“Hola! Buenas Noches,” says Belew after an incredibly dramatic arrival that started out with a sulphurous Talking Drum and a white-hot Larks’ Tongues In Aspic Part Two. However you slice it or dice it, that’s one hell of a way to open a show. 

With on-stage adrenaline clearly running high it’s hardly surprising that one of the guitarists starts a fraction of the first note of Frame By Frame slightly early. Like athletes running a relay, they go back to the starting blocks and hit the ground running in perfect synch, although, this song being what it is, not for long. 

Audience participation was never much of a thing at KC gigs but it has a habit of popping up here and there. You can hear some members of the packed-in audience clapping along to Bruford’s slit drum. Happily, the idea is dropped and we get to focus on a beautifully unfurling solo from Trey Gunn in the middle section without any such incumbrance. It’s easy to overlook small moments like this in favour of all the ballyhoo and big gestures that happen in a King Crimson show but they are so worth taking the time to savour.
TRACK
TIME
01
The Talking Drum
03:52
02
Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part II
06:35
03
Frame By Frame
05:18
04
Dinosaur
06:56
05
VROOOM VROOOM
05:06
06
Matte Kudasai
03:28
07
B'Boom
05:12
08
THRAK
08:27
09
Waiting Man
04:36
10
Neurotic
04:39
01
The Sheltering Sky
06:56
02
Three Of A Perfect Pair
04:21
03
21st Century Schizoid Man
06:53
04
Elephant Talk
05:03
05
Indiscipline
09:20
06
Prism
04:24
07
VROOOM
03:54
08
Coda Marine 475
03:33
09
Red
05:56

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