''Ladies of the Road'' is a live two CD set by the band

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, recorded in 1971 & 1972, released in 2002, and reissued in 2008 in Japan.Discogs ''Ladies Of The Road'' 2008 Japan
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'' album. The first disc consists of concert recordings performed by the band's second touring lineup: guitarist/keyboardist

Robert Fripp Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is a British musician, songwriter, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist, founder and longest-lasting member of the progressive rock band King Crimson. He has worked extensively as a session ...

, vocalist/bass guitarist

Boz Burrell Raymond "Boz" Burrell (1 August 1946 – 21 September 2006) was an English musician. Originally a vocalist and guitarist, Burrell is best known for his singing with King Crimson (1971–1972) and bass playing in Bad Company (1973–1982, 1998� ...

, saxophonist/flautist/ keyboardist

Mel Collins Melvyn Desmond Collins (born 5 September 1947, Isle of Man) is a British saxophonist, flautist and session musician. Collins has played in several progressive rock groups, having been a member of King Crimson on two occasions (the first from ...

, drummer/backing vocalist Ian Wallace, and lyricist

Peter Sinfield Peter John Sinfield (born 27 December 1943) is an English poet and songwriter. He is best known as the co-founder and former lyricist of King Crimson, whose debut album '' In the Court of the Crimson King'' is considered one of the first and mo ...

- who operated a VCS3 synthesizer, the soundboard and the lights during live shows. The second disc consists of excerpts from different performances of the song "21st Century Schizoid Man" from the 1971 and 1972 tours, edited together to form a single 46 + minute “extended” version of the song. This set was compiled in part from King Crimson Collectors' Club albums - limited release live recordings of concert performances, studio sessions and radio sessions.

Track listing

Disc 1

#"Pictures of a City" (

) - 8:46 #:from the album '' King Crimson Live at Summit Studios'' #"The Letters" (Fripp, Sinfield) - 4:42 #:from the album '' King Crimson Live at Plymouth Guildhall'' #"Formentera Lady (abridged)" (Fripp, Sinfield) - 6:41 #:abridged, from the album '' Live in Detroit, MI'' #"The Sailor's Tale" (Fripp) - 5:43 #:abridged, from the album '' Live in Detroit, MI'' #"Cirkus" (Fripp, Sinfield) - 7:58 #:from the album '' Live in Detroit, MI'' #"Groon" (Fripp) - 6:52 #:abridged, from the album '' King Crimson Live at Summit Studios'' #" Get Thy Bearings" ( Donovan Leitch, arr. by

, Fripp, Ian Wallace) - 8:33 #:abridged, from the album ''April 13, 1971 - Zoom Club, Frankfurt, Germany'' #" 21st Century Schizoid Man" (Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Sinfield) - 8:57 #:from the album '' King Crimson Live at Summit Studios'' #"

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" (McDonald, Sinfield) - 0:48 #:from the album '' Live in Detroit, MI''

Disc 2

#"21st Century Schizoid Man" (Fripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield) - 1:44 #:Baseball Park,

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- 26 February 1972 #"Schizoid Men" (edit 1) (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace) - 4:46 #:Baseball Park, Jacksonville,

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- 26 February 1972 #"Schizoid Men" (edit 2) (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace) - 3:12 #:Sound Track,

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- 14 March 1972 #"Schizoid Men" (edit 3) (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace) - 5:15 #:Kemp Coliseum, Orlando, Florida - 27 February 1972 #"Schizoid Men" (edit 4) (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace) - 6:22 #:Armoury, Wilmington - 11 February 1972 (Late Show) #"Schizoid Men" (edit 5) (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace) - 3:56 #:Sound Track, Denver - 13 March 1972 #"Schizoid Men" (edit 6) (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace) - 5:13 #:Cinderella Ballroom,

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- 18 February 1972 #"Schizoid Men" (edit 7) (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace) - 3:18 #:Armoury, Wilmington - 11 February 1972 (Early Show) #"Schizoid Men" (edit 8) (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace) - 5:01 #:Unidentified Show #2 - 1972 #"Schizoid Men" (edit 9) (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace) - 3:23 #:The Barn, Peoria - March 10, 1972 #"Schizoid Men" (edit 10) (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace) - 4:56 #:Academy Of Music, New York - February 12, 1972 (Late Show) #"Schizoid Men" (edit 11) (Burrell, Collins, Fripp, Wallace) - 5:42 (n.b. actually a continuation of track 11) #:Academy Of Music, New York - February 12, 1972 (Early Show) #:Riverside Theater,

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- March 8, 1972

Personnel

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guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected strin ...

, mellotron *

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bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, lead vocals *

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saxophone The saxophone (often referred to colloquially as the sax) is a type of Single-reed instrument, single-reed woodwind instrument with a conical body, usually made of brass. As with all single-reed instruments, sound is produced when a reed (mouthpi ...

, flute, mellotron * Ian Wallace – drums,

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Ex ...

backing vocals A backing vocalist is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists. A backing vocalist may also sing alone as a lead-in to the main vocalist's entry or to sing a counter-melody. Backing vocalists are ...

–

VCS3 The VCS 3 (or VCS3; an initialism for ''Voltage Controlled Studio, version #3'') is a portable analog synthesizer with a flexible modular voice architecture introduced by Electronic Music Studios (London) Limited (EMS) in 1969. EMS release ...

Charts

References

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