Artist - Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Date - 1973/04/24

Venue - Olympiahalle, Munich, Germany

Setlist & Fingerprints-

Track 01 - Tarkus.flac:6bd4ca2c1c879d401e9e657fc8f9f80a
Track 02 - Karn Evil 9 - First Impression.flac:12e2c00371390bd86ff25ff4c5217a27
Track 03 - Jeremy Bender & The Sheriff.flac:047d19b68e4a0e3d99054eb68767bef2
Track 04 - Take A Pebble.flac:3b4941c1d7cbacf1ab04f8cedd745e21
Track 05 - Still...You Turn Me On.flac:d23835ce1f2b3964d660807dc3e0dd99
Track 06 - Lucky Man.flac:109c24f44ae6f289943097800bd31643
Track 07 - Piano Improvisation.flac:0eca4328ed11542a1decd824511433d5
Track 08 - Take A Pebble (reprise).flac:a81243cf3fa2f96e7924e4bb3fa708fd
Track 09 - Hoedown.flac:727fcbc01a81e89174ab41f70b003d1e
Track 10 - Pictures At An Exhibition.flac:6a0928657108b01dee86815624b6ff78
Track 11 - Toccata & drum solo & Rondo 69.flac:194f4b25e3b22c504ad088c917ace9ac


Lineage -

Original flac files > original wav files (Flac Frontend) >
Pyro Cakewalk 2005 (retracked & edited wav files here) >
Trader's Little Helper (encoded new wav files to flac files w/
Flac Frontend (level 8) and aligned on sector boundaries)

Quality -

8-9/10 (very good plus to excellent minus, IMHO as always)
The original uploader says that this is the ENTIRE concert.

CD 1 : 6 tracks, 55:52 (original time was 56:34)
CD 2 : 5 tracks, 56:23 (original time was 57:56)
TT : 112:15 (original time was 114:30) (2:15 was edited out)

I was not at this show and I did not record it, so this will be
relatively short and sweet. I debated for quite a while whether
or not to upload this version of the show and I finally decided
to do so. Here is the source of the debate:

I downloaded this show from either Dime or TTD around 3/21/2007
but did not burn it to CD until a few months ago. The first time
I ever listened to it was in my wife's car en route to a concert.
I was driving along with the CD blasting away when suddenly there
was an ear-splitting shriek in the car that lasted about a second.
I was so startled that I momentarily lost control of the car and
almost drove off a cliff. It turns out that (on the recording) the
taper was sitting very close to some asshole who loved to whistle
during concerts. You know, the fingers-in-the-mouth whistle that
blasts your eardrums if you're really close to the asshole that's
whistling. Needless to say, I turned down the volume and continued
listening to the show. By the end of the show, it was painfully
obvious that this moron was whistling quite a bit throughout the
entire show and really went crazy during the final track. He made
the show unpleasant to listen to and ruined it for me. Otherwise
the concert was great, having really good SQ for something from
1973. If I were going to keep the show, I had to eliminate the
whistling asshole from the performance. I decided to manually edit
out all the very loud whistles even if it meant losing a little
music in the process;otherwise I'd just toss the CDs into the
garbage. I began the editing process and by its end, I had deleted
2 minutes and 15 seconds of ear-splitting crap.

The 2:15 edited out consisted of terrible ear-splitting whistles
that were VERY painful to hear and a small amount of yelling.
During the whistling (these lasted from 0.5 seconds to 3-4 seconds
each) it was IMPOSSIBLE to hear the underlying music. I removed
between 30 and 40 whistles. This took several hours and was very
labor-intensive to say the least. Music WAS lost but it could NOT
be heard during the whistling anyway so it was (as they say in Texas)
a Mexican standoff. Purists might say that I ruined the concert
but I turned a very irritating experience into a pleasant listening
experience for myself and for anyone who wants the edited version.
There are still some whistles present in the show but they are very
much less prominent and much less irritating than the very loud ones.
So to wrap this up, here are your options as a possible downloader:

1) If anything that you've read above irritates you or if you think
that I ruined the show through editing or if you are a purist who needs
ONLY complete shows, PLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS CONCERT.

2) If you want to hear a fine-sounding show circa 1973 from ELP that
is missing 2:15 of garbage and you do not mind hearing several songs
that are a little choppy but not really bad, by all means DOWNLOAD
THIS CONCERT. Track 6, Lucky Man, is fairly chopped up and you can
thank the whistling asshole for that. The final track had ~ 20-25
whistles in it but since a lot of it is a very long drum solo it's
not very choppy sounding IMHO. This show is 98% complete with the
edits. All that I did was to retrack the original flacs and remove
the whistles from hell. Nothing else was done to the music. All
thanks and praise go to the unknown taper and the original uploader.
Thank you both very much !!!

That's about all that I have to say, so let's wrap this up.
No buy, no sell, no mp3. Please seed this as long as you can.
I will post a sample or two shortly for those of you still undecided
but I think you'll find that this is a really good-sounding tape even
with the edits and a welcome addition to any ELP fan's collection.
Well, thanks for reading this and Mr. Natural would like to add these
few comments: have fun, don't freak out and by all means, enjoy the
concert!!!