Live at the Orpheum

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Live at the Orpheum
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Live album by
King Crimson
ReleasedJanuary 2015
Recorded30 September–1 October 2014
Genre Progressive rock
Length40:56
Label Discipline Global Mobile
Producer King Crimson
King Crimson chronology
The Elements of King Crimson
(2014)		Live at the Orpheum
(2015)		 Live in Toronto
(2016)
Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
SourceRating
Metacritic 75/100 [1]
Review scores
SourceRating
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All About Jazz Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svg [3]
PopMatters Star full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar full.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svgStar empty.svg [4]

Live at the Orpheum is a live album by the band King Crimson, released by Discipline Global Mobile records in 2015. The album was recorded on 30 September and 1 October at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, California on the band's The Elements of King Crimson US tour of 2014. [5]

Contents

King Crimson's 2014 tour marked guitarist, founder and leader Robert Fripp's return to active service after a long legal battle with Universal Music Group. This line-up of King Crimson is notable for featuring three drummers, Pat Mastelloto, Gavin Harrison and Bill Rieflin. The other members of the band are long standing bass player Tony Levin, Mel Collins who was previously in the band from 1970 to 1972, also playing on Red in 1974, Jakko Jakszyk on guitar and vocals, and Robert Fripp. [2]

All the shows on the tour were recorded on multitrack with Jakko Jakszyk sorting through the recordings. [3] The two shows at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles were chosen for release. The album features 41 minutes of selections from the set and was released on 13 January 2015 on CD/DVD-A and heavy-weight vinyl.

Track listing

No.TitleWritersLength
1."Walk On: Monk Morph Chamber Music" Mel Collins, Robert Fripp, Tony Levin 2:34
2."One More Red Nightmare"Fripp, John Wetton 6:07
3."Banshee Legs Bell Hassle" Gavin Harrison 1:40
4."the construKction of light" Adrian Belew, Fripp, Trey Gunn, Pat Mastelotto 6:32
5."The Letters"Fripp, Peter Sinfield 4:57
6."Sailor's Tale"Fripp6:51
7."Starless" Bill Bruford, David Cross, Fripp, Richard Palmer-James, Wetton12:15

Other songs performed through the two shows but not included in either release: "Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Parts One and Two" (Fripp, Bruford, Wetton, Cross, Jamie Muir; Fripp), "VROOOM/Coda: Marine 475" (Fripp, Bruford, Levin, Belew, Mastelotto, Gunn), "A Scarcity of Miracles" (Fripp, Collins, Levin, Harrison, Jakko Jakszyk), "Pictures of a City" (Fripp, Sinfield), "Level Five" (Fripp, Belew, Gunn, Mastelotto), "Red" (Fripp), "The Talking Drum" (Fripp, Bruford, Wetton, Cross, Muir), "Hell Hounds of Krim" (Mastelotto, Harrison, Bill Rieflin), "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Michael Giles, Fripp, Ian McDonald, Sinfield, Greg Lake), and "The Light of Day" (Fripp, Collins, Levin, Harrison, Jakszyk).

Personnel

King Crimson
Front Line
Back Line
Production

Charts

Chart (2015)Peak
position
US Top Tastemaker Albums (Billboard) [6] 25
US Independent Albums (Billboard) [7] 28
US Top Rock Albums (Billboard) [8] 39

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