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               E L E P H A N T    T A L K

        The Internet newsletter for Robert Fripp
              and King Crimson enthusiasts

                        Number 864

                  Friday, 3 August 2001

Today's Topics:

   NEWS: Trey Gunn Update

   GIG BIZ: A third concert in Mexico City: August 19!

   Re: George Harrison "related" to Crimson?
   Born Again Crimson !
   fripp and hendrix? Maybe... how about hendrix and elp
   Collectors'Club question
   King Crimson double album
   Re: Fripp on Ovation
   John Wetton w/ Roxy Music?
   ThrakAttak revisted
   CLUB12: Lets Face It
   noise and fuzzy sounds on new Collectors Club CD
   maximum music month
   points of clarification....
   EXPOSURE
   Re: complaints of the tour
   Re: An opinion from 1 GEEZER...

   GIG REVIEW: crimson in New Orleans

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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 18:32:31 -0400
From: John DeChello <john at dechello dot com>
Subject: NEWS: Trey Gunn Update

The Trey Gunn Update
August 1, 2001

-- www.treygunn.com Redesigned
-- Trey Mixing New Trey Gunn Band Live CD
-- Trey In August 2001 Issue of Jazziz Magazine
-- New Diaries: On Tour with King Crimson and Tool

www.treygunn.com Redesigned

Trey's official site has been redesigned by Ioannis at Vivid Images
Worldwide, who has also designed the last several  CD packages for Trey, as
well as for King Crimson's The Construkction of Light. The site will
feature an ever-changing selection of audio, video and additional special
features.  Right now there is video from the Trey Gunn Band and King Crimson.
Check the site out at http://www.treygunn.com/

Trey Mixing New Trey Gunn Band Live CD

Trey is in the studio mixing a new live Trey Gunn Band Live CD from the
band's latest tour.  A song list is not yet available, but the set is due
to be released in November.  The CD will also feature live performance
video in QuickTime(tm) format. We'll publish details as we get them.

Trey In August 2001 Issue of Jazziz Magazine

Trey is featured in the August issue of Jazziz, which is available at most
newsstands in the U.S., and online at http://www.jazziz.com/

New Diaries

Trey goes on tour with King Crimson and Tool, and you can read his take on
all the latest happenings in his personal diary at
http://www.treygunn.com/word/

Tell a friend about Trey Gunn -- forward this email, or better yet ask them
to subscribe at http://www.treygunn.com/

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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 13:59:36 -0500
From: "Gerardo Liedo" <gliedo at albec dot net dot mx>
Subject: GIG BIZ: A third concert in Mexico City: August 19!

 Tickets on sale this Friday, August 3rd..

Those who will attend from other countries, mail me and again I can buy your
tickets for free (well you pay face value, no more)

Again tickets on sale on line

http://www.ticketmaster.com.mx/eventos.asp?searchname=KING_CRIMSON_TEATRO_ME
TROPOLITAN_(D.F.)

Remember to enter the whole URL including the "(D.F.)" or enter the main
page and search for it! Save some money buying them

A hot weekend in Mexico City, now three dates Friday, Saturday and Sunday!!

A press conference is planning and I hope it will be recorded and released!

Stay Crimsonized

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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 17:33:13 -0500
From: Don Hosek <dhosek at quixote dot com>
Subject: Re: George Harrison "related" to Crimson?

At 09:05 AM 7/28/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>The connection is even closer than you know...Ian Wallace played on the
>"Traveling Wilburys" album with George Harrison.  How do I know?  I'm looking
>at the platinum record on my wall as we speak.
>Best,
>Margie

Gee, I hadn't realized that when they made the platinum records, they went
so far as to include all the musician credits ;-)

-dh
(yes, yes, I know...)
---
Don Hosek, bassist http://don.dream-in-color.net/
Dream in Color - http://www.dream-in-color.net/
312/953-3679        don at dream-in-color dot net
   "And everything is instant, no one has to wait too long
    And Lennon never has to sing a Paul McCartney Song." (Kevin Gilbert,
"Joytown")

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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 23:14:35 EDT
From: MCMOWRY at aol dot com
Subject: Born Again Crimson !

