My Father's Place 1st performance

The League Of Gentlemen
Roslyn
19 Jul 1980

Is it a slip of the foot pedal that gives the opening guitar line to Christian Children such a snarling, dangerous sound? Who cares. It’s wonderful. As the whole thing piledrives along the tone settles into the more usual smoother timbre but along the way, there’s some scorching, off-the-wall playing that makes this outfit such an exciting encounter. There’s an undeniable, almost relentless power to Minor Man, Thrang - complete with its Sailors/Larks II guitar coda - and Ooh Mr.Fripp. Eye Needle also has a restless mania to it that is quite irresistible with Fripp’s notes tumbling and cascading off-piste into atonal territories, morphing and free-forming against the metronomic rigidity of the band. Exceptional.

Musicians

Robert Fripp - Guitar

Barry Andrews - Keyboards

Sara Lee - Bass

Johnny Toobad - Drums

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The next step is Discipline

The 1980s see a very different King Crimson incarnation originally touring under the name Discipline . The presence of Adrian Belew meant that Robert Fripp was working for the first time with another guitarist. This incarnation of Fripp, Belew, Bruford and Levin becomes the first one to record successive studio albums with the same lineup.