The Story Of King Crimson (1969)
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Research Sources:
"Lucky Man" by Greg Lake (2017)
"Epitaph" CD Set (1997) Liner Notes
"Bill Bruford: The Autobiography" (2013)
"In The Court Of King Crimson" by Sid Smith (2002/2019)
Brian Murphy Band Interviews (1990s) (unavailable to the public)
Michael Giles Interview (2012): • Metal Evolution - Epis...
John Gaydon Interview (2012): • John Gaydon and EG Man...
Peter Banks Interview (2007): themarqueeclub.net/interview-peter-banks-yes
"The Complete 1969 Recordings" Boxed Set (2020) Liner Notes And Supplements
"Prog Rock Britannia" BBC Documentary (2002): • Timeshift - 88 minute ...
Greg Lake Interview (1990s/2019): inthestudio.net/online-only-interviews/king-crimson-in-the-court-crimson-king-greg-lake/
Imagine being this good of a musician, and only being 19-21 years old??? Wow, all that talent.
Mike Oldfield's "Tubular Bells" made me feel inadequate...
But "Hergest Ridge" made me feel a lot better
And all the money and free time tho
Most of the greats were 'great' early on, because they're great. Lots of them peaked before 25 and haven't put out anything decent in decades, just because it's impossible to recreate an era. Of course you can still tour, playing 50 year old albums note for note with a crack, nameless bunch of pro hired hands, and no one cares, so there ya go.
@@carlsaganlives5112 sas truth
Trouble is, people do care and go to gigs in their droves to hear it. It's unusual for a musician to change and progress after that initial burst of greatness, at least in rock music - jazzers are another breed - but Robert Fripp is one such, starting great and staying that way.
My most favorite band ever. The whole story of king crimson is totally worth a movie adaptation.
I’m all for it.
Isn't there a movie out, or due out soon ? I kinda remember it being floated around, under the title In the Court of King Crimson, possibly ?....
Of course, there's the book of that title by Sid Smith already- which is a must have. As are the box sets, which liner notes are virtually a novella in themselves.
I only have Sailors' Tales now, but have my eye on the rest- Starless being my next choice....
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@@craigfazekas3923 The current movie that came out recently is about the current lineup (since 2014)
@@KazBodnar I see. Well, the current line up is nothing compared to it's predecessors- the original bands. Thank you for pointing that out- I was not aware.
The book is a fine work, and will stand tall- even if a movie of the history of the band is never made....
That book is flat out great.
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@@craigfazekas3923 Yeah, file next to "Jethro Tull - The Story of the Post Grammy Glory"..... " Top 10 Essential Who Farewell Tours"....
Every era of this band (Lake/Wetton/Belew) is fascinating, and I have a hard time picking which one is my favorite. As Hendrix said: "this is the best band in the world!"
Love stuff from all 3, but if I had to choose it would be Lake era.
Hendricks was also quoted saying the same thing about Emerson Lake and Palmer.
@@richardshansky3040 For me it has to be the flying brick wall period of Fripp, Bruford and Wetton on Red and Starless and Bible Black
I like to divide it as Wetton/Belew/Sinfield Writing Era.
Hendrix said alot of things when he was frying...
I just read "Lucky Man": the autobiography of Greg Lake. Loved it. Highly recommend it.
Thanks! I’ll look that up
The fact that they self-produced that debut album is mind-blowing. Massive credit to Ian McDonald for taking the lead on that.
One of the most unique choice of musicians in the time of rock.
People already know what it's about, one of the greatest bands of all time. Debut album was the perfect collection of musicians, had they all worked it out and stayed together subsequent records would have changed the world of music again and again. It's why Robert was down to leave his own band!
It's sad how things turned out, that being said Robert Frip took King Crimsons to meteoric heights with every rendition of King Crimson. A real genius and truly all of them in the 69 band were as well!
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Bro you made this 2 months ago!? And 165k views congrats to you man I only recently learned the bands full story and this really was a great video 📹
Notice who else was on the bill for those mid-December shows in San Francisco; the Nice (featuring Keith Emerson). This was the beginning of ELP, who would conquer the Isle of Wight festival in the summer of 1970. That was only their second gig.
King Crimson is one of my fav music philosophies :)
This is probably one of the best CZcams vids I’ve seen on early King Crimson. You even had some stuff in there that I, a huge Crimson fanboy, didn’t even know about, like that stuff with Ian’s girlfriend.
