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Post by "Z" Steve on Mar 30, 2022 10:34:09 GMT -7
As I recall (which I cannot emphasize enough), when this album was released, I was completely blown away by the opening track. It was way different than anything I had in my LP collection at that point in 1969. The Moody Blues were featuring their synth's, but in a Pop/Rock/Ballad genre. I had read that Robert Fripp was so good that he had to sit to play the lines that he did. There was a lot of mystery associated with the bands 1st album, and headphones and "medication" just added to it. I was also a bit bugged that our side of the pond did not have bands that could pull this new "Prog Rock" off. Anyhow, at this point in time of musical history this album was an epic one, which eventually lead to ELP and similar groups who would take things even further (and some not fun to listen to). So, crank it up - or get your headphones! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Court_of_the_Crimson_King
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Post by BritInvasion on Mar 30, 2022 12:30:51 GMT -7
Definitely a classic , that track was a mind blower.
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Post by Don on Jun 5, 2022 8:26:29 GMT -7
Oh man, I listened to that record so much, I wore it out and had to buy a new one. $4.12 for a new album back then. Lol!
Absolute classic!
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Post by heynewguy (Ol’ Bill) on Jun 5, 2022 9:44:16 GMT -7
Oh yeah!
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Post by sharkboy on Jun 5, 2022 12:40:37 GMT -7
I love the line from Greg Lake telling Fripp to stand, “don’t sit down, you’ll look like a mushroom!” Fripp sat down for that fifth gig and ever since.
I’ve been somewhat obsessed with every incarnation of the band. I do prefer those that included Bruford. My favorite album is _Discipline_, though my favorite pieces of theirs are “Red” and “Lark’s Tongues pt. 2.”
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Post by premiumplus (Dave) on Jul 27, 2022 5:46:14 GMT -7
Here's a GREAT live version of this classic, Greg Lake and Gary Moore. 1981, London. I love this song!
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Post by "Z" Steve on Jul 27, 2022 10:26:46 GMT -7
Not a dig against Gary Moore, but I never associated him with Prog Rock - he handled it pretty good! Great post Dave, so now on to finding an acoustic version!
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Post by ME on Jul 27, 2022 13:50:36 GMT -7
Not a dig against Gary Moore, but I never associated him with Prog Rock - he handled it pretty good! Great post Dave, so now on to finding an acoustic version! Check out Colosseum II, jazz rock fusion with Moore on guitar. ME
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Post by Rhino on Aug 24, 2022 8:06:41 GMT -7
Great track. I also enjoy this April Wine cover...lots of guitars! :-)
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Post by Don on Sept 18, 2022 8:20:58 GMT -7
Wow! That was certainly different Dave! But just can't get the original version out of my head!
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Post by The Bad Poodle Experience on Nov 20, 2022 12:44:10 GMT -7
This story just popped up in my Facebook feed. ROBERT FRIPP AND THE PHRASE THAT JIMI HENDRIX SAID TO HIM AND WARMED HIS HEART. During one of his performances as part of a spoken word tour called "An Evening With That Awful Man and His Manager", Robert Fripp recalled the day he met Jimi Hendrix and received two immense compliments from the legendary guitarist, although one of them Fripp only learned about years later. Fripp recalls meeting Hendrix at London's Revolution Club in 1969 at the first gigs where he spent sitting down to play with King Crimson, something he does to this day. "Nobody sits down to play guitar in a rock band. But I tried several times to play standing up until I realised I couldn't do it, so I told everyone I had to sit down to play. Greg Lake said, 'You can't play sitting down, you sound like a mushroom! But Fripp was unfazed, and thought to himself, in a hint of British humour: "The mushroom is a symbol of fertility in many cultures." After getting a black stool Fripp recalls that there appeared, from backstage, "a man in a white outfit with a guitar on his right arm. One of the most enlightened people I've ever met. And he came up to me and said: 'Squeeze my left hand because it's closer to my heart'. It was Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix would die in September 1970, but it wasn't until 1981 that Fripp heard the other part of the story from that night in 1969. He went drinking with the sister of the original King Crimson drummer, Michael Giles, after accidentally meeting her in a bookshop. "She said to me, 'Do you remember the time Hendrix came to see King Crimson?' "And I said" 'Of course I do - that's my Hendrix story!' And she said, 'You know I was sitting at the table next to Jimi Hendrix.... He was jumping around going crazy and saying, "This is the best group in the world!" And Fripp then finishes, "In all modesty, that's one of the best business cards any working musician could probably present."
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