FraKctured - live performances - audient report
15/06/01 - 12th and Porter, Nashville
From Robert Fripp's diary at DGM
The show: Clams Crimsonique was the only dish of the evening. Even Pat discovered places
he had never thought of going before. I realised, yet again, that FraKctured has no
available margins to accommodate error. My whammy bar (or in English, tremelo arm) was
sticking in a novel position, a position which managed to upset the right hand on several
occasions. A generous audience hooted generously as we de-railed on that, and on many
other occasions. Also available: a selection of three different first-of-the-bars in 11/8
for around 2 minutes on "Response To Stimuli".
The heat was less tormentatious than on Thursday, but the guitarists still spent the evening chasing tunings as they flew about, regardless of string locks and modern tuning pegs.
Good humour abounded, on stage and in the audience - apart from one audient, who (according to Sister) was really bugged (an Americanism learnt from T. Baldy Levin, our Fifth Man) that we weren't playing ITCOTCK material. It's true: a well kept secret for at least two decades is now out of the bag - King Crimson doesn't play ITCOTCK material.