From the Beginning (box set)

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From the Beginning
Box set by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Released 2007
Genre Progressive rock
Symphonic rock
Length CD: 390:26
DVD: approx. 53 minutes
Label Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.
Producer Keith Emerson
Greg Lake
Carl Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer chronology

The Essential Emerson, Lake & Palmer
(2007)		 From the Beginning
(2007)		 Gold Edition
(2007)

From the Beginning is a box set which presents aural and visual documentation celebrating Emerson, Lake & Palmer's career; consisting of five discs that include a number of single b-sides, significant live recordings, alternative studio mixes and material taken from band rehearsals, plus a bonus DVD featuring 'The Manticore Years' documentary, presented in a deluxe book-style sleeve complete with a 60-page picture booklet containing extensive sleeve notes by the band discussing the ELP years. It also contains rare and previously unseen photographs and images.

Track listing

Disc one

  1. "Epitaph" - King Crimson (Fripp/McDonald/Lake/Giles/Sinfield) - 8:47
  2. "Decline and Fall" – Atomic Rooster (Crane/Palmer/Graham) – 5:47
  3. "Fantasia: Intermezzo Karelia Suite" – The Nice (Sibelius) – 8:51
  4. "Lucky Man" (Lake) – 4:38
  5. "Tank" (Emerson/Palmer) – 6:48
  6. "Take a Pebble" (Lake) – 12:28
  7. "The Barbarian" (Live Version) (Emerson/Lake/Palmer/Bartok) – 5:20
  8. "Knife Edge" (Live Version) (Emerson/Lake/Janáček) – 8:01
  9. "Rondo" (Live Version) (Bach/Brubeck/arr.; Emerson/O'List/Davison/Jackson) – 18:18

Disc two

  1. "Tarkus" – 20:40
    a) "Eruption" (Emerson)
    b) "Stones of Years" (Emerson/Lake)
    c) "Iconoclast" (Emerson)
    d) "Mass" (Emerson/Lake)
    e) "Manticore" (Emerson)
    f) "The Battlefield" (Lake)
    g) "Aquatarkus" (Emerson)
  2. "Bitches Crystal" (Emerson) – 3:54
  3. "A Time and a Place" (B-side Single Version) (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) – 3:55
  4. "Oh, My Father" (Previously Unreleased) (Lake) – 2:58
  5. "The Endless Enigma (Part One)" (Emerson/Lake) – 4:04
  6. "Fugue" (Emerson/Lake) – 4:54
  7. "The Endless Enigma (Part Two)" (Emerson/Lake) – 2:00
  8. "From the Beginning" (Lake) – 4:13
  9. "Trilogy" (Emerson/Lake) – 8:52
  10. "Abbadon's Bolero" (Emerson) – 8:07
  11. "Hoedown" (Live Version) (A. Copland/Arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) – 3:54
  12. "Jerusalem" (First Mix) (Parry/Blake/Arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) – 2:54
  13. "Still You Turn Me On" (First Mix) (Lake) – 2:51
  14. "When the Apple Blossoms" (B-side Single Version) (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) – 3:56

Disc three

  1. "Karn Evil 9" – 29:42
    a) "1st Impression Pt.1" (Lake)
    b) "1st Impression Pt.2" (Emerson/Lake)
    c) "2nd Impression" (Emerson)
    d) "3rd Impression" (Emerson/Lake/Sinfield)
  2. "Jeremy Bender/The Sheriff" (Live) (Emerson/Lake) – 5:03
  3. "C'est La Vie (Early Version)" (Lake/Sinfield) – 4:16
  4. "I Believe in Father Christmas" (Early Version) (Lake/Sinfield/Prokofiev) – 3:29
  5. "The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" (Prokofiev/ Arr. Palmer) – 3:20
  6. "Piano Concerto No.1" (Emerson) – 18:25
    1. First Movement: "Allegro Giocoso"
    2. Second Movement: "Andante Molto Cantabile"
    3. Third Movement: "Toccata Con Fuoco"
  7. "Pirates (Non Orchestral Live Version)" (Emerson/Lake/Sinfield) – 13:23

Disc four

  1. "Aaron Copland Interview 1977" (From Keith Emerson's Archives) – 1:37
  2. "Fanfare for the Common Man" (A. Copland/Arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) – 9:42
  3. "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Lewis) – 3:09
  4. "Tiger in a Spotlight" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer/Sinfield) – 4:33
  5. "Watching Over You" (Lake/Sinfield) – 3:54
  6. "Introductory Fanfare/Peter Gunn Theme (Live Version)" (Emerson/Mancini) – 4:26
  7. "Canario (Rehearsal)" (Rodrigo) – 3:57
  8. "Mars – The Bringer of War" (Holst/Arr. Emerson, Lake & Powell) – 7:54
  9. "Desede La Vida" (Emerson/Berry/Palmer) – 7:06
    1. "Desede La Vida"
    2. "LaVista"
    3. "Sangre De Toro"
  10. "Black Moon (Single Version)" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) – 4:47
  11. "Footprints in the Snow" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) – 3:51
  12. "Romeo and Juliet (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)" (Prokofiev/Emerson) – 3:32
  13. "Man in the Long Black Coat" (Dylan/Arr. Emerson) – 4:12
  14. "Daddy" (Lake) – 4:42
  15. "Hang on To a Dream" (ELP Cover of a song from The Nice) (Hardin/Aber) – 4:28
  16. "Touch and Go" (Live in Poland) (Emerson/Lake) – 3:53

Disc five

(Live from the Mar Y Sol Festival, Puerto Rico, 2 April 1972)

  1. "Hoedown" (A. Copland/Arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) – 4:18
  2. "Tarkus" – 22:33
    a) "Eruption" (Emerson)
    b) "Stones of Years" (Emerson)
    c) "Iconoclast" (Emerson)
    d) "Mass" (Emerson)
    e) "Manticore" (Emerson)
    f) "The Battlefield" (Lake)
    g) "Aquatarkus" (Emerson)
  3. "Take a Pebble" (Lake) – 4:36
  4. "Lucky Man" (Lake) – 3:00
  5. "Piano Improvisation - Take A Pebble Conclusion" (Emerson) – 9:44
  6. "Pictures at an Exhibition" – 14:39
    a) "Promenade" (Mussorgsky/Lake)
    b) "The Gnome" (Palmer)
    c) "Promenade" – Vocal (Mussorgsky/Emerson/Lake)
    d) "Hut of Baba Yaga" (Mussorgsky/Emerson)
    e) "Great Gates of Kiev" (Emerson/Lake)
  7. "Rondo" (Bach/Brubeck arr. ; Emerson/O'List/Davison/Jackson) – 18:29

Disc six

  • Written and directed by Nick Hague
  • Edited by Chris Fraser
  • Director of photography – John Rosenberg
  • Production manager – Peter Jaques
  • Sound recordist – Tony Jackson
  • Produced by Miker Rosenberg

Personnel