KING CRIMSON — Ladies Of The Road

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Live album · 2002

Filed under Proto-Metal
By KING CRIMSON

Tracklist

Disc 1: Ladies Of The Road

1. Pictures Of A City (8:46)
2. The Letters (4:42)
3. Formentera Lady (Abridged) (6:41)
4. The Sailors Tale (5:43)
5. Cirkus (7:58)
6. Groon (6:52)
7. Get Thy Bearings (8:33)
8. 21st Century Schizoid Man (8:57)
9. In The Court Of The Crimson King (0:48)

Total Time 59:03

Disc 2: Schizoid Men

1. 21st Century Schizoid Man (1:44)
2. Schizoid Men (edit 1) (4:46)
3. Schizoid Men (edit 2) (3:12)
4. Schizoid Men (edit 3) (5:15)
5. Schizoid Men (edit 4) (6:22)
6. Schizoid Men (edit 5) (3:56)
7. Schizoid Men (edit 6) (5:13)
8. Schizoid Men (edit 7) (3:18)
9. Schizoid Men (edit 8) (5:01)
10. Schizoid Men (edit 9) (3:23)
11. Schizoid Men (edit 10) (4:56)
12. Schizoid Men (edit 11) (5:42)

Total Time 53:57

Line-up/Musicians

- Robert Fripp / guitar, mellotron
- Boz Burrell / bass guitar, vocals
- Mel Collins / saxophone, flute, mellotron
- Ian Wallace / drums
- Peter Sinfield / FOH sound, VCS3

About this release

12 November 2002
DGM

Disc 1 was recorded live at Live at Summit Studios, March, 12, 1972 (track 1, 6, 8), at Plymouth Guildhall, May, 11, 1971 (track 2, 7) and in Detroit, MI, November, 13, 1973 (track 3, 4, 5, 9).

Disc 2 was recorded live at Baseball Park, Jacksonville, February 26, 1972 (track 1, 2), at Sound Track, Denver March 14, 1972 (track 3), at Kemp Coliseum, Orlando, February 27, 1972 (track 4), in Armoury, Wilmington, February 11, 1972 (track 5), at The Barn, Peoria, March 10, 1972 (track 6), at Stanley Warner Theater, Pittsburgh, March 6, 1972 (track 7), in Armoury, Wilmington, February 11, 1972 (track 8), at Grande Ballroom, Detroit, February 17, 1972 (track 9), at Fairground Coliseum, Indianapolis, March 11, 1972 (track 10), at Sound Track, Denver, March 13, 1972 (track 11) and at Riverside Theatre, Milwaukee, March 8, 1972 (track 12).

Thanks to Stooge, Lynx33, adg211288 for the updates

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Warthur

If you want to just get one live album from the Islands-era lineup of King Crimson... I'd still recommend the Summit Studios set, tracks from which feature here, since it simply has the best sound quality over its entire running time of any archival live release from the band. However, Ladies of the Road isn't a terrible choice either. Disc 1 offers a "best of" the work of this lineup, selecting songs from performances ranging from the 1971 gigs which led up to the recording of Islands to the ill-fated 1972 US tour which gave us Earthbound.

Disc 2, meanwhile, offers "Schizoid Man" - a bizarre 54 minute version of 21st Century Schizoid Man, stitched together from various performances so you're left with the familiar beginning of the song and then a mass of the best improvisations that the Islands lineup were able to pull out of the jam section in the middle of the song. It's an interesting experiment, reminiscent of Zappa's "xenochrony" idea of bringing together musical performances from different contexts to form a new whole, but it's a bit much. I suspect that disc 2 will see far less play than the first disc in this set.

Either disc 1 of this set or the Summit Studios session will convince you that this Crimson lineup was a far better prospect live than you might think if you'd only heard Earthbound. The usual caveat applies - if you really dig this era of King Crimson, you might want to consider the excellent value for money set which is Sailors' Tales, but if that's too much for you then Ladies of the Road can scratch the same itch, albeit much less extensively.