FraKctured - live performances - audient reports
9/11/01 - 328 Performance Hall, Nashville
The show had power and energy, featured a "world premiere" of one piece (the name of which escapes me, if Ade ever said it in the first place), and had two encores. There were a few clams, which the band handled with bemusement - Fractured had a few during the "terror" part, but Robert's even more incredible solo during Lark's 4 was flawless. As on the previous tour, these guys clearly enjoy their music and each other's company, and it shows.
This was the fourth time I have seen KC do one of their club warmups in Nashville, the third time I have seen the first night!... I still have a hard time believing that they have become a fixture on the Nashville club scene!....
the performance of Frakctured on this night was very different, mainly because they eliminated the first 1/3 of the song, the slow section prior to Fripp's Fancy fingerwork. (I am not a musician and had never heard the word moto perpetous and cannot count 13/8 (or whatever) time to save my life....).....They started right in with the fast fluid solo section, and it felt disjointed to me....Fripp did drop out once during the Terror section, but quickly fell back in , and seemed to exchange grins (yes, as in a smile, I really think the Grim Image is just that, every time I have ever seen him, back to the LTiA era, he has had smile, of sorts!) with Adrian....but all in all it was not a bad performance, just human......they seem to have dropped it from the set on the tour, most of the lists I have seen do not include it.....too bad....it is still an amazing piece of music.....
The new song was called EleKctriKc ("k"s added by me....)