Mellotronists

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