When a distracted John Wetton’s vocal goes awol on the second verse of Doctor D, You can hear the on-the-fly course corrections being made in real toe as the Crims accommodate this temporary setback and carry on largely undaunted.
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> On the first improv out of Easy Money Fripp immediately attacks the gap with what sounds like a car alarm going off. He’s joined immediately by Cross and Wetton at the higher registers and there ensues an almighty pile-up of atonality.
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> The somewhat jaunty march that Wetton then establishes, and around which Cross dances something of a country jig, doesn’t seem like it could possibly be the same group. Of course, one of the things that was always impressive about Crimson was their ability to turn on a dime while juggling with elements that could be potentially musically exclusive if handled incorrectly.
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> Even when cloaked within a blizzard of distortion due to the lowly origins of this audience recording, The Talking Drum here whips along like a tornado as it explodes into LTIA Pt.2. There is some considerable tape wobble affecting the pitch by the time they burst into Schizoid Man but it's not enough to shake off the raw excitement it still manages to generate.
