Meltdown: King Crimson, Live in Mexico

New live set from the summer 2017 tour; details and pre-order at the links.

Meltdown in Mexico
Meltdown: King Crimson, Live in Mexico

 

Coolness!

 

Easy buy.....all the songs they added for 2017 that didn’t have video release already are on the video portion and you get full video of fracture! That song alone makes it an intriguing purchase!

Gonna have to fetch a blu Ray player for this one, I guess after radical action was a dvd / blu Ray affair, they have decided to just go blu Ray with no dvd option this time.....and I don’t own a blu Ray player right now.

Cool on them too for adding in the songs they added for the fall 2017 tour - will be nice to get official versions of moonchild, breathless, discipline.

 

Looks like a nice set.

 

Looks good - enough differences from other releases to make it worthwhile on its own merits, but I wasn’t expecting video. That makes it a must-buy! And the bonuses will be good too.

And, as @kenticus notes: video of ‘Fracture’ might just be worth the purchase price alone...

 

Meltdown: Track-listing:

CD 1
Walk On
Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part One
Neurotica
Cirkus
Dawn Song
Last Skirmish
Prince Rupert's Lament
The Hell Hounds of Krim
Red
Fallen Angel
Islands
The Talking Drum
Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part Two

CD 2
Indiscipline
The ConstruKction of Light
Epitaph
Banshee Legs Bell Hassle
Easy Money
Interlude
The Letters
The Sailor's Tale
CatalytiKc No. 9
Meltdown
Radical Action II
Level Five
Starless

CD 3
Peace - An End
Pictures of a City
Devil Dogs Of Tessellation Row
Fracture
The Court of the Crimson King
Heroes


21st Century Schizoid Man
Discipline
Moonchild
Tony's Cadenza
Jeremy's Cadenza
Breathless

BLU-RAY (audio/video)
Neurotica
Pictures of a City
Cirkus
Dawn Song
Last Skirmish
Prince Rupert's Lament
Epitaph
Devil Dogs
Fracture
Islands

Indiscipline
Peace - An End
Easy Money
Interlude
The Letters
The Sailors Tale
Catalytic No 9
Fallen Angel
The Talking Drum
Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part 2
Starless

The Hell Hounds of Krim
21st Century Schizoid Man

 

Saw three shows from each 2017 tour - cain't wait for this!

 

"Breathless"! Always thought that was Crim music ...

 

When did they do "Fracture" on the North American tour last year?

 

Pre-ordered.
Curious to hear Bill Rieflin's mix. Hopefully, it will be as dynamic as the first CD of the Royal Package Audio Diary (similar to Orpheum). Great sound quality compared to the more recent releases.

 

I was very happy at first but then I saw the tracklisting: the Bluray contains only a small selection of tracks (compared with the cds).
So what's the point of bragging "five nights’ of concerts in Mexico City. All of the concerts were recorded and filmed with a view to issuing a definitive document" if in the last moment there's only a portion of what was filmed it that gets released ?

 

Count me in !!!
I know their is a lot of love for different eras, but I think this current lineup is
so friggin good...may be my favourite.

 

Now where's EXILES?

 

Once in Oakland, once in Mexico; maybe more.

 

Am trusting Crim Kcuality Kcontrol.

 

I believe they may have done it in their 2nd Red Bank, New Jersey show.

Just checked - they did.

 

Seattle got Fractured thrice

 

Definitely in Seattle!

edit: beat to the punch

 

Didn't want to "go negative" in a new announcement discussion, but same thought occured to me. Maximize the Blu Ray benefit. Otherwise, they have been attentive toward the audiophile segment of their audience.

 

Autobuy.

Would have loved to have Exiles on there though.

 

Complete guess: the blu-ray has one complete concert whereas the CDs give one version of every song played? Regardless (and speaking personally) that Blu-ray tracklist looks generous enough to me and 5.1 DTS-MA makes it a no-brainer purchase.

 

Except for "Exiles", apparently

Re: fewer tracks on the Blu-ray, I believe they use very small video cameras on stage, and had a hard time getting usuable footage (w/no camera shake) for all the songs in Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind, which was filmed in front of the usually quiet & reserved Japanese audience. Just guessing here but maybe some highly demonstrative crowds in Mexico made for less ideal camera conditions and less video was considered usable?

 

Blu Ray still has 20+ songs on it.....hardly a “selection”, but rather an approximation of a full show. It is definitely culled from multiple nights - fracture was only performed once in Mexico and the set list and order for that night does not match the blu Ray tracklist. So imagine that’s the case!

Also, a lot of this material already had video release on radical action, and what you get here is almost all the newly added 2016/2017 songs (minus errors and exiles) are getting their first video release, in addition to new video footage of a bunch of other songs they’ve been killing the last few years. It’s a lot of work to compile a blu Ray, and prolly they figured if they could compile an audio document of 30+ songs and a video document that is roughly the length of a normal KC show, they’ve got a pretty good set.....I for one auto bought this one!

 

Cool Tony Levin cover selfie!

 

Those are all board mixes, are they not? I couldn't see a credit for mix engineer anywhere.