The Great Deceiver 1 : Live 1973-1974

Entertainment Weekly (1/22/93, p.57) - "...sounds more substantial than most any rock you'll hear being played today..." - Rating: B Q (12/92, p.149) - 3 Stars - Good - "...records one of King Crimson's most adventurous periods...celebrates a musical application that was always dedicated and--occasionally--close to miraculous..." Uncut (p.98) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[I]t's the molten intensity of Robert Fripp's playing that lends KC their timelessness." The Wire (p.55) - "[S]ome of the rawest and most exciting music ever committed to disc." Down Beat (3/93, p.36) - 4 Stars - Very Good - "...This version of Crimson played with driven intensity and dark fury...The improvs can settle into crunching, ominous grooves or drift out to the final frontier. Unless you were in attendance, you haven't heard anything quite like it..." Musician (3/93, p.95) - "...some of the heaviest, meanest and most muscular rock ever heard...Improvisations--sometimes searing, sometimes soaring, always memorable--are the centerpiece of this set...monstrously good..."