In the excitement and stomach-churning anticipation before going on stage for this incarnation of Crimson's debut performance, one of the newly-formed five piece anxiously enquired [endtease]"What are we going to play?" Jamie Muir chipped in "Oh, Let's improvise."
And they did.
Quite a few in the audience that night would have been at the same club 18 months earlier to see the debut of the Islands-era Crim. And it's a fair bet that many were hoping to hear their old favourites.

But what they got was something entirely different.
What this show lacks in audio fidelity, it more than makes up for in the unique musical content: long improvisations and early transitional arrangements of better-known pieces.

This restored bootleg was first released on CD as KCCC20 in 2002.
TRACK
TIME
01
Easy Money
04:09
02
Improv: Fallen Angel
04:12
03
Improv: ZZoom
04:48
04
Exiles
08:36
05
The Talking Drum
06:13
06
Larks Tongues In Aspic Pt II
08:37
01
Larks Tongues In Aspic Pt I
08:23
02
Book Of Saturday
03:16
03
Zoom
22:03
04
Improv: Zoom Zoom
44:49
Written by Ramsés Irurzo
Zoom Dates Theory
The concert is amazing, as a Muir fan, I wanted to analyze the concert as much as I could, I was able to develop a theory that could explain some weird things in the recording. What if this recording is actually a compilation of the three Zoom Club dates? Here's the explanation: In short, my theory says that "Zoom Zoom" is from October 13, "Larks' I" to "Zoom" are from October 14, and "Easy Money" to "Larks' II" are from October 15, what I think that happened is that in fact, the band didn't...
Written by Arend
Doesn't sound THAT bad...
Yes, in fact it sounds quite ok to my ears,actually really good, but could it be that Disc 1 and Disc 2 are mixed up in the Download Folder, i.e. "Disc 1" is really "Disc 2" and vice versa ? Just curious ;-)
Written by Marc-andre Robitaille
Happy with it!
Setlist 5, Performance 5, Sound 2. Debating if I should get or not because of sound quality and I did anyway and am very happy.Basically just like DGM’s notes say: the performance more than makes up for the lacking audio quality. The performance is truely amazing and the Zoom and Providence Improvs. are really worth the buy.
Written by Gun Schill
Zoom Frankfurt
Zoom Club in Frankfurt(Germany)was a bit bigger than the Marquee in London, not much though. Hence the intimate feel, with clanking sounds from the audience. I was a bit annoyed by the beery/cheery "surround sound" in the club, especially in the lots of quieter moments from the band on stage. The stage was not just straight up front, but extended in a curve to the left side, where the violin player was positioned. And indeed, this person was playing flute as well. That info is missing on DGM....
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