Emerson, Lake & Palmer
 <br>Keith Emerson- piano and many keyboards and synthesizers (including Moog)
 <br>Greg Lake- lead vocals, bass and acoustic guitar
 <br>Carl Palmer- drums, tympani, percussion
 <br>Roosevelt Stadium
 <br>Jersey City, New Jersey
 <br>August 20, 1974
 <br>1st generation audience tape > CD >
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 <br>runtime: 139:51 (minutes/seconds)
 <br>setlist:
 <br>    disc 1  79:55
 <br> 1: tuning  2:44
 <br> 2: hoedown  4:18
 <br> 3: Jerusalem  3:30
 <br> 4: toccatta  8:10
 <br> 5: tarkus (spliced)  30:36
 <br> 6: take a pebble  4:42
 <br> 7: still, you turn me on  4:11
 <br> 8: lucky man  2:47
 <br> 9: piano improvisation and rag  16:07
 <br> 10: take a pebble (reprise)  2:45
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 <br>     disc 2  59:56
 <br> 11: karn evil #9 1st impression  8:23
 <br> 12: karn evil #9 2nd impression  2:53
 <br> 13: drum solo >  7:17
 <br> 14: karn evil #9 conclusion  16:03
 <br> 15: encore: pictures at an exhibition  25:19
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 <br>comments:
 <br>  every once in a while karma will smile on a dime member and in
 <br>this case it did with a recording kindly supplied by dime member 
 <br>bilbo74 of the only ELP show I ever saw. It's always nice to hear 
 <br>a show that I saw especially from before I was able to make my 
 <br>own recording. This is not a great sounding recording, but not bad
 <br>for a stadium aud of this show. There was quite a bit of crowd noise,
 <br>not riotous, but pretty typical outdoor summer show crowd noise. It
 <br>was pretty hot in there that day. temps near 90, sunny, muggy, sweaty,
 <br>there was a thunderstorm soon before the show which helped cool things 
 <br>down for a little while.
 <br>  In 1974 there was probably no Boston area ELP show (as there 
 <br>was in Dec. 73) otherwise I doubt I would have gone all the way 
 <br>to N.J. to see an ELP show. I suspect it's because the summer shows 
 <br>were outdoors and at places larger than the Boston Garden, and at this
 <br>time the only Mass. venue big enough was the very inadequate Sullivan Stadium.
 <br>Nobody wanted to go in there, not even the Patriots, who were quite an 
 <br>awful team at that time and had to play their home games in that pit.
 <br> 36 years later, the New York Jets (who actually play in New Jersey, 
 <br>not New York) and their rookie QB Mark Sanchez are continuing a 
 <br>playoff run, while Tom Brady and the N.E. Patriots are not.
 <br> maybe if Tom had been able to see that concert he'd be the one to 
 <br>play Sanchez' Jets this weekend, but he wasn't even alive yet so
 <br>he (and Sanchez) missed out on one of the more memorable tours in 
 <br>rock music history. I'm a Pat's fan, I'm bummed. 2009 was not so fine.
 <br>Brady looked like a rookie at times, Sanchez finished strong, and just
 <br>like in 1974 w/ELP, New Jersey gets the NFL's version of the brain salad 
 <br>surgery tour and Boston does not. A Jets fan I am not, but Sanchez may 
 <br>be the best QB they've had since a guy called Joe Namath, as he was when 
 <br>ELP was playing this show in New Jersey!
 <br>  there were at least a few jets flying overhead. 
 <br>no outdoor show would be complete without a few jets flying overhead, 
 <br>especially in New Jersey. 
 <br> This is for anyone who didn't get a chance to see "Brain Salad Surgery" 
 <br>in concert, and to see Keith rock a Moog synthesizer getting noises out 
 <br>of it that were not ever meant for a moog synthesizer to make. He didn't
 <br>ever smash a synth in this show (that would be mighty costly) and was
 <br>in control of what sound it was making (pretty much)
 <br>  It's not surprising to me that some say if Jimi Hendrix had still been 
 <br>alive in 1974 that he would have been part of this group. Keith Emerson was 
 <br>to the synth kinda like what Hendrix was to a guitar (although he never 
 <br>set a synthesizer on fire iirc). I'm sure they miss Jimi as much as the rest 
 <br>of us do but ELP did pretty well without him. the 1st most of us heard of 
 <br>Greg Lake was in 1969 with King Crimson on their debut album, and not too 
 <br>long after that the debut ELP album had a similarly strong impact.
 <br>  From late 1970-this 74 tour, ELP was a great band, one of the absolutely 
 <br>must see bands of this era. They would make some good music after that too
 <br>but this era of ELP is filed under "classic" rock wherever there is such a 
 <br>term. I don't like trio shows as a rule. I've seen a few John McLaughlin trio 
 <br>shows and very few others, this was the 1st trio show I ever saw, and 
 <br>"welcome back my friends" (to the show that never ends) was one of the 1st live
 <br>releases I ever bought. All of their albums have alot of classical influence in it,
 <br>including the feature track of this tour "karn evil #9".