KING CRIMSON Deja Vrooom - DVD

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I've been a King Crimson fan ever since a Maryland AM radio station first played "I Talk to The Wind" in, um, was it 1969? Took their screaming-face album in to my high school 'Basic Musicianship' class the following week and thoroughly confounded the excellent instructor who couldn't make up his mind who was leading the band -- the drummer or the flautist. I was also lucky enough to see the 'Thrak' tour at Berkeley's Greek Theatre, which I rate as the best concert performance I've ever seen, opening with a perfect Bruford/Mastelotto Taiko duet.

It's hard for any reproduction to match a live performance like that, but this DVD comes very close. Alas, the Taiko piece is not included. But what a performance! What excellent production sound and video! Not quite as much Fripp as I'd like to see. But it's great to see, up close, what a fine guitarist Belew is. And watching Bruford pick his unthinkable rimshots in his DVD-angle in "Indiscipline" is a spellbinding study on its own.

Excellent performances by all.

If you like King Crimson's recent incarnations, this is an absolute must-own.

Review by Cymry

PLAYING-TIME: 90 minutes

TRACK LISTING:

1. Circular Improv
2. VROOOM VROOOM
3. Frame By Frame
4. Dinosaur
5. Onetime
6. Red
7. B'Boom
8. THRAK
9. Matte Kudasai
10. Three Of A Perfect Pair
11. VROOOM
12. Coda : Marine 475
13. Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream
14. Elephant Talk
15. Indiscipline
16. Talking Drum
17. Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part II
18. People
19. Walking On Air

Extra features:

"In the Court of King Crimson" (commentaries, hidden videos, and a slide show)
"21st Century Schizoid Band" (In which you select a rhythm section, vocalist, and instrumentalist, from various King Crimson incarnations)
"Tony's Road Movies" (Film vignettes from 1995-98)