Academy Of Music New York United States

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“Ladies and gentlemen you see before you a phenomenon which is interesting if not rare; it’s a mellotron which has just broken down.” Eight gigs into the North American tour and Fripp’s mellotron has given up the ghost forcing him to valiantly comp for all he’s worth during an otherwise storming reading of Cirkus. There have been equipment bugs throughout the tour but thanks to some on-stage support from the crew normal service is soon restored. This is a bright and often hissy audience recording but it clears up nicely for Formentera containing some choppy picking from Fripp as though he’s slightly impatient and wanting to get on to the next track. When he does he opts for the sustained laser beam tone intially. Possessing the sleek beauty of a scalpel Fripp slices the air with before reverting to the chordal sledgehammer that stomps everything in its range flatter than a tentpeg. The outro is momentarily chaotic with Collins’ brass setting ‘tron being somewhat swamped by Fripp’s scorching tone. A superb Schizoid Man with Collins setting the place on fire gives the punters in New York the kind of clout they were cruising for all along. Another powerful gig by a band who definitely know what they’re doing.
Academy Of Music New York United States

AUDIO SOURCE: Bootleg Cassette

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TRACK
TIME
01
Cirkus
09:17
02
RF Announcement
01:30
03
Pictures Of A City
08:40
04
RF Announcement
01:04
05
Formentera Lady
06:40
06
The Sailors Tale
13:47
07
21st Century Schizoid Man
08:28
08
RF Announcement
00:54
09
The Devils Triangle
07:02
Written by Pablo Cordero
An outstanding Sailor's Tale and a great gig overall
First off, the sound quality is mediocre, it starts off really dull and unfocused but eventually improves to listenable. The performance however is mostly outstanding. The 14-minute "Sailor's Tale" is a clear highlight, with an extraordinary guitar solo which blends the laser-beam sustain of the "Earthbound" version with some furious rapid-fire strumming. After the customary (and interesting) VCS3-treated drum solo, the band finishes the song by playing a jazzy little melody which I had actually...
Written by John Hart
WOW
I’m not sure if I was at this show, or if it was the next night, but the download certainly sounds better than I recall the show did in the Academy. The drum solo is fantastic, the best recorded of this version of Crimson, at least in my opinion. And the sax! I must admit to being ignorant of the varieties and qualities of horn players then. The band I worked for later had a four piece section, so my eyes were subsequently opened. I have been putting off getting downloads, Fripp & Eno 197...
Written by Jeff Oaster
Start here!
At the time of writing this review, I have about a dozen concerts by the Islands lineup - pretty evenly divided throughout the band’s year as a performing entity. This concert is my favorite, and while I intend to download a few more in the future, it will be a difficult task to top this concert. So what makes it so good?Obviously, the sound needs to be good and it’s quite decent on this: B/B+ would be my rating and it is perfectly sufficient even if you don’t have "bootleg adjusted" ears....
Written by Jeremy Weissenburger
Had you ever heard the hot date before the love letter?
This show was the first concert recording I had heard from this era. In fact, I had gotten a hold of this recording before I had listened to “Lizard”, so to me, this version of “Cirkus” was the first I had ever heard, and for a time became the more definitive version. The stomping feel to it makes the song may come across as lumbering, Boz screaming at one point as if he is trying to raise the dead. But to me, it makes the song much more sinister than the studio version turned out t...
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