EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER : PHOENIX 1997

Disc One (55:28)

1. Karn Evil 9 1st Impression Part 2
2. Hoedown
3. Touch And Go
4. From The Beginning
5. Knife-Edge
6. Bitches Crystal
7. Creole Dance
8. Honky Tonk Train Blues
9. Take A Pebble
10. Lucky Man

Disc Two (51:00)

1. Tarkus : Eruption / Stones Of Years / Iconoclast / Mass
2. Pictures At An Exhibition : The Hut Of Baba Yaga / The Great Gates Of Kiev
3. Fanfare For The Common Man (including Drum Solo) / Blue Rondo A La Turk
4. 21st Century Schizoid Man / America

Label : BMG

Venue : Union Hall, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Recording Date : September 23, 1997

Release Date : October 29, 2021

Review (Get Ready To Rock) : The final set here is the 2CD Phoenix Arizona 1997, which showed that ELP still had a solid fanbase. The production is solid and modern, although as a general rule the tracks weren’t as long. Honky Tonk Train Blues gets a blast, Take A Pebble is the longest track on disc one at 8 minutes, and Emerson Lake & Powell’s Touch And Go gets a run out. Disc two is more classic ELP with Tarkus running to 12 minutes and Pictures At An Exhibition to 24. This is the kind of music prog rock fans live for. And a gem and highlight is the closing track, a medley of 21st Century Schizoid Man (King Crimson) and Rondo (the Nice). This is music you can drink wine and chill out or rock out to, with ease.

Note : This concert is part of the box "Out Of This World : Live (1970-1997)" released in 2021.