King Crimson on November 10, 1972 in Hull

King Crimson

	November 10, 1972

	Technical College Hull, England

Notes
Wow - the DGMLive debut of Jamie Muir era Crim!Following some warm-up shows in Germany (documented on KCCC20) and a one-off date in Redcar in October, the new line-up of King Crimson took to the stage of Hull’s Technical College to unleash a ferocious sound. The abrasive mixture of freshly composed material and off-the-top-of-their-head excursions into improvised territory was a dynamic and often challenging combination.

Things are clearly still in development. LTIApt 1 has a rockier feel to it and is at this point still awaiting the familiar coda. The big improvised set-pieces shed light on the protracted nature of KC’s compositional techniques as licks from Fallen Angel and Doctor Diamond are thrown and tossed about long before they were ever distilled into songs.

Even the tuning problems which plague Exiles fail to dint the excitement of the show. First night nerves are also evident in the execution of some cues and corners of tracks which sound very familiar to our ears now but were brand spanking new on the night in question.

The murky sound of this complete audience recording won’t be to everyone’s taste, and of course the audio medium fails to convey the full anarchic presence of Jamie in full blood-spurting flight.

However, its availability on DGMLive is more than justified by the historical importance of the show which one reviewer described as "a riveting performance."

Tracks

Disc Number 1
1.	Walk On No Pussy Footing	2.05
2.	Larks Tongues In Aspic Pt I	10.09
3.	Book Of Saturday	3.23
4.	Announcement	1.41
5.	Improv I Vista Training College Under Spot Light	29.31
6.	Exiles	7.52
Disc Number 2
1.	Easy Money	7.21
2.	Improv II	9.22
3.	The Talking Drum	4.49
4.	Larks Tongues In Aspic Pt II	10.03
5.	21st Century Schizoid Man	16.30

Personnel
Fripp Wetton Cross Bruford Muir

Audio Source: Bootleg Cassette

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Jamie Muir, the madman behind the found objects drumkit, Sun., May 16, 2010
Written by TheMetalLordInfinity
This show comes from a bootleg, however this information is the only thing you will complain about this recording, not that it is a problem at all...

Jamie Muir was a beast! From his beautiful and atmospheric sounds on "Book Of Saturday" to the pure thrashing and industrial kitchen noises of "Larks’ Tongues In Aspic - Part II", he adds the right ambiences all the time, always with great timing...
Also, David Cross has glorious moments during "Exiles" and the first improv, John Wetton rocks like his life was depending of it, Bill Bruford brings his jazzy sensibilities to the fore, and Robert Fripp was changing his sound and style from a more classical approach to a proto-metal feel.

The most impressive parts of this gig are the coda-less "Larks’ Tongues In Aspic - Part I", the second improv, "Easy Money", the talking drum of "The Talking Drum", the extended mellotron ending of "Larks’ Tongues In Aspic - Part II", and the classic "21st Century Schizoid Man" (with a bonus Wetton interview in the end).

The bootleg source does not detract the performance in any way, in fact, I’d go as far as to say that it somehow improves certain aspects: you feel like you’re in the hall watching King Crimson play and there is no bias in the mix. The recording is not that murky at all, it sounds a little better (and clearer) than KCCC20 in my opinion. The recording has ambience, which would certainly be lacking in a soundboard...

...So, why feel fear? This is the Larks’ quintet at it’s best!

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