Elton John - Take Me to the Pilot (Live at the Royal Festival Hall 1972) HD

[@ScottHenning-q9j]

There are no talents like this around anymore

[@gabrielabarros2036]

His voice on The 70s was something else

[@raindeerprojekt4119]

Everything was something else!!

[@livb6945]

The groove of this always gets me

[@pamjarrett-s9s]

I love Elton’s older music. Through the 70s and 80s. This is great!

[@raindeerprojekt4119]

70's and 80's were like another level of human SOUND!!! Dylan Elton Queen Eagles

[@jcalli66]

What a moment in time - an almost-divine blend of vocal, musical and artistic perfection. EJ of this period -and the next couple of years - was the late 20th century’s equivalent of Lizst and Schubert…

[@keithsummers_]

A person living his dreams and conquering the world while coming into his own. Such a great time period for him.

[@HeatherKShaw]

Indeeeeed!!! 🤟🖤

[@kevinr.3542]

Hed definitely firing on all cylinders and striving for the highest quality of performance that had ever been seen up till then. This is insane. Every musician on this is nailing their performance, and theyre totally inspired. This is the opposite of phoning it in. This is what you rarely see anymore. A performance of this caliber. Wow. The bassist is amazingly funky too.

[@thebutton7932]

Absolutely love that . . Sir Elton , young and fresh , just ripping it apart with ease , and the orchestra and arrangement , spot on to the original recording . . . . Doesnt get any better than that , imo

[@luciac.c.5009]

I just love the guys of the band singing and dancing up there making the chours lol

[@raindeerprojekt4119]

It was what Rock and Roll once was!!! AWESOME!!!

[@luciac.c.5009]

@@raindeerprojekt4119 totally agree!! i LOVED it!!! :)

[@anibalnikov47]

The tightest performance ever

[@ellenfagan4338]

All soul & spirit & gospel & sheer beauty. ☮️❤️🎶

[@sonyavincent7450]

I was 7 years old. Tysm Elton. Xxxxxxx

[@raindeerprojekt4119]

THE BASS IS FANTASTIC!!!

[@homeone4054]

I wish (hope) he looks at these old gigs and tries to put back in some of the funk into his last tour performances. The arrangements he uses currently are still rooted in the 1986/7 Australia tour arrangements which were bombastic. This is so much cooler in my view.

[@loke5551]

he wont. his performances are commercially driven now, plus hes lost most of his voice so his funk is gone as well

[@loke5551]

@@jdan6534 youre right hes still an excellent pianoplayer

[@homeone4054]

@@loke5551 you are correct. I don't doubt he has energy on the right day but it's all sounding a bit lumpy now live. The tempo has gone out of some of the songs. Nigel's drumming is still tight but he basically doesn't play anything other than a straight 4/4 bass, snare, hats on every song. He even leaves it to John Mahon to play some of the fills. The thing which made his playing interesting was the offset/syncopated kick drum he put into a lot of the songs originally (or at least live if he didn't play on the originals).

[@homeone4054]

@@jdan6534 It's not the drugs. He just doesn't think about rehearsing anything new. He uses Adam Chester to stand in for him in the rehearsals the band do. He doesn't take ownership of the arrangements therefore unless he tells Davey he wants something different, which he doesn't as he's too lazy to do anything different now. Let's face it the average punter buying a ticket doesn't care which "arrangement" Elton plays of his songs. I have seen him more times than I can remember and think he's been running in neutral for a while.

[@homeone4054]

Mind you even if you compare this with say the Dodger Stadium concerts, the funk had gone out of it by then. Those really were formulaic west coast 70s rock arrangements....

[@natalie5619]

the one dislike is probably John Reid

[@rafaa151]

When we will watch this great concert in a remastered version? Well, Universal Music and Elton, the fans wait for this.

[@scottjackson1420]

I think the harmony singers, at least two of them, were the same ladies that sang on his BBC television performance of this song from two years earlier.

[@Roundaboutrecords]

Correct! They were in demand session singers at the time. Elton's touring drummer and bassist are also singing backup...Nigel Olsson and Dee Murray. Odd they weren't the bassist and drummer used for the orchestral performance. Guitarist Davey Johnstone is seated next to the cello section.

[@manco828]

Ray Cooper on the bongos!

[@TheJoeyboots]

Elton rips the ivory!

[@TheJoeyboots]

But the music both perfect. Great!

[@incognitoboi4305]

How does his piano sound like that, so rustic is it a different piano, tuned different, I’m learning his song and it doesn’t sound the same..

[@JB-lj1iv]

Who was the one man to dislike this??

[@harryhowarth0687]

Cyborg92 I know right

[@incognitoboi4305]

Where is John Reid the comments are like I hate him and I didn’t see him...

[@annieveganized9939]

Reminds me of John Lennon here for some reason.

[@johnmcgahern3946]

Funniest Watford accent I've ever heard!

[@9897431]

to me it SOUNDS more 70s ( i think the bass/vocals stand out) whereas the performance in 86 has more guitar and SOUNDS more 80s?..... the performance from this sunday sounds different but i dont know why yet. Same song but oddly fitting to the era of * w h e n e v e r * timeless

[@TheJoeyboots]

Taupin and Elton were so great. but The movie Freddy mercury was better.

[@keisreeman]

One of his most ambitious efforts to make this mediocre song interesting. Just my opinion. But this song has no substance whatsoever, its just a sound.

[@TheFallenColumn]

cool.

[@chenlung1]

I like this performance, but I’ve never been a fan of the song itself.

[@nvl2158]

this song is very ahead of its time in this capacity

[@livb6945]

It's s great sound though.

[@justavoidme827]

I mean, most songs are indeed just sound.