[Roger -Dot- Lee(Admin)]

I, as usual, am going to be my ol' fence-sitting moderate self.

I'm not a huge fan of the tribute album (ANY tribute album, with the exception of a few cuts off of the Elton John album, and only because they did a better job of the music than Elton himself did).

That being said, let's look at the stylistic and musical issues involved. ELP did not do simple 4/4 (and, when they were feeling REALLY adventurous, 6/8) music. It's VERY complex and VERY difficult to pull off in even the best of situations. Much like (ObCompuGeeky) Perl, in that only Perl can really effectively compile and run perl scripts, ELP can truly only do ELP well.

Not to say that it wasn't a valliant attempt, it's just that they had some very lofty standards to follow...

Just my $.03(Canadian).