Keith Emerson Band in Lisbon

Hi !

First of all, sorry for my bad english…

Yesterday, I went to the Keith Emerson concert in Lisbon, the first of his European Tour.

In 2 hours and a half of pure joy some of the songs that we listened to (not in this order) were:

Welcome Back…

Eruption

Bitches Cristal

Stones Of Years  
Mass  
Battlefield
Aquatarkus

Tarkus

Hoedown

Living Sin

The Endless Enigma

Touch and Go

Lucky Man

Epitaph

Knife Edge

…and some more I cant remember right now ...

Two songs were dedicated to Dr. Moog and Cozy Powel.

Emo also played a fantastic new music (Grand Piano / Guitar ) dedicated to the victims of the Katrina, and on the 2 encores an excelente version of a Led Zeppeling song,  also “Honky Tonk Train Blues” and “Fanfare For The Common Man”.

About the band:

Keith Emerson: Its amazing how the man (61 yo) is in such a perfect shape. Technically almost perfect. Superb solos. In a word: The Master is Back !!!

Dave Kilminster: Great guitar player, excelent voice. (almost made me forget Lake)

Pete Riley: Nice 3 min. Drum solo but nothing compares with Carl…. ;-)

Phil Williams: Average bass player

I managed to see Emerson with the Nice around 18 months ago.  For the second part of the show he included his new Band and I found David Kilminster a very very good guitarist.  He has threatened to release another solo album for 2 years now.

I was disappointed Keith did not tour the UK with the band.  I constantly search his site for up dates, so you lucky devil for the opportunity of just seeing him and his new band.