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  This deserves to be on everyone's playlist. November 6, 2010
Written by HarrySpade
If you’re a fan of the original lineup and you don’t have this one, you’re missing a great show.
The sound quality is very good for a bootleg; better than Club1 Live At The Marquee in my opinion. The drums especially are punchy, and along with the bass provides a good driving rhythm. Fripp’s guitar cuts through like a buzzsaw on the intro to "In The Court Of The Crimson King", and Greg Lake’s vocals are clear as a bell throughout. He sings with authority on every track.
The setlist covers all the bases, and since this performance is roughly a month after the recording of the debut album, the songs sound confident yet loose. They knew this material inside and out and thus were free to play around within the confines of the compositions. This performance even elevates "Drop In", which in my opinion is the clunkiest song this lineup produced.
If there’s a downside, it’s that "Mars" is one of the weaker versions I’ve heard; it feels like they were running out of steam and ideas by the end of the show; even the air raid siren kinda peters out lethargically. This isn’t much of a drawback perhaps, considering the fun yet powerful vibe on the rest of the tracks. The one exception to that might be "I Talk To The Wind", which is possibly more subdued than the studio version.
I’ve been playing this one for a week, alongside other recordings from 1969, and right now it’s my favorite. The completeness of the set, the sound quality, and the overall performance makes this one standout. Just click one of the Purchase buttons and enjoy!
cover September 20, 2010
Written by thebridgebetween
Thank you for the updated version, which I promptly downloaded. Is there any plan for an updated cd cover too? Kindest regards, Enzo
I Talk to The Bootleg February 20, 2010
Dear asdfadam
I’m not sure why, but our copy of this show had a break in the tape where
"I Talk to the Wind" should have been.
We did have a version of the track, which I didn’t know about, but it is not from the same source tape, and suffers from terrible wow and flutter.
If your tape is at least as good as the rest of ours, would you let us transfer it please?
Best Stormy
P.S. sorry for this oversight, when we can restore it, it will be made available to those who have purchased the show!
I Talk To The Bootleg February 18, 2010
Written by asdfadam
I am baffled as to why "I Talk To The Wind" would be left off. I have it on tape. It sounds fine. I didn’t understand why it was left off EPITAPH, much less this wonderful resource for old tapes. As if a rough track from a rough recording from KC 1969 was going to turn people off in droves. Ha!
February 17, 2010
Written by mrsnowman
Well, it’s nice to have an extra 20 minutes of this wonderful gig. But sorry, I have to agree with Scheiner. In fact, I Talk To The The Wind is the ONLY extant live version of the track, and so it’s doubly disappointing not to have it here. As Scheiner says, this is billed as a "warts and all" recording, and ITTTW is much less warty than the version of ITCCOCK that now appears here! As far as I can tell, all previous concert downloads have been complete, or at least as complete as the tapes will allow. I’m therefore surprised that the fact that this one is incomplete is not mentioned in the blurb. But then, I can’t understand why it’s not been included in the first place. Looks like I’ll have to keep my - ahem - "other" CD of this concert after all ... Mr. Stormy - please can we have ITTTW for next week’s Monday Selection??
warts and all? February 17, 2010
Written by scheiner
I got this show on cassette about 25 years ago as one of the first KC live shows I’d listened to, and it just blew me off. It is amazing to see how the sound can be improved with todays techniques. Great to have this show now in such a quality, although still clearly a bootleg. Thanks indeed! The only point that leaves me a little less than 100 percent satisfied: my cassette version included one of the few versions of I Talk to the Wind that apparently has been left off again now. I can’t get rid of my cassettes... Is a less than perfect version of this song really a good reason to bashfully hide it, after announcing a ’warts and all’ version of the show? I think no. Therefore: four stars out of five.
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