Emerson Lake & Palmer (usually shortened to ELP) were one of the most notorious progressive rock bands.
One of the ways they showed that excess was with the release of their triple live album Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends… Ladies and Gentlemen, Emerson, Lake & Palmer at a time when releasing a double live album was seen as extravagant.
Studio Albums By Emerson Lake & Palmer
ELP have only released nine studio albums:
1970 – Emerson, Lake & Palmer
1971 – Tarkus
1972 – Trilogy
1973 – Brain Salad Surgery
1977 – Works Volume 1
1977 – Works Volume 2
1978 – Love Beach
1992 – Black Moon
1994 – In The Hot Seat
If you like this intense keyboard driven prog rock, the first four albums from 1970 to 1973 are the most important and the most consistently inspired.
Live Albums By Emerson Lake & Palmer
There are a lot of Emerson Lake & Palmer live albums and the archive box sets include many individual concert recordings. ELP have done lovers of live albums proud.
1970 – Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970
1970/98 – A Time And A Place
1971 – Pictures at an Exhibition
1971/72 – The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults vol 1
1972 – Live at the Mar Y Sol Festival ’72
1972/77 – The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults vol 2
1973/74 – Welcome Back, My Friends, to the Show That Never Ends
1973/77 – King Biscuit Flower Hour: Greatest Hits Live
1974 – Live In California 1974
1974/93 – The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults vol 3
1977 – In Concert
1977 – Works Live (an expanded version of In Concert)
1977/92 – The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults vol 4
1978 – Live at Nassau Coliseum ’78
1986 – Live In Concert (Cozy Powell replaced Carl Powell to create Emerson, Lake and Powell for a short period)
1992 – Live at the Royal Albert Hall
1997 – Live in Poland
1997/98 – Then and Now
2010 – High Voltage
2010 – Keith Emerson and Greg Lake Live From Manticore Hall
To help find your way through the best of these live recordings, I have created a readers poll to find the best Emerson Lake & Palmer live albums
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Other Progressive Rock Groups
If you like ELP, you need to try early Genesis and Yes as the other two really big groups from the early 1970s.
Van Der Graaf Generator are very intense and brooding.
The Best Live Albums Of All Time
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Live at Nassau Coliseum ’78 is a live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
It was recorded at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Uniondale, New York on February 9, 1978.
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Live At The Royal Albert Hall is a live album and DVD by Emerson Lake & Palmer.
It was recorded in London in 1992.
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Live at the Mar Y Sol Festival ’72 is a live album by Emerson Lake & Palmer
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The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults vol 2 is an 8 CD set of live concert recordings by Emerson Lake & Palmer.
These are:
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The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults vol 1 is an archive release of four live concerts by Emerson, Lake & Palmer. The title is often shortened to Manticore Vaults vol 1.
A Time And A Place is a four CD compilation archive release of live recordings of Emerson Lake & Palmer.
The first three CDs are from soundboard recordings whilst the fourth CD selects the best sounding tape recording by the audience.
This brings together the classic ELP songs together with rarely performed, less well known songs.
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Live From Maniticore Hall is a live album by Keith Emerson and Greg Lake.
It was recorded in 2010 when they pair were touring without Carl Palmer, the third member of Emerson Lake & Palmer.
What they produced was a very personal look at their past history.
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Live At The Isle of Wight Festival 1970 is a live recording by progressive rock group Emerson Lake & Palmer of their set at this famous festival.
Their debut performance in front of an audience was just 6 days before they appeared at this huge festival with acts like Jimi Hendrix and The Who.
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Pictures At An Exhibition is the first live album released by progressive rock group Emerson Lake & Palmer. It is their interpretation of the Mussorgsky classical composition and was recorded at a concert in Newcastle, England in March 1971.
Have ELP butchered a classic with their pretentious keyboard excesses or have they charmingly updated it?
I bought Pictures At An Exhibition as a teenager and I’ve always had a soft spot for it.
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Works Live is a live album of an Emerson, Lake & Palmer concert in Montreal, Canada that also featured a 70 piece orchestra that nearly bankrupted the group.
Parts of this album were previously issued as Emerson Lake & Palmer In Concert.
