| In the Hot Seat | ||||
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| Released | 27 September 1994 | |||
| Studio | Goodnight L.A. Studios, Los Angeles, California | |||
| Genre | Progressive rock, pop rock, synth-pop | |||
| Length | 46:05 | |||
| Label | Victory | |||
| Producer | Keith Olsen | |||
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In the Hot Seat is the ninth and final studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released on 27 September 1994 by Victory. Recorded at Goodnight L.A. Studios in Los Angeles, it was produced by Keith Olsen.
The making of the album was complicated by health issues encountered by both keyboard player Keith Emerson and drummer Carl Palmer. Emerson had trouble with the ulnar nerve, which made it difficult for him to control his right hand. As the prognosis for recovery after the surgical treatment was not promising, he had to overdub the right-hand parts with his left hand. Palmer suffered problems with carpal tunnel syndrome, which led to numbness in his fingers, but was rid of it by an operation. [1]
"Daddy" was written by Lake in memory of missing child Sara Anne Wood and was used to raise awareness of missing and abducted children. The royalties from the song initially brought in $5,000 and were donated to the Sara Anne Wood Rescue Center, a national non-profit foundation established by Wood's father. [2]
"Street War" originated in summer 1988 sessions by Lake with Geoff Downes under the project name Ride the Tiger, but was reworked for this album by adding and rewriting lyrics and composing new music. Ride the Tiger was finally released in 2015.
| Review scores | |
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| Source | Rating |
| AllMusic |    [3] |
The album was a commercial flop. It received very little airplay and was the only Emerson, Lake & Palmer studio recording not to chart on the US Billboard 200. In the Hot Seat is their least-selling album. [1] Marc Loren of AllMusic rated In the Hot Seat 1.5 out of 5 stars, saying it "falls short on so many levels that not even the talents of three phenomenal musicians can save it," and named "Hand of Truth" and "Daddy" as among the few highlights. [3] Keith Olsen later regretted having produced the album, saying it had "No songs, no preparation, no work ethic," [4] while Carl Palmer described the album as "dreadful". [5]
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Hand of Truth" | Keith Emerson, Greg Lake | 5:23 |
| 2. | "Daddy" | Lake | 4:42 |
| 3. | "One by One" | Emerson, Lake, Keith Olsen | 5:08 |
| 4. | "Heart on Ice" | Lake, Olsen | 4:20 |
| 5. | "Thin Line" | Bill Wray, Olsen, Emerson | 4:46 |
| 6. | "Man in the Long Black Coat" | Bob Dylan (arrangement: Emerson) | 4:12 |
| 7. | "Change" | Wray, Emerson, Olsen | 4:44 |
| 8. | "Give Me a Reason to Stay" | Steve Diamond, Sam Lorber | 4:14 |
| 9. | "Gone Too Soon" | Lake, Wray, Keith Wechsler | 4:12 |
| 10. | "Street War" | Emerson, Lake | 4:24 |
| Total length: | 46:05 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11. | "Pictures at an Exhibition (Studio Version)" a. "Promenade" b. "The Gnome" c. "Promenade" d. "The Sage" e. "The Hut of Baba Yaga" f. "The Great Gates of Kiev" | Modest Mussorgsky, Lake (arrangement: Emerson, Carl Palmer; lyrics: Lake) Mussorgsky (arrangement: Emerson) Mussorgsky (arrangement: Palmer) Mussorgsky (lyrics: Lake) Lake Mussorgsky (arrangement: Emerson) Mussorgsky (arrangement: Emerson; lyrics: Lake) | 15:29 1:45 2:07 1:45 3:10 1:15 5:23 |
| Total length: | 61:34 | ||
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12. | "Hammer It Out" | Emerson | 2:36 |
| Total length: | 64:10 | ||
2017 Deluxe Edition
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "Hand of Truth" | Keith Emerson, Greg Lake | 5:23 |
| 2. | "Daddy" | Lake | 4:42 |
| 3. | "One by One" | Emerson, Lake, Keith Olsen | 5:08 |
| 4. | "Heart on Ice" | Lake, Olsen | 4:20 |
| 5. | "Thin Line" | Bill Wray, Olsen, Emerson | 4:46 |
| 6. | "Man in the Long Black Coat" | Bob Dylan (arrangement: Emerson) | 4:12 |
| 7. | "Change" | Wray, Emerson, Olsen | 4:44 |
| 8. | "Give Me a Reason to Stay" | Steve Diamond, Sam Lorber | 4:14 |
| 9. | "Gone Too Soon" | Lake, Wray, Keith Wechsler | 4:12 |
