LIVE IN CALIFORNIA 1974

This appears to be an at least somewhat truncated version of ELP's California Jam set, though according to setlist.fm the only songs you're actually missing here are Hoedown, Jerusalum, and Tarkus. What remains is a fairly interesting set with significant spotlight on the group's solo talents and some good runthroughs through group tracks, including a sort of "edited highlights" condensation of Karn Evil 9. It's pretty good, though at the same time it's obviously blown out of the water by the far more expansive Welcome Back My Friends live set recorded mere months before. With the significant amounts of solo showboating, it feels like this marks the end of ELP as an actually cohesive band unit; Works, and its emphasis on solo compositions, would see the divergent directions the trio were puling in begin to unravel the band entirely. Still, what a powerful way to go out.

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