Hello,’ says Adrian Belew a little cautiously after the band has parked their metaphorical tank on the equally metaphorical lawn of Hamburg’s Markthalle via the insistent lope of Discipline and Thela Hun Jinjeet’s galloping scramble through an unsettling street encounter. “I’m very sorry I don’t speak German, I hope you speak a little English,” he continues. “IF you do then maybe you’ll understand. This song is from seven years ago. It has a small title, only three letters. Easy word. Red.”
Michael Paulus, who was at the show, gives an illuminating account of the mood and feel in the venue on this particular night. “Since there was no internet around and you had no clue what the band actually would play. Personally, I was hoping for a mix of the Discipline album, some Exposure-related stuff, some New Wave stuff of the harder kind and some KC material...The audience was also a wild mix of people, consisting of punks/new wavers, ambient lovers, and hippies alike, all looking to find “their” version of Fripp.”
Posterity doesn’t record if Michael and his fellow punters found what they were looking for but 42 years later it’s well worth taking another look, especially for the short though inconclusive improvisation they do for the encore, immediately before Lark's Tongues Part 2. Essentially a duet between Bill on slit drum and Robert on trumpet-sounding guitar, while they wait for the other Crims to get back to the stage, this is a great-sounding audience recording that gives a kind of ringside seat of the band in action.
Michael Paulus, who was at the show, gives an illuminating account of the mood and feel in the venue on this particular night. “Since there was no internet around and you had no clue what the band actually would play. Personally, I was hoping for a mix of the Discipline album, some Exposure-related stuff, some New Wave stuff of the harder kind and some KC material...The audience was also a wild mix of people, consisting of punks/new wavers, ambient lovers, and hippies alike, all looking to find “their” version of Fripp.”
Posterity doesn’t record if Michael and his fellow punters found what they were looking for but 42 years later it’s well worth taking another look, especially for the short though inconclusive improvisation they do for the encore, immediately before Lark's Tongues Part 2. Essentially a duet between Bill on slit drum and Robert on trumpet-sounding guitar, while they wait for the other Crims to get back to the stage, this is a great-sounding audience recording that gives a kind of ringside seat of the band in action.
