Product Description

This is the definitive critical review of the music of Emerson, Lake and Palmer in concert, on record and on stage. During the seventies ELP were the biggest band in the world playing to colossal crowds and mounting ever more spectacular and flamboyant stage shows. When the band split in 1978 the legacy disappeared almost overnight. Featuring rare archive footage, every ELP studio album is reviewed and critically assessed by a leading team of critics, working musicians and musicologists to explore the secrets behind the phenomenal rise to success and the equally spectacular fall from grace of this legendary band.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #132185 in DVD
• Brand: Koch International
• Released on: 2004-12-14
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Best of, Closed-captioned, Color, DTS Surround Sound, DVD, Subtitled, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 60 minutes

Customer Reviews

Almost Worth Owning - 3.5 stars - But Not Essential
Hoping, like the romantic fool I am, for a real full-length critical assessment of a band I love, but many critics absolutely hated and still use as a whipping boy, I pre-ordered this DVD despite my precarious finances. Was it worth the money and time and angst about spending cash I didn't have? I can't say that this DVD was a complete waste, but it could have been so much better.

First, the good points:

Lots of clips of ELP at their prime.

Discussions of their music by people who are knowledgable and opiniated rock and roll geeks.

Musical discussion by Iain Jennings that illuminates the incredible acheivements of Keith Emerson.

Now the bad points:

This is all to obviously a way of Classic Rock Productions to clear their vaults for a little cash. The length (too short) and limited scope of the critical views (all English) speak to economy in production that hurts this (and the others in the series) right from the start.

No full length songs of ELP (although with many of their tracks, this could be problematic, due to their music's length).

No interviews from the Band. Surely Keith Emerson, at least would have talked. I'd love to see him and Iain Jennings talking music.

Over-cursory assessments of the albums. Only the high points of ELP's albums are discussed, then the albums rated without regard to other music on them.

Did I enjoy Inside Emerson, Lake and Palmer: A Critical View 1970-1995? Not as much as I would have liked, but let me say unequivocally that I'm glad Classic Rock Productions is at least attempting this sort of omnibus critical assesment, and that I'm glad I bought the DVD.

OLDROCKER
THIS IS ANOTHER DVD WASTE OF TIME AND MONEY. I LOOK FOR CLASSIC ROCK DVD'S TO BRING BACK THOSE DAYS. I'M NOT REALLY INTERESTED IN WHAT THESE CRITICS OPINION OF ELP IS.I BOUGHT THE DVD TO SEE LIVE PERFORMANCES OF THE GROUP. NONE HERE. I KNOW THE VIDEOS ARE AVAILABLE BECAUSE THERE ARE CUTS HERE FROM THE CONCERTS BUT THEY ARE ONLY SECONDS LONG.THIS APPEARS TO JUST BE A WAY TO SELL MORE DVD'D AND STILL NOT GIVE YOU ANYTHING! VERY DISAPPOINTING!

Too Little for your Money
It was fun watching this DVD, but, as others have said below, there is not enough "there" there.

You get star ratings of albums without any ostensible purpose to them, and you get extended opinions from people you never heard of. What you get way too little of is the music itself, or footage of these amazing musicians doing their stuff.

I thought for sure that, for the asking price, you'd get full cuts of, say, the MTV-era videos. Nope. What you do get of the music is badly recorded and produced, and chopped up.

Some new information here, some good things, but...nowhere near enough.