They really enjoyed this one![endtease]If you listen carefully at the end of a particularly convincing rendition of LTIA Pt.II you can hear the excitement (or perhaps relief?) of the band at the end of the gig as they congratulate each other and decide to do yet another encore! Thanks to the vagaries of this soundboard mix we get a close-up view of Fripp’s fingerwork on the ever-so-slightly incomplete opener, Discipline. It’s a claustrophobic mix that initially largely excludes the bass and drums (quite a feat when you think about it) but thankfully widens out as the set progresses.
Listen up for a beautifully athletic B’Boom where Pat and Bill are so tight you’d struggle to get a cigarette paper between the pair of them. It’s followed by Thrak, whose improvised section has a great swinging back beat running through most of it. Why, you could even dance to that ornery critter.
Though the pop-funk twitchiness of People is knife-sharp with Levin’s bubbling bass adding to the urgency, the track that’s really worth the price of admission is an especially frenetic Indiscipline in which Belew and Fripp slice and dice the air with some of that red hot twerning and squerning.In short a very Fripp-centric mix (including Robert’s radiophonic contribution to Prism) of a rock solid gig.
