King Crimson


The only knowledge I had of King Crimson was my first LP bought self titled Bad Company, and reading the bass player Boz came from Crimson. Fast forwarded 50 years and I am now hearing for the first time "in the court of the Crimson King". I know I wouldn't have liked what I love today, when I was 13. Amazing players and composers! Court is not dismissed, please remain seated. 

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I loved KC from the first album through all of the ones with John Wetton and Bill Bruford, and fell by the wayside after that. 

When I was in college in 1969, some art students painted the inside elevator doors in our dorm building, with half of the cover of 'Court of the Crimson King' on each elevator door, so that once you were in the elevator and the doors shut, you were presented with a wonderfully painted cover of that album! Alarmed a few students under the influence of various psychedelics who saw it for the first time, but there ya go.

Steven Wilson remixes are excellent. 

Heavens. All these years with thinking the band got wiped out in a plane crash.

I still have "Court of Crimson" album and remembering to be so sad when i heard that news years ago. Dirty, rotten rumor?

I am a long time fan of all their incarnations.

Their best are: Larks' Tongue in Aspic, Starless and Bible Black, and Red. These 3 are their most progressive and musically adventurous.

But all of their releases have something of interest.

Like Doc I was at the Beacon in NYC. First time I ever saw a band fronted by three drum kits. Fripp has always been the driving force and a tremendous talent. If you wish to explore further in the catalogue I would recommend Larks' Tongues In Aspic, Red, Starless And Bible Black, and Discipline. Enjoy, Scott