Fripp referred to the 1980 band every bit "a second-division touring novel moving ridge instrumental trip the lite fantastic band".
The Trouser Press Record Guide described the League of Gentlemen's music every bit typically taking "a unproblematic medium-to-fast backbeat over which Fripp together with Andrews locked horns, amongst melodic evolution emerging slowly, surely, subtly." Trouser Press every bit good suggests that the League's foray into trip the lite fantastic oriented stone was a precursor to Fripp's reformed King Crimson inwards the early on 1980s.
The band toured extensively inwards Europe together with North America throughout 1980.
There are 77 specific tour dates detailed inwards the sleevenotes on the album The League of Gentlemen. Missing from this listing are iv (possibly warm-up) gigs at the 14th Century Hunting Lodge (now Lodge Farm House), exterior the grounds of Kingston Lacy nigh Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England. These gigs are dated 24 to 27 Feb together with pre-dated the starting fourth dimension 'official' gig on 10 Apr at Moles, Bath.
The early on 80s were a musical trip the lite fantastic phenomena every bit good every bit a signpost for radical changes inwards the echelons of music sense of savour together with fashion. The times dictated 'in amongst 4/4 rhythms, out amongst the extended pieces of music' (based on elaborate fourth dimension changes together with structure). This projection was the immediate precursor to the 1981 reformation of the Crimson King, together with shows our homo Fripp shredding leads left together with correct across a real disco-ish trip the lite fantastic floor. At to the lowest degree a fiddling caput bobbing is inwards order! Throughout the alive show, the Englishman is on a solo vengeance tear, going backwards, upwards, sideways, down. The oestrus of the minor clubs tin flame almost hold upwards felt yesteryear the halt of the each song: people were actually moving out there! What is every bit good neat most this loose is that it actually is a expert sounding bootleg (from v divide shows) amongst no audio doctoring from remix engineer David Singleton. It's listed inwards the liner notes: a raw alive band recording, warts together with all. What yous bespeak heed is what yous got: the band every bit it actually sounded from ii mikes at the dorsum of the monastic enjoin going straight into a cassette recorder.
Band personnel included the hot talents of Barry Andrews (XTC's starting fourth dimension keyboardist who went on to to a greater extent than successful operate amongst Shriekback) together with Sarah Lee (ex of Gang of Four after amongst the B-52's). The oddest rails stylistically speaking is "Farewell Johnny Brill," which uses a familiar R&B groove every bit a soloing vehicle. Superb liner notes amongst details most life on the route amongst consummate tour dates, excerpts from the guitar meister's periodical (always fun to read). The final l seconds summarizes the laid upwards perfectly; it's taken from recorded comments yesteryear Fripp at these shows: "I create got something to tell to yous from the heart, I... I actually desire to create got a party. And I tell this to everyone else inwards the band every bit well, team... I actually create got to party." Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx is a fun disc to annoy your friends, together with what to a greater extent than could yous inquire for really?
"Lovingly together with laboriously pieced together yesteryear co-producer David Singleton from a let on of performances, this is marketed every bit an "official bootleg". What this term acknowledges is that the recordings were made on rudimentary cassette equipment amongst enough of interference from crowd dissonance together with other venue-related gremlins. However, Singleton has assembled, amongst judicious cutting together with pasting, a potent CD which justifies his (and Fripp's) evident belief that this was worth the operate spent on it.
"The League of Gentlemen's solitary studio album was an awkward affair. Fripp puts this downward to Johnny Toobad's deviation together with the fact that a lately inducted drummer played on most of the tracks. I intend the existent argue is that when captured clinically together with pristinely, the audio of the League of Gentlemen comes across as... well... clinical. An intellectual practice inwards setting Frippertronic patterns to a basic trip the lite fantastic beat, every bit if simply to demonstrate the versatility of Fripp's invention. The light-headed titles -- 'Heptaparaparshinokh', etc -- together with the snippets of quirky dialogue added to the impression of this beingness some form of arch joke.
"Heard live, inwards the palpably sweaty confines of this official bootleg's North American venues, the music stands revealed every bit tight, aggressive dancefloor amusement that almost sneakily manages to audio similar no other trip the lite fantastic music ever brought earlier the public. It does what it does amongst confidence together with flair, together with is really groovy.
"It is unfortunate that the total version of the master League of Gentelmen LP is non available. While seeming to hold upwards uncertain if they were making an "Exposure" mode fine art slice or a stone album, the band yet managed to create an interesting work. But this "official bootleg" of the 1980 tour shows what the Leaugue actually were: a novel moving ridge instrumental trip the lite fantastic band. There are no vocals on this disc (with the exception of the audience), together with much of the textile was non drawn from the studio album.
"The music is most every bit far from King Crimson every bit Mr. Fripp has ever gone: every rails has a unproblematic trip the lite fantastic beat, together with the band members stick real exactly about the vocal riffs throughout. The trio of Andrews, Lee, together with Toobad supply a strong, corporation backing. Like the Crafties, they seat downward a "song" which Fripp plays over. Fripp's fret operate is VERY fast, but non peculiarly complicated: he ofttimes plays greenback patterns that motion upwards together with downward the cervix exploring diverse keys. Only occasionally does he interruption into a existent "solo".
"We cannot telephone band this music timeless: it is real 1980. (The riff to the championship track, of which, yesteryear the way, in that location are 3 versions, sounds much similar PIL's Keith Levine.) But that it captures a sure fourth dimension together with house is, along amongst some neat playing, the recording's strength. It is every bit good a expert event of Mr. Fripp's highly respected "rock" playing during this purely non-Crimson menstruation ("Scary Monsters" is another). New moving ridge musicians together with fans were real interested inwards Fripp, despite his connector to what was together with then idea of every bit "Dinosaur Rock". This disc shows us why that was so."
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Track listing:
Recorded alive at El Mocambo, Toronto, 17-18 June 1980, together with Harpo's, Detroit, 10 July 1980.
01 Inductive Resonance
02 Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx I
03 Trap
04 Boy At Piano
05 Heptaparaparshinokh
06 Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx II
07 Christian Children Marching, Singing
08 Ooh! Mr. Fripp
09 Dislocated
10 Minor Man
eleven Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx III
12 Farewell Johnny Brill
thirteen Inductive Resonance II
Personnel:
Robert Fripp - (guitar)
Sara Lee - (bass)
Barry Andrews - (organ)
Johnny Toobad - (drums)
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