King Crimson, is most every phase, served as a major influence to progressive musicians of every genre. I love this line-up due to the unique voice of Jamie Muir, a percussionist who'd stormed free improv ensembles in the UK with his 'industrial drumkit', hand drums, talking drum, collection of gongs and bells and rather manic approach to playing them all---and often simultaneously! Also with Bill Bruford's drumkit, John Wetton's bass& vocals, David Cross' violin and of course Fripp. Damn.
Did anybody ever have this on vinyl and notice how, sound wise, it would blow every other record away? Like it was engineered incredibly well, and just, basically, had fucking BALLS!! I had a copy of Kevin Ayers' "The Confession of Dr. Dream" that had the same type of incredible sound, and I can't really think of ANYTHING else that came close...I'm not sure if it was like that with every pressing, I'm referring to the first pressing...just wondering...
Look, the album Larks' Tongue In Aspic can't be categorised, it was of the strangest albums at the time. Compare it to Dark Side of the Moon which was released around the same time, this was very different. But it also was the wake of something new, something different, BEYOND proggresive. Don't bring in any other bands into these comments. You want to show King Crimson respect, you do that by respecting King Crimson, and not trying to perch them higher by comparing them to others. They are king
@brittonrd72 Because when ever I show anyone this album (particularly this song), wether it be other students (who have any sort of understanding of this side of music), or my school music teachers or even my Dad, it will always be compared to Pink Floyd, and it annoys the shit out of me.
For the record, just because a song is in a "odd time" doesn't make it progressive. For some reason everyone thinks that anything in 5/4 or anything like that is automatically a prog masterpiece. Its a LOT more than that. Many of the great prog songs are in standard time.
@fryBASS That's right, it also has to have really pretentious lyrics, layers of pompous, overblown sounding orchestration, synthesizers, of course...and, uhh....just kidding!...I LOVE prog,, Gabriel era Genesis is my all time favorite stuff...just being an asshole rock critic for a minute...
When I first listened to this record, was when I first discover Music. I had to listened several times to understand I was in front of a Masterpiece. Progressive-art-rock... They were really composing their Music being ahead of what everyone were doing at that time.
@Entombed1111 Funny! But I believe you're wrong. They may have been trippin' when they wrote it, but you can't be this tight as a band and all be on acid. Well...us mere mortals can't. Fripp is from somewhere off-planet. (And I'm still trying to go there...)
king crimson...the best example EVER of superbly talented musicians who, on the whole, it can be said thusly: 90% of their stuff is self-endulgent crap, but it must be further noted it is always interesting crap...got to meet adrian in the 80s in of all places bloomington IL...nice guy, didnt seem to mind that i had no idea who he was
@akitaman101 Wrong...100% of "Red" and "Starless and Bible Black" is fucking brilliant...maybe 80% of "Larks' Tongues...",as far as this (their best), line up...
@Tengent Germans love atonality hence groups like King Crimson would be on their TV 24-7 (and not necessarily on a Public Broadcasting System stations either).
@Tengent back in the day this happened. lots of stuff happened in the late 60s and early 70s, it was awesome! I may be an old mom but my kids know music
Love the eye contact and interaction between Fripp and Cross. Like they're thinking, 'We have this motif down tight, and let's blow some minds!' Wetton and Bruford holding down the bottom end while the animated Muir fills in all the side percussion, whistles, and other eclectic musical goodies.
When I see these clips of the "Boy Wonder" of Rock drummers, Bill Bruford, playing material from albums for which we'd ride our bikes to the record store two or three times a week ("Is it OUT yet? Is it HERE yet?"), it does quite a number on my sensibilities to remind myself that he is now 61 years old!!
(But we won't tell anybody he's retired! Musicians just don't do that, Bill! Erm, Bill?)
@Timmybear Crimson has had more two drummer phases than any other group I can think of. this one, the mark IV band with Bruford and Belew, the mark V band with Bruford and Mastelloto (sp?), the mark VII band with Gavin Harrison and Mastelloto...
well i liked the last 20 seconds of it. Why did the guitar sound like one of those fake shred videos where someone overdubs guitar with shitty guitar?
