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Gotta go with the song "Trio" off of Starless & Bible Black. Truly magical piece.
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Live in studio on German TV Beat-Cub, late 1972 with Jamie Muir. Twas telepathy. Probably their finest hour.
Then they were THE best fusion group on Earth. Jamie´s departure was such a great loss, I really miss that man.
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1) Getting Thrakked at the House of Blues in New Orleans

Between Crimsons:

2) Catching the League of Gentlemen at Record Revolution in Cleveland Heights, Ohio and being able to witness Fripp's technique up close.

3) Speaking with Adrian Belew at a bar in Lexington, Kentucky during a set break at a Bears concert. He was kind enough to share some insights when I asked him what it was like working in a powerhouse like KC. He spoke of the delicacy of working through the creative process in a band with such strong personalities. He was clearly having a great time playing with the Bears. The dude is one animated big electric cat!
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Haven't seen them live :( too young.. But musically, the first time I hear Starless and Bible Black, Lament starts, and I think to myself ''Huh, what a nice and calm way to follow the great deceiver'' and then the bass-drum section hits in, and Fripp starts his chromatic riffs, and then John Wettons rough rusty vocals hit in and then eargasm. 
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Originally posted by ses ses wrote:

The tense build-up that is The Talking Drum. 

Mine is the screaming violin after TTD, leading into Fripp's crashing guitar chords to open LTIA Part 2!!
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I love the end of the softer middle part in Satori in Tangier when the band goes back to the original edgy motif, particularly the drum break but also the change in guitar sound and style.
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The tense build-up that is The Talking Drum. 
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Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

I too caught the Frippertronics tour in the summer of '79 at a Tower Records down the street from San Diego State University. When it came time for autographs, I handed Him an import cassette of Red and sheepishly mentioned that I'd picked it out of a cut-out bin at a now long defunct Wherehouse Records store across town for just $2.99. With the mildest look of disdain, He calmly replied, "Dear, dear." Of all the things to have said to the man, but at least I wasn't frothing at the mouth.

A guy I knew who was there always told the story of how he tried to get Fripp to autograph a program from the Fillmore East 1969, which he was so proud of, and Fripp handed it back, saying "I don't sign books." My friend always hated Fripp after that! (Me, I've always hated that I didn't know about that appearance, as I lived practically just down the road at the time and would have been there in a flash if I'd gotten word of it.)
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One moment that stands out to me is when I first listened to "Trio" from SABB. I'm not good at transcribing, but I want to try and figure out what makes that piece so beautiful...maybe it's the chords. The unusual instrumentation helps too, I think...it seems to be bass guitar, violin, and mellotron.
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Moment? There is one place in "21st Century Schizoid Man" when the whole band plays a fast 12-bar hard bop at the same time. It's prog in a nutshell.
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Originally posted by The.Crimson.King The.Crimson.King wrote:

Seeing Fripp on the Frippertronics tour at Tower Records in Campbell (near San Jose) July '79.  Someone handed him a pick to try, he looks at it like it's a priceless ancient artifact and says, "ah, a plectrum"...then he proceeds to play the impossible fast picking section of Fracture and all our jaws hit the ground Wink  
I too caught the Frippertronics tour in the summer of '79 at a Tower Records down the street from San Diego State University. When it came time for autographs, I handed Him an import cassette of Red and sheepishly mentioned that I'd picked it out of a cut-out bin at a now long defunct Wherehouse Records store across town for just $2.99. With the mildest look of disdain, He calmly replied, "Dear, dear." Of all the things to have said to the man, but at least I wasn't frothing at the mouth.
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Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

Originally posted by Pastmaster Pastmaster wrote:

My favorite moment is when they broke up.

Which time, wise guy.

Every time.

For the record, I do enjoy "The Power to Believe".
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Originally posted by Pastmaster Pastmaster wrote:

My favorite moment is when they broke up.

Which time, wise guy.
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Having just worked through a dozen of the CDs in 'The Road to Red' for a Vinyl Connection post, I'm feeling pretty saturated with that era of KC music. But there is a lovely moment on Disc 7 where Robert Fripp exhorts the crowd to 'make King Crimson a Top 10 band'. Equal parts confidence, optimism and foolishness but you love him for it.



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My favorite moment is when they broke up.
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Whatever that sound is that Jamie Muir produces under the words "And I thought my heart would break" in "Easy Money." You can just hear the guy's soul crumble.
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Points: 2466 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 27 2016 at 07:51
Well, f**k me, this is a hard choice, so here's some of them:

1. Saxophone solo in Schizoid Man
2. Ending flute solo in C&C
3. Prince Rupert's Lament (with that soloing, which was on FIRE)
4. the ending to Islands (gets to me emotionally every time)
5. LTiAII riff
6. the ending to Fracture
7. Starless' climax
8. Adrian's vocals on Indiscipline
9. the more "noisey" parts of Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream (when each of the instruments are in different time signatures of each other)

That's what I've got.
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Points: 30855 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 08 2016 at 13:24
First row at Projekct two : Hearing Trey hitting the strings of his Warr before the sound blast through the speakers 1/10th of a second later was pretty cool.

and that Ade grin behind the drumkit...priceless.
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Being a lifelong fan, there are too many moments to count, but whenever Keith Tippett goes off on a freeform tangent or whenever Mel Collins sticks his signature sax in things, that's when I feel the Crimso magic most. 
I like to feel the suspense when you're certain you know I am there.....
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Originally posted by sublime220 sublime220 wrote:

The first 3 minutes of marimba/xylophone/vibraphone/glockenspiel/chimes in LTiA Pt. I

Not sure about the other percussion but the main sound in there is a kalimba - aka African thumb organ Wink
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