From the Beginning (box set)
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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.
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Emerson, Lake & Palmer, also known as ELP, are an English progressive rock supergroup. They found success in the 1970s and sold over forty million albums and headlined large stadium concerts. The band consists of Keith Emerson , Greg Lake and Carl 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
Manticore
The manticore is a legendary creature similar to the Egyptian sphinx. It has the body of a red lion, a human head with three rows of sharp teeth , and a trumpet-like voice. Other aspects of the creature vary from story to story. It may be horned, winged, or both...
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.
Disc one
- "Epitaph" - King CrimsonKing CrimsonKing Crimson are a rock band founded in London, England in 1969. Often categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, the band have incorporated diverse influences and instrumentation during their history...
(Fripp/Giles/Lake/McDonald/Sinfield) - 8:45 - "Decline and Fall" - Atomic RoosterAtomic RoosterAtomic Rooster were an English progressive rock band, composed of former members of the The Crazy World of Arthur Brown. Throughout their history, keyboardist Vincent Crane was the only constant member, and wrote the majority of their material. Their history is defined by two periods, in the early...
(Crane/Palmer/Graham) - 5:47 - "Fantasia: Intermezzo Karelia Suite" - The NiceThe NiceThe Nice were an English progressive rock band from the 1960s, known for their blend of rock, jazz and classical music. Their debut album, The Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack was released in 1967 to immediate acclaim. It is often considered the first progressive rock album...
(SibeliusJean SibeliusJean Sibelius was a Finnish composer of the later Romantic period whose music played an important role in the formation of the Finnish national identity. His mastery of the orchestra has been described as "prodigious."...
) - 8:51 - "Lucky Man" (Lake) - 4:38
- "Tank" (Emerson/Palmer) - 6:48
- "Take a Pebble" (Lake) - 12:28
- "The Barbarian" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer/Bartok) - 5:20
- "Knife Edge" (Emerson/Lake/JanáčekLeoš JanácekLeoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by...
) - 8:01 - "Rondo" (Live Version) (Emerson/O'List/Davison/Jackson) - 17:78
Disc two
- "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)
- "Bitches Crystal" (Emerson)
- "A Time and a Place" (B-side Single Version) (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) - 3:55
- "Oh, My Father" (Previously Unreleased) (Lake) - 2:58
- "The Endless Enigma (Part One)" (Emerson/Lake) - 4:04
- "Fugue" (Emerson/Lake) - 4:54
- "The Endless Enigma (Part Two)" (Emerson/Lake) - 2:00
- "From the Beginning" (Lake) - 4:13
- "Trilogy" (Emerson/Lake) - 8:52
- "Abbadon's Bolero" (Emerson) - 8:07
- "Hoedown" (Live Version) (A. CoplandAaron CoplandAaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
/Arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) - 3:54 - "Jerusalem" (First Mix) (Parry/Blake/Arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) - 2:54
- "Still You Turn Me On" (First Mix) (Lake) - 2:51
- "When the Apple Blossoms" (B-side Single Version) (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) - 3:56
Disc three
- "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)
- "Jeremy Bender/The Sheriff" (Live) (Emerson/Lake) - 5:03
- "C'est La Vie (Early Version)" (Lake/Sinfield) - 4:16
- "I Believe in Father Christmas" (Lake/Sinfield/ProkofievSergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
) - 3:29 - "The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" (ProkofievSergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
/ Arr. Palmer) - 3:20 - "Piano Concerto No.1" (Emerson) - 18:25
- First Movement: "Allegro Giocoso"
- Second Movement: "Andante Molto Cantabile"
- Third Movement: "Toccata Con Fuoco"
- "Pirates (Non Orchestral Live Version)" (Emerson/Lake/Sinfield) - 13:23
Disc four
- "Aaron Copland Interview 1977" (From Keith Emerson's Archives) - 1:37
- "Fanfare for the Common Man" (A. CoplandAaron CoplandAaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
/Arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) - 9:42 - "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Lewis) - 3:09
- "Tiger In a Spotlight" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer/Sinfield) - 4:33
- "Watching Over You" (Lake/Sinfield) - 3:54
- "Introductory Fanfare/Peter Gunn Theme (Live Version)" (Emerson/ManciniHenry ManciniHenry Mancini was an American composer, conductor and arranger, best remembered for his film and television scores. He won a record number of Grammy Awards , plus a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1995...
) - 4:26 - "Canario (Rehearsal)" (Rodrigo) - 3:57
- "Mars - The Bringer of War" (HolstGustav HolstGustav Theodore Holst was an English composer. He is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets....
/Arr. Emerson, Lake & PowellEmerson, Lake & PowellEmerson, Lake & Powell, sometimes abbreviated as ELPowell, were an English rock band, an offshoot or variant lineup of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, that released one official studio album in 1986....
) - 7:54 - "Desede La Vida" (Emerson/Berry/Palmer) - 7:06
- "Black Moon (Single Version)" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) - 4:47
- "Footprints in the Snow" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) - 3:51
- "Romeo and Juliet (Live at the Royal Albert HallRoyal Albert HallThe Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall situated on the northern edge of the South Kensington area, in the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
)" (ProkofievSergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
/Emerson) - 3:32 - "Man in the Long Black Coat" (Dylan/Arr. Emerson) - 4:12
- "Daddy" (Lake) - 4:42
- "Hang On To a Dream" (Hardin/Aber) - 4:28
- "Touch and Go" (Live in PolandPolandPoland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...
) (Emerson/Lake) - 3:53
Disc five
- "Hoedown" (A. CoplandAaron CoplandAaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
/Arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) - 4:18 - "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)
- "Take a Pebble" (Lake) - 4:36
- "Lucky Man" (Lake) - 3:00
- "Piano Improvisation" (Emerson) - 9:44
- "Pictures at an Exhibition" - 14:39
- a) "Promenade" (MussorgskyModest MussorgskyModest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
/Lake) - b) "The Gnome" (Palmer)
- c) "Promenade" - Vocal (MussorgskyModest MussorgskyModest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
/Emerson/Lake) - d) "Hut of Baba Yaga" (MussorgskyModest MussorgskyModest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
/Emerson) - e) "Great Gates of Kiev" (Emerson/Lake)
- a) "Promenade" (Mussorgsky
- "Rondo" (Emerson/O'List/Davison/Jackson) - 18:29
- Live at Mar Y Sol FestivalMar y sol festivalThe Mar y Sol Festival was a Woodstock-like music festival that took place in Manatí, Puerto Rico, on April 1–3, 1972. It was held on of countryside by Los Tubos beach in Vega Baja on the north shore of the island....
, Puerto Rico, April 2, 1972.
- Live at Mar Y Sol Festival
Disc six
- "The Manticore Special" - DVD containing highlights from the 1973 World Tour.
- 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
- Keith EmersonKeith EmersonKeith Noel Emerson is an English keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, V.I.P.s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, and The Nice , he was a founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer , one of the early supergroups, in 1970...
- keyboardsKeyboard instrumentA keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments... - Greg LakeGreg LakeGregory Stuart "Greg" Lake is an English musician, songwriter and producer, best known as a vocalist and bassist of King Crimson, and the bassist, guitarist, vocalist, and lyricist of Emerson, Lake & Palmer.-1960s: King Crimson:...
- guitarGuitarThe guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
s, bass guitarBass guitarThe bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
, vocalsSingingSinging is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments... - Carl PalmerCarl PalmerCarl Frederick Kendall Palmer is an English drummer and percussionist. He is credited as one of the most respected rock drummers to emerge from the 1960s...
- drumsDrum kitA drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....
, percussionPercussion instrumentA percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...