Product: Masters from the Vaults - Emerson, Lake & Palmer (2004)
Rating: 1.0
ELP lovers... wait & BEWARE!
ELP is MY group... yet, the production itself just makes me cringe. As a matter of fact, I sold it after watching it. Here's the deal- there is a whole lot of footage that was done back in the 'acid-days', when the film makers were tripping, and figured everyone watching was gonna be tripping, too. It's NOT the subjects that is that's the problem (it's the messenger). The producers of the DVD don't even have it together enough to spell-check the cover-art for the DVD case... they keep referencing 'Mike'... what they mean is 'mic', as in microphone. (dufus) Well... in this case, it IS a pretty good clue as to what to expect.Save your money. Instead, DO buy ELP "Beyond the Beginning". It has many of the same cuts, concerts, etc., but not nearly as many of the ones that would make you cringe as an ELP fan. Plus, 'BTB' has stuff like The California Jam, complete with the 'flying piano' footage. That particular concert is special for me because exactly one week to the day before, I saw ELP in Memphis, where I sat '4th row center'. Actually, the Memphis show was better than the C-Jam... (I have it on cassette).Back to this DVD.... I am a modular synth player, and was quite disappointed that because of the stupid 'acid-crazed' hokey production... you can't really even see any good close-ups of the equipment. I wonder why the credits don't give full names... almost as if they were too embarrassed.