It always impacted me on that basis, like Bill, he plays the drums, Happy Birthday!
Written by Nara M O Coutinho
22 September, 2023
Celebrating Discipline
Happy birthday Discipline! The best King Crimson album and the best King Crimson incarnation IMHO. What Robert, Adrian, Tony and Bill produced with their wonderful talents is basically the essence of what I perceive as cool, modern, timeless and beautiful. Beat and TOAPP are outstanding too. The 80's Crimson rules!
Written by Martin Oosterhuis
15 September, 2023
bbc & croydon
hi
I recently found out that the BBC sessions and the track Trees, recorded in Croydon, both from ‘69, were omitted from the ITCOTCK box set. now I managed to purchase the BBC tracks from iTunes, but where can I get Trees?
thanks for the attention and have one fun weekend.
Alex Mundy replied:
Dear Martin, The BBC Top Gear Sessions and Trees from Croydon Fairfield Hall, are on Disc 26 in the Complete 1969 Recordings Box Set.
Written by Edward Williams
14 September, 2023
Updates on purposed releases?
Starless - The Final Concert (from ITCOTCK KC @ 50 book)
KC 50 Series 6CD set (from ITCOTCK KC @ 50 book)
Live In Rome (from ITCOTCK KC @ 50 book)
DGM Companion to King Crimson 1969 (from the 2021 Tour Box book)
Alex Mundy replied:
Dear Edward, Theoretically... all still scheduled for release at some point/when ready. In practice, our release schedules often move depending on what gets finished by when and by whom and where these then fit into an appropriate release pattern...
But there are plenty of KC goodies to be released both via Panegyric and on the DGM site in coming years...
In the meantime we have new releases in Oct/Nov: LTIA box & vinyl, MIOF vinyl & McD&G vinyl...
Written by Robert E. O. Speedwagon
12 September, 2023
Beatiful Rainbow?
The "construKcted" San Sebastián improv on Heavy ConstruKction is titled "Beatiful Rainbow" both on the physical release and on streaming, but is this actually the intended title (as a pun on "beat"), or is it just an oddly-persistent typo? I've always assumed the former, but because Adrian can be heard saying "Beautiful rainbow out there tonight" (without the pun), and because of other similarly persistent typos (e.g. "Mastellotticus SS Blacticus"), I wasn't quite sure.
Alex Mundy replied:
Dear Robert, Pat Mastelotto worked on the Improvs from the Heavy ConstruKction releases with Bill Munyon, and in turn, they named them. Another example is Off And Back, which of course is Offenbach where that Improv was played.
Written by Eduardo Gonzalo Muntaner
10 September, 2023
Happy Birthday!
Pat, indomitable drummer, All my love on your day.
This was my second KC show, about a week after turning 18. I had excellent seats, dead center about 15 rows from the stage, and remember it like it was yesterday! The sound quality is as awful as advertised, almost as if the mike was on the floor of the auditorium, but no matter. It was a profound experience and the sound, like all shows at the Academy of Music, was excellent. I remember being blown away by the opening LTIA Pt 1 and amazed with Fracture later in the show, despite it being new m...
This was my second KC show, about a week after turning 18. I had excellent seats, dead center about 15 rows from the stage, and remember it like it was yesterday! The sound quality is as awful as advertised, almost as if the mike was on the floor of the auditorium, but no matter. It was a profound experience and the sound, like all shows at the Academy of Music, was excellent. I remember being blown away by the opening LTIA Pt 1 and amazed with Fracture later in the show, despite it being new material. Book of Saturday provided a soothing, familiar respite after 15 minutes of intensity from the band. Easy Money was incredible, especially with the guitar solo starting off like the album version, then going off into uncharted territory. Thanks DGM for making this show available.
Hello Fripp and fellow Crafties! I’m that young man with the gray baseball cap from the St. Louis Park, MN show you performed in 2016—may not remember me, and that’s okay! I just wanted to say THANK YOU to every single one of you magnificent bastards for changing my life that year. As a guitarist, I don’t know what I would’ve done without it. Coming of age was a dark period of my life and I felt as though my soul had been lifted from witnessing your BEAUTIFUL performance. I was the you...
Hello Fripp and fellow Crafties! I’m that young man with the gray baseball cap from the St. Louis Park, MN show you performed in 2016—may not remember me, and that’s okay! I just wanted to say THANK YOU to every single one of you magnificent bastards for changing my life that year. As a guitarist, I don’t know what I would’ve done without it. Coming of age was a dark period of my life and I felt as though my soul had been lifted from witnessing your BEAUTIFUL performance. I was the youngest member of the crowd. I delved into guitar around that time and got heavily into prog. I was forever a Fripp fan going into it; discovering The League shortly after my newly King Crimson binge at the time. You all came to my city at a time in my life when I needed it most. It was tough being the only progger at my school. To be blessed by Fripp and two Crafties out of the hundred or so players approach my seating position and play polyrhythmic guitar AT ME for even a few seconds was the most synchronous and magical experience I’d ever had; one that would change any guitarist ‘til the end of time. I’ll never forget that stare I got from Mr. Fripp—true wizardry! That was so wild. It was a calling of sorts! It’s a technology and language through the body of guitar. I had evolved since that day and I couldn’t be a better musician or “thinker” without it. Again, thank you SO, so much! I love you all and YES: the world needs you right now! I could only wish to be in the League—though, in spirit, I will always be a FRIPP STUDENT even if I can’t be there for it. I will take that to my grave and always keep practicing. Your music helps as a medicine. Stay well and keep rockin’!
David once said this was the show that hit for the tour. Robert said "if this was the last performance of King Crimson in America, I could accept that."
Something deep happened - even more so than NYC a few days earlier: Epitaph performed in DC on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. It hit. It hit me HARD. I'm not sure if the non-Americans on the band really realized that's a factor of what happened for us here who lived here on that front line. I personally was just shattered in tears. No memories...
David once said this was the show that hit for the tour. Robert said "if this was the last performance of King Crimson in America, I could accept that."
Something deep happened - even more so than NYC a few days earlier: Epitaph performed in DC on the 20th anniversary of 9/11. It hit. It hit me HARD. I'm not sure if the non-Americans on the band really realized that's a factor of what happened for us here who lived here on that front line. I personally was just shattered in tears. No memories (and I have PLENTY of memories of 9/11). Just the moment. A sense of closure and release I didn't think was ever going to be possible.
But even before that, they immediately had a focus that was drawing everybody in. I was off to the side where the food/drink workers were, and even they just...froze, when Larks 1 really kicked in on the guitar speed runs. One cashier openly said to me she'd never heard anything like it in all the months of working at the venue.
It is easy to ignore music that's 'good' but 'not my thing'.
This night, from the very first movement, the band, the music, King Crimson itself GRABBED the audience, even the strangers among them, and was not going to let go. People listening in the room for whom Crimson would never be on their radar were gripped by what was happening, right from the beginning. It was not going to be ignored.
And it only got deeper from there.
