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1981

Captain Video

Paris

After the triumph of Discipline’s London gig at Her Majesty’s Theatre, the quartet and company crossed the English Channel the following day to wash up in Paris, performing two nights at a swinging hotspot called Captain Video. This audience recording from the second show demonstrates just how ‘up for it’ the team was as they turned in a lively, supercharged performance.

Although the sound quality is a little distant and thin, as the ears acclimatise the intensity of their playing is abundantly clear. Red gets the same OMG reaction as it had done three nights previously in London, with the band leaning deep into the heavy sway they power through a flawless rendition.

After the sprawling acceleration of Thela, which in these early shows comes with its “Your House…My House” refrain borrowed from Fripp’s Exposure album, the G-force exerted during Frame By Frame is enough to pin punters to the floor. Matte Kudasai and The Sheltering Sky create an entirely different gravitational pull, the latter in particular floating and transcendent.

Always nice to have a bonus version of Discipline as an encore. Threading their way through the fretboard mazes, this version definitely seems a tad more sprightly than the one that kicked off the evening.

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