The version of I Talk To The Wind they cut with Judy appears on The Young Person's Guide to King Crimson. Robert also plays on her solo album, Whirl, recorded after decades away from the music biz.
I agree. A very detailed and interesting film.
Excellently researched! Please make more of these.
In The Court Of The Crimson King, in my humble opinion, is still one of the 10 greatest albums of all time!
Totally agree.
@@andrewhughes170 u. Knows. It
The first and best video about the story of King Crimson narrated. love and peace, greetings from mexico.
I've been a huge fan since I discovered them in about 1972. They've always been a musically brilliant band, and Fripp is one of the few I could compare with Jeff Beck - always fresh, never doing the same old thing. Great video. Now please move on to the next years!
This band left an indelible mark. Thanks so much for creating this, great research keep them coming
I remember hearing in the Court of the Crimson King for the first time in 1970 while having my first time smoking Hashish. I got off instantly on both of them. I loved their sound and they became one of my favorite bands of all time.
There are quite a few histories/overviews of KC out there, many of them thoroughly enjoyable in spite of the occasional error popping up. That said, your effort is superb in all respects especially your recognition of the importance of Peter Sinfield to the group. Now I'm away to look for part two. Very well done mate. Cheers!
Thanks for posting them. Excellent video and words. Have a nice day
Great stuff! I'm a lifelong KC fan but the original lineup is my favorite; also love the underrated McDonald/Giles album and the 21st Century Schizoid Band efforts.
Very well done! I would say that the Isle of Wight from 1970 was Britain’s equivalent of Woodstock, not the Rolling Stones Hyde Park show.
which premered my boys ELP
so cool to learn all these details from seminal music of our childhood, brings back many stoned memories staring at that cover, it was in the rotation with Santana and Led Zeppelin every evening in the dorm lounge for sure
Very cool. I especially enjoyed all those photographs - including live - I've not seen before. Great way to bring everything together, in chronological order.
Thanks for posting this! As a kid who was only 5 in 1969, it was my best friend’s older brother who had the album. After a typical morning in 1981-skipping school and doing some “wake-and-bake” rips on “Purple Haze” (my friend’s purple bong) loaded with some very good Santa Marta gold Columbian, I was looking through the stack of albums and pulled out the one with this CRAZY looking cover, and whipped it on the turntable. It was a pretty amazing “introduction” to KC’s music. We were already huge fans of Floyd, Yes, Zappa, as well as groups like Weather Report and John McLaughflin, Al Dimeola, and Paco de Lucia (all of whom we had seen live) but I never knew what the “story” of this band was. We or course had ELP albums like Brain Salad Surgery, so we knew something about what individual members had go on to do, but I appreciate your work in filling-in a huge gap in my “What ever happened to King Crimson?” knowledge bank. (There are quite a few “gaps” in my entire 1981-82 musical memories. MANY epic concerts, combined with many epic hallucinogens, equals “I know we had a helluva lot of fun but, with only ticket stubs as “proof” we were there, these kind of mini-documentaries are a huge help! Thanks again. Semper Fi (Has anyone found my brain?) 🤷🏻😂❤️
Hey, nice !! Please move ahead in their history, by making more segments, please ? The transitional period, of course, would come next. Btw, well covered in the box set Sailors' Tales. And Lark's Tongues after that & so on....
This is cool !!
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Very nice video. More, more, more, please! History of King Crimson in 15-minute chunks. Take your time, keep the quality.
Saturday, Nov. 29, 1969. The rain from the day before had turned to cold. I had left my shoes at the car to avoid getting them muddy. But the cold had hardened the mud. But I did have my serape to keep me somehat warm. I was heading to the back, to the food serving areas (somewhat artificially influenced) when I heard this fantastic sound. At first I thought it was an orchestra. I headed back to the stage and it was the next band in the line-up. Looked like a keyboard, but no one had heard of a Mello-tron back then. And they kicked butt. A memory as clear today as it was back then, at the West Palm Beach Rock Festival. I still have my vinyl Court of the Crimson King album.
This is enchanting. My young life brought to life. THANK you.
Robert Fripp is probably the best rock/prog rock guitarist ever.
Ok maybe most important but jhon petrucci exist. Also known as prog jesus
David guilmour
Jimi hendrix
Steve Howe ( yes)
thanks a lot for this !
The Stones in Hyde Park gig was not, by any measure, “England’s Woodstock.”
