King Crimson USA - Blue Sparkle 200 Gram Vinyl - Sealed UK 2-LP vinyl set (2024)

KING CRIMSON USA (50th Anniversary 2024 UK/EU limited edition double album 2-LP pressed on super heavyweight 200-gram Blue Sparkle Vinyl, the complete 1974 Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA concert, mixedand produced by Robert Fripp, David Singleton and Tony Arnold. USA was the first official live recording of this incendiary mid-1970s King Crimson incarnation - Bill Bruford, David Cross, Robert Fripp, John Wetton - and captures the band at its most powerful. Housed inside a gatefold picture sleeve with hype sticker, factory sealed. Recommended)

TRACKLISTING AND EXTRA INFORMATION
Released on the exact 50th anniversary date of the original concert recording at The Casino, Asbury Park, New Jersey, USA, on June 28th, 1974. The complete concert taken from the 2013 mix of the full concert by Robert Fripp, David Singleton and Tony Arnold.

From one of the last few concerts of King Crimson’s final US tour of the ‘70s, USA was issued as an epitaph for the band in Spring 1975 as a single album, at a time when doubles or even triple live albums were considered more the norm for live releases. Deleted towards the end of the vinyl era in the mid-1980s, it remained unreleased in the CD era until the expanded edition was finally issued in October 2002. In common with much of Crimson’s output, it was not well received by critics when originally released, though its critical reputation grew immeasurably in the intervening years to the point where a review of the “21st Century Guide to King Crimson” boxed set in 2004 identified the album as the point “…where Fripp maps out the guitar blueprint for the entire post-punk movement.”

If that claim sounds somewhat exaggerated, a casual listen to the opening minutes of the album – where the ethereal ‘Walk On..’ tape of Fripp and Eno’s No puss*footing gives way to the sonic assault of ‘Larks’ II’ – provides ample evidence to back up the claim. It’s also worth noting the audience response to the band – especially at the end of ‘Starless’, a piece that had yet to be recorded in the studio at that point.

The 1972/1974 King Crimson line-ups is now revered by critics and fans alike as one of the key bands of the era – a reputation enhanced by DGM’s archival live releases from that period, starting with “The Great Deceiver” released in 1992, through to the multi-disc boxed sets of more recent years.

Originally issued on vinyl in 2018 as part of the second King Crimson vinyl series boxed sets and only briefly available as a standalone set from that box, this vinyl reissue is much sought after by King Crimson fans and presents the 2013 mix of the concert by Robert Fripp, David Singleton and Tony Arnold.

Side 1
1. Walk On.. No puss*footing
2. Larks’ Tongues In Aspic: Part II
3. Lament
4. Exiles

Side 2
1. Asbury Park
2. Easy Money
3. Improv

Side 3
1. Fracture
2. 21st Century Schizoid Man

Side 4
1. Starless

Artist - King Crimson (click link for complete listing)
Title - USA (click link for more of the same title)
Release Date - 28 Jun 2024
Year of Release - 2024
Format - 2-LP vinyl record set (Double LP Album)
Record Label - Inner Knot Panegyric
Catalogue No - KCLLPC152 (click link for more)
Country of Origin - United Kingdom (UK)
Language - Regardless of country of origin all tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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Additional info - Sealed, Picture Sleeve
Barcode - 633367796615
Condition - Factory sealed from new. This item is unplayed.

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Related Artists - 21st Century Schizoid Band, Adrian Belew, Al Et Al, Boz Burrell, CJ3: Crimson Jazz Trio, David Cross, Eddie Jobson, Freeway, , Gordon Haskell, Ian McDonald, Ian Wallace (Crim), Jack-Knife, John Wetton, , Michael Giles, Mogul Thrash, Pete Sinfield, Qango, Robert Fripp, , Ten Seconds, The California Guitar Trio, The Grid / Fripp, , Trendsetters Limited, Trey Gunn, U.K..

GENRES
70s Rock, 70s Artists, Progressive.

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