The Original Bootleg Series From Manticore Vaults, Vol. 2

The Original Bootleg Series From Manticore Vaults, Vol. 2 Artist: Lake & Palmer Emerson
Label: Castle
Category: Music


Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
Format: Box set
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 4
EAN: 5050159133093
ASIN: B00005NFEK


Release Date: 2001-08-23

The Original Bootleg Series From Manticore Vaults, Vol. 2


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Tracks:

  1. Hoedown (Start Missing)
  2. Tarkus (Eruption/Stones Of Years/Iconoclast/Mass/Manticore/The Battlefield/Aquatarkus
  3. Endless Enigma (Part 1)/Fugue/Endless Enigma (Part 2)
  4. At The Sign Of The Swinging Cymbal
  5. The Sheriff
  6. Take A Pebble
  7. Lucky Man

Tracks:

  1. Piano Variations
  2. Pictures At An Exhibition (Promenade/The Gnome/Promenade/Hut Of Baba Yaga/The Curse Of Baba Yaga...
  3. Nutrocker

Tracks:

  1. Hoedown
  2. Jerusalem
  3. Toccata
  4. Tarkus (Eruption/Stones Of Years/Iconoclast/Mass/Manticore/The Battlefield/Aquatarkus
  5. Benny The Bouncer
  6. Jeremy Bender
  7. Take A Pebble
  8. Still...You Turn Me On
  9. Lucky Man

Tracks:

  1. Piano Improvisations
  2. Take A Pebble
  3. Karn Evil 9 First Impression
  4. Karn Evil 9 Second Impression
  5. Karn Evil 9 Third Impression

Tracks:

  1. Hoedown
  2. Jerusalem
  3. Toccata
  4. Tarkus (Eruption/Stones Of Years/Iconoclast/Mass/Manticore/The Battlefield/Aquatarkus
  5. Take A Pebble
  6. Still...You Turn Me On
  7. Lucky Man
  8. Piano Improvisation

Tracks:

  1. Take A Pebble (Conclusion)
  2. Karn Evil 9 First Impression
  3. Karn Evil 9 Second Impression
  4. Karn Evil 9 Third Impression
  5. Pictures At An Exhibition (Promenade/The Gnome/Promenade Vocal/Hut Of Baba Yaga/The Curse Of Baba...

Tracks:

  1. Peter Gunn Theme
  2. Hoedown
  3. Tarkus (Eruption/Stones Of Years/Iconoclast/Mass/Manticore/The Battlefield/Aquatarkus
  4. Take A Pebble (Conclusion)
  5. Piano Concerto No.1
  6. Maple Leaf Rag
  7. Take A Pebble
  8. C'est La Vie
  9. Lucky Man

Tracks:

  1. Karn Evil 9 First Impression Part 2
  2. Tiger In A Spotlight
  3. Watching Over You
  4. Nutrocker
  5. The Pirates
  6. Fanfare For The Common Man

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Album Description

The Original Bootleg Series From The Manticore Vaults Vol. 2.UK digitally remastered compilation of previously unreleased concert recordings from 1972-77, compiled in conjunction with the band. Featuring material recorded at Hammersmith Odeon, London 11/26/72, Henry Lewit Arena, Wichita, Ka 3/26/74, Rich Stadium, Buffalo, NY 7/26/74 & New Haven Civic Centre, New Haven, CT 11/30/77. 8 CD's packaged in an oversized deluxe box.

Album Details

Elp Decided to Stare Down One of the Many Demons of their Remarkable Career. This Collection is the Second in the Series to Release Many of their Live Concert Recordings Legitimately that were Previously Available Only by Shady Means. These Eight Discs were Recorded in 1972-77 from London, Kansas, New York and Conneticut and Offer a Great Cross Section of their Wealth of Material. The Tapes have Been Digitally Remastered and Sleeve Notes Written by Elp Expert Martyn Hanson.

Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars New Haven's good, but..........2004-02-13

New Haven is a fairly clean recording, being taken directly from the PA mixing board at the concert. The remainder of this set is pitiful! I certainly don't expect a live recording to have the pristine quality of a studio album, but this effort would try anybody's level of tolerance. The scuttlebutt on these three guys is that they loathe the bootleg recordings that have long been in circulation...and then sanction this release! ????? I'm still scratching my head, folks. This sound quality does not present ELP in a flattering light. I know several "purists" are on record here, stating that "it's the music, not getting hung up on sound quality" HUH? If you can have both awesome performance PLUS a professional recording, why would anyone settle for this crap? Look no farther than to recent CD releases of vintage shows: The Allman Brothers ( Atlanta, 1970 ); Grand Funk Railroad's Shea Stadium concert ( 1971 )...and of course Led Zeppelin's awesome 1972 Long Beach/The Forum show! There is multitrack material for ELP stuck away in the vaults. Why they're sitting on it is simply beyond me. Greg Lake himself confirmed the recent discovery of 16-track tapes of the 1972 Mar y Sol concert...yet they peddle something as pathetic as these two box sets! Anyone who wants to make me an offer I can't refuse on these, please contact me. I've already extracted what I want from this offering.

4 out of 5 stars Some of their greatest shows ever.......2003-02-15

Vol.1 of this series brought us the Long Beach arena show, which was one of the finest boots of ELP's early period. Now, Vol.2
gives us the much sought-after Buffalo concert from the Brain Salad era, which just might be the greatest show these three musicians *ever* gave. As with Vol.1, the sound quality is poor, but no-one should be complaining since 1)these are taken
from thirty-year old boots and released for their historical importance, and 2)you get eight discs for [$$] to compensate for this. I don't see how anyone could buy a set entitled "The Original Bootleg Series" from an early 70s act and then complain about lo-fi sound. And there is the '77 show, which is actually pretty decent sound-wise and almost rates with their officially released live albums.

The earliest show here, Hammersmith Odeon '72, is the poorest in quality but still a fine performance. The next, Wichita '74,
is even better, with a storming version of "Aquatarkus" and one of the rare performances of "Benny The Bouncer". By the time we get to Buffalo, the group's playing was far in advance of the
concurrently released "Welcome Back My Friends" triple live release; the group's improvisations were now far removed from the studio versions and the Moog work is simply extraordinary (and well worth the less-than-perfect clarity), especially on "Tarkus" and "Pictures". The final show, from New Haven in '77, features a slightly compressed but still storming version of "Tarkus" and excellent, superior versions of material from the Works 1 and 2 efforts (for another good show from this period check out the King Biscuit Flower Hour release). The rendition of "Karn Evil 9 1st Part 2" here is unusually funky,
and "Take A Pebble" is as moving as ever. For ELP fans, this
set is essential; for the novice, the sound quality is too poor to justify a recommendation but once one has listened to the studio albums, this series is a logical next step (the performances being superior in most cases to the officially released live albums).

Actually, the Boot series might have been best served had there just been one box of the Long Beach '72, Buffalo '74, New Haven '77 and Wiltern '93 shows--featuring the best performances with the best sound quality--but I suppose it was considered a generous move to give the fans who had been waiting decades for these to come out everything all at once.

5 out of 5 stars The THRILLS AND SHOCKS easily penetrate the lo-fi sound........2002-12-20

If you were there, the ELP bootleg series is priceless. Don't let fear of the sound quality stop you from getting them. The music packs such a pulverizing punch that the thrills and shocks easily penetrate the lo-fi sound.

