King Crimson

Posts have been sparse, life's been busy. If it ain't sickness, it's work. I've mentioned before that I have two jobs. I also am now playing bass in two very different bands. One is a cover band (that's the one that actually makes a small amount of money now and then) and the other is original, just starting, doing sort of an instrumental, Explosions in the Sky meets the Belltower sort of thing. Lots of fun. Three kids. Lots of fun. But each thing I do takes up one mo... MORE

so this is the soundtrack of on the road? i am a huge keroac fan and find this track and the entire beat album to be quite an interesting homage to the satori that is the beatnik generation, especially coming from a prog band in the early 80s - not their best obviously (see: in the court of the crimson king) but still an interesting time capsule to travel back and to try and experience on road with two desolated angels seeking yage and dharma through the lense of the material... MORE

BOOK REPORT This guy is fairly well known for his bleak and reclusive perspectives of humanity. And his novel that has struck me with due effect recently. This guy also wrote something everyone has heard of lately, being the author of the book _No Country For Old Men_, which of course is a well regarded film at the moment. Ok, the film is mainly a Cohen Bros. enterprise, but that cut throat and sinster plot, that is Cormac. It carries Oprah's Book Club sticker, but don... MORE

I've covered most of the "main" styles of prog. The few remaining ones, for one reason or another, are styles that I don't feel I should include in these pages. Some, like prog metal, I don't really know much about, as I've never really got into it (not that I won't ever, but it just hasn't happened yet). Some, like fusion and, to a lesser extant, ambient music, are probably ones that many of you are familiar with already (probably not even aware that they were considered b... MORE

I don't really know that much about King Crimson, but I got my hands on this cd recently and what an album it is.

I once mused that there could be an end to new music. I considered that since the keyboard has 88 keys, the permutations must be finite and that someday all the music that could ever have been conceived, will have been. I've thought about that many times over the years, and thankfully concluded that I was an idiot for such a theory. It might hold some water if we had only one instrument in the world. Let's take the piano as our research object. The permutations would be ... MORE

Er, they don't play guitar like this anymore. Talk about sustain, and someone actually making a Chapman stick not sound too silly... Fantastically nuts

Four nights here at my Mom's place. The kids have not been sleeping, which means NO ONE in the house has been sleeping. Everyone's napping at the moment, thank god -- although it's only 2pm. Couldn't think of a more fitting song to describe the long holiday weekend.... MORE

By their fourth album King Crimson was running out of steam. The elaborate compositions were becoming more stripped down even as they further pushed various envelopes. Robert Fripp's fascination with what "else" a guitar could sound like was already well on it's way to becoming obsessive as he constantly sought new ways to record what he heard in his head.
This is not a very good cd as more than half of it sounds blander than muzak.
But A Sailor's Tale is interesting and t... MORE

Inspired by a somewhat heated discussion last year with some equally opinionated former co-workers about "heavy metal credibility," I unsolicitedly added my two cents to the fray by submitting my Top Ten Heavy Metal acts (which resulted in this post) appended with reasons behind each choice, a runners-up roster and, more importantly, a list of bands who - while not technically "heavy metal" - still warrant inclusion in any discussion about the genre. Among this list were name... MORE

The H.O.R.D.E. Tour, Meadows Music Centre, Hartford, CT, August 17, 1996. Here is the one thing that mattered about this show: King Crimson - the "Double Trio" version with Robert Fripp on guitar, Tony Levin on bass, Bill Bruford on Drums and Adrian Belew on gutar, Trey Gunn on bass and touch guitar and Pat Mastelotto on drums. The setlist:
Prism
Thela Hun Gingeet
Red
Elephant talk
Dinosaur
Vroom Vroom
Soundscape -> B'Boom
Thrak
Frame By frame
... MORE

From WFMU's Beware of the Blog SHINING plays King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man
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Hey, look! It's Nick Heidfeld! So, Shining do get some points for effort: the sax is a little wonky at times - way too much vibrato - but the middle section is pretty darned tight. But what is Norwegian death jazz?... MORE

hey all! so, i'm really excited. lately i've been sick with the writer's common cold, and everyone who's ever played around with words knows that writer's block is a big pain in the ass. well, tonight while messing around with midi, i found a really cool melody. simple, but catchy none-the-less. it hints all-time qb somewhat, which is okay, but with anything i write, i have this fear that it might come out sounding too much like some of my influences, in this case a-t qb, ... MORE

Since I'm in the mood. It might as well be my theme song, I talk to the Wind.