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But sadly 11 years ago i did not know what King Crimson was, nor progressive rock, none of my relatives was familiar with that term so the attendance to the KC concert in Mexico City was imopssible for me, i have had the luck of seeing them twice, in 2001 and 2003, both memorable performances but without Levin and Bruford, of course that 1996 lineup featured the double trio, and i really wish i had seen that line up.

I will do a short review, King Crimson is a band that dont need to be introduced, we all know what we are talking about, and listening, this double album called Vroom Vroom features 2CD, the first one taken from the concert here in Mexico City, and the second taken from one in New York City, what you will listen here is mainly a bunch of 90`s songs (THRAK) with the double trio lineup of course, some 80`s moments (Discipline) and actually a few 70`s songs (Red, Talking Drum)

The first album contains 11 songs performed in one exciting hour, i would have loved to be part of that crowd, because the performance is great, very powerful and full of excellen music, the first 5 tracks are from THRAK, something normal since that was the recently released album in that time, 4 out of those 5 tracks are instrumental with some improvs as usual,let me say that these songs are great instrumentals, but returning to the point, only "Dinosaur" contains Belew`s vocals, after that bunch, yes, what the older fans expected, a performance of The Talking Drum and Larks Tongues in Aspic Pt. 2 as well, of course it is not fare to compare the original versions with the original musicians, but believe me that they played it excellent. After that, the album returns to a more "modern" era when they play "Neurotica" and "Prism", if you were tired, these songs probably will make you raise, but wait, the following song is "Red", i am sure that song is one of the favorites of Mexican people, and why not of people around the world, superb performance. To finish this CD1, an improvisation, and then 21st Century Schizoid Man, of course with a new style which has nothing to do with the original version, but its a great interpretation after all, so this album has finished but its not enough, we wan more KC, and we will have it.

So, the second album Live From New York contains 14 songs, the tracklist is not the same but the performance is kind of similar since here they played again some songs from the "THRAK" album, but the difference is that here we can enjoy some 80`s great songs (well at least for me) such as "Frame by Frame", "Indiscipline" and "Three of a Perfect Pair", having as an extra point, the "two stick" solos by Trey Gunn and Tony Levin, (this two sticks can be viewed also in the Deja Vroom DVD which is outstanding) and this leads to "Elephant Talk" great moment! This album does not contain any 70s song and in my opinion this is less enjoyable than the first one, despite it ends with "Walking on Air" which is one of my favorite songs.

This 2-concert album is a worth listening like the majority of Crimson ones, however it is not essential, my final grade is 3.8. stars, so 4.

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