Live at Nassau Coliseum '78
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Live at Nassau Coliseum '78 is a double live album by British
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 progressive rock
Progressive rock
Progressive rock is a subgenre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s as part of a "mostly British attempt to elevate rock music to new levels of artistic credibility." John Covach, in Contemporary Music Review, says that many thought it would not just "succeed the pop of...

 band Emerson, Lake & Palmer
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...

, released in 2011.

The live concert recording was recorded at the Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
The Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Uniondale, New York, United States. Home to the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League, the Coliseum is located approximately east of New York City on Long Island...

 in Uniondale, New York
Uniondale, New York
Uniondale is a hamlet as well as a suburb of New York City in Nassau County, New York, United States, on Long Island, in the Town of Hempstead. The population was 24,759 at the 2010 United States Census.-Geography:...

 on February 9, 1978, and was remastered from original analog tapes for this release. Prior to this release, only bootleg
Bootleg
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 recordings of this concert were available.

Track listing

Disc 1
  1. "Hoedown"
  2. "Tarkus"
  3. "Take A Pebble"
  4. "Piano Concerto #1 - 1st Movement"
  5. "Maple Leaf Rag"
  6. "Take A Pebble (Reprise)"
  7. "C'est La Vie"
  8. "Lucky Man"
  9. "Pictures At An Exhibition"


Disc 2
  1. "Tiger In A Spotlight"
  2. "Watching Over You"
  3. "Tank"
  4. "Drum Solo"
  5. "The Enemy God Dances With The Black Spirits"
  6. "Nutrocker"
  7. "Pirates"
  8. "Fanfare For The Common Man"

Band members

  • Keith Emerson
    Keith Emerson
    Keith 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...

     - keyboard
    Keyboard instrument
    A 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 Lake
    Greg Lake
    Gregory 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:...

     - bass
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , guitar
    Guitar
    The 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...

    , vocals
    Singing
    Singing 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 Palmer
    Carl Palmer
    Carl 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...

     - percussion
    Percussion instrument
    A 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...

    , drums
    Drum kit
    A 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 ....


Production

  1. Archival Material Production & Supervision by David Skye
  2. Remastered by Randy Wine at MoonWine Studios
  3. Tape Transfer: Rodney Pearson
  4. Photos: Ken Jackson - ClassicRockConcertPhotos.com
  5. Art Direction & Package Design: Lisa Glines
  6. Project Assistance: Tony Ortiz

External links

  • http://www.amazon.com/Live-at-Nassau-Coliseum-78/dp/B004I1WIQG/ref=pd_bxgy_m_img_c
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