King Crimson: Classic Or Dud

I was at the 2nd Oakland show at the Fox, his last performance? Fuck I had no idea he was in such dire straits.

Utterly heartbreaking.

did he play at that show or just show up? I saw pictures of him there but he wasn't playing at the show I was at (which I think was the second)

That Fripp recount and salutation is very difficult. I am glad I read it. I am so glad they had that friendship and so sorry for the suffering and loss all around.

I think I was at the first of the 2 nights. He was on keys to my recollection

He was on keyboards when I saw them in Red Bank, NJ in June 2017. Cancer for close to a decade - that's awful.

wow, that was tough to read. the story about him playing a bunch of mixes over the phone while Toyah was paying by the minute was pretty funny though

(never really loved KC in 45 yrs of trying but "entry of the crims" on ABSENT LOVERS really suits my mood my work and my mood rn)

(tbh the singing is usually when the problem arrives)

https://www.facebook.com/robert.fripp.96/videos/vb.100000181177250/3429444193738253/?type=2&theater

I can't even

I can: holy shit.

He's got pretty good legs for 73

much better than the other drivel he's been posting on FB during quarantine which has all been defensive stuff about random complaints people have made about his reluctance to do autographs over the years.

I prefer cranky prick Fripp to goofy old man Fripp.

no one wants Fripp to bacon himself

The Easter bees are buzzing in an English country garden #lockdown 🐝 💐🐝 #easter #bees #toyahwillcox #robertfripp pic.twitter.com/pYLhy6kUEh

— Toyah Willcox (@toyahofficial) April 10, 2020

In less goofy news:

King Crimson tour postponed until 2021 pic.twitter.com/6UcBxKKk0X

— KING CRIMSON (@DGMHQ) April 12, 2020

Happy #lockdown #EasterSunday to the world xxxxx #ToyahWillcox #RobertFripp pic.twitter.com/NZBm6yX8mw

— Toyah Willcox (@toyahofficial) April 12, 2020

finding myself increasingly in favor of a premature "reopening"

Ordered the Live at Summit Studios 1972 a few weeks ago, it's really great - probably one of my favorite Crimson things I've heard lately. Just a really great line-up and interesting configuration without the Mellotron.

lol at their ugly kitchen units

Anyone else jealous that Fripp managed to find a wife who is just as much of an oddball as him? Us other oddballs and eccentrics have never found that joy.

" lol at their ugly kitchen units"

their entire house is pretty ugly, if you have design tastes that were formed any time after 1965

She has a definite "wear you down with bubbly energy" feel about her, I'm sure she's the instigator of these vids.
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Another one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXErrpAHxkc&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1shUrq0l6DQg8p3Mf900_FmA1c2KwyCRpsJHljDbfDWoTFaeD9P63HpeU

[Toyah dancing to Lark's Tongue.

Why don't my youtube links work?

Why don't my youtube links work?

When you post the link, post the whole URL from the browser window, not the shortened youtu.be one that the "Share" button offers you, and change the URL from https:// to http://.

I think I did that. OK, I didn't take off the "s".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXErrpAHxkc&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR1shUrq0l6DQg8p3Mf900_FmA1c2KwyCRpsJHljDbfDWoTFaeD9P63HpeU

No "s" still didn't work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXErrpAHxkc

Maybe because I went there from facebook.

Just heard the sad new that Keith Tippett has passed on. King crimson’s one of a kind piano player on In The Wake of Poseidon, Lizard, and Islands. Pure genius! pic.twitter.com/y0WKyTpcFt

— fernando perdomo (@fperdomo) June 14, 2020

:(

he hasn't even got a dedicated thread:(

Considering how many people have been in KC, the band has fewer dead ex members than you'd expect; Wetton, Burrel, and now Tippett.

Bets on who's next? You lose points if your answer is "Robert Fripp if he keeps making those bloody viral videos with Toyah"

:(

RIP

xp haha the Fractured/cat-dance video was the best one yet

xxp you forgot Bill Rieflin!

and Ian Wallace

And Greg Lake!

Oh yeah. Major brain fart there particularly on Bill.

My vote is Pete Sinfield or Jamie Muir, who i’d actually thought died some time ago.

I never knew Tippett appeared with KC on Top of the Pops doing Cat Food. The notes on this youtube say that the original episode was wiped but this soundless version has been preserved (colorised here):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvJEWyQvfcQ

The version with sound is here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7rrvxh

man I swear that's the studio recording/lipsynch, it's been a while but it sounds exactly the same to me

apologies if that's what you meant!

yes it's a dub; I assume that it was actually broadcast as a dub. They probably took the sound off the YT version to avoid a takedown notice. It's cool to see this full version though; the clip I'd seen prior was B/W and only part of the song.

Love the young Germans dancing to King Crimson like they're Boney M or something.

I'm a bit into that Mercy Dash album he did with Hugh Hopper and Elton Dean in the 80's at the moment, marvellous stuff.

Muir is definitely someone I thought had passed away. There was that anecdote in the Jim O'Rourke interview someone posted on that other thread, where he goes to visit Derek Bailey, iirc, and one of Bailey's neighbors is Jamie Muir, who I can only hope would don a big, crazy fur cape when cooking out. I guess he's a painter now? Here's a more recent picture:

https://preview.redd.it/dyo3ypc4meo31.jpg?width=960&crop=smart&auto=webp&s=8fd5a8aed7cfa262b6aa1724805411ee9731e5dc

Do we think he spits blood on visitors?

I'm finally getting around to getting Crimson on LP after decades of shitty Editions EG CDs and am now honing in on Islands as the last of the studio LPs I need. Anyone ever grab the recent reissues? I heard MP3s of the Steven Wilson mixes which were stunning, but wonder if I should not just go for an original pressing, to have the LP as intended.

oh man, this reminded me i was gonna see them for the first time tonight. maybe some other time...

I have a repress LP of Discipline which sounds fantastic.