Mud Club
“Is the bar strong enough to sit on?” Asks an unidentified woman at the start of the tape seconds before an initially slightly distant-sounding Fripp makes his usual announcement regarding dancing. In the announcement after Heptaparaparshinokh, it’s not clear if Fripp’s on-mic reference to Talking Heads’ Life During Wartime gets anybody up onto the dance floor. Regardless, the band delivers another pacy set. As an aside, during the gentle Prelude (here listed as Untitled) conversations between the woman at the start of the tape and others drift in and out of focus thanks to their proximity to the mixing desk, adding their own ‘indiscretions’ to the music in much the same way as voices would be layered into the eventual studio album that was still yet to be recorded. During the second Thrang Fripp breaks a guitar string which he then has to change, saying afterward, “This is a quiet moment for you to talk among yourselves.” Sadly the moment is lost and when the tape cuts back in we are a few bars along during Ooh Mr.Fripp.
