King Crimson — 3 Feb 2025
Following a tour with Roxy Music that took in Spain, Portugal, the south of France and Italy, and recently featured on Sheltering Skies Live in Frejus CD and LP, the 1982 Crimson went on to play a number of dates in Germany and the Netherlands. This included two consecutive festival appearances at the 5th Golden Summer Night Concert. Here is the second of these to be added to dgmlive which...
King Crimson — 7 Feb 2025
King Crimson - Absent Lovers Live in Montreal 1984 Performance Notes: The last four shows of the 1981-84 King Crimson took place over the two nights of July 10th & 11th 1984 at Le Spectrum in Montreal. The performances on these albums are drawn from the final night, shortly after which King Crimson ceased to exist. Crimson was reborn on April 18th 1994 in Woodstock, New York; but that is...
King Crimson — 27 Jan 2025
2025 Mister Stormy's Monday Selection begins with Go TLev. Recorded in February 1994 this is a previously unheard extract from a DAT tape documenting the earliest days of 90s King Crimson. With Adrian Belew still unavailable, five members of the Double Trio met in the UK and crammed into the music room at Bill Bruford’s house to begin work. The sessions marked the first time Bill and Pat played...
King Crimson — 24 Jan 2025
In February 1994, with Adrian Belew unable to make it over to the UK, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto, and Trey Gunn convened at Bill Bruford’s house in Surrey to start tackling some of the new material and ideas. Set up in the somewhat intimate confines of Bruford’s rehearsal space, they spent the next few days working through a series of motifs and themes that had been flying by...
King Crimson — 17 Jan 2025
“Flew to Vermont in morning. Played gig at weird college in the woods, not too good”. Thus reported Ian McDonald in his diary entry for Wednesday October 29, 1969 recording King Crimson’s very first concert in America in the refectory at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont. On the same day on the opposite coast at another centre of learning, a group of computer scientists led by...
King Crimson — 17 Jan 2025
Thanks to several reviewers of the 1982 Asbury Park, New Jersey show who point out that we have been listing this in the wrong venue. This has prompted Stormy to visit the Engine Room and pull the necessary levers so that this now plays on the other side of the famous Asbury Park boardwalk in the Paramount Theatre and not the larger Convention Hall as had been previously thought. We decided to...
King Crimson — 13 Jan 2025
King Crimson’s live recordings are officially streaming on nugs.net/KingCrimson! Today’s launch brings fans worldwide the full 2014 Tour, a special time in King Crimson history with the first outing of “The Seven-Headed Beast Of Crim” which revisited and reinvented King Crimson songs, some of which had not been played live in nearly 45 years. Enjoy these shows now, and be on the lookout...
King Crimson — 13 Jan 2025
On this day 56 years ago there was much excitement in camp of the as-yet-unnamed King Crimson. Why so? Greg, Bob, Mike and Ian began their very first rehearsal in the basement of the Fulham Palace Road Café. The venue had been found by Pete Sinfield, who turned up on the 13th with fellow KC roadie (and later tour manager) Dick Fraser at Ian McDonald’s place to collect Mike’s drums. �...
King Crimson — 30 Dec 2024
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