King Crimson: Classic Or Dud

I prefer cranky prick Fripp to goofy old man Fripp.

no one wants Fripp to bacon himself

The Easter bees are buzzing in an English country garden #lockdown 🐝 💐🐝 #easter #bees #toyahwillcox #robertfripp pic.twitter.com/pYLhy6kUEh

— Toyah Willcox (@toyahofficial) April 10, 2020

In less goofy news:

King Crimson tour postponed until 2021 pic.twitter.com/6UcBxKKk0X

— KING CRIMSON (@DGMHQ) April 12, 2020

Happy #lockdown #EasterSunday to the world xxxxx #ToyahWillcox #RobertFripp pic.twitter.com/NZBm6yX8mw

— Toyah Willcox (@toyahofficial) April 12, 2020

finding myself increasingly in favor of a premature "reopening"

Ordered the Live at Summit Studios 1972 a few weeks ago, it's really great - probably one of my favorite Crimson things I've heard lately. Just a really great line-up and interesting configuration without the Mellotron.

lol at their ugly kitchen units

Anyone else jealous that Fripp managed to find a wife who is just as much of an oddball as him? Us other oddballs and eccentrics have never found that joy.

" lol at their ugly kitchen units"

their entire house is pretty ugly, if you have design tastes that were formed any time after 1965

She has a definite "wear you down with bubbly energy" feel about her, I'm sure she's the instigator of these vids.
xpost

Another one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXErrpAHxkc&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1shUrq0l6DQg8p3Mf900_FmA1c2KwyCRpsJHljDbfDWoTFaeD9P63HpeU

[Toyah dancing to Lark's Tongue.

Why don't my youtube links work?

Why don't my youtube links work?

When you post the link, post the whole URL from the browser window, not the shortened youtu.be one that the "Share" button offers you, and change the URL from https:// to http://.

I think I did that. OK, I didn't take off the "s".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXErrpAHxkc&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1shUrq0l6DQg8p3Mf900_FmA1c2KwyCRpsJHljDbfDWoTFaeD9P63HpeU

No "s" still didn't work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXErrpAHxkc

Maybe because I went there from facebook.

Just heard the sad new that Keith Tippett has passed on. King crimson’s one of a kind piano player on In The Wake of Poseidon, Lizard, and Islands. Pure genius! pic.twitter.com/y0WKyTpcFt

— fernando perdomo (@fperdomo) June 14, 2020

:(

he hasn't even got a dedicated thread:(

Considering how many people have been in KC, the band has fewer dead ex members than you'd expect; Wetton, Burrel, and now Tippett.

Bets on who's next? You lose points if your answer is "Robert Fripp if he keeps making those bloody viral videos with Toyah"

:(

RIP

xp haha the Fractured/cat-dance video was the best one yet

xxp you forgot Bill Rieflin!

and Ian Wallace

And Greg Lake!

Oh yeah. Major brain fart there particularly on Bill.

My vote is Pete Sinfield or Jamie Muir, who i’d actually thought died some time ago.

I never knew Tippett appeared with KC on Top of the Pops doing Cat Food. The notes on this youtube say that the original episode was wiped but this soundless version has been preserved (colorised here):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvJEWyQvfcQ

The version with sound is here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7rrvxh

man I swear that's the studio recording/lipsynch, it's been a while but it sounds exactly the same to me

apologies if that's what you meant!

yes it's a dub; I assume that it was actually broadcast as a dub. They probably took the sound off the YT version to avoid a takedown notice. It's cool to see this full version though; the clip I'd seen prior was B/W and only part of the song.

Love the young Germans dancing to King Crimson like they're Boney M or something.

I'm a bit into that Mercy Dash album he did with Hugh Hopper and Elton Dean in the 80's at the moment, marvellous stuff.

