What's the best King Crimson live album? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Unpopular opinion but Earthbound is my personal fav. Love how raw and noisy it is.

D~B

JD wrote:

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.

Good Call. Agree! If you haven't check out the Live Irvine meadows (ToAPP tour). It's killer. Ade and Bruford were on fire. Fripp did his tronics for 10 minutes at the start. It's a collectors club release.

If you don't care for TCoL, you will... If you Listen to Hollywood House of Blues shows. (CC release also.) Trey was very impressive, and Robert was on fire that night. He shredded and shredded at length.

The Studio TCoL does not do the music justice. Any Live version knocks it up tenfold.

Edited by Valdez1 - April 09 2024 at 16:44

[never mind - I mis-read the topic title]

Edited by Floydoid - April 10 2024 at 09:17

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My conclusion is that some bands are damn good regardless and choosing one over the other is tough, specially when they are different.

It's hard to not feel that the Jamie Muir stuff was so important and far out ... but I think that RF was having a hard time with the improvisation nature of it, which in a couple of bits and pieces on the net, are just fabulous, and I would say they are my favorite ... and remember that Bill Bruford was also there and he did not hurt ... he added some nice touches. It was as if Bill could tell what Jamie was doing and he merely added the needed touches. That's a rarity in rock music, where most folks are afraid of letting go on the stage and it will ruin the guitarist's solo ... wow ... such a big miss, huh?

In reality, the way to experience KC is LIVE, not in a recording, even though you eventually (specially in a DVD) get to see some bits and pieces that we consider better. Other than any of the Muir bits, I'm not sure that KC is that special, other than LIVE anywhere. The 3 drummers on the DVD, or CD are not as effective as they are LIVE when you hear all the fills, bumps and grinds.

The only time I dislike "live" by anyone is when the stuff is mailed ... and many top bands are like that, and one of the reasons why I don't really bother with it ... and we're not talking new bands ... I think many of these have lost their desire ... that took them to the top ... and now humiliated by singing the same song for the 1000th time ... and the "The Piano Man" gets cut off by a commercial ...

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