Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Beyond The Beginning DVD RARE ELP History Compilation

This listing is for Emerson, Lake & Palmer -Beyond The Beginning DVD RARE ELP History Compilation. 

Label: Sanctuary Visual Entertainment – 06076884189

Format: 2 x DVD, NTSC, Compilation, Widescreen, Dolby Digital Stereo

Country: US

Released: August 16, 2005

Genre: Rock

Style: Prog Rock, Symphonic Rock

Tracklist:

1-01 Take A Pebble

1-02 Knife Edge

1-03 Rondo / Pictures

1-04 Rondo

1-05 Lucky Man

1-06 Tarkus / Eruption

1-07 Hoedown

1-08 Tank

1-09 Still You Turn Me On

1-10 Karn Evil 9

1-11 I Believe In Father Christmas

1-12 Honky Tonk Train Blues

1-13 Toccata

1-14 Fanfare For The Common Man

1-15 Pirates

1-16 Tiger In A Spotlight

1-17 Watching Over You

1-18 Tarkus

1-19 Touch And Go

2-01 Toccata

2-02 Still You Turn Me On

2-03 Lucky Man

2-04 Piano Improvisations

2-05 Take A Pebble

2-06 Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression Part 2

2-07 Karn Evil 9: 3rd Impression

2-08 Spinning Piano

2-09 The Great Gates Of Kiev

Featuring performances from every stage of their career, including 44 minutes of ELP headlining the California Jam Festival in 1974 on Disc 2 which also showcases footage of the famous spinning piano sequence. The DVD also contains 'Beyond The Beginning', an hour-long documentary.

Extras:

• Unseen rehearsal film from 1973

• Unseen Brands Hatch celebrity motor race featuring all of ELP

• Exclusive new interview with Bob Moog

• Analysis of album covers

• Promo videos

Rviewed: I'm a musician, and music fan in general. I love progressive rock (ELP, Yes, early Genesis -- the usual suspects) as well as many other types of rock, other genres, etc. This is probably my 5th ELP DVD, and it finally gives me what I've been waiting for -- the band in its magnificent early-to-mid 70's heyday. Never mind the grainy video quality and jumpy edits of some of the footage -- who cares? The point here is not to show off your plasma TV or surround system -- the point is to witness a historical artifact of sorts, a window back in time to an incredible (and sadly lost) era of true musicianship and vision in the world of popular music. It was a time when musicians (and yes, they were virtuoso musicians then, with no shame attached to the title) could experiment and create astonishingly fresh and innovative music, to a public that was not brainwashed by media empires, and who eagerly accepted the works of these gifted masters. It wasn't "uncool" to be a recognized craftsman with your instrument (or voice). It wasn't "required" to conform to the mass media's idea of "what pop should sound like". It wasn't necessary to stick to the same production techniques, the same in-your-face compression on every band's vocals, the same drum loops and sampled blasts of noise used over and over (loops and samples didn't exist; there were actual humans who actually played their instruments).

I won't attempt to repeat what has already been said about this DVD -- but one of the things that most impressed me was the Bonus Footage on Disc 1, called "ELP rehearsing in 1973" (!). It actually showed the band in the studio, painstakingly going over an intricate passage from Brain Salad Surgery's "Karn Evil 9, 2nd Impression. From our vantage point of the present, one tends to look back upon works like these as "immortal; set in stone; eternal". But the reality was that they were written, and orchestrated, and arranged, by actual guys in their early 20's, joking around in a studio, and coming up - note by note - with pieces of music that would be destined (unbeknown to them at the time) to become classic and, yes, immortal. It would be like "seeing" a young Mozart sitting in his music room, composing one his great works, one note at a time, and seeing just how "human" he really was -- how young, how silly, how brilliant. That's what this was like -- it injected a dimension of humanity and reality into a piece of music that I tend to think of as "larger than life". It's also funny how we tend to think of our heroes as "aging as we do", and thus always being our contemporaries. Of course, in the chronological sense, we all do age on the same timeline. But the Keith Emerson that composed Tarkus was a young, brash guy in his mid-20's. The Greg Lake that penned "Still...You Turn me On" was - to me, now 46, just a kid. It's strange that a 46-year old's "heroes" are all "kids"...! 

Buy this DVD. Don't get it for the immaculate picture or the razor-sharp editing -- they aren't there. Instead, look at it as a window into the musical past -- a past of stupendous freedom and creativity that, with the onset of an interconnected, Internet-based, individuality-smothering society, may never be again.

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