Collectors Music Reviews

Live at the Isle of Wight Festival 1970 (Manticore M-CD-101) Isle Of Wight Festival, Alton Down, Isle Of Wight, England – August 29th, 1970 (68:22):  The Barbarian, Take a Pebble, Pictures at an Exhibition (Promenade 1 / The Gnome / Promenade 2 - The Sage / The Old Castle – Blues Variation / Promenade 3 / Baba Yaga / The [...]

The Original Bootleg Series From The Manitcore Vaults Volume Four (CMXBX1374) The fourth volume of Emerson Lake and Palmer’s bootleg boxset series was released several years after volume three in 2006.  Manticore use well known tapes for three of the shows in this collection and give the debut of the fourth tape.  And also like the other sets [...]

The Original Bootleg Series From The Manticore Vaults Vol. Two (Sanctuary records CMXBX330) The first volume of the Bootleg Series focused upon ELP’s live shows around the time they were recording and promoting their their studio LP Trilogy.  The second volume picks up where the first left off with one of the final Trilogy-era concerts [...]

The Original Bootleg Series From The Manticore Vaults:  Vol. One (Sanctuary Records CMXBX309) The common wisdom regarding ELP’s bootleg series is that it’s for the hardcore fan, the one who is willing to wade through inferior audience recordings. I disagree with that and would say that the Bootleg series are the place to begin investigating [...]