1972-November

King Crimson	Improvisations  (Reel Masters-002)


Disc 1  -  46.53
1	No Pussyfooting		 2.01	72-Nov-10 *
2	Larks' Tongues 1  >	10.04
3	Book Of Saturday	 3.21
4	Fripp Talks		 1.16
5	Tuning			  .25
6	Improvisations  >	29.09
7	Exiles			  .33	inc


Disc 2  -  46.09
1	Intro			 1.31	72-Nov-25 *
2	Larks' Tongues 1	12.36
3	Fripp Talks		 1.29
4	Tuning			 1.00
5	Book Of Saturday  >	 2.52
6	Improvisations  >	19.30
7	Exiles			 7.07


	* 72-Nov-10:  Technical College - Hull, England

	* 72-Nov-25:  New Theatre - Oxford, England


Bill Bruford		Drums
David Cross		Violin
Robert Fripp		Guitar, Mellotron
Jamie Muir		Percussion
John Wetton		Bass, Vocals


Notes that came with this recording:

2 partial shows from November '72 tour featuring now legendary 
percussionist, Jamie Muir.  This would be a nice companion to 
DGM's Live In Guildford that captures the same tour.  Sound quality 
is decent enough for early 70s mono audience tape - you'll make 
out Muir's playing far and wide.  Highlights are two long 
improvisations on which Muir plays an important key role as the 
driving force of the band.  Nice stuff.  Enjoy!

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Notes about this recording from the great King Crimson Live site:

Several years ago, I heard a strange rumor - a certain Japanese 
music critic (KM) has recorded a couple of KC shows in 1972 
fall/winter tour.

A few weeks later, a CDR was sent to me from an anonymous person 
(how he could get my address is another mystery), and I found it 
contained the 45 miniute recording of the 1972/11/25 Oxford show, 
among others. It was a quite clear audience recording, considering 
the age it was recorded. I have never heard of such clear one in 
this tour. The package was also containing the message - "You should 
not list it in your web page, nor tell it to anyone". So I've been 
keeping silence to this date. Or should I say I've been forgetting it??
Time flies like an arrow and it was early April 2004. When I visited 
a record store in Nishi-Shinjuku, the owner of the store has kindly 
shown me an open-reel master tape, saying it's one of the the rarest 
King Crimson recordings which has never been outside the vault. As 
soon as I saw the date and the setlist, I remembered this recoding. 
"Oh, I have it!". He told me that this was going to be released after 
3 weeks.

Now, the tape was released publicly as a bootleg, also including the 
Hull show, I do not have to keep silence anymore. The occasional 
microphone noises implies it's the same recording as what was sent 
to me (But my CDR sounds a bit clearer ??). As I described above, 
it's not the "recordings no one ever heard" as this production 
says - it was actually shared silently among the KC enthusiasts in Japan.

The copies of this release are 300 only, so I hope it will be in the 
KCCC eventually.