It just struck me that this is like the rock band in HitchHikers Guide to The Galaxy.
You have to get this for 21st Century Schizoid Man, it is just sooo good.īottom line, if you like KC then this is a must, in fact it is the very distortions and bass emphasis that make this rock, Fripp turned Wettons bass down on the live recordings because he said it was too loud, here all Bozs bass and Wallaces drums are right in your face, now you can hear what a crunch KC made live I presume that modern sonic miracles have bought out the best in this and it is really interesting. There is no idiot chatting to his pals as he records it either. Unlike the ELP stuff this is obviously off a soundboard, so, it doesnt sound as if it is recorded from the back of the hall with loads of echo and the band sounding far away. The bass is a bit on the boomy side, but all the instruments and vocals come through clearly. Well guess what? I don't know why folks rate it so lowly, it beats the pants off ELPs early Manticore bootlegs for sound quality, honest!! I just didn't want to spoil it all by getting an awful quality recording. I got this only after all the other ( well nearly all ) KC cds. With Robert Fripp & Mel Collins both appearing as current members of King Crimson & much of the material from the Islands era now being performed regularly by King Crimson – some of it for the first time since 1972 – Earthbound & its associated concert recordings have never been more timely, newly relevant a mere 45 years after release. The DVD also features the “Schizoid Men” sequence from the Ladies of the Road live album & a transfer of a 1972 vinyl edition of the Earthbound LP. This release also features 15 minutes of material not included on the original mail order only CD of Summit studios as issued by DGM in 2000.
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However, also included on the DVD of this release is the full performance from Summit Studios, captured on the same US tour in 1972, appearing in both new stereo & quadraphonic mixes, providing the only live surround recordings of this line-up.
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As a series of stereo only/low-fi recordings, a 5.1 edition was neither possible nor appropriate. The vinyl copy of the phenomenal live album Earthbound, is one of my most treasured possessions.” The new version of Earthbound features an expanded version of the original album on CD & DVD. “I grew up listening to a lot of the King Crimson stuff. When Robert Fripp was asked to guest on the second Grinderman project, Nick Cave noted: “I wanted to work with Robert Fripp because he has done some of the most uniquely unsettling guitar work I have ever heard along with some of the most delicate and finessed” explained Cave. Ironically this non-availability served to enhance interest in the album while DGM’s live releases made fans aware that there was a larger story to be told of this line-up’s history. Like the later live album, USA, Earthbound remained unavailable in the early CD era, with both finally being released in 2002 on CD. By then, the band had broken up & the label had already been alerted to the likelihood of a new King Crimson line-up promised for later in the year.
Atlantic in the USA didn’t even bother to release it. When issued, because of its mid-price it was excluded from the main album charts in the UK but topped the mid-price charts rubbing shoulders with Jim Reeves & Mantovani. Earthbound, originally released in 1972, was one of the earliest (if not the first) “official bootleg” released by a major rock band, consisting of a series of deliberately lo-fi live recordings of King Crimson’s Islands era line-up on tour in the USA.
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