King Crimson

jojo99 · Post by **jojo99** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:30 pm

I don't think Fripp was enthralled with having iron chains hurled in his general direction onstage....LOL

bob_atherton · Post by **bob_atherton** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 9:47 pm

I bought the program for that gig, & have long lost it, but it gave a breakdown of each musicians' instruments.

The list for Jamie Muir took up about half the space, and I clearly remember "a bowl of pistachio shells" being one of them!

jojo99 · Post by **jojo99** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:23 pm

What a coincidence! I studied "bowl of pistachio shell playing" at Berklee for years....but funnily enough, I could only get into my studies after eating a bowl of M&Ms with the brown ones removed...

bob_atherton · Post by **bob_atherton** » Mon Dec 12, 2005 10:34 pm

LOL

My band only plays original material except for two numbers. One is a Meters cover and the other is 21st Century Schizoid Man. Until we dissected that piece I hadn’t realised how good a bass player Greg Lake is. That middle section with damped strings and working in unison with Bruford is one of the most tricky parts of the whole set. Even though most of our audience were not born when that piece was written, it goes down a storm; we often keep it for an encore.

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:21 am

Outstanding, Bob...the band I was in in the mid seventies used to play a tape of the Overture from 200 Motels, then hit the stage with Larks' Tongues Part 2...those were some days, alright...

You're right about Greg Lake's bass on that cut...and the whole album, of course...it wasn't Bruford, but Giles on that first disc, but there are several live versions of Bruford playing that tune with Wetton. It is a killer bass tune, and that middle muted string section is fun as hell...of course, you gotta have someone who can do that Fripp thang, and guitar players like that don't grow on trees.

Jo...you're right as well...if you read Fripp's road diary from those days, there's a long list of things he wasn't enthralled with on and off stage...nevertheless, Jamie Muir remains a percussion hero...a British Dom Um Romao, as it were. I'm guessing the pistachio shells were used to make some of the crunchy sounds in 'Easy Money'...

bob_atherton · Post by **bob_atherton** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 8:42 am

Dane, we are really lucky that our guitarist play like a cross between Fripp and Steve Hackett, really out there stuff...

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:01 am

Stop, Bob, yer killin' me...how might one be able to hear some of your original material?

bob_atherton · Post by **bob_atherton** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:11 am

Dane, I'll have a word with our sax player who is a bit of a wizz with IT. See if I can get a snippet of Schiziod Man up on the net, give me about a week...

wayang · Post by **wayang** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:18 am

That's right...you would need a sax player to do it right...he must be a wizz with the sax as well! (Mel Collins on the original, if I'm remembering correctly...)

It'll be great to hear it...and congratulations on being in such a cool band...

leftyguitars · Post by **leftyguitars** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 9:37 am

Bob, I want to hear your version of 21st century! When are you gigging "oop north"?

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Tue Dec 13, 2005 12:08 pm

I have toyed with the Idea of rewriting 21st century schitzoid man into a blues song ... some day I'll record a demo and post it ... and I might use my 10 string bass to get the tight guitar and bass doubled sound ...

jojo99 · Post by **jojo99** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 5:37 pm

My first introduction to "21st" was from the Canadian group April Wine...it's on the "Harder Faster" album..they omitted the middle bit tho...I was naive enough to assume they wrote it (hey, i was 14). When I finally heard the proper Crimson version with sax....wow! That little freak out at the end is great.
Hey Bob...do you guys do "Sailor's Tale" by any chance? I love how Fripp doubles the sax line with fuzz guitar. Now I suppose you'll tell us you have a mellotron player as well....LOL

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 5:59 pm

I used to play sailors tale in a band in the 70s ... cool song ...

bob_atherton · Post by **bob_atherton** » Wed Dec 14, 2005 10:58 pm

Jo, LOL, sadly no Mellotron!

As I said in an earlier posting we only do two covers in the set.

FWIW "In The Court Of The Crimson King" was the first LP that I ever bought. First track, first album, nice one to cover....

jwr2 · Post by **jwr2** » Fri Dec 16, 2005 4:30 am

that first King Crimson album was like nothing else at the time ... it still sounds good today ...