Best King Crimson Lineup?

Fripp, Wetton, Cross, Bruford - without a doubt the best KC days.

MovingPictures07 wrote: Fripp, Belew, Levin, Bruford, definitely. Though their current lineup (well, excluding Harrison so not current) is also extremely good... I can't wait to hear them with Harrison.

Larks Tongues! 

Erpland316 wrote: All of the lineups are good in various ways.  The Larks-Red era is probably the best overall, but I have gained much respect for the 80's-present era.  If you havent seen Neal Jack and Me DVD it will change your mind.  Just great musicians playing great music.

I agree, except I think the 80s-present is the best, haha. That DVD will blow your mind; this is just a second voice telling you, if you're reading this and don't have that DVD, it's well worth it.

where the hell is the boz lineup????

Funny how what many find the best KC line-ups (with Wetton and with-or-without Muir) are the ones including one of the musicians with the most uneven post-KC career (Wetton, that is).

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I can't choose.

Mike Giles and Ian McDonald helped make the first KC special. Some of the musical textures and ensemble sounds on ITCOTCK where amazing, even by today's standards. Just beautiful.

Let's not forget the Lizard lineup - or mini orchestra. I can't imagine anyone else producing the marvels of Bolero.

Jamie Muir's experimentalism added an other-worldly quality to KC that was unique. The creativity on LTIA was hard to match. The expanded lineup on Starless (the song) was a treat too. Imagine seeing that group of musicians play it live!

For sheer brilliance, you can't go the 80s group. More compact and spacious than the double trio.

Interestingly, it was the first album of each lineup that saw them at their creative powers. Maybe Bob Fripp should just start new bands, produce an album, then disband? Then he could wait a couple of years and start another band, bristling with creative fire!

Still, the bedded-down bands did manage to produce marvellous gems like Cat Food, Bolero, Starless, TOAPP and Coda.

I voted Fripp-Wetton-Cross-Bruford. That lineup developed beautifully into a very tight unit that could done some amazing improv.

Slartibartfast wrote: The one with Fripp in it.

febus wrote: I choose J.Wetton, Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford, Davis Cross, Ian Mcdonald and Mel Collins;   That's the fantastic line-up playing on STARLESS......33 years later i have never recovered my sanity after reading FRIPP disbanded KC when IAN McDONALD was about  to return full time to the band he created a few years earlier.....Still dreaming of the possibilities!!