The Great Deceiver: Live 1973-1974

by King Crimson

The Great Deceiver: Live 1973-1974 cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 October 1992
  • Label: Discipline Global Mobile
  • Country: United Kingdom
  • Length: 4:35:34
  • Community rating: 4.6/5 from 5 ratings

Artists on this release: Bill Bruford, David Cross, John Wetton, Robert Fripp

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Stretching across four discs, 'The Great Deceiver' archives the terrifyingly intense and highly improvisational live dynamic of King Crimson's mid-70s lineup featuring John Wetton and Bill Bruford. Exploring the bleak, heavy territories of albums like 'Red' and 'Starless and Bible Black', the band frequently devolves into menacing, avant-garde free-jams that push the boundaries of progressive rock. The collection illustrates a group operating at the very edge of musical cohesion.

Genres

Descriptors: technical, complex, improvisation, progressive, uncommon-time-signatures, avant-garde

Tracklist

  1. Walk On ... No Pussyfooting (0:52)
  2. Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part 2 (6:12)
  3. Lament (4:04)
  4. Exiles (7:00)
  5. Improv - A Voyage To The Centre Of The Cosmos (14:41)
  6. Easy Money (7:14)
  7. Improv - Providence (9:47)
  8. Fracture (10:47)
  9. Starless (11:56)
  10. 21st. Century Schizoid Man (7:32)
  11. Walk Off From Providence... No Pussyfooting (1:15)
  12. Sharks' Lungs In Lemsip (2:38)
  13. Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Part One (7:25)
  14. Book Of Saturday (2:49)
  15. Easy Money (6:43)
  16. We'll Let You Know (4:54)
  17. The Night Watch (4:54)
  18. Improv - Tight Scrummy (8:27)
  19. Peace - A Theme (1:01)
  20. Cat Food (4:14)
  21. Easy Money (2:19)
  22. ...It Is For You, But Not For Us (7:25)
  23. Walk On ... No Pussyfooting (1:15)
  24. The Great Deceiver (3:32)
  25. Improv - Bartley Butsford (3:13)
  26. Exiles (6:23)
  27. Improv - Daniel Dust (4:40)
  28. The Night Watch (4:18)
  29. Doctor Diamond (4:52)
  30. Starless (11:36)
  31. Improv - Wilton Carpet (5:52)
  32. The Talking Drum (5:29)
  33. Larks' Tongues In Aspic: Part Two (Abbreviated) (2:22)
  34. Applause & Announcement (2:19)
  35. Improv - Is There Life Out There? (11:50)
  36. Improv - The Golden Walnut (11:14)
  37. The Night Watch (4:22)
  38. Fracture (10:48)
  39. Improv - Clueless & Slightly Slack (8:36)
  40. Walk On ... No Pussyfooting (1:00)
  41. Improv - Some Pussyfooting (2:23)
  42. Larks' Tongues In Aspic: Part One (7:41)
  43. Improv - The Law Of Maximum Distress: Part One (6:31)
  44. Improv - The Law Of Maximum Distress: Part Two (2:17)
  45. Easy Money (6:57)
  46. Improv - Some More Pussyfooting (5:50)
  47. The Talking Drum (6:05)

Credits

  • King Crimson - primary artist
  • John Wetton - bass guitar, vocals, written-by
  • Bill Bruford - drums, percussion, written-by
  • David Cross - violin, mellotron, electric piano, written-by
  • Brian Eno - written-by
  • Richard Palmer-James - written-by
  • Greg Lake - written-by
  • Ian McDonald - written-by

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