King Crimson - 2003-11-19 National Auditorium, Mexico City, Mexico (2020)

At the end of the tour, King Crimson is on amazing form. There’s so much energy and vitality in this performance, commodities that are usually in fairly good supply at KC gigs, here seem amped up to the max. If you’re looking for the very best performance of ProzaKc Blues then this could be it. TCOL swings like the clappers with Gunn adding elaborate flourishes to one of the most complex lines to have graced a King Crimson piece. Throughout the show, we hear off-script extras thrown in as the band relish their last night. FaKcts turns the dial up to 11, EleKtrik is super-charged and the ebullient run of Happy through to the menacing stomp of Dangerous Curves and the cathartic release of Larks’ Tongues In Aspic Part IV, all shock and awe, is basically Crimson on steroids. Overall, if you had to chose just one concert from this tour, then notwithstanding the brilliant savagery of their earlier show at Kingston, this could well be the one to go for. By the time King Crimson reached Mexico City, it was, as Robert Fripp noted in his online diary, “the completion of a cycle” With Trey Gunn’s departure having only just been announced in November there was still a degree of shock reverberating in fan circles at this unexpected development. This outstanding show at Mexico’s National Stadium, performing to a packed-out crowd, was his final destination of a journey to which he’d committed nine years of his life. If you have to go out, then go out in style and Trey Gunn does just that.

Robert Fripp - Guitar
Adrian Belew - Guitar, Vocals
Pat Mastelotto - Acoustic And Electronic Percussion
Trey Gunn - Warr Guitar