King Crimson, 9/23 - Barrymore Theatr, Madison, WI

I am puzzled by the lack of reviews for this tour.

One of the huge four Progressive Rock bands (capital P and R) emerges from hibernation to give North America a taste of what the label 'prog rock' means.

Adrian Belew's absence raised questions.

What music would they play?

Anything new?

They didn't play anything new?!

Noooo.

Yes, that's right.

Anyway,

Fripp decided to play mostly early '70's tracks. Larks' Tongues and Red. I still can't believe it. (Yes!)

The concert was Incredible. Something that cannot be expressed with words. Utterly fantastic.

My only problem: Robert Fripp's decision to make everyone in the band wear a suit.

Rolling my eyes lovingly. :')


EDIT: my apologies for the god-awful review. I'm gonna write something decent to replace this later tonight.


Edited by BirdzzZ on day Flu - September 25 2014 at 16:28

I assure you that the musical experience this tour presents is worth any price you have to pay to get in, I think the lack of reviews is summed up by the original poster's comment: we simply do not have the words

Edited by Gully Foyle - September 25 2014 at 09:31

I edited my original post, but once again, sorry for the curt and obtuse drunken ramblings. (Maybe it in some way is an appropriate response to the concert experience?? I don't know..)

Like I said, I'm gonna write up something proper later, but I'll share some thoughts anyway.

Two sides to the coin here: one the one hand, the music speaks for itself, and we're lucky to have such a great prog act to see in concert - one that doesn't need to rely on gimmicks or anything to get two standing ovations, just seven dudes in dress attire tearing it up. I didn't need anything other than the band on stage playing the music I already know.

On the other side of the coin, and approaching the concert from an objective standpoint (I'm imagining I have no clue who King Crimson is), the concert-goer might say it was a boring show. They wouldn't be wrong, because like I said, it was just seven dudes up on stage playing music, and they didn't SAY ANYTHING (aside from the tongue-in-cheek interview vocal cliplets between songs of Fripp saying "Ummm" 300 times).

BirdzzZ on day Flu wrote: ...the concert-goer might say it was a boring show. They wouldn't be wrong, because like I said, it was just seven dudes up on stage playing music

Heaven forbid.

I heard they even did "Sailor's Tale".....say it ain't so; just wish they had played more than just east and west coast plus Chicago and UWisc.  Sooooo farging jealous!

It looks like they got the ticket pricing right considering how full most of the gigs were. I paid $90 to be 20 rows back and it was money well spent from my perspective.