Summit More?

King Crimson Live at Summit Studios - the complete recording. It has long been a favourite concert from the 1972 Earthbound tour, being the only multitrack recording of the band outside of the Islands album sessions at Command Studios in 1971. Previously released as the ninth edition in the King Crimson Collectors’ Club series, where it was edited to fit the CD format. It could later be heard...

Toyah & Robert's Weekend

Toyah & Robert's latest Upbeat Moments and a vintage Sunday Lunch! Today at 18:00 GMT... Tomorrow at 12:00 GMT...    

New from David Cross & Peter Banks

David Cross and The Peter Banks Musical Estate are pleased to announce the release of "The Other Horizon" featuring unreleased and alternate tracks from the "Crossover" sessions.     The tracks include guest appearances by Tony Kaye, Billy Sherwood, Oliver Wakeman and Jay Schellen.   This digital only release features three previously unreleased tracks and two alternate versions:   1....

Toyah & Robert's Weekend

Toyah & Robert's latest Upbeat Moments and a Teen Spirit vintage Sunday Lunch! Today at 18:00 GMT... Tomorrow at 12:00 GMT...  

EleKtriK Drumming

Pat Mastelotto plays along with the King Crimson track in his home studio. As it is turning into Drummer Week here at DGM, beginning with Michael Giles’ birthday last Sunday, here is a fabulous multi-camera video from King Crimson’s longest serving drummer, Pat Mastelotto, playing EleKtriK from The Power To Believe album. Shot by Bill Munyon, it was created in 2020 during the Covid lockdown,...


All Of King Crimson’s Drummers

Hugh’s Archive Deep Dive: 19 Bill Bruford recently got in touch to ask if we could help him with one of his frequently asked questions: what kit did he use at the recording sessions for Red? He didn’t know, and nor did we. The best we could do was look at the concert photos from 1974 and surmise that he may have taken the same setup into the studio at Olympic in Barnes the week after the...

Tippett and Fripp at the ICA, 1980

Two performances were held on September 28th in aid of Impetus Magazine.  Billed as an informal concert by Robert Fripp, guitar and Keith Tippett, piano, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the late arrival of the Steinway had meant that the pianist’s contribution to the early show had been limited to some arpeggios played on an African finger piano, while Fripp provided tape...

Happy Birthday Michael!

Join us in sending birthday greetings to King Crimson's drummer and founding member, Michael Giles.  Robert Fripp described him as “outstanding” and “in 1969 arguably the most exciting and original drummer in rock”. Ian McDonald said his “witty and inventive drumming never failed to support and inspire me in my playing”. Michael played on In The Court Of The Crimson King, In The...

Toyah & Robert's Weekend

Toyah & Robert's latest Upbeat Moments and a vintage Sunday Lunch! Today at 18:00 GMT...   Tomorrow at 12:00 GMT...    


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