King Crimson - Epitaph (Live at Hyde Park 1969) 8mm FILM
About this footage...
Video source: Bootleg DVD
Audio source: Official download. All rights reserved to Discipline Global Mobile. If you wish to listen to the Hyde Park performance in full please purchase the download from the DGM website.
The footage of King Crimson seems to come from a silent 8mm source, the full 6 minute version of which I found on an ELP bootleg DVD years ago. The footage originates from Greg Lake’s archive as he explained in an interview from around the time of the Epitaph release:
“Interviewer: Now, I know we have this footage which I believe is your footage from Hyde Park. Is that right?
Greg Lake: I believe it is, yeah. I don’t know where I got it from. I think it might have come off the Stones Mobile or something. It was just something I had around for years and years and years and I just noticed it just said King Crimson on the box and so one day I had it transferred and it was just... a lot of it, of course, had deteriorated but there