The best night of the Mexican stand
King Crimson, 30 August, Mexico City
When Robert started playing the moto perpetuo of “Fracture”, there was something remorseless, fearless and inevitable about the way he just went for it. I have heard him play many times, but I had never heard him play quite like this before. An exceptional moment in an extraordinary evening of music. But no the only one. There is much to be said for the skyward ascencion of "Breathless", the seamless transition from a vicious "LTIA IV" into "Neurotica", the cosmic improvisation at the heart of "Easy Money", and an impressive, loose-limbed "21CSM" wherein Gavin paid a subtle, perhaps unwitting, homage to Ian Wallace's VCS3-enhanced drum solos of yore.
Intro
(Walk On)
First Set
Hell Hounds of Krim
Pictures of a City
Suitable Grounds for the Blues
Radical Action III
Islands
Drumzilla
Fracture
Epitaph
Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part IV)
Neurotica
Breathless
(Robert Fripp song)
Second Set
Devil Dogs of Tessellation Row
Easy Money
Red
Indiscipline
The Court of the Crimson King
Starless
Encore:
21st Century Schizoid Man