Earthbound (King Crimson album)

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.

Earthbound
Live album by
King Crimson
Released9 June 1972
Recorded11 February – 10 March 1972
Genre
Length46:38
Label
ProducerRobert Fripp
King Crimson chronology
Islands
(1971)		 Earthbound
(1972)		 Larks' Tongues in Aspic
(1973)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]
BBC Onlinefavourable[2]

The album's sound quality is relatively poor, because of being recorded onto cassette tape (a low-fidelity recording medium, even by 1972 standards) by live sound engineer Hunter MacDonald. The liner notes to the original LP cover and 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, the original distributor for King Crimson in the United States and Canada, declined to release Earthbound because of its poor sound. Because of the origins of the masters, the sound could not be significantly improved on later CD reissues of the album.

An expanded CD-DVD version of the album was released on 13 November 2017. The CD is expanded to twelve tracks, whereas the DVD features hi-res audio of the album along with much additional audio material including a live radio session in surround sound.[3]

Track listing
Side one
No.TitleWriter(s)NotesLength
1."21st Century Schizoid Man" (including "Mirrors")Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Peter Sinfieldrecorded at the Armoury, Wilmington, Delaware, United States, 11 February 1972 (late show)11:45
2."Peoria"Boz Burrell, Mel Collins, Fripp, Ian Wallacerecorded at The Barn, Peoria, Illinois, United States, 10 March 19727:30
3."Sailor's Tale" (instrumental)Fripprecorded at the Baseball Park, Jacksonville, Florida, United States, 26 February 19724:45
Side two
No.TitleWriter(s)NotesLength
4."Earthbound" (instrumental)Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallacerecorded at the Kemp Coliseum, Orlando, Florida, United States, 27 February 19726:08
5."Groon" (instrumental)Fripprecorded at the Armoury, Wilmington, Delaware, United States, 11 February 1972 (late show)15:30

Personnel
King Crimson
Additional personnel
  • Hunter MacDonald – VCS3 synthesizer, recording engineer

References
  1. Eder, Bruce (2011). "Earthbound - King Crimson | AllMusic". AllMusic. Retrieved 28 June 2011.
  2. Jones, Chris (2002). "BBC – Music – Review of King Crimson – Earthbound, USA & Thrak". BBC Online. Retrieved 30 July 2016.
  3. Munro, Scott (9 November 2017). "King Crimson to release 40th anniversary edition of Earthbound". TeamRock.com. Retrieved 20 November 2017.
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