Jak pierwszy raz słyszałem ten utwór, a uwielbiam ciężkiego rocka. Powiem Wam tak: super brzmienie, ciężar niesamowity, ale słyszałem ten utor z innego koncertu - solo na gitarze - dosłownie - solo shizofremika - najlepsza solówka - ekspresja i moc i ... nie umiem określić, ale poprostu zagrane tak jak wymagało, mimo ograniczeń wtedy i brzmienia i instrumentów. Wyciągnął istotę i brzmienia i instrumentu i utworu.
I remember buying "Three of a perfect pair" and playing it without having read the cover. When Lark's exploded in my headphones on the last track of side "b", I was shocked.
Lark's part one and two had driven me nuts. It is so good. And then, as an unexpected gift, part three. WOW!!!
i fucking love this. anyone who thinks this is shit probably does not understand the art, compassion and musical talent behind it. closed minded people shouldn't be on a king crimson video so fuck off.
Just beacause radiohead doesnt use polirithms, unusal tempo signatures, and disonant chord progressions all the time, doesnt mean that they are not prog, besides, its been nearly 40 years since this song was released, music changes all the time, a so does the way we call it, "electronic music" was in its first days (in the 50´s) regular music played by electronic instruments, today its what we all know.
@Zopenkos yeah im sure alot of modern day progressive bands were influenced by this. yeah youi're right. the truth is its 2011 and now i see music all combining into one. all genres are using more electronic devices if not instruments with their live acts.so its just a matter of how its arranged and played. it's hard to be original. the more you try to be original the more you end up copying something that was done 50 years ago. it always seems to go back to the roots.
@Zopenkos 'Scuse me, Radiohead are definitely NOT prog. What do they do that's progressive exactly? They've got one or two pieces of music in odd time. Radiohead is pseudo prog for people who can't grasp real progressive music as far as I'm concerned. And no I'm not being snobby, I don't dislike non progressive music.
@Zopenkos Plus radiohead does use a lot of strange time signatures, some dissonant chord progressions and a lot of jazz influences. i feel like radiohead is the modern pink floyd
@babejunky Their supposedly groundbreaking "O.K. Computer" was stylistically a rip-off of Todd Rundgren's "A Wizard , A True Star" which came out two decades before it...
@cathoderoy That must be why OK Computer is often voted the greatest album of all-time and I'm only just hearing this now from an individual source, namely you. Everyone and by everyone I mean the general public and numerous worldwide critics must have had their blinkers on.
@cathoderoy That's only because they're not trying to be them. They are amazing, but so are King Crimson and Pink Floyd, and in very different ways. Radiohead could have some elements in their music in common with those bands, but they can't be compared, not because one is greater than the other, but because they are all unique. Stop posting dumb comments, you're gonna piss people off with your ignorance. I am personally a fan of all three bands, and, as I said, they are all geniuses
@ShazerThe Ignorant? I've been a King Crimson fan since the first record, I've met Fripp and seen him perform solo "Frippertronic" shows numerous times (he told me his favorite Crimson drummer was Michael Giles, btw)...been into Pink Floyd since "Atom Heart Mother", had "Dark Side of the Moon" 2 weeks before it was released.Jason Falkner, who's worked with Nigel Godrich (produced him and Radiohead), told me Godrich was influenced by Todd when producing "O.K. Computer". I'm so fucking ignorant.
@cathoderoy Well, have you done all of that with Radiohead? Just because you know know who inspired the producer to produce one of their many albums (although it can be considered their best album by some people; an opinion I disagree with) doesn't mean you know everything about the band. You are condemning them out of pure bigotry, which can be considered ignorance.
@ShazerThe I've listened to "O.K. Computer" and I even chopped into into pieces to show my friends how similar they are to parts of "A Wizard, A True Star", I've seen the videos from all their records and I have a copy of "Making Friends Is Easy"...I saw them perform their magnum opus, the record that's considered their best, from beginning to end...what the Hell else do I have to do to conclude whether or not I like them, buy ALL their records, see ALL their concerts? I don't like them enough..
yeah, i bought this on betamax video cassette from a bootlegger back in 1996, and it REALLY bothered me that David Cross's violin was WAY out of tune.....it sounds horrible. I can hardly listen to it.......
However,
I KNOW that footage exists of the ENTIRE 20 minute-long improvisation called "The Rich Tapestry of Life".....and now THAT would be worth seeing and hearing!
@1zappa Frippm said Cross sounded so bad when they were recording "U.S.A.", they had to have Eddie Jobson record his parts over again...I always liked Cross' studio contributions, though, I think he added a lot of depth..
