What Boz Really Thought About King Crimson

An interesting thing about his statement that he quit Crimso...history tells a different story.  The chronology I've read goes like this:

1) After the release of Islands, an unknown band member described the quiet parts of the album as "airy-fairy sh%$"...perhaps Boz?

2) After the '71 Islands tour, Fripp fired Sinfield claiming musical differences and a loss of faith in Sinfield's ideas.  

3) The band broke up acrimoniously during subsequent rehearsals. 

4) The band agreed to patch up their differences for one more tour - with the promise they would disband after.

5) During the '72 tour everyone had a change of heart and told Fripp they wanted to stay together after all.

6) After the tour, Fripp sacked the whole lot of them anyway.

7) Boz appeared on Pete Sinfield's solo album "Still".

8) Boz joined Bad Company and made some money playing music for a change!

It appears to me as the common situation where your boss fires you, and in a flash of anger you shout, "you can't fire me, I quit" 

Comments?

Ya, Boz appeared to be in his 50's when the interview used in the Bad Company doc happened...

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

 

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!

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.