Then and Now (Emerson, Lake & Palmer album)

Then and Now is a live album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 1998.

Then and Now
Live album by
Released24 November 1998
RecordedOntario, CA 6 April 1974 &
world tour 1997-1998
GenreProgressive rock
Length2:06:36
LabelEagle 1998 - Sanctuary Midline 2006
ProducerKeith Wechsler
Emerson, Lake & Palmer chronology
Live at the Isle of Wight
(1997)
Then and Now
(1998)
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Allmusic[1]

It brings together two separate periods of the band's career and places them back-to-back. First is the legendary California Jam performance (the "Then"), which took place at the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California on 6 April 1974. Second a collection of recordings from the 1997 to 1998 reunion tour (the "Now").

Most of the band's best-known pieces are present, with "Karn Evil 9: First Impression, Part 2", "Take a Pebble" and "Lucky Man" appearing twice, as part of each period's set lists.

Notable inclusions are "A Time and a Place" from Tarkus, which hadn't been performed live prior to the 1998 tour, and an abbreviated version of King Crimson's "21st Century Schizoid Man", in the arrangement Emerson, Lake & Palmer recorded for The Return of the Manticore in 1993.


Track listing

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Disc 1

(Then - Cal Jam '74):

  1. "Toccata" (Alberto Ginastera, arr. by Keith Emerson) – 3:36
  2. "Take a Pebble Excerpts:" – 18:21
    1. "Still...You Turn Me On" (Greg Lake)
    2. "Lucky Man" (Lake)
    3. "Piano Improvisations"
      1. "Fugue" (Emerson, Friedrich Gulda)
      2. "Little Rock Getaway" (Joe Sullivan)
  3. "Karn Evil 9:" – 19:36
    1. "1st Impression, Pt. 2" (Emerson, Lake)
    2. "3rd Impression" (Emerson, Lake)

(Now - Tour '97/'98):

  1. "A Time and a Place" (Emerson, Lake, Carl Palmer) – 4:06
  2. "Piano Concerto No. 1, Third Movement: Toccata con Fuoco" (Emerson) – 4:51
  3. "From the Beginning" (Lake) – 4:14

Disc 2

(Now - Tour '97/'98 continued):

  1. "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2" (Emerson, Lake) – 5:22
  2. "Tiger in a Spotlight" (Emerson, Lake, Palmer, Peter Sinfield) – 3:36
  3. "Hoedown" (Aaron Copland) – 4:55
  4. "Touch and Go" (Emerson, Lake) – 4:13
  5. "Knife-Edge" (Emerson, Richard Fraser, Leoš Janáček, Lake) – 6:11
  6. "Bitches Crystal" (Emerson, Lake) – 4:30
  7. "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Meade "Lux" Lewis) – 3:41
  8. "Take a Pebble" (Lake) – 7:09
  9. "Lucky Man" (Lake) – 5:05
  10. "Fanfare for the Common Man/Rondo" (Dave Brubeck, Copland, arr. Emerson, Lake, Palmer) – 22:10
  11. "21st Century Schizoid Man/America" (Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Lake, Ian McDonald, Sinfield, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim) – 4:53

Personnel

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Band members

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Release details

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  • 1998, UK, Eagle EDGCD040, Release date 24 November 1998, CD
  • 2006, UK, Sanctuary SMDDD343, Release date 5 June 2006, CD
  • 2006, UK, Demon Music Group LTD MCDLX036, renamed Pomp And Ceremony Live 2006, CD

References

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  1. ^ Hill, Gary. Then & Now - Emerson, Lake & Palmer at AllMusic. Retrieved 28 Aug 2015.