A slightly truncated show due to this decent-sounding audience recording have been captured at the Golden Summernight Concert. A festival bill, King Crimson appeared after opening acts Melanie and Michael Schenker’s Group and then left the stage to welcome Jethro Tull and several other bands culminating in headliner, Neil Young.
In some respects, it’s possible to view this show as a KC primer, a smart guide to the unusual sonic topography of the band. Each pair of numbers sits in sharp contrast to the other. The mellifluous but rhythmically complex Waiting Man next to Thela Hun Ginjeet’s barbed angularity; the darkness of Red’s crushing metal glowers next to the soaring lightness of Matte Kudasai; The Sheltering Sky’s mysterious atmospherics drifts down to foot-stomping earth on Elephant Talk; Indiscipline’s barely controlled chaos complements the razor-sharp, scything precision of Larks’ Tongues In Aspic.
The setlist might not tell the whole Crimson story but it’s a pretty good map with which uninitiated but curious ears might want to follow up and go exploring.
In some respects, it’s possible to view this show as a KC primer, a smart guide to the unusual sonic topography of the band. Each pair of numbers sits in sharp contrast to the other. The mellifluous but rhythmically complex Waiting Man next to Thela Hun Ginjeet’s barbed angularity; the darkness of Red’s crushing metal glowers next to the soaring lightness of Matte Kudasai; The Sheltering Sky’s mysterious atmospherics drifts down to foot-stomping earth on Elephant Talk; Indiscipline’s barely controlled chaos complements the razor-sharp, scything precision of Larks’ Tongues In Aspic.
The setlist might not tell the whole Crimson story but it’s a pretty good map with which uninitiated but curious ears might want to follow up and go exploring.
