Steve Vai looks like The Baron in What We Do In the Shadows
― Slorg is not on the Slerf Team, you idiot, you moron (Boring, Maryland), Thursday, 4 April 2024 13:46 (five months ago) link
does everyone know this except me: "up until the age of eight, [peter sinfield] was raised largely by his mother's german housekeeper maria wallenda, a high wire walker from the circus act the flying wallendas" ??
it reads like the notes towards a richard palmer-james lyric lol
― mark s, Monday, 8 April 2024 14:59 (five months ago) link
loool @ the Baron
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 8 April 2024 15:02 (five months ago) link
it reads like the notes towards a richard palmer-james lyric
...or an inspiration for "Cirkus"?
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 8 April 2024 15:13 (five months ago) link
doesn't mention any high-wire work!
tho tumblers is i guess a name for acrobats (quite a funny one too, like calling the goalkeeper "the guy who lets them in")
― mark s, Monday, 8 April 2024 15:27 (five months ago) link
I just looked up tickets for Beat at their Boston show and the ones remaining are ... >$200?!? The hell?
― Naive Teen Idol, Monday, 8 April 2024 20:11 (five months ago) link
I suspect those are resale.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 8 April 2024 20:55 (five months ago) link
now this is the kind of content the internet was made for
https://www.threads.net/@tonylevin/post/C5g8-KfyEs6
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Monday, 8 April 2024 22:07 (five months ago) link
some of these Beat shows are being moved to bigger venues, including the one I'm going to. its kind of wild how much demand there is for this...was 80's King Crimson itself ever this popular?
― frogbs, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 14:08 (four months ago) link
don't underestimate the Tool factor here
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 1 May 2024 14:52 (four months ago) link
Goldmine report on those talks Bill Bruford gave recently.
Apparently he was asked to join what is possibly the last King Crimson line-up ever, then later asked by Adrian Belew to join the upcoming Beat tour. Pains me that he declined both offers, but also completely understandable why he wasn’t interested.
― birdistheword, Monday, 22 July 2024 09:45 (two months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guW-ApBbpOU
― Maresn3st, Monday, 22 July 2024 10:36 (two months ago) link
He's retired! Gotta respect it, one of the few prominent musicians I can think of who decided to step away and mean it. Him and Bill Withers.
― Jordan s/t (Jordan), Monday, 22 July 2024 16:35 (two months ago) link
that Progject band seems pretty cool, hope to see them some day
― frogbs, Monday, 22 July 2024 16:39 (two months ago) link
onbce again subjecting myself to KC's unrelenting parade of fvck-awful singers (all of them) in order to make notes on the music in between them
― mark s, Sunday, 18 August 2024 12:40 (one month ago) link
You need to hear
"Groon Soundcheck", which is actually Giles, Giles and Fripp playing "Brazil" with Fripp singing
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 18 August 2024 13:15 (one month ago) link
controp: all of King Crimson's singers (including Jakko) were good and perfectly suited their respective iterations of the band
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 18 August 2024 15:13 (one month ago) link
You need to hear_"Groon Soundcheck", which is actually Giles, Giles and Fripp playing "Brazil" with Fripp singing_
― Naive Teen Idol, Tuesday, 20 August 2024 03:54 (one month ago) link
We should do a least-worst KC singer poll
― Sade of the Del Amitri (dog latin), Tuesday, 20 August 2024 08:42 (one month ago) link
Why, that would be Jakko. Late period live KC was the best KC.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 20 August 2024 23:58 (one month ago) link
jakko is the correct answer, but speaking as a girl with a speech impediment, god i can't help but be fond of john wetton's highly questionable diction. shit, i think i'm gonna go listen to "danger money" now.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 21 August 2024 00:10 (one month ago) link
Given that I've only heard Live in Toronto from his tenure, I think Jakko is a colourless singer. He hits the notes and that's it. He's better than Haskell but I'd rather hear even Boz Burrell (if he doesn't try to do scat singing).
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 21 August 2024 00:42 (one month ago) link
He also came across as sullen in the recent documentary, like he was above it all. Maybe allowances should be made since he was going through a divorce at the time.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 21 August 2024 00:43 (one month ago) link
Michael Giles and Ian McDonald wouldn't have been the worst singers Crimson had if they had ended up singing lead on Crimson albums either.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 21 August 2024 00:46 (one month ago) link
Whoa whoa whoa, are we saying Greg Lake wasn’t amazing in his stint with the band???
― frogbs, Wednesday, 21 August 2024 01:07 (one month ago) link
i'm saying lake was extremely terrible everywhere, have i not said how much i hate him?: i hate greg lake and i am right to do so
― mark s, Wednesday, 21 August 2024 09:13 (one month ago) link
hate him
But he believed in Father Christmas!
― carry on columbine (Matt #2), Wednesday, 21 August 2024 11:31 (one month ago) link
Lake and Wetton were good soft rock singers, but I can't stand that choirboy prog style unless they're warbling up in the stratosphere like Jon Anderson. I vote for him as the best KC singer actually, probably a good thing he was only a guest on one album though. Imagine him and Fripp in the same band!
― carry on columbine (Matt #2), Wednesday, 21 August 2024 11:33 (one month ago) link
the Belew erasure here is egregious
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 21 August 2024 13:12 (one month ago) link
unrelenting parade of fvck-awful singers (all of them)
☝️☝️☝️
― mark s, Wednesday, 21 August 2024 13:21 (one month ago) link
the Belew erasure here is egregious― Paul Ponzi
― Paul Ponzi
the problem with belew's singing is that he's singing lyrics he wrote
you know they're aliens because they got lint on their dicks. my dick never had no lint on it, i can tell you that for damn sure.
― Kate (rushomancy), Wednesday, 21 August 2024 13:43 (one month ago) link
Earthbound, indeed
― sawdust lagoon, Wednesday, 21 August 2024 15:35 (one month ago) link