Description: King Crimson Earthbound LP Live UK Import Island HELP 6 variant 1 1972 Robert Fripp Archival SleeveSchizoid Man Live is fantastic Fripp's guitar cuts like a knife Earthbound is a live album by the band King Crimson, released in June 1972 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.'Schizoid Man' and 'Groon' were recorded at Wilmington, Delaware on 11 February 1972; 'Peoria' at Peoria on 10 March 1972; 'The Sailors Tale' at Jacksonville, Florida 26 February 1972; 'Earthbound' at Orlando, Florida 27 February 1972.The recordings were captured live on an ampex stereo cassette fed from a Kelsey Morris custom built mixer operated by John Robson and Hunter Macdonald on Schizoid Man and Groon and Hunter Macdonald on the other titles: at Jacksonville in the rain from the back of a Volkswagon truck. King Crimson were an English progressive rock band formed in 1968 in London. The band drew inspiration from a wide variety of music, incorporating elements of classical, jazz, folk, heavy metal, gamelan, blues, industrial, electronic, experimental music and new wave. They exerted a strong influence on the early 1970s progressive rock movement, including on contemporaries such as Yes and Genesis, and continue to inspire subsequent generations of artists across multiple genres. The band earned a large cult following.Founded by Robert Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald and Peter Sinfield, the band initially focused on a dramatic sound layered with Mellotron, McDonald's saxophone and flute, and Lake's powerful lead vocals. Their debut album, In the Court of the Crimson King (1969), remains their most commercially successful and influential release, with a potent mixture of jazz, classical and experimental music. Following the sudden simultaneous departures of McDonald and Giles, with Lake also leaving very shortly afterwards, the next two albums In the Wake of Poseidon and Lizard (both 1970) were recorded during a period of instability in the band's line-up. A settled band of Fripp, Sinfield, Mel Collins, Boz Burrell and Ian Wallacerecorded Islands in 1971, though in mid-1972, Fripp let go of this line-up and changed the group's instrumentation and approach, drawing from European free improvisation and developing ever more complex compositions. With Bill Bruford, John Wetton, David Cross and, briefly, Jamie Muir, they reached what some saw as a creative peak on Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973), Starless and Bible Black (1974), and Red (1974). King Crimson disbanded at the end of 1974.
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Artist: King Crimson, Robert Fripp, Ian McDonald, Mel Collins, Boz Burrell, Ian Wallace, Peter Sinfield
Speed: 33 RPM
Record Label: Island Records
Release Title: Earthbound
Material: Vinyl
Catalog Number: Island Records – HELP 6
Type: LP
Format: Record
Record Grading: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Release Year: 1972
Sleeve Grading: Near Mint (NM or M-)
Era: 1970s
Record Size: 12"
Style: 1970s, Art Rock, Jazz Rock, Progressive Rock
Features: Import, Live Recording, Original Cover, Play Tested, Archival Sleeve
Genre: Rock
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
Number of Audio Channels: Stereo