KING CRIMSON — Live In Kassel, 1974 (review)

KING CRIMSON — Live In Kassel, 1974 album cover Promos, fans club and other releases (no bootlegs) · 2007 · Proto-Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
4.5/5 ·
Warthur
Right at the tail end of King Crimson's European tour of 1974 - followed by the grand slog through the USA which culminated in David Cross leaving the band and, shortly after, Robert Fripp dissolving the group following the recording of Red - this Kassel gig, captured on decent-quality soundboard tapes, finds the band in an aggressive mood, like they're roaring to see the finish line just up ahead. The set is incomplete - it cuts out partway through Fracture - but the quality of what you get is superb and it's only this incompleteness which stops it getting five stars. Then again, if you're digging this deep into this phase of the band's history, you may as well get the Starless boxed set - which includes this plus all the other surviving soundboard tapes from this tour.
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