The Luther Burbank Center for the Performing Arts (currently now known as the Wells Fargo Center for the Performing Arts) is a wonderful place to see a show. I miss living in Santa Rosa but the wife’s relatives live in Washington State. I have to admit that for many years the 2000 to 2003 was somewhat hit and miss for me even though I owned all the official cds and stuff. I went through a bad space from about 2000 to 2005 so that probably colored my opinion. Going back, revisiting and di...
“If you don’t mind, we’ll try another one. I could use the practice!” says Adrian after what had been a somewhat wobbly rendition of Dinosaur. The mid-section in particular counts as something of a classic Crimso clamfest. Then, a truly knockout version of Vrooom is served up, bringing to a close a solid enough performance.
There’s something incredibly powerful about the run of tracks that begins with TPTB II, through to LTIA Pt IV, a place where all kinds of peculiar energies are unlocked and unleashed. There are so many individual highlights; Adrian’s strange, gritty sidewinding solo which opens TPTBII; Pat’s frenetic in-flight sampling and shifting rhythms during Dangerous Curves; Fripp’s ferocious runs on LTIA Pt IV rock like the clappers. The only sad point in this run is that just as the track moves into Adrian’s solo spot, the recording is abruptly cut off! A great pity.
Fripp notes in his diary that “The negotiation of the space, between audience and performers, took about 70 minutes; then, there seemed to be some mutual accommodation; then, acceptance & applause; then, acknowledgement. Overall, a generous audience.”
The vagaries of this soundboard means that Ade’s vocals are probably a little higher in the mix than he might like, and although Trey isn’t always well served level-wise, happily his solo on Thrush has him coming through loud and clear.
There’s something incredibly powerful about the run of tracks that begins with TPTB II, through to LTIA Pt IV, a place where all kinds of peculiar energies are unlocked and unleashed. There are so many individual highlights; Adrian’s strange, gritty sidewinding solo which opens TPTBII; Pat’s frenetic in-flight sampling and shifting rhythms during Dangerous Curves; Fripp’s ferocious runs on LTIA Pt IV rock like the clappers. The only sad point in this run is that just as the track moves into Adrian’s solo spot, the recording is abruptly cut off! A great pity.
Fripp notes in his diary that “The negotiation of the space, between audience and performers, took about 70 minutes; then, there seemed to be some mutual accommodation; then, acceptance & applause; then, acknowledgement. Overall, a generous audience.”
The vagaries of this soundboard means that Ade’s vocals are probably a little higher in the mix than he might like, and although Trey isn’t always well served level-wise, happily his solo on Thrush has him coming through loud and clear.
