Fripp-1979-05-28-Hamburg

SOUND GRADING

10 = Perfect Stereo

9 = FM Radio Broadcast

8 = Excellent Audience

7 = Very Good Audience

6 = Good Audience

5 = Fair Audience

4 = Poor Audience

3 = Un-listenable

LOOP CATEGORY

® = Stereo Replay Loop

TRACK LISTING

1786 (7:06) © (a)

Discussion (0:44) (a)

1785 (5:50) ® (b)

1784 Over 1786 (11:39) ® © (b)

Bonus Reconstruction Track

1784 Over and Beside 1786 (11:33) ®© (b) (a)

Total Time : 39 mins

Notes

Remastered with some EQing and stereo enhancement.

This recording is from two sources and uses the best of both.

A very small audience of about 20 people or even less appears to be in attendance.

As was common in the European portion of his tour, Fripp encountered some tape tension difficulties with his Revoxes, but incorporated the weird results into the loops.

These are not tape flaws in the recording, but were performed in this manner.

1786 originally was a longer piece at least 12 minutes long, likely much more.

The beginning was not recorded and the replay also does not start from the beginning,

so the opening section of this piece is not available in either the creation or replay version.

A missing section near the end of 1784 Over 1786 has been partially restored with the creation version 1876.

This gap starts just moments before the starting point of 1786, therefore a precise cross-fade is impossible.

A bonus reconstruction track has also been included to simulate as much of this piece as possible using the best quality versions of the available material. The opening has been faded in instead of the jarring start of the source recording.

A longer cross-fade has been used to connect the replay to the creation version which ends the piece.

In addition, a ridiculous short 1 minute “remix” of a section of 1784 Over 1786 was included with the source material. It had been also fed through what appears to be a Roland Space Echo or some similar analogue tape echo. This was obviously not part of the actual performance, since you can even hear the audience murmuring echoed. It used the section starting about 2 minutes and 45 seconds into 1784 Over 1786.

It has therefore been excluded and will not be reproduced further.

A photo from the event has surfaced at DGM Live here.

Date : May 28, 1979

Venue : Record Store