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Place De Nations Montreal, Quebec, Canada |
 Dodgy audio, but engaging performance May 18, 2006
Written by dubhthaigh
The stars are strictly for the performance on this. It isn’t the worst of the official boots, that distinction belongs to the Ft Lauderdale take on the Collins-Wallace-Burrell and Fripp KC, but it isn’t very good either. One wonders what sort of crap equipment bootleggers were using back then. Although even most Neil Young pirates from this era sound better. But that’s got nothing to do with the performance. I happened to have loved this line up unconditionally. Next to a Liverpool quartet from years back, I didn’t think it ever got much better. And my beloved Canada seems to have generated a full throttle, heart-pounding performance each time I hear a relic therefrom. The bonus on offer here is the Soundcheck, which might have been titled aptly Pre-Thrak Attack. It certainly is a sonic harbinger of Vroom. And when the source tape switches and the actual concert begins, it is an astounding and categorically amazing Crim that takes command of the stage. This was a tour that gave the Crimies a chance to stretch on the repertoire and they did so with abandon, from the opening dual percussion assault on Waiting Man to the final Larks. This is a great ride all the way through. There are some omissions as duly noted, but with all of its shortcomings, this is a concert worth treasuring. I can’t imagine what the restoration engineers had to go through to get the tapes to this point, but hats off. Remarkable!
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The Sound is Fine! Performance is Better. Fri., May 19, 2006
Posted by: halbie
The sound quality of this release is fine and the performance stellar. This is 80s KC as a belting-it-out rock band with more energy on display than any of the other 1980s recordings that I have of Read more
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Delightful Fri., May 19, 2006
Posted by: DoctorNerve
Dont let the previous review scare you when it comes to sound. Maybe my ears are war torn from so many years of bootlegs but this is pretty darn good sound for a show that is almost 24 years Read more
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crimson 1982 Fri., May 19, 2006
Posted by: z1jams
all i can remember is the sounds of the city and the sound of ’la round’ le pont jack cartiere’ and then the sound of tony levine !!!the bass.. bill bruford,adriane bellew, whom i thought looked angry that day Read more
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Dodgy audio, but engaging performance Thu., May 18, 2006
Posted by: dubhthaigh
The stars are strictly for the performance on this. It isn’t the worst of the official boots, that distinction belongs to the Ft Lauderdale take on the Collins-Wallace-Burrell and Fripp KC, but it isn’t very good Read more
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