Word: triumvirat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd was an impatient one and seemed only marginally interested in the musical dabblings of the opening act, Triumvirat. The group's leader, however, won the audience over with a couple of numbers featuring impressive work on keyboards. He achieved an excellent rapport between his electric keyboards and array of synthesizers whose tone quality was among the best I have yet to hear at a live set. What resulted in his being the center of attention was not his highly proficient synthesizer manipulations, but rather the rotation of his eyeballs which left only the whites of his eyes...
...Although Triumvirat's performance was actually faultless, they left no more than a slight impression upon me due to their obvious resemblance to more highly acclaimed bands: Yes and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer for example. Innovation is a quality that Triumvirat lacked--a quality that nowadays is sufficient to make or break a band...
...Triumvirat's set lasted about forty-five minutes, the last ten minutes of which was marked by a noticeable tenseness in the audience that lasted through the assemblage of Reed's sound set. Eventually the lights were dimmed and three silhouettes took their place beside their instruments. As the flood lights were switched on, the trio ripped into a rollicking instrumental. Normally, this would have sufficed to release a portion of the audience's anxious anticipation. Instead, the reverse was true; as the tension of the music built, so did the crowd's. The band sailed into the familiar chords...
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