be a fan of Moraz the composer/arranger cause loads of the disc just seems to omit any keyboards. It's also all over the map stylistically.

I watched all three parts of the progrock Brittania - should be required viewing for all card carrying proggers. Very insightful, even though I thought they omitted an important band, Gentle Giant.

[Hyfi]

[QUOTE=richmon]

Moraz has a new album out which claims to be more progressive/QUOTE]

Don't do it Barry! I did a 2 hour road trip last weekend to see John Wetton with the paul green school of rock. My passenger is a big Moraz fan and brought along the new disc. It's got african rhythms, sound track type stuff and lots of songs where the keys are buried or just absent.

Both of us looked at each other and said 'WTF?'. When he got out of the car he pretended to throw the disc under my wheels.

By the way the Wetton show was incredible. They did all of Red, the best cuts from Larks Tongue and Starless + BB, Three UK songs, two Asia songs. Killer set list and was refreshing to see these songs performed with enthusiasm, instead of a recluse surround by amps. Wetton's voice is in top form.

Glad the SOR show was better than what I heard on the radio. The kids coming out of that school are phenomenal. I saw Adrian Belew with Eric and Julie Slick 2 years ago and they rocked.