King Crimson - Live Melody 1974 (complete)

[juresaiyan]

This video is on the Red 40th anniversary CD/DVD edition!

[mmowoa]

Fripp looking at me all the time... creepiness at max

[foppy63]

This vid is one of the finest things ever seen on Youtube, but man the Bullshit special effect French TV sucks... Love the broadcast, but whats with the stupid color effects??? Who do these French bastards think they are, Stanley Kubrick?? Especially on a song like Night Watch... Ruined it !!!... The rest is The Best tho !

[LiteracyLabyrinth2]

Awesome! VintAGE CRIMS IS GOLD

[BreatheMoveRelax]

Damn hippies and their video effects! This performance is astonishing.

[HafrsBonder]

O.M.F'n GOD!!!

[HafrsBonder]

Frippery!

[dagostinoification]

Merci d'avoir mis cette merveille ! Pour moi Robert Fripp,à été avec d'autres artistes de l'époque, la source du mélange entre jazz, rock,classique,une immense créativité ! (Didier D'agostino batteur/compositeur ,vidéos sur youtube chaine roomboom )

[explorerr1985]

half an hour trip,fasten your seat belts.

[lacufd]

Love it!

[Malkmusianful]

I love how Bill just silences his drums at the end of "Lament." He doesn't let them fade out - he literally dampens his drums as to mimic the cut-off on the LP.

That's some fine technique he's got there.

[AwakeningComics]

Amazing

[swisa1120]

Wotton has great cheek bones, just sayin

[saxsot]

Extraordinaire. Merci pour cette super vidéo. Waouw, que voici une bonne journée!

[EricDB007]

whoa this is incredible!

[rozbojnick1]

This music has deep philosophical level, especially Starless

[adlib001]

THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO, IT IS SO HARD TO SEE KC FROM 1974 AND BACK....WETTON'S VOICE, RAW KC, POWERFULL, LONG LIVE THE KING.

[marcomalleno]

and now my brain will be not the same of 29:12 ago

[EspJulio]

Thanks God the guy that uploaded this video!!! It's so weird to get videos from the King!!!. I love all crimson music but definitely The Larks tonges in aspic to The Red Albums my favorite!!!

[Failtier]

Thank you really really much for uploading this! Can't appreciate it enough!

[matutemendez]

@GHARGHI666: en Tales From Topographic Oceans ya no estaba Bruford con Yes. Se aleja de Yes en 1972 luego de la salida de Close To The Edge, por roces con Chris Squire y Jon Anderson. En Topographic el baterista es Alan White. Con Crimson grabó 7 álbumes: Larks' Tongues in Aspic Tongues (1973) Starless and Bible Black (1974) Red (1974) Discipline (1981) Beat (1982) Three of a Perfect Pair (1984) y THRAK (1995). Uno de los mejores bateristas de la historia del Rock. Preciso y potente.

[GHARGHI666]

Hieratic Fripp

[GHARGHI666]

Lo que aprendió Bill en este disco lo aplicó en el Tales... de Yes

[buddhastalin]

holy shit, thank youkindly! this is my favorite lineup of my favorite band ever!

[arbraulin]

Yes is great, but Bill Brudford unleashed all him actual potential with KC!

[rickfaw]

It's got a good beat and you can dance to it,,I'll give it a 10.

[DangerBird]

saw this tour at hollywood fla. loud and jaw dropping

[afthefragile]

9:40 is so orgasmic!! And then when John Wetton starts singing it gets even better until Fripps amazing solo where it totally blows away everything else!

[damacenoeclis]

wonderful

[CBrolley]

"Alacrity" means "cheerful readiness," so I don't think that's the word you were looking for. In any case, Fripp doesn't look depressed--he's just staring at the camera. A little showmanship, that's all...One summer day, probably in 1980, I saw Robert Fripp demonstrate his "Fripp-tronics" at the Guitar Center on Ashland Ave. in Chicago.(long since gone) Once inside, I couldn't get too close. The place was packed--on a weekday afternoon!

