Album: Do Ya Wanna Play, Carl?
Artist: Carl Palmer
2001 Sanctuary Records Group Ltd.
CD: CMEDD163

Bands:
ELP (1-12)
The Craig (13, 14)
The Chants (15)
Atomic Rooster (16)
Carl Palmer's PM (17, 18)
Mike Oldfield (19, 20)
Asia (21-23)
3 (24, 25)
Qango (26)
Carl Palmer and the Buddy Rich Orchestra (27)

Band member:
Carl Palmer: drums, percussion,
including xylophone, tympani, glockenspiel, tuned gongs, tubular bells (1); xylophone (10)

Additional musicians include:
Keith Emerson: keyboards (1-12)
Greg Lake: bass, guitar, vocals (1-12)
Joe Walsh: lead guitar (7)
James Blades: marimba (10)
Eddie Amoo: lead vocals (15)
Vincent Crane: keyboards (16)
Steve Howe: guitar (21-23)
John Wetton: bass, vocals (21-23)
Geoff Downes: keyboards (21-23)

Produced by Carl Palmer (1-4, 6, 7, 10, 12, 16-18, 24-27), Larry Page (13)
(P): 1966 (13-15), 1970 (16), 1973 (5), 1977 (2, 4, 6, 7, 9-11), 1978 (8), 1980 (17, 18), 1982 (19, 21, 22), 1983 (23), 1988 (24, 25), 2000 (26), 2001 (1, 3, 12, 20, 27)

Tracks:
CD One:
1. Concerto for Percussion [Joseph Horovitz/Palmer]
2. The Enemy God Dances with the Black Spirits [Prokofiev]
3. The Pancha Suite [Palmer]
4. Bullfrog [Palmer/Aspery/Hodgkinson]
5. Toccata [Ginastera, arr. Emerson; percussion movement: Palmer]
6. Close But Not Touching [Palmer/Harry South]
7. LA Nights [Palmer/Emerson]
8. Canario [Rodrigo-Vidre]
9. Tank [Emerson/Palmer]
10. Two Part Invention in D minor [Bach, arr. Palmer]
11. Fanfare for the Common Man [Copeland, arr. Emerson/Lake/Palmer]
12. March Militaire [Schubert, arr. Palmer]

CD Two:
13. I Must be Mad [Brown]
14. Suspense [Brown]
15. Love Light [Amoo]
16. Decline and Fall [Crane/Palmer/Nick Graham]
17. You've Got Me Rockin' [Cochran]
18. Dynamite [John Nitzinger]
19. Mount Teidi [Oldfield]
20. Ready Mix [Oldfield/Palmer]
21. Heat of the Moment [Wetton/Downes]
22. Wildest Dreams [Wetton/Downes]
23. Time Again [Howe/Downes/Wetton/Palmer]
24. Desda la Vida
    i. La Vista [Emerson/Robert Berry/Palmer]
    ii. Frontera [Emerson]
    iii. Sangre de Toro [Emerson/Palmer]
25. Eight Miles High [Clark/McGuinn/Crosby; revised lyric: Emerson/Berry/Palmer]
26. Hoedown (Live) [Copland; arr. Emerson/Lake/Palmer]
27. Shawnee (Live) [Barone]

Notes: Subtitled both Anthology and One More Time!, this compilation spans Carl Palmer's career from his first recorded output with The Craig in 1966 to a live track in 2000 with Qango (Wetton/Palmer band that emerged from the failed Asia reunion of 1999). Unreleased material consists of the famous 23 minute "Concerto for Percussion" by Joseph Horowitz (with a scherzo in the fourth movement by Palmer) and two shorter pieces with ELP ("The Pancha Suite"—recorded around the same time as "Bullfrog", "March Militaire"—from the same session as the concerto); a track from the Five Miles Out sessions with Mike Oldfield; and a piece with the Buddy Rich Orchestra. The three Asia songs, the Yes link for this album, all come from the band's debut, Asia. (HP, 5 Jun 01)


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