King Crimson "The Road To Red" up for pre-order

https://www.burningshed.com/store/panegyric/product/340/4995/

Probably be cheaper at Amazon.

 

Too much duplicate stuff for me to spring for that price much as I love the album. happy with what I have from that era

 

Good lord.
Who could ever listen to the whole thing?
I want one.

 

I ordered this immediately. Can't wait to hear the five concerts in Hi-Def Blu-Ray audio.

It's pricey but it will sell out quickly.

 

How bad is my music addiction that I think, "150 pounds--that's not too bad!"

 

£150 doesn't seem bad for what they're giving you, and that Blu-Ray is indeed very tempting. Still, I think it's more Crim than I can handle ... at any price.

 

I agree. It's very tempting, but like the Larks' box, I will pass. I love King Crimson live and this era was their finest IMO, but I already have The Great Deceiver, The Nightwatch, and probably four of the KCCC official boots from this period. At $150 I still wouldn't buy it, let alone £150.

 

Huge, huge KC fan here, but golly that's a big expensive slab of often redundant music. I'd rather have five or six (or whatever the right number is) discs of just the improvs.

Not sure what to do here. Not seeing $225 + S&H worth of marginal utiltity to my already extensive collection. But it will bug the hell out of me not to own it.

 

Also available to pre-order is the 40th anniversary edition of USA which is surprising... no 5.1 mix before you get too excited

 

Uh, and now the pre-order page seems to be blank - though the 2-CD version is still there.

Hmmmm.

 

I ju$t can't.

The good news: at that price point, they will surely release the remix as a standalone; that's my must-have.

I'd like to think this will sell out even without my participation. Fripp has done a great job of archiving and distributing his alter-ego, KC. Fans have been able to load up nicely. And the time for this may be right, if in fact King Crimson has ceased to exist.

 

https://www.burningshed.com/store/kingcrimson/product/313/4998/

 

Well, that was quick. Thanx.

 

This does get a bit complex to sort out. Essentially, the 5.1 surround mix Wilson and Fripp did for the 40th is one entity, and this stereo mix (available for pre-order) by the two is new, correct?

 

I am a huge fan. I have 80 or 90 King Crimson titles (consisting of a lot of material from the very period this box covers - I don't need more!) and I couldn't justify the Larks' box. I certainly can't justify this. I think DGM is off their rocker. They've lost touch with fans with what fans want and need.

There was a time when I used to think how great it would be to have all of this stuff available, but I never thought of the downside... this. I think they'd make a lot more money selling simpler packages of this Red remix paired with just the Blurays of live material (and a way to get the audio off there for iPod use) plus a a very limited collector's box like the current version. Now I'm not going to buy the Road To Red OR the remixed Red and may skip USA as well. Losing a lot of money there.

 

Well, the Larks' box is still available, so that can't have been said to have been an overwhelming success. If it was truly successful, it should have sold out pretty quickly - 7000 copies (I believe that was the number made) is a pretty small run for a band this relatively large. The price was wrong, or maybe the contents were wrong for the price. I don't see the Road To Red being a smarter decision at a higher price and even less truly intriguing material (at least Larks' box had the sessions disc).

I really think DGM should have done the fans right and finished out the 40th Anniversary series first and then gone back to revisit whatever titles they felt like touching on again. I'm pretty annoyed at having to wait who-knows-how-long for Beat, ToaPP, and Thrak. For all we know, next year we'll just get another rehash box like this rather than a step forward in the anniversary series. I wouldn't be surprised to see a Discipline box, not at all. I have to admit, I probably wouldn't be able to resist that one.

 

Well, that's interesting... the link from burning shed seems to be gone!

 

Well, what the hell. Now to have the 5.1 dvd and the new stereo remix, we essentially need to hang onto a few different versions of Red? It's annoying that they can't seem to make a comprehensive package.

 

Well, I certainly agree about finishing out the 40th collection. That's been a foot-dragger; won't be long before we're closer to the 50th than the 40th.

But the boxes seem like well-thought, thorough collections, esp for those who want a final-final optical disc collection of 70s Crim. Even if there is overlap. Granted it's not for everybody. And with diverse fan preferences, there isn't really a consensus to produce and distribute hard copies of particular shows, enough to predict a return on investment. Seems to me the best solution for concerts is 24/96 downloads, period. Maybe an occasional 5.1 disc release.

By the time the 50th gets here, there may be little interest in optical discs from anyone, never mind King Crimson.

 

New link:

https://www.burningshed.com/store/kingcrimson/multiproduct/313/3884/

 

Ordered! Along with the USA CD/DVD set. (And the XTC and Yes releases in both formats .

 

DGM is listing it as well. I added the USA link, which will not contain a surround mix .


http://store.nexternal.com/dgm/the-road-to-red-box-set-p1372.aspx


http://store.nexternal.com/dgm/king-crimson---usa-40th-anniversary-edition-p1374.aspx

 

Well I'm a little confused about a few things; first, why would you get both The Road to Red and the USA Live CD/DVD since AFAICT the latter is included in the former? And am I reading correctly that the difference between the Burning Shed version and the DGM version is between a T-shirt or the 4 coasters (and the price, of course)?

The big attraction to me is the hires multitrack live stuff on the Blurays

 

I think I'll save the cash for the remaining 40th Anniversary releases. I've managed to survive without the Lark's Tongues box.

 

21 discs. This would be far over-the-top, if Red wouldn't have been a masterpiece of epic proportions.