A TIME AND A PLACE

Emerson Lake & Palmer

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Live, released in 2010

Songs / Tracks Listing

Disc One: The Early 70's
1. The Barbarian [Isle of Wight Festival, Isle Of Wight, UK on August 29, 1970]
2. Take A Pebble [Beat Club, Bremen, Germany on November 26, 1970]
3. Ballad Of Blue [Lyceum Ballroom, London, UK on December 9, 1970]
4. High Level Fugue [Lyceum Ballroom, London, UK on December 9, 1970]
5. Hoedown [Mar Y Sol Festival, Veja Baja, San Juan, Puerto Rico on April 2, 1972]
6. Still. You Turn Me On [The Civic Center, Tulsa, OK on March 7, 1974]
7. Lucky Man [The Civic Center, Tulsa, OK on March 7, 1974]
8. Karn Evil 9 (1st, 2nd & 3rd Impressions) [Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA on Feb. 2, 1974]

Disc Two: The Late 70's
1. Peter Gunn Theme [The Coliseum, Wheeling, WV on November 18, 1977]
2. Pictures At An Exhibition [The Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN on November 20, 1977]
3. Tiger In A Spotlight [The Coliseum, Wheeling, WV on November 18, 1977]
4. Maple Leaf Rag [The Coliseum, Wheeling, WV on November 18, 1977]
5. Tank [The Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY on February 9, 1978]
6. Drum Solo [The Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY on February 9, 1978]
7. The Enemy God Dances With The Black Spirits [The Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY on 1978]
8. Watching Over You [The Coliseum, Wheeling, WV on November 18, 1977]
9. Pirates [The Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN on November 20, 1977]
10. Tarkus [The Nassau Coliseum, Uniondale, NY on February 9, 1978]
11. Show Me The Way To Go Home [The Mid-South Coliseum, Memphis, TN on November 20, 1977]

Disc Three: The 90's
1. Knife Edge [Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles, CA on March 17, 1993]
2. Paper Blood [Obras Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 5, 1993]
3. Black Moon [Waterloo Village Concert Field, Stanhope, NJ on July 31, 1992]
4. Creole Dance [The Estadio, Santiago, Chile on April 1, 1993]
5. From The Beginning [The Spodek, Katowice, Poland on June 22, 1997]
6. Honky Tonk Train Blues [Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, CA on Sept. 25, 1997]
7. Affairs Of The Heart [Waterloo Village Concert Field, Stanhope, NJ on July 31, 1992]
8. Touch And Go [Wiltern Theater, Los Angeles, CA on March 17, 1993]
9. A Time And A Place [Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach, VA on August 1, 1998]
10. Bitches Crystal [Universal Amphitheater, Los Angeles, CA on September 25, 1997]
11. Instrumental Jam [Obras Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina on April 5, 1993]
12. Fanfare For The Common Man - America - Rondo [Obras Stadium, Buenos Aires, Argentina on Apr 5, 1993]

Disc Four: This Boot's For You - A Fan's View
1. Introduction [Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, CA on July 19, 1971]
2. The Endless Enigma [Long Beach Arena, Long Beach, CA on July 28, 1972]
3. Abaddon's Bolero [The Town Hall, Louisville, KY on April 21, 1972]
4. Jeremy Bender - The Sheriff [The Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany on April 24, 1973]
5. Toccata (includes Drum Solo) [Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Ludwingshaven, Germany on April 10, 1973]
6. Jerusalem [Henry Lewit Arena, Wichita, KS on March 26, 1974]
7. Nutrocker [Boston Gardens, Boston, MA on July 12, 1977]
8. C'est La Vie [Boston Gardens, Boston, MA on July 12, 1977]
9. Piano Concerto #1 3rd Movement [Veteran's Memorial Auditorium, Des Moines, IA on June 12, 1977]
10. Closer To Believing [Veteran's Memorial Auditorium, Des Moines, IA on June 12, 1977]
11. Close To Home [Warfield Theater, San Francisco, CA on March 14, 1993]
12. I Believe In Father Christmas [Beacon Theater, New York, NY on November 17, 1993]

Line-up / Musicians

- Greg Lake / vocals, bass and guitars
- Keith Emerson / keyboards and synthethizers
- Carl Palmer / drums and percussion

Releases information

Release date: May 14, 2010
Label: Shout! Factory

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Review by Neu!mann
PROG REVIEWER

On paper it looks great: a three-CD retrospective of ELP's career, drawn entirely from live performances, with a fourth disc of bootleg audience recordings (subtitled "a fan's view", but honestly aren't they all?)