This was really interesting! SO WHERE'S THE NEXT PART OF THIS!!
More is on the way, and Pink Floyd will be covered in the next video.
The original lineup, with McDonald and Giles, was the best. You can hear the dominant influence of these two musicians on "In The Court of the Crimson King" on the subsequent album they made together, called "McDonald and Giles," which included both Giles brothers.
One of my favorite albums of all time.
An excellent video. Hope there's a sequel - In the Wake of Poseidon is underrated, if a Top 5 album can be described that way. 🙂
I felt like a watched the video from inside a fallopian tube. Great Video!
This was very informative. King Crimson had a unique progressive sound, and were clearly very skilled musicians, when I first heard & bought their debut album, In The Court Of The Crimson King. As I bought later albums of theirs, and also caught one of their concerts, I was aware that the band had gone through personnel changes, and though still unique, the sound of their music had also shifted. This video account gives insight as to what was going on behind the scene, during these changes.
Thanks a lot! I hope the Crims do not litigate to censor this great work, since their managenent is known to dislike and censor every little thing about KC which is not under their copyrights...
Nice doc my friend, keep at it
I saw them twice in 1969, brilliant gigs.
Oh man ..can you do a little write up on your experience watching them? Where it was ...what the show was like..what was the set list...who was there..how much a ticket cost etc. It would be amazing to hear about it!!!!
@@jamesbond4633 Hi James, yeah.
The Ninth National Jazz and Blues Festival.
8th-10th August 1969. Plumpton Race Track. Streat. East Sussex. and
September 13-15th 1969. Rugby Rag Blues Festival. Rainsbrook. Rugby . Warwickshire.
The Plumpton gig was in a smallish marquee, on the Friday night. I was sitting in the front row - and I actually fell asleep for a short while during the set, and when I woke, with eyes still closed, I didn't know I was at a KC gig LOL. There is a tape of this gig. Incidentally, I believe whoever 'booked the gig' was sacked because KC thought they were to be on the main stage.
The Rugby gig had a small attendance, but check out the acts. Pink Floyd, Free KC and others.
I saw KC, different lineup obviously, at Dunstable too, but a couple of years later. wil have to check date.
Thanks for ypur interest.
@@jamesbond4633 OK, just checking dates, I think the Dunstable gg was 71 or 2, but I also saw them in 71, at the Weeley fest, Clacton.
Rugby gig fun fact, when KC came on stage, Robert Fripp announcd that he had spepped in a cow pat on the way to the stage, if anyone wanted to keep it for posterity, LOL. If only I had gone backstage and kept it - what would it be worth now? LOL
Plumpton fun fact, as we got to the entrance of the fest - one man in a hut - anyway, Robert Wyatt was imploring that guy to let him in as h was oft Machine's drummer and they were on next. I vouched for him, and Robert legged it stagewards.
Weeley fest not so fun facts, one camping field was on a recently cut corn field, on Saturday a fire started and a lot of tents and vehicles were destroyed and injuries. A guy who's car had burnt out saved out tent etc. Also at the Weeley fest the Hells Angels tried to take ovr a bit, they got physicall oppostion from the burger van people etc LOL. Great f*cking days
@@henrydarker4314 Man that is soo cool!! THanks for posting. You fell asleep??!! Sounds like a lot of partying going on!!! In your 2nd post I think there is some text missing? Sort of starts off in the middle of a sentence. I got to be in England in the mid 1980's in a town called Peterborough. I don't think there were any concerts happening when I was there but would have been cool to check out some of the hot bands back then. I guess most bands starting out back in the 60's travelled a lot playing small gigs and venues and got familiar with the motor ways. King Crimson was no exception but they got really big really fast and it was over so quickly for that 1st ensemble. Homesick and girlfriend sick will get you everytime!!!
@@jamesbond4633 Probably my second post was too long LOL. I put this on my channel ages ago James, search for this video title, it has the Plumpton fest in it amond a few others.
Henry Looks Back. A Few Festivals 1967-1986 (Preliminary edit)
IN THE COURT- one of the Greatest LP’s from the Era of the great 1960’s True Classic Rock Band’s 🇺🇸
who could pass on the record cover at the record store? the music had everyone’s attention. love it or hate it, song by song. an acquired taste for musical fiends. i got to see the “larks” tour. they came on after dark, two mellotrons howling into the desert summer night. nobody sounded like that, 3 different doses before they took the stage. wow!
