(Blues Rock, Art Rock, Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock, Experimental) King Crimson - Live In Boston, MA, March 27, 1972 - 2009, MP3 (tracks), VBR 192-320 kbps

King Crimson Club #40, recorded at the Orpheum Theatre, Boston, MA
The latest Club offering from King Crimson once again revisits the Island era line up who played together in 1971 and 1972. The March 27th Boston gig was at the end of their second visit to the US and were supporting Yes, who were touring for Fragile. Such a situation was precipitated, according to the liner notes, by the instability of the band in their formative years. It was such that “nearly two years later in 1971 that the band returned to the USA. Having lost the momentum that a speculative tour during1970 might have gained them, Crimson were once again forced to ‘pay their dues’ supporting bands such as Procol Harum and Yes.”
This date survives in progressive rock mythology as the day when Bill Bruford approached Robert Fripp about joining Crimson with Fripp’s famous reply “I think you’re about ready now, Bill…”
Live in Boston, MA 1972 uses the same very good to excellent audience recording that was used on previous unofficial releases Celebration Of The Lizard (Gold Standard KC-21-94-05), Travellers Strum (KC-00 Music), Formentera Memories (All Of US AS33), and Colours Out Of Time(93-KC-020) which has “21st Century Schzoid Man” with from other shows. The tape has been professionally remastered, cleaned up and is an extremely enjoyable tape to hear.