Errors-To: admin at elephant-talk dot com Reply-To: newsletter at elephant-talk dot com Sender: moderator at elephant-talk dot com Precedence: bulk From: moderator at elephant-talk dot com To: newsletter at elephant-talk dot com Subject: Elephant Talk #1099 E L E P H A N T T A L K The Internet newsletter for Robert Fripp and King Crimson enthusiasts Number 1099 Thursday, 6 March 2003 Today's Topics: GIG BIZ: Crim swag 21st Century Schizoid Banned Lineup #2 Re: There are a few Real fans! Re: There are a few Real fans! Crim dreams Recycling; Have Fun, Play Safe Many bobbing heads(on disc and at Town Hall) Linking CD Release & Tour Dates Re: Live Crim customer vs. ticketseller Re: cat food without piano Re: It's time to vote in MD's annual poll/Crimson drummers/Mike First listen of PTB FS: Various KC and related CD's Tour PatMan GIG REVIEW: Asheville, Feb 28, '03 GIG REVIEW: Atlanta, 3/1 GIG REVIEW: Atlanta 3/1 GIG REVIEW: KC Live - Asheville GIG REVIEW: Ashville show rocked GIG REVIEW: The Atlanta Show at the Variety Playhouse ------------------ A D M I N I S T R I V I A --------------------- POSTS: Please send all posts to newsletter at elephant-talk dot com To UNSUBSCRIBE, or to CHANGE ADDRESS: Send a message with a body of HELP to admin at elephant-talk dot com or use the DIY list machine at http://www.elephant-talk.com/list/ To ASK FOR HELP about your ET subscription: Send a message to: help at elephant-talk dot com ET Web: http://www.elephant-talk.com/ Read the ET FAQ before you post a question at http://www.elephant-talk.com/faq.htm Current TOUR DATES info can always be found at http://www.elephant-talk.com/gigs/tourdates.shtml You can read the most recent ten editions of ET at http://www.elephant-talk.com/newsletter.htm THE ET TEAM: Toby Howard (Moderator), Dan Kirkdorffer (Webmaster) Mike Dickson (List Admin), and a cast of thousands. The views expressed herein are those of the individual authors. ET is produced using John Relph's Digest system v3.7b (relph at sgi dot com). ------------------ A I V I R T S I N I M D A --------------------- Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 23:22:05 +0000 From: kruekutt at attbi dot com Subject: GIG BIZ: Crim swag I'm seeing Crim in Detroit, and would like to know how much to budget for merchandise (the tourbox, any other cds for sale like Rhythm Buddies or Mastica, tshirts, etc.) If some generous soul could report on what's on sale and how much it cost, I'd appreciate it. Thanks! Rick K. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 13:29:04 EST From: Johnakni at aol dot com Subject: 21st Century Schizoid Banned Lineup #2 Nobody has said anything so far about lineup #2 of 21st Century Schizoid Band. So I will. It should be exciting to hear Groon live with the original bassist AND the man who made the song his own with the VC3 drums. I hope they can still find a VC3 somewhere so Ian Wallace can wail on that thing again. Its too bad the band so far couldn't find a mellotron as well. It should also be exciting to see various ex-king crimson members play the Monk composition Evidence live. For a while there was the thread here on elphant-talk about 21st Century Schizoid Band having more original members of King Crimson than King Crimson's current lineup itself. But so far nobody has mentioned the 1975 Manticore release Keith Christmas-Brighter Day which had three founding members of King Crimson on it: Greg Lake,Pete Sinfield,and Ian MacDonald. Ian Wallace and Mel Collins are also on that album. I wonder what happened to the man Keith Christmas himself. If Jakko ever gets sick,Keith can replace him,if he is still around. Speaking of founding members,I am wondering if the 21st century Schizoid Band actually recorded new songs with founding member Pete Sinfield's lyrics earlier this year or was that plan abandoned since Mike Giles quit as their drummer? The band's website is silent regarding that subject. Has anybody out there heard Ringo's Allstar's featuring Greg Lake doing any krimso songs? There is an official CD out but it does not have any krimso songs. John A Knight ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 06:58:47 -0800 (PST) From: B K Partridge Subject: Re: There are a few Real fans! In response to Mark Liebenthal's comments about the behavior of "younger" fans at King Crimson shows: I haven't been a fan as long as you have, and I haven't seen as many shows as you have. But as a newer fan, maybe younger than many -- I have to draw a contrast with your observations of young people's "lack of regard for anyone". My friends who are fans, and I *love* TCOL. We get to hear all the songs we came to hear when we go to the shows - and we are very respectful "audients". It has been *our* experience that it was *older* fans who were drunk and screaming for songs