This week in the hospital I was looking for some new, preferably well-outside-the-box music to get me through the physiological insults of the radiation and chemotherapy. I found on my shelves two 4 disk sets of King Crimson retrospective, prepared by Robert Fripp himself. I loaded it up. It is absolutely fantastic. Remember how fabulous their first album, In the Court of the Crimson King, was? Well, their work since then only reinforces the fact that Fripp and whatever cadre of musicians he assembles are absolutely awesome. These 8 disks in 2 box sets? Excellent. No household should be without.
And then, two shelves over, I found a two volume set of live bootlegs from the original lineup, mostly at Fillmores East and West. Even better! King Crimson—go for it!!!
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