Then and Now is a 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 1998.

It brings together two separate periods of the band's career and places them back-to-back. First is the legendary California Jam

California Jam

California Jam, also known as Cal Jam, was a rock music festival concert held at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California on April 6, 1974. It was produced by ABC Entertainment, Sandy Feldman, Don Branker and Leonard Stogel...

 performance ("the Then"), which took place at the Ontario Motor Speedway

Ontario Motor Speedway

The Ontario Motor Speedway, located in Ontario, California, east of Los Angeles, was the first and only automobile racing facility built to accommodate major races sanctioned by all of the four dominant racing sanctioning bodies: IndyCar Series and USAC for open-wheel oval car races; NASCAR for a ...

 in Ontario, California

Ontario, California

Ontario is a city located in San Bernardino County, California, United States, 35 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. Located in the western part of the Inland Empire region, it lies just east of the Los Angeles county line and is part of the Greater Los Angeles Area...

 on 6 April 1974. Second a collection of recordings from the 1997 to 1998 reunion tour ("the Now").

Most of the bands best known pieces are present with 'Karn Evil 9: First Impression', 'Take a Pebble' and 'Lucky Man' appearing twice as part of each period's set lists.

Track listing

Disc 1

(Then - Cal Jam '74):

1. "Toccata" (Ginastera
   Alberto Ginastera
   Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.- Biography :...
   
   ) – 3:36
2. "Take a Pebble Excerpts:" – 18:21
   1. "Still... You Turn Me On" (Lake)
   2. "Lucky Man" (Lake)
   3. "Piano Improvisations"
      1. "Fugue" (Emerson, Gulda
         Friedrich Gulda
         Friedrich Gulda was an Austrian pianist and composer who worked in both the classical and jazz fields.Born in Vienna as the son of a teacher, Gulda began learning to play the piano from Felix Pazofsky at the Wiener Volkskonservatorium, aged 7...
         
         )
      2. "Little Rock Getaway" (Sullivan
         Joe Sullivan
         Michael Joseph "Joe" O'Sullivan was an American jazz pianist.Sullivan was the ninth child of Irish immigrant parents. He studied classical piano for 12 years and at age 17, he began to play popular music in a club where he was exposed to jazz...
         
         )
3. "Karn Evil 9:" – 19:36
   1. "1st Impression, Pt. 2" (Emerson, Lake)
   2. "3rd Impression" (Emerson, Lake)

(Now - Tour '97/'98):

1. "A Time and a Place" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 4:06
2. "Piano Concerto No. 1, Third Movement: Toccata con Fuoco" (Emerson) – 4:51
3. "From the Beginning" (Lake) – 4:14

Disc 2

(Now - Tour '97/'98 continued):

1. "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2" (Emerson, Lake) – 5:22
2. "Tiger in a Spotlight" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer, Sinfield
   Peter Sinfield
   Peter John Sinfield is an English poet, lyricist and artist, most famously known as the lyricist and co-founding member of early incarnations of King Crimson, whose debut album In the Court of the Crimson King has been regarded as one of the most influential progressive rock albums ever...
   
   ) – 3:36
3. "Hoedown" (Copland
   Aaron Copland
   Aaron 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"...
   
   ) – 4:55
4. "Touch and Go" (Emerson, Lake) – 4:13
5. "Knife Edge" (Emerson, Fraser
   Richard Fraser
   Richard Fraser was a lyricist for the British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer .He is notable for receiving credit for their 1970 debut album's third track, the hit "Knife Edge" and for his lyrical contributions to Pictures at an Exhibition...
   
   , Janáček
   Leoš Janácek
   Leoš 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...
   
   , Lake) – 6:11
6. "Bitches Crystal" (Emerson, Lake) – 4:30
7. "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Lewis
   Meade Lux Lewis
   Meade Lux Lewis was a American pianist and composer, noted for his work in the boogie-woogie style. His best known work, "Honky Tonk Train Blues", has been recorded in various contexts, often in a big band arrangement...
   
   ) – 3:41
8. "Take a Pebble" (Lake) – 7:09
9. "Lucky Man" (Lake) – 5:05
10. "Fanfare for the Common Man/Blue Rondo a la Turk" (Brubeck
    Dave Brubeck
    David Warren "Dave" Brubeck is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills...
    
    , Copland) – 22:10
11. "21st Century Schizoid Man/America" (Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein
    Leonard Bernstein August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, author, music lecturer and pianist. He was among the first conductors born and educated in the United States of America to receive worldwide acclaim...
    
    , Fripp
    Robert Fripp
    Robert Fripp is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. He was ranked 42nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2003 list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and #47 on Gibson.com’s "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time". Among rock guitarists, Fripp is a master of crosspicking, a technique...
    
    , Giles
    Michael Giles
    Michael Giles is an English drummer, best known as a co-founder of King Crimson in 1969...
    
    , Lake, McDonald
    Ian McDonald (musician)
    Ian McDonald is an English multi-instrumental musician, best known as a founding member of progressive rock group King Crimson, formed in 1969, and of the hard rock band Foreigner in 1976. He is well-known as a rock session musician, predominantly as a saxophonist...
    
    , Sinfield, Sondheim
    Stephen Sondheim
    Stephen Joshua Sondheim is an American composer and lyricist for stage and film. He is the winner of an Academy Award, multiple Tony Awards including the Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre, multiple Grammy Awards, a Pulitzer Prize and the Laurence Olivier Award...
    
    ) – 4:53

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 ....
  
  

Release details

• 1998, UK, Eagle EDGCD040, Release date 24 November 1998, CD
• 2006, UK, Sanctuary SMDDD343, Release date 5 June 2006, CD

External links

• http://www.amazon.com/Then-Now-Emerson-Lake-Palmer/dp/B00000G1NB/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1320663437&sr=1-1
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