that KC has retired and no longer plays. For example, last year at the Boston show there were 2 or 3 older fans screaming drunkenly for ITCOTCK, during the slow, moving part of Deception of the Thrush. My point is -- your point that people should be respectful is on the mark. But to pin all the disrespectful behavior at KC shows on "those young people" is just not accurate. Me thinks we all could stand to work on our civility in this age of instant gratification. The Wombat ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 10:07:35 -0800 (PST) From: Schizoidman Subject: Re: There are a few Real fans! To Mark Liebenthal, God bless ya man. King Crimson has made me the person I am today, all 17 years of it. It kinda disgusts me to hear people moan and groan over the simple price of tickets or maybe the show didn't go exactly their way. Whatever the case may be, I hope King Crimson knows that their are still truely loyal fans out there that support them to the fullest. James Cello Kansas City "The only reward a musician should receive is music" -Robert Fripp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:09:23 +0000 From: "Anna Rose" Subject: Crim dreams Hey dudes! Someone posted something about a dream they had about Crimso... I think this would make rather a good topic for people to get going on because dreams are quite fascinating, especially if they are really bizarre! Doubtless many of us have dreamed about meeting/seeing our favourite rock stars, my list includes Rush, Peter Gabriel (at least 12 times), and Pete Townshend as well as Crim. My 2 favourites of my (numerous) Crim dreams: 1. I am with my 2 brothers in a shopping complex and on the lower floor Thrak-era Crim are playing an 80-minute track improvised around 'Larks' Tongues' pt 2. They are playing against a background of black and red which looks really cool. 2. My friend heard 'Easy Money' and liked it, so we sneak into the school refectory and put it on over loudspeakers, with reactions from the Powers-That-Be which I shall leave to your imaginations... :) By the way, in case you hadn't guessed, I am over my sulk at Crim about TPTB, though I still think that not disbanding RIGHT NOW (in fact, not disbanding a couple of years ago) was a serious error of judgement on Frippy's part. Right, that's about all I have to say. Hope I haven't wasted too much of your time. :) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 17:13:55 -0700 From: "Moshier, John T" Subject: Recycling; Have Fun, Play Safe On recycling, Handel, Bach and Beethoven all reused earlier written material. Bach even freely recycled Vivaldi. It seems to be a time-honored tradition to get the most out of a good musical idea. To all you lucky folks who have KC coming to your town, have fun! Just a gentle public service reminder: There are times when this band might be making the loudest noise on the planet. Some of you may wish to pack hearing protection just in case. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 18:30:36 -0500 From: "philip m. quirk" Subject: Many bobbing heads(on disc and at Town Hall) Hello folks, To the poster who mentioned Many Bobbing Heads at Last by Marty Fogel- the dic is available at our friend's website, The Artist Shop. I'm getting itchy waiting for 3/6 to come and get my live Krim fix, but I have a favor to ask of any posters attending the first shows before then- could you let me know what side of the stage RF is seated on? I ask because at the Beacon Theatre shows in Dec. 2001, RF was seated stage right, facing the rest of the group, thus giving only a view of his back to those on the far right of the stage(I was lucky, on the left side in the balcony.) Enjoy the show(s)! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 21:40:13 -0500 From: "Stick Man" Subject: Linking CD Release & Tour Dates Hello all, Does anybody know why the tour starts in America before the CD's release here? It is already available in other parts of the world and I have pre-ordered the disc from DGM, but had hoped to hear it before the gig. This is not an "America is the center of the universe" sort of question it is more about logistics. If the CD release is staggered, why not start the release cycle in the region (whether Europe, Asia, the Americas, etc.) where the tour begins or start the tour where the disc is first made available? Thanks in advance for any enlightenment, Stickman PS: I convinced 2 friends to catch the show with me - One never heard of Crimson but liked the music I played and the other knew some stuff from the 80's. I'll tell 2 friends and they'll tell 2 friends, and so on and so on... (like the shampoo commercial) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:38:20 -0500 From: "Jordan Clifford" Subject: Re: Live Crim >Mainz has Dr. Diamond, but you've already got that as part of GD True.. but if you're really interested, the two versions sound very different. Don't expect to hear a complete reworking of the song, but they are distinctly different versions. