''Thrakattak'' (written with consonants capitalized as ''THRaKaTTaK'' on the album cover) is a live album by the band

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released in 1996 and recorded during their 1995 '' THRAK'' tour of the

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. Each night the band would perform a collective improvisation in the middle of the instrumental piece "THRAK". This album presents an hour-long version of the piece, created by editing many of these improvisations together, bookended by the "THRAK" theme. Track 2, "Fearless and Highly Thrakked", also appears on the 1999 live album '' On Broadway''. An alternative version appears on Disc 1 of the 2001 live compilation album '' Vrooom Vrooom'' as "Biker Babes of the Rio Grande".

Track listing

All music by Belew, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Bruford and Mastelotto #"Thrak" – 2:20 #:Recorded at: #::

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, Aichi, Japan, 8 October 1995 #:: Hitomi Kinen Kōdō,

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, Japan, 10 October 1995 #::Omiya Sonic Hall,

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, Japan, 12 October 1995 #"Thrakattak (Part I)" – 3:42 #:Recorded at: #::Koseinenkin Kaikan Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 2 October 1995 #::Koseinenkin Kaikan Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 3 October 1995 #:: Festival Hall,

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, Japan, 9 October 1995 #"The Slaughter of the Innocents" – 8:03 #:Recorded at: #::Koseinenkin Kaikan Hall, Tokyo, Japan, 14 October 1995 #:: Paramount Theater,

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, United States, 17 November 1995 #::

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, United States, 8 November 1995 #:: Roxy Theatre,

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, Georgia, United States, 11 November 1995 #"This Night Wounds Time" – 11:16 #:Recorded at: #::Tupperware Convention Center,

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, United States, 27 November 1995 #:: Rosemont Theatre, Rosemont,

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, Illinois, United States, 29 November 1995 #"Thrakattak (Part II)" – 11:08 #:Recorded at: #::Auditorium Theatre,

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, Japan, 5 October 1995 #::Longacre Theatre, Manhattan, New York City, New York, United States, 20 November 1995

Personnel

King Crimson *

Adrian Belew Robert Steven "Adrian" Belew (born December 23, 1949) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. A multi-instrumentalist primarily known as a guitarist and singer, he is noted for his unusual approach to the instrument, his ...

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electric guitar An electric guitar is a guitar that requires external electric Guitar amplifier, sound amplification in order to be heard at typical performance volumes, unlike a standard acoustic guitar. It uses one or more pickup (music technology), pickups ...

Robert Fripp Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English musician, composer, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist, founder and longest-lasting member of the progressive rock band King Crimson. He has worked extensively as a session mu ...

– electric guitar * Trey Gunn –

Warr guitar The Warr Guitar is an American-made touch guitar, a type of instrument that combines both bass and melodic strings on a single fretboard. Invented by Mark Warr, a musician from Thousand Oaks, California, it is related to the Chapman Stick, anot ...

Tony Levin Anthony Frederick Levin (born June 6, 1946) is an American musician and composer specializing in electric bass guitars, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson (19 ...

– Ned Steinberger upright bass *

Bill Bruford William Scott Bruford (born 17 May 1949) is an English drummer and percussionist who first gained prominence as a founding member of the progressive rock band Yes. After leaving Yes in 1972, Bruford spent the rest of the 1970s recording and tou ...

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drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...

Pat Mastelotto Lee Patrick Mastelotto (born September 10, 1955) is an American rock drummer and record producer. He has been a member of King Crimson, Stick Men, Mr. Mister and O.R.k., as well as working as a session drummer with XTC, The Pointer Sisters an ...

– drums, percussion Technical personnel *George Glossop – live sound engineer *Noah Evens –

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recording * David Singleton – arrangement, editing and mastering *Steve Jennings – cover photography *Tony Levin – burning house and guitar photography *Bill Smith Studio – design

Charts

References

External links

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