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Frank S. asks:
On the subject of "debut" performances, is there any footage/pics of KC's
Hyde Park concert?

There is, however it's 130 mute seconds: shows Greg Lake vocaling & wailing
on bass, Ian McDonald jamming on sax, a brief glimpse of Robert Fripp
guitaring on the stool, and no Mellotron. After many years of searching, I
finally landed this video clip about a year ago -- and I had to trade a
pretty rare gem of early Santana to get it. I was able to read Lake's lips
enough to place the two songs on the video clip: 21st Century Schizoid Man
and Get Thy Bearings. I then took the audio of the '69 Hyde Park show
(from unfortunately named "In Support of Their Satanic Majesties" CD boot,
out last year) and dubbed it onto the video -- it comes out surprisingly
true, thus there's now about 2 minutes of Crimson. The video also shows
Jagger & Co. singing Ruby Tuesday. There's also some 5 minutes of footage
of hippies grooving on that fine summer afternoon in Hyde Park.

I've gotten through around 3/4 of Sid Smith's tome on KC -- an insightful,
thoughtful and at times whimsical piece of work. The KC roller coaster
seems to continue as RF has evidently shut down the DGM enterprise --
perhaps a new era in the making.

Rob M400 #1095

Rob