On This Day (April 10)…A Ladder to Ludwigshafen

Emerson, Lake & Palmer performed on this day in 1973 at Friedrich-Eberthalle in Ludwigshafen, Germany.

Ticket for the show. Retrieved from here.

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.

Cover of bootleg of this show. Retrieved from here.
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Alternate cover for the bootleg. Retrieved from here.

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.

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Exterior of the hall. Retrieved from here.

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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