Audio Source Quarter Inch Reel to Reel Tape
DGM Audio Quality
#
Title
Time

Marcus Music

King Crimson
London
9 Jun 1983

Thanks to Mr. Stormy’s endeavours this week, we get two for the price of one.
The recording of the Three Of A Perfect Pair album was one of the most difficult King Crimson recording sessions to date.

Work on the follow-up to Beat started at Champaign-Urbana in January (as documented on KCCC21) and then to Arny’s Shack in Dorset in May 1983. The sessions were hard going as the band struggled to write new material although Industry and Dig Me grudgingly emerged. Then the action changed location to Marcus Studio, in London where Beat had been recorded in June.

Here the band worked on a series of ideas that would eventually bear fruit. Yoli Yoli (available for purchase at Adrian Belew’s website) was a return to Waiting Man and the beginnings of Sleepless and Larks Tongues In Aspic Part III were amongst the tracks approached in outline.

As can be heard here, elements of these last two tracks were initially bound together before being slowly nudged apart three months later when Fripp visited Adrian in Champaign-Urbana, and finally separated in the sessions with the whole band at Bearsville studios in upstate New York in November 1983.

This track is available for download as part of a bumper collection of Mr Stormy's Monday Selections - his first year of random romps through the murky, cavernous DGM archives, torch in hand, fedora upon his head.


Larks' III into Sleepless - an alternative? A future? An alternative future?
Written by Jesse Morris
Subscription Icon
The sound quality on this is excellent. I bet some of this was used on the master; several elements ...
Written by Jesse Morris
Subscription Icon
Parts of the finished track?
Written by Daniel Kirkdorffer
I haven’t listened to TOAPP for a file, but some of the stuff in this recording definitely sound lik...
Written by Daniel Kirkdorffer
Submarines are lurking in my foggy ceiling
Written by Joel Sabin
I wouldn’t have imagined those two were once this one, but here they are. Interesting stuff. How did...
Written by Joel Sabin
Fascinating
Written by David F Snyder
Beginnings are invisible, but this brings the listener a step closer into the creative process of KC...
Written by David F Snyder
Just For You
ARTICLES

Jamie Muir 1942-2025

Jamie Muir, percussionist extraordinaire with King Crimson’s...

MORE

1996 Tour now on Nugs

Now available through our partnership with Nugs.net.

MORE

Go TLev - Mr Stormy Selection

Go TLev - Mr Stormy Selection

MORE

King Crimson on Nugs.net

King Crimson’s live recordings are officially streaming on N...

MORE

56 years ago at 193 Fulham Palace Road

56 years ago at 193 Fulham Palace Road

MORE

2024 Complete

2024 complete list of releases

MORE

Recent KC 2014 download problems

Recent KC 2014 download problems

MORE

The complete 2014 King Crimson Tour

The complete 2014 King Crimson Tour

MORE

KC's '82 full show on YouTube

KC's '82 full show on YouTube

MORE

Happy Birthday, Trey

TG is 64

MORE

Happy Birthday, Lizard

released 54 years ago today

MORE

Bill Bruford Interviewed

Bill Brufford Interviewed

MORE

2024 Releases

All 2024 releases, compiled!

MORE

Islands at 53

Released on this day in 1971

MORE

Mister Stormy's Monday Selection

The latest in Mister Stormy's Monday Selection (Occasional S...

MORE

Red: best albums of '74

Rolling Stone has released its list of the 74 best albums of...

MORE

Something for the weekend?

Bill B back live

MORE

Peter Sinfield RIP

Ex-KC lyricist dies at 81.

MORE

Peace. A discussion/tutorial.

Peace. A discussion/tutorial...

MORE

Good Evening, Amherst

Alex Mundy's rummage through the audience recording archive...

MORE
DIARIES

The Basement, Chateau Belewbeloid.

16.41

The event of the day: Martha Belew is 31 to...

MORE

Crimson Tourbus, Outside Hotel Acceptable, Phoenix.

01.00

Crimson Tourbus, Outside Hotel Acceptable,...

MORE

#504, Hotel Quite Acceptable, Vancouver.

00.15

A supportive & generous audience and wh...

MORE

Hotel Quite Acceptable, Vancouver.

11.03

The weather is changeable, a blue sky rapid...

MORE

Hotel Quite Acceptable, Vancouver.