Dear ETer's

At age 48, I've gone full circle with KC. Got hooked on ITCOTKC after the
first listen and in rapid sucession purchased everything on vinyl through the
USA release. Got to see KC in both Tampa (Curtis Hixon Hall) and Providence
1974 (Palace Concert Theater) not knowing that I was witnessing the end of
the Fripp, Wetton, Cross, Bruford era. Crimson was my musical passion, but
just as quick came marriage, three kids, and an everyday job. KC drifted away
for close to 25 years although I gave a curious listen here and there to the
Discipline era releases. As my son entered his teenage years, my passions
were rekindled by his interests in both alternative music and the bass
guitar. First a discussion of bass players makes me mention Wetton. Soon I'm
pulling out old vinyl for him to sample KC for himself. Finally, I'm
searching the net for anything about KC finding the ET and Discipline
websites and downloading Mexico City. Christmas 1999, I open a small package
from the kids, and there it is - "The Projects Box Set". Boy, I've got some
great kids! What is this spell that Crimson has on me? In rapid sucession I'm
getting my hands on every release in sight, Absent Lovers, Amsterdam, LTIA
and Red reissues, TCOL, Heavy Construction..... Spring 2001, the circle is
almost complete. I'm at my local Best Buy store with the Discipline and SABB
reissues in my hand when I walk by the box set section, and there it is - The
Great Deceiver!!! This is no time to despair about money. Out comes my VISA
Platinum and the circle is complete. GD doesn't leave my CD player for three
weeks, and I'm dreaming of June 30th, 1974 and the Palace Concert Theater.
Today, I'm listening to Heavy Construction. I've had it now for seven months,
but all of a sudden today disc 3 has just blown me away. But that's the way
it is with Crimson, and only the people who make up this forum could possibly
 understand.

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Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 22:48:51 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Burch <brianman3 at yahoo dot com>
Subject: fripp and hendrix? Maybe... how about hendrix and elp

I agree that Fripp and Hendrix were two of the best
guitar players of all time.  They would sound
incredible together.  Unrelated to KC, but still
regaurding the topic at hand, I had heard that Hendrix
was going to join up with ELP, and had planned to but
didn't due to his newfound deceased state.  Now, Fripp
and Hendrix would sound good together, but Fripp and
ELP(would be called HELP, neat huh?) would be much
more interesting.  I wasn't too much a fan of most of
Hendrix's material, it wasn't progressive enough for
me, and ELP was good, but certainly no JT or KC, but I
think that HELP would have been absolutely amazing.  I
think of ELP in my mind, and Hendrix in my mind, and I
put the two together and it sounds very good.  Hendrix
had everything ELP lacked, and vise versa.  Has anyone
else heard of this?  Does anyone agree that HELP would
have been the super group of the 70's?  Discuss.

=====
Peace out!
Brian
Brianman3 at yahoo dot com

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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 15:49:01
From: "alexis rondeau" <giantalex007 at hotmail dot com>
Subject: Collectors'Club question

I'm preparing to join back the Collectors'Club and I'm going to get some
from the back catalogue. I don't know wich ones tough an I would like your
advice on some difficult decisions...

I really like (9) Summit Studio so I'm gonna get another one from the Boz
band. Witch one do you prefer between (2) Jacksonville and (14) Plymouth?
I'm tempted by Plymouth just because it's a 2 cd set... but what about the
music?

And then what information do you have that could help me choose between (4)
Cap D'Agden and (16) Berkley? Hopefully they both sound somwhat clearer than
Moles Club!

Of course I do care about sound quality, but rare songs and improv are
usually what I prefer with the CC.

Thanks!

