Vrooom Vrooom

Vrooom Vrooom is a live album (2-CD set) by the band King Crimson, released in 2001.

Vrooom Vrooom
Live album by King Crimson
Released	13 November 2001
Recorded	30 June 1995 – 4 August 1996
Genre	Progressive rock
Length	128:37
Label	Discipline Global Mobile
Producer	Robert Fripp, David Singleton
King Crimson chronology
King Crimson Live in Mainz (2001) Vrooom Vrooom (2001) Ladies of the Road (2002)

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Although it was released during the active lifespan of the 2000–2003 King Crimson "Double Duo" lineup (and following two albums featuring this lineup, the construKction of light and the live Heavy ConstruKction), Vrooom Vrooom is compiled from recordings by the previous six-man line-up of the band (the "Double Trio" which lasted from 1994 to 1997). This is because the album was intended as a wider commercial release combining two previous releases which had been made available on more limited media in 1999.

Disc 1 of Vrooom Vrooom is taken predominantly from the same recordings as the 1999 live album Live in Mexico City (originally made available exclusively as a Windows Media Audio download). The eleventh track on the disc, "Biker Babes of the Rio Grande", is an alternative version of the track "Fearless and Highly Thrakked", featured on Thrakattak (1996) (track 2) and King Crimson on Broadway (2-CD set) (1999) (disc 2, track 12). Disc 2 of Vrooom Vrooom derives mostly from the same recordings as the 1999 live album King Crimson on Broadway (originally released as the July 1999 disc in the subscriber-only King Crimson Collectors' Club release schedule).

Track listing

Disc one

• Recorded at the Metropolitan Theater, Mexico City, Mexico, 2–4 August 1996

1. "Vrooom Vrooom" (Adrian Belew, Bill Bruford, Robert Fripp, Trey Gunn, Tony Levin, Pat Mastelotto) – 5:01
2. "Coda: Marine 475" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 2:44
3. "Dinosaur" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 5:05
4. "B'Boom" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 4:51
5. "THRAK" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 6:39
6. "The Talking Drum" (Bruford, David Cross, Fripp, Jamie Muir, John Wetton) – 4:03
7. "Larks' Tongues in Aspic (Part II)" (Fripp) – 6:13
8. "Neurotica" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 3:40
9. "Prism" (Pierre Favre) – 4:24
10. "Red" (Fripp) – 7:03
11. "Improv: Biker Babes of the Rio Grande" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 2:27
12. "21st Century Schizoid Man" (Fripp, Michael Giles, Greg Lake, Ian McDonald, Peter Sinfield) – 7:37

Disc two

• Tracks 1-13 recorded at the Longacre Theater, New York City, New York, United States, 20-22/24–25 November 1995
• Track 14 recorded at the Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles, United States, 30 June 1995

1. "Conundrum" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 1:57
2. "Thela Hun Ginjeet" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 6:44
3. "Frame by Frame" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 5:12
4. "People" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 6:12
5. "One Time" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 5:52
6. "Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 4:55
7. "Indiscipline" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 7:16
8. "Two Sticks" (Gunn, Levin) – 1:50
9. "Elephant Talk" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 5:14
10. "Three of a Perfect Pair" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Levin) – 4:16
11. "B'Boom" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 3:47
12. "THRAK" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 6:43
13. "Free as a Bird" (George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr) – 3:03
14. "Walking on Air" (Belew, Bruford, Fripp, Gunn, Levin, Mastelotto) – 5:35

Personnel

• Robert Fripp – guitar
• Adrian Belew – guitar, vocals
• Tony Levin – bass guitar, electric double bass, Chapman stick, backing vocals
• Trey Gunn – warr guitar
• Bill Bruford – drums, percussion
• Pat Mastelotto – drums, percussion

References

1. Planer, Lindsay (2011). "Vrooom Vrooom – King Crimson | AllMusic". allmusic.com. Retrieved 28 June 2011.