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King Crimson - ORTF-TV, Paris 1974-03-22 (1974)

Track listing:
  1. Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part Ii 2:16
  2. Improvisation 2:47
  3. The Night Watch 4:25
  4. Lament 4:05
  5. Starless 12:11

Notes

"Cigarettes and Ice Cream"

This is not the complete "Cigarettes and Ice Cream", as most of it corresponds to an audience recording of the 1974-05-04 show at McMasters University in Hamilton, Ontario. But... that part suffers from (I guess) a high gen tape source with an unpleasant wobbly sound throughout the complete recording.This short bit here comes from a TV broadcast. Although there is a considerable amount of hiss in this source, it is a nice listening experience. The highlights are the beautiful improv after Larks' Tongues and Starless (Cross never got to record the song in a proper music studio, then this is as close to that as we'll ever get). Towards the end of that track, the sound degrades and the signal from one of the channels is almost lost, but I am afraid that this is the only source from that show that has surfaced.