''Vrooom Vrooom'' is a live two CD set by the band

King Crimson King Crimson are a progressive rock band formed in 1968 in London, England. The band draws inspiration from a wide variety of music, incorporating elements of classical, jazz, folk, heavy metal, gamelan, industrial, electronic, experime ...

, recorded in 1995 & 1996, and released in 2001. It features the six member “double trio” lineup of the band, with guitarists

Robert Fripp Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is a British musician, songwriter, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist, founder and longest-lasting member of the progressive rock band King Crimson. He has worked extensively as a session ...

and

Adrian Belew Robert Steven "Adrian" Belew (born December 23, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. A multi-instrumentalist primarily known as a guitarist and singer, he is noted for his unusual and impressionistic approach to ...

, bassists

Tony Levin Anthony Frederick Levin (born June 6, 1946) is an American musician and composer, specializing in electric bass, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson (since 198 ...

and

Trey Gunn Trey Gunn (born December 13, 1960) is an American musician, known for his membership in the progressive rock band King Crimson from 1994 to 2003, playing Warr Guitar and Chapman Stick. Biography A native Texan who now resides in Seattle, Washi ...

, and drummers

Bill Bruford William Scott Bruford (born 17 May 1949) is an English former drummer and percussionist who first gained prominence as a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes. After leaving Yes in 1972, Bruford spent the rest of the 1970s recording ...

and

Pat Mastelotto Lee Patrick Mastelotto (born September 10, 1955) is an American rock drummer and record producer. He has been a member of King Crimson, Stick Men, Mr. Mister and O.R.k., as well as working as a session drummer with XTC, The Pointer Sisters an ...

. This album was intended as a wider commercial release of two previous releases which had been made available on more limited media in 1999. Disc one was taken predominantly from the same recordings as the 1999 live album '' Live in Mexico City'' (originally made available exclusively as a Windows Media Audio download). The eleventh track on the disc, "Biker Babes of the Rio Grande", is an alternative version of the track "Fearless and Highly Thrakked", featured on ''

Thrakattak ''Thrakattak'' (written with consonants capitalized as ''THRaKaTTaK'' on the album cover) is a live album by the band King Crimson, released in 1996. *Compiled from performances, including improvisations, from the "Thrak" tour in the United Stat ...

'' (1996) (track 2) and ''

King Crimson on Broadway ''King Crimson On Broadway'' is a live album (2-CD set) by the band King Crimson, released through the King Crimson Collectors' Club in July 1999. The tracks on the albums were recorded at the Longacre Theater in New York City, New York, US, on ...

'' (2-CD set) (1999) (disc 2, track 12). Disc two was derived mostly from the same recordings as the 1999 live album ''

'', originally released as the July 1999 release in the then subscriber-only King Crimson Collectors' Club.

Track listing

Disc one

*Recorded at the

Teatro Metropólitan The Teatro Metropólitan is one of Mexico's best-known movie theaters. Before being the Teatro Metropólitan it was known as the Cine Metropólitan, and was built as a movie palace. The architect was Pedro Gorozpe E. with interior decorations by A ...

Mexico City Mexico City ( es, link=no, Ciudad de México, ; abbr.: CDMX; Nahuatl: ''Altepetl Mexico'') is the capital and largest city of Mexico, and the most populous city in North America. One of the world's alpha cities, it is located in the Valley o ...

, Mexico, 2–4 August 1996 #"Vrooom Vrooom" (

) – 5:01 #"Coda: Marine 475" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 2:44 #"Dinosaur" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 5:05 #"B'Boom" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 4:51 #"THRAK" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 6:39 #"The Talking Drum" (Bruford,

David Cross (musician) David Cross (born 23 April 1949 in Turnchapel near Plymouth, England) is an English electric violinist and keyboardist best known for playing with progressive rock band King Crimson from 1972 to 1974. He appears on their studio albums ''Larks ...

, Fripp,

Jamie Muir Jamie Muir (born 1943 in Edinburgh) is a Scottish painter and former musician, best known for his work as the percussionist in King Crimson from 1972–1973. Biography Muir attended the Edinburgh College of Art during the 1960s, and began playi ...

John Wetton John Kenneth Wetton (12 June 1949 – 31 January 2017) was an English musician, singer, and songwriter. Known for his dexterous bass playing and booming baritone voice, Wetton first gained fame in the early 1970s. Wetton was the singer and p ...

) – 4:03 #" Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)" (Fripp) – 6:13 #"Neurotica" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 3:40 #"Prism" (

Pierre Favre Peter Faber (french: Pierre Lefevre or Favre, la, Petrus Faver) (13 April 1506 – 1 August 1546) was a Jesuit priest and theologian, who was also a co-founder of the Society of Jesus, along with Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier. Pope Fra ...

