King Crimson - The Great Deceiver: Live 1973-1974 '1992

Artist	King Crimson Related artists
Album name	The Great Deceiver: Live 1973-1974
Country
Date	1992
Genre
Play time	05:55:18
Format / Bitrate	Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz MP3 320 Kbps
Media	CD
Size	1,7 GB (+3\%rec.)
Price	Download $8.95

Order this album and it will be available for purchase and further download within 12 hours

Pre-order album

Tracks list

In King Crimsons extensive catalog of archival recordings and box sets, The
Great Deceiver (Live 1973-1974) is the undisputed winner, the item truly worth
acquiring. The four-CD set Frame by Frame, released 18 months earlier, was light
on material previously unavailable and included a few edits and overdubs on
classic King Crimson tracks that shocked the fans. Epitaph, another four-CD
collection culled from the groups first live shows in 1969, boasted
understandably flawed sound and more repetitive content. But The Great Deceiver
has it all. Over four discs, the set chronicles the on-stage activity between
October 1973 and June 1974 of the most powerful King Crimson lineup. Robert
Fripp, John Wetton, David Cross, and Bill Bruford were mostly performing
material from their previous two LPs (Larks Tongues in Aspic and Starless and
Bible Black). Yes, the track list remains pretty much the same from one show to
another, but the group approaches each night from a different angle, changing
the arrangements on the fly to suit the prevailing mood - check out the
chameleon-esque Easy Money, presented in four guises, for tangible proof. Most
importantly, the group performed unpredictable improvisations that embodied the
struggle between order and chaos that Fripp thrived to express in penned songs
like Starless and Fracture. The live tapes have been beautifully mastered so
that the music hits hard without losing the subtle nuances of Cross violin. At
the time of its release, The Great Deceiver filled a gap in the groups
discography (the live album USA had not been officially reissued yet), but even
after tons of additional concerts from that period were released by Fripps
label, Discipline, this box set still stands as the definitive argument to
consecrate the 1973-1974 Crimson as its most exciting incarnation.


Tracks:



CD 1: Things Are Not As They Seemâ€¦

01. Walk On â€¦ No Pussyfooting
02. Larks Tongues In Aspic, Part Two
03. Lament
04. Exiles
05. Improv - A Voyage To The Centre Of The Cosmos
06. Easy Money
07. Improv - Providence
08. Fracture
09. Starless



CD 2: Sleight Of Hand (Or Now You Dont See It Again) Andâ€¦

01. 21st Century Schizoid Main
02. Walk Off from Providenceâ€¦ No Pussyfooting
03. Sharks Lungs In Lemsip
04. Larks Tongues In Aspic, Part One
05. Book Of Saturday
06. Easy Money
07. Well Let You Know
08. The Night Watch
09. Improv - Tight Scrummy
10. Peace - A Theme
11. Cat Food
12. Easy Moneyâ€¦
13. â€¦It Is For You, But Not For Us



CD 3: â€¦ Acts Of Deception (The Magic Circus, Or Weasels Stole Our Fruit)

01. Walk Onâ€¦ No Pussyfooting
02. The Great Deceiver
03. Improv - Bartley Butsford
04. Exiles
05. Impov - Daniel Dust
06. The Night Watch
07. Doctor Diamond
08. Starless
09. Improv - Wilton Carpet
10. The Talking Drum
11. Larks Tongues In Aspic: Part Two (Abbreviated)
12. Applause & Announcement
13. Improv - Is There Life Out There?



CD 4: â€¦ But Neither Are They Otherwise

01. Improv - The Golden Walnut
02. The Night Watch
03. Fracture
04. Improv - Clueless And Slightly Slack
05. Walk Onâ€¦ No Pussyfooting
06. Improv - Some Pussyfooting
07. Larks Tongues In Aspic: Part One
08. Improv - The Law of Maximum Distress: Part One
09. Improv - The Law of Maximum Distress: Part Two
10. Easy Money
11. Improv - Some More Pussyfooting
12. The Talking Drum