![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Three stick men - Tony Levin, Markus Reuter and Pat Mastelotto. They've done four albums, three with Reuter. Cindy and I have seen them twice, once after their first album.
For those of you keeping track, on earlier tours they stuck more to their newest material, but this time they played a wider variety of their pieces. They did "Soup" and "Firebird Suite" from the first Stick Men album (but rockiner). They played several King Crimson pieces, including "Vroom Vroom" and a "Larks' Tongues". They did "Breathless" from Fripp's Exposure.
Their show suffered from a bit of sameness. One of my favorites was an improvised piece. It started out with a bit of Halloween cheer - a creaky door, and some ooOOooo-ooooo spooky. Not sure that was intended, but it was fun. Then a lot of bass improvisation on a theme, and Reuter's flashy guitar soloing.
Oh, and the first time I ever saw anybody bow a Chapman Stick.
We talked Crimson for a while with the gentleman named Pat, who sat next to us. He had seen the band back in the day, so that was interesting. Plus he had seen their last show in Madison from up close, so he could fill us in on some things. Like the fact that Rieflin had put his foot through the bass drum, which was what prompted the techs to replace it during the song. And that Fripp seemed to have been enjoying himself, smiling and even laughing. And talking. Maybe calling out chord changes to Jakko?
For those of you keeping track, on earlier tours they stuck more to their newest material, but this time they played a wider variety of their pieces. They did "Soup" and "Firebird Suite" from the first Stick Men album (but rockiner). They played several King Crimson pieces, including "Vroom Vroom" and a "Larks' Tongues". They did "Breathless" from Fripp's Exposure.
Their show suffered from a bit of sameness. One of my favorites was an improvised piece. It started out with a bit of Halloween cheer - a creaky door, and some ooOOooo-ooooo spooky. Not sure that was intended, but it was fun. Then a lot of bass improvisation on a theme, and Reuter's flashy guitar soloing.
Oh, and the first time I ever saw anybody bow a Chapman Stick.
We talked Crimson for a while with the gentleman named Pat, who sat next to us. He had seen the band back in the day, so that was interesting. Plus he had seen their last show in Madison from up close, so he could fill us in on some things. Like the fact that Rieflin had put his foot through the bass drum, which was what prompted the techs to replace it during the song. And that Fripp seemed to have been enjoying himself, smiling and even laughing. And talking. Maybe calling out chord changes to Jakko?
