band back together.
They're joining me via Zoom is one of the founding
members of Emerson Lake and Palmer Carl Palmer.
Carl, thank you so much for being with us.
You're okay.
Full five, six feet, right?
I'm yes.
We've got an interesting show for you.
This is basically the only show of its type, actually,
which is touring at the moment.
I'm sure a lot of other people are going to do it.
What it is unexplained as briefly as I possibly can,
I have some footage which was recorded at the Royal
Albert Hall, which actually got
released on DVD back in the day early nineties.
And this DVD was a five camera shoot.
The audio was recorded separately,
and that's the secret here,
because the audio was recorded separately, it meant that
I could take away all of my drums
and all you would have would be all the keyboards, Greg
singing the bass and whatever.
So if I played my drums live in a hole and played
this soundtrack, you would be more or less mixing
Emerson, Lake and Palmer because all the keyboards
would have to be mixed again.
The bass, the acoustic guitar, the the voice and the drums,
because I'm actually playing them on that night.
So that was kind of interesting because it meant
that the footage which corresponded with these
all audio tracks would be in perfect time
with what I would be playing
because the audio and they would link together,
but they were recorded separately.
So that's what we have.
We have about seven tracks of Greg and Keith
playing along with me
will be playing along with them from the Royal Albert Hall
and they're on these giant screens.
Each side of the stage
there's a center stage downstage,
there's a center screen downstage,
which has kind of vintage footage,
that kind of thing on it.
You know, whatever the song is being played, you know,
we find the appropriate footage to go along with that
and it's all put together with like a click track.
I've got a click track in my monitor
and the
editing is approximately, I know, 8 to 10 weeks, 11 weeks.
We're still doing some now actually to get it all together,
basically to get me out of the frame.
I didn't need to be
in the frame, obviously, because they could get me live
because I'm there playing and put me up on the middle
screen or left or right, depending
where Greg and Keith were.
So that's what we've got.
So this is better than a hologram
as far as I'm concerned, because this is actually Keith
Emmerson and Greg Lake at their very best performing.
And you couldn't ask for more than that.
And of course, because the audio was recorded separately,
it's given us a great opportunity here
to be able to use modern technology.
We're also using an AI program to to better some of the
the footage that's a little bit
grainy in places, I'll be perfectly honest.
Well, it might be a bit too red
or it might be a bit too smoke or things like that.
We can now remove.
And I'm very, very pleased about that
because it means we can up the quality.
As I said to some of the other day,
this is not IMAX, it was the early nineties,
but I have to say the quality is outstanding.
The audio is superb.
There's absolutely nothing wrong with your audio.
Normally this doesn't happen where you record a video
and an audio track separately.
We did it that way. In case we made any mistakes.
We'd have the flexibility
because we knew we were going to release it to
to mend it, to repair it, to overdub it or do whatever.
So that has worked in our favor or in my favor right now.
It's with the blessing of
the families, the Amazons and the like.
So everyone's involved there.
And it's been well, it's been a year today since we started.
We've been going very slowly.
We've not been sort of rushing into this
and playing lots and lots of concerts.
We've played what we think is right,
you know, getting the right theater
with the right side lines, all of that is very important
and it's worked out incredibly well.
And we're off to Japan at the end of the year, December.
And I would think
the way things are looking, we'll be here most of February.
I think there's about 15 concerts
which are on the table now, possibly more on its way.
So it's quite exciting time in actual fact.
Well, and it's exciting to be with you here on Sky Living
all in front of your big show on Thursday at the Canopy Club.
It sounds like people are definitely in for a treat.
How exciting
to have everyone back together, virtually, so to say.
Well, I mean, they are virtually. Yes.
And it's all it all works as if the band was on stage,
because, as I say, these screens are big screens.
So when you see them as a playing, you really do see him
and it's all in perfect singing along with all of that.
You know, I do have my my band with me, Simon Fitzpatrick on
electric bass, six string bass and Chapman String Stick.
There's Paul be a little bridge on lead guitar and lead vocals.
I also sing a little bit.
I sing one of the songs.
So all in all, it's a band within a band.
So my band we do play some members
like a Palmer tracks things like Hoedown Talks,
which is an epic piece, which is a 15 minute piece
coming at Burana and stuff like that.
And the rest is kind of all integrated together with Keith
and Greg or just Greg and myself or whoever, you know it.
So it's it's a reasonable set in actual fact,
from the point of view of variety,
covering all the necessary albums,
whether it be from the first album
to Brains out of surgery to us.
So all in all, it's well balanced.
It's about one hour, 40 minutes long.
I and there's lots of vintage footage in there which people
probably haven't seen before,
and it all adds to the excitement of the music.
So it's all, it's all to do with the music.
But we've backed it up as much as we can
with the visual aspect.
So yeah, I'm very excited about it.
Well, very good. As are we.
I won't mention this is not a tribute act.
This is the real thing.
And if you want to check out
the return of Emerson, Lake and Palmer at the Canopy Club,
we will have all of the details on the show
and how you can get tickets over at our website.
See Living TV after today's show.
Carl, thank you so much for being with us.
We wish you safe travels here to central Illinois.