Pete Townshend called it "an uncanny masterpiece", at the time....
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That's for sure, what brilliant cover art.
Too bad Red has a pisspoor album cover completely devoid of artistry
@@wilhelmvg9978 Maybe so. But some are like that & still hold icon status. Dark Side of the Moon- was that a "great artistic statement" ? No, in & of itself- but it said much to many, somehow. The intangible factor at work.... Ditto even The Beatles- aka The White Album. Or Let It Be. Iconic.
Now Red ? Iconic ? No. Among King Crimson fans ? Yes.
I made a graphic t-shirt of Red's album cover in art class in high school using an old school image projector in a dark room, poster board, Xacto knife & airbrush. I have a sentimental attachment to Red's cover, obviously. To be 15 & walking around with Bruford, Wetton & Fripp on my chest ? And a pair of bleach-blotched jeans on with my long hair ?
I was the inspiration for the anti-drug poster- that's for sure !!
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Definitely one of the most challenging rock bands of all time. 1969 - 74 era was spectacular. Not that much into Belew era stuff since early 80-s though.
Discipline will always be a desert island disc for me, however. It is sublime.
I'm with you on that. KC is 69-74. I don't really gel with their later stuff.
Crimson blurred the lines between jazz/rock and classical like no other band had! Robert Fripp was in my opinion the most intelligent artist of his type and was truly unique in his style and ability to mold musicians to his vision of music!
Well done.
Please continue. ✌️
"WE WANT MORE WE WE WANT MORE WE WANT MORE WE WANT MORE", etc. Just plain old good work Brother. Thanks from Philly.
One of my favorite albums.
Interesting place to end. It begs the question about that last show Crimson played with theNice. I’d assume the two bands already knew each other, but surely Lake and Emerson must have chatted about what was going on in Crimson. Hope you find time to continue the story. You’re off to a great start!
I have the first album on dvd mixed in 5.1.
Sounds incredible.
I knew two guys who were at the KC show in Orlando in 1971 (It would be yhe show recorded for the live "Earthbound" album). One of the guys took acid, the other one didn't. After the show the guy who DIDN'T take acid was so blown away by the music that he couldn't drive. The guy taking acid had to take the wheel.
This is by far the best summary of King Crimson's history. My brother and I, both guitarists living with parents in Germany, saw the ITCOTKC album cover at a local record store, bought it (or did we steal it? Can't quite remember ...), and at home played Schizoid Man. Blown away!
Amazong stuff - where did you get all this content, most of which I hadn't heard befpre? I can't wait to see what you come up with for the next few years of Crimso!
I was discontent with hard rock in the 70s then I came upon the album Larks Tongues in Aspic and I became an unconditional fan from there on.
Court of the Crimson King is the greatest song of all time.⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Bollocks
"Night Watch" kicks it into touch
Neither examples come even close.
From January 13, 1969 til December 14, 1969 is not a very long time for such a monumental shift in music. Even though Ian and Michael Giles left along with Peter Sinfield I think...I believe they had already written some material for the 2nd album. Also Greg hung around and sang some tracking vocals as he had decided to join a new group called Emerson Lake and Palmer. At the last gig The Nice played and Keith Emerson was the keyboard player for that group. I think this is where he asked Greg to start a new band as Greg probably told him King Crimson was breaking up. I think all King Crimson fans know this stuff so I am preaching to the choir but it really clarifies the time line for me and puts things in perspective. This short documentary has many details I did not know and was very well put together with some great photographs!!!! Cadence and Cascade from the 2nd album is one of my favourite songs with Greg singing. Emerson Lake and Palmer's Lucky Man is in this vain and was the big reason I bought the 1st ELP record. The drumming and the cool little guitar parts on those songs are mesmerizing. The little piano fills on Cadence and Cascade as well add so much. It shows you that big bombastic solos are not always necessary and sometimes over playing gets in the way of a song. ELP was guilty of this I think. King Crimson after this 1st incarnation became Robert Fripps' project so it was never the same as well. It would have been amazing going to the Speak Easy or some of the other clubs back in 1969 and seeing this band live. Nothing quite like them. Epitaph and In THe Court Of The Crimson King must have blown Jimi Hendrix's socks off!!! One can only imagine and dream of those early days and the atmosphere......fresh and innocent and nothing to do with today's corporate music scene.
