Em 16/11/1993: Emerson, Lake & Palmer lança o álbum The Return of the Manticore

Em 16/11/1993: Emerson, Lake & Palmer lança o álbum The Return of the Manticore

The Return of the Manticore é um álbum de retrospectiva em 4 discos sobre a carreira da banda Emerson, Lake & Palmer.

Foi lançado em 1993 e apresenta várias novas gravações de músicas lançadas anteriormente, mais notavelmente uma gravação de estúdio de " Pictures at an Exhibition ", apresentada em Dolby Surround Sound. Uma gravação ao vivo de " Rondo " de Dave Brubeck aparece no disco 2; a faixa, tocada pelo ELP em show desde o início da banda (havia sido pela banda anterior de Keith Emerson, The Nice), não foi lançada anteriormente em nenhum álbum ao vivo ou de estúdio do ELP. Esta versão foi gravada no Lyceum Theatre em 9 de dezembro de 1970.

O box set é um corte bastante abrangente da história da banda, oferecendo faixas de todos os álbuns de estúdio e ao vivo (no momento do lançamento), como as novas versões do ELP de sucessos previamente gravados por bandas quais eram membros anteriores para formar o ELP. O lançamento original do álbum foi parte de uma onda de lançamentos remasterizados sob o novo selo da banda, Victory Music. Depois que esse selo foi extinto, o conjunto foi relançado pela Rhino Records.

Listagem de faixas:

Disco um:

1. "Touch and Go" (Emerson, Greg Lake) (New recording, originally recorded by Emerson, Lake & Powell for the album of the same name (1986)) – 3:01

2. "Hang on to a Dream" (Tim Hardin) (New recording, originally recorded by The Nice for Nice (1969) (Keith Emerson's band prior to ELP)) – 4:27

3. "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Lake, Ian McDonald, Peter Sinfield) (New recording, originally recorded by King Crimson for In the Court of the Crimson King (1969) (Greg Lake's band prior to ELP)) – 3:07

4. "Fire" (Arthur Brown, Vincent Crane, Peter Ker, Mike Finesilver) (New recording, originally recorded by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown for the album of the same name (1968) (Carl Palmer briefly played with them in 1969) – 3:24

5. "Pictures at an Exhibition" (New recording, originally from Pictures at an Exhibition, 1971) – 15:33

a) "Promenade" (Modest Mussorgsky) – 1:46

b) "The Gnome" (Mussorgsky, Palmer) – 2:07

c) "Promenade" (Mussorgsky, Lake) – 1:44

d) "The Sage" (Lake) – 3:10

e) "The Hut of Baba Yaga" (Mussorgsky) – 1:16

f) "The Great Gates of Kiev" (Mussorgsky, Lake) – 5:30

6. "I Believe in Father Christmas" (Lake, Sinfield) (New recording, originally from Works Volume 2, 1977) – 3:26

7. "Introductory Fanfare" (Emerson, Palmer)/"Peter Gunn" (Henry Mancini) (from Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert, 1979) – 4:27

8. "Tiger in a Spotlight" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer, Sinfield) (from Works Volume 2) – 4:32

9. "Toccata" (Alberto Ginastera, arr. by Emerson, Palmer) (from Brain Salad Surgery, 1973) – 7:20

10. "Trilogy" (Emerson, Lake) (from Trilogy, 1972) – 8:53

11. "Tank" (Emerson, Palmer) (from Emerson Lake & Palmer, 1970) – 6:47

12. "Lucky Man" (Lake) (from Emerson, Lake & Palmer) – 4:37

Disco dois

1. "Tarkus" (from Tarkus, 1971) – 20:35

a) "Eruption" (Emerson) – 2:43

b) "Stones of Years" (Emerson, Lake) – 3:44

c) "Iconoclast" (Emerson) – 1:15

d) "Mass" (Emerson, Lake) – 3:11

e) "Manticore" (Emerson) – 1:52

f) "Battlefield" (Emerson, Lake) – 3:51

g) "Aquatarkus" (Emerson) – 3:59

2. "From the Beginning" (Lake) (from Trilogy) – 4:14

3. "Take a Pebble (Live version)" (from Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends... Ladies and Gentlemen, 1974) – 22:48

