EMERSON LAKE & PALMER – In The Hot Seat [Deluxe Edition remastered 2017]
“In The Hot Seat“, EMERSON LAKE & PALMER’s ninth and final studio album has just been released in a 2017 Deluxe Edition remastered for the first time. While among prog purists this is considered as Emerson, Lake & Palmer weakest album, for me it’s a very good one because comprises an interesting mixture of mainstream rock (almost AORish), classic ELP prog, melodic rock and finely crafted ballads.
It was produced by Keith Olsen (Europe, Whitesnake, Foreigner) so you know what to expect in terms of sound.
Originally titled ‘The Best Seat In The House’, “In The Hot Seat” was released in 1994 following the band’s successful 1992 world tour comeback album ‘Black Moon’.
“In The Hot Seat” was an appropriate name, given that the trio was under pressure to consider adopting more ‘commercial’ material. Then ELP devised many great tracks, notably the excellent ‘Hand of Truth,’ that launches Disc 1 of this double CD set…