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:44:29 -0500 From: "Jordan Clifford" Subject: customer vs. ticketseller >I become increasingly convinced that where Pearl Jam failed, the ticket buying public can succeed. (Somehow, I don't have an immediate answer) All >I know is the customer IS King and when and where necessary we CAN overcome people like Ticketmaster. Right now I don't know how. Anybody?? That doesn't seem possible. Ultimately, if the shows take place the people will buy tickets. In order to get around this I think that the people and the bands have to work together. Boycotting wont work because not everyone will care enough to miss a show, so you'll never get a good concert with absolutely no turn out. There are certain bands that are good enough to have their own ticket service and play venues that work with that, for instance Medeski Martin and Wood and obvioulsy String Cheese Incident who started SCI ticketing. These are good examples of what should be happening. We saw this happen with CDs where the prices were too high for the product so the consumer became the pirate and found ways around it. Unforunately there is no way to get the experiance of a live concert without going to the concert, and you have to pay to go. So.. I'm out of ideas ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 12:52:37 -0500 From: "Jordan Clifford" Subject: Re: cat food without piano >I'm not very familiar with pre-Bruford KC (Cat Food especially), but someone mentioned that the possibility of KC playing Cat Food on this >tour would suffer without a piano player. I personally dont think it would suffer at all. the manic piano is an interesting touch on the recorded version, but they've played cat food live without a piano (right?.. its on the great deciever isnt it?) and its just fine, if not better. The piano isn't an important part of the song to me. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 04:02:03 -0500 (EST) From: "Douglas Walsh" Subject: Re: It's time to vote in MD's annual poll/Crimson drummers/Mike Just voted in the poll! Mike and Bill got my votes in the following categories: Mike: Hall of fame, Studio (I know it has been awhile, but he was doing studio sessions when Colaiuta, Weckl, et. al were still in high school!) Bill: Mainstream Jazz >Back to Mike. Does anyone know his reasons for leaving the "SB"? I >haven't >read the last 2 ET's yet, maybe the answers are in there. I simply >cannot >understand why he'd quit a band that was giving him the finest >opportunity >to, a)record on a regular basis, something he really hasn't done >much of in >33 years now, b)Make money playing music. Another thing he hasn't >had much >of in the past 33 yrs. As i've been told he & brother Pete wrote >material >for the upcoming new "SB" cd. I have to guess that this material >will still >be used by Peter, only Ian will play it? c)Was getting his 1st real >opportunity for 'exposure'to the rest of the planet. So if anyone >knows >about Mike's departure, & the reasons why i'd love to know? I have to totally agree with a) b) & c). I so glad to hear about the formation of 21CSB and hoping I would see them live in the US with Mike. As to why he left, I have no idea, but am very curious to know why. And what his future is. He is a great player and is in my opinion the most underrated drummer ever. I have nothing at all against Ian Wallace. I am sure he will do fine. I am glad if anyone replaced Mike, it was Ian. But Michael Giles is the ORIGINAL. It was great that he was back playing in a band. And this was and is the band for him. >So, who are your choices as the greatest of Crimson drummer's >considering >the fact there have been a few, throughout the years? >I have read what some thought of Andy McCulloch's drumming, and KNOW that >many of Crimson's fan's were upset when Bill left, but have'nt read >alot >more than this. >I didn't mean that Robert or anyone else in KC "used" a particular >drummer >in the sense of only hiring them for their ability to play on 1 song >or >album, although that could be the correct term for what happened >w/Andy >McCulloch? >I just want to hear whom everyone's feels the best Crimson >drummer's have >been & why you feel that way. Well, this can really be a challenge. The way I look at it, to play in King Crimson(for no matter how long or short) you have to be (to say the LEAST) quite a great player. I think that every drummer that ever played in the band contributed something and added greatly to the band. Mike, being the first drummer and a founder member was and is absolutely tremendous. He played