Verizon Hall
13th September
Crowds of people at a rock concert are inclined to fill any gaps in the music-making with whoops, yeahs, yells of Freebird, and all manner of verbal tics that can sometimes be noises of encouragement on an almost involuntary basis. Therefore it’s interesting to hear the respectful silence at the end of The Letters following Jakko’s great vocal. Always a dramatic moment, a few beats of silence are heard before the applause slowly swirls in like an incoming tide.
The Letters had last been performed by King Crimson some 41 years previously on that lineup’s final UK tour. This version enables Mel’s guttural baritone sax to dig deep into the dark stuff alongside Levin’s upright bass in the improvised middle section became something of a high point in a set already brimming with so many you’d probably get a nosebleed just listing them all.
Crowds of people at a rock concert are inclined to fill any gaps in the music-making with whoops, yeahs, yells of Freebird, and all manner of verbal tics that can sometimes be noises of encouragement on an almost involuntary basis. Therefore it’s interesting to hear the respectful silence at the end of The Letters following Jakko’s great vocal. Always a dramatic moment, a few beats of silence are heard before the applause slowly swirls in like an incoming tide.
The Letters had last been performed by King Crimson some 41 years previously on that lineup’s final UK tour. This version enables Mel’s guttural baritone sax to dig deep into the dark stuff alongside Levin’s upright bass in the improvised middle section became something of a high point in a set already brimming with so many you’d probably get a nosebleed just listing them all.