[Papa7851]

A really greatest-hit-of-all-time-movie­,for sure,i love this music,played live,in such a good quality,it is a historical rock-video,it shows all the good things in progressive music!!!

[minorsubdominant]

@carlacostantino "The Night Watch" was introduced during gigs around October 6th, '73 as far as I can tell. Maybe it was premiered a bit earlier, but I'm not sure. "Nous Sommes du Soleil" was recorded between April and October of the same year and released in December (all my research, of course, was done through Wikipedia, DGM, Setlists.fm, etc.). Also, Fripp is improvising, more or less. The solo is a bit different each time. I don't think Steve changes it up as much.

[willpumpkin]

Blew my mind!

[DarthFlorist]

The BEST band in the world, and I've listened to 'em since late 1970. I want "Starless" played at my funeral. As live versions go, this is quite a good one. The true story behind it - Fripp returned to Wimborne (nr Bournemouth) & wrote "Fracture", Lament" and a few others. Wetton submitted "Starless & Bible Black" (as it was then), but it was just the initial vocal bit. Fripp didn't like it. However, a few months later, Fripp asked Wetton for it and rewrote it to what it is now.

[Mikexception]

@DarthFlorist Thanks for this notice. I wondered so long why they did two.

[howsthatworkinout4ya]

such a pity Mr Fripp was obviously suffering in this video.Not his playing mind, that autonomous glare into the camera stinks of depression and an increasing alacrity with those around him. He "disappeared" sometime shortly after this,got himself back, "reappeared" much the better for it circa 1980/81 and created,so many standards in guitar playing, sounds and tunings(guitar craft) through to this day. Good man Robert, turns out the thing about depression is you cant let it get you down :]

[AlfredoNom]

This is fantastic!!. With one of the best bands of King Crimson: Robert Fripp, Bill Brudford, John Wetton, David Cross. Excelent music.  :-)

[djbongout]

and if NOT? gonna tell it to the cops? ha ha!

[godbluffvdgg]

Thumbs up if you can't help singing along to Lament.

[CraftyGtrist]

Actually the last song "Starless AND BIBLE BLACK", "Starless" is an improvised instrumental from the album "Red".

[arryarrfiddledeedee]

@CraftyGtrist You've got them mixed up. Starless and Bible Black is an instrumental from the album of the same name, Starless is what's being played here (later released on Red).

[CraftyGtrist]

@arryarrfiddledeedee I stand corrected, you were/are correct.

[arryarrfiddledeedee]

Gotta love how into it Bill is, the haunting echo of John's voice, and of course Robert's beard and endless gaze. KC are gods.

[johnnyroyblues]

Bruford is Excellent...in top form!

[johnnyroyblues]

No doubt about it, The Crim are making some great music here!

[PhysicsForTheFuture]

David Cross sounds particularly thick and solid in this. I know he struggled to get a good sound amidst the crush of the other three.

[PhysicsForTheFuture]

A peak moment in the history of rock.

[roberto261981]

BUENISIMO!!!

[ZENMAN5]

Just when you think you have seen it all, up pops a gem such as this. Thanks.

[LawrenceGershwin]

Wetton doesn't know the words of starless

[ersatzo]

@LawrenceGershwin He and Richard Palmer-James hadn't finished them yet. They didn't finish them until Red, which came out after this version of King Crimson had broken up. All the CDs with live versions of Starless on them have Wetton repeating verses, using incomplete verses that didn't end up in the final lyrics and/or making up words/sounds on the spot.

[paraplegia]

@ersatzo (and LawrenceGershwin)

...and this one (March 22nd 1974) was their third live performance of Starless EVER (!), the first two having taken place in Italy on march 19th and 20th respectively. Even more astonishing, innit?

