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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2016 at 14:05
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Hi,
 
Closing my eyes in Seattle and listening to the music for over an hour ... magic ... pure magic on this last tour!


Was at that same show, but I didn't close my eyes. Mel was a special treat for sure.

Hard to choose a single moment, wish I could go favorite moment album by album. Cause I love me some Bruford gonna say those deliciously nasty cymbal sounds on the Red album, particularly from the eponymous track and One More Red Nightmare.
Bruford said in one interview that he achieved that cymbal sound on 'Nightmare using one bent in the shape of an L that he once found in the trash can of a rehearsal room. He later tried to convince a percussion company to manufacture one to that design, but they weren't interested. On an old Genesis live poster with Bruford that I have laying around somewhere, the cymbal can actually be seen on his kit.
I always thought it was a ripper of a china.........
It definitely gives off a china sound but something is much different.
There is no dark side in the moon, really... Matter of fact, it's all dark...
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2016 at 14:03
The first 3 minutes of marimba/xylophone/vibraphone/glockenspiel/chimes in LTiA Pt. I
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2016 at 13:15
Originally posted by Rednight Rednight wrote:

Originally posted by zachfive zachfive wrote:

Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:


Hi,
 
Closing my eyes in Seattle and listening to the music for over an hour ... magic ... pure magic on this last tour!


Was at that same show, but I didn't close my eyes. Mel was a special treat for sure.

Hard to choose a single moment, wish I could go favorite moment album by album. Cause I love me some Bruford gonna say those deliciously nasty cymbal sounds on the Red album, particularly from the eponymous track and One More Red Nightmare.
Bruford said in one interview that he achieved that cymbal sound on 'Nightmare using one bent in the shape of an L that he once found in the trash can of a rehearsal room. He later tried to convince a percussion company to manufacture one to that design, but they weren't interested. On an old Genesis live poster with Bruford that I have laying around somewhere, the cymbal can actually be seen on his kit.
I always thought it was a ripper of a china.........
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2016 at 09:19
Soaring oboe and cornet toward the end of the song Islands.  My heart sprouts wings and glides over a misty ocean every time I hear it.

Least favorite KC moment?   Will Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth, during the Thrak tour,  some idiot beaned Fripp with a beer bottle.    
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2016 at 07:34
Being blown away--over and over again--by how essential Tony Levin's contributions were to their music. (1982, 83, 84 tours).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2016 at 04:49
many moments, which is why they remain such favourites...
 
1)  Bill Bruford guesting on my show SPACE PIRATE RADIO, quite possibly the most relaxed and fun interview on the show, at least since Robin Williamson of the INCREDIBLE STRING BAND.  I love when musicians get to be surprised when the interview isn't the typical PR crap and they can talk about what really matters to them.
His appreciation was reflected in his kindness and it can be heard in the IDs he did for the show and photos of the experience.  They're on The Melting Watchtowre site and Twit Hair accounts.  guyguden.blogspot.com & @guyguden
 
2)  Tony Levin's kindness matches his musicianship.  Sublime.  ( And he doesn't hate me because I played The Clams' "Close To You" to limits beyond most human endurance ).
 
3)  King Crimson's second show on the same night in Santa Barbara, which they felt they were pushed into doing, which they felt would be a tired disaster and was, due to that adrenaline reverse magick, the best and
most fun show of the 1985 tour.
 
4)  Adrian Belew, who likewise, had such courtesy that matches his musical talents.
 
5)  The most humble Mel Collins, backstage at Roger Waters' RADIO KAOS show at the L.A. Forum, alone,
overshadowed as Roger holds court, quietly saying "I was in some bands..."
 
6)  King Crimson, two nights at L.A.'s Orpheum Theatre, September & October 2014, quite simply being the best, most expertly professional and exciting group of innovative musicians operating today.  "Progressive"
in its truest and purest sense.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Starless' climax.
Dig me...But don't...Bury me
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First time I saw them in NYC at the Town Hall in 2000, stunning performance. Taking my daughter to her first KC gig last year in Boston
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2016 at 20:03
That time they influenced a massive amount of the music that I enjoy.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2016 at 19:51
Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

I really like what they did between 1976 and 1980.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2016 at 19:27
I really like what they did between 1976 and 1980.
...a vigorous circular motion hitherto unknown to the people of this area, but destined
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2016 at 19:21
The song Starless (i.e. the vocal section) and the climax of the piece when the mellotrons come in. Then everything else.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2016 at 17:58
'21st Century Schizoid Man' - 1971, Academy Of Music, New York City.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2016 at 17:49
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  

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2016 at 16:53
Another one ... seeing the 21st Century Schizoid Band in Hollywood back in the early 2000s with a close prog friend. Like a lurch, I went right up to the stage and stood below Mel Collins and was in complete awe. One phenomenal show I wasn't foolish enough to pass up (although we did pass on the post-show autograph session as it was a week night and approaching 1:30 a.m. - I regret that now).
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2016 at 16:07
I think I only really have one KC moment.
Was visiting my dad in New York where he worked at the time.
Out for an evening stroll through Central Park and came by an outdoor concert venue.
Didn't know what was going on,but this lady asked if I wanted to by a ticket as she had an extra one.
When she found out i was visiting from Denmark,she said I could have the ticket for free.
Went in and Golden Earring was on stage promoting Moontan.Up next was King Crimson touring Red.
Didn't know either band at the time.But it was a great evening.I have to say,I am more of a Golden Earring fan these days.
Great experience nevertheless.So, thank you nice lady.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2016 at 15:42
The moment I submitted one of my Children's Stories to a publisher in Montreal and found out the owner (Alison Fripp) was in fact Robert Fripp's Cousin. Other than that...nothing at all. Unhappy

Well, enjoying all their music of course.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2016 at 15:28
So many, really.
  • The transition back from the uptempo middle section of 21st Century Schizoid Man when the saxophone does the rapid triplets and then Fripp comes crashing down with his guitar into the main riff
  • When the drums for The Court of The Crimson King enter and knock you right out of the dormant lull of those last couple of notes in Moonchild
  • The first few bars of Pictures of A City, breaking the serenity of Peace: A Beginning
  • The start of the first verse in Pictures of A City when it gets amped up another notch
  • Peace: A Theme
  • The vast, sprawling cornet solo at the end of Islands
  • The opening riff from Easy Money
  • The buildups in Larks Tongues In Aspic, Pt. 2
If I were to pick an absolute favourite, though, I'd go with Islands.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2016 at 14:29
Originally posted by zachfive zachfive wrote:

Originally posted by moshkito moshkito wrote:


Hi,
 
Closing my eyes in Seattle and listening to the music for over an hour ... magic ... pure magic on this last tour!


Was at that same show, but I didn't close my eyes. Mel was a special treat for sure.

Hard to choose a single moment, wish I could go favorite moment album by album. Cause I love me some Bruford gonna say those deliciously nasty cymbal sounds on the Red album, particularly from the eponymous track and One More Red Nightmare.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 03 2016 at 13:21
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