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Emerson Lake & Palmer/Brain Salad Surgery-35th Anniversary Deluxe Edition ....import double CD + SACD set $41.95

Brain Salad Surgery is the fourth studio album by progressive rock band Emerson Lake & Palmer, released in 1973 and the first under their Manticore Records imprint. (announced in a press release that they now had both the financial and musical freedom to realize their fantasies). Just as striking as the music was the album's artwork. With other progressive acts becoming as well known for their album cover art as their music, ELP's covers up to this point looked fairly undistinguished in comparison. Having encountered the art of HR Giger whilst on tour in Switzerland, Keith felt that there was a immediate match between his art and their music, later stating: "...it was dark and very foreboding, and for me it represented ELP's music". The band released a flexi 7'' single of new material in conjunction with the New Musical Express. The disk contained extracts of the album and a track entitled Brain Salad Surgery, recorded during left over studio time. With the album in the can, the band went straight back out on the road again in the USA and then in Europe, further cementing their position at the top of the premiere league of acts in the USA. They did this using the most ambitious spectacular presentation ever mobilised for a group, comprising 35 tons of equipment, a quadraphonic sound system, a huge convoy of trucks. This re-issue features a bonus CD which includes the flexi-disc tracks, alternative mixes of all tracks on the album and other bonuses, and a bonus SACD with both stereo and 5.1 mixes of the album all housed in a deluxe package with informative liner notes and a booklet crammed with rare photos and memorbilia.
rwwear
Well all I can say is I hope they re-release the first album too in the same format.
I have the first three remastered with K2-HD coding and they sound amazing especially the first one.
I seen that tour myself, at the long gone Ampitheather in Chicago. I was able to smuggle in a pair of Binoculars, Carl Palmer was just a blur. Never seen so many JBL Speakers in my life. My Mac-JBL System sounded like a little transitor radio for a couple days after that concert. Keith Emerson was the greatest keyboard "madman" I ever seen, or ever will see, he was truly a master. The live ending of Karn Evil 9 made the released version sound meek by comparison.Would be nice to perhaps see Brain Salad, and Lucky Man LPs re-issued again by Mo-Fi on 200g Vinyl. I've got the Trilogy, and Tarkus on Mo-Fi. Mark
>>Would be nice to perhaps see Brain Salad, and Lucky Man LPs re-issued again by Mo-Fi on 200g Vinyl.<<

Why?

The original pressings are clearly better. I have the MFSL release of "Pictures" and it's ok, nothing special. Also heard Tarkus and Trilogy and again, fairly mediocre.

The original Cotillion and Manticore pressings are the records to look for.