Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #81444 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-05-01
• Rating: Exempt
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 2
• Running time: 265 minutes

Synopsis
King Crimson recorded live in concert at Kouseinenken Kaikan, Tokyo in April 2003 and at the Shepherds Bush Empire, London in July 2000. Tracklist includes: 'The Power To Believe I (Acappella)', 'Level Five', 'Prozakc Blues', 'Dinosaur', 'The World's My Oyster Soup Kitchen Floor Wax Museum', 'Heroes' and many more.

Customer Reviews

Flat out amazing
This is a brilliant DVD, a marvel of quality and value and a perfect introduction to an amazing band. The two disc set contains two separate and distinct live shows. The first show is from the 'Power to Believe,' tour (and features an acoustic drum kit and cymbals with electro Pads.) The set list is drawn exclusively from their three newest Studio albums.
Songs from these albums are vastly improved live, more energetic, with additional lyrics and better phrasing. 'Prozack Blues,' is a stormer live, and the version of 'Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With,' is heavy and fun as hell. Singer Adrian Belew has never sounded better, and seems to be having the time of his life. In fact, if you watch carefully, Grumpy old Fripp even cracks a smile.
The second disc is from the earlier 'Constuktion of Light,' tour (with entirely electric drums and cymbals) but has a wider set list, with a brilliant acoustic version of 'Three of a Perfect Pair,' along with new improv tracks and a live version of the rare track 'Cage.'
This disc has a crazy feature where the set list changes every time you watch it, with possible tracks playing at possible places, pretty inventive!
The value is amazing; the two concerts have a completely different feel, and even though there is some crossover ('One Time,' played at both shows etc) they are different and both worth watching. Disc One is very well recorded and filmed, absolutely brilliant... and disc two has a truer sweaty live fell, with poorer (raw) camera and audio; a great addition to the first disc.
Buy Now; even if you haven't heard of King Crimson.

Great performance, shame about the video quality
As you would expect from King Crimson, the performance is excellent. Fripp, Belew, Gunn and Mastelotto all display their talent as top notch musicians. Unfortunately, the photography on this dvd leaves a little to be desired, particularly with the London performance. It would also have been nice to have a bit more variation in songs between the two sets. Almost worth the price for the performance of 'Level 5' alone.