Epitaph - Volumes One and Two

"King Crimson in 1969 had the right music, musicians, music industry and audience in attendance, to make it work.”
- Robert Fripp (album liner notes)

A mixture of chronological distance from the original events and the status of the band's debut album 'In the Court of the Crimson King' as an iconic/classic studio recording, has helped to obscure the fact that the original King Crimson line-up - although it lasted slightly less than a year - earned the bulk of its contemporary standing as Britain's 'best new band' on the strength of its incendiary live performances.

'Epitaph: Volumes One and Two' presents recordings of BBC sessions from the period immediately preceding the launch of the album and US live performances from November and December 1969. Included is a complete performance from the final run of gigs at the legendary Fillmore West in San Francisco.

Pending the invention of a time machine, this album represents the next best thing - the original line-up of one of rock music's most enduring groups in session and live performance.

Originally issued in 1996, Epitaph was one of the first archive live recordings issued by DGM. The album has been unavailable for the past couple of years and happily is now re-issued.