In the earliest live versions of the piece, as seen in the "Pictures at an Exhibition" concert film from the Lyceum in December 1970, Lake would sing a few verses of the folk standard "Old Blue" toward the end of his acoustic guitar interlude. In later live versions of "Take a Pebble", the Greg Lake song "Lucky Man" (and later, "Still...You Turn Me On" followed by "Lucky Man" - as recorded on "Welcome Back My Friends to the Show That Never Ends... Ladies and Gentlemen") was added to the Greg Lake folk-style acoustic guitar section, followed by a solo Keith Emerson jazz and blues piano medley of tunes (that the band would join in on the very end of), followed by a "Take a Pebble" band improvisation moving between F-minor and Eb-Minor (often featuring Palmer on timpani), and then the conclusion of the piece.