From the Beginning (box set)

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From the Beginning is a box set which presents aural and visual documentation celebrating Emerson, Lake & Palmer's career; consisting of five discs that include a number of single b-sides, significant live recordings, alternative studio mixes and material taken from band rehearsals, plus a bonus DVD featuring 'The Manticore Years' documentary, presented in a deluxe book-style sleeve complete with a 60-page picture booklet containing extensive sleeve notes by the band discussing the ELP years. It also contains rare and previously unseen photographs and images.

Track listing

Disc one

1. "Epitaph" - King Crimson (Fripp/Giles/Lake/McDonald/Sinfield) - 8:45
2. "Decline and Fall" - Atomic Rooster (Crane/Palmer/Graham) - 5:47
3. "Fantasia: Intermezzo Karelia Suite" - The Nice (Sibelius) - 8:51
4. "Lucky Man" (Lake) - 4:38
5. "Tank" (Emerson/Palmer) - 6:48
6. "Take a Pebble" (Lake) - 12:28
7. "The Barbarian" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer/Bartok) - 5:20
8. "Knife Edge" (Emerson/Lake/Janáček) - 8:01
9. "Rondo" (Live Version) (Emerson/O'List/Davison/Jackson) - 18:18

Disc two

1. "Tarkus" - 20:40

   a) "Eruption" (Emerson)

   b) "Stones of Years" (Emerson/Lake)

   c) "Iconoclast" (Emerson)

   d) "Mass" (Emerson/Lake)

   e) "Manticore" (Emerson)

   f) "The Battlefield" (Lake)

   g) "Aquatarkus" (Emerson)

2. "Bitches Crystal" (Emerson)
3. "A Time and a Place" (B-side Single Version) (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) - 3:55
4. "Oh, My Father" (Previously Unreleased) (Lake) - 2:58
5. "The Endless Enigma (Part One)" (Emerson/Lake) - 4:04
6. "Fugue" (Emerson/Lake) - 4:54
7. "The Endless Enigma (Part Two)" (Emerson/Lake) - 2:00
8. "From the Beginning" (Lake) - 4:13
9. "Trilogy" (Emerson/Lake) - 8:52
10. "Abbadon's Bolero" (Emerson) - 8:07
11. "Hoedown" (Live Version) (A. Copland/Arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) - 3:54
12. "Jerusalem" (First Mix) (Parry/Blake/Arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) - 2:54
13. "Still You Turn Me On" (First Mix) (Lake) - 2:51
14. "When the Apple Blossoms" (B-side Single Version) (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) - 3:56

Disc three

1. "Karn Evil 9" - 29:42

   a) "1st Impression Pt.1" (Lake)

   b) "1st Impression Pt.2" (Emerson/Lake)

   c) "2nd Impression" (Emerson)

   d) "3rd Impression" (Emerson/Lake/Sinfield)

2. "Jeremy Bender/The Sheriff" (Live) (Emerson/Lake) - 5:03
3. "C'est La Vie (Early Version)" (Lake/Sinfield) - 4:16
4. "I Believe in Father Christmas" (Lake/Sinfield/Prokofiev) - 3:29
5. "The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits" (Prokofiev/ Arr. Palmer) - 3:20
6. "Piano Concerto No.1" (Emerson) - 18:25
   1. First Movement: "Allegro Giocoso"
   2. Second Movement: "Andante Molto Cantabile"
   3. Third Movement: "Toccata Con Fuoco"
7. "Pirates (Non Orchestral Live Version)" (Emerson/Lake/Sinfield) - 13:23

Disc four

1. "Aaron Copland Interview 1977" (From Keith Emerson's Archives) - 1:37
2. "Fanfare for the Common Man" (A. Copland/Arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) - 9:42
3. "Honky Tonk Train Blues" (Lewis) - 3:09
4. "Tiger In a Spotlight" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer/Sinfield) - 4:33
5. "Watching Over You" (Lake/Sinfield) - 3:54
6. "Introductory Fanfare/Peter Gunn Theme (Live Version)" (Emerson/Mancini) - 4:26
7. "Canario (Rehearsal)" (Rodrigo) - 3:57
8. "Mars - The Bringer of War" (Holst/Arr. Emerson, Lake & Powell) - 7:54
9. "Desede La Vida" (Emerson/Berry/Palmer) - 7:06
10. "Black Moon (Single Version)" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) - 4:47
11. "Footprints in the Snow" (Emerson/Lake/Palmer) - 3:51
12. "Romeo and Juliet (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)" (Prokofiev/Emerson) - 3:32
13. "Man in the Long Black Coat" (Dylan/Arr. Emerson) - 4:12
14. "Daddy" (Lake) - 4:42
15. "Hang On To a Dream" (Hardin/Aber) - 4:28
16. "Touch and Go" (Live in Poland) (Emerson/Lake) - 3:53

Disc five

1. "Hoedown" (A. Copland/Arr. Emerson, Lake & Palmer) - 4:18
2. "Tarkus" - 22:33

   a) "Eruption" (Emerson)

   b) "Stones of Years" (Emerson)

   c) "Iconoclast" (Emerson)

   d) "Mass" (Emerson)

   e) "Manticore" (Emerson)

   f) "The Battlefield" (Lake)

   g) "Aquatarkus" (Emerson)

3. "Take a Pebble" (Lake) - 4:36
4. "Lucky Man" (Lake) - 3:00
5. "Piano Improvisation" (Emerson) - 9:44
6. "Pictures at an Exhibition" - 14:39

   a) "Promenade" (Mussorgsky/Lake)

   b) "The Gnome" (Palmer)

   c) "Promenade" - Vocal (Mussorgsky/Emerson/Lake)

   d) "Hut of Baba Yaga" (Mussorgsky/Emerson)

   e) "Great Gates of Kiev" (Emerson/Lake)

7. "Rondo" (Emerson/O'List/Davison/Jackson) - 18:29

• Live at Mar Y Sol Festival, Puerto Rico, April 2, 1972.

Disc six

• "The Manticore Special" - DVD containing highlights from the 1973 World Tour.

• Written and directed by Nick Hague
• Edited by Chris Fraser
• Director of photography - John Rosenberg
• Production manager - Peter Jaques
• Sound recordist - Tony Jackson
• Produced by Miker Rosenberg

Personnel

• Keith Emerson - keyboards
• Greg Lake - guitars, bass guitar, vocals
• Carl Palmer - drums, percussion