King Crimson

King Crimson - 1982-09-29 Munich, DE (2012)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 26, 2024
King Crimson - 1982-09-29 Munich, DE (2012)

King Crimson - 1982-09-29 Munich, DE (2012)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet| 1:10:30 | 411 Mb
Genre: Progressive Rock

Tight, complex, and startlingly ambitious, the gig represents the kind of thing Rolling Stone's Chip Stern had in mind when he declared "Crimson creates a new kind of electronic string music that achieves an orchestral density without resorting to ersatz art-rock bombast."The gig was screened on German TV as part of a popular series that featuring the touring bands of the day, though quite how the wider TV audience responded to Crimson's brand of 80s gamelan-inspired direction isn't known.

King Crimson - 1973-10-26 London, UK (2019)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 26, 2024
King Crimson - 1973-10-26 London, UK (2019)

King Crimson - 1973-10-26 London, UK (2019)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:29:08 | 524 Mb
Genre: Progressive Rock

Although their UK Autumn tour consisted of just six dates King Crimson were on stunning form as this great-sounding audience recording demonstrates.Alongside the warmly-received Larks’ Tongues In Aspic material, including a truly blistering Part I, this concert also highlights tracks which would ultimately appear on their next release in 1974.The Nightwatch, Lament, and Fracture, on which you’ll hear Bruford exclaim at almost precisely the same point he would eighteen gigs later at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, had been rolled out in America earlier in the month. It’s interesting to note how well bedded-in the renditions at The Rainbow are, each exuding a devil-may-care insouciance in places.

King Crimson - 1984-06-08 San Diego, CA (2024)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 7, 2024
King Crimson - 1984-06-08 San Diego, CA (2024)

King Crimson - 1984-06-08 San Diego, CA (2024)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet| 1:36:14 | 565 Mb
Genre: Rock

San Diego was the last of nine dates Crimso played opening for Tool and it catches them on dazzling form. The gigs were part of a wider KC roadtrip which took in a total of 21 concerts as the band tried and tested material for what would eventually become The Power To Believe.

King Crimson - 1972-11-10 Hull, UK (2007)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 4, 2024
King Crimson - 1972-11-10 Hull, UK (2007)

King Crimson - 1972-11-10 Hull, UK (2007)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:42:46 | 496 Mb
Genre: Rock

Wow - the DGMLive debut of Jamie Muir era Crim! Following some warm-up shows in Germany (documented on KCCC20) and a one-off date in Redcar in October, the new line-up of King Crimson took to the stage of Hull’s Technical College to unleash a ferocious sound. The abrasive mixture of freshly composed material and off-the-top-of-their-head excursions into improvised territory was a dynamic and often challenging combination.Things are clearly still in development. LTIApt 1 has a rockier feel to it and is at this point still awaiting the familiar coda. The big improvised set-pieces shed light on the protracted nature of KC’s compositional techniques as licks from Fallen Angel and Doctor Diamond are thrown and tossed about long before they were ever distilled into songs.

King Crimson - 1973-09-20 Montreal, QC (2019)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 21, 2024
King Crimson - 1973-09-20 Montreal, QC (2019)

King Crimson - 1973-09-20 Montreal, QC (2019)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:13:18 | 425 Mb
Genre: Progressive Rock

This second date of the band’s last American tour of 1973 finds the quartet taking the material written during their August rehearsals for a spin in public. The concert platform was often a workshop in which King Crimson would test out new pieces as works-in-progress and, of course, instant compositions off the tops of their heads. As Robert makes clear in one of his on-stage announcements this concert is only the second time that Fracture, The Night Watch, and Lament have been publicly heard. There’s a degree of fluidity within David Cross’s parts for Fracture which itself has an extra expansive blowing section prior to the jagged chords that heralds the flight into the end section.

