So, King Crimson. I'd never seen them before but listened to a lot of their music in high school and college, so when I learned they were going to be in town there was no way I was going to miss it. It was the first time King Crimson played in Raleigh since March 29, 1972 when they performed in Dorton Arena.
I'm glad I went and immediately wished they were playing for two nights.
The show was incredible. The music was delicate, brutal, technical, warm, dissonant, orchestrated, beautiful, unnerving, cacophonous, melodic, brilliant.
It was an assault.
Here's the setlist from the show.
Drumson Werning - Robert Fripp's Announcement
Intro: Islands Coda
Set 1:
Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part One
Pictures of a City
Cirkus
Neurotica
Epitaph
Fallen Angel
Drumson Outbreak of Wonderment, Joy & Bliss Arising
The Letters
Breathless
(Robert Fripp song)
Islands
Larks' Tongues in Aspic, Part Two
Set 2:
Indiscipline
The ConstruKction of Light
(part 1 only)
Moonchild
('The Dream' part only;… more )
The Court of the Crimson King
Hell Hounds of Krim
Easy Money
Lizard
("(c) The Battle of Glass… more )
Meltdown
Radical Action II
Level Five
Starless
Encore:
21st Century Schizoid Man
(with Gavin Harrison drum solo)