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Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 20:02:57 +0100
From: "spencer mapp" <kaos at mapp dot fslife dot co dot uk>
Subject: King Crimson double album

On the In The Court of the Crimson King and Lark's Toungues in Aspic double
album my copy has status quo on one side - consisting of Rock n Roll and 3
unidentified tracks. How did this happen, when and why? Also if so were they
not all recalled? Please contact me at pod-mapp@fsnet

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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 10:48:10 -0400
From: Joan Bull <BULLJ1 at WESTAT dot com>
Subject: Re: Fripp on Ovation

Regarding Robert MacCoun's 7/20 post:
< I can't resist opining that his later acoustic playing on the crafty
guitar albums is, to my ears, dreadful.  The Crafty Guitar period <brought
us Trey Gunn and the CGT, and I don't dispute for a moment that the CG
courses were immensely valuable for the <participants.  But despite
impeccable technique and blazing speed, Fripp's performances on the Ovation
guitar sound like a <plucked tennis racket.  Part of the problem is that the
Ovation seems to sustain so poorly, and Fripp's most lyrical playing is
heavily <legato.  But a player like Steve Tibbetts somehow manages to get
rich and deep sustain and depth out of an acoustic.  <Presumably, Fripp
wanted a staccato sound.  Very '80s, the era of pointy shoes and pointy
hair.

RM faults RF's playing by complaining about the sound?  I agree the sound of
the guitars on the LoCG recordings is generally thin and staccato.  But this
reflects less on the players and more on equipment and circumstances.  The
piezo pickup in the Ovation, or any guitar, has limitations and tends to
emphasize the "pop" of the string being picked.  The Ovation meets the
requirements of being relatively affordable, playable, consistent, and
sturdy - just what you'd need for an bunch of guitarists on the road or in
the studio with a very limited budget.  Acoustically, Fripp gets a wonderful
tone out of the Ovation.  And he does this with decidedly unpointy hair
(Curt Golden's the one with pointy footwear).
JoanBull

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Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 15:44:42 -0400
From: mike <mikemc at nyc dot rr dot com>
Subject: John Wetton w/ Roxy Music?

Recently, Roxy started a world tour, which played here in NYC on 7/23 &
7/24. On Sunday the 22nd, in the NY Daily News, they did a two-page
spread about Roxy. Of note, the interviewer asked Bryan Ferry about how
Roxy never seemed to have a steady bass player. Ferry ad-libbed a bit,
but ended saying, "We were all ready to bring John Wetton on as our
permanent bassist, when John told me 'I'm off to join Uriah Heep'"
Poor choice, John. P.S. The show was phenomenal, and highly recommended
if it's in your area!

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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 18:44:16 -0400
From: "Peter Shindler" <shindler at mediaone dot net>
Subject: ThrakAttak revisted

Hey gang, I whipped out my copy of ThrakAttak this week for the first time
in at least 3 years.  I had remembered it as being an hour of nothing but
cacophonous noise, and recalled that I'd never once been able to listen to
the whole thing in one session (though I found it brilliant in smaller
doses).  Now I was expecting the worst, since, if anything, my tastes have
mellowed a bit lately.  Imagine my surprise when I found it to be completely
listenable from start to finish!  I guess the Projekcts, BLUE, and the
Construkction material made this stuff seem a lot more approachable.

I haven't heard mention of this album here at all for a long time.  I'd like
to know if anyone's listened to it lately, and what you think of it now.

Peter

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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 00:35:42 +0000
From: "Cameron Devlin" <camerondevlin at hotmail dot com>
Subject: CLUB12: Lets Face It

I think it's probably about time to face the fact that CLUB12 (Live in Hyde
Park) is never going to get released.

Is DGM going to organise a new CLUB12? Perhaps just doing the upcoming '71
Live In Detroit as 12 would make sense, since it doesn't really make much
difference... just for us anal retentive fans that like order in our
collections (i'm currently jumping from 11 to 13 and it makes me feel like I
should be buying something :) ).

Taking my life (such as it is) and going now,

Cameron

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Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 22:58:52 -0700
From: "PT" <normalsf at grin dot net>
Subject: noise and fuzzy sounds on new Collectors Club CD

I just got my copy of #16 KC live in Berkeley 1982
and I MUST have a defective copy.

it is totally noise, clicks, fuzz, etc -
like an old LP played with a dirty needle.

I tried it on a few different CD players -
it's unlistenable.

anyone else have these problems ?

Pat in San Fran.

