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Carl Palmer ‘reunites’ ELP at Wilbur show

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Prog-rock kingpins Emerson, Lake & Palmer wrote their share of songs about the blessing and curse of technology. And now technology is bringing the band back to life.
Prog-rock kingpins Emerson, Lake & Palmer wrote their share of songs about the blessing and curse of technology. And now technology is bringing the band back to life.
Drummer Carl Palmer has taken the reins for a show billed (after one of their lyrical catchphrases) as “Welcome Back My Friends: The Return of ELP,” which hits the Wilbur on Sunday. The show reunites him with keyboardist Keith Emerson and singer/bassist Greg Lake, both of whom died in 2016. Instead of using holograms, Palmer and his live trio will be synced to video footage of the band playing the Royal Albert Hall in 1991.
“Keith and Greg were both tech freaks, so I think they’d agree this is the way to do it,” Palmer said this week. “When I started thinking about this, I saw the hologram shows that were out there. I went to a Frank Zappa concert and wasn’t impressed, to tell you the truth. It was Frank’s face superimposed onto someone’s body of similar stature, so it wasn’t a very real deal. What I wanted was footage of the band at its very best, then my manager pointed out that we had this great footage that we’d shot for DVD.

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