Whilst acknowledging that the band didn’t play very well on their first night at the House Of Blues, Trey Gunn declared it to be “a hot show. Very hot. Hot with energy that is…I have to scratch it up to the audience again. You little angels, you. What would we do without you?” The crowd can certainly be heard making their presence felt during a variable set of highs and lows.

The improvs provide a glimpse of the electronica-based KC that manifested itself through the projeKcts. Driven largely by Mastelotto’s ingenious use of samples and on-the-fly editing, we can hear Belew’s sarangi-style solo that would later be such a feature of TPTB II, as well as a scalding splash of twisted lines in the rhythmic second section. Clearly on something of a roll, he continues to shine on Oyster Soup with a superb break. Also more than worthy of your attention is the dreamy version of Cage, benefiting from some unexpected Fripp string-washes on the chorus, and significantly adding to the spine-tingle factor.

Elsewhere, FraKctured rips along like a bucking bronco with Fripp seemingly hanging on by the skin of his teeth. An incomplete LTIA ptIV (the opening moments are sadly cropped) also comes unstuck in places, and though they just about grab it back, Belew’s vocals sound a touch stretched by the coda.

And what was Fripp’s take on the gig? "I felt it was awful, but why? Did the set list restrict the show's process? A continual series of small mistakes cumulatively unseated its unfolding. We recovered the flow to a degree during the encores - perhaps 90% says Pat. David felt London was a better show, but suggests the bar is getting higher for what is accepted as a norm for this Crim."
TRACK
TIME
01
Red
06:52
02
Thela Hun Ginjeet
06:04
03
The ConstruKction Of Light
08:54
04
FraKctured
09:04
05
Frame By Frame
05:20
06
One Time
05:55
07
Improv I
05:57
08
Improv II
04:26
09
The Worlds My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum
06:50
10
Cage
05:28
01
Larks' Tongues In Aspic Pt IV*
11:22
02
Elephant Talk
06:34
03
Three Of A Perfect Pair
04:22
04
ProzaKc Blues
07:35
05
The Deception Of The Thrush
09:46
06
VROOOM
06:32
07
Heroes
06:22

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Written by Christopher DeVito
Underrated show (especially by Fripp)
There’s more than enough energy in this concert to carry me through the uneven bits. Red is hot and heavy, Thela has good Belew guitar-twisting and some nice beats from PM, FraKctured is hot and sloppy, One Time is nice, Cage is eery, Larks’ IV is heavy, E.T. has more hot Belew, Thrush features some burning Fripp, and Heroes is solid. A good setup for the following night.
Written by Arturs Kalnins
Better than I remember
This night at LA’s HOB was the only instance (out of 5) where the live KC left me cold. I had not been able to develop much of an interest in the TCOL material before the show despite repeated listens so perhaps this is not surprising. Subsequently Heavy ContstruKction came out, and then the London DVD from this tour, and I began to very much appreciate the material. I now feel TCOL has 3 stone classics: LTiA4, FraKctured and the title track, but you wouldn’t know it...
Written by Light Sweet
Superb
Hearing this song, critics will say "these guys have played the same stuff for 35 years".  But it is precisely what has made KC so exceptional : not only walking their own unique path, but also being actually capable of improving their production all along.  A sharp contrast to the majority of artists who peak out early and then never get the courage to give up once the well has dried up (a remark, that, unfortunately, applies to a number of old KC alumni ...).
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