||| ||| ||||||||| ||| ||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||||| ||||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||||||| ||| || ||| |||||||||| ||| ||||| ||||| ||||| |||||||||| |||||| ||| ||| ||| |||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||||| ||| ||| ||| ||| ||| |||||||||| |||||||||| |||||||||| ||| ||| ||| ||| |||||| ||||||| ||||||| SHNs Dear friend, enjoy this roio and PLEASE keep this two rules to maintain maximum sound-quality and order 1. always keep this .txt file attached to corresponding .shn files 2. DO NOT ENCODE this roio TO MP3s at any rate ... and don't forget to visit my roio site at www.hoho.cz/roio :)) cya MrYeeshkul ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- King Crimson - Have You Ever Been To Mars? 1. 21st Century Schizoid Man 2. Get Thy Bearings 3. In The Court Of The Crimson King 4. Mantra Travel Weary Capricorn Improvisation (incl. By The Sleeping Lagoon) Mars venue: 9th National Jazz & Blues festival, Plumpton, England date: August 9, 1969 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MD5: 9779cdfda40db3e9ae0fdf1985468821 *Have You Ever Been To Mars - 01 - 21st Century Schizoid Man.shn 7963de15bb4d03375f8876f3d56e0b36 *Have You Ever Been To Mars - 02 - Get Thy Bearings.shn bbd692fc409349f0e0de783ad1465bc1 *Have You Ever Been To Mars - 03 - In The Court Of The Crimson King.shn 0001e7b44a1a1a2d3fc2e433ceaa52cc *Have You Ever Been To Mars - 04 - Improvisation.shn --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This article was taken from The Archive: UK Rock Festivals 1960-75 & UK Free Festivals 1965-85 http://users.bigpond.net.au/the-archive The Band come out pumping with an insanely fast 21st Century Schizoid Man . On my tape the levels fluctuate greatly a couple of times, but otherwise the sound is fine - and the levels problem could easily be sorted out if one digitized the tape and ran it through a sound editor. Get Thy Bearings , with its chorus- lets all get stoned, higher and higher, is the sort of track that has wild fluctuations in its tempo and dynamics, one minute its fast and furious , the next jazzy and fluid and then drifting and moody. There's a very nice sax solo, which also goes through many changes and then leads again to the repeated riff , I particularly like the disjointed drumming that accompanies the verses before the chorus. The pace then goes way down again where Fripp does his thing, moving from a very , very quiet interlude to a majestic , stately theme, which has great power and which , after a few bars, again drops down to a subdued section which suddenly erupts into a cacophony of feedback and scrubbing, which is bloody brilliant if you ask me .Then just time for another helping of the verse, accompanied by insane guitar dribbling and psycho drumming, and intense screaming of the chorus and good-but not as much as I feel is justified after such an intense effort from the band- applause from the audience . Court Of The Crimson King is also extremely well delivered and by now the sound has really sorted itself out. Theres a nice section where the feel becomes almost pastoral, with flute and gentle guitar, but after Get Thy Bearings, it seems to finish rather quickly. The audience cheers then fade out and the tape resumes for the Improvisation , which begins reflectively with Fripp exploring a haunting and faintly jazzy refrain , which after a minute is joined by the flute. The pace gradually quickens , without the flute and guitar playing around each other, until Fripp turns on the power and delivers the refrain in a crushingly brutal way. This sequence is excellent . The mood then changes, the refrain melts away into free guitar noodlings and flurries which are interspersed with various squawkings from the sax and bass. The improvisation then moves into a verse, accompanied by flute and rabid jazz chords from Fripp and then the band jumps into fuller jazz mode and they develop a smart jam that is fast and fluid , which then moves back into rock band mode with Fripp dominating again. This whole sequence is astonishing in the way the band moves all over the place from one style to the other. From an audience perspective, this is far removed from the usual rock band approach of getting into one riff , developing it for a few minutes and then dropping back into a set chorus and verse structure. Not for the faint hearted , certainly not easy listening - not easy to boogie to this stuff ! The band change into a lyrical rendition of an old standard- the Desert Island Disc's theme, which is then broken up by a bit of Spanish guitar and a very freeform section which is in turns tentative and brutal in its dynamic variety. One minute almost complete silence , broken only by odd noises, then , thunderous drumming rendered at a breakneck pace. This pattern is repeated several times. Then its Fripp's turn again ( is this the Devil's Triangle ? ), he begins the riff, reminiscent of Ravels bolero, and the organ provides the underpinning chords , and the rest of the band join in as band marches dramatically into the sunset, carrying all before them in a triumphant climax that seems top go on forever and which is just utterly, utterly GREAT ! .At the end of this theres complete silence for a couple of seconds, its as if the audience is too stunned to react, they know they SHOULD clap after thatr lot,but they just don't have the ability to do so. Then the spell is broken and they erupt into huge cheers, which fade out as we hear the Mc calling out lets hear it for King Crimson ...... I wish I'd been at this gig, its fantastic !