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[Pjotr]

King Crimson!?

You closet prog deviant @Pjotr !!

My wife's brother in law was their manager (does that make him my brother in-law in-law?). Actually played on one of Fripps acoustic guitars he used to record that album. Aside from that was a big fan of King Crimson and even more of McDonald and Giles (both ex members of King Crimson). They only made one album. Great drummer:

 

[Drubbing]

Crimson got too arty too quick for me. And Fripp was largely to blame. I saw a doco a way back and the smug bugger is in front of the record label suits to announce their new album. Saying the first side is reasonably accessible, and the second, excessive.

I get that Artists should make the records they want to. But they shouldn't be the only ones its marketed to, unless they're going to buy a few 100,000 copies each themselves. I think the majority of people who've heard of Crimson pretty much only know that one album.

 

[SmallYetDeadly]

Album cover. Can't say I've Made it further than about 10 minutes in despite a few tries. Quite like some of the Fripp and eno stuff tho

 

[Pjotr]

.......I get that Artists should make the records they want to. But they shouldn't be the only ones its marketed to, unless they're going to buy a few 100,000 copies each themselves. I think the majority of people who've heard of Crimson pretty much only know that one album.

Very true. They all got a bit carried away. They and a few other bands were pretty successful at the time and were under the illusion this type of music was going to be leading the way. Very anti pop/blues or anything mainstream. Read that if Fripp and Co would have a tune that sounded reasonably "poppy" they'd just play it in 5/8 or 7/8 just to be clever. In the end it was only an era. King Crimson were pretty big at the time and my brother in-law in-law had a pretty busy time managing them. He turned down the opportunity to manage this skinny buck-toothed runt called David Bowie.

 

[borked]

Thanks for sharing this, as someone that enjoys decent modern Prog/Post Rock, I'm enjoying a trip down others memory lane into the era of it's originators and masters.