4 CD Box set with scrapbook. The aim in presenting these live performances is to reflect the spirit of the group in a moment of its appearance. Unsettled and unsettling, it went into places dark and light; wildly unsympathetic, unbalanced and with prodigal time, vigorous, searching, leaping and often missing the mark, at moments achingly poignant, it moved into territory that was disturbing and disturbed, and never arrived at where it was going: where it was going was how it got there, sometimes turning up as it went along.
Tracks:
CD One
Palace Theatre, Providence, RI:
June 30th 1974
1. Walk On ... No Pussyfooting
2. Larks' Tongues In Aspic: Part 2
3. Lament
4. Exiles
5. Improv: A Voyage To The Centre Of The Cosmos
6. Easy Money
7. Improv: Providence
8. Fracture
9. Starless
CD Two
Providence ... continued (encore)
1.21st Century Schizoid Man
2. Walk Off From Providence ... No Pussyfooting
Walk On to Glasgow ... Glasgow Apollo:
October 23rd 1973
3. Sharks' Lungs in Lemsip
4. Larks' Tongues In Aspic: Part 1
5. Book Of Saturday
6. Easy Money
7. We'll Let You Know
8.The Night Watch
9. Improv: Tight Scrummy
10 Peace - a Theme
11. Cat Food
Penn State University:
June 29th 1974
12. Easy Money
13. ... It Is For You, But Not For Us
CD Three
Pittsburgh, PA - Stanley Warner Theatre:
April 29th 1974
1. Walk On ... No Pussyfooting
2. The Great Deceiver
3. Improv: Bartley Butsford
4.Exiles
5. Improv: Daniel Dust
6. The Night Watch
7. Doctor Diamond
8.Starless
9. Improv: Wilton Carpet
10. The Talking Drum
11. Larks' Tongues In Aspic: Part 2 (abbreviated)
Penn State University:
June 29th 1974
12. Applause & Announcement
13.Improv: Is There Life Out There?
CD Four
Toronto, Massey Hall:
June 24th 1974
1.Improv: The Golden Walnut
2.The Night Watch
3. Fracture
4. Improv: Clueless & Slightly Slack
Zurich Volkshaus:
November 15th 1973
5. Walk On ... No Pussyfooting
6. Improv: Some Pussyfooting
7. Larks' Tongues In Aspic: Part 1
8.Improv: The Law Of Maximum Distress: Part One
9. Improv: The Law Of Maximum Distress: Part Two
10. Easy Money
12. The Talking Drum
David Cross: violin, mellotron, electric piano
Robert Fripp: guitar, mellotron, electric piano
John Wetton: bass guitar, vocals
Bill Bruford: drums, percussion
Executive Producer: Robert Fripp
Mixing: RF, Tony Arnold & David Singleton at the Courthouse, Cranborne, Dorset
Technical Consultant: Tony Arnold
Art Direction by Bill Smith
Photography by the Douglas Brothers
