Now the juices are beginning to flow. A very good show. AND, it just occured to me that tonight's gig, the second of this tour, felt in no way like a second gig. The second gig is always the hard one. You don't have the excitement of the first gig and your expectations run high because the first gig was so exhilerating. The second gig is usually splash of cold water in the face of your high. Yikes, THIS is what we really sound like? But, not tonight. Tonight was good and quite solid. This just goes to show, even further, that this band is surfing a bigger wave. And where will it lead? Tomorrow never knows.

Some of the high points of the show were.....Hey, wait a minute I'm not going to tell you what pieces we are playing! I don't want to spoil the fun of seeing people come to the show and think they know what we're going to play. Or even better, think that they don't know what we're going to play, and then find out that it was just the same old boring, stock, King Crimson set-list. Dragged up from the vaults and beaten to death over and over and over again. That's the way we like it: remorseless repetition and sour, stinky air. Or perhaps King Crimson won't even show up at your town. Maybe ProjeKCt will be there instead. Or how about this: You show up to the gig and it isn't King Crimson 2000, it is King Crimson with the original 1969 line-up. The possiblities of torturing our listeners are endless. No matter what happens, the 'idea' of what people think they want to hear is "death." But, not the good death -- the bad death. And in the end, I'm sure no one would complain at whatever we did as long as it was honorable. And what is honorable, is for us to see for ourselves.

I've never had the pleasure of seeing King Crimson live. But, one thing I am sure of is that I wouldn't give a fuck what they played. They could play "Brandy, you'e a fine girl" all night, and I would be entraced just to have this amazing creature breathing down my neck.

Well, that little tirade came out of nowhere. Feeling anxious, my friend?

The ProjeKCt part of the show was great. We jumped into a new version of Seizure with Adrian on electric hand percussion at the top. Pat smoked, Arian shimmied, I wailed a nice solo (thank you, please!), and then Robert soared like a demon. And zoom, we went into Cage. Yes, our little Cage. We talked about slowing it down a bit after tonight's performance. Just to give that much more of a bad lounge vibe. Oh wait, we already have a vibes player on this one!

Thrush was also screaming. Robert's solo in the middle was OVER THE TOP, and in a big way. I'm still searching for the best solo sound at the end. My 'seethy solo' sound isn't quite doing it for me anymore. I don't know why. Time to move on, I suppose.

During one piece that we played tonight..... No, I'm not going to say what it was, because I don't want to spoil things....... well, OK maybe just this once... Oh, I don't know.... well, OK... During 'Epitaph', there was a guy in front of Adrian who totally wet his pants. I mean this guy was so excited, that he was flaling his arms like he was landing a jet airplane. He was jumping up and down and soaking himself with joy.

During another piece Adrian has been using the theremin feature on his electric hand persussion unit to bring in crazy sounds. It's based on a technology developed by some friends of mine at Dimension Beam. This is an infared forcefield that you can play with your hands, and it is awesome. I have two of the original units, but (sadly) I didn't bring them with me for this tour. Anyway, because this unit is poised right near me, I can reach over and trigger the thing while Adrian isn't looking. Major fun to be had here! Suddenly a bell tree erupts from the PA. Huh? What? Oh, you devilbunny, I saw that.

And finally, we have the video projection system up and running in the show. This is something that I've wanted to get going since the beginning, but there has just been too many other priorities ahead of it. And, now we have it. It is being run off of my laptop (Yes, a Mac G3 you pathetic PC luddites!) and the software is called Videodelic. I have been accumulating images (both still and Quicktime films) from the European tour of last spring. I take them and manipulate them in Premiere and Photoshop and them send them into Videodelic. At this point the fun really begins. Twisting, turning, coloring, zooming and all around graphical mayhem begins. It is possible to synch up the processing with the live music, but that doesn't currently interest me. What I have done is put together a 30 minute video-processing loop that plays throughout the show. And when Allan, the lighting man, decides to bring up the video (which we only did during the ProjeKCt bits, last night) then whatever is spewing out of my Mac is what we get.

How did it look? Amazing. Absolutely right on the money. There is still a lot of tweaking that I can do with the images and the processing. But, as a beginning it was great.