things I had never heard anyone play. And his playing was totally unique and his fills and solos very lyrical and always creative and imaginitive. And NOONE plays cymbals like him. I have heard very little of Andy McCulloch. Very simplistic. I recently checked out more of Ian Wallace's playing. His solo on KCCC #2 (Live in Jacksonville 1972)is quite astounding. I keep forgetting he is left-handed! Bill has always been a favorite of mine. He seems to have been made to play in KC! He also was amazingly able to be both drummer AND percussionist after Jamie Muir left. I think he no doubt is the drummer who contributed the most to KCCC in terms of his length of tenure. Jamie Muir was in the band for way too short of a time. But it is kind of re-assuring to know he had the strength to leave the music "business" (notice I did not say "music" although I know he does not play anymore) for whatever spiritual calling he felt at the time. And he paints now! I wonder how he would sound in the current band. Pat is perfect for the current line-up. What I also like about him is his humility. Totally down to earth and he auditioned for the band just like anyone else would have. As for a favorite? Hmmm...I can't really say there is one. They were all perfect for the particular line-up they were with. Doug ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 14:44:57 +0100 From: "naji.chmayssani" Subject: First listen of PTB Hi all I bought "the power to believe" yesterday in a shop in Brussels. I put it in my car stereo on my way home (france) and I have to admit it was a wild listen! Just after Elektrik started I lost control of my car and had an accident. My car is dead but I'm safe. Talk about first listen experience!!! anyway thank God I'm still alive Just wanted to share this with you guys. Don't drink and drive. please Naji ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 10:59:25 -0800 (PST) From: S V G Subject: FS: Various KC and related CD's Hi, I am selling off most of my small CD collection. Perhaps some of you would be interested? All CD's are in pristine condition, only been played by me a few times. I'm only listing those CD's that would be of interest to this group. King Crimson/Absent Lovers 2 disk CD Live in Montreal 1984.....$13 King Crimson/B'Boom 2 disk CD Live in Argentina Official Bootleg.....$13 King Crimson/The ConstruKction of Light.....$10 King Crimson/Thrak.........$10 King Crimson/Cirkus, The Young Person's Guide to KC live 2 disk CD......$13 Robert Fripp, David Sylvian/The First Day.......$10 Sunday All Over the World/Kneeling At the Shrine......$10 Reiflin, Fripp, Gunn/The Repercussions of Angelic Behavior......$10 California Guitar Trio/An Opening Act......$8 King Crimson/Level Five, Limited Edition Tour CD........$8 Centrozoon/The Divine Beast.........$4 Jeff Grienke/Ride.......$5 Fernando Kabusacki/Houses I...(GC and Los Gauchos member).....$6 Fernando Kabusacki/The Planet and Its Beings........$6 Los Gauchos Alemanes/Hot Fat Fish, Santos Luminosos/Leuchtende Heilige.....$5 Il Commendatore Zucchini E I Suoi Corni Solitari (Gauchos gang)........$5 This is $136 of albums I'm offering. If you want the whole bunch, $90 will do fine. Please email me offlist as I do not subscribe to ET. These prices do not include shipping which will be the *actual* amount. Apologies if this is improper use of ET. Stephen ... Vsyevolod at Yahoo dot com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 22:03:45 +0300 From: "NikG" Subject: Tour How do you do. Write you from Russia. The message meets In our press that King Crimson will arrive in Russia on tours by summer 2003. Plans group to such tours? Respectfully yours. Nikolay. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 20:12:19 +0100 From: "Gerd Schalles" Subject: PatMan Hello, I'm listening to TPTB right now. I completely agree to Wafo's post (ET 1097) on Pat's superb drumming. For me it's simply the best album since Red and the closest to that period - which until now I liked the most. But now Pat and Trey are the rhythm buddies and - my god, they are hot! This is one hell of a rhythm section to say the least. Some of us move on and some of us stay. That is a fact of life. G. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 13:59:40 -0500 From: "Cheryl Thorp" Subject: GIG REVIEW: Asheville, Feb 28, '03 Fantastic show in Asheville, NC, to kick off their North American tour. All were in impeccable form. My favorite incarnation of KC was the early '80's crewe, so I have been somewhat dismissive about Trey and Pat as members of the band. I mean, they're replacing Levin and Bruford, for goodness! I was entranced by Trey's performance. He is so freakin' smooth. Unfortunately for Pat, Adrian was in the way visually as I was standing at the edge of the stage in front of Ade, so I did not focus on him much. Darn, I had to focus on Adrian, Bill, and Trey! Whew! What an honor. The play list was primarily from TCOL and sooner. I did not recognize a couple of tunes, I presume they are from the as of this moment unreleased here in the States TPTB. Way good stuff; simply a stunning show. The sound system excellent at the Orange Peel, and the engineers had it mixed very well. I hope they release a recording of the show, or at least from this tour. