Product Details

• Actors: Emerson Lake & Palmer
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Special Edition
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Eagle Rock Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: July 27, 2010
• Run Time: 144 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B003S6T68A
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #77,638 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 07/27/2010

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Let's have a real review of the product, shall we?, August 27, 2010

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C. Lichiello "Ole Troll" (Ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pictures At An Exhibition (Special Edition) (DVD)

Having just finished reinforcing my sagging old postal box in anticipation of the oncoming barrage of hate mail, I'd like to present a few points about this release which you might find usefull.

The Amazon Editorial review is pretty complete and accurate so refer to that for DVD specifics (sans ranting and raving.) There's one thing they didn't mention since the DVD cover (insert actually) gets it wrong. The jacket states that the sound is PCM Stereo. It is most certainly NOT stereo, in PCM or any other format. It is the same mono soundtrack that the previous DVD had, at least as far as the P@aE concert is concerned. I've never previously seen the Belgian TV footage that is included here, but it also is simple mono, issued from both L & R channels. I listened carefully to the entire disc (over 100 minutes longer than the previous one!) in Sony headphones and there is not a single sound from either side that is not precisely duplicated on the other. Credit Eagle Rock Entertainment for having the sense to NOT create a fake digital stereotrack, which would've been easy with today's mastering software, and keeping the film's original integrity. I don't pretend to know if the original audio recordings still exist somewhere, but I DO know that remixing and sync-ing them for this edition WOULD be a hellatiously time-consuming and expensive project, and the few die-hard ELP fans like you and me out there just plain don't rate it. Fact of life...

That said, I'm delighted to have this even though I bought the 2001 version not long ago, and it's the ONE to have if you don't own this piece of prog history. The extras are extensive and as good or better than the centerpiece suite. As ELP were known for, they almost never played songs "straight" like you'd hear them on a studio album. They mixed them up, rearranged, regrouped and lots of times played themes from some material as 'segments' of something else. So it is here, where the 1st encore "Take a Pebble" also includes middle snippets of Emerson piano improvs, "Tank," and "Hoedown" before returning to finish the last verse of "TaP."

The Belgian TV show POP SHOP obviously showed the set recorded for them as two, half-hour episodes, as the credits roll twice, once in the middle (spliced in during "Nutrocker," as more freaky effects) and again at the end. The video quality is much weaker than the P@aE film, but the mono audio is, if anything, a tad better. The version of "Take a Pebble" included here is worth the price of admission alone.

OK... What about those "Rock and Roll Your Eyes" visuals (as this movie was rechristened for US release.) Yeah... they're stupid looking... even obnoxious. But (as my wife accurately commented) Keith Emerson jumping up on his Hammond, crouching down and rocking it back and forth like he's trying to hump it is just as stupid. The 70s were just plain 'everything to excess' and this work is a product of the time. Keep that in mind and close your eyes if it bugs you. Fortunately the soundtrack is unaffected by the silly video "enhancements." And there's lots of time where the video is shown straight-no-chaser anyway. The junk doesn't even start for the first time until over 17 minutes in, and then it comes and goes about half-and-half for the rest of the show. I found it easy to "get over it."

If this were just a live album from this early stage in ELP's career, and noone knew it had attendent glopped-up video, they'd be jumping for joy to even HAVE a copy of it. May be a fan-boy, but I certainly am!

16 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WHEN will ELP's Camp Get This One Right??, July 30, 2010

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JESSE R. MC Glown "derosierjr" (Enterprise, AL) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Pictures At An Exhibition (Special Edition) (DVD)

I've said it before, in previous reviews: the ELP camp consistently &^@!!?!!'s on its fan base. After all these years...the constant complaint about this concert has been the superimposed psychodelic and cartoon crap. I read once that a "clean" videotape copy exists, sans the obnoxious effects. I've hoped against hope that someday "they'll" get it right...apparently not. After all, these are the same people who blew it with the "Beyond the Beginning" DVD ( California Jam footage out of sync with the audio, while stereo audio from the one-time FM simulcast exists; a disjointed montage of concert clips, etc ).

Fortunately for me, another reviewer posted that the "bonus" concert is nothing other than the Masters of the Vaults footage, already out for a few years. That footage, too, hasn't been changed...more superimposed images, albeit not as blatantly obnoxious as the Lyceum debacle. Tell me again just where the incentive for buying this latest rip-off is?

If anybody from ELP's management happens to be reading this...I won't buy this concert until you get it right. NOBODY WANTS MARVEL COMIC BOOK CHARACTERS ON TOP OF THIS PERFORMANCE. If you STILL don't understand, back up and read this again. That means actually going to the trouble of doing some research,and tracking down that pristine copy...we'll wait. We'd rather you take your time, and GET IT RIGHT.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful film of an often underrated band, August 28, 2010

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This review is from: Pictures At An Exhibition (Special Edition) (DVD)

Prog-rock, for sure, so if you don't like that; this isn't the thing for you. But if you like a creative combination of classical music, rock techniques and showmanship, and some great writing, this is the deal. Some of the music is very beautiful. And for those of us who're a bit older, it brings back the wonderful innocence and excitement people had at seeing this sort of thing live. Excellent.