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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 00:40:12 -0600
From: "Elaine C. Erb" <ecerb at indra dot com>
Subject: maximum music month

Phew, what an intense, incredible fun weekend of music.  I want to state up
front that this is the 11th time I've gone to a WOMAD festival and yes I am
a total junkie for them.  So no, I didn't solely go for the chance to see
Peter Gabriel play out for the first time in years.

Lots of amazing music through the weekend from the jazzy african stylings
of Lagbaja to the uptempo Bengali music of Baul Bishwa.  Perry Farrell came
in to DJ a set and remind me that yes, it is an artform to properly put a
set of music together and being a musician doesn't automatically qualify
you to do the job well.  TransGlobal Underground was popular despite their
blowing the power a few times and Simon Shaheen put on a mesmerizing set of
predominantly mideastern music with shades of jazz thrown on top.

Waiting to meet the Blind Boys of Alabama I was amused to run into Anil
Prasad who seemed surprised I would remember his name from this forum.

The Peter Gabriel set was wonderful, and yes, I only got to hear the
evening set.  Apparently they tried to do an early runthrough on stage only
to find all the vendors, stuck at their booths most of the festival, drawn
to the stage for this intimate performance.  With the rapt audience they
played through their whole 65 minute set!

Gabriel took to the stage with just Tony and then was joined by a drummer
with whom I am not familiar, David Rhodes, and James MacNally from AfroCelt
sound System.  They were joined for some parts of the show by Gabriel's
daughter Melanie, members of the south African group Imbizo, and other
members of AfroCelt like Johnny Kalsi (hey the Dhol Foundation album just
came to us!) and Iarla O'Lionaird.  Along with classics like In Your Eyes
and Solsbury Hill they also featured some new cuts like Signal to Noise and
Father and Son.

I guess I couldn't help sharing this totally off thread moment because I
gotta tell you, of all the times I have seen Tony Levin play over the last
few years I don't think I have seen him having that much fun in a long
time.  He absolutely glowed up there.  Whether it was being back with his
buddies and playing familiar music or being on stage on a beautiful Seattle
evening with a huge crowd soaking in every moment I don't know.  But he
obviously enjoyed the whole weekend from being able to bring his wife Andi
to watching Peter and Melanie learn the words Imbizo were singing to the
continued appeals to journalists that yes, he is still technically a member
of King Crimson, Levin was showing that charisma and appeal that makes him
both a great musician and person.

Now I gotta try to mellow out the WOMAD high and get in the Crimson mood!
I'm glad they are doing this show in Boulder because as much as I have
always wanted to see them at Red Rocks there are just no tickets to be had.
Pretty steep prices as well this time through.

And don't worry, I won't even start on that forthcoming show that has David
Byrne sharing a stage with Russell Crowe's band 30 Odd foot of
Grunts........

Elaine

O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O O
To most people nothing is more troublesome than
the effort of thinking.         - james bryce

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Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2001 03:06:27 +1000
From: "Keenan, Owen" <okeenan at railaccess dot com dot au>
Subject: points of clarification....

Hi all,

Some recent comments in this newsletter, on various topics, have, as far as
I'm concerned, been misleading. So...

1. The GG&F demos LP 'Metaphormosis' is not a bootleg. Publishing details
are provided along with contacts for the company (Tenth Planet) responsible
for its existence (A reputable, yet boutique psychedelic music specialist
label based in the UK... not Italy or any other bootleg haven). Although the
LP may have been released without the endorsement of RF, I am led to believe
that Peter Giles was a major consultant and assisted with the liner notes,
photos etc. Please correct me if I am wrong.

2. The abovementioned LP is called 'Metaphormosis' **NOT** 'Metamorphosis'.

3. King Crimson are supporting/opening/special-guests/whatever with Tool for
one reason only... Tool are currently a major commercial success, KC are
not. This is simply how it is. Some people may consider this unjust, but it
is not something to get yourself worked up about. Respect Tool for having
the courage to tour with a band that is not in the same league as them,
either commercially or stylistically.

4. Tool are a band that fit into one of the plethora of sub-genres of
(heavy)metal... Please don't comment about them if you do not have an
appreciation of these styles of music. This is misleading. As a general
rule, if you appreciate metal and are a fan of KC you may like Tool... if
you don't appreciate metal you may not like Tool, whether you are a KC fan
or not.

