Elp Memorabilia

[babayaga]

Hi All.

I've been in touch with Tony Ortiz recently about digitising the ELP memorabilia I've collected over the years and thought it would make an interesting thread here... not the whole lot, you understand, but just a few key items as they arise!

To start with let's consider this first one... a letter sent into a UK music paper about the coloured blotches which appeared regularly throughout 'Pictures at an Exhibition' - sent in by a spotty long-haired youth of 17 who lived in Liverpool. Check out also the reply from Terry Quinn the following week, who blames it all on the American's! <:-O>

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t179/babayaga321/ELP%20MEMORABILIA/ELP_GS_LETTER1_JAN1973_800.jpg

....not sure about her other comment of her Dad being ELP's oldest fan at 52.... how old is the spotty 17 year-old now methinks? :-(

The second clip is a letter which i found nestled in my collection of ELP fanzines - the ELP News Service of 1994 to be exact. The name of the sender jumped out at me at once... strange what a relatively small yet dedicated bunch of followers we find ourselves to be! :-)

http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t179/babayaga321/ELP%20MEMORABILIA/ELP_DP_LETTER_1994_800.jpg

So... does anybody have any other similar published items which they'd like to share on ELP or other connected bands?

Cheers - G.

[MDDRUMZ]

Very cool pieces, Graham. It's funny - I had the same reaction when re-reading the ELP Newsletter not long ago. I recalled reading the article for the first time but back then "David Presley of Dulth, GA" to me was just another guy with an impeccable taste in music - not "The Tark., Keyboardist Extaordinaire (w/ impeccable taste in music) " :)

[SilverHamer]

It's a fascinatingly small world we live in, isn't it? Very cool postings, G...I"m looking forward to the next posting. :D

Reference the splotches of color in the film...since I have not ever actually viewed the film, anything I may have to say about it is certainly unqualified, but I have always been one who enjoys a great lightshow to go with the music. But if it interferes with the overall visual effect I think it's gone overboard. If someone gets lost in the lights (or lack thereof) the one responsible for it gets fired, especially at a critical point or movement in the music. Regardless of why they chose to do the visual effects...be it for the overall effect of the show, or to appease the American audience...the ultimate responsibility for shitty results lie with those who produce it. Someone should have "scouted" the show and taken into consideration such things as the effects of the lighting used, and I'm quite sure they would have seen that it just wouldn't work for film and could have made some adjustments. The hell of it is, back in those days, this kind of production was basically in it's developmental stage and to go back and reshoot certain parts for the sake of a quality film production may have been outside the budget. I would venture to bet that if you'd been watching this LIVE instead of on film, it probably looked a lot different and Keith probably wasn't lost in the lighshow, or perhaps he wasn't lost as badly.

And there you have it...my unqualified opinion. :D And, of course, we know how opinions are...they're like belly-buttons. :shock: