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This double-CD second round of 1969-vintage live King Crimson shows is less compelling than the first, although it does offer a few things not evident on the first release—a Michael Giles drum solo, and flute and sax solos by Giles. The material, of course, overlaps the earlier volume, since their sets were limited to a relatively narrow repertory, and some songs ("I Talk to the Wind," "Epitaph") have deliberately been left off because of limitations in their equipment at this stage of their careers, playing a pair of English jazz clubs in mid-1969. It seems that without voltage regulators, as the band played ever-louder or more lights were put on during the show, the voltage to the band's instruments would drop, which threw the Mellotron increasingly out of tune. So we get jams that feature lots of sax and guitar, and some Mellotron, but not a representative sampling of their full sets. More's the pity that a formal live album was never recorded during that year, although the Fillmore shows off of the first Epitaph are close.