DAVID CROSS BAND Plays King Crimson 1972-1974

DAVID CROSS - electric violin

JOHN MITCHELL - guitar, lead vocals

SHEILA MALONEY - keyboards

MICK PAUL - bass guitar

JACK SUMMERFIERLD - drums

DAVID CROSS is an English electric violinist and keyboardist best known for playing with progressive rock band King Crimson from 1972 to 1974. Cross appears on their studio albums Larks' Tongues in Aspic (1973) and Starless and Bible Black (1974), as well as “Providence”, a live track on Red (1974), in addition to numerous concert recordings that have been released by Robert Fripp's Discipline Global Mobile label in the decades since.After leaving the band, David was a senior lecturer in Music Education at the London Metropolitan University and besides several projects and recording sessions, he kept alive his own band since 1994 releasing 10 albums. In recent years David Cross has toured all around Europe, Latin America and Japan with Stick Men (with other King Crimson alumni, Tony Levin and Pat Mastelotto, plus Markus Reuter), vexing featured on albumsMidoriand Panamerica; as well with David Jackson, the legendary sax player from Van Der Graaf Generator. In 2023 David toured with his band all around Europe celebrating the 50th anniversary of Larks’ Tongues In Aspic album. In 2024,DAVID CROSSBAND will continue touring all around Europe, Japan and North and South America, adding some material from Starless And Bible Back and Red album to the band’s liverepertoire. Recently, JOHN MITCHELL, a member of several popular progressive rock acts such as Frost, It Bites and Arena, John Wetton Band, Martin Barre of Jethro Tull, has joined the band as the lead vocalist and guitarist

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