23.57

We arrived at Denver International Airport,...

MORE

Hotel Quite Acceptable, Denver.

10.42

The sun is shining, the sky is mostly blue,...

MORE

Room Most Acceptable, Hotel Quite Acceptable.

11.00

Driving snow is blowing past on the other s...

MORE

Hotel Quite Acceptable, Denver.

23.15

And with free Ethernet access, too. A call...

MORE

Mobile HQ, Crimbus.

12.47

We left our hotel punctually at noon and ar...

MORE

Hotel Quite Acceptable, Chicago.

11.29

The sun is shining, the sky is blue. The vi...

MORE

Mobile HQ Crimbus Through the

07.46

Mobile, HQ, Crimbus.

Through the Ca...

MORE

Mobile HQ, Crimbus.

06.01

Mobile HQ, Crimbus.

Dribble dribble...

MORE

Mobile HQ, Crimson Tourbus, currently at W.42 & 8th. Avenue, NYCNY.

10.48

Mobile HQ, Crimson Tourbus, currently at W....

MORE

Hotel Designer.

00.09

We continue to pull astonishing errors from...

MORE

#809, Hotel Designer, W. 44th., New York.

05.00

Driving in from Jersey, through the Lincoln...

MORE

Hotel Acceptable, Alexandria, Virginia.

10.24

E-flurry discharged. Incoming mail included...

MORE

Fripp Mobile HQ, Alexandria.

12.20

The sun is shining, the sky is blue, it is...

MORE

The Rest of the World Tour.

11.15

The day has begun on Tourbus Quite Acceptab...

MORE

King Crimson Tour Bus of Beastliness & Wonder

11.00

The King Crimson Nashville To Asheville tou...

MORE

Mount Juliet.

09.47

Another grey day.

Rising late at 09...

MORE
DOWNLOADS

Wessex Studios Indoor Games And Happy Family

King Crimson
Wessex Studios
29 Sep 1970

MORE

Symphony Hall

King Crimson
Symphony Hall
28 Jun 1995

MORE

Wiltern Theatre

King Crimson
Wiltern Theatre
29 Jun 1995

MORE

PNC Arts Centre

King Crimson
PNC Art Centre
4 Sep 2021

MORE

Wiltern Theatre

King Crimson
Wiltern Theatre
30 Jun 1995

MORE

The Wake Of Poseidon (Greg Lake Vocal)

King Crimson
Wessex Studios
4 Mar 1970

MORE

Solo Scape And Drums

King Crimson
DGM Sound World I
29 Mar 2021

MORE

Massey Hall

King Crimson
Massey Hall
27 May 1995

MORE

Nautica Stage

King Crimson
Nautica Stage
8 Jun 1995

MORE

Mr Stormy's Monday Selection Vol. 14

King Crimson
DGM Sound World I
17 Feb 2025

MORE

Sus Tayn Z

King Crimson
DGM HQ
10 Dec 2015

MORE

Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream - Guitars & Bass

King Crimson
Real World
27 Oct 1994

MORE

Robert And Trey Sus-tayn-Z

King Crimson
DGM Soundworld I
1 Jun 2020

MORE

Command Studios Sailor's Tale

King Crimson
Command Studios
9 Sep 1971

MORE

KC 50 33 Form No. 1

King Crimson
DGMHQ Soundworld 1
23 Aug 2019

MORE

Queen Elizabeth Theatre Toronto Canada

King Crimson
Queen Elizabeth Theatre
20 Nov 2015

MORE

Command Studios Jam 2 Ladies 1 to 5 Ladies Backing and Vocals Overdubs

King Crimson
Command Studios
26 Aug 1971

MORE

Mr Stormy's Monday Selection Vol. 13

King Crimson
DGM Sound World I
22 Jan 2024

MORE

KC 50 31 Dr Diamond (live In Mainz)

King Crimson
DGMHQ Soundworld 1
9 Aug 2019

MORE

The Greek Theatre

King Crimson
The Greek Theatre
6 Aug 2021

MORE
ARTISTS

Robert Fripp

MORE

Bill Bruford

MORE

Gavin Harrison

MORE

Peter Giles

MORE

Jakko Jakszyk

MORE

Gordon Haskell

MORE

Andy McCulloch

MORE

Keith Tippett

MORE

Mark Charig

MORE

Nick Evans

MORE
PHOTO GALLERY