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Philip wrote:
When the first band split, they should have called it a day imo and Mr Fripp should have used a different name for the bands he formed after that.

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Philip wrote:
King Crimson was a group in 1969, but basically became the Robert Fripp band from 1970 onwards.

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He's said that the first album is his favourite, it makes sense to buy more stuff by that line up before delving in to something like Discipline which sounds nothing like In the Court.
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Paranoid_Android wrote:
FRIPP is playing tonite in DC!!! Wish I could make it...got my Glimmer Twins to watch!! They had a great triple play of LPs in the 80's...DISCPLINE...BEAT...THREE OF A PERFECT PAIR...

STAY AWAY FROM PROJEKT TWO...it was HORRIBLE
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VoodooChileInWOnderl wrote:
A real hard question!

King Crimson has several phases, the recommendation from Philip are from the very first line-up and I agree, they all are great recommendation but some of them are only available from the D.G.M. Collectors' Club

For the line-up you are listening now my recommendation is to buy the 4-CD box "The great deceiver" is a great compilation of the 1973-1974 tour and it includes the a great version of "Lark's Tongues in Aspic Part 1" which is really rare compared with Part 2 that is available in many official live albums and Part 3 also available.

Then buy Discipline, a great studio album, the return of King Crimson after 6 years, originally the band toured as "Discipline" and then Fripp dared to rename the band as "King Crimson" when it was officially killed in the album USA

Also a great three-CD-set is Heavy ConstruKction from the last tour

King Crimson is a great live to listen and to listen live, one of my all time favourites since I first listen "In The Wake of Poseidon" in 1970 or 1971; I was a regular of the Elephant Talk list from 1999 till the last day

Now is time to drink a bottle of prozakc blues!

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• Both bands shared the same stage the same day at the Hyde Park show in London in 1969 and at the West Palm Beach Festival also in 1969
  
  
• Nicky Hopkins recorded sessions for the embryonic King Crimson in 1968 “The Cherful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp”
  
  
• Mel Collins , a former member of King Crimson played sax with the Stones in the album Some Girls. The songs were “Miss You”, and the single “Everything is turning to gold” later on “Sucking in the 70s”
  
  
• He (Mel) also added some sax in the edition of “Love You Live”
  
  
• Again Mel Collins also appears on Bill Wyman’s “Bill Wyman” in 1982 album and was a “Poor Boy” for “Willy” in the mid 80s
  
  
• Once again Mel recorded with Stu for Ronnie Lane and Pete Townshend for the “Rough Mix” album, Stu recommended Mel for the Some Girls Sessions
  
  
• Yet another Mel, he also appears on the “She was Hot” b-side “I Think I’m Going Mad”
  
  
• Mel Collins jammed with Mick Taylor in 1995
  
  
• The same Mel jammed with Stu, Bill and Charlie in the “The Marquee Silver Jubilee”, these are a couple of videos I uploaded from this show, there you can see Mel from King Crimson with Alexis, Bill Wyman, Charlie and Stu
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The leaders of both bands (Mick Jagger and Robert Fripp) recorded well-known songs with David Bowie, to mention a couple: “Dancing in the Streets” and “Heroes”, BTW, the guitar of Fripp on heroes is outstanding!!
  
  
• John Paul Jones (from Led Zeppelin) has contributed and played with both bands
  
  
• Jagger and Fripp have played live, toured and recorded in the studio with Joe Satriani
  
  
• Ronnie Wood wrote a song for Alvin Lee “Let’em Say What They Will” for the “On the Road to Freedom Album” (Lee & LeFevre) and in this album we have Boz Burrell, Ian Wallace both former members of King Crimson. BTW; Ron Wood plays Guitar, bass and drums in his song and 12 string Guitar in another)
  
  
• Well… this is “over-searched” LOL Steve Winwood plays in the Post-King Crimson “McDonalds & Giles” album (super!!! Highly recommended… I mean “High-ly recommended) and Steve Winwood was produced by Steve Miller LOL (well to find another connection hehe)
  
  
• A wife of Mick Jagger and a partner of Robert Fripp appears on a Roxy Music album LOL
  
  
• Both bands are enjoyed by Jethrostone, Saint Sway, Lethargy, Philip, lotsajizz, Paranoid_Android, mojoman and Voodoo Chile in Wonderland from Rocks Off
  
  
• Both bands has been active during the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, and 00s recording, releasing and touring.
  

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Jethrostone wrote:
I've been listening to King Crimson lately and I must say they are a great band. I own:

In The Court Of The Crimson King: Love this one. My fav.

Islands: Got this yesterday. It's okay, so far least fav.

Lark's Tounge In Aspic: Pretty cool, gotta listen to it
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Red: Great album!

Any suggestions on which Crimson album to get next?

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The original and best King Crimson ceased to exist in December 1969, from then on Fripp, in most cases, called the shots and still does to this day.

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Saint Sway wrote:
did anyone else here ever lurk at the King Crimson message board that Lethargy used to moderate?

anyone remember it?.. it had the "KFC" logo and chicken bucket on the home page... was called King Friends of Crimson...

Lethargy used to go by the name "The Colonel"...

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Paranoid_Android wrote:
Both bands are HUGE in ARGENTINA!!!

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Paranoid_Android wrote:
And Paranoid Android has met most of the members of both bands...some multiple times...

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Saint Sway wrote:
Lethargy dropped out of high school because he was so involved with creating his King Crimson Fan Club newsletter that he thought it was a good idea to pursue it full time.... who could blame him... at age 16, he already had 5 subscribers (including family). He figured that by the time he reached 30 he would be able to sell off the fan club newsletter and retire because he would have over a million subscribers.






unfortunately, Lethargy's King Crimson Fan Club newsletter maxed out at 8 subscribers (including grandparents)... but Lethargy still publishes the newsletter to this day and mails it to his close friends (myself, his brother and the guy at Kinko's that lets him use the copier) and he recently passed his GED exam!!! So in a sense, he has come full circle.

please PM him if you would like a copy for yourself -- or post him a response at his website "The Prog Blog"





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Saint Sway wrote:
unfortunately, Lethargy's King Crimson Fan Club newsletter maxed out at 8 subscribers (including grandparents

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