5. The genre NuMetal is generally applied to those bands that mix heavy
rapping with metal styled music... Korn, Limp Biskit, Linkin Park etc. The
greatest success stories in this genre appear to be heavily concerned with
image/attitude... perhaps this is as important to the genre as the music.

6. Tool are **NOT** NuMetal. As to why KC are playing with the title
'Nouveau Metal'... who knows?

Don't take offense people as these comments aren't meant to be personal.

Cheers, O!

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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 20:20:18 +0100
From: "Peter Dervin" <walp1 at premier1 dot net>
Subject: EXPOSURE

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(exposure_kser at hotmail dot com)
Everett, WA 	01-Aug-2001 16:33 GMT

OK...the big news...EXPOSURE - www.kser.org - "music worth playing"

Dan Kirkdorffer, DGM Webmaster will be my special guest on EXPOSURE this
coming Friday evening at 10:00 PM Pacific on KSER 90.7 FM in Everett,
WA, USA following Everett Aquasox baseball.

Dan and I will be playing an assortment of King Crimson and DGM releases
for your listening pleasure.

Dan is also bringing some goodies for lucky listeners. We will have some
CD's, T-shirts and...tickets....YES tickets for the upcoming KC/tool
Seattle shows. One ticket for Monday, August 6th, and one ticket for
Tuesday, August 7th.

In order to win...you have to be listening to KSER 90.7 FM on Friday
night at 10:00 PM PST within the northern Puget Sound area...or you can
listen over the internet at www.kser.org/live.ram.

To win prizes...you'll need to know your KC/Fripp trivia because Dan and
I will be putting together some questions in order to win.

Hope you can make it and tune in to EXPOSURE on KSER 90.7 FM -
www.kser.org/live.ram.

For more information, you can email me at: exposure_kser at hotmail dot com.

Cheers!

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Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 20:43:37
From: "Spear man" <spearman at hotmail dot com>
Subject: Re: complaints of the tour

wrote Brian Burch:

>Ok, I'm mad now.  Not just mad, but real mad.  King
Crimson is my number one all time favorite band for
the obvious reasons, and they haven't been to the
Denver area since I became a fan.  I've been waiting
around for years, and finally, to my disbelief, they
set up two concerts in the Denver area!!!  WOW!!! So,
I mosey on in to buy tickets to the Red Rocks show
with KC and Tool, but they were sold out in 15
minutes.<

The reason that you found the show to have sold out so quickly was that
there was an internet pre-sale event and if you knew the password or were
lucky and made the obvious guess (like I was--got it on the second try :))
you'd have gotten tickets then.  So while I didn't get in immediately, I can
tell you that the tickets they were selling were already to the back of the
front section.  Row 39....

--spearman  "ain't got time to stash the gumbo

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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 17:36:25 -0700
From: dose2000 at msn dot com
Subject: Re: An opinion from 1 GEEZER...

Sorry but a wee bit of history from this GEEZER first...

 I'm 49 & have been a professional musician since age 16, have been a KC man
since buying & hearing ITCOTCK in 69(sadly, a moment not possible to
duplicate, however the "experience" CAN be duplicated each time you are
lucky enough to witness a "live" KC performance, OR get the 1st listen to
every new(original)KC album/cd.) I'm also a long time reader 1st time
poster, and as a 49 yr old GEEZER i've only begun to learn about using
computers 6 months ago, before that I relied on my 20 yr old son(who
recently "flew from his GEEZER/FATHER's coop")to pull up sites for me to
check out. I know that really makes me a GEEZER right? Pls bear with my
ignorance of PC's & their lingo.

 The majority of this post will pertain to the post of 1 JEF520 at aol dot com from
about 1 week ago, however I may stray from that towards the end.