Even better, and unlike the comprehensive but completely haphazard "Return of the Manticore" box from 1993, the selections in each set (official and illegal) are arranged in chronological order. When heard from start to finish the program follows the entire trajectory of the band's life span, from Progressive supergroup to dinosaur has-beens to their bittersweet rebirth on the nostalgia circuit in the 1990s. All in all an invaluable history lesson, in just over four hours.

So I had high hopes for this package. But the experience of actually listening to it was more than a little frustrating, for a number of reasons. Even before arriving at the bootleg tapes on Disc Four the audio quality is wildly inconsistent, because the material comes from so many sources. And the standard of the supposed re-mastering is lackluster at best: much of the music here has been previously (or was subsequently) released, and sounds better elsewhere.

Not surprisingly, the gems are all front-loaded onto the first half of Disc One, dating back to the band's "first debut performance ever", according to a confused emcee at the Isle of Wight Festival in August of 1970 (it was actually ELP's "second debut performance ever"). Robert Fripp, who at the time expressed an interest in joining the new group when the future of KING CRIMSON was looking bleak, puts the embryonic trio in perspective: "For a while it looked as if ELP might hold the possibility of carrying forward the aspirations of Crimson. The while was very short."

Sour grapes, perhaps, after his advances were spurned by Keith Emerson. But you can hear what he meant in these recordings: the excitement of those early gigs is still palpable over forty years later. The CD cheats by including separate excerpts from "Take a Pebble" under different titles ("Ballad of Blue" is Greg Lake's acoustic section, with singing; "High Level Fugue" is more of the Emerson solo spot in the song), but it's fascinating to hear the pianist test driving riffs from "Tarkus", "Tank", and Aaron Copeland's "Hoedown", long before they appeared in studio form.

That initial, innovative spirit was too soon sidetracked by success, and in retrospect the Prog Rock pioneers didn't actually progress too far after 1971, except in sales and surplus equipment. The "Works"-era gigs on Disc Two drive that point emphatically home: it's easily he weakest of the first three CDs, and doesn't even include any samples from the full orchestral leg of the tour.

The band's comeback in the '90s, represented on Disc Three, at least exhibited more vitality (if not originality). And the fan recordings on Disc Four include some rare performances ("The Endless Enigma"; "Abaddon's Bolero"), small consolation for the not unexpected and sometimes quite poor bootleg sound.

My advice to consumers, for what it's worth, is to skip this four-disc box altogether and go straight to the individual live releases from each era in ELP's checkered history: "Welcome Back My Friends..." for the classic '70s stuff; "Live at Nassau Coliseum '78" for the "Works" material; and "Live at the Royal Albert Hall" for the '90s reunion shows. Throw in the "Live at the Isle of Wight" concert CD or the original "Pictures at an Exhibition" and the band's history is more or less complete. You'll get the benefit of complete performances and better sound, both of which are conspicuously missing from this package. The legacy of ELP deserves something more than the fan's scrapbook presented here.

Latest members reviews

4 stars A nice little collection of animated ELP live material. Killer renditions of Tarkus and Fanfare. Includes some rarer material live like Touch And Go, performed in the 90s, drum solos in the 70s. There is 3 discs worth of material, plus a fourth disc of audience bootlegs. The 3 discs of soundboard ... (read more)

Report this review (#307894) | Posted by RoyFairbank | Monday, November 1, 2010 | Review Permanlink

4 stars Wow, simply wow. This gorgeous little package is a marvellous way to be dropped into the ELP live experience. I must say right away that I have not heard any of the other bootleg box set releases, so I'll leave it to others to complain if this is all merely repackaging of already available m ... (read more)

Report this review (#292584) | Posted by questionsneverknown | Thursday, July 29, 2010 | Review Permanlink

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