Notes
The second night in San Francisco finds the P2 boys altogether more spacy in mood and feel. As with the previous night, the soundboard mix is overloaded in Trey’s favour which means that Gunn’s solo threatens to overwhelm the others on the otherwise incendiary Escape from Sagitarius. On the other hand, fans of the baritone rumbling at which Gunn excels will find much to whet their appetite on the flowing Live Groove. Though still missing the defining coda and somewhat bleaker in its tone, this version of Thrush nevertheless offers up some sublime moments.

Fripp opens up in the second half finding a jazzy scat reference to Fracture amidst the thrust and thwack of Belew’s V-drum pads and patches of X-Chayn-Jiz, but without doubt the stand-out track here is House I. Over an especially groovesome Belew beat and inquisitive bassline skirmishing from Gunn, Fripp lays down those Starless-like symphonic chords that would eventually find a home on Thrush. It’s a simple but highly effective use of space and timing. Things get even better when Gunn and Fripp begin their entwined lead lines (usually found on Sus-Tayn-Z) at around the 2.50 mark. You want thrills? You got thrills aplenty!

Little wonder that in his reflection on the gig Gunn observes “When we went on for the second half we left "moody" behind. We hit our stride somewhere in the middle of some heavy blowing. When the music seemed pitched as intense as we thought it could get, and were ready to back down, it wouldn't let us down and moved to higher intensity. And then when we though it had finally peaked, it went yet again to another level. Unbelievable!”
 

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Personnel
Adrian Belew - V-Drums
Robert Fripp - Guitar
Trey Gunn - Touch Guitar

Audio Source: Dat Soundboard

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