EMERSON LAKE & PALMER

The album has obvious elements of classical music but these are here taken a step further than The Nice (perhaps due to the superior technical abilities of Lake and Palmer compared to Emerson's erstwhile partners in his previous band?) and blend very well with the dark tinges reminiscent of Black Sabbath and other early 70's hard rock bands, namely the opener 'The Barbarian' which contains a brilliant distortion effect on Lake's bass and a wild organ riff by Emerson.

Emerson shows off his virtuosity on the keyboards majestically, as in 'Take a Pebble' which is a beautiful song played by Emerson with exquisitely delicate touch...despite falling later into hippie-singalong-by-the-camp-fire routine. All three musicians work cohesively and give their best on the extended instrumental 'The Three Fates'.

'Knife Edge' is another outstanding song as is the latter part of 'Tank', this being mainly a drum solo, with some syncopated parts by the rhythm section and an overdriven moog part by Emerson.

I have always held mixed views on the ballad 'Lucky Man' and still cannot make up my mind whether I like it or not; it has, however, a crisp sounding acoustic and nice clean electric guitar solo by Lake towards the conclusion.

The production is good as well and the re-mastered version on cd is a couple of steps better.

It is a more than worthy addition to any progressive rock collection.

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