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Honouring past & present

Posted by Sid Smith
4 Jul 2017

According to this reviewer who saw the band at the Montreal Jazz Festival yesterday, the gig was, "a celebration from a band that has found a way to honour the scope of its legacy without abandoning its avant-garde principles. Crimson has never sounded more complete, or more joyous, on stage than it does now."

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DGM HISTORY

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The next step is Discipline

The 1980s see a very different King Crimson incarnation originally touring under the name Discipline . The presence of Adrian Belew meant that Robert Fripp was working for the first time with another guitarist. This incarnation of Fripp, Belew, Bruford and Levin becomes the first one to record successive studio albums with the same lineup.