surrealistic CAT.
Image repeat tunnel...
This visual effect was copied from the classic motion picture documentary called "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" featuring Rick Wakeman playing synthesizers in front of a classical music orchestra, rock band and
actors telling the Jules Verne story.
There were many "psychedelic" effects used in the video editing...
This one was used often... perhaps TOO often...
The performance is one of rock music's highlights...
Rick has TWO mini-moog synthesizers... one for each hand...
they are monophonic so they will only play one note at a time
but that single note is SO POWERFUL...
He turns up the resonance filter and
the absolute MAGIC of Robert MOOG's
invention is displayed without restraint.
Upon first hearing the tone, It's clearly a MOOG.
and, HE'S GOT TWO OF THEM!
That's better than Keith Emerson... He only had ONE!
Sure, it was a MOOG MODULAR, but still...
The basic idea of two hands, two Moogs just makes sense...
If he needs to, he can put one on "hold" and
fiddle with the knobs on the other one...
Fortunetly, I got to hear ELP twice and YES once...
ELP played with Mahavishnu orchestra...
The high point of the ELP show was when Keith Jumped off the stage at Winterland in San Francisco and ran around "shooting" people in the audience with his ribbon controller. It was set up to play a "spaceship blasting off" type-resonant sound...
Laurel and Hardy Snow-globe image repeated to be similar in
feel to that ELP "Brain Salad Surgery" album cover...
"Welcome back my friends, to the show that never ends"
That ELP concert featured "Pictures at an Exhibition"
by Modest Mussorgsky... Lyrics by Greg Lake...
I'm truly a "Lucky Man" to have attended those shows...