Welcome Back My Friends To The: Emerson Lake and Palmer: Amazon.ca: Music

Disc: 1
1. Hoedown
2. Jerusalem
3. Toccata
4. Medley: Tarkus - Stone Of Years/Iconoclast/Mass/Manticore/Battlefield/Aquatarkus
5. Medley: Take a Pebble/Still...You Turn Me On And Lucky Man
Disc: 2
1. Medley: Piano Improvisations - Friedrich Gulda's/'Fughue' And Joe Sullivan's/'Little Rock Getaway'
2. Take a Pebble
3. Medley: Jeremy Bender/The Sheriff
4. Medley: Karn Evil 9 - 1st Impression/2nd Impression/3rd Impression

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Amazon.com: 4.2 out of 5 stars (20 customer reviews)

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Cheers!!!, Aug 20 2007

By J. Starr "Jim" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Welcome Back My Friends To The (Audio CD)

I was hesitant to purchase this remastered copy, since I had already purchased, what was then a "remastered" copy back in '93, on the Victory label that ELP had just begun having their back catalogue released. However, there is a definite improvement in the sound quality of this remaster. There is greater presence and clarity to the mix and the separation between instruments sounds improved. Previously, the overall sound seemed "far away" in its quality. This has largely been improved with this new remaster. Well worth the double dip if you're an ELP fanatic.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars 10 stars, and then some...quite possibly the greatest live album ever made, Dec 3 2007

By Grigory's Girl "Grigory's Girl" - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Welcome Back My Friends To The (Audio CD)

This was my introduction to ELP, and it is still one of my all time favorites. When it came out, it was a triple album (most bands can barely fill one album, let alone three). Triple albums were rarely done back in the vinyl days. Only Frank Zappa (who released many triple albums, like Thing-Fish and the Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar series) and The Clash (with Sandinista!) are the only ones that ring a bell. ELP have enough invention and creativity to fill a 3 LP set and then some. The album reached #4 on the chart, which shows the immense popularity (deservedly so) for this band. Many found them bombastic and over the top, but that's the bloody point, isn't it? The music is larger than life, it's spectacular! There are only 8 tracks on the whole album, and it covers ELP's best stuff. The live Karn Evil 9 is worth buying the CD for. If bands today had only half the imagination and stamina of ELP, the world would be a better place. Critics found them pretentious, but who would you rather see? Rock critics performing, or 3 great musicians performing. This is a band that never released a godawful album (even Love Beach and In the Hot Seat have their moments). Their sheer talent came through in every note. ELP rules!

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars The Biggest Show On Earth, Oct 10 2008

By PHILIP S WOLF - Published on Amazon.com

This review is from: Welcome Back My Friends To The (Audio CD)

And it was the: "Biggest Show on Earth", three musicians with more raw talent and power than anyone else of their time. I was a fan of ELP from the first album onwards. These three guys were the kings of something that would later be tagged: "Progressive Rock". To most of my friends that were into Grand Funk Railroad and Alice Cooper, the only songs by this band that they could stand were: "Lucky Man" & "From The Begining".
You didn't play: "Tarkus" at a party in 1972 {unless you wanted to clear the room!}

I was one of the 350,000 freaks, that attended California Jam at The Ontario Motor Speedway in 1974. Emerson, Lake and Palmer closed that very long Show following Deep Purple to the massive stage. Everybody remembers that grand piano 25 feet over the stage doing somersaults as Keith bashed away at the keys {most of us thought that we "Flashed" that event into happening!} The computer exploded at the end of: "Karn Evil 9" and fireworks filled the skies at the end. What carried all that into the history books was that some incredible music was played that night by ELP.

This was a three LP set, it was taken from various locations from the 1973-1974 tours of the world. Yes, "Hoedown" is played too fast and "Toccata" needs to be seen, to be believed {Carl Palmer is an Octopus!} But for me, the selection that I have listened to more times than anything else here is: "Piano Improvisations", that provides a little taste of what Keith Emerson can do on any given stage on any night of the week.

Is this music over the top? Is this music too bombastic? Are these musicians a group of show-offs? Yes, they are guilty on all the above charges. And it was well known in the early seventies, that no other band could take a stage after them. No other band could follow this spectacle called: ELP.
This is the band at their pinnacle, and it is captured here on: "Welcome Back". Here is one of the greatest live albums from the 1970's.
Impressive to hear in 1974, and still sounds like no other in 2008.
Four Stars !!!

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