King Crimson on June 07, 2000 in Offenbach

King Crimson

	June 07, 2000

	Stadthalle Offenbach, Germany

Notes
Offenbach is a strange beast of a concert that frequently bucks the riders and threatens to unsaddle even the most competent and confident of players. Whilst Oyster Soup (complete with meat grinding solo from ol’ Chicken Fingers)and SESDD both have an alluring devil-may-care savagery about them, FraKcture sees KC tested and occasionally found wanting as various fluffs and flubbed fingers take the piece into unchartered and possibly unwelcome territories.

Of the gig Robert observed “not our best performance” though that’s not to say there aren’t plenty of gems lurking in amongst the rough patches. Following the improvisation the band seem to put things up a gear including a breath-taking LTIA ptIV in which Belew can be heard on particularly devastating form. A sublime Thrush can be heard taking flight and despite wobbling precariously in places Vrooom rocks like there’s no tomorrow.

In his summary of the gig Trey reckoned “The sound was fantastic and the band was hot.” So one Crim says hot whilst the other says not. Fearless Crimhead, it’s up to you to decide for yourself!

Parts of the improv and Cage appeared on the Heavy ConstruKction package although this is the first time they’ve been presented in their unedited form.

Tracks

Disc Number 1
1.	Into The Frying Pan	[PREVIEW]	6.42
2.	The ConstruKction Of Light	[PREVIEW]	8.42
3.	The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum	[PREVIEW]	7.46
4.	FraKctured	[PREVIEW]	7.41
5.	One Time	[PREVIEW]	5.47
6.	Dinosaur	[PREVIEW]	5.35
7.	Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream	[PREVIEW]	4.56
8.	Improv Pt I	[PREVIEW]	5.52
9.	Improv Pt II	[PREVIEW]	5.25
10.	Improv Pt III	[PREVIEW]	3.00
11.	Cage	[PREVIEW]	6.05
12.	ProzaKc Blues	[PREVIEW]	5.51
Disc Number 2
1.	Lark's Tongues In Aspic Pt IV	[PREVIEW]	13.51
2.	Three Of A Perfect Pair	[PREVIEW]	3.47
3.	The Deception Of The Thrush	[PREVIEW]	9.26
4.	VROOOM	[PREVIEW]	6.35
5.	Heroes	[PREVIEW]	6.29

All previews are MP3 192kbps

Personnel
Robert Fripp Guitar
Adrian Belew Guitar and Vox
Pat Mastelotto Traps and Buttons
Trey Gunn Warr Guitar

Audio Source: Board Recording

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Band Member Diaries

Wed., Jun 7, 2000
Written by Robert Fripp
00.13
Pat & Trey have just left. We have been Crim-vibrating over a glass of wine in my room.

The performance: the sound was utterly different to the sound check but, overall, open spaces are better sounding for us than nearly all the venues in Germany. But tonight was cold & the first time when I've wondered whether my fingers are too cold to play "FraKctured". My nose dribbled at one point.

But a good, supportive audience (with punctures) had a good hearted group to play to them. But, as far as we could tell, probably not our best performance.

09.50
Witlessness abounds and synapses fail to quite explode. A shower awaits and a new day for Crimsonising. We heard from Richard Chadwick last night that the freight costs of getting our equipment to Australia are prohibitive so, regrettably, we won't be Antipodeanising the Crim following Japan. But we tried. We would have played for nothing, but we can't lose.

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I still remember that show, Wed., Oct 7, 2009
Written by Zongadude
Thank you for finally releasing the one and only KC show I’ve ever attended. I’ve been waiting for this for 9 years. :)
Ok next step would be a dvd of that show ! I know this has been filmed for the "Bootleg TV" project ;)

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