Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends

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Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends
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Live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Released August 19, 1974
Recorded 1973-1974, worldwide tour
Genre Progressive rock
Length 1:36:14
Label Manticore Records/Rhino Records
Producer(s) Greg Lake
Professional reviews
Emerson, Lake & Palmer chronology
Brain Salad Surgery
(1973)		 Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends
(1974)		 Works Volume I
(1977)


Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends... Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer is a 1974 live album by progressive rock band Emerson, Lake and Palmer, originally released as a three-disk vinyl album, but is now a double CD, in a gatefold cover, the inside of which used the letters "E", "L" and "P" as retainers for the individual disks.

During 1973 and 1974 ELP toured on their Someone Get Me a Ladder Tour all around the world, and this album captures the representative musical sound of that tour. The title of the album comes from the opening line of the song "Karn Evil 9: First Impression, Part 2" as well as the introduction to the performance, uttered at the beginning of the song "Hoedown."

The album reached #4 on the Billboard album chart making it ELP's highest charting album in the US.

Most of the original recordings included on the album had been first issued as a presentation for the syndicated US radioshow "King Biscuit Flower Hour." In 1999, these original recordings were released on CD and music fans could now see how Greg Lake, as the executive producer of the live album, changed some parts of the sound little-by-little by editing echo effects or reverb. On the other hand, the "King Biscuit" tapes also show that ELP did not re-record musical parts of their songs, in the manner Yes did it on their Yessongs live release.

The Hard Rock Cafe in Orlando, Florida, also has message above their main entrance.

Contents

[edit] Track listing

[edit] CD track listing

[edit] Disc one

  1. "Hoedown" Taken from Rodeo (Aaron Copland, arr. Keith Emerson, Greg Lake & Carl Palmer) – 4:27
  2. "Jerusalem" (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry, William Blake, arr. Emerson Lake & Palmer) – 2:51
  3. "Toccata" An adaptation of Ginastera's 1st piano Concerto, 4th movement (Alberto Ginastera, arr. Emerson) – 7:22
  4. "Tarkus" – 27:24
  5. "Take a Pebble" (Lake) including "Still...You Turn Me On" (Lake) and "Lucky Man" (Lake) – 11:06

[edit] Disc two

  1. "Piano Improvisations" Including Friedrich Gulda's "Fugue" and Joe Sullivan's "Little Rock Getaway" (Emerson) – 11:53
  2. "Take a Pebble (Conclusion)" (Lake) – 3:14
  3. "Jeremy Bender" / "The Sheriff" (Emerson, Lake) – 5:05
  4. "Karn Evil 9 (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) – 35:58
    • "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield)
    • "Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression" (Emerson)
    • "Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield)

[edit] Original LP track listing

For songwriting credits, see above.

[edit] Side one

  1. "Hoedown"
  2. "Jerusalem"
  3. "Toccata"

[edit] Side two

  1. "Tarkus" – 16:42

[edit] Side three

  1. "Tarkus (Conclusion)" – 10:42
  2. "Take a Pebble", including "Still...You Turn Me On" / "Lucky Man"

[edit] Side four

  1. "Piano Improvisations"
  2. "Take a Pebble (Conclusion)"
  3. "Jeremy Bender" / "The Sheriff"

[edit] Side five

  1. "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression" – 17:26

[edit] Side six

  1. "Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression" – 7:36
  2. "Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression" – 10:17

[edit] Personnel

[edit] Certifications

Organization Level Date
RIAA – USA Gold September 19, 1974
Emerson, Lake and Palmer
Keith Emerson | Greg Lake | Carl Palmer
Former members: Cozy Powell | Robert Berry
Discography
Studio albums: Emerson, Lake and Palmer | Tarkus | Trilogy | Brain Salad Surgery | Works Volume I | Works Volume II | Love Beach | Black Moon | In the Hot Seat
Live albums: Pictures at an Exhibition | Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends | In Concert (also known as Works Live) | Live at the Royal Albert Hall | King Biscuit Flower Hour: Greatest Hits Live | Live in Poland | Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 | Then & Now | The Original Bootleg Series From Manticore Vaults Vol. 1 | The Original Bootleg Series From Manticore Vaults Vol. 2 | The Original Bootleg Series From Manticore Vaults Vol. 3 | Fanfare: The 1997 World Tour (live) | From The Front Row... Live!
Compilations albums: The Best of Emerson, Lake and Palmer | The Atlantic Years | The Ultimate Collection
Box Set: The Return of the Manticore
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