The third night in Nashville finds the room in 12th & Porter hot and sweaty which is exactly how the band found themselves. The early version of Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With) finally finds its feet tonight though the idea of bookending it with the Heavy ConstruKction theme is still something of an awkward fit.
Response To Stimuli (later to be retitled FaKcts of Life) also has a greater definition and sense of purpose, pretty much hitting all the milestones and marks it would later possess. FraKctured is taken at a fearsome lick, providing a real white-knuckle ride for your money, and arguably the real keeper for the night despite the odd metrical mishap here and there.
After a comfortable run-through of Dinosaur and brisk trot through Thela, Virtuous Circle makes its first appearance in this run. Revolving around a sinuous Gunn groove, various lines of enquiry are advanced by Belew and Fripp; the latter restricted to dreamy atmospherics whilst the former introduces some terse, jagged chords whose abrasive quality instills a sense of gnawing tension. Level Five also seems to have found its final shape by this gig and yet Fripp notes in his diary that “not honourable” and “Tonight's show lacked the integrity that characterised the performance yesterday.”
Is he right? You decide!
AUDIO SOURCE: Dat Soundboard
DGM AUDIO QUALITY
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TRACK
TIME
01
Dangerous Curves
06:19
02
Into The Frying Pan
07:05
03
Heavy ConstruKction
05:19
04
Response To Stimuli
04:55
05
FraKctured
07:15
06
Dinosaur
05:37
07
Thela Hun Ginjeet
05:38
08
Virtuous Circle
09:56
09
The Worlds My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum
The third night in Nashville finds the room in 12th & Porter hot and sweaty which is exactly how the band found themselves. The early version of Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With) finally finds its feet tonight though the idea of bookending it with the Heavy ConstruKction theme is still something of an awkward fit.
Response To Stimuli (...
Honourable and highly [something good that rhymes with thrakked]
"Not honourable?" Heck nah. The third night of the warm-up finds the material and the momentum finally taking flight for real, coming right out of the gate with an increasingly confident Dangerous Curves, coupled with an exceedingly good rendition of Frying Pan (with Belew's outro solo quite on fire). And what is this, I find myself actually enjoying Heavy ConstruKction as played by the full Crim, even more because tonight they're letting the Happy stomp take over the piece. Happy actually s...
"Not honourable?" Heck nah. The third night of the warm-up finds the material and the momentum finally taking flight for real, coming right out of the gate with an increasingly confident Dangerous Curves, coupled with an exceedingly good rendition of Frying Pan (with Belew's outro solo quite on fire). And what is this, I find myself actually enjoying Heavy ConstruKction as played by the full Crim, even more because tonight they're letting the Happy stomp take over the piece. Happy actually seems pretty full-formed tonight, moving beyond embryonic riffing into a song structure that's not far from finished. This night also gives us a shockingly impressive Thela, and, a real treat, the first (and very strong) appearance of Virtuous Circle. The only complaint to be made is that focus lags a bit toward the end of the set - Oyster Soup falls into the good-not-great area, and Level Five, TCOL, and Larks' IV don't have the same take-no-prisoners spirit of the early numbers, even if the performances are steadier than they were on the first two nights (although Krimson Blue sounds quite good even as they're still toying around with it). But the encores restore the show to excellence, with Thrush's heavenly outro lifting the band into a joyous rendition of Heroes to end the night. There is an exuberant spirit to this show, and it's the first of the 12th & Porter warm-up shows where the presence of the good fairy can be keenly felt.
Written by Walter Kanios
Krimsons friends!
I had the pleasure to view the first three shows as sunday was added late when I first got tickets. I flew in from D.C.,my brother from Miami and we set up camp in the back corner of the hot cave called 12th. and Porter. I mangaged to speak with both Paul and Patricia, she was selling talk (R.F.) cassettes, he was working the mixer and I got to steal some info from the talent of this guy in charge of sound enforcements. Indead, the goods produced went out in strong fashion , just like a st...
I had the pleasure to view the first three shows as sunday was added late when I first got tickets. I flew in from D.C.,my brother from Miami and we set up camp in the back corner of the hot cave called 12th. and Porter. I mangaged to speak with both Paul and Patricia, she was selling talk (R.F.) cassettes, he was working the mixer and I got to steal some info from the talent of this guy in charge of sound enforcements. Indead, the goods produced went out in strong fashion , just like a strong cup of coffee, no sugar please. I came away from the week spent on travel waiting for this moment to return. And now the moment has arrived. I’m glad you made them available for me to enjoy more than once. W.S.K.
