Emerson Lake & Palmer

This seems to be it, if so it is indeed a longer version with extra tracks and I'd say it's surely worth the price you say especially if you don't have any previous versions and you have not seen ELP videos in their prime.

Aussie-Byrd-Brother wrote: Within the last few months I've bought the remastered editions of `Trilogy' and `Pictures At An Exhibition' (which was actually the first time I'd ever heard that one, and I love it!), plus I've really come to think that the E.L.Powell album is really rather good, and probably their best album since `Brain Salad...'

I completely agree with you about the ELPowell album being the best since BSS. The tour was also outstanding! The set list was fantastic! Just a shame that it wasn't Palmer, although Cozy did a nice job. You are probably aware of this, but there is a bootleg video of the Detroit show (That was my first ELP show) that is pretty decent for a home video shot concert.

Thanks Richard! That might be it! I've looked a bit further into it, and I seem to be reading a lot about obtrusive visual production and graphics on it, does that sound right?!

I've never actually seen any proper footage of ELP in their vintage prime, so I was very interested!

Perhaps you guys can please help me!

Has anyone seen a live DVD called `Pictures At An Exhibition - Special Edition' (I think) which states on the back `the most complete live presentation of the album' etc? The front cover is very similar to the album sleeve but with pictures of the band.

Does that mean that some of the footage has been lost/damaged, or was never shot? Is the quality of the available footage on that DVD decent?

It's only $10 (I really should have just grabbed the damn thing while I was there, but I'd already grabbed some other stuff), but is it worth my time going back to get it?

Thanks for any suggestions!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - September 04 2012 at 00:54

brainstormer wrote: Another thing I'll say is that I've learned though the internet that prog sure has it's share of the "greasy spoon" department.  I made up that term to describe some friends of mine in my youth who really like the Velvet Underground and the like and hated prog.  I see that there is a similar faction in prog, people liking choatic, negative stuff,  which sounds to some like great music because its "difficult" and angular sounding and thus in some way progressive.  To me, it sounds completely regressive.  One probably needs to be using foreign substances quite a bit to stay liking that kind of music.  But you know, there is the same kind of faction in serious or "classical" music.

I have wondered a bit about this

I recently heard Trilogy and it is a great album.

I couldn't imagine any serious fan of progressive rock, especially the classic 70's stiuff, at least not having a couple of their albums. I may not listen to them all the time these days, but their debut album is one of my absolute favourites, and it wouldn't even occur to me to cash them in or get rid of them.

Within the last few months I've bought the remastered editions of `Trilogy' and `Pictures At An Exhibition' (which was actually the first time I'd ever heard that one, and I love it!), plus I've really come to think that the E.L.Powell album is really rather good, and probably their best album since `Brain Salad...'

Between you and me, I was also hugely excited to come across a discounted remastered CD copy of `Love Beach' for $2.99 Australian a few weeks back (my mate looked on in horror! ) at a local music shop. Not a great album, but I do defend lots of bits of it!

Edited by Aussie-Byrd-Brother - September 02 2012 at 22:58

Bitterblogger wrote: Practically impossible to avoid a cover version of a classical work with them. My fave is ELPowell's rendition of Mars, the Bringer of War.

 

Josh18293 wrote: Just got into them recently... I love Take a Pebble, Knife's Edge, and Emerson's Piano Concerto

 

The_Jester wrote: How do you spell pretentious?