"Brain Salad Surgery" is the 6th studio album by King Crimson and their first album as a quintet since their debut in 1969. Early in 1973, Muir abruptly left the band - ostensibly due to an onstage injury, but in fact due to an overwhelming spiritual need to retreat from music and spend time in a monastery (something which was not communicated to his bandmates). Carl Palmer absorbed Muir's percussion role in addition to his own kit drumming, and the band continued to experiment with both classical arrangements and modern progressive rock.
Brain Salad Surgery (1973)
All songs written by King Crimson unless noted:
Side A
1. Jerusalem (Blake-Parry, arr. King Crimson)
2. The Great Deceiver
3. Lament
4. Still… You Turn Me On (Lake)
5. The Night Watch
Side B
6. Trio
7. Brain Salad Surgery
8. Toccata (Ginastera, arr. Emerson-Palmer)
9. Fracture (Fripp)
Personnel
Robert Fripp - guitar
Greg Lake - bass, vocals
Keith Emerson - keyboards
Carl Palmer - drums
David Cross - violin, viola, additional keyboards
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