[newfuckingwave]

@LawrenceGershwin but his chin isn't any less dimpled for it

[MrCachorrock]

Ya escuchábamos a King Crimson en el año 1973 en Asunción - Py en discos de vinilo (In the court of the Crimson King) y el otro disco (Lizard). Jamás habíamos escuchado algo tan delirante... tan loco para la época. Yo quedé gratamente sorprendido con esa música tan extraña de Robert Fripp. Muy loco, muy loco. Increíble!!!!

[EddTrooper]

John Wetton best singer of King Crimson.

[klinkerkk]

In fact, there's any word to describe this. Thanx God to have given us THE KING CRIMSON!

[ErickArturo25]

There is a missing song in the tracklist, between "lark's" and "the night watch", it is called "trio", from the "starless and the bible black "album.

[tspyro35]

Fripp is a creepy motherfucker.

[Innerspace100]

@tspyro35 Hehehe... Yeah, he's quite the eccentric, that's for sure. I've read quite a few of his interviews, and also quite a few of his diary entries over at dgmlive.com. There aren't too many of his like around, you could say... But, I love that, you see. I'm allways intrigued by characters, and Robert is one hell of a character!

[LordsKitchnerMusic]

Real music

[Tengent]

@LordsKitchnerMusic Oh, it is? I know the feeling of being proud that you enjoy uncommon, complex music, but that doesn't mean the music you enjoy is any more or less real than types you don't enjoy. That sort of comment has caught on really fast, and I think it's very pathetic that when someone finds something they truly enjoy, they essentially deny the joy that can be found in other forms of expression.

[BibiAudiofil]

Horrific* video efects but insanely good music !

40th anniversary edition sounds incredibly good on DVD-A !

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* NightWatch

[cmgizzi]

i love you king crimson

[micky1967]

Bill Bruford is phenomenal on 'starless'!!. Incredible footage all round, thanks!

[Innerspace100]

O H, M Y G O D that was beautiful. Oh dear oh dear oh dear... phew!

[MrZee1967]

Sorry, i messed up. I hit the dislike instead, my bad. I actually love King Crimson.

[Innerspace100]

@MrZee1967 It's okay. I was quite out of myself when I heard this first time 'round too... three hours ago. As matter of fact, I think I hit the "like" button twice. It's quite irregular, I know, but I couldn't help myself, you see...

[CrimsonKingl2]

@MrZee1967 Dont worry, that happens.. i know 2 more guys did the same.

[LiteracyLabyrinth2]

Oh, this is simply priceless! Unbelievable!

[TITHO15]

WTF with the color effects ? Horrible !!!

[Crimzoid21]

@TITHO15 I'm not sure the exact reason they put it there, however my guess would be that there was something wrong with the footage, so they added that color effect to preserve it the best they could.

[Lightmane321]

King Crimson didn't "push the envelope"

They tore the dam thing to pieces

[archfiendbaramos]

I like this video in that I can just link this whenever people ask me why I think King Crimson is the greatest band of all time.

[ricardoguerlan]

Robert is te biggest of the biggest!...

[ngquerol]

Astonishing.



[essertpitay]

Robert Fripp is marvelous e(x)ccentric.

[essertpitay]

Robert Fripp is marvelous e(x)ccentric.

[essertpitay]

Robert Fripp is marvelous e(x)ccentric.

[alexmortland]

17:12 = Pure Rock Fury.

[MyNameIsPABL0]

"Starless" is so beautiful...

[factusboy]

sos un groso locooooo amo esto!!!!

[megamiembro]

love it!

[LiteracyLabyrinth2]

One of the greatest uploads in Youtube history! Incredi ble

[thefloydsound68]

Una de las mejores alineaciones del rey carmesi, exelente video

[leopoldomh]

Impresionante.!!!

[zombywoof801]

my favourite era of this band, brilliant and stands the test of time

[2112Bevo]

there all brilliant, and the music just takes you places ....really good places

[ClassicRockMan95]

The Bass at 3:48 is sick...

[mmogamer420]

such percision... simply genius

[Todoapuntaquesi]

29 minutos!!!!!! seeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!

