Keith Emerson & Greg Lake to tour USA together

So, they are planning to tour the US again next year with these intimate shows, and are going to see how the High Voltage gig goes, but are not ruling out touring/working as ELP again.  The High Voltage gig will be filmed and released as a dvd/cd.  Looks likely to be a cd of the intimate gigs coming up at some point.

Edited by Kojak - June 04 2010 at 03:10

Well, the news are not as exciting as the ones I had heard, and now I fear they may not come to pass, that Wakeman and Anderson were goint to tour and record an album with Trevor Rabin and some other yes related man. However, we are getting way off topic (there's a thread about this project).

Well, Gilmour still could sing very beautifully on his last tour a few years ago, though surely he's lost some power (not that he was ever a particularly powerful singer). Jon Anderson could still sing perfectly well by 2000, but on the last DVD his voice already sounded just a bit rougher. Ofcourse after his hospitalization who knows what's happened to his voice.

I just watched the video, and it had the link to Lucky man too. I was never a great fan of I talk to the wind, but this version had the potential of being so cool... it lacked a bit on the chorus, but Emerson almost made some really beautiful piano additions to the song, at some points he was a bit audible and sounded great, but not long enough. Lucky man sounded good too with the flute, but the voice is just not the same it was when it was originally released and that takes points away (Lake used to have such a beautiful voice, too bad it was lost in the 90's).

Oh well, so it seems he was only present in 2 songs... it would have been great if he had added flutes (and perhaps additional keyboards) throughout all the show (and making wishes, if they had had a real drummer too, and then recorded the show and released it on DVD or CD...) Well, I wish I had seen it anyway. Thanks for the info.

Sorry Dellinger, I've been away, didn't get this until today -  yes, it was true, unless I'm living in some parallel universe 
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/notes/keith-emerson/ian-mcdonald-to-appear-on-the-last-two-emerson-lake-us-shows-/392986211751

Anyone here go see them last night with Ian McDonald...???

Seeing them tomorrow night.  If they do I will mail them to you. 

I saw the show on April 10th.  Yes, Greg's voice is very strong and sounding great.  The rapport between them was great - so I don't get what was up with the early reports on the show cancelations.  I was also lucky enough to, ummm, get a hold of a little something from the show on April 8th at the Nokia Theatre :)

I've gotten a hold of  a bootleg from the April 8th concert..sounds like a fantastic night. Seeing that the dynamic duo aren't playing the UK until July i wanted to hear how they sounded together. If you can't get to one of their concerts go find a bootleg...not hard to find. And hear 2 of the best proggies ever .