Live in Poland is a live album by the progressive rock group Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer

Emerson, Lake & Palmer, also known as ELP, are an English progressive rock supergroup. They found success in the 1970s and sold over forty million albums and headlined large stadium concerts. The band consists of Keith Emerson , Greg Lake and Carl Palmer...

. It features a performance in Katowice

Katowice

Katowice is a city in Silesia in southern Poland, on the Kłodnica and Rawa rivers . Katowice is located in the Silesian Highlands, about north of the Silesian Beskids and about southeast of the Sudetes Mountains.It is the central district of the Upper Silesian Metropolis, with a population of 2...

, Poland, during June 1997. The performance was originally released exclusively in Poland in 1997, with a different cover, by Polish music company Metal Mind Productions (the tracklist was the same as on the Austrian release, with piano solo as a separate track; "Karn Evil: 1st Impression Part 2" was entitled "Welcome Back"). It would be released internationally for the first time at Austria in 2001, and for the rest of the world during April 2003.

The setlist features all-time classics of the band (The classic concert opening from "Karn Evil 9", "Knife Edge", "Take a Pebble", "Lucky Man", and "Tarkus", the last one presented here in a medley with two sections from the Pictures at an Exhibition suite.), uncommon performances (A remake of the ELPowell

Emerson, Lake & Powell

Emerson, Lake & Powell, sometimes abbreviated as ELPowell, were an English rock band, an offshoot or variant lineup of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, that released one official studio album in 1986....

 classic "Touch and Go", and "Bitches Crystal") and solos by all the three members of the band (Emerson

Keith Emerson

Keith Noel Emerson is an English keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, V.I.P.s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, and The Nice , he was a founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer , one of the early supergroups, in 1970...

 on track 6, on an 8-minute performance on Grand Piano, Lake

Greg Lake

Gregory Stuart "Greg" Lake is an English musician, songwriter and producer, best known as a vocalist and bassist of King Crimson, and the bassist, guitarist, vocalist, and lyricist of Emerson, Lake & Palmer.-1960s: King Crimson:...

 on "From the Beginning" and "Lucky Man", and Palmer

Carl Palmer

Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer is an English drummer and percussionist. He is credited as one of the most respected rock drummers to emerge from the 1960s...

 on a section of "Blue Rondo a la Turk"). The only track omitted from the show - due to time constraints - was "Tiger In A Spotlight", which preceded "Touch And Go"; the remainder of the concert is presented here in its entirety.

Track listing (Officially released)

1. "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2" (Emerson, Lake) – 5:26
2. "Touch and Go" (Emerson, Lake) – 3:54
3. "From the Beginning" (Lake) – 4:07
4. "Knife Edge" (Emerson, Fraser
   Richard Fraser
   Richard Fraser was a lyricist for the British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer .He is notable for receiving credit for their 1970 debut album's third track, the hit "Knife Edge" and for his lyrical contributions to Pictures at an Exhibition...
   
   , Janáček
   Leoš Janácek
   Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by...
   
   , Lake) – 5:44
5. "Bitches Crystal" (Emerson, Lake) – 4:04
6. "Take a Pebble" (Lake) – 6:36
7. "Lucky Man" (Lake) – 4:21
8. "Medley" – 16:59
   • "Tarkus"/"Pictures at an Exhibition"
9. "Medley" – 17:54
   • "Fanfare for the Common Man/Blue Rondo a la Turk" (Brubeck
     Dave Brubeck
     David Warren "Dave" Brubeck is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills...
     
     , Copland
     Aaron Copland
     Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
     
     )

Track listing (The Austrian edition)

1. "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression, Pt. 2" (Emerson, Lake) – 5:26
2. "Touch and Go" (Emerson, Lake) – 3:54
3. "From the Beginning" (Lake) – 4:07
4. "Knife Edge" (Emerson, Fraser
   Richard Fraser
   Richard Fraser was a lyricist for the British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer .He is notable for receiving credit for their 1970 debut album's third track, the hit "Knife Edge" and for his lyrical contributions to Pictures at an Exhibition...
   
   , Janáček
   Leoš Janácek
   Leoš Janáček was a Czech composer, musical theorist, folklorist, publicist and teacher. He was inspired by Moravian and all Slavic folk music to create an original, modern musical style. Until 1895 he devoted himself mainly to folkloristic research and his early musical output was influenced by...
   
   , Lake) – 5:44
5. "Bitches Crystal" (Emerson, Lake) – 4:04
6. "Piano Solo" – 7:57
   1. "Creole Dance" (Ginastera
      Alberto Ginastera
      Alberto Evaristo Ginastera was an Argentine composer of classical music. He is considered one of the most important Latin American classical composers.- Biography :...
      
      )
   2. "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Lewis
      Meade Lux Lewis
      Meade Lux Lewis was a American pianist and composer, noted for his work in the boogie-woogie style. His best known work, "Honky Tonk Train Blues", has been recorded in various contexts, often in a big band arrangement...
      
      )
7. "Take a Pebble" (Lake) – 6:36
8. "Lucky Man" (Lake) – 4:21
9. "Medley" – 16:59
   1. "Tarkus":
      1. "Eruption" (Emerson)
      2. "Stones of Years" (Emerson, Lake)
      3. "Iconoclast" (Emerson)
      4. "Mass" (Emerson, Lake)
   2. "Pictures at an Exhibition":
      1. "The Hut of Baba Yaga" (Mussorgsky
         Modest Mussorgsky
         Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...
         
         )
      2. "The Great Gates of Kiev" (Lake, Mussorgsky)
10. "Fanfare for the Common Man/Blue Rondo a la Turk" (Brubeck
    Dave Brubeck
    David Warren "Dave" Brubeck is an American jazz pianist. He has written a number of jazz standards, including "In Your Own Sweet Way" and "The Duke". Brubeck's style ranges from refined to bombastic, reflecting his mother's attempts at classical training and his improvisational skills...
    
    , Copland
    Aaron Copland
    Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...
    
    ) – 17:54

• The Austrian edition is the unique which features Emerson's piano solo on a separate track, and presents Karn Evil 9 under the title "Welcome Back".

Band members

• Keith Emerson
  Keith Emerson
  Keith Noel Emerson is an English keyboard player and composer. Formerly a member of the Keith Emerson Trio, John Brown's Bodies, The T-Bones, V.I.P.s, P.P. Arnold's backing band, and The Nice , he was a founder of Emerson, Lake & Palmer , one of the early supergroups, in 1970...
  
   - keyboard
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  
• Greg Lake
  Greg Lake
  Gregory Stuart "Greg" Lake is an English musician, songwriter and producer, best known as a vocalist and bassist of King Crimson, and the bassist, guitarist, vocalist, and lyricist of Emerson, Lake & Palmer.-1960s: King Crimson:...
  
   - bass
  Bass guitar
  The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....
  
  , guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
  
• Carl Palmer
  Carl Palmer
  Carl Frederick Kendall Palmer is an English drummer and percussionist. He is credited as one of the most respected rock drummers to emerge from the 1960s...
  
   - percussion
  Percussion instrument
  A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound when hit with an implement or when it is shaken, rubbed, scraped, or otherwise acted upon in a way that sets the object into vibration...
  
  , drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....