Post by Imagescapegirl on May 21, 2008 11:43:16 GMT 1
This is an interview, I think from the end of last year or early this year as he commented missing the September release for the new album to catch the Christmas sales, and so was then looking to a March release ...
He talks about ELP and KEB and the new CD and DVD.
Personally I loved this bit about Carl Palmer
Q. There’s been a lot of ELP compilations coming out lately — DVDs and box sets, including a new 5-disc set called From The Beginning. I thought The Original Bootleg Series From The Manticore Vaults sets were by far the most creative. Who came up with that idea?
Keith: The person that needs to be congratulated on that one is Carl Palmer. Every place that we went to, he’d normally be the one going down to the record shop and he’d search for bootlegs. It is known that there are a lot of bootlegs in Japan and I didn’t actually seek to go down to Tower Records and check out to see if there were any ELP bootlegs, but Carl Palmer is notorious for doing that — Japan, Germany, Italy or where ever. Carl will bravely walk into a shop, get the bootlegs out, and announce himself to the manager, and say, “These are bootlegs” and he will just walk out of the store with them. Of course, there was nothing they could about that. And he had quite a collection.
And on the new stuff ...
Q. So now you’re back in the States. I understand you’re making a record with Marc Bonilla.
Keith. Yes. It’s something that started at the beginning of the year. It’s all basically (new and) original material, and kind of follows a Trilogy/Brain Salad Surgery type of direction. There’s one quite lengthy conceptual piece, which incorporates vocals as well. Marc Bonilla does a brilliant job of providing the vocals. It’s about a 20-minute piece. The rest of it follows the same sort of format, which I think was successful in the 70s for ELP. There are other shorter pieces which I suppose you could call lighthearted — if you can call “Benny The Bouncer” and “The Sheriff” lighthearted. That adds a fine element to it. And then, of course, there is a classical adaptation, again another Ginastera piece, which I think works very, very well.
Q. Which Ginastera piece are you recording?
Keith. I’m going to keep that secret because there are certain people who would say, “I know which piece this is.”(laughs)
Q. Is there any way that fans can track the progress of the new record?
K. We’ve already shot an awful lot of footage of work in progress in the studio. I’ve got one complete piece, which will go up on YouTube in the next month or so. There will be a My Space and YouTube coming up very soon, of which I’ll be making an announcement on my web site (keithemerson.com). Yeah, there’s some great stuff of Marc and I recording together, personal interviews with Marc and myself, and a lot of interesting things. I just want to put these out periodically on My Space and YouTube and get the excitement going.
You can read the whole interview at ...
www.vintagerock.com/kemerson_interview.aspx
He talks about ELP and KEB and the new CD and DVD.
Personally I loved this bit about Carl Palmer
Q. There’s been a lot of ELP compilations coming out lately — DVDs and box sets, including a new 5-disc set called From The Beginning. I thought The Original Bootleg Series From The Manticore Vaults sets were by far the most creative. Who came up with that idea?
Keith: The person that needs to be congratulated on that one is Carl Palmer. Every place that we went to, he’d normally be the one going down to the record shop and he’d search for bootlegs. It is known that there are a lot of bootlegs in Japan and I didn’t actually seek to go down to Tower Records and check out to see if there were any ELP bootlegs, but Carl Palmer is notorious for doing that — Japan, Germany, Italy or where ever. Carl will bravely walk into a shop, get the bootlegs out, and announce himself to the manager, and say, “These are bootlegs” and he will just walk out of the store with them. Of course, there was nothing they could about that. And he had quite a collection.
And on the new stuff ...
Q. So now you’re back in the States. I understand you’re making a record with Marc Bonilla.
Keith. Yes. It’s something that started at the beginning of the year. It’s all basically (new and) original material, and kind of follows a Trilogy/Brain Salad Surgery type of direction. There’s one quite lengthy conceptual piece, which incorporates vocals as well. Marc Bonilla does a brilliant job of providing the vocals. It’s about a 20-minute piece. The rest of it follows the same sort of format, which I think was successful in the 70s for ELP. There are other shorter pieces which I suppose you could call lighthearted — if you can call “Benny The Bouncer” and “The Sheriff” lighthearted. That adds a fine element to it. And then, of course, there is a classical adaptation, again another Ginastera piece, which I think works very, very well.
Q. Which Ginastera piece are you recording?
Keith. I’m going to keep that secret because there are certain people who would say, “I know which piece this is.”(laughs)
Q. Is there any way that fans can track the progress of the new record?
K. We’ve already shot an awful lot of footage of work in progress in the studio. I’ve got one complete piece, which will go up on YouTube in the next month or so. There will be a My Space and YouTube coming up very soon, of which I’ll be making an announcement on my web site (keithemerson.com). Yeah, there’s some great stuff of Marc and I recording together, personal interviews with Marc and myself, and a lot of interesting things. I just want to put these out periodically on My Space and YouTube and get the excitement going.
You can read the whole interview at ...
www.vintagerock.com/kemerson_interview.aspx
.... the news update and the front page latest date update, don't match! As the latest news update is today, one hopes the front page and music will change any minute now ... 'cause it's definitely the old stuff at the moment of writing. But, here's hoping .....
;D