| 10. | "Street War" | Emerson, Lake | 4:24 |
| 11. | "Pictures at an Exhibition" a. "Promenade" b. "The Gnome" c. "Promenade" d. "The Sage" e. "The Hut of Baba Yaga" f. "The Great Gates of Kiev" (Bonus track -) | Modest Mussorgsky, Lake (arrangement: Emerson, Carl Palmer; lyrics: Lake) Mussorgsky (arrangement: Emerson) Mussorgsky (arrangement: Palmer) Mussorgsky (lyrics: Lake) Lake Mussorgsky (arrangement: Emerson) Mussorgsky (arrangement: Emerson; lyrics: Lake) | 15:29 1:45 2:07 1:45 3:10 1:15 5:23 |
| 12. | "A Time and a Place" (Bonus track - Now Tour '97 / '98 (2017 Remaster)) | Emerson, Lake, Palmer | |
| 13. | "Piano Concerto No. 1: Third Movement: Toccata Con Fuogo" (Bonus track - Now Tour '97 / '98 (2017 Remaster)) | Emerson |
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "From The Beginning" | Lake | |
| 2. | "Karn Evil 9: 1st Impression Part 2" | Emerson, Lake | |
| 3. | "Tiger In A Spotlight" | Emerson, Lake, Palmer, Sinfield | |
| 4. | "Hoedown" | Copeland:Arr. Emerson, Lake, Palmer | |
| 5. | "Touch And Go" | Emerson, Lake | |
| 6. | "Knife Edge" | Leoš Janáček & J.S. Bach:Arr. Emerson, Lake, Palmer/Fraser | |
| 7. | "Bitches Crystal" | Emerson, Lake | |
| 8. | "Honky Tonk Train Blues" | Meade Lux Lewis | |
| 9. | "Take A Pebble" | Lake | |
| 10. | "Lucky Man" | Lake | |
| 11. | "Fanfare For The Common Man / Rondo" | Copeland:Arr. Emerson, Lake, Palmer / Brubeck:Arr. Emerson, Lake, Palmer | |
| 12. | "21st Century Schizoid Man / America" | Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield / Bernstein, Sondheim |
| Chart (1994) | Peak position |
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| Japanese Albums (Oricon) [7] | 60 |
Emerson, Lake & Palmer were an English progressive rock supergroup formed in London in 1970. The band consisted of Keith Emerson (keyboards) of the Nice, Greg Lake of King Crimson and Carl Palmer of Atomic Rooster. With nine RIAA-certified gold record albums in the US, and an estimated 48 million records sold worldwide, they are one of the most popular and commercially successful progressive rock groups of the 1970s, with a musical sound including adaptations of classical music with jazz and symphonic rock elements, dominated by Emerson's flamboyant use of the Hammond organ, Moog synthesizer, and piano.
Keith Noel Emerson was an English keyboardist, songwriter, composer and record producer. He played keyboards in a number of bands before finding his first commercial success with The Nice in the late 1960s. He became internationally famous for his work with the Nice, which included writing rock arrangements of classical music. After leaving The Nice in 1970, he was a founding member of Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), one of the early progressive rock supergroups. Emerson, Lake & Palmer were commercially successful through much of the 1970s, becoming one of the best-known progressive rock groups of the era. Emerson wrote and arranged much of ELP's music on albums such as Tarkus (1971) and Brain Salad Surgery (1973), combining his own original compositions with classical or traditional pieces adapted into a rock format.
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Tarkus is the second studio album by English progressive rock band Emerson, Lake & Palmer, released on 14 June 1971 on Island Records. Following their debut tour across Europe during the second half of 1970, the group paused touring commitments in January 1971 to record a new album at Advision Studios in London. Greg Lake produced the album with Eddy Offord as engineer.
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Emerson, Lake and Palmer in Concert is a live album by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP), recorded at their 26 August 1977 show at the Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada which is featured on the album cover. It was released by Atlantic Records in November 1979, following ELP's breakup. It was later re-released and repackaged as Works Live in 1993. Some of the tracks were not from the Montreal concert, but from other concerts during their 1977–1978 tour, such as "Peter Gunn" and "Tiger in a Spotlight".
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