Polytechnic Manchester England

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Although they only had five gigs under their belt, Discipline entered Manchester sounding confident[endtease] and ready to take on all-comers. You can almost hear the brashness in this line-up as they launch into a set that just four weeks previously did not exist.

There’s a palpable joy in the bouncy rendition of Elephant Talk (reprised also as an encore) and Frame By Frame’s incorporation of Steve Reich’s phasing patterns sounds as hair-raising now as it must have done at the time.

Red, being played in public for the only the sixth time since it first appeared on Crimso’s 1974 album of the same name, receives a rapturous welcome. In the post-punk era during which this concert took place, it’s interesting to note that a call for 21st Century Schizoid Man from a member of the audience is met with significantly less enthusiasm. That said, the reception given to Larks’ Tongues In Aspic borders on the ecstatic.

To some extent the material that had been fashioned during the Discipline rehearsals the previous month are still fluid and not everything is fixed in place. The Sheltering Sky, originally born from an improvisation, is being moulded and shaped onstage at Manchester. Fripp’s solo towards the end of the piece dramatically incorporates the introductory ascending lines from Red.

Restored from a bootleg source, Alex “Stormy” Mundy has breathed a fiery life into this recording which captures the excitement of the night both on and off the stage.
Polytechnic Manchester England

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TRACK
TIME
01
Frippertronics
00:18
02
Discipline
06:23
03
RF Announcement
00:30
04
Thela Hun Ginjeet
06:40
05
Red
06:19
06
Elephant Talk
05:45
07
Matte Kudasai
03:58
08
The Sheltering Sky
09:46
09
Indiscipline
08:21
10
Frame By Frame
05:46
11
Larks Tongues In Aspic Pt II
06:50
12
Elephant Talk
04:55
Written by Frank Hadlich
Very essential
I concur in full with Sid’s notes and the earlier reviews. This is a must have and must be download.
Written by Andrew Mather
Recalling Discipline (& The Lounge Lizards)
Its taken sometime to decide to download this, but my Oblique Strategy for 3May2014 read ’Faced with a choice do both’ so I and purchased Bill Nelson’s newly re-issued ’Getting The Holy Ghost Across’ and decided to invest in the M/c 1981 Discipline bash as well.I was there (with brother and buddies) and boy I am so not disappointed!The enthusiasm leaps from the sound and the hairs on the back of my neck positively stood to attention, both at its realisation and the ...
Written by Christopher DeVito
Gimme a few more stars to throw on this one
Back around 1976 or ’77, as a 15-/16-year-old, I started listening to Crimson. Unfortunately Crimson had broken up a couple years earlier, and the various surviving “progressive rock” bands were stepping all over their dicks in their rush to sell out. Punk held no interest for me (still doesn’t, although I can appreciate it on a conceptual basis). I mostly lost interest in rock and was getting into Coltrane and Miles, Oregon and Old & New Dreams, Ravi Shankar and Balinese Gamelan, ...
Written by Simon Calkin
Manchester fun 1981
Much life has been breathed into this ol’ boot; and a must-have it is, too. A few clams here and there (it was only the sixth (?) gig of this team after all).That said, the atmosphere’s wonderful, and the sheer exuberance of the band is very infectious indeed. Love it. To use an RF-ism : "Lotsa fun". Download it now.
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