@certificate18flix Well... Prog rock : NO (for sure) but they're more experimental than other alternative rock bands, that's why people call them "experimental", you have to compare things that are COMPARABABLE with one another. Although both bands are still active today, they don't come from the same scene. King Crimson come from the early 70's Prog-Rock scene whereas Radiohead come from the mid-90's Pop-Rock scene...Therefore : comparing both is pointless.
NO ONE CAN BE COMPARED TO KING . avid fan since RED, STARLESS. listened to their music on a phonograph- cranked ! have to listen to them at full volumn for the FULL EFFECT
@stupidteaset Hey, maybe you noticed it, too...did you think that the vinyl version of "Larks' Tongues..." sounded 1000 times more ballsy than any other record in your collection?? Like it was recorded with some miraculous process that allowed way more sound to be packed into them grooves...could've been just the first pressing though...
also I hope they dont take this vid down, because to Fripp or whoever, if it wasnt for finding these viods I wouldnt have spent £100 on your DGM site so its all good
@CrimsonKing589051 David Cross played beautiful music and was a great fit for King Crimson. I always loved his contributions, and often wondered how Fripp persuaded him to join the band. I once read that David said, upon hearing the bands work, that it sounded like film production music. lol must have been an awakening for Fripp! I mean, I love the stuff, but parts of Schizoid Man sound like the theme from a 60's spy show.
Great stuff. Cheers BlackMax. Revised my opinion of Jamie Muir, masterful percussionist. Bill looks far from relaxed here, one thing being close to the edge another being pushed over it.
@gietek and you needed to develop a new playing style which was to be played in King Crimson and nowhere else. "Whatever you did before King Crimson, could you please not do it in King Crimson"
Is is me? or does Jamie Muir look kind of like Michael Giles.
444Guitarboy 1 week ago
2:57 - 3:04 ...0_0
Shabadoop 1 week ago
I found this, weird....
cpamiseso 1 month ago
This video scared the living crap out of me when I was younger and saw it on VH1 Classic.
SonOfYoungwood 1 month ago 2
cathoderoy. What?
thebarstar100 2 months ago
King Crimson, is most every phase, served as a major influence to progressive musicians of every genre. I love this line-up due to the unique voice of Jamie Muir, a percussionist who'd stormed free improv ensembles in the UK with his 'industrial drumkit', hand drums, talking drum, collection of gongs and bells and rather manic approach to playing them all---and often simultaneously! Also with Bill Bruford's drumkit, John Wetton's bass& vocals, David Cross' violin and of course Fripp. Damn.
XylophoneNoir 2 months ago
Did anybody ever have this on vinyl and notice how, sound wise, it would blow every other record away? Like it was engineered incredibly well, and just, basically, had fucking BALLS!! I had a copy of Kevin Ayers' "The Confession of Dr. Dream" that had the same type of incredible sound, and I can't really think of ANYTHING else that came close...I'm not sure if it was like that with every pressing, I'm referring to the first pressing...just wondering...
cathoderoy 2 months ago
God damn, it's like an acid trip without the bugs in your skin
2Banano 3 months ago
This is the song I'm going to play during my nervous breakdown...
bearmassaro 3 months ago
240, we meet again :/
donky2507 3 months ago
Mozart wrote as one, Fripp writes as many!!!!!!!!
rockcritic 3 months ago
I'm really diggin' the overalls!
RyWagner2 3 months ago
I saw this tour in Boston 1974? maybe. This was their opening song. Jim Dandy and Black Oak Arkansas were the opening act. What a mis-match.
ouzo6000 4 months ago
horrible.
RandolphGLGuynn 4 months ago
Jamie Muir reminds me of Micheal Giles
kfsfkakf 4 months ago
7 focused on Mr Muir´s outfit!!
lisanders11 5 months ago
Hahaha! Can anyone tell me what starts to happen at 02:57? End of the World, or the Beginning, perhaps someone cooking some tomatoes at High Speed...
lisanders11 5 months ago
from 2:58 to 3:05 the guitarist turns into a freaking computer
michaelgerard2 5 months ago
omg !!! king crimson is so beautiful.
rztronic 5 months ago
There Are no King Crimson tribute bands!
SuperIntuitive1 5 months ago
sounds like a bunch of crazy noise !! with loony tunes !!
frankiev1231 5 months ago
2:57 reminds me take the veil cerpin taxt's robot talk
pveilleux37 6 months ago
If Robert Fripp would ever stand up during a concert and just rock out!
