King Crimson - May. 31, 2000 - Berlin
From the opening seconds of this gig it sounds like King Crimson have truly arrived. Powerful, confident and possessed of a driving momentum this concert marks the best of the dates played so
View ArticleKing Crimson - Jun. 02, 2000 - Nurnberg
Judging by the missteps on the opening number it sounds as though the team are having some monitor problems. Things settle down during TCOL however although the introduction of FraKctured suffers from...
View ArticleKing Crimson - Jun. 03, 2000 - Stuttgart
The 6th night into the tour and Crimson are up and running from the first note in Stuttgart. Belew's soloing throughout the first half of the set borders on runaway
View ArticleKing Crimson - Jun. 10, 2000 - Warsaw
The improv appears to be the search for Seizure. At seventeen minutes plus (complete with a wayward TNK) it's a real treat. And how about that fired-up FraKctured? The heavy section is one of those...
View ArticleKing Crimson - Jun. 11, 2000 - Warsaw
Is that the bass line to Sailor's Tale being played by Fripp on his phat bass setting during the opening stages of tonight's Improv? Well, close but no cigar. Gunn steps up to the mark and lets fly...
View ArticleKing Crimson - Jun. 14, 2000 - Leipzig
In its past Leipzig has been no stranger to battles of one kind or another and the night when Crimson came to play was no exception. Firstly, the venue presented the band with some difficulties, and...
View ArticleKing Crimson - Jun. 13, 2000 - Prague
And it had all been going so well until Vrooom, as Donnon Murray explained to readers of ET. " At the tune's end, Ade broke a string. The roadie came out to retrieve it and Ade went to switch
View ArticleKing Crimson - Jun. 21, 2000 - Gardone Riviera
There are some nights when the band are really in the zone and this is one of them. After the bulldozer opening of In The Frying Pan, the way is cleared for TCOL to magically hang and hover inches above
View ArticleKing Crimson - Jun. 22, 2000 - Legnano Milan
"Hello! Beautiful night" says Belew after two high-octane performances of Frying Pan and TCOL. They go into the first improv of the night third number in, going in on the slow-walk P3 vibe into which...
View ArticleKing Crimson - Jun. 23, 2000 - Rome
"I sincerely wish we could play another three nights here in Rome" says Belew at the formal end of a set before adding off-mike "to make up for all the mistakes we made tonight" Such self-critical...
View ArticleKing Crimson - Feb. 03, 1970 - London
What do you do when the control room are attempting to get a drum level in between takes? Why you keep yourself entertained which is exactly what Giles, Giles and Fripp can be heard doing during the...
View ArticleRobert Fripp - Jul. 17, 1982 - Shepton Mallet
With King Crimson keeping him fairly busy during 1982, there were only two Frippertronics gigs. The first took place in the US in June and the following month he was one of the guest players at the...
View ArticleKing Crimson - May. 15, 2002 - Nashville
As it says on the tin: a demo version of The Power To Believe II. Those beguiling bell tones hail from the Hand Sonic part Pat's arsenal of electronica. With words adapted from a song of Ade's called...
View ArticleRobert Fripp - Apr. 17, 2004 - Nashville
In March Fripp had been in Nashville working with Ade, Pat and Tony. A month later he was back at Chateau Belewbeloid working with Adrian on KC material and also running through soundscapes ideas for...
View ArticleKing Crimson - Feb. 01, 1970 - London
From one of the early sessions in Wessex, Giles Giles and Fripp assembled in the large room and laid down the bare bones of Cadence And Cascade. Sounding rather earthbound at this stage, this method of...
View ArticleKing Crimson - Dec. 30, 2013 - Salisbury
With candle powered torch in hand, and flat cap upon his head, it's time once again for good old Mr Stormy to give up his newly discovered treasures. Now in it's sixth
View ArticleKing Crimson - Jun. 11, 2000 - Warsaw
Is that the bass line to Sailor's Tale being played by Fripp on his phat bass setting during the opening stages of tonight's Improv? Well, close but no cigar. Gunn steps up to the mark and lets fly...
View ArticleKing Crimson - May. 19, 1981 - London
In the studio there are always different approaches and passes which are tried out during the recording of a song. Here's such a pass from RF for Matte Kudasai which in an alternative universe would...
View ArticleKing Crimson - Oct. 13, 1972 - Frankfurt
In the excitement and stomach-churning anticipation before going on stage for this incarnation of Crimson's debut performance, one of the newly-formed five piece anxiously enquired "What are we going to
View ArticleKing Crimson - Mar. 24, 2001 - Nashville
Putting together The Power To Believe, like any album involved a lot of sifting through the streams of ideas in search for nuggets of gold. A Virtuous Circle went through many variations and this epic,...
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