Hi Phil - that's a wonderful review of one of the great keyboard players of my generation. I saw ELP at The Free Trade Hall in Manchester way back in I think 1971, and they were amazing - it was a great evening. I get cross when I hear people down playing ELP's place in prog rock. That they were indulgent, and just playing for themselves. Not the case. Keith was, they were an amazing band the likes of which we will never see again in our lifetimes. I have the first 3 volumes of the Manticore Vaults Bootleg series. 5 to 8 CD's in each volume, sound quality variable - but brilliant all the same. The video of them playing Fanfare For The Common Man in the Olympic Stadium in Canada - unforgettable. RIP guys you will not be forgotten. Cheers Doug
Another excellent review Phil. The music is wonderful and the artwork has that beautiful appearance that just fits the music perfectly. I now have all three of the collections and they are so very wonderful. I'm on the pension so box sets such as this are so easy on the bank balance 😂❤
Many thanks Phil. Emerson is my musical hero and great to see this set available. My main criticism is that the original album notes by Keith, for example on Emerson Plays Emerson, are not reproduced.
Love the review. I so agree with you on the incredible importance ELP's contribution was to modern music. They were completely pushing the envelope and like you said they lost some casual fans because they were that complex , unique, and ahead of their time. Thanks Phil!!
I have this box set and glad I got it. I have to say I'm not concerned about the booklet not being hardback. What concerns me is the track credits that are wrong and the omissions.
Phil, thanks a lot for this. It’s super that this was done and I bet his family had a lot to do with it. Would love to hear a follow up video of, once you’ve digested the CDs properly, with some of your favorite new discoveries on it and tunes you already knew, but gained a greater appreciation for. This has inspired me to at least go to Spotify now and listen to a lot of Keith’s music that I have not heard before.
I never used to get past Brain Salad Surgery in the ELP discography. The Works albums were a bit too "classical" for my liking but now many years later they are the ELP albums I play the most. Older but wiser I guess. Looks like an amazing set and thanks for your usual excellent review Phil. I know I will provaricate about buying this because of the price point and then it will be gone. That happened with the Camel set but I saw on Pete Pardo's show with the Professor of Prog Ken Golden that it has had another pressing and will be available soon. Just watched your review of that Camel set and I will be first in line when it does turn up again. Cheers Phil.
Thanks for sharing this! I contemplated picking this up, but I see I would have been disappointed by the packaging. IMHO, multi-album box sets should be done like Gentle Giant’s or single album box sets should be done like the 40th anniversary Jethro Tull albums. Even ELP’s Fanfare box had every album separated out and so did the recent Uriah Heep 50th anniversary box. I was disappointed the Camel box did not have individual sleeves and put discs in folios like the Tangerine Dream boxes. I would like to hear all of that Keith Emerson music though so I may pick it up. Keep rockin’!
I am a huge Keith Emerson fan, but this set is prohibitively expensive in Canada, where it sells for $282, plus shipping. The total ends up being over $300. I loved ELP back in the 70's, but I appreciate Emerson's compositional skills more today than I did then. I think the Three Fates project is a masterpiece and it features the best integration of a rock band with an orchestra. I learned to listen to classical music by listening to ELP. Pictures at an Exhibition had a huge impact on me. It is still one of my favorite ELP albums.
Great review Phil. It looks marvellous but a wee bit out of m6 price range. I think you are correct about the track listing. A talent such as Keiths would be better served by a little more care given to his legacy
22 discs in one set! It is like having a mini record shop in one small package. A treat for ELP fans. Also, I would like to share an interesting story from Malaysia. Back in the 1950s and 60s, a number of people would clean their vinyl records using COCONUT OIL! It seems all dirt and dust can be removed. But caution: PLEASE DON'T TRY THIS 😂😂😂😂
I have about half the content on individual CDs and they have not been played that often (the soundtrack ones in particular) which means my interest would be the other discs plus booklet etc. From your flick through the first section looks the most interesting with the photos and text. However, the text appears to be quite large and there is a lot of unused space so I suspect it is a wide overview and not particularly detailed. The second section which is basically a front cover and track,personell etc info in my view could have had both combimed onto a single page. The facing page coukd have given background to each album. Track detail on the back of each CD section would save flicking through a softback book which isn't going to last well if it is frequently used. No protection for the CDs which are going to risk scratching or tearing the card slot every time you play them is a disappointment too. 22 CD for £150 isn't too bad a price if you want all the discs but for myself the overall package diesn't warrant a purchsse at that price.