King Crimson - 1984-06-21 Milwaukee, WI (2013)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at Feb. 29, 2024
King Crimson - 1984-06-21 Milwaukee, WI (2013)

King Crimson - 1984-06-21 Milwaukee, WI (2013)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:17:39 | 516 Mb
Genre: Rock

“Hello! How was dinner?” Belew wryly enquires after blowing the doors out of the place with the barrage of Entry Of The Crims and an especially forceful LTIA 3 which has occasionally sounded a little unsteady on this tour. The sound on this audience recording is a little ragged in places but not at all muddy, allowing us to get a sense of what went down in Wisconsin. “We have some more of that weird kind of stuff if you like it” adds Belew at the end of an especially gothic reading of Industry which sounds like a tour through a horror house factory as opposed to a more traditional industrial setting. At the more conventional end of the repertoire Waiting Man possesses the sprightly energy that sounds like it was channeling Talking Heads’ I Zimbra. “We have some other things to play from our very yellow third album” quips Belew before launching into Man With An Open Heart, “we made it folks, three albums. Amazing!” This last comment only hints at the internal politics and personal difficulties which would bring this incarnation of Crimson to a halt after another 14 shows. Nevertheless, there’s a tremendous vigour to this show.

King Crimson - 1984-06-26 New York, NY (2019)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 5, 2024
King Crimson - 1984-06-26 New York, NY (2019)

King Crimson - 1984-06-26 New York, NY (2019)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:45:03 | 702 Mb
Genre: Rock

“Thank you very much. Continuing on at this moment we’d like to do some more music from our very yellow record,” says Adrian Belew straight after a powerful reading of Industry. It’s possible that some in the audience with long memories might have been reminded of Mars an earlier Crimson epic with a similarly dark and unforgiving feel as Industry.

King Crimson - 1973-04-05 Reggio Emilia, IT (1973)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 12, 2024
King Crimson - 1973-04-05 Reggio Emilia, IT (1973)

King Crimson - 1973-04-05 Reggio Emilia, IT (1973)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:16:22 | 396 Mb
Genre: Rock

Six days into the European leg of the LTIA tour Crimson are hitting their stride but on this murky audience recording John Wetton’s sore throat is having an impact and you can hear him straining on Easy Money in particular. He manages to rest it up for a while in the following improvisation, turning in some of his trademark monster bass work.
The improv that comes out of a delightful reading of Book Of Saturdays, still being played with accompanying tambourine at that point, continues the reflective mood with some charming interplay between bass and Fripp’s luscious chords setting up space for a gorgeous violin solo from Cross.

King Crimson - 1972-10-13 Frankfut, DE (2002)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 19, 2024
King Crimson - 1972-10-13 Frankfut, DE (2002)

King Crimson - 1972-10-13 Frankfut, DE (2002)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 1:55:03 | 565 Mb
Genre: Rock

In the excitement and stomach-churning anticipation before going on stage for this incarnation of Crimson's debut performance, one of the newly-formed five piece anxiously enquired[endtease]"What are we going to play?" Jamie Muir chipped in "Oh, Let's improvise."And they did.Quite a few in the audience that night would have been at the same club 18 months earlier to see the debut of the Islands-era Crim. And it's a fair bet that many were hoping to hear their old favourites.

King Crimson - 1982-09-24 Dijon, FR (2013)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at March 4, 2024
King Crimson - 1982-09-24 Dijon, FR (2013)

King Crimson - 1982-09-24 Dijon, FR (2013)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless +Booklet | 66:05 | 420 Mb
Genre: Rock

The quality of some gigs in the DGM archives present Alex Mundy with significant problems when it comes to restoring them and making the music available. Alex explains what he was up against with this particular concert.“I had transferred a 1/2" 8 track reel of this show, I had particular problem with the vocals on this show, but have managed to salvage them. What they had done was double up instruments on the 8 tracks, so I had to make copies of some of the tracks and isolate the sound source and EQ each one to get the best out of each instrument. There were only two reels of tape, and Waiting Man cuts in more than half way through, and the very end of a really good Sheltering Sky is missing. Neal and Jack and me is incomplete, and the very end of Heartbeat is missing, but don't get too despondent about these problems, as I think I managed to get a really good mix in the end, and what is here is of good performance quality.”