A Beginner’s Guide to the King Crimson Collectors’ Club
A Beginner's Guide to the King Crimson Collectors' Club is a compilation released in 2000 on Discipline Global Mobile. It gathers material from the band's Collectors' Club series, which issued limited-run live recordings of concert performances, alongside studio sessions and radio sessions.
It arrived in the same year as The ConstruKction of Light, the band's twelfth studio album, and works as a sampler for listeners who want a way into the archive side of King Crimson's catalogue. Rather than tackling the Collectors' Club releases one by one, you get a taste of what the progressive rock outfit's vaults held, from stage to studio to broadcast.
A Beginner’s Guide to the King Crimson Collectors’ Club: tracklist and credits
10 tracks · 59:11Tracklist
- 121st Century Schizoid ManFripp, Giles, Lake, McDonald, Sinfield8:03
- 2I Talk to the WindIan McDonald and Peter Sinfield4:45
- 3Larks’ Tongues in Aspic: Part 1Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Muir, Wetton5:59
- 4Ladies of the RoadRobert Fripp and Peter Sinfield5:58
- 5The Sailor’s TaleRobert Fripp5:19
- 6Thela Hun GinjeetBelew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin5:46
- 7Elephant TalkBelew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin5:01
- 8PeopleKing Crimson and Adrian Belew6:01
- 9Funky Jam4:30
- 10Seizure7:49
- Produced by
- Robert Fripp, David Singleton, Alex Mundy, The Vicar, Robert Fripp and David Singleton
- Recorded at
- Central Park, The Marquee, The Zoom Club, Kemp Coliseum, Summit Studios, Moles Club, Longacre Theatre, Applehead Studios, 7th Note
- Recorded
- 1969–1998
- Mixed by
- David Bottrill, Adrian Belew, Ken Latchney, Ronan Chris Murphy
- Engineered by
- Hunter Macdonald, Noah Evens
- Label
- Discipline Global Mobile
- Length
- 59:11
Line-up
- Bill Bruford · percussion, drums (drum set), electronic drum set
- David Cross · mellotron, electric piano, violin · guest
- Robert Fripp · mellotron, guitar, electric piano
- John Wetton · bass guitar, vocals · guest
- Michael Giles · percussion, drums (drum set), vocals · guest
- Greg Lake · bass guitar, lead vocals · guest
- Ian McDonald · woodwind, mellotron, keyboard, vocals · guest
- Boz Burrell · bass, lead vocals, bass guitar · guest
- Mel Collins · mellotron, flute, saxophone · guest
- Ian Wallace · drums (drum set), vocals, background vocals · guest
- Adrian Belew · guitar, vocals
- Tony Levin · Chapman stick, bass guitar, bass
- Trey Gunn · guitar · guest
- Pat Mastelotto · percussion, drums (drum set), electronic drum set · guest
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More from King Crimson
Full discography →The best of 2000
All of 2000 →More on Discipline Global Mobile
The label →Releases and pressings
How we know the release date only year precision available
| Source | Date | Note |
|---|---|---|
| MusicBrainz | 2000 | |
| Wikipedia infobox | 2000 | |
| Wikidata | 2000 | |
| US release | 2000 | earliest US date |
1 editions
| Date | Country | Label | Barcode | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | US | Discipline Global Mobile | original |
Cover art sources
coverartarchive · upscaled: major: best source 599x588, upscaled to 1500 (x2.55)
| Source | Size | Verdict |
|---|---|---|
| coverartarchive ✓ | 599×588 | upscaled: major: best source 599x588, upscaled to 1500 (x2.55) |