*IMO WARNING* This is why I draw the line with respect to box sets at band specific original releases as opposed to artist specific derivations. Of course I'll pick up individual solo releases from artists, but not these special editions. For lack of more so eloquent terms this is a legitimized posthumous capitalization of a man who's creative genius was BEST represented as a chemical component of unique musically multidimensional creative forces. Bands that equated to amalgamated creative sums that were far and away greater than any of the individual's standalone output. Does this mean that I think this is a waste of money, NO it does not. That's down to the individual. It's just something for me however that would set around collecting dust and RARELY get any real play. Personally, like Phil states, music is the doctor and the healing prescriptions that the doctor routinely administers are very much individually specific. 🙂
Wow, that is a huge miss on the packaging especially at that price. No hardback book, no track listing is a head scratcher (besides in the book) as much I would like this box set, I'm disappointed with the presentation, seems like they cut a lot of corners.
❤Thanks so much 🎵💖💕💕🌐
Hi Phil - that's a wonderful review of one of the great keyboard players of my generation. I saw ELP at The Free Trade Hall in Manchester way back in I think 1971, and they were amazing - it was a great evening. I get cross when I hear people down playing ELP's place in prog rock. That they were indulgent, and just playing for themselves. Not the case. Keith was, they were an amazing band the likes of which we will never see again in our lifetimes. I have the first 3 volumes of the Manticore Vaults Bootleg series. 5 to 8 CD's in each volume, sound quality variable - but brilliant all the same. The video of them playing Fanfare For The Common Man in the Olympic Stadium in Canada - unforgettable. RIP guys you will not be forgotten. Cheers Doug
Another excellent review Phil.
The music is wonderful and the artwork has that beautiful appearance that just fits the music perfectly.
I now have all three of the collections and they are so very wonderful.
I'm on the pension so box sets such as this are so easy on the bank balance 😂❤
Beautiful❤
Emerson Player.. emerson....wonderfull CD.box. for great piano🎹🎹🎹 mann ..
Many thanks Phil. Emerson is my musical hero and great to see this set available. My main criticism is that the original album notes by Keith, for example on Emerson Plays Emerson, are not reproduced.
Thanks for another great video. Cheers Fred
Love the review.
I so agree with you on the incredible importance ELP's contribution was to modern music.
They were completely pushing the envelope and like you said they lost some casual fans because they were that complex , unique, and ahead of their time.
Thanks Phil!!
as a die hard KE fan I've collected all these pieces of his work in various format already. However after your review I have a serious challenge ))
Awesome review. Thanks so much!
I have this box set and glad I got it. I have to say I'm not concerned about the booklet not being hardback. What concerns me is the track credits that are wrong and the omissions.
Phil, thanks a lot for this. It’s super that this was done and I bet his family had a lot to do with it. Would love to hear a follow up video of, once you’ve digested the CDs properly, with some of your favorite new discoveries on it and tunes you already knew, but gained a greater appreciation for. This has inspired me to at least go to Spotify now and listen to a lot of Keith’s music that I have not heard before.
Although I'm not inclined to buy boxsets (only one so far), these unboxing videos are so very interesting. Please keep 'em coming Phil. 👍
Phil, Huge box sets now coming out, is this a new trend now developing ? Thank you for the review.
I never used to get past Brain Salad Surgery in the ELP discography.
