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What's the best King Crimson live album? |
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Sacro_Porgo 
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 Topic: What's the best King Crimson live album?Posted: January 15 2021 at 14:46 |
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I was going to make a poll but then I realized they have like 30 or some crazy number like that. Which one is the best?
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Posted: January 15 2021 at 14:50 |
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It's hard to vote against The Great Deceiver.
Although some live albums from the current band are tops, such as Chicago 2017 and the Meltdown set.
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Posted: January 15 2021 at 14:59 |
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Great Deceiver
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JD
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Posted: January 15 2021 at 15:13 |
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Without exaggeration I have over 200 live recordings of KC from all across their career. I have no idea how I'd pick one. Now if we take all the KC Club releases out of the mix and stick to the recordings on PA Then The Great Deceiver: Live 1973 - 1974 or The Night Watch would be my picks. But my pride and joy is a bootleg I did of Robert Fripp performing his Frippertronics and doing a combo lecture Q&A at The University of Toronto. He mentioned multiple times his dislike for bootleg recordings and I felt like such a naughty boy for doing it, but it turned out great and was for sure a one off performance.
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Posted: January 15 2021 at 16:27 |
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I love the late '72 shows with Muir, especially the Bremmen and Newcastle from the ever-growing KCC series.
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I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Posted: January 15 2021 at 17:02 |
So they had live shows before the larks tongues in aspic album was released? Interesting.
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Posted: January 15 2021 at 17:07 |
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I like Absent Lovers (Live in Montreal, 1984) a lot.
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Posted: January 15 2021 at 18:11 |
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There are too many of them, each one with very speacial moments, which makes it even harder to choose.
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Posted: January 15 2021 at 18:59 |
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For me, it's Collectable King Crimson vol 1. Overall, I like it even better than The Great Deceiver. It's got two shows, The Mainz one could have a better sound quality, but I really love the performances (and still the sound is good enough to be perfectly enjoyable, anyway), and the other is the same show from USA, but without edits nor overdubs, and in general the album has most of my favourite versions of the songs of the time.
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Posted: January 15 2021 at 19:41 |
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Has anybody honestly listened to all of them?
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Posted: January 15 2021 at 23:10 |
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Ha! I was JUST looking at the Live KC albums yesterday over a quick breakfast! The Great Deceiver all the way for me. It's also my favorite era and line-up, so I'm probably biased.
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Posted: January 15 2021 at 23:42 |
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Radical Action for me, but you can't go wrong w/ Meltdown, Chicago or Great Deceiver. KC is stunning live
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Posted: January 16 2021 at 00:15 |
I was at the Chicago 2017 show, it was jaw-dropping amazing!! June 18, 2017....Chicago Theater, an amazing, old and elegant venue.
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I’ve seen this (I think??) bootleg floating around called Mirrors. released in italy in 1990 on cd. It featured the 11/13/1973 concert in Rome. I can’t stop listening to it. It’s on Youtube aswell. They were road-testing tracks from S&BB, played all the LTIA tracks, and even played Cat Food, which was something Wetton pushed fripp to do constantly. Its a very powerful and unreal experience.
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Posted: January 16 2021 at 10:56 |
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Oh, f', that's USA. Really in the moment, even if it's sweetened by Eddie Jobson on Larks' Tongues' and Lament.
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Posted: January 16 2021 at 11:00 |
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"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno
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Posted: January 16 2021 at 11:58 |
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'The Night Watch', 'Radical Action...' and 'THRAkaTTacK' are my top three!
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Posted: January 16 2021 at 18:36 |
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Of all the questions ever asked on Prog Archives this one would have to be the hardest. Impossible. A simple answer would be to keep saying the last one.
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Posted: January 16 2021 at 18:45 |
If you did it for private use only Fripp would probably not have any objections. He is only against people making a buck with bootlegs.
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Posted: January 16 2021 at 20:03 |
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^Nary a nickle made. As all of my concert recordings are...just for me. But as I recall and it was Apr. 01 1983, he mentioned something about "The Moment" and how it was meant to be experienced in not again and again. So it seemed about more than just monetization at the time. Maybe he changed his tune over time?
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