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King Crimson
November 14, 1972 Town Hall, Watford, England

Album UK 2015 on DGMLive.com label
Rock (Prog Rock)

Five gigs into a 28-date tour and Crimso are on fine form in Watford on this decent quality audience recording. LTIA provides plenty of thrills and spills with the extraordinary interplay between Fripp and Wetton just before the whole band comes back in for the main theme and wind down into the violin and dulcimer duet between David Cross and Jamie Muir. With the coda still to be written, David Cross’s beautiful solo gracefully gives to way to Daily Games, as Book Of Saturday was still known at that time. The extended improvisation begins with the ascending theme that will be familiar to listeners of the Bremen recording, splurging out into a funk-spattered workout whose violent stop-start build-up is given greater urgency as Bruford breaks out one of his trademark shuffles. The second, though sadly truncated, major improv of the night opens and immediately the listener will recognise the arpegio that would be recycled into Fallen Angel. The assertive soloing from Cross against the motif places Crimson in a territory that wouldn’t sound out of place on an early Mahavishnu Orchestra album. Though Muir’s visual theatrics are obviously absent here, his thrashing of his kit and rig with chains comes over loud and clear in a superb Larks’ Tongues In Aspic Part 2. Ian Wildman was at the gig and was indeed responsible for ensuring the recording eventually found its way into the archive offers this eye-witness account. "One thing I remember about the concert is the power of the band and how the audience reacted at the end-totally won over! I also recall Jamie taking most of the stage with his kit, thrashing his metal plates during Larks II. I also seem to remember he did most of the drumming during Schizoid, Bill seemed to take a back seat."

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	King Crimson , *1968 GB album by
	John Wetton voc, b, *1949 GB bass guitar, vocals
	Bill Bruford dr, perc, *1949 GB drums, percussion
	Robert Fripp g, *1946 GB guitar, mellotron
	Jamie Muir perc, GB percussion, allsorts
	David Cross vn, vl, *1949 GB violin, viola, mellotron

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