) – 4:24 #"Red" (Fripp) – 7:03 #"Improv: Biker Babes of the Rio Grande" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 2:27 #"

21st Century Schizoid Man "21st Century Schizoid Man" is a song by the progressive rock band King Crimson from their 1969 debut album ''In the Court of the Crimson King''. Often regarded as the group's signature song, it has been described by sources such as Rolling Ston ...

" (Fripp,

Michael Giles Michael Rex Giles (born 1 March 1942) is an English drummer, percussionist, and vocalist, best known as one of the co-founders of King Crimson in 1969. Prior to the formation of King Crimson, he was part of the eccentric pop trio Giles, Giles a ...

Greg Lake Gregory Stuart Lake (10 November 1947 – 7 December 2016) was an English musician, singer, and songwriter. He gained prominence as a founding member of the progressive rock bands King Crimson and Emerson, Lake & Palmer (ELP). Born and b ...

, Ian McDonald,

Peter Sinfield Peter John Sinfield (born 27 December 1943) is an English poet and songwriter. He is best known as the co-founder and former lyricist of King Crimson, whose debut album ''In the Court of the Crimson King'' is considered one of the first and mos ...

) – 7:37

Disc two

*Tracks 1-13 recorded at the Longacre Theater, New York City, New York, United States, 20-22/24–25 November 1995 *Track 14 recorded at the

Wiltern Theatre The Pellissier Building and adjoining Wiltern Theatre is a 12-story, Art Deco landmark at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue in Los Angeles, California. The entire complex is commonly referred to as the Wiltern Center. Clad in a ...

Los Angeles Los Angeles ( ; es, Los Ángeles, link=no , ), often referred to by its initials L.A., is the largest city in the state of California and the second most populous city in the United States after New York City, as well as one of the world' ...

, United States, 30 June 1995 #"Conundrum" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 1:57 #"

Thela Hun Ginjeet "Thela Hun Ginjeet" is a single by the band King Crimson, released in 1981 and on the album '' Discipline'' (1981). The song name is an anagram of "heat in the jungle", which is a reference to crime in the city. (The term "heat" is American slan ...

" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 6:44 #"Frame by Frame" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 5:12 #"

People A person (plural, : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of pr ...

" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 6:12 #"One Time" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 5:52 #"Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 4:55 #"

Indiscipline ''Discipline'' is the eighth studio album by English progressive rock band King Crimson, released on 22 September 1981 by E.G. Records in the United Kingdom and by Warner Bros. Records in the United States. This album was King Crimson's firs ...

" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 7:16 #"Improv: Two Sticks" (Gunn, Levin) – 1:50 #"Elephant Talk" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 5:14 #"Three of a Perfect Pair" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 4:16 #"B'Boom" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 3:47 #"THRAK" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 6:43 #"

Free as a Bird "Free as a Bird" is a single released in December 1995 by the Beatles. The song was originally written and recorded in 1977 as a home demo by John Lennon. In 1995, 25 years after their break-up and 15 years after Lennon's murder, his then s ...

" (

John Lennon John Winston Ono Lennon (born John Winston Lennon; 9 October 19408 December 1980) was an English singer, songwriter, musician and peace activist who achieved worldwide fame as founder, co-songwriter, co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of ...

) – 3:03 #"Walking on Air" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 5:35

Personnel

–

guitar The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that typically has six strings. It is usually held flat against the player's body and played by strumming or plucking the strings with the dominant hand, while simultaneously pressing selected stri ...

– guitar,

vocals Singing is the act of creating musical sounds with the voice. A person who sings is called a singer, artist or vocalist (in jazz and/or popular music). Singers perform music (arias, recitatives, songs, etc.) that can be sung with or without ...

–

bass guitar The bass guitar, electric bass or simply bass (), is the lowest-pitched member of the string family. It is a plucked string instrument similar in appearance and construction to an electric or an acoustic guitar, but with a longer neck and ...

, electric double bass,

Chapman stick The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and is used to play bass lines, melody lines, ...

, backing vocals *

–

warr guitar The Warr Guitar is an American-made touch guitar, a type of instrument that combines both bass and melodic strings on a single fretboard. It is related to the Chapman Stick, another two-handed tapping instrument. The Warr guitar is designed for ...

–

drums A drum kit (also called a drum set, trap set, or simply drums) is a collection of drums, cymbals, and other Percussion instrument, auxiliary percussion instruments set up to be played by one person. The player (drummer) typically holds a pair o ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a beater including attached or enclosed beaters or rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or struck against another similar instrument. Exc ...

– drums, percussion

References

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