Well, I think we would all shit several brix.
Hallzach 6 months ago
@Hallzach Nooo doubt!!
lisanders11 5 months ago
Absolutely brilliant! ~ I weep for those born too late in the last century :~{
rimbaud108 6 months ago
why are you reading the comments? enjoy the music!
Andres5045 6 months ago 10
Look, the album Larks' Tongue In Aspic can't be categorised, it was of the strangest albums at the time. Compare it to Dark Side of the Moon which was released around the same time, this was very different. But it also was the wake of something new, something different, BEYOND proggresive. Don't bring in any other bands into these comments. You want to show King Crimson respect, you do that by respecting King Crimson, and not trying to perch them higher by comparing them to others. They are king
GooGuGajoob 7 months ago
@GooGuGajoob I agree- but why the comparison to Pink Floyd?
brittonrd72 6 months ago
@brittonrd72 Because when ever I show anyone this album (particularly this song), wether it be other students (who have any sort of understanding of this side of music), or my school music teachers or even my Dad, it will always be compared to Pink Floyd, and it annoys the shit out of me.
GooGuGajoob 6 months ago
For the record, just because a song is in a "odd time" doesn't make it progressive. For some reason everyone thinks that anything in 5/4 or anything like that is automatically a prog masterpiece. Its a LOT more than that. Many of the great prog songs are in standard time.
fryBASS 7 months ago
@fryBASS you sir, are a gentleman and a scholar, and I salute you.
johnditmo 5 months ago
@fryBASS That's right, it also has to have really pretentious lyrics, layers of pompous, overblown sounding orchestration, synthesizers, of course...and, uhh....just kidding!...I LOVE prog,, Gabriel era Genesis is my all time favorite stuff...just being an asshole rock critic for a minute...
cathoderoy 2 months ago
This is a great song, which kind of reminds me of a band I've heard a few days ago, Aperco. Hear the similarity at their channel apercoband
Tamgeopose1988 7 months ago
robert fripp is trip.
Thexile123 7 months ago
Drummer Bruford quit YES at the top of their popularity to play for this band.
MisterNifty 7 months ago
Vote Jamie Muir for Druid King
RalonzoP 7 months ago
Can't compare to Zappa's musical escapades.
Easleytee 8 months ago
Craziest drummer ever :)
swisa1120 8 months ago
When I first listened to this record, was when I first discover Music. I had to listened several times to understand I was in front of a Masterpiece. Progressive-art-rock... They were really composing their Music being ahead of what everyone were doing at that time.
karmanumber9 8 months ago
A real treat with rare footage of Jamie Muir on percussion...A great piece of music in any era
merrlinn1 8 months ago
I think there all tripping balls?
Entombed1111 9 months ago
@Entombed1111 whats your point
dejahthoris 8 months ago
@dejahthoris That their all tripping balls dumbshit.
Entombed1111 8 months ago
@Entombed1111 Wouldn't it be "They're all tripping balls"? lol just saying
mandolinmountain 8 months ago
@Entombed1111 Funny! But I believe you're wrong. They may have been trippin' when they wrote it, but you can't be this tight as a band and all be on acid. Well...us mere mortals can't. Fripp is from somewhere off-planet. (And I'm still trying to go there...)
musicaldun1 8 months ago
@musicaldun1 Fripp never did drugs...according to him, anyway...
cathoderoy 2 months ago
king crimson...the best example EVER of superbly talented musicians who, on the whole, it can be said thusly: 90% of their stuff is self-endulgent crap, but it must be further noted it is always interesting crap...got to meet adrian in the 80s in of all places bloomington IL...nice guy, didnt seem to mind that i had no idea who he was
akitaman101 9 months ago
@akitaman101 Wrong...100% of "Red" and "Starless and Bible Black" is fucking brilliant...maybe 80% of "Larks' Tongues...",as far as this (their best), line up...
cathoderoy 2 months ago
@cathoderoy just my opinion mate...cheers to u and yours! have a great christmas!
akitaman101 2 months ago
Very early for a Larks' Tongues in Aspic recording, don't you think ? I didn't know they already played it in '72.
Hydroel 9 months ago
Amazing piece of good music!
