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Teatro Kursaal

King Crimson
San Sebastian
28 Jun 2000

What a difference a day makes. Here the band sound looser and, in places, somewhat distracted.[endtease] "We had constant small mistakes: pedals pressed when they shouldn't be, or not pressed when they should have been; a monitor man looking away as he was needed so notes got dropped; effect programmes out of sequence or dumped" Fripp noted in his diary.

Certainly the mistakes produced some interesting arisings; in Vrooom there’s a head-on collision between Fripp and Belew resulting in tumbling freefall of guitars which they manage to pull out of but only at the last minute; Oyster Soup has an utterly wild ending and a tentative reading of FraKctured seems to vindicate Fripp’s assessment that "the centre managed to escape us, for no easily apparent reason."

Not everyone in the band agreed of course. Belew felt it to be a solid performance and he is on especially fine form tonight turning in some jaw-dropping solos on Oyster Soup and LTIA pt IV. Ade also leads off on the improvisation which Fripp later declared to be "the feeblest improv of this tour." Don’t believe a word of it. This is a good one, which you'll know as it was included (albeit in a remixed form retitled Beautiful Rainbow) on Heavy ConstruKction, as was tonight's Thrush. An uneven show for sure but not without merit or appeal.


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