KING CRIMSON — The Great Deceiver

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4.61 | 10 ratings | 1 review

Live album · 1992

Filed under Proto-Metal
By KING CRIMSON

Tracklist

Disc 1: Things Are Not As They Seem...

1. Walk On... No Pussyfooting (0:48)
2. Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part Two (6:24)
3. Lament (4:38)
4. Exiles (8:57)
5. Improv: A Voyage To The Centre Of The Cosmos (15:03)
6. Easy Money (7:12)
7. Improv: Providence (10:18)
8. Fracture (11:14)
9. Starless (12:03)

Disc 2: Sleight Of Hand (Or Now You Don't See It Again) And...

1. 21st Century Schizoid Man (8:26)
2. Walk Off From Providence / No Pussyfooting (2:11)
3. Sharks' Lungs In Lemsip (2:31)
4. Larks' Tongues In Aspic (7:49)
5. Book Of Saturday (3:02)
6. Easy Money (6:41)
7. We'll Let You Know (4:54)
8. The Night Watch (5:17)
9. Improv: Tight Scrummy (8:58)
10. Peace: A Theme (1:01)
11. Cat Food (4:36)
12. Easy Money (2:20)
13. ...It Is For You, But Not For Us (9:10)

Disc 3: The Magic Circus, Or Weasels Stole Our Fruit)

1. Walk On... No Pussyfooting (0:58)
2. The Great Deceiver (4:26)
3. Improv: Bartley Butsford (3:12)
4. Exiles (7:19)
5. Improv: Daniel Dust (4:09)
6. The Night Watch (4:39)
7. Doctor Diamond (5:11)
8. Starless (12:25)
9. Improv: Wilton Carpet (5:52)
10. The Talking Drum (5:29)
11. Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part Two (4:07)
12. Applause & Announcement (2:12)
13. Improv: Is There Life Out There? (14:49)

Disc 4: ...But Neither Are They Otherwise

1. Improv: The Golden Walnut (11:46)
2. The Night Watch (4:37)
3. Fracture (11:51)
4. Improv: Clueless And Slightly Slack (8:12)
5. Walk On... No Pussyfooting (0:53)
6. Improv: Some Pussyfooting (2:26)
7. Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part One (8:16)
8. Improv: The Law Of Maximum Distress Part One (6:31)
9. Improv: The Law Of Maximum Distress Part Two (2:33)
10. Easy Money (7:32)
11. Improv: Some More Pussyfooting (5:53)
12. The Talking Drum (6:02)

Total Time 264:31

Line-up/Musicians

- Robert Fripp / guitar, mellotron, electric piano
- John Wetton / bass guitar, vocals
- David Cross / violin, mellotron, electric piano
- Bill Bruford / drums, percussion

About this release

30 October 1992
EG, Virgin

Disc 1 was recorded live at the Palace Theatre, Providence, USA, June 30, 1974. Disc 2 was recorded live at the Palace Theatre, Providence, USA, June 30, 1974 (Tracks 1-2 ), at the Glasgow Apollo, Glasgow, UK, October 23, 1973 (Tracks 3-11) and at Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA, June 29, 1974 (Tracks 12-13). Disc 3 was recorded live at the Stanley Warner Theatre, Pittsburgh, USA, April 29, 1974 (Tracks 1-11) and at Pennsylvania State University, State College, USA, June 29, 1974 (Tracks 12-13). Disc 4 was recorded live at Massey Hall, Toronto, Canada, June 24, 1974 (Tracks 1-4) and at the Volkshaus, Zürich, Switzerland, November 15, 1973 (Tracks 5-12).

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Warthur

An embarrassment of riches, the Great Deceiver box set - whether bought in its original format or as two 2-CD sets - is a treasuring of King Crimson live material ranging from the wake of Larks' Tongues In Aspic to the cusp of Red. The set opens with a full show - a Providence set from 1974, from which the version of 21st Century Schizoid Man was extracted for use on the USA version. I actually prefer the sound here to the one on USA, since the Eddie Jobson overdubs on that one seemed to have been calculated to bring the track closer to its original studio version, whereas here the aura is more definitively of the mid-70s unit.

The rest of the set contains extracts from other shows of varying sizes - some quite substantial, some only snippets. On the whole, I'm not going to give this essential rating simply because I don't think it is essential through and through - shows and tapes inevitably vary in quality, after all, though the cream of the crop is represented here, and furthermore I suspect the package here presents rather more live King Crimson than most people will ever need. I still think that the essential Crimson live album from this era of the band has to be the incomparable Night Watch, which ought to be your first stop in any exploration of live Crimson; this one is great value, but is really for those who simply cannot get enough of them Larks' Tongues.