Stanley Warner Theatre Pittsburgh  United States

AUDIO SOURCE: Board Recording

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“This next song is aptly titled Circkus” says Boz with a slight edge in his voice. Here’s the band at the half way point of what they know is their last tour together. [endtease] Certainly there’s a lot of clowning around that masks some of the unresolved tensions and resentments that were part of the Crimso chemistry at the time.

“I feel lost, I feel out of control, I feel I’m going MAD!” declaims Fripp as he fails to quell a call to party from the rest of the troops on stage. A case of many a truth said in jest perhaps? Alongside such psycho-drama there’s some good music; Formentera Lady is a rootsy, gutsy affair, with Boz’s crooning especially good over Mel’s thorny soloing. For fans of the vintage sustained laser-beam tone that Fripp made all his own, The Sailor’s Tale will not disappoint.

Ladies Of The Road features some laugh-out-loud banter between Boz and Fripp’s blues guitar pastiche. Perhaps because of all the fun and games throughout the gig, Groon lacks the bite of other versions that are available, and whilst Schizoid Man rescues things with a revved up guitar solo, the encore improv is probably Fripp’s most uncommitted performance of the era. Cadence and Cascade is robbed of a proper conclusion when the tape runs out. It could almost be a metaphor.
Stanley Warner Theatre Pittsburgh  United States

AUDIO SOURCE: Board Recording

DGM AUDIO QUALITY

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TRACK
TIME
01
Pictures Of A City
09:52
02
Formentera Lady
08:43
03
The Sailors Tale
09:40
04
Cirkus
11:01
01
Ladies Of The Road
08:22
02
Groon
17:00
03
21st Century Schizoid Man
11:58
04
Improv I
06:43
05
Cadence And Cascade*
04:17
Written by Jeffrey Blehar
The best-sounding show of the 1972 show is sadly one of its weakest
Everybody knows the classic "Earthbound sound" of the cassette soundboards recorded during King Crimson Mk. II's terminal 1972 tour: thuddy, hissy, overloaded, flattened dynamics, etc. The sound quality of that original album (among other things) felt like Fripp's unsubtle commentary about his state of mind at the time: he had a sour view of this experience, one which took years to sweeten, and he wanted listeners to know it. The Stanley Theatre show is singular during this tour as being the one...
Written by Samuel Langer
Interesting. Goofy. Decent.
A decent concert. Crim seems dialled-back in this concert, and Ian and Boz are goofing around a lot, which I like! The sound quality is good, and I absolutely LOVE the encore improv, groovy as hell and has great scatting from Boz. And as a flute player I like Mel's flute improv. It's worth buying this concert only if you've already heard other Boz-lineup '72 concerts.
Written by Rainer Robles
Definitely not bad
Of the shows from 1972, this is one of the best sound quality-wise, but not performance-wise. Fripp's solo on "Sailor's tale" is calmer than usual. This "Cirkus" must be one of the slowest-paced renditions ever. There's nothing wrong with "Ladies of the road" (i.e., the bridge was performed with no mistakes), it's just that is full of comedy! Mel Collins quotes "Sunshine of your love" on "Groon". The last three tracks were the part I liked the most, even if Collins didn't solo on "Schizoid". The...
Written by Christopher King
Pittsburgh March 6, 1972 Improv
I could listen to Crimso improvs alone all night! The single group improv here at the 1972 Pittsburgh gig was a one chord vamp in F that includes Mel's sax riff that more famously was the theme to the song/improvisation "Earthbound" on the Earthbound album. As noted in other reviews here for this gig, the band was at low energy. (Odd Pittsburgh audience where someone shouts out, "Who Killed the Kennedys?" and Boz says something like, "If you hum a few bars and we'll fake it." Ha!) Weirdly I thin...
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