KING CRIMSON

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Earthbound PANEGYRIC Remastered 200g vinyl release for unfairly maligned live album. When Earthbound was first released in 1972, many people assumed it was King Crimson’s swan song, with yet another version of the band having just self-destructed. In fact, the group had split before the tour on which Earthbound was recorded, Robert Fripp having pissed off saxophonist Mel Collins, singer/bassist Boz Burrell and drummer Ian Wallace once too often. Yet contractually bound, they reassembled to play the US, leaving this fearsome kiss-off in its wake. Recorded directly onto Ampex cassette tape, the initial positioning of Earthbound was as a budget-price official bootleg, but for the longest time, Fripp disowned the album due to its poor sound quality and jam band vibe. Yet after finally getting a remastered bells-and-whistles CD release…

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