King Biscuit Flower Hour: Greatest Hits Live

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King Biscuit Flower Hour: Greatest Hits Live
Live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Released	1997
Recorded	1973-74 / 1977 worldwide tours
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	1:41:51
Label	King Biscuit
Producer(s)	???
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Emerson, Lake & Palmer chronology
The Return of the Manticore (1993)	King Biscuit Flower Hour: Greatest Hits Live (1997)	Then & Now (1998)

This is a compilation live album by the progressive rock supergroup Emerson, Lake & Palmer. It features tracks from two different tours: The 1973-1974 Brain Salad Surgery Tour, and the 1977 Works Tour.

Almost all the material included here had been released before on other live albums: The five songs from the Brain Salad Surgery tour (Tracks 11-15) were originally included on the 1974 triple Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends, and four songs from the Works tour ("Peter Gunn Theme", "Tiger in a Spotlight", "C'Est la Vie" and "The Enemy God") had appeared in 1979 as part of In Concert. In Concert was re-released in 1993 as a two-disc set under the title Works Live, adding seven new tracks. Two of those seven ("Maple Leaf Rag" and "Watching Over You") have been included here too. That makes eleven tracks.

The remaining four tracks are available legally for the first time: A piano adaptation of the first movement of Keith Emerson's Piano Concerto No. 1 (mislabled as "Piano Improvisation"), a short Carl Palmer solo, and performances of "Fanfare for the Common Man" and "Pirates". The version of "Fanfare" included here is a performance without the orchestra the band used on some concerts during the tour. One version with the orchestra is available on Works Live. Also, the recording of "Pirates" is, maybe, the unique registered live recording of the track during the Works tour and was originally featured on the illegal bootleg album Works: Volume ½. It does not feature the orchestra as by the time of this recording, the orchestra had been fired due to lack of funds to pay them.

[edit] Track listing

Disc One:

1. "Peter Gunn Theme" (Mancini) – 3:43
2. "Tiger in a Spotlight" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer, Sinfield) – 4:22
3. "C'Est la Vie" (Lake, Sinfield) – 4:21
4. "Piano Improvisation" (Emerson) – 5:39
5. "Maple Leaf Rag" (Joplin) – 1:17
6. "Drum Solo" (Palmer) – 1:25
7. "The Enemy God" (Prokofiev) – 2:45
8. "Watching Over You" (Lake, Sinfield) – 4:13
9. "Pirates" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 13:27
10. "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Copland) – 8:20
11. "Hoedown" (Copland) – 4:23
12. "Still...You Turn Me On" (Lake) – 3:01
13. "Lucky Man" (Lake) – 3:09
14. "Piano Improvisation" (Emerson, Gulda) – 7:09

Disc Two:

1. "Karn Evil 9" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) – 34:31
2. "Fully Interactive" – 36:01

• Track 2 is a multimedia track.

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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