Academy Of Music

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Academy Of Music
28
Apr
1973

Academy Of Music

New York
“Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for that generous simmer of enthusiasm. It’s very exciting for King Crimson to be back in New York. There are times when I didn’t think we’d make it, I’m glad we did. The first piece for this evening was a new paranoic, mind-blowing, cosmic, cataclysmic King Crimson song, Doctor D,” says Fripp to a highly appreciative New York audience after the tongue-twisting opener and a finger-blistering rendition of Larks Part One.

In between those two numbers, we hear an excited punter shout a request for Cirkus. If the difference between the last incarnation of the band performing Cirkus in early 1972 and the new formation on stage that night in 1973 hadn’t been immediately obvious then it would become so after LTIA. Providing so many springboards for some remarkable moments. the number really is a tour de force.

After setting something of an exacting standard for the evening the team sweeps through Easy Money and comes out in a terrific improv albeit one with borders and framing devices which ensure they all turn on a dime. The remaining numbers are also played with the same vigour and commitment.

After some short vectoring beforehand, the build throughout The Talking Drum doesn’t disappoint, providing the perfect setup for LTIA Pt 2 wherein it’s especially gratifying to hear the audience applaud David Cross’s frantic soloing near the end of the number.

As audience recordings go, this one is pretty damn good and as such affords us a pretty decent audio snapshot of the band in action on the ninth date of their first American tour as a quartet.
Academy Of Music

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TRACK
TIME
01
Doctor Diamond
04:24
02
Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part I
10:48
03
RF Announcement And Tune Up
02:01
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Easy Money
07:22
05
Improv I
06:38
06
Exiles
07:31
07
Book Of Saturday
02:57
08
Improv Intro
01:44
09
The Talking Drum
05:26
10
Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part II
07:02
11
21st Century Schizoid Man
07:42

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28
Apr
1973

Academy Of Music

New York
Written by Chistopher Ballard
Very Interesting Listen!
I've always been a fan of Larks era King Crimson, and this Bootleg doesn't disappoint, A full play-through of every LTiA song, in addition to some improv that i swear sounds like a unpolished version of "Guts on My Side" from the 40th anniversary version of Starless and Bible Black. Honestly worth it just to hear that, plus a performance of Dr. Diamond. A great listen for a Larks fan!
Written by Chris Inguanta
Great show
Nice bootleg, one of the better ones. Particularly funny was the person constantly asking KC to play Cirkus. Highly recommended.
Written by Richard Reina
I was at this show! My first time seeing KC
I've only sampled the download a little bit, but so far, am impressed with the sound quality given that it's a bootleg. More importantly to me, this was the first time I saw KC and the first time I saw Bill Bruford live. After this show, I became a lifelong fan. Whatever my opinion of the remainder of the recording, I have a deep emotional attachment to this show. Thank you for making it available!

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