Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends - Ladies and gentlemen - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Ended.

Advantages: some great clips, well designed package
Disadvantages: frustrating editing of some clips, repeated material, much padding, not enough music!

Jimmy Page really set the bar high with the recent Led Zeppelin DVD. That set was a faultless document of a 70s supergroup throughout its entire career, and here we have another "Dinosaur" group from those halcyon days, the "Classical Rock" pioneers Emerson Lake & Palmer, attempting to cement their place in Rock History for posterity via a marathon trawl through the visual archives. Do they achieve it? Well, yes I suppose they do...except that in my opinion, the place they have cornered for themselves is marked "Novelties and Musical Jokes". Yes folks, welcome to the Emerson Lake and Palmer show. A four hours plus, double disc Gift from the Gods/ Horrific monstrosity, depending on your view of Progressive Rock music. First impressions (in-joke intended) are favourable, though I must admit to being surprised it was only a double set ...

treemusicuk 25.07.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Emerson, Lake And Palmer - Beyond The Beginning (DVD)

Welcome to the show that never ends

Advantages: Extremely Funny
Disadvantages: Crude and Rude

I know some of you may have read previous reviews of mine about Jim Davidson so yes I am a fan. I may only be 25 years old but I can remember watching him, even at a young age. Does anyone remember that he had a stand up show on ITV? Well I do and I can always remember my Mum crying with laughter and now my Mum is not around anyone and I now cry with laughter. Introduction This was filmed in Edinburgh to celebrate 25 years in show business back in 2002. Background information on Jim Davidson can be found on another review so I will not bore you with it again. The DVD is certificated 18 and the show runs for approximately 1 hour and 13 minutes. The Show Songs included in this are: Rock N Roll Medley The Rolf Harris Song -(Very funny, crude but funny) The Devil Went Down to Georgia Watching Over ...

kgray71 08.02.2006 · Read full review
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Review of Jim Davidson - Jim's Silver Jubilee (DVD)

Fanfare For The Common Man - Emerson Lake & Palmer

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of the two only sure things in life and all that. Hence the horns that announce the start of this piece. So to 1976. The forgotten men of prog, Keith Emerson (keyboards), Greg "I Believe In Father Christmas" Lake (guitars) and Carl Palmer (bass), who lets face it, did have a tendency to take themselves a little bit too seriously, record this magnum opus, taking the opening and stretching it in that manner so beloved of 70's proggers. It's got a great rolling bass line, the timing is perfect, just as you would expect from classically trained musicians, and the trio get their groove on to a T. This is just a fabulous example of good musicians letting the jam take them where they want to go. The musos among you might even recognise the fade out as being copied by Nick Cave on The Birthday Partys "Release The Bats", ask me if ...

pinkmatchstick 14.01.2005 · Read full review
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