One of the highlights of this tour is listening to the speed of Ade's count-in for Frame By Frame. The resulting tempo is met with a heady mixture of excitement and sheer terror! This one's a bit of a smoker to be sure.
Although One Time was scheduled to be on the set list after a roaring rendition of Dinosaur you can hear Belew making an on the fly alteration, urging the rest of the team to drop the ballad and proceed apace to Red. It's a good decision as it maintains a gig with a real sense of energy and momentum.
Hurtling through the middle section of Thrak, filled with ghostly sustained lines, distressed-sounding seagulls, rumbling percussion and gothic strings, an energetic Waiting Man, and the raucous rough and tumble of Indiscipline, the pace finally slows down and gives way to the chilled climes and ‘tron-esque filled clouds of The Sheltering Sky. There’s a remarkable energy generated in the first hour of this gig is quite spectacular even by Crimson’s standards.
One of the highlights of this tour is listening to the speed of Ade's count-in for Frame By Frame. The resulting tempo is met with a heady mixture of excitement and sheer terror! This one's a bit of a smoker to be sure.
Although One Time was scheduled to be on the set list after a roaring rendition of Dinosaur you can hear Belew making an on th...
The description above is correct in saying that this gig has a lot of momentum. It really doesn't give you a chance to take a breath until The Sheltering Sky, and even that song transports you to another reality. The standout song in this show, however, is Dinosaur. I suggest that this song is the signature tune for KC in this era of the band. It fits in musically and lyrically with the former catalog of Crimson tunes; the opening riff is akin to the mellotron riff of Cirkus, and Belew's meta...
The description above is correct in saying that this gig has a lot of momentum. It really doesn't give you a chance to take a breath until The Sheltering Sky, and even that song transports you to another reality. The standout song in this show, however, is Dinosaur. I suggest that this song is the signature tune for KC in this era of the band. It fits in musically and lyrically with the former catalog of Crimson tunes; the opening riff is akin to the mellotron riff of Cirkus, and Belew's metaphors are stylistic cousins of some of Sinfield's lyrics. Plus, the overarching, tongue in cheek admission that KC is indeed a dinosaur of a prog rock band, but one that is very much alive, is going to stomp on you, and roar so loudly that it will "press the hairs of your inner ears flat," as Robert Fripp is fond of saying. This song pushes harder and farther into the heavy realm the band first explored in the Larks' era and challenged the what rock could be like in the mid 1990's. I came to be familiar with KC in the 90's, and the song Dinosaur had me sold as a life long KC fan.