FredXXXFred 9 months ago
hi tanvo93 - beat club was a great German show with lots of incredible live acts; check out other beat club performances on you tube!
klausbluetner1 9 months ago
I Wish I Was High!
damarsvolta 9 months ago
How the balls did this get on television? Every once in a while I'll find something vaguely atonal on WNIN..
Tengent 9 months ago
@Tengent Germans love atonality hence groups like King Crimson would be on their TV 24-7 (and not necessarily on a Public Broadcasting System stations either).
ronbo11 9 months ago
@Tengent back in the day this happened. lots of stuff happened in the late 60s and early 70s, it was awesome! I may be an old mom but my kids know music
dejahthoris 8 months ago
They look like hipsters.
PrimericanIdol 9 months ago
It's barely believable that music like this got TV coverage in Germany in the early 70s. Nowadays music on German TV is hardly worth mentioning.
klausbluetner1 9 months ago
@klausbluetner1 have u heard the crap in america? it makes me sick that people want to call it art..this is creativity..art
tanvo93 9 months ago
Love the eye contact and interaction between Fripp and Cross. Like they're thinking, 'We have this motif down tight, and let's blow some minds!' Wetton and Bruford holding down the bottom end while the animated Muir fills in all the side percussion, whistles, and other eclectic musical goodies.
celticbro28 9 months ago
I really do love this percussion player. He is already there where music is aiming. Superb!
jazzmies 10 months ago
Wow! I'm old!! This stuff is gold!
ditchpig 10 months ago
When I see these clips of the "Boy Wonder" of Rock drummers, Bill Bruford, playing material from albums for which we'd ride our bikes to the record store two or three times a week ("Is it OUT yet? Is it HERE yet?"), it does quite a number on my sensibilities to remind myself that he is now 61 years old!!
(But we won't tell anybody he's retired! Musicians just don't do that, Bill! Erm, Bill?)
cliffwalkinfool 10 months ago
LOOK AT FRIPP!!
Awesome :D Coolest show ever. Very psychedelic background.
mudjunky78 10 months ago
And finishing the works of one more day, with this anacronic, terrific and instigating song.
Good night.
PEACE!
LOVE!
JOY!
mrjohn1964 10 months ago
Yes clearly wasn't nearly insane enough for Bruford
toskoramone 11 months ago 4
@toskoramone
I've always considered Yes to be Bubblegum backed with classically-trained band members.
cliffwalkinfool 10 months ago
Live from Bremen Germany, the place where Beck's beer is brewed. NICE!
Davechop54 11 months ago
fuckin fantastic,this is what my schizophrenia sounds like,and its finally the 21st century
opensore80 11 months ago
大地震!戦慄が････狂えﾐｭｰｱ･･･LARKS TONGUES IN ASPEC ･･CRIMSON
blackandtanful 11 months ago
KING CRIMSON for ever. This album featured great tracks. Thank you Fripp, Wetton,Cross, Bruford and Muir for making this kind of music.
thegerrie19561 11 months ago
great post! such a treat to see muir and cross
doug76g 1 year ago
this is like the NAMM show
bucktoofus 1 year ago
Am I the only one who thinks Fripp's guitar sounds too muted?
MiraLove 1 year ago
This is as cool as it gets
orpheus2112 1 year ago
@echoespedro - Oh, I knew that. I meant in this particular clip, they have two drummers (but not two guitars or basses here).
Timmybear 1 year ago
this shits crazy, i cant dance to it. haha
uncleshan 1 year ago
I didn't know Crimson HAD a two drummer phase.
Timmybear 1 year ago
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TheHeavyMole 11 months ago
@Timmybear Crimson has had more two drummer phases than any other group I can think of. this one, the mark IV band with Bruford and Belew, the mark V band with Bruford and Mastelloto (sp?), the mark VII band with Gavin Harrison and Mastelloto...
TheHeavyMole 11 months ago
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Makes you think you're in the woods!
capoeira26 1 year ago
well i liked the last 20 seconds of it. Why did the guitar sound like one of those fake shred videos where someone overdubs guitar with shitty guitar?
chickenmanstan 1 year ago
The out-of-tune violin is actually a good idea for this composition.
TheWacky46 1 year ago
I love that people think the violin is "out of tune" by mistake. LOL
that's awesome
I'm sure that's what King Crimson wanted people to think.
Lightmane321 1 year ago
@Mikey0835 the thing is that king crimson doing this stuff forty years ago!!!
mars volta is great but is not original...
laspenasdelfenix 1 year ago
eek aaak galubell!!! pat pat !!!!
mathghamain 1 year ago
Note to self: whenever making a live video....
