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April 09, 1973  |
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Olympia Paris, France |
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Notes
Following a short jaunt around the UK coinciding with the release of LTIA, Crimson took off for Europe. Nine days into their tour they rolled into Paris and gave an astonishing show. Although we are all familiar with the music now, you have to remember that this would have been the first time Continental audiences had the chance to hear the new quartet in action. Opening with Doctor Diamond, the assault continues with a fearsome rendition LTIA pt 1. Just this sequence alone is worth the price of the download.
However if that doesn’t convince you then in addition to the album songs themselves, there’s over half an hour of full-blooded improvisations in this show. The first is based around the themes and motifs that would later be clarified (although ultimately abandoned) in Guts On My Side – yet more evidence of Crimson’s policy of throwing song ideas around on stage and seeing how they stand or fall. The whole band is storming through the show although special mention should be made of the guitarist who frequently exceeds all expectations – even those of seasoned Fripp-listeners in the DGMLive team!
David Singleton and Alex Mundy have restored this concert from two separate bootleg sources and even the truncated Schizoid Man makes this the most complete version of this concert now available.
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* source recording is incomplete
All previews are MP3 192kbps
Personnel
Robert Fripp
John Wetton
David Cross
Bill Bruford
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Audio Source: Bootleg CDR And Cassette
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Fan Reviews
Terrific show, horrible sound, Fri., Nov 16, 2012
Written by DarrylDardenne
Yeah this show is a bootleg quality audience recording that is saved from the garbage can of irrelevance by the excellence of the performance. Jamie Muir had just left the band and the instrumental adventurism that he brought is still very much in evidence. The improvisations are both long and outstanding, and little like the improvs the band would later create in that they are both more dynamic, looser and less dominated by the rhythm section. The songs too are looser with lengthier and different instrumental solos than later versions. Fripp for example blows the guitar part in Larks’ Tongues Part 1 and rather than wait to insert his part into its proper place, he decides to improvise and just goes for it, turing a mistake into a positive extemporization. Also in LTIA P1 the band still plays the percussion jam before the violin interlude. Fripp stretches out quite a bit on Easy Money and shreds in a jazz fusion manner, something he didn’t do that often. He’s not the only one that is in an improvisatory mood. The whole band takes chances both during the songs and the three lengthy improvisations and the results are stellar. This show is a snapshot of a band in transition from the Muir experimental days into the muscular Crimso of late ’73 to ’74 and despite the awful sound it’s absolutely worth downloading. If the show were better recording it would rank in the top five of shows from the Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Wetton version of KC.
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