King Crimson

Thanks, Bill. I will venture. 

"Confusion Will Be My Epitaph As I Walk A Cracked And Broken Path". Started listening to them when I was 15

Wise to take those lyrics from the late 60's to heart especially again now in times like these:

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Epitaph Lyrics

[Verse 1]
The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
When silence drowns the screams?

[Chorus]
Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back and laugh
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying

[Verse 2]
Between the iron gates of fate
The seeds of time were sown
And watered by the deeds of those
Who know and who are known;
Knowledge is a deadly friend
If no one sets the rules
The fate of all mankind I see
Is in the hands of fools"

Just received three KC LPs in the mail this week:

Lark's Tongues in Aspic

Discipline

Court of the Crimson King

All 3 in 200g vinyl.  Goosebumps listening to them.  I love KC.  I got into them because I had discovered ProgRock through Yes and found out that Bruford played for KC.  Lately, I've been enjoying Toyah and Robert's Sunday Brunches on YouTube.

Former roommate looks a LOT like a young Fripp, LOL.

voodoolounge

the Classics never go out of vogue. Play It LOUD!

Happy Listening!

Also listen to Thrak it has been remastered on CD and 200 gram vinyl. Excellent album with the triple double lineup. There are some great songs on it.

+1 on Thrak don’t overlook it and most any live KC album is worth the money.

....on the way 200g court vinyl mixed by Fripp Wilson. 

Late King Crimson alboms are really well recorded you may fully enjoy them. Among their early albums ones with Greg Lake i like more. I love to hear his voice.

And Emerson, Lake & Palmer is my number one rock group - three super genius musicians together (together with Led Zeppelin in another number one branch). Even their classical early alboms are quite well recorded (except Brain Salad Surgery that, for me, sounds odd - i don't mean the music of course).

That's funny about ELP. They were also my favorite group until I saw them in West Palm Beach on their Brain Salad Surgery Tour. The Leaky Tepee (WPB Auditorium). No reserved seating, it was a mad dash and I was was right up front, essentially first row...no emotion, Greg and Keith just chewed gum and went through the motions. Fail...I dropped them like a rock.

Understand that I’ve seen the YouTube videos of ELP concerts from earlier years and they were great.(Keith destroying the organ.etc.) I’m specifically talking about the later BSS Tour. That was my first live experience with them and their boredom was palpable. And it turned me off from them forever.

Fripp Wilson 200g vinyl remix of court just arrived and it sounds amazing! 

Yes it does! My general rule is that the OP’s are always better than any famous producer’s remake. Wilson is different, IMO. His Crimson and Tull mixes are for the most part all outstanding as well as the Roxy Music First Album. Can’t speak about Yes because that band always bored me.

@middlemass - I like most re-masters by 'famous producers' I've heard, like Giles Martin's Beatles releases, but you are right - Steven Wilson is a different thing altogether, probably because he is also so busy creating, releasing, and touring his own music in his various different projects. I've got that Roxy box set as well - great stuff!! 

For some great King Crimson try Radical Action to Unseat the Hold of Monkey Mind(guaranteed it will do that) 3CDs and. Blu-ray of their 2015 tour the sound is fantastic.

Thanks John