a) "Take a Pebble (Beginning)" (Lake) – 4:58

b) "Lucky Man" (Lake) – 3:02

c) "Piano Improvisations" (Emerson) – 11:55

d) "Take a Pebble (Conclusion)" (Lake) – 2:53

4. "Knife-Edge" (music: Leoš Janáček arr. Emerson; lyrics: Lake, Richard Fraser) (from Emerson Lake & Palmer) – 5:05

5. "Paper Blood" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) (from Black Moon, 1992) – 4:26

6. "Hoedown" (Aaron Copland, arr. Emerson, Lake, Palmer) (from Trilogy) – 3:43

7. "Rondo (Live version)" (Dave Brubeck, arr. by Emerson) (Previously unreleased, 1993) – 14:28

Disco três

1. "The Barbarian" (Béla Bartók, arr. Emerson, Lake, Palmer) (from Emerson, Lake & Palmer) – 4:28

2. "Still...You Turn Me On" (Lake) (from Brain Salad Surgery) – 2:52

3. "The Endless Enigma" (from Trilogy) – 10:37

a) "The Endless Enigma Part 1" (Emerson, Lake) – 6:41

b) "Fugue (Emerson) – 1:56

c) "The Endless Enigma Part 2" (Emerson, Lake) – 2:00

4. "C'est la Vie" (Lake, Sinfield) (from Works Volume 1, 1977) – 4:16

5. "The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" (Sergei Prokofiev, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer) (from Works Volume 1) – 3:21

6. "Bo Diddley" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) (Previously unreleased) – 5:03

7. "Bitches Crystal" (Emerson, Lake) (from Tarkus) – 3:55

8. "A Time and a Place" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) (from Tarkus) – 2:57

9. "Living Sin" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) (from Trilogy) – 3:12

10. "Karn Evil 9" (from Brain Salad Surgery) – 29:37

a) "1st Impression" (Emerson, Lake) – 13:23

b) "2nd Impression" (Emerson) – 7:07

c) "3rd Impression" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) – 9:07

11. "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Meade "Lux" Lewis, arr. by Emerson) (from Works Volume 2) – 3:11

Disco quatro

1. "Jerusalem" (Hubert Parry, William Blake, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer) (from Brain Salad Surgery) – 2:44

2. "Fanfare for the Common Man" (Copland, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer) (from Works Volume 1) – 9:40

3. "Black Moon" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer) (from Black Moon) – 6:58

4. "Watching Over You" (Lake, Sinfield) (from Works Volume 2) – 3:54

5. "Piano Concerto No. 1 Third Movement: Toccata con Fuoco" (Emerson) (from Works Volume 1) – 6:48

6. "For You" (Lake, Sinfield) (from Love Beach, 1978) – 4:27

7. "Prelude and Fugue" (Friedrich Gulda) (Previously unreleased) – 3:15

8. "Memoirs of an Officer and a Gentleman" (from Love Beach) – 20:12

a) "Prologue/The Education of a Gentleman" (Emerson, Sinfield) – 5:34

b) "Love at First Sight" (Emerson, Sinfield) – 5:36

c) "Letters from the Front" (Emerson, Sinfield) – 5:18

d) "Honourable Company" (Emerson) – 3:46

9. "Pirates" (Emerson, Lake, Sinfield) (new remix from Works Volume 1) – 13:18

10. "Affairs of the Heart" (Lake, Geoff Downes) (from Black Moon) – 3:46.

Pessoal:

Keith Emerson : teclados

Greg Lake : vocais , guitarras acústicas e elétricas , baixo

Carl Palmer : bateria , percussão.