Alex 'Stormy' Mundy has added another new audience recording to DGM's online vault. This one is from Columbia in 1982, the third date of the tour. Click here for more information and download:
From Sid Smith's notes on this date:
This audience recording is a little boomy and tinny in places but it does present a perfectly acceptable audio snapshot of Crimson doing their thing and doing it very well indeed with Red sounding particularly impressive and magisterial. The Howler sounding a tad more vital here than on its studio counterpart is a good example of how the live situation alters or raises the state of a piece of music.
Even Frame By Frame, a track that already comes with its very own internal propulsion firing on all cylinders, sounds turbo-charged in this context. While Matte Kudasai and The Sheltering Sky feel perfunctory in places the same cannot be said for a dazzling Neal and Jack and Me and hearing the metrical conundrum of Discipline beautifully and perfectly falling into place.
