Greg Lake is the live concert CD that was recorded during the Greg Lake tour in 2005 at the Stevenage Concert Hall in November 2005. It is the counter part to the DVD I reviewed called Welcome Backstage that had been recorded in September 2005.
To review for a minute, Greg Lake was the founder; along with Robert Fripp, of the progressive rock band King Crimson in 1969 which recorded the classic album "In the Court of the Crimson King." In 1970, Lake left King Crimson to form Emerson, Lake and Palmer which had huge success in the 70's.
After a short stint with Asia in the 80's, and some reunions with ELP in the 90's, Greg Lake formed the Greg Lake Band in 2005. This band consists of Lake on guitar, David Arch on keyboards, Trevor Barry on bass, Bret Morgan on drums and Florian Opahle on lead guitar. For the tour they also added Josh Grafton on 2nd Keyboard and Jai Ramage and Bekki Carpenter on backing vocals.
My take on the DVD was, and still is, that it was good. Greg Lake, is great! Of course this is really a greatest hits live of Greg Lake/King Crimson/ELP. But it is really great!
It starts out with the classic King Crimson song "In the Court of the Crimson King" which is well done. This is pretty much your standard version with the notable exception that Lake's voice is deeper; noticeably deeper. It is still remarkably clear and he still sings as well as he did then, it's just deeper. This song is one of my favorites from the CD. "Paper Blood" is a song off of the 1992 ELP reunion album Black Moon. It is hard and driving and you start to get the feel of Opahle's guitar work.
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