Earthbound (King Crimson album)

Earthbound
Live album by King Crimson
Released	9 June 1972
Recorded	11 February – 10 March 1972
Genre	Progressive rock, jazz fusion
Length	46:38
Label	Island Polydor Records E.G. Records Virgin Records
Producer	Robert Fripp
King Crimson chronology
Islands (1971) Earthbound (1972) Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973)

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Allmusic	[1]

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 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.	Title	Notes	Length
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 1972	11:45
2.	"Peoria" (Boz Burrell, Mel Collins, Fripp, Ian Wallace)	recorded at The Barn, Peoria, Illinois, United States, 10 March 1972	7:30
3.	"Sailor's Tale" (instrumental),   (Fripp)	recorded at the Baseball Park, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 26 February 1972	4:45

Side two
No.	Title	Notes	Length
4.	"Earthbound" (instrumental),   (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace)	recorded at the Kemp Coliseum, Orlando, Florida, United States, 27 February 1972	6:08
5.	"Groon" (instrumental),   (Fripp)	recorded at the Armoury, Wilmington, Delaware, United States, 11 February 1972	15:30

Personnel

King Crimson

• Robert Fripp – electric guitar
• Boz Burrell – bass guitar, vocals
• Mel Collins – alto, tenor and baritone saxophone, mellotron
• Ian Wallace – drums

Additional personnel

• Hunter MacDonald – VCS3, engineering

External links

• List of fan reviews
• http://www.headheritage.co.uk/unsung/thebookofseth/king-crimson-earthbound

References

1. Eder, Bruce (2011). "Earthbound - King Crimson | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 28 June 2011.