Muir is definitely someone I thought had passed away. There was that anecdote in the Jim O'Rourke interview someone posted on that other thread, where he goes to visit Derek Bailey, iirc, and one of Bailey's neighbors is Jamie Muir, who I can only hope would don a big, crazy fur cape when cooking out. I guess he's a painter now? Here's a more recent picture:

https://preview.redd.it/dyo3ypc4meo31.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8fd5a8aed7cfa262b6aa1724805411ee9731e5dc

Do we think he spits blood on visitors?

I'm finally getting around to getting Crimson on LP after decades of shitty Editions EG CDs and am now honing in on Islands as the last of the studio LPs I need. Anyone ever grab the recent reissues? I heard MP3s of the Steven Wilson mixes which were stunning, but wonder if I should not just go for an original pressing, to have the LP as intended.

oh man, this reminded me i was gonna see them for the first time tonight. maybe some other time...

I have a repress LP of Discipline which sounds fantastic.

i think the wilson remixes on vinyl are the way to go, personally. I have originals or close to it for most of the albums but I do have the wilson mixes of Lizard and Wake and they just sound much better than anything else I have on vinyl from the band. I'll probably replace my 72-74 albums with the new ones soon since my copy of Red sounds pretty worn out.

Are there any Wilson remixes of any of these prog albums that are not preferable to the original mixes?

some people didn't care for his yes remixes (I like them). I never really cared for Jethro Tull or ELP so I can't really compare those; I've heard them all but can't tell you which is better.

I didn't like his mix of Tales from Topographic Oceans.

His aqualung is good but not my first choice

https://www.change.org/p/bristolmusictrust-org-uk-renaming-colston-hall-to-the-keith-tippett-hall-centre

looks like they're releasing the Steven Wilson mixes as individual LPs. That's what I'll go for. I really liked what he did with Islands.

damn DGM's shipping is $12 per LP! What!

Ian McDonald’s 74th birthday today. Sid Smith reminds me how wonderful the McDonald and Giles record is.

The Complete 1969 Recordings box is available for preorder - only $195!

https://cdn.nexternal.com/dgm/images/KCCBX9111_packshot%20resized.jpg

Contents:

CD 1: Live at Hyde Park, July 5th 1969
CD 2: Live at The Marquee, July 6th 1969
CD 3: Plumpton Festival, August 9th 1969
CD 4: Live at Chesterfield, September 9th 1969 (new master) disc 1
CD 5: Live at Chesterfield, September 9th 1969 (new master) disc 2
CD 6: Fillmore East, November 21st/22nd 1969
CD 7: Fillmore West, December 14th/15th 1969
CD 8: Original master edition expanded
CD 9: Alternate album expanded
CD 10: 2009 mix plus additional material
CD 11: 2019 mixes expanded
CD12: Let's Make A Hit Waxing (this is described as "'in the studio with the band' mixed & compiled by David Singleton")
CDs 13- 18: Complete Recording Sessions
DVD 19: Complete Recording Sessions, Let's Make a Hit Waxing (24/48 stereo) Stormy Selections (16/48)
DVD-A 20: 2019 stereo, 5.1 & instrumental mixes. Original master edition album mix (24/48)
Blu-Ray 21: Complete Recording Sessions (24/96 stereo), Chesterfield, Giles, Giles & Fripp (24/192)
Blu-Ray 22: 2009 mixes in stereo & 5.1, Additional Material & alternate album (2009 stereo mixes) (24/96)
Blu-Ray 23: 2019 mixes in stereo, 5.1, original master edition, alt. album, additional material (24/96)
Blu-Ray 24: 2020 Dolby Atmos Mix by Steven Wilson, I Talk to The Wind (Duo version, Surround mix), Let's Make a Hit Waxing (24/96)
CD 25: Giles, Giles & Fripp (new master)
CD 26: BBC Sessions, Trees

A disc for every other week of the year

In a shop earlier today I was informed that the they didn't have a KC section because entire KC catalogue had been deleted and recalled. What's up with that eh?