EMERSON LAKE & PALMER IN CONCERT

This must rank as one of my worst concert I ever saw, but I got to visit the Olympic stadium for the same price so all was not lost. I will speak mostly of the concert since I was there in this review and I never owned the record , but everytime I heard it at a friend's house I was slightly annoyed because of the rotten souvenir. OK, sure enough, the concert setting was grandiose enough with the Big O stadium filled to an impressive capacity. By the time they got to this concert , late in the tour (I wonder if the Montreal concert was not the final one of the tour) , they had brought back the Orchestra for a few gigs after having dropped it for themiddle gigs. But clearly the concert organization was shoddy as far as the sound was concerned: Echoes , Feedbacks etc.... All these plagued a concert that was also concentrating (logically) on the later albums, so even the track selection was shoddy also. Adding to the fact that E and L were acting like superstars and not communicating with the public. Nice to hear the Peter Gunn theme, though!

I think that Harmonium was to share the bill with them but there was a fight about who should open so they dropped out . As Harmonium was on top of their game and playing at home and regarding the garbage ELP was putting out at the time , they could have headlined it, without doubt.

For die-hard fans!!!