Last night I put on headphones, shut my eyes, and started listening to the March 74 Wichita concert. I immediately forgot about the lo-fi characteristics of the recording as my spine started to tingle with awe as that wonderful 1974 ELP stage materialized in my head, full of one-of-a-kind equipment, and 3 larger than life musicians pushing the limits of it all. I re-experienced the entire concert as I listened. I visualized Keith, dwarfed by the modular Moog above the C3, pulling other-worldly life out of it in Tocatta. I visualized Carl's powerful and creative precision on that massive and beautifully engraved stainless steel kit with the huge bell, tympani, chimes, and dragon-backed gongs, all spinning around suddenly in a flash of strobe lights and synthesized mayhem during his solo. I got chills listening to Greg's amazing voice during the acoustic segment, and visualized him playing that Alembic bass. Fire shot out the end of the ribbon controller in Tarkus, and the big Moog grew wings and appeared to explode at the end of Karn Evil 9 in a huge cloud of smoke, quadraphonic sequencer belches, and rotating landing lights.

So buy this now and start doing your own visualizing. God, what I wouldn't pay for a lovingly produced DVD of an unedited ELP concert from 73/74.

4 out of 5 stars ELP the way they were meant to be heard........2002-10-01

I believe that the only ELP that one needs in their collection are the live recordings (Bootleg series Vol 1,2,3; Welcome Back; Pictures At An Exhibition; Isle of Wight).

The first show in this box set is the November 26, 1972 show at the Hammersmith Odeon in London. The sound quality is listenable, albeit the worst in the set. The music is perfectly discernable, but Emerson's stage patter is not clearly heard.

The virtue of this box set are the remaining three shows (Henry Lewit Arena in Witchita, Rich Stadium in Orchard Park, and the Civic Center in New Haven) covering the latter part of ELP's life in the 70's as a touring band. The middle two shows date from 1974 and cover the important Brain Salad Surgery era of the band. Not only is this the most important era of the band, but of prog rock in general as the band merged artistic achievment with commercial success. These two shows present the listener, in an excellent audience recording, with some of the only live versions of the important Karn Evil 9 suite which they only did on this tour, with the Carl Palmer drum solo within the first impression. The only negative is that the tapers in Kansas ran out of tape for the encores. The New York show contains one of the most inspired, though weird, versions of Pictures committed to tape.

The final show is the soundboard recording from New Haven on the fall 1977 tour. This was ELPs tour to recoup the losses from the disasterous summer tour with the orchestra. The show is very effective with an excellent quality live version of their classic song "Pirates".

These recordings are not officially mastered, sanitized versions of their live prowess. Rather, these recordings are raw "you are there to hear" documents of one of the premier prog rock bands of the 70's.

You can not buy a more perfect title through Amazon.com that represents the appeals of prog rock than this.

4 out of 5 stars Being there.......2002-02-19

My first thought on listening to these discs was the memory of a time when music was really special,not specificaly ELP or even the musicians and music of that era (that is taken as a given),but a time when we were not flooded with information about and opportunities to experience the creation of music.
So what is it about these bootlegs that made us scour the racks of record shops looking for them..??In the bad old days simply to hear more,to feed our hunger. And now....well it is just like being there (all the chatter of other punters included) and these musicians are really going for it,these discs are an amazing record of what Emerson ,Lake and Palmer where all about.

Music Album:

  1. Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow ~ Marc Bolan & T. Rex
  2. Steve Conn ~ Steve Conn
  3. Maybe It's Me ~ Treble Charger
  4. Chuck Berry's Golden Hits ~ Chuck Berry
  5. Riffage ~ Al Estrada
  6. It's Spooky ~ Jad Fair & Daniel Johnston
  7. Oh! What a Star!
  8. Dreams of Endless War ~ Norther
  9. Strawberry Bubblegum ~ Various Artists
  10. A Forlorn Hope ~ Brahman

Music Album

Music Album

Music CD

Reaching Fourth ~ McCoy Tyner

Complete Recordings ~ Robert Johnson

Play What You Feel ~ Clifford Jordan

Tetragon/In Pursuit of Blackness ~ Joe Henderson

Past ~ Phil Minton & Veryan Weston

Johnny Hallyday ~ Johnny Hallyday

Mort Shuman ~ Mort Shuman

The Years: Georgian Traditional and Popular Songs ~ The Georgian Voices

Ostinato ~ Dominique Dulcan

Nostalgia Italiana: 1967 ~ Various Artists