Fred Zappelin wrote:I too bought this CD on the Level 5 tour (12-4 Buffalo). The music that night was totally new to me, so I had to get it. That show and CD made me want everything KC.
Hey, I was at the Buffalo show, as well! They were refusing to sell the L5 disc at first because the front inserts hadn't arrived, but they eventually caved, and sold them for a couple bucks off, with a promise to sent the insterts later. Another DGM commitment reneged upon.
I thought the Buffalo show had a long stretch of The Magic, in the Virtuous Circle>LTIA IV>Thrush sequence. Circle was new to me, and Pat's percussion ping-ponging around the soundstage was mesmerizing. I believe that Ade was havine equipment problems during that tune, so we got a slightly off-kilter and extra-groovy version. LTIA screamed, and according to Trey's diary, they gave Bruvver the Frippster some extra solo space in the first section of Thrush. He *irradiated* the auditorium. I saw the subsequent shows in Boston (3rd row center

) and New Haven (front row, DFC

) and they never quite reached the peak that happened at SUNY.
Fred Zappelin wrote: The only thing I don't like about it is the lack of track info, as in what date/city? All it says at the DGM site is that it was recorded on the summer tour when they opened for Tool.
Nothing new there. RF is almost vengeful about revealing information of what might be deemed a bootleg nature.
BTW, at the KC Live Website, the Vargan, a fiendish live KC collector, whom I broke bread with at the 2000 Nashville shows, has dissected Thrakattack and the Jazz Cafe Suite. Turns out a minute or so of Thrakattack comes from the epic Rochester show I was privilieged to attend.
In closing, I listened to the L5 CD over the weekend. I stand by my earlier statement about its uneasy place in the catalog, but taken alone, on its own merits, IT ROCKS!
-TCA