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Saturday, 29 March 2003
King Crimson @ Warfield, SF ::
I saw King Crimson at the Warfield in San Francisco Friday night. Robert Fripp came out and did a long guitar-synthesizer-laden loop solo while the house lights were still up. I’m a synthesist and loopist myself, so I was quick to be reminded of what frustrates me about this modus operendi; while the loop was pretty interesting as he built it up, one phrase at a time, it eventually became overly static, overpowering whatever he was doing on top of it. ...