Tight, complex, and startlingly ambitious, the gig represents the kind of thing Rolling Stone's Chip Stern had in mind when he declared "Crimson creates a new kind of electronic string music that achieves an orchestral density without resorting to ersatz art-rock bombast."
The gig was screened on German TV as part of a popular series that featuring the touring bands of the day, though quite how the wider TV audience responded to Crimson's brand of 80s gamelan-inspired direction isn't known.
The transmitted show contained around 40 minutes of edited highlights though the full set was presented in total for the first time on CD as KCCC32 in 2006 and in 2012 makes its debut as a download.
Tight, complex, and startlingly ambitious, the gig represents the kind of thing Rolling Stone's Chip Stern had in mind when he declared "Crimson creates a new kind of electronic string music that achieves an orchestral density without resorting to ersatz art-rock bombast."
The gig was screened on German TV as part of a popular series that fea...
This is a review of the concert featured in the "On and off the road" box set. Great performance of the band, the band seems to be really tight on this show, and this reflects on the enjoyment of the concert as you can see (on the video version) that they are really having a good time. I really like a lot Tony's performance on this show, he seems to be really spot on, as always but with something extra that only if you listen/see this show you might get to appreciate, I still get shivers when li...
This is a review of the concert featured in the "On and off the road" box set. Great performance of the band, the band seems to be really tight on this show, and this reflects on the enjoyment of the concert as you can see (on the video version) that they are really having a good time. I really like a lot Tony's performance on this show, he seems to be really spot on, as always but with something extra that only if you listen/see this show you might get to appreciate, I still get shivers when listening to the bass line on The Sheltering Sky just before Adrian begins his guitar synth parts. Only downside is that the video version on the box set is incomplete and missing some great songs, it would have been really interesting to see this show as complete as possible and easily I would have preferred it over the other videos from the era. So five stars for the audio version, 4 stars for the video in the "On and off the road" box set.
