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Editorial Reviews
Album Description
Taken from the 2002 album, 'Universal Truths & Cycles. The title track is backed with two previously unreleased non-LP tracks, 'For Liberty' & 'Request Pharmaceuticals'. Matador. 2002.

Tracks:

Hoedown
Jerusalem
Toccata
Tarkus: Eruption/Stone of Years/Iconoclast/Mass/Manticore/Battlefield/E
Take a Pebble/Still...You Turn Me On/Lucky Man

Tracks:

Piano Improvisations: Fugue/Little Rock Getaway
Take a Pebble (Conclusion)
Medley: Jeremy Bender/The Sheriff [Medley]
Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression/2nd Impression/3rd Impression

Album Description

Full title 'Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends - Ladies and Gentleman'. UK reissue of 1974 live album, digitally remastered from the original tapes. Two CDs in a slimline double jewel case. 2001 release.

Album Details

Digitally Remastered Edition. In the Wake of the Successful Tour Behind their "Brain Salad Surgery" Album, Elp Recorded These Monumental Shows for What was Originally a Triple LP Set, Now a Double CD. Includes Songs from all of their Early Albums.

Customer Reviews:

A stellar album from three musicians who've yet to be bested by anyone!.......2007-07-23

This is a phenominal musical achievement. The amount of music these three individuals produced was extraordinary. The level of talent shown by Emerson, in particular, is unmatched to this day. But all three, including Lake and Palmer were superlative musicians. What you hear on this album encapsulates the musical brilliance of these three individuals. How they integrate classical compositions and turn them into their own unique statement with bravura performances by each astounds the ears to this day. I cannot think of another rock album which matches the level of musicianship shown by just three musicians. Honestly, if you don't like this album then you really have no appreciation for the stellar musicianship put on display. Emerson, Lake and Palmer should be enshrined foreever as musicians who came together to form one of the most unique and phenominal bands in rock music history. Each cut on this album shows how marvelous the band was both as band playing together and individually, with Greg Lake performing on guitar alone on some of his own beautific compositions.

Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends

Average customer rating:

great live album
Exemplary live performance
We're gonna give ya some Brain Salad Surgery
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends
The sound of six hands wanking

Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends
Emerson Lake & Palmer
Manufacturer: Rhino / Wea
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Binding: Audio CD

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Tracks:

Hoedown
Jerusalem
Toccata
Tarkus: Eruption/Stones Of Years/Iconoclast/Mass/Manticore/Battlefield (Including Epitaph)/Aquatarku
Take A Pebble (Including Still... You Turn Me On And Lucky Man)

Tracks:

Piano Improvisations (Including Friedrich Gulda's Fugue' And Joe Sullivan's 'Little Rock Getaway')
Take a Pebble (Conclusion)
Jeremy Bender/The Sheriff (Medley)
Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression/2nd Impression/3rd Impression

Customer Reviews:

great live album.......2007-05-19

This is probably one of the best live albums ever. At least in the prog rock universe it is. I still have a Japanese import of this I paid nearly 50 bucks for and I can't bring myself to get rid of it and buy a remastered version.

ELP were a great band live and this album captures what it must have been like to be at one of these shows. These are great performances.

Hoedown is a great opener here and played at a speed that really gets the crowd pumped up. Jerusalem is played very well and is probably one of the best versions i have ever heard. Toccata was always a bit of a strange song to me and i never thought they'd be able to pull it off live, but they have and it sounds great.

Tarkus was a great 20 minute slab on their second album and this live version plays for 27 minutes without ever getting boring. The extended Aquatarkus played here is amazing.

Take a Pebble is a great ballad with some of the best piano work that Keith has ever done. He was spot on playing this night and every time I hear this I'm glad it was recorded. Still you turn me on and Lucky Man are played in the middle of this in lieu of the acoustic guitar solo heard in the studio version. And the Piano Improvisation is always great to hear. The conclusion of Take a Pebble is played fairly well and ends another 26 minute chuck of this album.

Jeremy Bender/The Sheriff is a bit of fun. It would have been even more fun if they had always included Benny the Bouncer here, but that can be found on their Original Bootleg Series CD's (of which i have them all).

Karn Evil 9 was always a monster. They make it bigger here by adding a drum solo in the first impression and a nice long ending filled with computer sounds for the finale. Either way is the best half hour you will ever spend listening to anything.

But all in all this was a triple album back in the day so these two CD's are nearly two hours of live material.

The production here is not the best and this almost does sound like a bootleg but this is still great stuff. It lends an air or charm to this whole thing really. Even their Live at the Isle of Wight CD sounds like a bootleg but I can't imagine it any other way. I want it to sound raw and rough.

So buy this album if you like live material. If you're an ELP fan you should have this already, even if you don't like live shows.

Exemplary live performance.......2007-05-05

I'm glad this isn't vinyl, as I'd have worn out several copies by now. This is one of the finest live performances I've heard and captures the essence of Emerson, Lake and Palmer perfectly. The versions of "Tarkus", "Karn Evil 9" and "Take a Pebble" are amazing. Anyone who professes to be an ELP fan needs this CD in their collection.

We're gonna give ya some Brain Salad Surgery.......2007-01-31

For the Concert/Performance I'll give it an A + However, I always thought the production and recording of this record is bootleg quality and dosen't do the high quality live sound of the 1973/74 tour justice. No matter, at least we have a document of the tour. Tarkus, Jerusalem and Brain Salad Surgery are better here than the studio versions.

Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends.......2007-01-09

Very good music. Very easy to sit back, shut your eyes and get into it.

The sound of six hands wanking.......2006-12-08

My first rock concert was seeing Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Pullman, Washington in 1974, and I used to love this album as 3 LP's on vinyl. But listening to it now, it's hard to take, and comes across as extraordinarily self-indulgent. Some of the songs ("Toccata," for example) might be interesting today if covered by an industrial band, and others sound hilariously like Devo in their primitive synth noodlings. Still, this is nicely recorded, and an accurate time capsule of the age when prog rock ruled the world. And remember, punk rock was spawned in part as a reaction to exactly this sort of masturbatory, self-important excess.

Average customer rating:

Eh-plus!

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Manufacturer: Rounder Select
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Binding: Audio CD

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