GREG LAKE & GEOFF DOWNES: RIDE THE TIGER

ELP never ends at last. In 1983, Asia makes a Budokan Show with Greg Lake on vocals singing Only Time Will Tell (a most famous Song for Asia around the world) at side of Carl Palmer. In 1985, ELP haved a plans to return, but Palmer was have a long gigs (or shows) with Asia because your third album. In Palmer's place, Cozy Powell, a Heavy Metal drummer, take a drums and a percussion. This project makes born the Emerson, Lake & Powell and your first and unique album from 1986.

This album do a relative sucess with Touch and Go single. In 88, a 3 band bring back Palmer to drums, but Greg Lake stayed occuped with a mysterious work.

In Greg place, Robert Barry take a vocals of this line-up. Still in 88, Greg reunites with a Yes keysman, Geoff Downes, and produced this album.

The sound of this work is a oriented for a Hard Rock in a plus with synthetizers, while constructs a true Power Rock. Three of this songs are a revisited from ELP in 1990. Money Talks turns into a Paper Blood, a Country Prog song from Black Moon, in 1992. Meanwhile, Affairs of The Heart, gained a definitive and better version in Black Moon too. The great modification is for Street War. The new arrangments are a so diffrent for your early version. In the In Hot Seat album, this song is most accelerated.

The other songs have a great energy, but continues with a pop feelings from 80's (particulary, i'm like a 1980 sonority). This album it's was a produced in 1987 to 1988, but, i don't known the labels holding this at to 2015, one year before Greg Lake's pass.

Well, in 1980, Greg Lake take a distance from Prog, and navigate in a 80's Power Rock (at last i feel King Crimson in Someone in your first album, Greg Lake (1981)). Any Prog references are so shift here, but is a certanily a good register. 3 stars.