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King Crimson - Champaign-Urbana Sessions 1983 (1983)

Track listing:
  1. San Francisco 2:06
  2. Tony bass riff 3:28
  3. Sequenced 3:55
  4. Steinberger melody 4:59
  5. Fragmented 4:02
  6. Not one of those 1:45
  7. ZZZZ's 2:10
  8. Reel 3 jam 2:34
  9. Robert and Bill 2:08
  10. Say NO 2:46
  11. Robert's ballad 3:44
  12. Heat in the Jungle 7:08
  13. Grace Jones 5:46
  14. Adrian looped 1:19

Notes

The 21st Collectors' Club release (December, 2002). King Crimson Champaign-Urbana Sessions, January 1983.
A perilous moment for an established band is the writing and recording period that follows a successful album and tour. The momentum of touring, even touring that tires and exhausts the players, propels band life forwards. Audiences cheer; new situations and places and people provide distractions from the inevitable frictions that arise between touring musicians who spend more time with each other than with their close families and friends.
King Crimson's failure to recognise or develop the material available from these Champaign-Urbana sessions of 1983 was paralleled 14 years later by the Nashville sessions (CLUB13) of May 1997. RF