TUNE THE DAMNED VIOLIN
gd44 1 year ago
@gd44 I agree
jordancgreen271998 1 year ago
I agree
jordancgreen271998 1 year ago
Jak pierwszy raz słyszałem ten utwór, a uwielbiam ciężkiego rocka. Powiem Wam tak: super brzmienie, ciężar niesamowity, ale słyszałem ten utor z innego koncertu - solo na gitarze - dosłownie - solo shizofremika - najlepsza solówka - ekspresja i moc i ... nie umiem określić, ale poprostu zagrane tak jak wymagało, mimo ograniczeń wtedy i brzmienia i instrumentów. Wyciągnął istotę i brzmienia i instrumentu i utworu.
cezik13 1 year ago
I remember buying "Three of a perfect pair" and playing it without having read the cover. When Lark's exploded in my headphones on the last track of side "b", I was shocked.
Lark's part one and two had driven me nuts. It is so good. And then, as an unexpected gift, part three. WOW!!!
rouelibre1 1 year ago
this is insane
Hrci04 1 year ago
This song makes me want to hide under the Duvet........
Kaiserwhosay 1 year ago
Larks Toungue in Aspic, Suits London mood. The dogs bollocks!
elviss 1 year ago
Wow....
rp7o333 1 year ago
pure gem....whoa man, whoaaaaaaaa
DJBeSSeR 1 year ago
"sorry but this sucks ass" dude you made my day.....glory!
DJBeSSeR 1 year ago
What a technical piece of music. Pure genius.
animal9592112 1 year ago
i fucking love this. anyone who thinks this is shit probably does not understand the art, compassion and musical talent behind it. closed minded people shouldn't be on a king crimson video so fuck off.
rawfflecakes 1 year ago 26
Just beacause radiohead doesnt use polirithms, unusal tempo signatures, and disonant chord progressions all the time, doesnt mean that they are not prog, besides, its been nearly 40 years since this song was released, music changes all the time, a so does the way we call it, "electronic music" was in its first days (in the 50´s) regular music played by electronic instruments, today its what we all know.
Zopenkos 7 months ago
@Zopenkos yeah im sure alot of modern day progressive bands were influenced by this. yeah youi're right. the truth is its 2011 and now i see music all combining into one. all genres are using more electronic devices if not instruments with their live acts.so its just a matter of how its arranged and played. it's hard to be original. the more you try to be original the more you end up copying something that was done 50 years ago. it always seems to go back to the roots.
rawfflecakes 7 months ago
@Zopenkos 'Scuse me, Radiohead are definitely NOT prog. What do they do that's progressive exactly? They've got one or two pieces of music in odd time. Radiohead is pseudo prog for people who can't grasp real progressive music as far as I'm concerned. And no I'm not being snobby, I don't dislike non progressive music.
TheModCon 7 months ago
@Zopenkos Radiohead might have some prog tendencies, but don't confuse "eletronic" and "electric".
brianjay86 4 months ago
@brianjay86 ...or "eletronic" with "electronic" :)
cathoderoy 3 months ago
@Zopenkos Plus radiohead does use a lot of strange time signatures, some dissonant chord progressions and a lot of jazz influences. i feel like radiohead is the modern pink floyd
TheSchoolsux345 4 months ago
@TheSchoolsux345 Fuck Radiohead, they're no King Crimson or Pink Floyd...not even close.
cathoderoy 3 months ago
@cathoderoy obviously no one will compare to the classics, but if i had to pick one band that would be the modern pink floyd, it would be radiohead.
TheSchoolsux345 3 months ago
@TheSchoolsux345 porcupine tree?
gibbsies 3 months ago
@cathoderoy Er... no they're a lot better.
babejunky 2 months ago
@babejunky Nuh uh...
cathoderoy 2 months ago
@babejunky Their supposedly groundbreaking "O.K. Computer" was stylistically a rip-off of Todd Rundgren's "A Wizard , A True Star" which came out two decades before it...
cathoderoy 2 months ago
@cathoderoy That must be why OK Computer is often voted the greatest album of all-time and I'm only just hearing this now from an individual source, namely you. Everyone and by everyone I mean the general public and numerous worldwide critics must have had their blinkers on.
