KC in Hyde Park...

I just thought I'd post as I'm currently listening to King Crimson live in hyde park amongst a few other live cds...

I just find it amazing how these guys thought they were awful. Such a shame MkI broke up, I know there probably would have been no ELP () but I'd still like to have seen what they came up with next. Judging by the Mcdonald and Giles album it would have been something more spectacular than in the court...A little less depressing too, Can you imagine KC Playing Birdman?

If most bands today could play half as good as this, we might ... nah forget it...

Travel Weary capricorn..Ahhhh

I definately think Mcdonald was the main factor to crimson. His composition skills are outstanding. The songs on the later albums are meandering sh*te...ok sorry..Improv...Haha. Ian did write in the court after all ...

I want a MKI reunion...Then an ELP reunion. They could tour together actually, just think of the weight greg would lose if he was that busy. Go on, You can do it!

Sid Smith in his Krimson biography In the Court of King Crimson, writes about how that Hyde Park gig - remember KC where unknown and the support for the first show of the  Mick Taylor version of the Rolling Stones (hence Mick Jagger doing the stage announcements on the KCCC album) - turned a lot of heads to the new progressive musicians, taking them  away from the establishment. Sid refers to my mate Trev's introduction to KC in the book; the said Trev went on to form The Ideal Gnomes and half a dozen other unsuccessful bands in the 70's, and more recently,  the Lever Jones Band is worth catching, if only on CD as a laid back variant of Steely Dan.