Think I may be one of very few King Crimson fans on here but any one interested, there's a documentary, 4 years in the making being shown selectively.
One screening was this morning, so, too late there but other screenings taking place I believe, 19th October and 22nd October all in the blurb below.
"In the Court of the Crimson King, King Crimson at
50" Celebrates with Global "Schizoid Launch" Oct 19
& 22
London, UK: Wednesday 28th September 2022, 8am
- Today DGM Ltd is delighted to announce the public
launch of the highly anticipated documentary 'In the
Court of the Crimson King, King Crimson at 50,
directed by Toby Amies (The Man Whose Mind
Exploded).
King Crimson have always pioneered their own
uncompromisingly independent route, and this
documentary, 4 years in the making, has followed
the same path. In a carefully choreographed global
event, the movie will be available for One Day Only in
select independent cinemas worldwide on
Wednesday 19th October, with a specially filmed
introduction. This will be followed on Saturday 22nd
October by a special streamed screening in London,
with live introduction by Robert Fripp and Q&A with
the director and band members.
The whole event and movie to be available live
worldwide on the nugs.net platform and available
through Video On Demand for a 24 hour period
thereafter to allow for fans in different time zones
around the world. A BluRay/DVD release and larger
box set will follow, with never-before-seen live
performances of the band, outrageous outtakes, and
hours of unreleased additional footage.
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You should try dipping into their back catalogue, even I was surprised at the extent of their genius. And thankfully they introduced me to Tony Levin and Adrian Belew who I never would have come across otherwise.
Tiny venue and I was standing a few feet away from the biggest speakers I've ever seen. I had ringing in my ears for days afterwards.
Crimson King one of the greatest debut albums and probably the best prog rock debut (maybe Piper matches it!).
Yes - epic is not enough.
Not a huge fan of prog rock in general but crimson king was superb and I couldn't not love it.
I think I had a copy of "In the court of the Crimson King" in the late 1960's.
Left it with a girlfriend I think.
Good memories.
The astonishing thing about In the Court of the Crimson King is that it was released in 1969.
The same year as Let it Bleed and Abbey Road, both classics but it shows just how far out there Crimso were.
I don't class myself as as a massive fan, I have half a dozen albums. I like some of the albums that others don't e.g Lizard
Just sayin!
But having said that I have always regarded Piper as psychedelic pop/rock rather than prog.
There, I've opened up a can of worms @bobmunro, maybe not for this thread though
Soon after its release.
When I finally got to see them for the first time it was at the Royal Albert Hall and there I was all happy, that I was finally going to see them live and imagining all my favourites being played and the B'startds didn't play anything that I knew.
I think it must of been around the time of the release of, Thrak and I hated it because I didn't know they'd continued to record and release albums. And of course as Fripp later said, bands want to evolve and not need to play their old stuff all the time.
But as someone still stuck, ITCOTCK it felt like sacrilege but in many respects it was the best thing because I was then able to go over all their releases and while nothing will eclipse that first album and it's impact, they've continued to influence me with their great music.
And am I grateful for that.
My brother had a similar experience with Steeleye Span, when an audience member enthusiatically called out for a particular song and one of the band took the mike and gave him an arsey lecture about "you wouldn't like it if somebody asked you to repeat a job you had done years ago".
Well here's the rub you pompous windbags, did you announce before you sold the tickets that you were only doing songs from the new album? No, because you knew damned well half ther audience were paying for tickets to here their favourite songs and you didn't want a half sold out show.
Well fuck off then.
If Fripp doesn't want to play the old stuff all the time, that is fine but announce it when the tickets go on sale.