Fashionable not Funky Jam
Not really a review, just a note to everybody interested in this download that Funky Jam is in fact Fashionable from the VROOOM sessions. Very interesting as RF, AB and TG act as a real string trio during this rendition. It wasn’t developed further, but AB recycled one of the riffs for Writing On The Wall on Side One. And RF’s high notes are obviously lifted from SAOTW’s Storm Angel. The "spartan sound" of the new pieces noted by one of the reviewers is probably due to the very careful separation of instruments in the mix (the Broadway Theatre gig seven days later sounds the same, in total contrast to the highly compressed and turgid FOH mixes on B’Boom from the same concerts). And this has the interest of containing an impressive number of train wrecks from Mr. Fripp himself, most notably on the second VROOOM where something was clearly disturbing his focus!
