Brain salad surgery
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5 |
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44:59 |
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Brain Salad Surgery is the fourth studio album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer and the first to be released on their own Manticore label. It was released in 1973. The title comes from the song Right Place, Wrong Time by Dr. John .
music
The most famous track on the album is Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression - Part 2 (“Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends…”). Among other things, this first line of text of the piece has served since then to greet fans at concerts and became the title of the following live album. Due to its length and the fact that around 25 minutes fit on one LP side, the track Karn Evil 9 was originally distributed on two LP sides on the record ( 1st Impression - Part 1 on the A side, the rest on the B. Page) and referred to as two titles. In later CD releases, however, these two parts were merged into one title. The text was written by Greg Lake and his former King Crimson ally Peter Sinfield .
The song Toccata is an arrangement of the fourth movement of Ginastera 's First Piano Concerto, with some synthesizer effects not from Keith Emerson but from Carl Palmer , who used a new type of drum synthesizer here. The composer agreed with Emerson's arrangement: “ Keith Emerson has beautifully caught the mood of my piece. ”
In the meantime, the album has also been released as DVD-Audio in a slightly modified Dolby 5.1 mix.
Record cover
For the upcoming album, Peter Zumsteg, the manager of the record label, introduced Emerson to the artist HR Giger . In April 1973 the group played a two-day concert in Zurich as part of their European tour . After the concert, Emerson and Zumsteg visited the artist in his home. Coincidentally, under the influence of the music of Emerson, Lake, & Palmer, Giger had just created a triptych entitled Work 216: Landscape XIX. When he revealed the triptych to his guests, Emerson immediately decided to use it for the album cover. Giger painted two new pictures, Work 217: ELP I and Work 218: ELP II, roughly the size of the actual vinyl record cover. The group chose the first picture as the cover picture. It shows a human skull clamped in a machine in the monochrome biomechanical style typical of Giger over the new ELP logo , also designed by Giger , which Emerson, Lake and Palmer has carried since then.
After an exhibition of Giger's works in Prague ended , both original paintings Work 217: ELP I and Work 218: ELP II were lost on August 31, 2005, where they were presumably stolen and have not reappeared since.
reception
In June 2015, Rolling Stone voted the album at number 12 of the 50 best progressive rock albums of all time .
Trivia
Keith Emerson played the prototype of the polyphonic Moog "Apollo" synthesizer on Karn Evil 9 , which was sold three years later and modified as "Poly-Moog".
Track list
- Jerusalem ( William Blake , Hubert Parry , and adaptation by Keith Emerson , Greg Lake & Carl Palmer ) - 2:44
- Toccata , an arrangement of Ginastera's 1st piano concerto, 4th movement ( Alberto Ginastera , arr.Emerson) - 7:22
- Still ... You Turn Me On (Lake) - 2:53
- Benny the Bouncer (Emerson, Lake & Peter Sinfield ) - 2:21
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Karn Evil 9 (Emerson, Lake & Sinfield) - 29:54
- Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression - Part 1 (Emerson & Lake) - 8:43
- Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression - Part 2 (Emerson & Lake) - 4:46
- Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression (Emerson) - 7:07
- Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression (Emerson, Lake & Sinfield) - 9:03
Web links
- Reviews of Brain Salad Surgery on the Baby Blue Pages
- Brain Salad Surgery at Allmusic (English)
- Brain Salad Surgery at Discogs (English)
- Info page for the album authorized by the band
Individual evidence
- ^ Supplement to the LP Manticore K 53501, 1973
- ↑ Giger originals for record covers disappeared after the exhibition . In: Tages-Anzeiger . Zurich 5th November 2005.
- ↑ Richard Gehr: 50 Greatest Prog Rock Albums of All Time - Emerson, Lake and Palmer, 'Brain Salad Surgery' (1973). In: Rolling Stone . Wenner Media, June 17, 2015, accessed on September 23, 2015 .