Wednesday, August 24, 2011

ELP - 1974-08-20 - Jersey City, NJ

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Dr. Forrester said...

Emerson, Lake & Palmer
Keith Emerson- piano and many keyboards and synthesizers (including Moog)
Greg Lake- lead vocals, bass and acoustic guitar
Carl Palmer- drums, tympani, percussion
Roosevelt Stadium
Jersey City, New Jersey
August 20, 1974
1st generation audience tape > CD >
CD extractor (wav, some editing) >
flac (sb's aligned) > torrentially yours.
runtime: 139:51 (minutes/seconds)
setlist:
disc 1 79:55
1: tuning 2:44
2: hoedown 4:18
3: Jerusalem 3:30
4: toccatta 8:10
5: tarkus (spliced) 30:36
6: take a pebble 4:42
7: still, you turn me on 4:11
8: lucky man 2:47
9: piano improvisation and rag 16:07
10: take a pebble (reprise) 2:45

disc 2 59:56
11: karn evil #9 1st impression 8:23
12: karn evil #9 2nd impression 2:53
13: drum solo > 7:17
14: karn evil #9 conclusion 16:03
15: encore: pictures at an exhibition 25:19
a this and that production.
Do not sell this recording.
Share freely, losslessly and gaplessly.
comments:
every once in a while karma will smile on a dime member and in
this case it did with a recording kindly supplied by dime member
bilbo74 of the only ELP show I ever saw. It's always nice to hear
a show that I saw especially from before I was able to make my
own recording. This is not a great sounding recording, but not bad
for a stadium aud of this show. There was quite a bit of crowd noise,
not riotous, but pretty typical outdoor summer show crowd noise. It
was pretty hot in there that day. temps near 90, sunny, muggy, sweaty,
there was a thunderstorm soon before the show which helped cool things
down for a little while.
In 1974 there was probably no Boston area ELP show (as there
was in Dec. 73) otherwise I doubt I would have gone all the way
to N.J. to see an ELP show. I suspect it's because the summer shows
were outdoors and at places larger than the Boston Garden, and at this
time the only Mass. venue big enough was the very inadequate Sullivan Stadium.
Nobody wanted to go in there, not even the Patriots, who were quite an
awful team at that time and had to play their home games in that pit.
36 years later, the New York Jets (who actually play in New Jersey,
not New York) and their rookie QB Mark Sanchez are continuing a
playoff run, while Tom Brady and the N.E. Patriots are not.
maybe if Tom had been able to see that concert he'd be the one to
play Sanchez' Jets this weekend, but he wasn't even alive yet so
he (and Sanchez) missed out on one of the more memorable tours in
rock music history. I'm a Pat's fan, I'm bummed. 2009 was not so fine.
Brady looked like a rookie at times, Sanchez finished strong, and just
like in 1974 w/ELP, New Jersey gets the NFL's version of the brain salad
surgery tour and Boston does not. A Jets fan I am not, but Sanchez may
be the best QB they've had since a guy called Joe Namath, as he was when
ELP was playing this show in New Jersey!

August 24, 2011 at 1:56 PM
Anonymous said...

I was there too! I remember that the show had to be rescheduled because of Tornado-like conditions. A lot of their equipment got damaged and had to be dried out with hairdryers! Had to make two trips to NJ to see the show but it was SO worth it. Thanks!

January 3, 2012 at 12:48 PM

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