So I've been wondering lately why there is a relative lack of live material from 1973 available. The Larks Tongues box only has shows from 72. The Starless box has four shows from the autumn of 73 (Arlington, Glasgow, Amsterdam, and Zurich), plus one song from the summer of 73. I reckon there has to be one of several possible reasons for this:
1. Whatever soundboard tapes that might have been made on those tours are "MIA and presumed lost"
2. Fripp considers the audience tapes he's heard to be of insufficient quality for release
3. Fripp considers the performances to be of insufficient quality for
4. Fripp is an opportunistic turkey, fraud, and charlatan, and he's just waiting for "the right time" to make another grab for our wallets
(and before anyone any complains about my choice of words on number 4, please look up the somewhat flippant press release that was issued in 1981, with the "possible explanations" for why Fripp was again using the King Crimson name)
Or it could be any combinations of those possibilities.
Has Chuckles ever given an official explanation for this matter, or are we once again left to (facetiously?) speculate why there's such a huge gap?
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