The Beat Club, Bremen

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The Beat Club, Bremen
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Live album by
ReleasedFebruary 1999
Recorded17 October 1972
Studio Beat Club TV set, Bremen, West Germany
Genre progressive rock, experimental rock
Length43:55
Label Discipline Global Mobile
Producer Robert Fripp
King Crimson chronology
Live at Jacksonville
(1998)
The Beat Club, Bremen
(1999)
Live at Cap D'Agde
(1999)

The Beat Club, Bremen is a live album by the band King Crimson, released through the King Crimson Collectors' Club in February 1999 (see 1999 in music). It was recorded on the German programme Beat Club, in Bremen, West Germany, on 17 October 1972 and first aired on 25 November. The video of this performance is included in the deluxe "Larks' Tongues in Aspic" box set. [1]

Contents

Track listing

  1. "The Rich Tapestry of Life" (Bill Bruford, David Cross, Robert Fripp, Jamie Muir, John Wetton) 29:49
  2. "Exiles" (Cross, Fripp, Richard Palmer-James) 7:53
  3. "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part I)" (Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Muir, Wetton) 6:53

Personnel

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References

  1. Planer, Lindsay. "The Beat Club, Bremen, 1972 - King Crimson". AllMusic.