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 00:18:00 -0500 From: "Jack Bross" Subject: GIG REVIEW: Atlanta, 3/1 Just got back from the conert at the Variety in Atlanta, GA this evening (March 1). No opening act, as most of you probably know. Set List: TCOL, ProzaKc Blues, Elektrik, TPTB1/Level 5, Eyes Wide Open, Happy, TPTB2, Oyster Soup (TWMOSKFWM), Facts of Life, Dangerous Curves, LTIA IV. Encores: Deception of the Thrush, Dinosaur, VROOOM Thoughts on the performance: Opening with TCOL and PB started off with what passes for "oldies" this tour, and on a somewhat lighter note. No vocal distortion on PB. I'd say TCOL didn't take off until the fairy fingers stuff, but finished strong. The usual ET shout-out during PB. Elektrik built up to the first taste of "nuevo metal". Though I still find the intro/outro to Elektrik unconvincing, the body of the piece has really developed into something fierce. Level 5 rocked hard. One review recently said that Level 5 is this group's "Red", and that's about right. They now play it as a crowd-flattener. After L5, Ade said a few words plugging the new album (available at the concert for $20 even though it wouldn't officially be released for a couple days. see Swag below). Eyes Wide Open. After which, Ade describes it as "Crimson Light". "But not for long", he says. Then Happy. The group clearly has fun metal-ing it up for Happy. The Power To Believe 2. Actually, having not heard the album in advance, I thought maybe this was an improv. Got home and unwrapped my CD to discover that it's TPTB2. A nice, atmospheric resting point between more heavy stuff. Fripp's "Oud" setting at the beginning sounds better live than on CD, and it's fun to watch Pat in this piece. Got to get me one of those Roland thingies that Ade and Pat use for the gamelan effects. Oyster and Facts. Actually, I might have the order reversed, I can't remember. Oyster was particularly good, and a pleasant surprise. Fripp channeled Keith Tippett for his "piano solo", and the goofy stuff at the end didn't go on too long (unlike on the TCOL album). Facts of Life was pretty heavy, again. Dangerous Curves and LTIA4. They seem to be using DC in a role similar to Talking Drum: a steady buildup of tension that uncoils into LTIA4. Good performance of DC, leading to a performance of LTIA4 reminiscent of the one on Nashville/Happy. Again, instrumental rather than vocal coda. Encores: Deception of the Thrush was actually a P3 performance: no Ade. Starts quietly, of course, which gives an opportunity for people to shout "Freebird" (and somebody did). The second half was beautiful. Dinosaur was great, and had quite a few people singing along. A sprited version of VROOOM to finish out. RF had to run onstage at the last minute for the final encore (apparently in the bathroom?). The nicest thing to say would be that Robert "skittered" back to his stool. "pranced back" might be more accurate. "ran like a girl" would be even more accurate. The Swag: CD's for sale including TPTB, Happy, and the Rhythm Buddies. Happy and TPTB T-shirts, plus older-model Discipline and TCOTCK shirts. Cute girl-versions of a couple shirts are available (now if only I had the cute girl to go with the shirt...). The Show: Reasonably good lighting stuff, nothing too fancy but varied and interesting. Not much action on stage, obviously. RF is sitting on his stool in front of the Soundscape Stuff, Trey is on the other side of the stage, relatively static. Ade is front center being more energetic and acting as our genial host. Pat is lurking back center unleashing various percussive mayhem. The Venue: The Variety is a good place to see KC. Seats/stands about 1000, and sold out. Good sound, mostly good sight lines. Concert started at 8:30 officially (actually more like 8:50), with doors opening at 7:30. By 7:30, there were already 4-500 people lined up around the building. They played Tom Waits on the speakers before, Sigur Ros after. Special Guest: "Ken. Also known as ... Ken!". The guitar tech/roadie guy who came on and fixed Ade's guitar. