Live at the Mar y Sol Festival '72 is a live album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 2011. It was recorded on 2 April 1972 at the Mar y Sol Pop Festival in Puerto Rico.
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| Released | 6 December 2011 | |||
| Recorded | 2 April 1972 at the Mar y Sol festival, Manatí, Puerto Rico | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock | |||
| Length | 77:30 | |||
| Label | Shout! Factory | |||
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Release
editPreviously available only on the 5CD+1DVD box-set From the Beginning (released in September 2007), this album was re-mastered from the original multitrack tapes.
Festival location
editAlthough the CD booklet states that this performance took place in "Vega Baja, San Juan", this is a production error. It should have been simply written "Vega Baja" for Vega Baja and San Juan are two distinctive municipalities of Puerto Rico. There are four towns between Vega Baja and San Juan. Actually, the municipality of San Juan is the capital of Puerto Rico. Moreover, the festival actually took place in the municipality of Manatí which is very close to the borderline with Vega Baja. Back in those days, everybody mistakenly knew the festival area as being inside Vega Baja instead of Manatí. Approximately a decade later, this mistake was corrected.
Track listing
edit- "Hoedown" (Copland, arr. by Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 4:18
- "Tarkus" – 22:33
- a) "Eruption" (Emerson)
- b) "Stones of Years" (Emerson, Lake)
- c) "Iconoclast" (Emerson)
- d) "Mass" (Emerson, Lake)
- e) "Manticore" (Emerson)
- f) "Battlefield" (Lake)
- g) "Aquatarkus" (Emerson)
- "Take a Pebble" (Lake) – 4:36
- "Lucky Man" (Lake) – 3:00
- "Piano Improvisation – 'Take a Pebble' conclusion" (Emerson / Lake) – 9:44
- "Pictures at an Exhibition" – 14:39
- a) "Promenade" (Modest Mussorgsky, Emerson)
- b) "The Hut of Baba Yaga" (Mussorgsky, Emerson)
- c) "The Curse of Baba Yaga" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer)
- d) "The Hut of Baba Yaga" (Mussorgsky, Emerson)
- e) "The Great Gates of Kiev" (Emerson, Lake)
- "Rondo" (Brubeck, arr. by Emerson) – 18:29
Personnel
editBand members
edit- Keith Emerson – keyboards
- Greg Lake – guitars, bass, vocals
- Carl Palmer – percussion, drums
Production
edit- Archival Material Production & Supervision by David Skye
- Remastered by Randy Wine at Randy Wine Studios
- Mar y Sol Festival memorabilia images: Reniet Ramirez of marysol-festival.com (uncredited on CD)
- Art Direction & Package Design: Lisa Glines
- Project Assistance: Tony Ortiz
References
edit- ^ Adams, Bret. "Live at the Mar y Sol Festival '72 – Emerson, Lake & Palmer". Allmusic. Rovi Corporation. Retrieved 27 August 2015.