Emerson, Lake And Palmer Welcome Back (DVD)

Welcome Back My Friends To The Show That Ended.

Advantages: some great clips, well designed package
Disadvantages: frustrating editing of some clips, repeated material, much padding, not enough music!

Jimmy Page really set the bar high with the recent Led Zeppelin DVD. That set was a faultless document of a 70s supergroup throughout its entire career, and here we have another "Dinosaur" group from those halcyon days, the "Classical Rock" pioneers Emerson Lake & Palmer, attempting to cement their place in Rock History for posterity via a marathon trawl through the visual archives. Do they achieve it? Well, yes I suppose they do...except that in my opinion, the place they have cornered for themselves is marked "Novelties and Musical Jokes". Yes folks, welcome to the Emerson Lake and Palmer show. A four hours plus, double disc Gift from the Gods/ Horrific monstrosity, depending on your view of Progressive Rock music. First impressions (in-joke intended) are favourable, though I must admit to being surprised it was only a double set ...

treemusicuk 25.07.2005 · Read full review
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Review of Emerson, Lake And Palmer - Beyond The Beginning (DVD)

Eden Lake

Advantages: Powerful horror, genuinely scary
Disadvantages: Sickening to watch

a genuine storyline or serge of emotions whilst watching it, armed with this knowledge I had low expectations of what Eden Lake may offer but I still watched it with an open mind, although if I?m honest I did not read the back properly and I was expecting some cheesy American film which was actually something I wanted, something light hearted, I did not expect the film that I got. Cast The cast of this film were not recognisable to me by DVD cover and none of the crew was reputable in my mind but once the film had started I did recognise a few faces from smaller roles on television so I have listed some of the characters for the benefit of my review readers ? Kelly Reilly ? Jenny ? Michael Fassbender ? Steve ? Tara Ellis ? Abi ? Jack O?Connell ? Brett ? Fin Atkins ? Paige ? Thomas Turgoose ? Cooper ? James Burrows ? Harry ...

amyloop 24.08.2009 (30.08.2009) · Read full review
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Review of Eden Lake (DVD)

Fanfare For The Common Man - Emerson Lake & Palmer

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of the two only sure things in life and all that. Hence the horns that announce the start of this piece. So to 1976. The forgotten men of prog, Keith Emerson (keyboards), Greg "I Believe In Father Christmas" Lake (guitars) and Carl Palmer (bass), who lets face it, did have a tendency to take themselves a little bit too seriously, record this magnum opus, taking the opening and stretching it in that manner so beloved of 70's proggers. It's got a great rolling bass line, the timing is perfect, just as you would expect from classically trained musicians, and the trio get their groove on to a T. This is just a fabulous example of good musicians letting the jam take them where they want to go. The musos among you might even recognise the fade out as being copied by Nick Cave on The Birthday Partys "Release The Bats", ask me if ...

pinkmatchstick 14.01.2005 · Read full review
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