Favourite ELP cover version

What's your favourite ELP cover version?

I really like Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet on the Black Moon album.

I must admit that I haven't heard much ELP but from what I've heard, I prefer the cover versions to their original songs.

They're not really cover versions, but adaptions.

I like Toccata the best I think..........its a great adaption

Big Ears wrote: I understand ELP covered Man in the Long Black Coat by Bob Dylan for the In the Hot Seat album, but I haven't heard their version. I am also aware of a tribute album to ELP on which the band are covered by the likes of Robert Berry, Glenn Hughes and possibly John Wetton? I haven't heard that either. ELP's versions of Pictures at an Exhibition, Nutrocker, Toccata, Creole Dance, Bolero and Janacek (can't think of the name of the original) are great! I hate to say it, but I'm not very keen on Canario.

I have the covers album, I like it a lot!

Drachen Theaker wrote: I must admit I think Romeo and Juliet is one of their weakest - too obvious a choice and doesn't add anything to the original (a bit like Mars off the ELPowell album).

Mars off the ELPowell album ...  I like it!

Mind you, like I said before, I haven't heard too much ELP but it looks like Tocatto is a popular choice so I must check it out.

By the way, I read the Q magazine article on ELP and it said that it was convenient that Cozy Powell's surname began with P. At the end, it said due to the tensions in the band, maybe they should look for a keyboard player whose name begins with E.

I think Keith Emerson is fantastic by the way - I just liked the joke.

Another thing, if Steve Howe joined the band on guitar, would they be called HELP?

The Hoedown does it for me. Great fun to play too, now that I've learnt it.

It's interesting to see now that some school text books for music listening are doing a comparison exercise between the original orchestral version and the ELP version. I was doing that in schools years before this book was ever published.

MPA

Peter Gunn. Emerson pops a valium and Lake shuts his big mouth - good setup.

Big Ears wrote: I understand ELP covered Man in the Long Black Coat by Bob Dylan for the In the Hot Seat album, but I haven't heard their version. I am also aware of a tribute album to ELP on which the band are covered by the likes of Robert Berry, Glenn Hughes and possibly John Wetton? I haven't heard that either. ELP's versions of Pictures at an Exhibition, Nutrocker, Toccata, Creole Dance, Bolero and Janacek (can't think of the name of the original) are great! I hate to say it, but I'm not very keen on Canario.

I think all those tracks are not really covers, but rather adaptations of classical pieces, which IMO is quite a different thing. BTW, I've got the tribute album, whose title is Encores, Legends and Paradox (Magna Carta). It is overall an excellent record, with a version of Knife Edge sung magnificently  by Glenn Hughes and very good performances by the likes of Igor Khoroshev, Jordan Rudess, Martin Barre and Simon Phillips (among many others). John Wetton sings two tracks, as does our dear friend James LaBrie (the less said, the better.... He sings Tarkus!).