What Boz Really Thought About King Crimson

 

I think that "rock music" will eventually add a "bass guitar" to its orchestra design ... just like the electric guitar.

 

Those two have been developed a lot better and further than most other instruments, specially when the synthesizer is nothing but a replacement for another instrument in an orchestra.

 

In general, from my perspective, classical music has not had the repetitive and contextual basis that rock music (and jazz!) has defined for itself ... and this creates more possibilities for the future by the time the two mix and match and learn to play together.

 

There is a thread, or group of folks, that do not believe that anything that is "popular music", of which the "electric" contingent belongs to and is a part of, will EVER be a part of music history ... and I think that is incorrect. Music has always shown improvements, and additions and other factors in its history, and I think that rock music will help a lot of new things in the future ... and the likes of work, like Mike Oldfield, guitar over the orchestration, will be more and more visible in the future. Unffortunately, most of us will be long dead and gone to find out about all that ... but if something like that does not happen, "classical music" will probably die after 500 years! Replaced by music that is more forceful, has more personality, and clearly defines the human nature and potential a lot better than before ... because it allows emotion with vocals, something that most classical music has very little off, and has had 500 years to address, and didn't!

 

I wonder if we are thinking of slapping as some sort of process that belongs in the music ... and I have always thought it was more of an accent than it was anything else ... weird to see it thought of as a process that belongs in music!

Crimheads in the 70's thought it was part of the invention and  not the truthful moment.

 

After Greg Lake departed, it seemed difficult for Fripp to instruct a vocalist on what he wanted to surface through the pieces. Boz and Haskell both did a magnificent job, but hated the lyrics. Live concert recordings of Boz in 1971 displays a very serious minded progressive rock vocalist. Live concert recordings from 1972 do not. Most of the 72' concert recordings display Wallace, Collins, and Boz wishing to overthrow the progressive side to Crimso and replacing it with a more R&B/Blues aspect of things. Fripp was not a Blues guitarist and observe those concerts if you will...he sounds quite lost. Such was the case that the 3 of them...(Wallace, Collins, and Boz), moved into a different musical direction by recording an album with Alexis Korner and Snape. Playing songs that moved and breathed in the "British Blues Boom" form and almost immediately after their departure. Boz , Wallace, and Collins did an excellent job playing the pre-"Larks Tongues In Aspic/Starless" material which is available on the Islands 40th anniversary re-mix release. Boz , ironically...could fit into any material placed in front of him. That is evident and very ironic. His vocals on the Islands album are stylistically based on the sound of the Shulman brothers of Gentle Giant. For example....Boz would have done a magnificent job on "Runaway", "Edge Of Twilight" "Dog's Life" and many of the others where the vocals cross over into Folk, Blues, and dramatic poetic progressive.

 

 

I can imagine that it takes a lot of talent to play bass on any Bad Company album!  Basic and beginner level for the most part!

Islands is still probably my favorite KC, and Burrell's singing brought a whole lot into the album.