DGM HQ.
Stuff & accounting. This is distraction to David & DGM of a major order. A price is paid for dealing with stuff. In this case, no DGM website & no G3 Soundscapes album.
Disc IV - Live 1973-74 is underway.
12.13 Disk IV is a Better through-going listening experience than Volume II. "The ultimate live performance of this band" declares David.
The first Crim had an astonishing impact in 1969: it began at the top & worked down. The 1972 Crim band began in the middle & went up.
12.54 A musically-mature outfit of young men, out rocking and rocking out. If this was progressive rock, count me in. Could this be a poor man's Black Sabbath, no more no less (a writer in Wire, 1992)? If that were true, the next step could be Living WithThe Brufords - watch them misbehave in leafy Surrey!
13.05 Superb. The definitive live Crim of this period..
17.11 We have through-listened to Disk III: Studio 1973-74.
The 1972-74 band's recording improved over its three studio albums, although the live playing was significantly better judging purely by the recorded evidence. Also according to the recorded evidence, the 1969 Crim was more powerful in the studio than live. But the available evidence is pretty unreliable. Live 1969 Crimson was very much a Beast and, at the time, I felt ITCOTCK lacked the strength of live.
So, from the four disks of The Guide my personal listening faves are --
Volume I: Studio 1969-71
Volume IV: Live 1973-74.
18.35 Hugh set up & registered the Native Instruments' Guitar Rig & then I called Chateau Belewbeloid, spoke to both Martha & Ade, and played Ade the Cing Krimson programme. Ade has recently been given his own NI rig, and done a little work with it. It transpires that NI were happy to have given me one gratis. Well, I pay my way.
20.53 The Late Shift is underway & this evening it is forward looking. We are listening to Helsinki Soundscapes.
"A function of language is to disclose.
An effect is to reveal."
