LUCKY MAN (LIVE) (RE-RELEASED AS " FANFARE: THE 1997 WORLD TOUR")

This album, released in identical form but with different sleeve illustrations as "Lucky man (live)" and "Fanfare, the 1997 tour", is quite simply the second disc of the 1998 album "Then and now". These tracks were referred to on that collection as "Now", the then tracks being from 1974. Unfortunately, three of the "Now" tracks were included on the first disc of "Now and then", and those are simply omitted here (the three, "A Time And A Place", "Piano Concerto No. 1 (Third Movement)", and "From The Beginning" can be found on the 2001 re-packaging called "The show that never ends").

The recording quality is excellent, and the song selection by the band diverse. They range from never before performed live songs from "Tarkus", to a 22 minute extravaganza based around "Fanfare for the common man" and Dave Brubeck's "Blue rondo a la Turk". After the stunning initial fanfare, we settle down into a lengthy workout by Emerson on synth and organ. Hidden away in the rendition is an unannounced divergence into "Abaddon's Bolero" and a number of other familiar modern and classical themes. Carl Palmer also slips in one of his astonishingly energetic, but for me futile, drum solos.

We close with a quick verse of King Crimson's (Lake) "21st Century schizoid man" which leads into Emerson's controversial interpretation of Berstein/Sondheim's "America".

In all, a fine but poorly packaged document of the reformed band's gigs in the late 1990's but don't expect to find anything here which is not already available. The rating reflects this.

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