Bill Rieflin’s ride cymbal ushers in the rhythm of a song that Ian Wallace first played in 1971 and loved to do so because, as he said, “I got to play all my Tony Williams stuff.” While Bill takes the lead role initially during the intro and Mel’s solo, he switches to Mellotron for the guitar solo. And what a guitar solo!
Although I had never been to a Crimson gig, I already knew Fripp’s stance on photography, i.e. that he “sweetly requests” that there should be none of it. So I’ll be a little more descriptive than usual in terms of the stage set-up, and all the photos featured here are taken by bassist Tony Levin before and after the show. I would never get to see King Crimson. Being from Australia, I lived too far away, and the band hadn’t released…

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