Title: Half as Nice as they used to be
Review: The album is really a vehicle for Emerson to showcase his career with The Nice (actually playing with The Nice) and ELP (without L or P). The first CD is material by The Nice and should've continued for CD two. Instead Emerson brings out a different band to play ELP material, which suffers from the lack of Greg Lake's voice. There was enough quality music produced by The Nice that they shouldn't have been pushed aside to play ELP music with other musicians. As a result, the project lacks focus and the energy that ELP produced.The production seems to be rather stilted, as if they simply set up the mixing board and walked away. Keith's keyboards always remain on the left and Dave's guitar is always on the right. Two words: Bor ing.CD1 is worth having, the remaining two are throwaways, which makes this overpriced. They had an excellent opportunity and only partially fulfilled it, apparently in order to satisy Emo's Ego.
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