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	Emerson Lake & Palmer High Voltage Genres: Pop, Rock 2010 two CD live set, released to coincide with the 40th Anniversary reunion of ELP which is due to take place at the High Voltage Festival in London. Compiled by the band, High Voltage is all at once both an introduction ... more » « less
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All Artists: Emerson Lake & Palmer
Title: High Voltage
Members Wishing: 3
Total Copies: 0
Label: Sanctuary UK
Release Date: 7/27/2010
Album Type: Import
Genres: Pop, Rock
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Number of Discs: 2
SwapaCD Credits: 2
UPC: 602527436142

Synopsis

Album Description

2010 two CD live set, released to coincide with the 40th Anniversary reunion of ELP which is due to take place at the High Voltage Festival in London. Compiled by the band, High Voltage is all at once both an introduction and celebration of the ELP canon but to use that old football phrase, it's also a game of two halves. Disc One provides the band at their most overly experimental and progressive as they blend their virtuoso and classically trained chops to celebrated works by Mussorgsky and their very own seven movement piece titled, `Tarkus' taken from their groundbreaking second album of the same name first released in 1971. Disc Two offers slightly more digestible fare with a clutch of tracks ranging from Greg Lake's `Lucky Man' and `Take A Pebble' along with the Bartok modified `Barbarian' all taken from the band's first album, to `Touch And Go' with Cozy Powell as replacement drummer for Carl Palmer for the suitably titled ELPowell variation in 1986.

CD Reviews

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BrucknerDoc | Bristol, CT USA | 08/08/2010

(1 out of 5 stars)

"As the other reviewer points out, this release has nothing to do with the High Voltage Festival performance itself.

The material included here is the same as the original releases.

In fact, nothing in the packaging (inside or out) alludes to the honesty that this 2-disc set contains previously released material.

Curiously, the entire booklet is, indeed, about the Festival performance - too bad the performances released with it were not.

Tacky..."

Don't Get Fooled

Will Robinson | 08/08/2010

(1 out of 5 stars)

"Don't get fooled like I did, thinking this was a recording of ELP's recent concert at the High Voltage Festival.

I thought since it was called "High Voltage" and it was released a week after the High Voltage Fest it would be a recording of that concert. Silly me.

This is just the umpteenth re-release of previously released ELP material. Nothing new here. 1 star for deceptive packaging."

The REAL High Voltage Fest Cd's

M. Mccray | 08/17/2010

(1 out of 5 stars)

"I didn't hear about this release until I logged in. What a rip off! Let me tell you though, I ordered the real thing BEFORE they even performed. Ended up paying about 36 bucks for it. It's sad. With Emerson's bad hand, Lake's voice and Carl Palmer's incredibly bad meter it's an embarrassing performance. I am a huge (original) ELP fan and had high hopes for this. I honestly can't imagine why they let this go out the way it is. It appears to be right off the mixing board so the quality is very good which in this case is not a good thing !

There are a few good performances here and there but most times they sound like a mediocre tribute band.

I will go back to the original "Welcome Back My Friends" live album to remember them in their prime."