Baseball Park Jacksonville United States

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Pictures is taken at a medium pace, and after an uneven beginning, Crimso find their feet, with an assertive solo from Mel Collins that really stakes out their presence and makes punters sit up and take notice - a neat trick if, as KC often were, you’re sandwiched between bands as diverse Humble Pie, Ten Years After or Yes. On this leg they are headlining and in a decidedly take-no-prisoners state of mind.

Certainly a belligerent-sounding Ladies will have not only caught punters attention but pinned back their ears as well. The same can probably be said for a tumbling and extended improvised section on the transition from Formentera Lady and Sailor’s Tale.

Up until Sailor’s Tale the concert had been dominated by Collins’ formidable presence. Now it’s the guitarist’s turn to drop some jaws. The solo maps out a different space from anything preceding it; a deeply emotional outpouring that sounds as though the notes are being squeezed from deep within the psyche as much as the fretboard. It’s one of Fripp’s best moments, and the end theme where Fripp’s weaving laser-beam tone is being chased by the Mellotron brass setting is utterly thrilling as they hurtle over the edge and disappeared into Wallace’s exuberant drum solo.

However it’s Schizoid Man that steals the show here. The way in which the seemingly anarchic titanic forces unleashed by both Fripp and Collins are suddenly marshalled into precision-guided weapons of shock and awe is what gives Crimso such an edge that made other bands just stand back in amazement. The fast-running notes at the end of the tempestuous soloing sections are delivered with exquisite attention to detail in what is a phenomenally powerful reading of the piece.

An edited version of Sailor’s Tale from this concert also appeared on Earthbound, first released in 1972. This gig was chosen as the second disc in the King Crimson Collectors Club series and was first released in 1998.
Baseball Park Jacksonville United States

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TRACK
TIME
01
Pictures Of A City
09:47
02
Cirkus
09:08
03
Ladies Of The Road
06:39
04
Formentera Lady
10:21
05
The Sailor's Tale
14:06
06
21st Century Schizoid Man
10:25
Written by JEAN-MICHEL GAY
New Artwork ?
I had bought this concert some 10 years ago when it was available as a reel CD but lost it rcently ! So, I was happy that I could buy it again as a downlad but the DGM Team has decided to present the original artwork (8 pages) who was for the CD : impossible to print with a normal printer, sorry guys ! I was hoping for a simple art like all the downloads that are on this site but it has never be done by the DGM Team ! Too bad but perhaps one day, it will appear !  
Written by Joe Prisco
great band
Back in the subscription days of the Collector’s Club, I passed over this one as I had not yet learned to appreciate the Boz band. This has been since rectified: they prove to be a fine band playing fine material, and making it sound easy. This show is no different, and I can’t add anything to the previous review about the music.Caveat: Jacksonville suffers some distorted sound - enough that I thought there was something wrong with my earphones or stereo (strange that so many dismiss Br...
Written by Tom Brantseg
Worth the wait
Having missed this concert the first time around (*you* try scraping together 96 bucks while in junior high), I was awfully curious to finally hear it. There isn’t much in the way of surprises in the first three songs - they’re good (Pictures in particular), but the band really starts to flex its muscles in the second half of the show. Formentera Lady is awesome, probably my favorite live take. On the evidence of Islands, Pete Sinfield was referring to Sketches of Spain when he said he wan...
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