On This Day (April 26)…Another Ladder to Vienna

Emerson, Lake & Palmer performed on this day in 1973 at the Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria.

Ticket for the show. Retrieved from here.

This was the second of two dates the band performed in Vienna during their Get Me a Ladder Tour. Austria was the second-to-last country they performed in during this short but influential tour.

This was also the last date the band performed prior to a set of forced postponements and cancellations due to bassist Greg Lake’s development of laryngitis. This forced a five-day break in the tour while Lake recovered in time for the final set of dates in Italy.

There is no known recording of this concert.

I talk more about the Konzerthaus in Vienna, the storied location of this performance, here.

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