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...
1984 saw the release of King Crimson's last 80's album, Three of A Perfect Pair. This is my favorite KC album of this era, and one of their best in my opinion. More than any other of this time period this album runs the gamut from well-structued song to free-flowing improvisation, hitting every stop along the way. One of those stops brings us to what might possibly be the funkiest, danciest ...
1984's "Three Of A Perfect Pair" was the last of three records the reunited band of Tony Levin, Robert Fripp, Adrian Belew, and Bill Bruford put out (Discipline and Beat being the other two) and tellingly, it was simultaneously the band's most commercial and most abstract record of the three. Side one was (for the most part) Crimsonized pop songs. They even did a video for "Sleepless" which got...
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.