Through Greg Lake has said that 1972′s Trilogy was his favorite Emerson Lake and Palmer album, the project provided a unique obstacle for the group — something ELP looked to overcome with the subsequent Brain Salad Surgery.
Trilogy, home to Emerson Lake and Palmer’s memorable reworking of Aaron Copland’s “Howdown,” had been an of-its-time studio creation — to the point where ELP felt it could never be recreated in a concert setting.
That sparked the idea of a stripped-down approach for the 1973 follow up, as ELP sought to move away from the then-new 24-track recording technology toward something more straight forward.
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