The Works albums were a bit too "classical" for my liking but now many years later they are the ELP albums I play the most. Older but wiser I guess.
Looks like an amazing set and thanks for your usual excellent review Phil. I know I will provaricate about buying this because of the price point and then it will be gone. That happened with the Camel set
but I saw on Pete Pardo's show with the Professor of Prog Ken Golden that it has had another pressing and will be available soon.
Just watched your review of that Camel set and I will be first in line when it does turn up again.
Cheers Phil.
Thanks for sharing this! I contemplated picking this up, but I see I would have been disappointed by the packaging. IMHO, multi-album box sets should be done like Gentle Giant’s or single album box sets should be done like the 40th anniversary Jethro Tull albums. Even ELP’s Fanfare box had every album separated out and so did the recent Uriah Heep 50th anniversary box. I was disappointed the Camel box did not have individual sleeves and put discs in folios like the Tangerine Dream boxes. I would like to hear all of that Keith Emerson music though so I may pick it up. Keep rockin’!
I am a huge Keith Emerson fan, but this set is prohibitively expensive in Canada, where it sells for $282, plus shipping. The total ends up being over $300. I loved ELP back in the 70's, but I appreciate Emerson's compositional skills more today than I did then. I think the Three Fates project is a masterpiece and it features the best integration of a rock band with an orchestra. I learned to listen to classical music by listening to ELP. Pictures at an Exhibition had a huge impact on me. It is still one of my favorite ELP albums.
Great review Phil.
It looks marvellous but a wee bit out of m6 price range.
I think you are correct about the track listing. A talent such as Keiths would be better served by a little more care given to his legacy
Hi everyone 😊
22 discs in one set! It is like having a mini record shop in one small package. A treat for ELP fans. Also, I would like to share an interesting story from Malaysia. Back in the 1950s and 60s, a number of people would clean their vinyl records using COCONUT OIL! It seems all dirt and dust can be removed.
But caution: PLEASE DON'T TRY THIS 😂😂😂😂
I have about half the content on individual CDs and they have not been played that often (the soundtrack ones in particular) which means my interest would be the other discs plus booklet etc. From your flick through the first section looks the most interesting with the photos and text. However, the text appears to be quite large and there is a lot of unused space so I suspect it is a wide overview and not particularly detailed. The second section which is basically a front cover and track,personell etc info in my view could have had both combimed onto a single page. The facing page coukd have given background to each album. Track detail on the back of each CD section would save flicking through a softback book which isn't going to last well if it is frequently used. No protection for the CDs which are going to risk scratching or tearing the card slot every time you play them is a disappointment too. 22 CD for £150 isn't too bad a price if you want all the discs but for myself the overall package diesn't warrant a purchsse at that price.
I don't want to be rude, but I'm wondering what your wife's opinion is about ELP and especially about Emerson?
Sue feels his Piano Concerto from Works is a masterpiece
@@NowSpinningMagazine Thank you very much for the answer and I am glad that it was not taken as too personal a question.
*IMO WARNING* This is why I draw the line with respect to box sets at band specific original releases as opposed to artist specific derivations. Of course I'll pick up individual solo releases from artists, but not these special editions. For lack of more so eloquent terms this is a legitimized posthumous capitalization of a man who's creative genius was BEST represented as a chemical component of unique musically multidimensional creative forces. Bands that equated to amalgamated creative sums that were far and away greater than any of the individual's standalone output. Does this mean that I think this is a waste of money, NO it does not. That's down to the individual. It's just something for me however that would set around collecting dust and RARELY get any real play. Personally, like Phil states, music is the doctor and the healing prescriptions that the doctor routinely administers are very much individually specific. 🙂
Wow, that is a huge miss on the packaging especially at that price. No hardback book, no track listing is a head scratcher (besides in the book) as much I would like this box set, I'm disappointed with the presentation, seems like they cut a lot of corners.