 I guess I need to know what "he" defines as "middle-aged" or being a
"GEEZER" is?, none the less I shall respond as if "I" fit his catagory.
Living in St. Louis, but speaking ONLY for this GEEZER & his
contemoraries(and "possibly" for most of the Northern Hemisphere?)it has
been OUR observations that "if" us middle-aged GEEZER'S act "more rudely"
than the younger generation(whatever his definition of that "group" may
be?)he speaks "for", I do believe our "rudeness" only stems from an armour
"we" have equipped  ourselves with for the protection from the lack of
"manners"..respect...& general behaviour "I" have found the "younger
generation"(whatever his parameters of that term be)-(children from 6 to
60..."my parameters")shown to people of my age & possibly any! I realize my
opinion may be myopic and pertain to only a certain % of "younger" people,
but how myopic is his general veiwpoint of us GEEZERS?

 It has been my experience that a great many "people of all ages" with the
same intelllect, act rude at crowded gatherings maybe more so a a "crowded
concert venue" packed with people who are diverse enough to be "jammed
together" but brought together, many with little knowledge of the "geezer's"
musicians, or "geezer's who largely have little knowledge of the "younger
people's" musicians for a period(time)of musical performance. BTW, at
diverse situations as the 1 we (I) speak of, does'nt EVERYONE sit around a
table & discuss "their" favorite(add your own noun)musical groups(Geezer's &
Yongster's)whether or not Danny Carey is sitting next to the geezer's table
or Terry Bozzio is next to the "youngster's? Personally, "I" don't know of
any Crimfan "geezer's"(at least in my small circle of thousands)who don't
realize(for the most part)that you "can't" tap your foot to the majority of
KC composistions, and does'nt some "tolerance" from both camps need to be
adhered to in ANY situation? Please...each moment is different from the
next...people too. BTW, my rant however boring is not an attack upon JEF520,
just an "opinion of 1 old geezer, middle aged drummer who STILL plays
"ferociously" at local clubs 3 nites at week & approaches the music, most of
which he has played many times(on "his" drumkit)as if each song was "brand
new" & the same person listens to EVERY different type of music with the
same open mind. I can only speak for "this", "middle-aged, "geezer". End
Rant.

 Lastly, to the person(s)who wonder about how Fripp & Hendrix, or Fripp &
Bill Nelson would sound together, unfortunately we can only "hope" that 1 of
the 2 choices could still happen, or is possible...the more interesting(to
me)question to me would be, what would Jimi & Robert's ego/personalities
mesh into? I have the feeling that Hendrix's gregarious nature would be at
odds with the "personality" of Mr. Fripp...but what a beautiful bloody
trainwreck that would be to envision. I know thousands of people hang on
every musical note that anyone who had anything to do w/KC perform(or say or
do)but let's all strive to surround ourselves w/as MANY different types of
music(any art form)as we can open ourselves to, as we are here but a BRIEF
time and there have ALWAYS been virtuosos in music(again, any art)long
before The Crimson Kings and will be long after they are gone!(However the
music will be here & with us forever!)

 "There are 40 people in the world, and 5 of them are hamburgers" Don Van
Vliet

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Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2001 06:50:46 -0500
From: "Bergeon, Thomas C SEPCO" <bergeon at Shell dot Com>
Subject: GIG REVIEW: crimson in New Orleans

Caught the tour in the House of Blues New Orleans 7/31

setlist as best I can recall from memory (it varied dramatically from the
CIncy show last posted in ET)

Vroom, Frame By Frame, Dinosaur, TCOL, new piece, Into the Frying Pan, New
with Arabic intro, Larks V, Theta Hun Gingut, New, Red , new
encores new or deception of thrush, new blues number, Elephant Talk,
possible fourth #

The band was definitely tight, all sporting black. Adrian was very much the
crowd pleaser although he did alot less string bending antics than previous
tours. The new numbers varied from the first piece which was a slow plodding
number with a "dismally pathetic chord sequence" to an arabic piece with
high frequency flurries which evolved to a long drawn out soundscapish
piece, to a number heavy on electronic percussion including Adrian playing
sampled drum bits from a computer.  The first encore was a trio with Belew
backstage. Gunn evoked his talker and then a real nice high register slow
and melodic warr guitar solo. THe new blues number was fun and went from mid
tempo with a lot of gusto to a faster number at the end. The band were
clearly enjoying themselves, even saw a few smiles from Robert who sat
facing the center of the stage and stood off in the dark hands clasped like
an altar boy before the walkoffs.

Tom

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