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2003 10:36:40 -0500 From: Neal Ford Subject: GIG REVIEW: Atlanta 3/1 In a word: WOW! Probably the best venue in Atlanta for a concert like this (Variety Playhouse seats 1200, sold out, SRO). The first thing Adrian said after the opening "Construcktion of Light": "Welcome to the difficult listening hour". The sound was perfect from where I stood -- loud with no distortion . The crowd was great: no smoking, not a single flash, quiet during the music and thundrous applause between songs. During the beginning of Dangerous curves, you could hear a pin drop. I missed them last tour (through no fault of my own), so I hadn't seen them live since the Double Trio tour. Having said that: this is the best KC show I've ever seen. The band was very tight, playing almost all new music. The oldest songs they played were 2 from Thrak (Vroom and Dinosaur). Most of the music was from TPTB, which I haven't heard. I don't think they did any improvs. All the songs were very structured. If they were improvs, they were damn good ones. They have evolved as a group since the mid-90s. In the past, while the music was always top-notch, it seemed that everyone was pulling in their own direction. Sure, the boat moved fast because everyone of the rowers was very strong. Now, though, they are all pulling together to a degree I haven't seen before, and the boat is moving faster than ever! They are having fun and producing the most sophisiticated music of their careers. This incarnation has lasted longer than any other, and it shows. Don't miss this show! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 15:48:49 -0500 From: "JL Harkey" Subject: GIG REVIEW: KC Live - Asheville Last night I witnessed the most amazing concert I have experienced in a long time. King Crimson's Asheville performance was beyond words. I have seen Crimson four times, dating beck to the 'double trio' 1995 tour. Let me tell you, this band rocks! KC are clearly at the peak of their careers. Mastelotto and Gunn (aka The Rhythm Buddies) were monsters. Their stage interaction was greatly improved from the 2001 Nashville sessions. Trey amazed me playing TWO Warr guitars simultaneously. Mast carried the band. Belew (working with reckless abandon) and RF clearly enjoyed themselves. We're talking three encores. There is no other band in existance today that can play this music. Run, barter, mortgage first born...whatever it takes, SEE THIS BAND. The Power to Believe? Damn right. The next day, and I'm still stunned. Jerry Harkey ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2003 11:14:11 -0500 From: zach edwardson Subject: GIG REVIEW: Ashville show rocked Hi all, I went to the ashville show (in style in my freinds 74 camero :) ) and i must say, it was great. The orange peel is a amazing little place, and a great place to see a show. I dragged two freinds on mine who had never listened to king crimson to this show, and they had no idea what they where going to see. Crimson did a tight long set, and played music only from the last two alubums, till the last encore (two encores with three songs total) the new alubum stuff is top notch, with a heavy feel to it. The Orange Peel sold out, and the fans (a large mix of people from 50 year olds to 18 year olds) where entertained by the show. I am not going into detail on the set list, as i am sure that others will give it out. Each crimson memeber had some point to show off there talents (the jaws hit the ground with trey gunn's work with "Deception of the Thrush") and I didn't see a disapointed fan leaving the peel and the two freinds that i brought along are new fans. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2003 22:25:52 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Miller Subject: GIG REVIEW: The Atlanta Show at the Variety Playhouse It was a sellout and the crowd was standing, though subdued, for pretty much all of the performance. The place was packed. The band was intense, crisp and powerful. Really muscular. It was stunning. LTIA IV was almost too much to take. Ade and Pat were hittin' the notes. Robert was Robert and Trey was lovely and crushing. My whole perception of Pat has changed completely. The studio and live cds are not doing him justice. He is a f***ing monster. Everyone, including Robert, looked like they were having a blast. Good sound, good lights. Good everything. I'm sure there are some mis-spellings and other mistakes, but here's what they played: King Crimson Set List Variety Playhouse -- 8:45 pm or so Atlanta (Little Five Points), Georgia March 1, 2003 The ConstruKction of Light ProzaKc Blues EleKctric A brief soundscape Level Five Eyes Wide Open Happy A brief soundscape Virtuous Circle Shoganai (??) Virtuous Circle (conclusion) New song a war protest?? The Worlds My Oyster... Dangerous Curves LITA IV Coda Deception of the Thrush (Encore 1) Dinosaur (Encore 1) VROOOM (Encore 2) The audients wanted Red, but didn't get it. ------------------------------ End of Elephant Talk Digest #1099 *********************************