"R. Lim" wrote:
quoted 8 lines On Mon, 28 May 2001, Kurt Hoffman wrote:> On Mon, 28 May 2001, Kurt Hoffman wrote:
>
> > i should listen to them again before I cast further aspersions.
>
> Yeah, you might be surprised about how much they rocked, especially
> considering the average beard length/astigmatism of their followers.
>
> -rob
Imo, Crimson (well mostly just Fripp) were a band that seemed to have potential to do
interesting things, but for me they never quite lived up to the expectations. Their
albums (except maybe for Discipline, depending on your taste I guess) tend(ed) to be
pretty inconsistent. Despite their more avant leanings they still tended to reek of
prog pretension and had a lot of that sort of Stonehenge quality about 'em in the
70's (must be all those tritones and diminished scales). But, yeah they did have
moments when they really rocked (2nd half of "Starless" off Red is a favorite of
mine).
A friend burned me a copy of this 2 CD set of live stuff from the 70's called "King
Crimson: The Nightwatch - Live at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw November 23rd 1973" and
they really burn on that one. They do a scorching version of "21st Century Schiziod
Man" and Fripp is just really strident in general.
Andrei
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