babejunky 2 months ago
@cathoderoy That's only because they're not trying to be them. They are amazing, but so are King Crimson and Pink Floyd, and in very different ways. Radiohead could have some elements in their music in common with those bands, but they can't be compared, not because one is greater than the other, but because they are all unique. Stop posting dumb comments, you're gonna piss people off with your ignorance. I am personally a fan of all three bands, and, as I said, they are all geniuses
ShazerThe 2 months ago
@ShazerThe Ignorant? I've been a King Crimson fan since the first record, I've met Fripp and seen him perform solo "Frippertronic" shows numerous times (he told me his favorite Crimson drummer was Michael Giles, btw)...been into Pink Floyd since "Atom Heart Mother", had "Dark Side of the Moon" 2 weeks before it was released.Jason Falkner, who's worked with Nigel Godrich (produced him and Radiohead), told me Godrich was influenced by Todd when producing "O.K. Computer". I'm so fucking ignorant.
cathoderoy 2 months ago
@cathoderoy Well, have you done all of that with Radiohead? Just because you know know who inspired the producer to produce one of their many albums (although it can be considered their best album by some people; an opinion I disagree with) doesn't mean you know everything about the band. You are condemning them out of pure bigotry, which can be considered ignorance.
ShazerThe 2 months ago
@ShazerThe I've listened to "O.K. Computer" and I even chopped into into pieces to show my friends how similar they are to parts of "A Wizard, A True Star", I've seen the videos from all their records and I have a copy of "Making Friends Is Easy"...I saw them perform their magnum opus, the record that's considered their best, from beginning to end...what the Hell else do I have to do to conclude whether or not I like them, buy ALL their records, see ALL their concerts? I don't like them enough..
cathoderoy 2 months ago
@cathoderoy Fine, dude. An opinion is an opinion, and I can't change yours. Let's agree to disagree, then.
ShazerThe 2 months ago
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cathoderoy 2 months ago
They are awesome live!
RocknKylie0428 1 year ago
sorry but this sucks ass
arcticnoordpool 1 year ago
@arcticnoordpool ssa kcus uoy
Dannymusic1999 1 year ago
Out of tune? Depends what you are tuning to.
Drama, anxiety etc,
It is like an acid trip condensed into music.
Iconic.
WackaJawacka 1 year ago
I loooooooooove JAMIE MUIR! He reminds me of salvador dalì! (he also thought of the name ''lark's tongues in aspic'' that I thik is brilliant)
PippoBlues93 1 year ago
Awesome
zaratejosecarlos 1 year ago
yeah, i bought this on betamax video cassette from a bootlegger back in 1996, and it REALLY bothered me that David Cross's violin was WAY out of tune.....it sounds horrible. I can hardly listen to it.......
However,
I KNOW that footage exists of the ENTIRE 20 minute-long improvisation called "The Rich Tapestry of Life".....and now THAT would be worth seeing and hearing!
Thanks.
CrimsonKing73 1 year ago
@CrimsonKing73 the violin is NOT out of tune , the music calls for that type of sound!!!!
ksjoyjespeace 1 year ago 3
there Horrible.
3580181 1 year ago
o som me lembrou a galera do vida seca de gyn!!!!
yuriaol 1 year ago
Muir scares me. I also agree with the Cross being out of tune thing, that really bugged me.
But it's still a fantastic recording.
MasterYumyums 1 year ago
@MasterYumyums He's not exactly out of tune. He would tune it that way because the sound his violin makes creates unsettling tension in the song.
1zappa 1 year ago
@1zappa Frippm said Cross sounded so bad when they were recording "U.S.A.", they had to have Eddie Jobson record his parts over again...I always liked Cross' studio contributions, though, I think he added a lot of depth..
cathoderoy 2 months ago
...Fripp, not "Frippm", sorry..
cathoderoy 2 months ago
This is magnificent.
SuperSolaris 1 year ago
I just wish the violin wasn't so out of tune
safetheory 1 year ago
@safetheory yeah, what the hell with that? couldn't he hear the other instruments or what?!
TheRockandroy 1 year ago
『太陽と旋律』 気持ち悪いけどきもちい～い
watarasekun 1 year ago
After seeing this- how can anyone call Radiohead prog rock or experimental???
certificate18flix 1 year ago 23
@certificate18flix Well... Prog rock : NO (for sure) but they're more experimental than other alternative rock bands, that's why people call them "experimental", you have to compare things that are COMPARABABLE with one another. Although both bands are still active today, they don't come from the same scene. King Crimson come from the early 70's Prog-Rock scene whereas Radiohead come from the mid-90's Pop-Rock scene...Therefore : comparing both is pointless.
