David Cross Band - "Exiles" - 22 Febbario 2007

[robelliott17]

Lol...the violinist is my music teacher at uni on PGCE at London Met....what the hell...lol

[Lucon1976]

Fantástico!!!

[theo9952]

e-violin shreds... nice ! He wasn't at all into speedy  solos in the old KING CRIMSON days...

[chelito19play]

algo pesadona, pero chida...!!! la letra es maravillosa

[izmangr]

love it, always !

[johnpotter26]

thumbs up if you thought this was going to be the Tobias/Mr.Show David Cross

[tangerine58]

un perla meravigliosa

[wizardofwaste]

One of the greatest songs of all time.

[dmitr2004]

well, absolutely!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!

[BlackenedGass]

Great performance. Not as good as the original but then what could be? All the band members are on top form, expecially David Cross with his wonderful violin playing. The vocalist had a really good voice as well, suited this song!

[Nigihayahi]

Thank you for your posting.

[sakurak1974]

mmm... No thanks, I prefer the original.

[pol04061956]

c'est curieux car touts les musiciens qui ont passé avec Fripp sont tous superbes,

[air2jsc]

Just remember KC was all about improv live this is great!!!

[MrTomek997]

SUperb version! I saw bigger parts of this show on an Italian TV station. David Cross - another forgotten hero of the past...

[slapfunker]

Is a really  good version.

Of course we all prefer the original, but THIS is very well done.-

[matmoose]

takes three minutes to get going and when it finally does you wish it hadn't. Clearly fripp kept him from doing this sort of shit when he was in KC, and thank god. showing off has its place, but in one of the most beautiful songs ever created? No thanks.

[Generatorhead]

@matmoose It pains me to say it but you are 100% correct. This really is the butchering of a lovely piece of music. Cross was much more evocative when he didn't have the chops that he has now. When he was more rudimentary, he actually had to play with feeling and taste instead of turning this into a pomp rock extravaganza with "listen to how many notes I can play in a minute" replacing texture and grace.

I wish the man well but this is appalling and a disservice to the majesty of the original.

[safetheory]

Regardless, Cross is an amazing player

[sinkoonsouth]

crappy buttrock version of an amazing song

[rob051160]

Cross's 1997 version from his album _Exiles_ was absolutely terrific, with Wetton again on vocals, just as he was in the KC original in 1973.

[Kwert]

I love the tone David gets from that electric violin.

[rphunt2002]

this album also has a great track called "Tonk". check it out.

[StovoKhor]

interesting version; but i tend to prefer the original one.

[gtralisfr69]

I prefer the original 100 times over

[implozija]

fantastic!

thanx for the video

[axzck]

He's amazing.

[72rt72rt72rt72rt72rt]

過去の栄光にすがりついてますな

[alilhighalillow]

holy shit this is badass.

[jljimenezs]

Love the arrengements, but honestly the guitar player is playing Iron Maiden, the vocalist is doing his best but is not enough and I hate the snare drum sound... David sounds magnificient.

[ChocloManx]

Their guitarist is completely missing the point with that solo : /

Other than that, a pretty good cover, better than Wetton's band cover of Starless, anyway.

[vsionary1]

Thanks for a really fine posting here. Nice update of the superlative classic work. The years have been kind to many of us... LOL

[wizardofwaste]

At about 1:00 of the video he plays a bit of Vaughan Williams' "The Lark Ascending", which is the basis of much of this fabulous tune. Do check out one of the videos of "The Lark Ascending", as it's one of the most beautiful pieces of classical music ever written.

Thanks for posting this video, for I'd always wondered what happened to David Cross after his KC days.

[histria]

It's not better by rapport at KC original song , but when David Cross play i remember the super-group . Thank's for your posting . For that : 5 stars .

[kw19193]

No offence Joebruno2003 but indieliveroma isn't suggesting that the inimitable Crim line-up of '72-'74 are the musicians on stage. He(or she) is merely listing the compositional credits for the track as stated on Cross' album of the same name . . . and quite generous, I think, of DC to give Bruford, Wetton, and Muir co-writing credit, but then he has always impressed as not only a formidable talent musically, but a kind and thoughtful chap as well . . .

[pinamar13]

WANDERFULL!!!!  THANKS !

[joebruno2003]

The above crawl is wrong. That is not Fripp, Wetton, Bruford or Muir on stage.

[123waycool]

agree  surd did'nt look like bill bruford

[LightningSticks]

Grande David Cross! Ottima anche la sua band. Vogliamo tutto il live!!!! :D

[NoelGrassy]

+100! Sadly, David Cross had left the KC line-up when they played SF in 1973. There's a touch to much of "overprocessed" violin tone here but that's my opinion of Jean Luc Ponty as well[another supremely gifted player, just listen to his workouts with Frank Zappa].This song really requires John Wetton's vox IMO. But to sum up, please post more of this 'cause there sure isn't ever enough for us old timers.

[KentAllard]

no, he left when they were half way through producing the album Red, which was some months after their last performance

[darrenmparr]

This is excellent stuff, thanks for posting this.