King Crimson´s line ups

Althought my favorite album is ITCOTKC, I like the second line up better...still I would pay anything to see the original one more time!!!

Allow me to cast a vote for the early KC.  Not just the first groundbreaking album but the next two, as well.  They had no musical boundary.  Heavy metal, early funk, even big band sounds were to be found throughout.  They were still great in the later line-ups but they got a little bit too discordant and noisy for my particular taste.

Fripp-Bruford-Wetton-Cross for me... but if the Belew-Fripp-Bruford-Levin lineup was a choice, it would have been a difficult choice.

Well, I just love fripp-wetton-cross-brudford era of KC. If there is any dream team of mine it would be fripp-wetton-cross-brudford-muir. There was some magicall binding between them at exactly that time and place and all of their works of that era are great. And althought giles-mcdonald-fripp-lake were also great and made great music, for me the second line-up rised high above music - higher any other band (or line-up) ever been in their creativity and art. But ITCOTCK follows (miles away, but if you count albums dividing them it's not so many).

While their second album wasnt nearly as ground breaking as In the court, the Fripp-Giles-McDonald-Lake-Sinfield line up was the most talented line up they had, and certinely created the most enjoyable music out of any King crimson line ups

I can only imagine what KC could have become is they had stayed together. But as Fripp has said, King Crimson is less of a band and more of a way of doing things in ways that no one else does

Sometimes I think that the Wetton time of King Crimson is the best line-up a band could possibly want!!! You have "almoust" all the elements for this...you´ll see why I say almoust.

First of all we have to start with a great and tight rythim section...and some may even say that the Wetton-Bruford was the best of them all...this may or may not be true...but they surely were great, specially in Red. So there we have them as a unit.

Then we have only Bruford and Wetton...Bruford had to fill two shoes: drumms and percussion (because of Muirs departure) and he did! And a superb work he did! Here is where the master of drumminf beginns! Wetton added the most powerfull bass Crimson ever had, one of the most powerfull bassist of thouse days if not the most!

Third, you have to have a great composer...this is obviously Mr Fripp. Talk about making music!!! Composing with the guitar and the mellotron Fripp created a new music for KC´s already vast and odd musical style.

4) A good mellody maker...well they had two! Not only Fripp with his riffs and solos, but also Cross, who added a deeper sound to this music with his violin and viola, specially in Lark´s tongues in aspic.

And number five...is where it´s stops to be perfect...the singer. Althought Wetton has a nice voice and pulls of some great melodys (Starless!!!) it´s not up there with the rest of the instruments...if Wetton would had have a cleaner voice and more knowledge on how to use it better...well you do the math.

So...to summon up, we have the best intrumental line-up with a good voice hehehe