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Civic Theatre

King Crimson
Santa Monica
19 Mar 1972

“Thanks for being patient, Ladies and Gentlemen, for two minutes,” says Robert Fripp to the crowd in Santa Monica after some technical difficulties delayed the start of their set. “The first staggering attack on contemporary musicality comes from the second album, Pictures Of A City,” Fripp explains before a phenomenal, super-charged version of the piece. No wonder the audience burst into spontaneous applause, given the aural fireworks that occur during the blowing section.

If you’d ever wanted to know what John Coltrane might have sounded like had he lived long enough to blow with Crimson, then this section and other points elsewhere in this gig provide you with a clue. As Mel Collins rips the air with red-hot flurries of notes against the surging energy of the group, it creates something that could be described as jazz-rock, but not quite in the way we usually understand that term.

“Watch his blues licks,” quips the Bozzle in between lines from the first verse of Ladies Of The Road referring to Fripp’s propensity to drop in some humorous embellishments as the song progresses. By the second verse, the guitar is ramped up to 11 and goes off the charts, foreshadowing the glorious chaos of the song’s end section.

Groon is a springboard for another jazzy blow, led once again by Collins’ gritty tenor and some sensitive comping from the guitarist, who in turn gently nudges the group towards the form of Sailor’s Tale if not the actual piece itself. Eagle-eared Crim-watchers will hear snatches of the Larks’ Pt 1 cross-picking riff appearing briefly in the funky improv that follows.

And just when you think you’ve probably got all the versions of 21st Century Schizoid Man you’re likely to need, along comes another to prove you wrong. This is an utterly unhinged rendition in which the group gives it their all, defying any assertion that this is a group simply going through the motions as they serve out their time to the end of the tour, some 12 days later.

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