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Post by Kapitan on Aug 12, 2021 12:54:39 GMT
Unavailable in the US.
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Post by jk on Aug 13, 2021 19:27:27 GMT
Unavailable in the US. Pity. Can you see this one from around the same time?
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Post by Kapitan on Aug 14, 2021 16:22:04 GMT
Yes, that one is available in the US.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 1, 2022 23:26:41 GMT
I know you meant this primarily for Fripp himself, jk, but if you are interested, I came across this 1981 interview with Adrian Belew, who discusses (among other things) his work both with King Crimson and another of our shared interests, Frank Zappa. Thought you might enjoy it, if you find the time.
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Post by jk on Jan 3, 2022 20:47:47 GMT
I know you meant this primarily for Fripp himself, jk , but if you are interested, I came across this 1981 interview with Adrian Belew, who discusses (among other things) his work both with King Crimson and another of our shared interests, Frank Zappa. Thought you might enjoy it, if you find the time. I have the time tomorrow. Thank you, sir. It's fine -- anything King Crimson-related belongs in this thread. Perhaps it will even induce carllove to post one or two of her favourites from their repertoire, as a self-confessed fan. I was lucky enough to see the Fripp-Belew-Levin-Bruford configuration of KC in Utrecht (NL) in, I believe, October 1981. Utterly stunning!
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Post by jk on Jan 4, 2022 20:22:24 GMT
Fascinating! Thanks once again, Cap'n.
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 4, 2022 20:24:02 GMT
I liked that the interviewer was leading him into talking about not enjoying working for Zappa, but got the exact opposite response. And that Belew said the only problem was feeling uncomfortable with all the dirty words!
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 3, 2022 14:33:45 GMT
This could also go in the Music News thread, in that it's, well, music news...
King Crimson has shared a trailer and more info for a new documentary, previously announced in 2019 in conjunction with their 50th anniversary. No release date in the story I saw.
It's a bit funny that their press release talks about wanting to reimagine the genre, they "felt that the ‘standard talking head’ format was becoming increasingly cookie cutter and uncreative,” band manager David Singleton told Rolling Stone. “We therefore approached Toby Amies, an independent filmmaker, and asked him to make an original music documentary, to reimagine the format, and gave him complete creative freedom to do so."
But the resulting documentary seems to be a combination of interviews with current and former band members, live footage...so basically the same thing as far as I can tell. Perhaps the exception was ceding creative control over the content itself, allowing the salty bits you hear in the trailer rather than a sanitized version.
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Post by carllove on Feb 11, 2022 14:27:54 GMT
This could also go in the Music News thread, in that it's, well, music news...
King Crimson has shared a trailer and more info for a new documentary, previously announced in 2019 in conjunction with their 50th anniversary. No release date in the story I saw.
It's a bit funny that their press release talks about wanting to reimagine the genre, they "felt that the ‘standard talking head’ format was becoming increasingly cookie cutter and uncreative,” band manager David Singleton told Rolling Stone. “We therefore approached Toby Amies, an independent filmmaker, and asked him to make an original music documentary, to reimagine the format, and gave him complete creative freedom to do so."
But the resulting documentary seems to be a combination of interviews with current and former band members, live footage...so basically the same thing as far as I can tell. Perhaps the exception was ceding creative control over the content itself, allowing the salty bits you hear in the trailer rather than a sanitized version.
This looks AMAZING! Thanks Kapitan!
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Post by jk on Feb 22, 2022 21:53:23 GMT
Finally, King Crimson's 1995 album Thrak is on YouTube! It's a thrilling if slightly unnerving listen all the way through, but there's one instance -- during "Dinosaur", the third track -- that sticks out for me. It's the strange texture (is it Fripp's mellotron or his guitar?) just after 3:30, which to me sounds for all the world like an echo from an immensely distant past: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thrak
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Post by Kapitan on Feb 23, 2022 19:12:30 GMT
I'll need to give this another listen, jk. I bought it when it was new, or at least a very recent release, when I was just learning there was such a band as King Crimson. I actually heard of them through Adrian Belew, whose Mr. Music Head I'd gotten after reading about him in some guitar magazine.
Once I heard he was in this intriguingly named King Crimson, I read a little bit on them from something like the AllMusic Guide (back when it was a massive book of short reviews) and saw their lengthy history and lineup changes. I believe I bought three albums simultaneously: In the Court of the Crimson King, Discipline, and Thrak.
I actually got Discipline because I knew Belew was in that lineup. I don't recall for sure, but I don't think I knew he was in the band on Thrak at the time I bought it: that one was just selected because it was new(est).
By the way, this was in the early days of Best Buy, when it had a MASSIVE selection of CDs. As compared to music stores like Musicland or Sam Goody, this was like a warehouse with rows and rows of discs. I fondly remember flipping through two dozen Miles Davis discs, every Beatles album, every Queen album, etc., whereas the typical music stores would stock the two or three best known albums and a greatest hits disc. It was heaven! (They switched the format soon after and more resembled the aforementioned stores in terms of selection.)
Anyway, Thrak. I'll relisten.
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Post by jk on Feb 24, 2022 9:47:35 GMT
Finally, King Crimson's 1995 album Thrak is on YouTube! It's a thrilling if slightly unnerving listen all the way through, but there's one instance -- during "Dinosaur", the third track -- that sticks out for me. It's the strange texture (is it Fripp's mellotron or his guitar?) just after 3:30, which to me sounds for all the world like an echo from an immensely distant past: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThrakIt's Adrian Belew's guitar, it seems. Pity the video has been pulled...
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Post by jk on May 13, 2022 21:47:03 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Jul 21, 2022 1:05:03 GMT
A 1982 King Crimson concert in Berlin. It is very 1982.
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Post by jk on Jul 21, 2022 8:14:58 GMT
A 1982 King Crimson concert in Berlin. It is very 1982. Yes. This is the tour I caught in Utrecht (NL). Excellent concert!
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