King Crimson - Epitaph Vol 1,2,3 & 4 box set

The collected live recordings and rarities from the band that started it all for art-rock back in 1969. This boxed set includes the final performance by Fripp, Lake, McDonald, Giles and Sinfield at the Fillmore West in San Francisco plus studio sessions recorded at the BBC. Box set includes two full color booklets; one with details for volumes and one and two and the other detailing volumes three and four.
Volume One:
BBC Radio Sessions
1. 21st. Century Schizoid Man
2. In The Court of the Crimson King
3. Get Thy Bearings
4. Epitaph
Fillmore East, New York: 22 November 1969
5. A Man, A City
6. Epitaph
7. 21st. Century Schizoid Man
Fillmore West, San Francisco: 15 December 1969
8. Travel Weary Capricorn
9. Mars
Volume Two:
Fillmore West, San Francisco: 16 December 1969
1. In The Court of the Crimson King
2. Drop In
3. A Man, A City
4. Epitaph
5. 21st. Century Schizoid Man
6. Mars
Volume Three:
Plumpton Festival:
9 August 1969
1. 21st. Century Schizoid Man
2. Get Thy Bearings
3. In The Court of the Crimson King
4. Mantra
5. Travel Weary Capricorn
6. Improv including By the Sleeping Lagoon
7. Mars
Volume Four:
Chesterfield Jazz Club:
7 September 1969
1. 21st. Century Schizoid Man
2. Drop In
3. Epitaph
4. Get Thy Bearings
5. Mantra
6. Travel Weary Capricorn
7. Improv
8. Mars

Robert Fripp: guitar
Ian McDonald: woodwind, keyboards, mellotron, vocal
Greg Lake: bass guitar, lead vocal
Michael Giles: drums, percussion, vocal
Peter Sinfield: words & illumination
Road Team: Dik Fraser, Richard Vickers
Management: David Enthoven, John Gaydon
A Ton Prob Production by Robert Fripp & David Singleton on behalf of King Crimson, David and John.
Cover picture: "The Four Seasons" by P.J. Crook. Booklet Design: by © Bill Smith Studio, London
- Reviews -
The performances are as ferocious and daring as punk at its height, but with sound like a mix of Ornette Coleman, Jimi Hendrix and Igor Stravinsky.... Playboy
Hearing these live recordings by the classic King Crimson line-up makes you realise just how polite and formulaic most progressive rock was by comparison.... Mojo
A fitting monument to a monumental band.... Guitar World
A masterful compilation from the original version of Robert Fripp's Crimson.... Guitar For The Practicing Musician
The early King Crimson were also capable of wonderful grace; "Epitaph" - the song - is a swelling beauty, closer to the elegiac orchestral design of Pet Sounds than trademark Yes or Genesis.... Rolling Stone