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THE GREAT DECEIVER: LIVE 1973 - 1974

King Crimson

 

Eclectic Prog

4.57 | 416 ratings

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Evolver
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Crossover & JR/F/Canterbury Teams
5 stars In the seventies, the golden era of prog, the genre reached it's crescendo with this lineup of King Crimson. Bold, exciting, and extremely experimental, this group pushed the envelope with every performance.

Before this release (long before any King Crimson Collectors Club CDs), the only live release of this version of Crimson was the USA album, and the few songs on Frame By Frame. This boxed set gave us the Fripp Cross Wetton Bruford band in all of it's splendor. The group could be sloppy at times, but they more than made up for that with dark but wild music.

I had wanted to get this to hear live versions of many of my favorite Crimson songs. The Great Deceiver is just amazing, Cat Food is very cool as well, with Fripp making up for the lack of Keith Tippett on the track. The two versions of Larks' Tongues In Aspic - Part I are good, but lack the power of the original. And three versions of Easy Money gets a bit tedious.

But the real treasure of this collection are the improvs. In it you get to hear the brilliance of this band, with all members weaving through the jams, with a true ear for dark weirdness. And at times, you can hear hints of what sounds like ideas used on later albums.

A must for the King Crimson fan.

4.5 stars, rounded up.

Evolver | 5/5 |

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