- Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends... Ladies and Gentlemen
Infobox Album
Name = Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends... Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Type = Live album
Artist =Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Released =August 19 1974
Recorded = 1973-1974, worldwide tour
Genre =Progressive rock
Length = 1:49:41
Label =Manticore Records /Rhino Records
Producer =Greg Lake
Reviews = *Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:6uq2g44btvnz link]
Last album = "Brain Salad Surgery " (1973)
This album = "Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends... Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer" (1974)
Next album = "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 bandEmerson, 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 howGreg 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.The
Hard Rock Cafe in Orlando, Florida, also has the title as a message above their main entrance.Track listing
CD track listing
Disc one
#"Hoedown" "Taken from Rodeo" (
Aaron Copland , arr.Keith Emerson ,Greg Lake &Carl Palmer ) – 4:27
#"Jerusalem" (Charles Hubert Hastings Parry,William Blake , arr. Emerson Lake & Palmer) – 3:20
#"Toccata" "An adaptation of Ginastera's 1st piano Concerto, 4th movement" (Alberto Ginastera , arr. Emerson) – 7:21
#"Tarkus" – 27:24
#*"Eruption" (Emerson)
#*"Stones of Years" (Emerson, Lake)
#*"Iconoclast" (Emerson)
#*"Mass" (Emerson)
#*"Manticore" (Emerson)
#*"Battlefield" (Lake) "including "Epitaph" (Robert Fripp , Ian McDonald, Lake,Michael Giles ,Peter Sinfield )
#*"Aquatarkus" (Emerson)
#"Take a Pebble" (Lake) "including "Still...You Turn Me On" (Lake) and "Lucky Man" (Lake) – 11:06Disc two
#"Piano Improvisations" "Including
Friedrich Gulda 's "Fugue" andJoe Sullivan 's "Little Rock Getaway" (Emerson) – 11:54
#"Take a Pebble (Conclusion)" (Lake) – 3:14
#"Jeremy Bender" / "The Sheriff" (Emerson, Lake) – 5:26
#"Karn Evil 9 (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) – 35:21
#*"Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield)
#*"Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression" (Emerson)
#*"Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield)Original LP track listing
"For songwriting credits, see above."
ide one
#"Hoedown"
#"Jerusalem"
#"Toccata"ide two
#"Tarkus" – 16:42
ide three
#"Tarkus (Conclusion)" – 10:42
#"Take a Pebble", including "Still...You Turn Me On" / "Lucky Man"ide four
#"Piano Improvisations"
#"Take a Pebble (Conclusion)"
#"Jeremy Bender" / "The Sheriff"ide five
#"Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression" – 17:26
ide six
#"Karn Evil 9: 2nd Impression" – 7:36
#"Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression" – 10:17Personnel
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Keith Emerson – keyboards
*Greg Lake – bass,guitar s, vocals
*Carl Palmer – drums, percussionCertifications
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