Sinfield stayed until the end of the Islands tour (1971), Earthbound is the first album without him.
@@KazBodnar Awesome ...thanks for clarifying. He wrote the lyrics to Cadence and Cascade which was on the 2nd album so he did not quit when Ian Macdonald and Michael Giles did.
It was actually Gordon Haskell who sang C&C. He went on to sing and play bass on Lizard.
@@WalterDiamond YEs that is true on the original album however Greg Lake did a guide vocal for the song as a favour to Robert Fripp probably before he found a new singer. I think there are 3 vocalists that recorded this song. The Greg Lake one is on CZcams czcams.com/video/xhrMHMNF3vA/video.html . Just something about Greg's voice that is so warm and soulful and deep. Nothing against the other singer but if you haven't heard Greg sing it I highly recommend that. You are in for a treat.
"... thanks to Peter Sinfield, but it wasn't peaches and cream from the start..."
Indeed, peaches and cream appeared later)
I remember watching a video of Robert talking about Ian and Michael wanting to leave the band during a limbo ride, but I can’t find that video anymore I think it’s been deleted
There was nothing wrong with Greg Lake's musicianship remember he was initially a lead guitarist and not a bass player.
As is written in Greg's autobiography, "Lucky Man," on page 38: "Little did I know at that moment, but switching from guitar to bass would be a difficult transition to make." He then follows-up with an anecdote about Michael Giles correcting his playing during an early rehearsal.
@@vibeindex thanks Greg Lakes power was in his awesome vocal abilities as a bass player he was pretty damn good as well however when your in a group with the great Keith Emerson and Carl Palmer it can be pretty easy to be overshadowed
Saw him in ELP in 1976. Incredible show. Greg Lake's vocals and guitar playing was masterful. R I P Greg.
@@carlraffen6543 all three were considered Maestro musicians. Although Greg Lake's Bass and lead guitar were great there were a few that were better but no one beat him on vocals. I seen them a good 20 times but my favorite will always be the 1973 Brain Salad Surgery tour. I also have fond memories of the 1976 concert that show was opened by Journey who at the time we're also considered awesome progressive rock musicians unlike what they became after Steve Perry joined.
@@edljnehan2811 20 times wow.
I saw ELP 4 to 5 times.
And Emerson Lake and Powell
Emerson with 3
Greg Lake band.
I was 14 and saw King Crimson at that first US gig at Goddard College in Plainfield, Vermont (a school for trust fund hippies and I had to argue with my parents to let me go!). I think Fripp wrote it was a "strange school." I had heard the album on CHOM out of Montreal and was hooked from then on. I got a guitar and never looked back.
So lucky to see them in 1969
And then Greg Lake met Keith Emerson. Both wanted to leave their bands and form a new band.
Emerson Lake and Palmer had what I consider the greatest album name ever with Brain Salad Surgery.
The shock and loneliness of touring has broken many a great band. Not surprised these fine-tuned brains suffered it so badly.
Gentle Giant and King Crimson are my favorite bands.
I have a copy of the brondesbury tapes and it’s honestly one of the best pieces of music ever created. It’s king crimson minus the edginess. So mystical, bootleg tape hiss and all.
Can you post it to CZcams?
I didn't know Greg Lake had a standard US Bell Telephone model phone on which he was called in London and asked to join the group ( 4:13 ) .
My knowledge of King Crimson is "vague" in terms of overall comparison, but I knew of them certainly
Mid '70's I had "21st Century Schizoid Man" on my turntable, along with the now iconic & ugly album cover.
I absolutely LOVE this documentary, esp' from 07:57 onwards, "Shake MY Left Hand, Maaaaan" (Hendrix !)
The Charlotte Bates section had ME absolutely riveted - I mean, what ARE the chances of her responding** ?
Responding to THAT heartwarming plea, must've been "a million to one", right ? Esp' in a City like London !!!!!
Gotta remark ; Tho' I'm red-blooded AND straight as an arrow, Ian McDonald was SUCH a handsome guy !!!!
She's STUNNING & that whole episode of "how" they got together is pretty mindblowing
It also goes to show (modern-day terms AND different media interaction), how much easier DATING is, today
Back in 1982 (still a teenager), I saw O.G.W.T & saw Crimson perform "Frame By Frame" w/Adrian Belew
Maaan, I just literally fell in love with that track, it's interplay & time signatures & hooks, etc.
