Emerson, Lake & Palmer performed on this day in 1973 at Friedrich-Eberthalle in Ludwigshafen, Germany.
After a spate of cancelled dates in France, ELP resumed their Get Me A Ladder Tour, returning to Germany, where the tour had originally begun. This tour could be seen as a staging ground for their upcoming Brain Salad Surgery Tour, featuring a similar level of remarkable theatrics.
This concert is known to have been recorded. It is in circulation online.
The band appeared at Friedrich-Eberthalle, a stadium which has very little English information available. It was built in 1965, and is known for an architecturally interesting exterior.
There are multiple spaces within the venue; I am guessing (but cannot confirm) that the band performed in the Great Hall, which can hold as many as 4,100 people.
Its website can be found here, and a virtual tour of the site with some interesting information can be found here.
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Venue Sources
- https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&hl=en&prev=search&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=de&sp=nmt4&u=http://virtual.ludwigshafen-eberthalle.de/&usg=ALkJrhhE6wj_orqldGVpXumw9EAMdAOBpg
- https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=https://ludwigshafen-eberthalle.de/&prev=search