Teatro Romano

King Crimson
Verona
22 Jun 2003

King Crimson hasn’t played too many Roman amphitheaters in its long and distinguished career but here in Verona, the crowd assembled on the broad semi-circular steps looking down on the stage give the Crims an enthusiastic thumbs up.

The bristling Level Five roars like a lion as it establishes a tangible presence in the space. It’s a track that could almost be viewed as a Pat Mastelotto signature piece with its mix of thunderous kit drumming and all manner of electronic all-sorts flying around the stage. Similarly, in Oyster Soup, he can be heard placing all kinds of on-the-fly additions into the mix.

Sadly not all of the show is in the archive, but the second half has been added via a bootleg sent in by John Kimber. The evening itself was especially hot and the on-stage temperature was causing even road-hardened veterans to feel like they were in meltdown.

Fripp’s view of the sonic aspects of the gig was recorded in his diary: “The sound was strong, despite a DB limit, the audience were in the main well-dressed, polite & generous. Astonishing new discoveries in the Clams Crimsonique department. Perhaps a contributory factor was the heat. The players were wilting and there were mechanical consequences of this. In One Time the tuning between Ade & myself shifted, the guitars' also wilting, so I had to follow him as well as possible by wibbling the whammy bar. My meters were reading OK! but my ears were twitching.”


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