KING CRIMSON - IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDON ISLAND 1st UK PRESS TEXTURED A//1 B//1

	£		43
	$		57

KING CRIMSON -

IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDON

  ILPS 9127 

1st UK PRESS 1970

A//1  B//1 machined matrices

Ian McDonald and Michael Giles left the band following their first American tour in 1969. Greg Lake was the next member to leave, after being approached by Keith Emerson to join what would become Emerson, Lake & Palmer in early 1970. This left Robert Fripp as the only remaining musician in the band, taking on part of the keyboard-playing role in addition to guitar. To compensate, Peter Sinfieldincreased his own creative role and began developing his interest in synthesisers for use on subsequent records.

Lake agreed to sing on the recordings for In the Wake of Poseidon (negotiating to receive King Crimson's PA equipment as payment). Eventually, he ended up singing on the band's early 1970 single "Cat Food" b/w "Groon" and on all but one of the album’s vocal tracks. The exception was "Cadence and Cascade", which was sung by Fripp's old schoolfriend and teenage bandmate Gordon Haskell. There does exist however, an early mix of the song with Lake singing a guide vocal which was unearthed and featured on the DGM site as a download. At one point, the band considered hiring the then-unknown Elton John to be the album's singer, but decided against it. Other former members and associates returned – as session players only – for the Poseidon recordings, with all bass parts being handled byPeter Giles and Michael Giles drumming. Mel Collins (formerly of the band Circus) contributed saxophones and flute. Another key performer was jazz pianist Keith Tippett, who became an integral part of King Crimson's sound for the next few records (although Fripp offered him full band membership, Tippett preferred to remain as a studio collaborator and only performed live with the band once).

On 25 March 1970, the line up of Fripp, Lake, Tippett, Mike and Peter Giles taped a mimed performance of the single version of "Cat Food" for the following night's broadcast of BBCTV's Top Of The Pops. It was to be King Crimson's sole British TV appearance until 1981. This footage has long since been wiped, though several photographs taken backstage and of the dress rehearsal do exist.

With the album on sale, Fripp and Sinfield remained in the awkward position of having King Crimson material and releases available, but not having a band to play it. Fripp persuaded Gordon Haskell to join permanently as singer and bass player, and recruited drummer Andy McCulloch, another Dorset musician moving in the West London progressive rock circle, who had previously been a member of Shy Limbs (alongside Greg Lake, who recommended him to Fripp) and Manfred Mann's Earth Band. Mel Collins was also retained as a full band member.

Vinyl: EX.  A great vinyl which has only a couple of light hairlines on side 1 and none on side 2. I have played this through in its entirety on my Linn Sondek/Rotel/B&W system and am happy to conclude that the vinyl is very worthy of inclusion in a quality collection. Magnificent channel separation and no disturbing clicks, jumps or sticks. What we have here is the very earliest ultra heavy vinyl of this classic second Crimson outing. It doesn't get much better than this!!

Sleeve: VG+ to EX. Just light storage wear on the edges. This is the original heavily textured gatefold sleeve which still looks fantastic WITHOUT any creases. A few white spots caused by storage rubbing on the reverse, otherwise a lovely sleeve without any splits, tears or writing. The inside gatefold is mint.

This is a unique investment opportunity!!! The next prog album to go completely through the roof. Finding this album in any condition at all is nearly impossible so late in the day. Get this while you still can. This value of the album is only going to go one way ... up and up ... until it will be totally unavailable at all for a reasonable price.

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