From The Beginning: The Greg Lake...

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King Crimson: Greg Lake (vocals, bass); Ian McDonald (vocals, woodwinds, reeds, Mellotron, keyboards, vibraphone); Michael Giles (vocals, drums, percussion); Robert Fripp (guitar, Mellotron); Mel Collins (saxophone, flute); Keith Tippet (piano); Peter Giles (bass). Emerson, Lake & Palmer: Keith Emerson (keyboards); Greg Lake (vocals, bass, guitar); Carl Palmer (drums, percussion). Emerson, Lake & Powell: Keith Emerson (keyboards); Greg Lake (vocals, bass, guitar); Cozy Powell (drums, percussion). Additional personnel includes: Greg Lake, Gary Moore (vocals, guitar); Pete Sinfield (vocals, synthesizer); Tommy Eyre (vocals, keyboards); Steve Lukather, Dean Parks (guitar); Steve Dolan (bass); Min (drums, percussion). Producers include: Greg Lake, King Crimson, Pete Sinfield, Tony Taverner, Geoff Downes, Mark Mancina, Keith Olsen, Tunc Erim. Compilation producers: David McLees, Bruce Pilato. Engineers include: Robin Thompson, Andy Hendriksen, Eddie Offord, Ray Hendriksen. Includes liner notes by Bruce Pilato. Personnel: Greg Lake (vocals, guitar); Gary Moore (vocals, guitar); Ian McDonald (vocals, reeds, woodwinds, keyboards, vibraphone); Tommy Eyre (vocals, keyboards); Peter Sinfield (vocals, synthesizer); Michael Giles (vocals, drums, percussion); Dean Parks, Richard Brunton, Robert Fripp, Steve Lukather, W.G. Snuffy Walden (guitar); Mel Collins (flute, saxophone); David Milner, Willie Cochrane (pipe); Clarence Clemons (saxophone); Phil Jump, Keith Tippett (piano); Geoffrey Downes (keyboards, programming); Bill Cumom, Keith Emerson , Greg Mathieson (keyboards); Cozy Powell, Min, Carl Palmer (drums, percussion); Jode Leigh, Jeff Porcaro, Ted McKenna (drums); Paula Mattioli, Bill Wray (background vocals). Audio Mixers: Daniel Priest; Keith Emerson ; Steve Kempster. Audio Remasterer: Dave Schultz. Liner Note Authors: Robert Fripp; Bruce Pilato. Recording information: Advision Sound Studios, London, England; Newcastle City Hall, Newcastle, England; Wessex Sound Studios, London, England. Illustrator: Lisa Adams. Photographer: Bruce Pilato. Unknown Contributor Roles: Phil Jump; Tony Taverner. Arranger: Emerson, Lake & Palmer. Let's face it -- no matter how far he gets stylistically from his work with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and he has gotten very far afield from it at times, Greg Lake's fandom is always going to be rooted in his work with the prog rock trio during the 1970s and its various incarnations since. So it's no surprise that the entire first half of this two-and-a-half-hour double-CD set is devoted to his music with King Crimson and ELP in one form or another. The down side for fans is that most people who would buy this double-CD set will already have many of the tracks on the first disc -- the only exceptions are the live 1972 version of "Take a Pebble" from the Mar y Sol Festival, which was a better showcase for Lake than for Emerson or Palmer, and "Still," the title track from Pete Sinfield's 1973 solo album, on which Lake shared the lead vocals with Sinfield; the producers were also obviously limited in what they could license of Lake's King Crimson work, or else they might well have included "Epitaph," but "Catfood" is a good substitute, as an unusually hard-rocking track off of the second Crimson album, which they're less likely to own. That all might be enough to lure ELP fans to buy this set -- if it isn't, however, then the second disc comes into play in terms of interest, devoted to Lake's harder-rocking solo material, as well as his forays with Emerson, Lake & Powell and the latter-day, re-formed Emerson, Lake & Palmer into the 1990s. His 1981 solo reinterpretation of Crimson's "Schizoid Man," which closes out the first disc, lacks the urgency of the 1969 Crimson original -- in those days, Robert Fripp would even jape at Lake for performing the song. But the solo tracks on disc two successfully show off Lake's heavier guitar-oriented sound, featuring Thin Lizzy alumnus Gary Moore, and could be a
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