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Poll Question: Which do you orefer from these three keeping in mind the investment
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    Posted: April 28 2006 at 08:24
A real tough choice I think!!!!
 
keeping in mind the investment!!!
 
Knowing that the 4cd box is most likely to cost four times the price of the single CD


Edited by Sean Trane - April 28 2006 at 08:57
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Points: 7456 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2006 at 09:41
Great Deceiver for me.There's much more improv' than on the other live albums.David Cross's violin is also more to the fore.
    

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Do 'The Stanley' otherwise I'll thrash you with some rhubarb.
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Points: 20411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2006 at 10:07
Originally posted by Man Erg Man Erg wrote:

Great Deceiver for me.There's much more improv' than on the other live albums.David Cross's violin is also more to the fore.
    
Hi Lee,
I would tend to agree with you too!
the interest of those live albums are the improvs, more than the studio tracks done liveClap
 
but of all the improvs I heard from this period, none are as good ad the Asbury Park on USA
 
I choose also the Great Deceiver box-set, but I can afford it
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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Points: 1881 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2006 at 10:12
I would not go for USA, despite Asbury Park which is excellent, though no, I haven't heard the re-master of it that I believe has been done. I don't (yet) have any KC collectors live CD's, I know there's one featuring Jamie Muir, I'd like to have that! The Great Deceiver is well, great, includes the original of Providence plus Cross playing on Starless, as well as several other improv's, but my vote goes to The Night Watch because its all from one concert - the one in which several SABB album tracks were recorded - and it has a fantastic ending/encore with The Talking Drum, LTIA (II), then a splendid rendition of 21st Century SM. It's also a lot cheaper than the Great Deceiver, though that wouldn't influence me.
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Points: 7003 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: April 28 2006 at 16:40
Night Watch for me, although the Great Deceiver is fascinating and essential listening for the dedicated Crimson head. The remastered USA has a good version of Fracture, but that and Asbury Park are the only things which make it worth listening to.
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Points: 20411 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 02 2006 at 03:28
Hi Chris,
 
I agree that The Nightwatch is the most honest of the three picks in this list as there was one night of recording, period >> no choosing which version out of three or four  was the best.
let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword
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