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Post by jk on Dec 17, 2022 12:59:48 GMT
Back in the early 1980s RF made two fascinating instrumental albums with Police guitarist Andy Summers: I Advance Masked (1982), of which this is the title track (or rather part of it) in a truly surreal video clip...
...and Bewitched (1984), whose long track, a sprawling disco epic intriguingly entitled "What Kind Of Man Reads Playboy?", may be Fripp's way of recalling his time living in NYC when he used to go disco-dancing -- a mind-boggling thought if ever there was one. Listen out for the drum machine:
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Post by carllove on Dec 24, 2022 23:18:29 GMT
Merry Christmas to Me! This arrived in the mail today!
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Post by Kapitan on Jan 23, 2023 12:23:05 GMT
This one would be equally weird whether put in this Robert Fripp thread or the KISS thread... The faces he makes!
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Post by Kapitan on May 20, 2023 14:04:11 GMT
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Post by jk on Nov 8, 2023 14:49:42 GMT
Merry Christmas to Me! This arrived in the mail today! This will arrive at a cinema near me next week. The review in our daily paper gives it 5/5 and describes it as "perfect". Did you enjoy it, carllove ?
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Post by carllove on Nov 11, 2023 15:36:51 GMT
Merry Christmas to Me! This arrived in the mail today! This will arrive at a cinema near me next week. The review in our daily paper gives it 5/5 and describes it as "perfect". Did you enjoy it, carllove ? I loved it! I have quite the crush on Robert Fripp, so I can watch him in anything, all day long, but the Bill Rieflin arc, really got to me. I loved watching the dynamics of the personal interactions within the group, as well. I thought it was well done. I highly recommend it if you are a fan.
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Post by carllove on Nov 11, 2023 15:39:18 GMT
A 1982 King Crimson concert in Berlin. It is very 1982. Yes. This is the tour I caught in Utrecht (NL). Excellent concert! King Crimson in their most accessible version. That concert must have been amazing.
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 11, 2023 16:39:07 GMT
Adrian Belew had a habit of being in the right place at the right time in those years. Frank Zappa, David Bowie, The Talking Heads, King Crimson, and Paul Simon among his gigs all within a one-decade span...
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Post by jk on Nov 13, 2023 15:13:47 GMT
While looking around YouTube for a KC instrumental called "Mother Hold The Candle Steady While I Shave The Chicken's Lip" (and not finding it), I ran up against this stunning 4/4 jam dating from the Thrak sessions. The YouTube blurb is pretty cool in itself:
Riding in like the soundtrack to a lost Wild West apocalypse movie, a previously unreleased remnant from the THRAK sessions looms into view.
Based around one of Tony Levin’s patented earth-digging grooves, Belew takes up some ornery growling guitar wreathed in Fripp’s soundscapes above the cantering beats from Bruford and Mastelotto.
As Gunn enters with some swooning, lyrical lines of his own, the piece is maintaining a steady gaze upon groove and deep texture. At around five minutes the introduction of an ascending chord sequence suggests that the team was feeling their way around a song. There’s almost a hint of People’s DNA somewhere in there to these ears, but clearly different.
Gunn, Fripp, and Belew’s lead lines are beautifully intertwined after that first chorus and there’s a gorgeous moment near 7.00 minutes when some strings rise up adding a spectral grace to the stomp. For a moment I wondered if these might be emanating from the Mellotrons that were parked up in Real World Studio but Mr.Stormy attributes these to Belew’s string patch.
A sustained groove that’s filled with fascinating flora and fauna of the Crim variety.
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Post by jk on Nov 15, 2023 21:51:08 GMT
This will arrive at a cinema near me next week. The review in our daily paper gives it 5/5 and describes it as "perfect". Did you enjoy it, carllove ? I loved it! I have quite the crush on Robert Fripp, so I can watch him in anything, all day long, but the Bill Rieflin arc, really got to me. I loved watching the dynamics of the personal interactions within the group, as well. I thought it was well done. I highly recommend it if you are a fan. Just watched it in the cinema. The music documentary to beat all music documentaries -- ye gods. Folks, watch it on the big screen if you can!! filmmakermagazine.com/113724-toby-amies-king-crimson/Quite a cavalcade of musicians have passed through the KC ranks. Percussionist Jamie Muir... I was lucky enough to attend one of the few shows he played before "walking out", as he puts it in the film. Our local newspaper inexplicably and unforgivably mixed up Bill Rieflin and Bill Bruford. Yes, that was the most heartbreaking sequence in the film. Fripp's tears when recalling his encounter with J.G. Bennett at Sherbourne (Bennett died shortly after) came a close second. Why did I get the impression he was thinking of his mother at that point? It made me think of this ineffably sad piece from 1995, inspired by the passing of Mrs. Edith Fripp two years earlier:
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 18, 2023 22:36:01 GMT
Struck me as an odd pairing, but...
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Post by jk on Nov 19, 2023 9:56:54 GMT
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Post by Kapitan on Nov 28, 2023 13:45:38 GMT
Here is a relatively long interview in Q Magazine with Robert Fripp. He discusses working with Brian Eno, David Bowie, New York in the late 70s, and the (non-)future of King Crimson. qthemusic.com/p/the-q-interview-robert-fripp/
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Post by jk on Nov 30, 2023 22:37:02 GMT
jk, I didn't know if you saw this but drummer, Bill Rieflin, recently passed away:
Regrettably the name meant nothing to me at the time. Bill features heavily in the new King Crimson documentary, as first remarked upon by carllove. It says something about the quality of that documentary as I now feel I've known him all my life. He was only 59. Very very sad.
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Post by jk on Dec 13, 2023 21:34:51 GMT
This is very moving. RF pays tribute to John Wetton on 4 October 2022:
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