Then and Now (Emerson, Lake & Palmer album)
1998 live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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Then and Now is a live album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer , released in 1998.
It brings together two separate periods of the band's career and places them back-to-back. First is the legendary California Jam performance (the "Then"), which took place at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California on 6 April 1974. Second a collection of recordings from the 1997 to 1998 reunion tour (the "Now").
Most of the band's best-known pieces are present, with "Karn Evil 9: First Impression, Part 2 ", "Take a Pebble " and "Lucky Man " appearing twice, as part of each period's set lists.
Notable inclusions are "A Time and a Place" from Tarkus , which hadn't been performed live prior to the 1998 tour, and an abbreviated version of King Crimson 's "21st Century Schizoid Man ", in the arrangement Emerson, Lake & Palmer recorded for The Return of the Manticore in 1993.
Track listing
Disc 1
(Then - Cal Jam '74):
"Toccata " (Alberto Ginastera , arr. by Keith Emerson ) – 3:36
"Take a Pebble Excerpts: " – 18:21
"Still...You Turn Me On " (Greg Lake )
"Lucky Man " (Lake)
"Piano Improvisations"
"Fugue" (Emerson, Friedrich Gulda )
"Little Rock Getaway" (Joe Sullivan )
"Karn Evil 9 :" – 19:36
"1st Impression, Pt. 2" (Emerson, Lake)
"3rd Impression" (Emerson, Lake)
(Now - Tour '97/'98):
"A Time and a Place " (Emerson, Lake, Carl Palmer ) – 4:06
"Piano Concerto No. 1, Third Movement: Toccata con Fuoco " (Emerson) – 4:51
"From the Beginning " (Lake) – 4:14
Disc 2
(Now - Tour '97/'98 continued):
"Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2 " (Emerson, Lake) – 5:22
"Tiger in a Spotlight " (Emerson, Lake, Palmer, Peter Sinfield ) – 3:36
"Hoedown " (Aaron Copland ) – 4:55
"Touch and Go" (Emerson, Lake) – 4:13
"Knife-Edge" (Emerson, Richard Fraser , Leoš Janáček , Lake) – 6:11
"Bitches Crystal " (Emerson, Lake) – 4:30
"Honky Tonk Train Blues " (Meade "Lux" Lewis ) – 3:41
"Take a Pebble " (Lake) – 7:09
"Lucky Man " (Lake) – 5:05
"Fanfare for the Common Man /Rondo " (Dave Brubeck , Copland, arr. Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 22:10
"21st Century Schizoid Man /America " (Robert Fripp , Michael Giles , Lake, Ian McDonald , Sinfield, Leonard Bernstein , Stephen Sondheim ) – 4:53
Personnel
Band members
Keith Emerson – keyboards, Hammond organ , Yamaha GX-1 , Modular Moog, Minimoog , classical piano, upright piano, electric piano, clavinet , Moog Lyra, Moog Apollo
Greg Lake – bass, electric and acoustic guitars, vocals
Carl Palmer – drums, electronic and acoustic percussions, gongs, tubular bells
Release details
1998, UK, Eagle EDGCD040, Release date 24 November 1998, CD
2006, UK, Sanctuary SMDDD343, Release date 5 June 2006, CD
2006, UK, Demon Music Group LTD MCDLX036, renamed Pomp And Ceremony Live 2006, CD
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