Post by Eva Yojimbo on Feb 10, 2018 15:35:00 GMT
Mine too. Love those hard hitting records between 1973-74, sadly Youtube have either deleted or removed most of the songs/cuts, which is a shame because I think the best version of Lark's Tongues In Aspic Part: II is the one from the 1975 USA Live and the CD version that have the crisp and fat sound of John Wetton going on full bad ass mode, and not the dull and too "remastered" later ones which sadly seems to "mix" down Wetton's incredible playing, specially on numbers such as the one stated above.
From the short introduction of Walk on, no pussyfooting first 30-40 seconds then right in to total chaos where the band just dishes out one sonic mayhem number after another, attacking the audience with such a powerful and hard hitting performance, it really is a shame that the Youtube have removed them all.
Despite the high quality of their studio albums, KC are really something special live. So often hearing them live was like hearing completely different songs, and live they just brought a whole new level of energy and power. It is a shame that most of it isn't on YouTube if only so more people could encounter it easily, but I'm glad I have all of it right at my fingertips. BTW, if you love the '73-'74 incarnation of the band, The Great Deceiver box set is a great collection of live material from that era. Even though I have the full Larks/Starless/Red box sets that have well over a dozen full and partial live shows from that era, even I'd admit that it's overkill for all but the most obsessive and The Great Deceiver did a great job of selecting from the best.
Have you seen their newest Radical Action... blu-ray? It's pretty awesome. For the first time they've assembled a band to do a career-long retrospective, which means they're playing a lot of the old stuff they haven't done in ages. They also play a lot of brand new stuff that hasn't been released on any official albums.