High Voltage (Emerson, Lake & Palmer album)

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High Voltage
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Live album by
ReleasedOctober 5, 2010
Recorded Victoria Park, London 25 July 2010
Genre Progressive rock
Length90:30
Label Concert Live
Producer Greg Lake
Emerson, Lake & Palmer chronology
The Original Bootleg Series from the Manticore Vaults
(2006)
High Voltage
(2010)
A Time and a Place
(2010)

High Voltage is a double live album by British progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released in 2010.

Contents

On 25 July 2010, Emerson, Lake and Palmer played a one-off 40th anniversary concert, headlining the High Voltage Festival event in Victoria Park, London. The entire concert was later released as the double-CD live album "High Voltage". With the deaths of Keith Emerson and Greg Lake in 2016, the High Voltage concert constitutes the final performance of Emerson, Lake and Palmer as a band.

Track listing

Disc 1

  1. "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression - Part 2"
  2. "The Barbarian"
  3. "Bitches Crystal"
  4. "Knife-Edge"
  5. "From the Beginning"
  6. "Touch and Go"
  7. "Take a Pebble"
  8. "Tarkus (Eruption/Stones Of Years/Iconoclast/Mass/Battlefield/Aquatarkus)"

Disc 2

  1. "Farewell to Arms"
  2. "Lucky Man"
  3. "Pictures at an Exhibition medley"
    • "Promenade"
    • "The Gnome"
    • "The Sage"
    • "The Hut of Baba Yaga"
    • "The Curse of Baba Yaga" (introduction)
    • "The Hut of Baba Yaga"
    • "The Great Gates of Kiev"
  4. "Fanfare for the Common Man/Drum Solo/Rondo"

There seems to be some confusion as to what the album, by this title, is. There is also another album by ELP by this title that is a compilation of studio tracks. The track list for the IMPORT studio recording compilation is:

Disc one
  1. "Tarkus"
  2. "Pictures at an Exhibition"
  3. "Nut Rocker"
Disc two
  1. "Touch and Go"
  2. "The Barbarian"
  3. "Fanfare for the Common Man"
  4. "Lucky Man"
  5. "Take a Pebble"

Sanctuary/Universal Item 2743614 UPC: 0602527436142

Personnel

Band members

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