Bitteulze 7 months ago
@Bitteulze "...COMPARABABLE..."...good one...that's O.K., I write rememember sometimes...
cathoderoy 2 months ago
fuck me this is grat
miracletunno 1 year ago
and if randy kemp is still out there, thanks for turnin' me on to U.K.
stupidteaset 1 year ago
NO ONE CAN BE COMPARED TO KING . avid fan since RED, STARLESS. listened to their music on a phonograph- cranked ! have to listen to them at full volumn for the FULL EFFECT
stupidteaset 1 year ago 2
@stupidteaset Hey, maybe you noticed it, too...did you think that the vinyl version of "Larks' Tongues..." sounded 1000 times more ballsy than any other record in your collection?? Like it was recorded with some miraculous process that allowed way more sound to be packed into them grooves...could've been just the first pressing though...
cathoderoy 2 months ago
@stupidteaset If you were a fan since "Red" and "Starless...", you may not have had an early pressing of "Larks' Tonues...", though...just askin'...
cathoderoy 2 months ago
...Tongues, that is...
cathoderoy 2 months ago
This is my fave version of the band the 5 peice
also I hope they dont take this vid down, because to Fripp or whoever, if it wasnt for finding these viods I wouldnt have spent £100 on your DGM site so its all good
lalalalala5151 1 year ago 2
great music!
geodimetr 1 year ago
Wetton looks so young.
itzed 1 year ago
Violins too loud
ontherush77 1 year ago
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whose that tard running around with a whistle and clown horn
boibad12 1 year ago
@boibad12 Whoa now, that's Bill Bruford.
thekidwiththefa 1 year ago
@thekidwiththefa no the other guy. of course i know bill bruford
boibad12 1 year ago
@boibad12 Jamie Muir
1994AlmostSkater 1 year ago
Hace algunos años nunca imagine que existían grupos tan chingonsísisimos como king crimson
fernandostanlei 1 year ago
My god i LOVE fripp,s guitar tone !!!!!! < ^ :
knucklebut420 1 year ago
I hadn't realized that Fripp had already used two simultaneous drum sets this far back.
Talk about one man's vision changing the history of modern music.
gringochucha 1 year ago
The Mothers had two drummers before this I think.
PCFDD 1 year ago
Great stuff from Muir but here's a shout for David Cross too, superb playing. Overall, it's amazing how well they capture the creepy atmosphere live.
CrimsonKing589051 2 years ago 11
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@CrimsonKing589051 There Horrible.
3580181 1 year ago
@CrimsonKing589051 David Cross played beautiful music and was a great fit for King Crimson. I always loved his contributions, and often wondered how Fripp persuaded him to join the band. I once read that David said, upon hearing the bands work, that it sounded like film production music. lol must have been an awakening for Fripp! I mean, I love the stuff, but parts of Schizoid Man sound like the theme from a 60's spy show.
JayDNorris 1 year ago
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JayDNorris 1 year ago
@CrimsonKing589051 its called being a musician
maddogmargetts1 1 year ago
@maddogmargetts1 Madonna is a musician.
birchofacookie 1 year ago
@birchofacookie Where did you get that idea? I thought she was a prostitute
maddogmargetts1 1 year ago
Great stuff. Cheers BlackMax. Revised my opinion of Jamie Muir, masterful percussionist. Bill looks far from relaxed here, one thing being close to the edge another being pushed over it.
pykkervots 2 years ago
@pykkervots Exactly. Imagine working with Fripp! Bill once said "In King Crimson nothing was said. You were just supposed to know".
gietek 1 year ago
@gietek and you needed to develop a new playing style which was to be played in King Crimson and nowhere else. "Whatever you did before King Crimson, could you please not do it in King Crimson"
jeevesthepunk 1 year ago
@jeevesthepunk that's my favourite part of Prog Rock Britannia.
gietek 1 year ago
perché questa musica non torna più?
jada876 2 years ago
Brillliant fucking Wicked!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
vtripaldi 2 years ago
A pure gem. Thanks for sharing
SebaZoneDG 2 years ago 22
La época de oro de King Crimson.
Nunca vi este video,
gracias BlackMax58...!!!!
akettviking 2 years ago