Emerson Lake & Palmer to be reissued on BMG

I want a good stereo CD of Brain Salad Surgery. I have the Japanese Mini LP. I have the 2008 Sanctuary.

Do I need the latest two disc release in order to get the best stereo version? From what I understand, the Sanctuary is the best surround sound, so I'm really only after a stereo CD release.

 

Over the past few weeks, Pledge Music has issued some previews of the bonus live discs from the new Fanfare box set. It sounds really fantastic, especially the 73' shows from Italy and live at the Pocono international raceway from 72'

And it also seems that the Waterloo show is from an improved sound source then the bootleg of it that's been floating around over the years.

 

Rats, I’m bummed! I bought the Shout Factory version of Works Vol. 1, and without bothering to check here first just bought the Shout Factory version of “Wecome Back...” too. Are they that bad?

 

Personally, I have no experience with the SF CDs, but I CAN tell you that the BMG Works, Vol. 1 certainly sounds nicer than the old Atlantic I used to have. And on BMG, Welcome Back sounds alive to me for a change. (I never had it on vinyl.) I am of the understanding that ALL prior CD issues of Welcome Back were compromised in one way or another.

 

The BMG release of Welcome back sounds Magnificent compared to pretty much all previous releases. As for works, I don't think you're missing out on too much.

 

When you say he's not missing out on much, do you mean audio quality or music quality?

 

Audio quality.

 

My question was half joking, considering the general opinion of the album.

I think the BMG version of Works, Vol. 1 sounds pretty nice. It's richer sounding than the Atlantic CD, which I always thought was lackluster. As was the LP, from what I recall. But bluerondo was asking for comparisons against the Shout Factory CDs, and I don't know how Works stacks up to either the Atlantic or the BMG.

 

The Shout Factory re-issue doesn't sound that much different from the BMG re-issue from what I can tell. Might want to get another opinion on that, though.

 

The recent BMG's for WORKS I & II are best in my opinion. The mastering seems to bring out more detail and nuance than previous issues.

 

I'm listening to all of these BMG remasters, and it's real shame that Steve Wilson nor Jakko Jakszyk was able to remix
Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Never Ends. That album needs a proper stereo mix vs the 4.0 fold-down
we've always gotten. And with the remix we mighta gotten the quad mix that was released when the album was new or
5.1 mix to replicate the magical quad feel that was to be had by concert goers, leaving attendees to be ELP fans for life.

 

As an update, I did finally buy the Brain Salad Surgery. Personally I think it's terrific, and yes, the best digital version I've heard. It's miles better than the Japanese Mini LP I have.

 

I wonder if the Milan/Rome show will be released on cd anytime soon?

 

With past / current trends, it probably will be released on CD. I'm waiting patiently like you, and in the meantime, enjoy Greg's
solo acoustic Lucky Man being joined in by Keith's piano... If the piano was mixed in a little lower vs being loud and impeding
Greg's overall musical balance in the song, this live version just might rival the WBMFTTSTNE's version as well as the definitive
CalJam version... But, until then...

 

I don't think the multi-track tapes have survived from that show, so we've had to make due with remasters ever since.

 

.............with a Pictures encore added!!!

 

I want a 5.1 re-mix issued on a Blu-ray audio disc, please!!

 

Some of the tracks were released on the KBFH disc, so i think the tapes do exist.

 

From what I recollect, that ELP King Biscuit show has been around for quite a while though.

 

It was released in 1997. Most of the disc came from the Works show, but it also included few remixed tracks from the Anaheim show.

 

But wasn't it broadcast much earlier?

I don't have it, but I considered buying the radio show at a record faire at one time.

 

The broadcast was an edited version of the show. Strangely, it was said to be recorded at Tulsa, but they really are the same versions that were included on the Welcome Back live album.

 

This rehearsal video from Montreal's Olympic Stadium always gets me !

 

Maybe you can straighten me out then. The Then part of Now and Then is a different mix of Cal Jam. (also a part of Welcome Back)

The King Biscuit show is from Montreal (Part of which is the In Concert album) and is a different mix of the Works Live album (which is kind of an expanded In Concert)

Is that correct?

 

Cal Jam was not part of the Welcome Back. Cal Jam was filmed on video and recorded on multitracks by ABC, but apparently everything was wiped after the show was edited broadcast. Same thing happened to every other band too, with the exception of Deep Purple, because their manager bought the unedited video masters at some point. Sadly, the multitrack were already gone at that point.

The King Bisquit show was not recorded at Montreal, but at a later date when they were playing as a trio. The tracks with the orchestra on the Works Live were recorded at Montreal Olympic Stadium, but the other tracks were recorded as a trio (I can't remember where or when.) The Montreal recording was retty bad: Either the mixing board for orchestra, or the cable to the live recording unit broke down, and the orchestra was recorded on two-tracks only with a couple of ambience mics. I believe Carl Palmer said that the recording was still multitracked, but Greg Lake said in his autobiography that it was just a two-track recording. Anyway, the recording quality was compromised.