King Crimson USA Music as on the Brazilian-flavored "Tropicalia

as on the Brazilian-flavored "Tropicalia

Glenn Tipton (guitar)

This is the Dead at their most improvisational while still retaining the Blues-Rock roots of the 'Pigpen' years

though coexisting with sufficient new twists to induce recurring double takes

King Crimson USA Music as on the Brazilian-flavored "TropicaliaAs Robert Fripp had done with King Crimson's first live LP, Earthbound (1972), USA is a single disc concert package documenting the quartet during its 1974 swing through North America. As with its predecessor, USA was also issued as a sonic cenotaph of the concurrently defunct Krim. So insistent that the band would not be resurrected, Fripp concluded the LP's liner notes at the time with another three letter epitaph: "R. I. P." The 1973 1974 King