[k0stil]

fripp's a magician

[djbongout]

sexy drummer!! me wanna lick him!

ah yeh...and genius music, btw ;-)

[godbluffvdgg]

@djbongout I hope you're a female.

[marshallstak]

ha ha....godamn dope-fiends....everythings drugs, sex, and rock n roll (in that order)...no, I'm sorry to dissapoint you but I'm sober as a...Robert Fripp...nope, good music makes me higher than any weed, speed, blow, smack, ice, nitrous oxide, amyl-nitrate, crack...or for that matter, mary-jane, hooch, tea, buds, cones, checking the Weather Report, snuff, coke, bulbs, mara-ju-wanah, blah, blah, snort snort...puff, puff...cough cough...whoooaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhh

[56BUICKRiviera]

Thanks for this. Bery bery good to me.

[fnord23]

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!  Classic and Timeless!!!!

[VicteraIsler]

STOP LOOKING AT MEEE

[dbowienlmd1987]

anybody could tell me the titles of the songs in chronological order please...

[vicariuosguy]

@dbowienlmd1987 Hi.....Lark`s tongues in aspic pt II, The Night Watch, Lament and Starless.

[dbowienlmd1987]

@vicariuosguy Thanks a lot!!



[drob281159]

There's also an improv between Lark's and Night Watch.

[Failtier]

Great job, thanks for uploading this! And awesome quality, too.

[marshallstak]

What do you get when you cross Miles Davis with Black Sabbath??? why Lark Tongue In Aspic of couse ha ha...This is a great Aspic take!!...Wow...Crimson are actually groovin here, they're limber, relaxed but sinister still...its almost....dare I say....sensual, Oh Fripp BEHAVE!!!!!!! This is Crimson at their best, mandatory viewing for music lovers the world over....but wait...there's MORE...OMG...tHE nIGHT wATCH!!!!!.....joy!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[crazyedd123]

@marshallstak this is what happens when you listen to King Crimson high :D

[kakofatus]

you've just neared kill me

[SanJoseCraig100]

also Robert fripp gave some guitar lessons to Robin Trower to exercise his fingers-frippertronics man!-and wasn't he the guy to invent the guitar synthesizer

[SanJoseCraig100]

me too! I agree I was 14 years old at the time and I suggest picking up the live album "USA" it rules like this stuff!

[godbluffvdgg]

@SanJoseCraig100 Had that on 8 track. Never took it out. Must have listened to it 50 million times. Still love it too. 

[CrimsonKing73]

please do everything you can to keep this up; everyone on the planet should view this......TURN IT VIRAL!! Yeah!

[simledzep]

BOUUUUUUUUUUUUUMMM

[ThePhilosopher1996]

I love you. I can die happy now.

[teakata]

Excepcionalmente genial

[MisspanzerIV]

Thanks a lot ! this tv show changed my life way back in 1974 ! aftaer watching the show on TV I knew I needed a Les Paul. Brilliant.

[TheTinCanHitMan]

haha love how fripp just stares the camera down almost

[archfiendbaramos]

@TheTinCanHitMan I have the feeling this is at lest partly due to his whole semi-religious/ephiphanal experience that led to the Fripp/Cross/Bruford/Whetton band breakup (he's never said so but we all know this "top of my head flying off" probably involved acid).

That said he looks almost this intense in most other live appearances.

[newfuckingwave]

@TheTinCanHitMan god he is an intimidating man

[kopi3nnn]

Love it. Love it. Love it..!

[Crimzoid21]

Oh my GOD! Utterly amazed.

[eb3be66]

Wow...this is really great,many thanks for uploading!!!

[progrockAZ]

SUPER !!! Thanks !

[Phillydroog]

Yeah, as in holy shit this is awesome!!!

[rgdaniel]

Um, awesome!

[zed316]

wow, i didn't think was possible, thanks for this.

[LuzifersGhilom]

Words can't express how thankful I am for this upload. Greatest lineup and some of their greatest songs!