Earthbound (King Crimson album)

Earthbound
Live album by King Crimson
Released 9 June 1972
Recorded 11 February – 10 March 1972
Genre
Length 46:38
Label
Producer Robert Fripp
King Crimson chronology
Islands
(1971)Islands1971		 Earthbound
(1972)		 Larks' Tongues in Aspic
(1973)Larks' Tongues in Aspic1973
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
BBC Onlinefavourable[2]

Earthbound is a live album by the band King Crimson, released in 1972 as a budget record shortly after the line-up that recorded it had broken up. It contains the band's first official live release of their signature song "21st Century Schizoid Man," and an extended live version of their 1970 non-LP B-side "Groon." It also contains two improvised tracks with scat vocals from Boz Burrell.

The album's sound quality is very poor, because of its being recorded onto cassette tape (a low-fidelity recording medium by 1972 standards) by live sound engineer Hunter MacDonald. The liner notes to the original LP cover and recent CD reissues of the album state that it was "captured live on an Ampex stereo cassette fed from a Kelsey Morris custom built mixer ... in the rain from the back of a Volkswagen truck." Atlantic Records, King Crimson's original North American distributor, declined release of Earthbound because of its poor sound engineering. Because of its cassette origins, the sound could not be significantly improved on later CD reissues of the album.

Track listing

Side one
No.TitleNotesLength
1."21st Century Schizoid Man" (including "Mirrors"),
(Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Peter Sinfield)		* recorded at the Armoury, Wilmington, Delaware, United States, 11 February 197211:45
2."Peoria" (Boz Burrell, Mel Collins, Fripp, Ian Wallace)* recorded at The Barn, Peoria, Illinois, United States, 10 March 19727:30
3."Sailor's Tale" (instrumental),   (Fripp)* recorded at the Baseball Park, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 26 February 19724:45
Side two
No.TitleNotesLength
4."Earthbound" (instrumental),   (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace)* recorded at the Kemp Coliseum, Orlando, Florida, United States, 27 February 19726:08
5."Groon" (instrumental),   (Fripp)* recorded at the Armoury, Wilmington, Delaware, United States, 11 February 197215:30

Personnel

King Crimson
Additional personnel

References

  1. ↑ Eder, Bruce (2011). "Earthbound - King Crimson | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  2. ↑ Jones, Chris (2002). "BBC – Music – Review of King Crimson – Earthbound, USA & Thrak". BBC Online. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
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