Image of the day, 11/8/12

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• Fabian W. says:

  November 8, 2012 at 1:42 pm

  Looks like the work of Michael Leckebusch to me. He was the pro­du­cer and dir­ect­or of “Beat Club”. Back pro­jec­tions – some­times six or sev­en lay­ers in front of each oth­er – were his spe­cialty. He got cra­zi­er and cra­zi­er in the 70s, after the intro­duc­tion of col­or TV, until his style became pos­it­ively Syberbergian, only without Nazis. This King Crimson record­ing is from that TV show, so unless he was sick that day, it’s him.
  Oh, and The Monks wrote their Monk Chant for their appear­ance on “Beat Club”.

• John M says:

  November 8, 2012 at 4:11 pm

  Is this grabbed from a video you have, Glenn?
  How can I watch this? It looks…SO…awesome.

• Henry Holland says:

  November 9, 2012 at 3:19 am

  John M., I believe it’s from the massive new “Larks Tongues in Aspic” box set, part of which is a DVD con­tain­ing the long-thought-lost (though heav­ily boot­legged) Beat Club foot­age, 38 minutes in all. I prefer the RF/JW/DC/BB King Crimson far more the lineup with Muir, but mileage may vary.

• James Keepnews says:

  November 9, 2012 at 8:49 am

  HH must be cor­rect, except, of course, in his dis­missal of the JM-era KC. As, e.g. (pun, sure), Larks 1 was nev­er the same after his depar­ture – it just opened up into all these solos, flex­ible re-statements of the theme, &c.,&c. JK must be jeal­ous as a muh, not just for the own­er­ship of this most ridicu­lously com­plete box-set ded­ic­ated to a single album, freak­ing, ever, but he fur­ther assumes GK actu­ally has the time in this life to con­sume all (approx­im­ately) 45,872 audio-visual hours of work by this most magic band and the albumm a young Gary Lucas demi-famously eviscerated.

• Glenn Kenny says:

  November 9, 2012 at 9:55 am

  Sorry to be miss­ing in action fel­las, but yes, this is from the “Beat Club” video, shot in Bremen, that’s a part of the VERY enorm­ous “Larks’ Tongues In Aspic” box that i pre-ordered a while back and which just got here and is abso­lutely awe­some. I DON’T have the time in my life to con­sume it all but I intend to MAKE that time because what I’ve con­sumed so far is pretty mind-boggling. For less fan­at­ic­al and fisc­ally prudent curi­ous people, I think the video is also on a more afford­able two-disc anniversary edi­tion, which is reviewed here: http://somethingelsereviews.com/2012/11/04/king-crimson-larks-tongues-in-aspic-40^th-anniversary-edition-1973–2012-remix/
  I gotta agree with my friend JK: the lineup with Muir has a nicely expans­ive sound field and an unpre­dict­able anarch­ic ele­ment that, to my eyes and ears, set the oth­er play­ers off beau­ti­fully. Love it. And Gary’s knives-out review of the record is included in full in the big box’s large book­let. I ran into our friend yes­ter­day and men­tioned this to him, and I bus­ted his chops a bit and he got a little defens­ive, bless him.

• James Keepnews says:

  November 9, 2012 at 10:45 am

  That demi-classic review is also avail­able in full, along with the entire scrapbook/liner notes to 76’s Young Person’s Guide to KC, on the Elephant Talk wiki:
  http://www.elephant-talk.com/articles/fripp-yp.htm
  GL, he should­n’t oughtta get TOO defens­ive. The young­un­’s got some Bangs-ian pre-punk élan in the vari­ous skew­er­ings he plunges into this now-classic release, and he’s kinda inar­gu­able with cer­tain Beefheart-centric asser­tions as: “They ain’t Sun Ra and they ain’t Pierre Boulez and they ain’t even any of the cats that come in between those two incred­ible towers of strength. And there’s noth­ing magic­al about this music. There is only one Magic Band, and this one isn’t it.” Perhaps, where the LTIA lineup on the album in ques­tion is con­cerned (per­haps, you know, not, also). But, sweet Jesus fuck, decidedly not where that album’s lineup per­form­ing live is concerned.

• Henry Holland says:

  November 9, 2012 at 8:44 pm

  It was­n’t a dis­missal, it was a state­ment of preference.
  “Larks 1 was nev­er the same after his departure”
  Sure, but tracks like “Exiles”, “Easy Money” and “Larks 2” were much improved without all the banging on tin pots and fry­ing pans that JM provided. BB was more than cap­able, once JM left, of filling the son­ic space of two drum­mers without all the attend­ant clut­ter and spit­ting of fake blood.
  “(approx­im­ately) 45,872 audio-visual hours of work by this most magic band”
  Hyperbole aside, there’s nowhere near the amount of mater­i­al around of the JM-era band com­pared to the 4‑piece in 1973–74. The box set is it: 7 live shows of vary­ing com­plete­ness, stu­dio out­takes and the album itself, which I think is a very limp rep­res­ent­a­tion of what they soun­ded like live.

• James Keepnews says:

  November 11, 2012 at 8:50 pm

  Extended per­cus­sion tech­nique grown out of the the incom­par­ably pion­eer­ing non-idiomatic British improv move­ment, “attend­ant clutter”…must we split hairs? I’ve heard both lineups’ live work and would nev­er agree the pieces you men­tion were at all improved for JM’s absence – they, and the band itself, were simply boiled down to the hard­core, fusion‑y angu­lar­ity that Wetton and Bruford con­cur owed no small amount to Herbie Hancock’s also pion­eer­ing Mwandishi ensemble of the era. Bruford, I fur­ther sub­mit, could have nev­er become that tough-minded, resource­ful, capable-of-filling-sonic-space had it not been for six months spent with Mr. Muir and his tin pan banging. At a min­im­um, we agree LTIA is weak tea com­pared to that lineup’s live per­form­ances. And it’s still undeni­ably a clas­sic. So.

• justin bieber shoes says:

  December 6, 2012 at 8:52 am

  I am anoth­er tra­di­tion­al Latin Mass Catholic for Israel and against barbarism.
  “It passed almost unnoticed, but last month Benedict XVI sig­ni­fic­antly upped the ante in an argu­ment he’s made one of his pontificate’s center­pieces. To the hor­ror, one sus­pects, of some pro­fes­sion­al inter­faith dia­loguers and wishful-thinkers more gen­er­ally, the pope indic­ated the Church should recog­nize that some types of reli­gion are in fact “sick and distorted.”