Having travelled up from Florida the day before Crimson settled into the first of two nights at the Roxy. In front of a thousand punters the band play a spirited set that contains a well-drilled set list. There are plenty of highlights to chose from including Trey Gunn’s work on Three Of A Perfect Pair and elsewhere, what is arguably one of the best Two Sticks improvs by Tony and Trey. Normally this track would lead into Elephant Talk but here for the first time (on DGMLive at least) it turns into a suitably thunderous Indiscipline. And speaking of Elephant Talk, they enjoyed playing it so much they decide to play it again – “Two for the price of one!” quips an excited Ade at the end. Other highpoints include a mercurial rendition of Thrak that covers a lot of ground and allows silence to come a-calling much like it did in Houston earlier in the tour.A one minute snippet from this improv was knitted into Slaughter of the Innocents from Thrakattak.
