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Points: 16130 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 12 2005 at 06:01
Originally posted by richardh richardh wrote:

Hoedown (the first ELP track I ever heard)

Toccata is amazing

I also like the ELPowell version of Mars as well! (although everything else on that album is crap)

Toccata is probably the best adaptation I've heard them do, but generally I dont like rock adaptations of classical music, as they are never going to sound as good as an orchestral performance. I really dont like their take on Mars, from ELPowell. I think it's insulting in the extreme, although that may be because The Planets was the first classical I ever liked as a kid. It holds a special place etc..and was not written for Hammond organs and synths..

Their worst has to be 'Jerusalem' where Greg Lakes drunk voacls strip it of all majesty IMO.

Although ELPowell is not a great album, it's better than I remembered it.  I gave it a spin recently and I think The Miracle is a great track..
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Pictures at an Exibition.
Still alive...
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Hoedown (the first ELP track I ever heard)

Toccata is amazing

I also like the ELPowell version of Mars as well! (although everything else on that album is crap)
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Hoedown, closely followed by Jerusalem
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Originally posted by Snow Dog Snow Dog wrote:

Originally posted by Big Ears Big Ears wrote:

Discussing the the difference between covers and adaptions is merely semantics.

'All those tracks are not really covers,' is incorrect.

 

Well the Dylan song is obviously a cover. The others mentioned aren't though!

oh, except Hang onto a Dream...
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Originally posted by Big Ears Big Ears wrote:

Discussing the the difference between covers and adaptions is merely semantics.

'All those tracks are not really covers,' is incorrect.

 

Well the Dylan song is obviously a cover. The others mentioned aren't though!

oh, except Hang onto a Dream...
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 11 2005 at 17:18

Originally posted by bumheed7 bumheed7 wrote:

im sure weve had this before and i said that jerusalem was my favourite, and somebody had a big cuffuful with me sayin that it wasnt a cover as such.

That was I!

And I stand by every word!
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Hoedown here, too.  Nice and crazy.  And, to me, the drums in particular sound great, better than other ELP songs. 

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Hoedown for me.

So much energy, so much passion and a decent amount of madness too.

And in my opinion Trilogy it's much better than BSS.
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The Toccatta adaptation pwns.
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Originally posted by jitu jitu wrote:

AND

PICTURES AT THE EXCIBITION

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Originally posted by jitu jitu wrote:

EXCIBITION





Yeah,I love Pictures too...
 
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im sure weve had this before and i said that jerusalem was my favourite, and somebody had a big cuffuful with me sayin that it wasnt a cover as such.
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Nice version of "Hang on to a dream" on "Return of the Manticore".
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Discussing the the difference between covers and adaptions is merely semantics.

'All those tracks are not really covers,' is incorrect.

 



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Points: 24429 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2005 at 12:37

Originally posted by Big Ears 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!).
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Originally posted by Poxx Poxx wrote:

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




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Points: 231 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2005 at 11:19

Peter Gunn. Emerson pops a valium and Lake shuts his big mouth - good setup.
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Points: 1217 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2005 at 09:03
hoedown
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Points: 20031 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: September 09 2005 at 07:34
Hoedown is their best "adaption" imo, followed by the awesome "Toccata" from "Welcome bank my friends..."
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