USA (album)

Infobox Album | Name = USA
Type = Live album
Artist = King Crimson


Released = 1975
Recorded = June 1974
Genre = Progressive rock
Length = 40:56
Label = Island Records
Atlantic Records
Polydor Records
E.G. Records
Virgin Records
Producer = King Crimson
Reviews =
* Allmusic Rating|4|5 [http://wm03.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:axfuxqq5ldje link]
*Robert Christgau (B+) [http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?name=king+crimson link]
Last album = "Red" (1974)
This album = "USA" (1975)
Next album = "Discipline" (1981)
__NOTOC__"USA" is a live album by the English band King Crimson, released in 1975.
*Tracks 1-6 and 8-9 recorded at the Casino, Asbury Park, June 28, 1974
*Track 7 recorded at the Palace Theatre, Providence, USA, June 30, 1974
*Tracks 2, 3 and 7 feature overdubs performed by Eddie Jobson.
*Track 1 is a brief excerpt from "(No Pussyfooting)". While it was not listed as a separate track on the original album, it is audible to the careful listener.
*Tracks 8 and 9 were not featured on the original release of the album, but were added for a subsequent release.

Track listing

ide one

#"Walk On...No Pussyfooting" (Brian Eno, Robert Fripp) – 0:35
#"Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)" (Fripp) – 6:24
#"Lament" (Fripp, Richard Palmer-James, John Wetton) – 4:21
#"Exiles" (David Cross, Fripp, Palmer-James) – 7:09

ide two

#"Asbury Park" (Bill Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Wetton) – 7:06
#"Easy Money" (Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) – 6:41
#"21st Century Schizoid Man" (Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Peter Sinfield) – 8:40

Bonus tracks on 30th anniversary edition CD

#"Fracture" (Fripp) – 11:19
#"Starless" (Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Palmer-James, Wetton) – 14:55

Personnel

King Crimson

*Robert Fripp - guitar & mellotron
*John Wetton - bass & lead vocals
*David Cross - violin, viola, mellotron & electric piano
*Bill Bruford - drums, percussion

Additional musician

*Eddie Jobson - violin (2 & 7), electric piano (3)