Stunned me AND made me somewhat jealous when Robert married the utterly GORGEOUS Toyah Wilcox !!!!
Lastly, even back in the 1970's, I was a HUGE fan of both Greg Lake AND Ian McDonald AND John Wetton
Bought the truly magnificent 1979 "U.K" album known as "Danger Money", amongst my fave best albums
Being a teenager when "Foreigner" hit it big, I fell in love with "Feels Like The First Time" & "Cold As Ice"
I honestly sincerely think that Ian McDonald gave Foreigner SUCH a huge edge & spice in their music
For me, those first THREE Foreigner albums were truly MAGNIFICENT
Whilst '4' was bloody good, they started losing their earlier//innocent edge & became more commercial
Thanks for this EXCELLENT short documentary, showing King Crimson as a Geneological tour de force
(P.S = I also absolutely LOVED the photograph of the 'H' Reg' motorcycles being ridden thru London !!!!)
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Great video., Didn't know about Ian's Girlfriend. Perhaps the source for the Turnham Green section of Suite in C. I knew about Tony Clarke, if only Robert hadn't abandoned the tapes. We may have studio recordings of "Get Thy Bearings" and "Drop in" today. I have seen the Flaming Eye in a few pics. Didn't know Barry Godber designed it as well.
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Good, good, good video. From Italy. Bob ha inventato un genere di musica unico, al pari di grandi compositori del passato. Comunque musica visceralmente romantica. Ciao, bel lavoro.
Fripp has always looked like a dignified 50 years old.😅
Having said that, I love his music. He and Toyahs vids are fun to this day, nice to see him cutting up in his refined way.
Also, the album 'McDonald and Giles'
is one of my very favorite albums in the world, right next to 'In the Court of the Crimson King'
Musically, I have always thought of it as an appendage to Court even though they had parted ways. It has that same depth but maybe more funky and jazzy.
A fascinating video, despite the fact that it was extremely poorly read!
¡Desconozco su historia, pero si puedo decir que he oido miles de veces algunos de sus discos y algunas piezas están a la altura de los grandes clásicos de la música universal!.
An untold story about KC: Their first North American show was at my alma mater, the first alternative college in America, Goddard College in central Vermont who at the time was extremely radical--they housed the Weathermen, Anarchist Party presidential candidate Murray Bookchin and strains of Yippies, and a hardcore separatist eco-feminism core that was under heavy surveillance from the Feds (two alums were in the Chicago 7... And Bernie Sanders was close by). The college was in the middle of the woods outside Montpelier, so imagine 2000+ insane hippies on LSD who had no idea who they were and were expecting what they were informed was some kind of R&B act but instead got the kind of show that will crush your mind if you are LSD and isolated in the woods among those great White Pines. The show caused intense freak outs among the locals, near rioting and fires and cemented their place in the true intelligentsia of the US at the time too high to be truly in the "Ivy League" and too smart to want to. Crimson blew their fucking minds. Goddard was also the school that Phish first met and played shows (I played with Paige and Trey before Phish!) The school is still there!
Well, the quality of this video is way above average. I much prefer a factual analysis vs. some kind of narrative. Kudos, kudos, kudos. You have earned a new subscriber. Keep it real and I'll stick with you.
Robert frip tells the story of Jimi Hendrix, in front of audience before show in 1981 if I’m not mistaken. One of girls sitting at jimis table saw Jimi Hendrix say they were best band he seen. I could be wrong but seemed like Fripp had NO idea Hendrix was so into king crimson’s music that night. They knew Jimi was in audience but didn’t know how much Jimi loved king crimsons music..All of this was new to Robert frip until 12 years later, when fripp ran into that girl, Same girl who overheard Jimii sitting table. It must of been memorable night, impression it left, made her bring it up conversation.. Fripp tells the story beautiful on stage. Fripp reminds me of Mr pee body, from rocky bullwinkle. And Mr pee body is actual charactor comes from Timothy o leary’s bunch before he was excommunicated during, or before his dropout campaign late 60s
So many bands through the years don't have the brains to stay together. Never understanding the special place they are in now. Never to be equalled by any other musical place they will ever be again
I have seen Crimson 3 times. 2 on Thrak tour. One of those shows 5th row. 3rd at Fillmore Denver
In the court of the crimson king..legendary
This is a very well written mini documentary! Your reference material is fantastic. Is it from the King Crimson Book? I think what King Crimson did in one year even surpassed the Beatles. The Beatles took several years to achieve their greatness and forever shake the world with their music. King Crimson managed to shake up the musical world like an earthquake in one year. However of they had a good sensatave manager like Brian Epstein then perhaps they would have stayed together longer. They could easily thrived as a studio group. But no one can ever disagree that their music is timeless and will be remembered in musical history for centuries to come.
