Having been excised from the previous concert’s set list, Walking On Air is restored, providing something of a reflective mood early in the gig. That said the swaying atmosphere, and Ade’s delicately teased guitar solo are short-lived things, as Red barges in and once again ups the ante.

Thrak is heavy on the discordant barrelhouse piano until Fripp hits the laser-beam stomp box and Gunn hogs some of that particularly bright spotlight. Some cautious Bruford excursions tempt a couple of Crims to embellish the beat but they quickly fall away and for a few precious seconds silence takes centre stage.

The appearance of Schizoid Man smack dab in the middle of the gig was sure to have taken a few folks by surprise. Actually it works well in this context and Bill’s wacky electronic percussives prior to the soloing section are sure to have turned a few heads. Belew’s break-out is exhilarating stuff and whilst Fripp’s rejoinder is game enough, the two don’t quite get to lock heads in the time they’ve been allocated.

The Sheltering Sky goes into some intriguing harmonic territories after Trey’s solo making it rather more special than usual. For a couple of minutes, Crimson seems to be drifting into somewhere different, before Fripp steers the team back to the theme. A lovely highlight in a good gig.
TRACK
TIME
01
The Talking Drum
03:46
02
Larks Tongues In Aspic Pt II
06:42
03
Frame By Frame
05:15
04
Dinosaur
07:19
05
Walking On Air
04:59
06
Red
06:30
07
BBOOM
06:02
08
THRAK
08:20
09
21st Century Schizoid Man
06:50
01
The Sheltering Sky
07:51
02
Waiting Man
04:50
03
Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream
04:57
04
Neurotica
04:36
05
Indiscipline
10:09
06
Thela Hun Ginjeet
05:53
07
Elephant Talk
06:38
08
VROOOM
04:05
09
Coda Marine 475
03:03

KC19960604Mannheim1

KC19960604Mannheim2 - Armin Beck

Written by Robert A Wright-Stasko
For fans of Papa Bear
Tony Levin is on the cover picture for this download, and that is appropriate. He really shines in this outing; it sounds like he is taking the adventurous route in many of the songs. Funk Fingers, awesome Stick licks, and generally awesome bass slappin' is on display. If you love TLev, then this is the show for you.
Written by Armin Beck
Awesome Rock for dancin fools....
15 years after this concert I recall this concert as my 2nd Crim-Concert (the year before I was in Stuttgart-Liederhalle), and I remember how it "rocked". As a Billy-B-fan I was first shocked when I saw some yellow Tama-drums built up as a sort of timpani-set with some SimmonsPads, beside there was fortunately a "serious" (=Pat’s) drumkit. Thoughts like:..."is Bill ill?...or is he mad?...is he only playing percussion?" were in my mind. But with the beginning of Talking drum, Bill played the fl...
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