King Crimson´s line ups
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Topic: King Crimson´s line ups
Posted By: el böthy
Subject: King Crimson´s line ups
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 13:17
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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!!! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: memowakeman
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 13:39
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5 votes to fripp wetton line up... im surprised sinfield and giles has no votes ------------- Follow me on twitter @memowakeman |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 14:02
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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. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: vogre
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 14:08
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There are enough options to make it a poll about all line-ups, including the Projekcts. Even in their first years they had more line-ups. There were other polls about this. |
Posted By: Cygnus X-2
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 14:08
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Fripp-Bruford-Wetton-Cross for me... but if the Belew-Fripp-Bruford-Levin lineup was a choice, it would have been a difficult choice. ------------- 
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Posted By: mission4prog
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 14:27
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The magic behind early Wetton is hard to deny. The later Wetton is, perhaps, another story. m4p ------------- "The hypocrites are slandering the sacred halls of Truth." |
Posted By: adamw
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 14:57
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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). |
Posted By: Oxygen Waster
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 18:01
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AAHHHHHHH!!!!!! I cant Decide......I choose King Crimson |
Posted By: Karn Evil 9
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 18:10
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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 ------------- Watch out where the huskies go,dont you eat that yellow snow |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 18:55
I like'em both  ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: February 17 2006 at 19:33
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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 ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: February 25 2006 at 08:20
| I really can't choose... I love both line-ups and the albums they produced. However, if I really had to choose one above the other, I'd go with the first one - especially because of Lake's stratospheric vocals. Wetton is one of my favourite bass players, but he did a really bad job as a vocalist on LTIA, spoiling great songs such as "Book of Saturdays" and "Exiles". |