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What's In A Name?

Posted by Sid Smith
2 Dec 2015

The need to place bands into a generic description can be something of a vexed issue. At least one of the guitarists in King Crimson is on record as disliking the term prog rock being applied to the band. Occasional guestbook contributor, rzachol, sent in this news item about the band's dates in Poland next year: "In Polish media KC is called "avant-garde rock" - much more adequate term than "prog" IMHO."

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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.