Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert

Emerson, Lake and Palmer In Concert
Live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Released 18 November 1979
Recorded August 26, 1977
Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Canada
Genre Symphonic rock
Length In Concert: 43:12 / Works Live: 1:27:39
Label Atlantic
Producer Keith Emerson
Emerson, Lake & Palmer chronology
Love Beach
(1978)		 In Concert
(1979)		 Black Moon
(1992)

Emerson, Lake and Palmer In Concert is a live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), recorded at the 26 August 1977 show at the Olympic Stadium, Montreal, which is featured on the album cover. It was released by Atlantic Records in November 1979, following ELP's breakup. It was later re-released and repackaged as Works Live in 1993.

Similar to most live albums, In Concert showcased fan favourites of previously released material. However, "Peter Gunn", ELP's take on the classic TV theme song, was never released on any of their other albums (a slightly edited version of this live recording was included on the 1980 "Best of" compilation and released as a single in some countries). ELP frequently opened with this song on the Works Volume II tour.

The band hired a 70-piece orchestra for some concerts of this tour but eventually had to dismiss the orchestra due to budget constraints that almost bankrupted the group. On the original release, the orchestra performs on "C'est la Vie", "Knife Edge", on Keith Emerson's piano concerto, and on "Pictures at an Exhibition". Works Live adds other four songs performed with the orchestra: "Fanfare for the Common Man", "Abaddon's Bolero", "Closer to Believing" and "Tank".

Original releases of the album carried no producer credit, but production and mixing of the album were largely carried out by Keith Emerson. Emerson's vision was to release In Concert as a double LP, but ELP's label, Atlantic Records, would not allow this given the band's pending dissolution; the album's later repackaging as Works Live somewhat restores this intent.[1]

Contents

Track listing

In Concert

  1. "Introductory Fanfare" (Emerson, Palmer) – 0:53
  2. "Peter Gunn" (Mancini) – 3:37
  3. "Tiger in a Spotlight" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer, Sinfield) – 4:06
  4. "C'est la Vie" (Lake, Sinfield) – 4:12
  5. "The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" (Prokofiev) – 2:49
  6. "Knife Edge" (Emerson, Fraser, Janáček, Lake) – 5:14
  1. "Piano Concerto No. 1, Third Movement: “Toccata con fuoco”" (Emerson) – 6:35
  2. "Pictures at an Exhibition" (Emerson, Lake, Mussorgsky, Palmer) – 15:43

Works Live

  1. "Introductory Fanfare" (Emerson, Palmer) – 0:52
  2. "Peter Gunn" (Mancini) – 3:34
  3. "Tiger in a Spotlight" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer, Sinfield) – 4:08
  4. "C'est la Vie" (Lake, Sinfield) – 4:14
  5. "Watching Over You" (Lake, Sinfield) – 3:59
  6. "Maple Leaf Rag" (Joplin) – 1:14
  7. "The Enemy God" (Prokofiev) – 2:46
  8. "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Copland) – 10:54
  9. "Knife Edge" (Emerson, Fraser, Janáček, Lake) – 5:03
  10. "Show Me the Way to Go Home" (Campbell, Connelly) – 4:20
  1. "Abaddon's Bolero" (Emerson) – 6:02
  2. "Pictures at an Exhibition" (Emerson, Lake, Mussorgsky, Palmer) – 15:40
  3. "Closer to Believing" (Lake, Sinfield) – 5:28
  4. "Piano Concerto No. 1, Third Movement: Toccata con Fuoco" (Emerson) – 6:40
  5. "Tank" (Emerson, Palmer) – 12:36

Personnel

Band members

Others

Release details

Singles

Notes

  1. ^ Macan, Edward (2006). Endless Enigma: A Musical Biography of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, Open Court, ISBN 0-8126-9596-8, p.434.
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