Brain Salad Surgery
Brain Salad Surgery is the fourth studio album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released 7 December 1973 on their own Manticore Records label, distributed by Atlantic.^[raw/articles/wikipedia-brain-salad-surgery.md]
The Hammond in it
'Keith Emerson''s keyboard arsenal on the album pairs the Moog synthesizer with his abused Hammond: the three-movement sci-fi suite "Karn Evil 9" makes the Hammond and Moog equal lead voices, and the record also carries his adaptation of Ginastera's 1st Piano Concerto (the notorious "Toccata").^[raw/articles/wikipedia-brain-salad-surgery.md]^[raw/articles/wikipedia-emerson-lake-palmer.md]
Emerson's Hammond technique — coming from the jazz-blues organ records (Jack McDuff's "Rock Candy") and expressed on an L-100 he treated with knives and stunts — here sits inside the largest canvas the prog era gave the instrument.^[raw/articles/wikipedia-keith-emerson.md] It closes the trilogy of prog Hammond landmarks begun with Emerson, Lake & Palmer (1970) and Tarkus (1971) (see hammond-landmark-albums).