The previous month the group had toured Japan and were now three days into their last tour of the 1980s. “Hello, good evening, it’s great to be here back in San Francisco, Berkeley that is,” laughs Adrian Belew at his brief bout geographical disorientation. Perhaps it was due to all that travel but having just stormed through LTIA part 3 and Thela, Red sounds a bit lumbering and tired by comparison. Picking up the pace a little with Frame By Frame they proceed to push through the mix of material that fuelled their 80s period on what is a very decent-sounding audience recording “As I mentioned and you probably know, we have a new album out. Maybe many more to come, who knows?” Belew’s wry announcement near the end of the concert belies the fact that the band knew that nothing else was in the diary after their final appearance in Canada the next month.