Hilarious remark. King Crimson don’t have anything remotely resembling The Beatles’ impact, innovation or longevity. The Beatles also knocked it right out of the gate and instantly shook up the entire music industry and the expectations upon pop artists.
The fact that you’re even bringing up The Beatles unprovoked proves that they are the benchmark for all pop and rock music. King Crimson are not. King Crimson are a footnote in ‘60s and ‘70s pop music. Their influence extends only to progressive rock (and a crappy Kanye West song). The Beatles were the defacto leaders of and defined an entire generation. Artists across all generations and genres cite them as influences.
“Well written documentary”
The opening line about Fripp’s father is enough proof to the contrary. The rest sounds like a Wikipedia read and is has many inaccuracies.
Don't expect a "Bobby plays the blues" cd from Fripp anytime soon (" Ladies of the road" came close). 🤣🤣🤣
I remember reading an interview where he said " most rock guitarists don't even know how to hold a pic properly". I agree. Have been a fan since ITCOTCK.
Jeff Beck didnt use one.
So when they played the gig with The Nice was that when Greg Lake met Keith Emerson?
Correct.
still love it!!
Fascinating .
First heard King Crimson on "Beaker Street" KAAY AM 1090, Clyde Clifford late 60`s early 70`s
Diretamente do Brasil.
Ouvi pela primeira vez:
In the Court of criminson Kin em 1970.Tinha 14 aninhos.
Um petardo estonteante:
Epitaph viajandao con Greg Lake arrebentando.
- Century Szoid man
O primeiro Heavy metal da historia.
Fumava uma marijuana e curtia Kin Criminson.
Lark Tong in Aspic
Obra prima.
Som da minha adolecencia.
Everybody was in the army back then would go missing sometimes. Two weeks later somebody says they seen them, in army boots out marching in the rain.
I saw Crimson open for Humble Pie in '72. They kinda took the shine off the Pie.
Brian Ferry tried out for King Crimson around late '69 or early '70 as a vocalist. They passed...
To me they were further proof that a band does not need to be hugely popular / mainstream / last forever with all original members intact / have household or celebrity names (etc) to be SUPERB & AMAZING. But then, this is only my humble opinion.
That bit about Hendrix is possibly apocryphal. Fripp would have had to get the date wrong for it to have happened.
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An inspirational story indeed - my writing is certainly influenced by them, although you would have to look hard!
It's this simple......if you have never heard any music by this Super Prog Rock Group...........please do , you won't regret it :) Peace and Love
Good video, but I have a couple criticisms: you should try to keep opinions out of an informative piece, namely the mention of Robert Fripp's father being devastated while simultaneously acknowledging the lack of sources. Also, ending the video where it did is confusing. King Crimson made more albums after the split up, why did you phrase it like there wasn't anything afterward? Is there a sequel to this doc I don't know about? Anyway, still a fascinating watch, very enjoyable regardless.
Thanks for your comment. And more installments are on the way.
I agree. The comment about his father was bizarre and unwarranted. Terribly written.
Older Robert looks astoundingly like his Dad.
What about the music? What about the lyrics? What about the choice of names? The amount of information is basically a quick read of wikipedia.
11:10 - a random shot looking down the modern Chicago River....while discussing a 1969 Atlantic contract, lol
Wow, absolutely fascinating and inciteful documentary about one of the Universe's greatest groups. Honestly though, cutting the cr*p, these guys were simply amazing, some of the best musicians on the planet. This documentary very ably narrates how the band came to being. A band which, still to this day (including the various metamorphoses), is unequalled for its' eclecticism and intelligence, with the possible exception of Peter Hammill and VdGG.
I'd say this band is at least EPIC...majestic,,they went where others didn't imagine!!-- with a huge imagination 😮🎉
Wow pictures of Robert Fripp standing up and playing..😮
Well Jimi's right arm was in a cast,so he improvised...
Steven King uses the name Crimson King for his evil character in his Dark Tower novel series
No mention of Peter Sinfields lyrics then in the comments........
Grande gruppo