From their 10-year anniversary tour, in 2008:
LTE’s personnel lineup:
John Petrucci – Guitar
Jordan Rudess – Keyboards
Mike Portnoy – Drums
Tony Levin – Bass, Chapman Stick
John Petrucci sources from the bands
Live in Tokyo from 1995:
This iteration of King Crimson consisted of a unique six-piece, where Robert Fripp (guitarist, founder and the only continuing member of King Crimson) decided to essentially run what he called a “double trio:” two electric guitars, two bass guitars and two drum kits:
Trey Gunn and Tony Levin are known for playing the Chapman Stick plus other somewhat conventional bass guitars, and the Warr Guitar.
The original song is from the 1974 album also entitled “Red,” featuring the triumvirate of Robert Fripp on guitar, John Wetton on bass guitar and Bill Bruford on drums.
BZ
This was the first time I’d ever seen it in my area:
A dark-skinned man, with dark short hair, no beard, contemporary clothing (as in a short-sleeved shirt, jeans, Vans) in the company of a woman who was completely obscured from head to toe, with an unimproved vision area directly in front of her face. A full burqa.
And they were attending a movie, this Sunday, at a local theatre.
Muslims, clear.
With a remarkable exception: apparently HE didn’t much feel like keeping with Islam whilst, on the other hand, he felt compelled to keep his wife or girlfriend or “friend with benefits” close at hand and in totalis obscurum.
And therein lies the rub:
For those of you who love to embrace the opposite of this country’s foundation, here is your future:
If you’re a misogynist male, you’ll love it.
If you’re a female — ahem — not so much.
Because, under True Islam, under Islam As Practiced, the male is simply Superior and the female is simply Subservient. And subject to killing if the male is displeased.
Doesn’t quite sound to me as though met with egalitarianism.
Because if you’re a Leftist and female you simultaneously disapprove of this post and will be the first to be sublimated as chattel or killed under Islam.
Islam and Sharia are here, ladies and gentlemen. Just waiting for you to be weaker and stupider.
BZ
P.S.
This might be better for the summer:
No finer album in 1973.
Lark’s Tongues In Aspic, by King Crimson.
BZ
Watch the video closely. It would appear that, during the nation’s 9/11 tribute, Michelle Obama leans to her left and asks Barack Hussein Obama: “All this for a (damn) flag?”
As the bagpipers played and the Honor Guard carefully folded the American flag, the First Lady asks that question of Mr Obama. In my opinion, she does so with contempt, disdain and arrogance.
Very carefully examine the look on her face.
Tim Roth as Cal Lightman of Lie To Me would have a proverbial field day. So would Dr Paul Ekman. The display she exhibits is vastly more profound than mere microexpressions. It’s quite overt, in my opinion. She shakes her head and knits her eyebrows; the vertical lines between her brows crease.
In response, Mr Obama turns to the right in order to acknowledge his wife, nods his head slightly a few times and, as he turns back, the ends of his mouth curl in a small smile. He is slightly less disdainful than his wife here. Yet he is not shocked nor surprised with her comment.
The secret is safe between them.
Except that it is not.
I present for you, ladies and gentlemen, our current sitting president and the First Lady.
BZ
P.S.
This video may provide a slightly less-obstructed view:
Your thoughts?