Greg Lake - From the Beginning: Retrospective (2005)

CD1
1. In The Court Of The Crimson King - King Crimson
2. Cat Food - King Crimson
3. Knife Edge - Emerson Lake & Palmer
4. Lucky Man - Emerson Lake & Palmer
5. From The Beginning - Emerson Lake & Palmer
6. Take A Pebble - Emerson Lake & Palmer
7. Still - Sinfield, Pete
8. Still You Turn Me On - Emerson Lake & Palmer
9. Jerusalem - Emerson Lake & Palmer
10. Karn Evil 9 - Emerson Lake & Palmer
11. I Believe In Father Christmas - Lake, Greg
12. C'est La Vie - Lake, Greg
13. Closer To Believing - Lake, Greg
14. Watching Over You - Lake, Greg
15. 21st Century Schizoid Man - Lake, Greg

CD2
1. Nuclear Attack - Lake, Greg
2. Love Too Much - Lake, Greg
3. It Hurts - Lake, Greg
4. Retribution Drive - Lake, Greg
5. Lie - Lake, Greg
6. Let Me Love You Once - Lake, Greg
7. Manoeuvres - Lake, Greg
8. I Don't Know Why I Still Love You - Lake, Greg
9. Touch And Go - Emerson Lake & Palmer
10. Lay Down Your Guns - Emerson Lake & Palmer
11. Love Under Fire - Lake, Greg
12. Money Talks - Lake, Greg
13. Black Moon - Emerson Lake & Palmer
14. Paper Blood - Emerson Lake & Palmer
15. Affairs Of The Heart - Emerson Lake & Palmer
16. Daddy - Emerson Lake & Palmer
17. Heart Of Ice - Emerson Lake & Palmer

Greg Lake - Bass, Guitar, Vocals
Richard Brunton - Guitar
Clarence Clemons - Saxophone
Willie Cochrane - Pipe
Mel Collins - Flute, Saxophone
Bill Cumom – Keyboards
Steve Dolan - Bass
Geoffrey Downes – Keyboards
Keith Emerson - Keyboards
Tommy Eyre - Keyboards, Vocals
Robert Fripp - Guitar, Mellophonium
Michael Giles - Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Peter Giles – Bass
David Hungate - Bass
Phil Jump - ComOrgan (Hammond), Piano, String Machine
Jode Leigh - Drums
Steve Lukather 	- Guitar
Tristian Margetts - Bass
Greg Mathieson - Keyboards
Paula Mattioli -	Vocals (Background)
Ian McDonald - Keyboards, Mellophonium, Reeds, Vibraphone, Vocals, Woodwind
Ted McKenna - Drums
David Milner - Pipe
Min - Drums, Percussion
Gary Moore - Guitar, Vocals
Dean Parks - Guitar
Jeff Porcaro - Drums
Cozy Powell - Drums, Percussion
Godfrey Salmon - Conductor, Orchestration
Peter Sinfield - Synthesizer, Vocals
Keith Tippett - Piano
W.G. Snuffy Walden - Guitar
Bill Wray - Vocals (Background)

Let's face it -- no matter how far he gets stylistically from his work with Emerson, Lake & Palmer, and he has gotten very far afield from it at times, Greg Lake's fandom is always going to be rooted in his work with the prog rock trio during the 1970s and its various incarnations since. So it's no surprise that the entire first half of this two-and-a-half-hour double-CD set is devoted to his music with King Crimson and ELP in one form or another. The down side for fans is that most people who would buy this double-CD set will already have many of the tracks on the first disc -- the only exceptions are the live 1972 version of "Take a Pebble" from the Mar y Sol Festival, which was a better showcase for Lake than for Emerson or Palmer, and "Still," the title track from Pete Sinfield's 1973 solo album, on which Lake shared the lead vocals with Sinfield; the producers were also obviously limited in what they could license of Lake's King Crimson work, or else they might well have included "Epitaph," but "Catfood" is a good substitute, as an unusually hard-rocking track off of the second Crimson album, which they're less likely to own. That all might be enough to lure ELP fans to buy this set -- if it isn't, however, then the second disc comes into play in terms of interest, devoted to Lake's harder-rocking solo material, as well as his forays with Emerson, Lake & Powell and the latter-day, re-formed Emerson, Lake & Palmer into the 1990s. His 1981 solo reinterpretation of Crimson's "Schizoid Man," which closes out the first disc, lacks the urgency of the 1969 Crimson original -- in those days, Robert Fripp would even jape at Lake for performing the song. But the solo tracks on disc two successfully show off Lake's heavier guitar-oriented sound, featuring Thin Lizzy alumnus Gary Moore, and could be a revelation for casual ELP fans who know Lake best as a romantic balladeer. The whole package works through its contrasts, the first disc covering the familiar with a few rarities while the second offers the highlights of what most casual ELP fans will likely not own, including one very beautiful previously unreleased solo track, "Love Under Fire." In the end, the distillation of the later material pays off for fans whose interest is centered on Lake's classic sides, and there are just enough rarities from that period to put the set over as essential for fans (it's not as though the Mar y Sol album is going to be reissued anytime soon). In 2005, the 32-song set was reissued in the U.K. by Castle Music with updated notes and CD-ROM enhancement for the first disc. ---Bruce Eder, AllMusic Review

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