I saw Crimson in Cincinnati (twice, if you count the Projeckt 2 tour). The audiences were...polite. Between that and the cops harassing you if you smoke on the sidewalk, I wasn't thrilled with the place.
For my money, the first UK album blows the 2nd one away. Not the fault of Bozzio, or even the loss of Holdsworth, so much as it is the more "accessible" sound of the music written by Jobson and Wetton. The live album is interesting, but the bootleg material available from the 1979 tour with the original lineup is stellar. If you can't find it on CD, download it off of WinMX or something similar.
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