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Earthbound is a live album by the band King Crimson
King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
, released in 1972 as a budget record shortly after the line-up which recorded it had broken up. It has been praised for its funky grooves (unusual for the band), a storming version of "Groon", and a blistering performance of "21st Century Schizoid Man
21st Century Schizoid Man

"21st Century Schizoid Man" is a song by progressive rock band King Crimson from their debut album In the Court of the Crimson King. To date it is one of their best-known songs....
", but widely criticized for its very poor sound quality, due to it being recorded onto cassette by live sound engineer Hunter MacDonald.

The CD reissue does not significantly improve the overall sound quality of the album, due to its cassette origins.








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Earthbound is a live album by the band King Crimson
King Crimson

King Crimson are an English progressive rock band founded by guitarist Robert Fripp and drummer Michael Giles in 1969.They have typically been categorised as a foundational progressive rock group, although they incorporate diverse influences ranging from jazz, European classical music and experimental music to psychedelic music, New Wave mu...
, released in 1972 as a budget record shortly after the line-up which recorded it had broken up. It has been praised for its funky grooves (unusual for the band), a storming version of "Groon", and a blistering performance of "21st Century Schizoid Man
21st Century Schizoid Man

"21st Century Schizoid Man" is a song by progressive rock band King Crimson from their debut album In the Court of the Crimson King. To date it is one of their best-known songs....
", but widely criticized for its very poor sound quality, due to it being recorded onto cassette by live sound engineer Hunter MacDonald.

The CD reissue does not significantly improve the overall sound quality of the album, due to its cassette origins.

Track listing


Side one

  1. "21st Century Schizoid Man
    21st Century Schizoid Man

    "21st Century Schizoid Man" is a song by progressive rock band King Crimson from their debut album In the Court of the Crimson King. To date it is one of their best-known songs....
    " (Including: "Mirrors") (Fripp, Michael Giles
    Michael Giles

    Michael Rex Giles is an English drummer, best known as a co-founder of King Crimson in 1969. Prior to the formation of Crimson, he also co-founded the short-lived Giles, Giles & Fripp with his brother, Peter Giles, and Robert Fripp the previous year....
    , Greg Lake
    Greg Lake

    Greg Lake is an England bass guitarist, guitarist, vocalist, songwriter and record producer, best known as a founding member of King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer....
    , Ian McDonald
    Ian McDonald (musician)

    Ian McDonald is an English multi-instrumentalist musician, best known as a founding member of progressive rock musical group King Crimson, formed in 1969, and of the hard rock band Foreigner in 1976....
    , Peter Sinfield
    Peter Sinfield

    Peter John Sinfield is an English writer and artist, most famously known as the lyricist for early incarnations of King Crimson. He contributed to In the Court of the Crimson King, In the Wake of Poseidon, Lizard and Islands , which he also produced....
    ) – 11:45
    Recorded at the Armoury, Wilmington
    Wilmington, Delaware

    Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek , near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River....
    , USA
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    , February 11, 1972
  2. "Peoria
    Peoria

    Peoria can refer to:Locations in the USA:* Peoria, Arizona* Peoria, Illinois** Peoria County, Illinois** Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria...
    " (Boz Burrell
    Boz Burrell

    Boz Burrell was a Bass guitar guitarist and singer known for his involvement in bands such as King Crimson and Bad Company.Whilst singer in The Boz People in the mid-1960s, Boz was selected to replace Roger Daltrey in The Who when the remaining members of that band were on the verge of firing Daltrey, which ultimately did not happen....
    , Mel Collins
    Mel Collins

    Mel Collins is a United Kingdom saxophonist and flautist and prominent session musician.He has worked with an extensive number of musicians, including Alexis Korner, Clannad, Eric Clapton, Bad Company, Dire Straits, Bryan Ferry, Roger Chapman, Marianne Faithfull, The Rolling Stones, Tears For Fears and many others, but his most important w...
    , Fripp, Ian Wallace) – 7:30
    Recorded at the Barn, Peoria
    Peoria, Illinois

    Peoria is the largest city on the Illinois River and the county seat of Peoria County, Illinois, Illinois, in the United States. As of the United States Census, 2000, the city was the sixth largest in Illinois and had a total population of 112,936....
    , USA
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    , March 10, 1972
  3. "Sailor's Tale" (Fripp) – 4:45
    Recorded at the Baseball Park, Jacksonville
    Jacksonville, Florida

    Jacksonville is the largest city in the U.S. state of Florida and the county seat of Duval County, Florida. Since 1968, as a result of the Consolidated city-county of the city and county government , Jacksonville has been the List of United States cities by area city in land area in the continental United States....
    , USA
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    , February 26, 1972

Side two

  1. "Earthbound
    EarthBound

    EarthBound, known in Japan as , is a Console role-playing game video game co-developed by Creatures Inc. and HAL Laboratory and published by Nintendo for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console....
    " (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace) – 7:08
    Recorded at Kemp Coliseum, Orlando
    Orlando, Florida

    Orlando is a major city in Central Florida, United States and is the county seat of Orange County, Florida, Florida. It is also the principal city of Orlando-Kissimmee, Florida, Metropolitan Statistical Area....
    , USA
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    , February 27, 1972
  2. "Groon" (Fripp) – 15:30
    Recorded at the Armoury, Wilmington
    Wilmington, Delaware

    Wilmington is the largest city in the state of Delaware, United States and is located at the confluence of the Christina River and Brandywine Creek , near where the Christina flows into the Delaware River....
    , USA
    United States

    The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
    , February 11, 1972


Personnel

  • Robert Fripp
    Robert Fripp

    Robert Fripp is a guitarist, composer and a record producer, perhaps best known for being the guitarist for, and only constant member of, the progressive rock band King Crimson....
     - electric guitar
    Electric guitar

    An electric guitar is a type of guitar that uses pickup to convert the vibration of its steel-cored strings into an electrical current, which is made louder with an instrument amplifier and a speaker....
  • Boz Burrell
    Boz Burrell

    Boz Burrell was a Bass guitar guitarist and singer known for his involvement in bands such as King Crimson and Bad Company.Whilst singer in The Boz People in the mid-1960s, Boz was selected to replace Roger Daltrey in The Who when the remaining members of that band were on the verge of firing Daltrey, which ultimately did not happen....
     - bass guitar
    Bass guitar

    The electric bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a plectrum.The bass guitar is similar in appearance and construction to an electric guitar, but with a larger body, a longer neck and Scale length, and usually four strings tuned to the same pitches as those of the double bass, whic...
    , vocals
    Singing

    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the human voice, which is often contrasted with regular speech. A person who sings is called a singer or vocalist....
  • Mel Collins
    Mel Collins

    Mel Collins is a United Kingdom saxophonist and flautist and prominent session musician.He has worked with an extensive number of musicians, including Alexis Korner, Clannad, Eric Clapton, Bad Company, Dire Straits, Bryan Ferry, Roger Chapman, Marianne Faithfull, The Rolling Stones, Tears For Fears and many others, but his most important w...
     - baritone saxophone
    Baritone saxophone

    The baritone saxophone, often called "bari sax" , is one of the larger and lower pitched members of the saxophone family. It was invented by Adolphe Sax....
    , mellotron
    Mellotron

    The Mellotron is an electro-mechanical, polyphony keyboard originally developed and built in Birmingham, England in the early 1960s. It superseded the Chamberlin, which was the world's first sampling keyboard....
  • Ian Wallace - drums
    Drum kit

    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and sometimes other percussion instruments, such as cowbell s, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single drummer....
  • Hunter MacDonald - VCS3


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