Another Crimson song contest

I Talk to The Wind

^ I think it's the same performance... but... well. You can see the background to where they played was removed and replaced with a black background and a moon and other things... I mean why do that to the video? Or perhaps it was actually originally filmed with a green screen with the intention of doing that? Or was it just an ugly uninteresting setting were they played? However, the video I saw I think it's the same performance, but the background used was different... actually, this one looks far better. And one more thing, this song seems to show exactly what I find so great about Bruford, I just love his playing here, being subtle, crazy, and powerful whenever the song demands it... and with all the showmanship and as spectacular as the 3 drummers can be with the new line-up, they still just can't match one Bill Bruford (just compare both versions of this song).

Mortte wrote: ^My point in whole post there is also moving picture, not just audio like in many old Crimson live pieces in youtube. I haven´t found any other old version of Starless with picture. In "The Night Watch" they have put some filter into picture, it´s hard to see who´s there playing, but I think it fits really well into mood of that song.

I didn't catch that you were talking about a video recorded. I guess I should look it up... though I did see a video of starless last week or so, shared in FB and viewed on YouTube, so perhaps it's the same video your are talking about, and yeah, It's great to see them playing that song. Though I don't understand why they did that thing with the background.

^My point in whole post there is also moving picture, not just audio like in many old Crimson live pieces in youtube. I haven´t found any other old version of Starless with picture. In "The Night Watch" they have put some filter into picture, it´s hard to see who´s there playing, but I think it fits really well into mood of that song.

^I´ll quess you have already seen DGM-live pieces from Paris 1974? I found out quite recently them from youtube, they´re really great, although I think they didn´t then fully succeeded in Starless. Really liked that "photoshopped" version of the Night Watch!

^Well, I have always been more studio-album guy, although I really love also some essential great live albums (not much listened live albums outside the official, mostly sixties-seventies releases). I have only Earthbound & USA from Crimson, I have listened those few newest Crimson lives.

Chaser wrote: Starless and Bible Black is a great album that anyone who enjoys KC should own. Just outside their top 4 albums but it's still fantastic The middle improv tracks can be hard to get into but they do click after a while, and Great Deceiver and Lament are excellent (Lament is one of my all time fav KC tracks) and of course Fracture at the end I would definitely get this album if you don't own it. You won't be disappointed

I agree fully! SABB is really great entity, like all the other Crimson seventies albums. And really those improv tracks are great, to me it sounds they evolve from "We´ll Let You Know" to final track "Fracture".

I hadn't listened to Starless and Bible Black for quite some time and this thread made me listen to it again. I had forgotten how great Night Watch actually is. Maybe not the no. 1 Crimson song in my book but surely a worthy poll winner. This is what's so great about this forum, it makes me reappreciate such gems.

^Well, if you haven´t heard as a whole I think you should at least listen it.