King Crimson - 21st Century Schizoid Man (Fillmore East 11-1969)

[HalfStepTides]

4:40 - 5:18

Mindblowing. Best segment of music in history.

They play it really damn fast here, it sounds near impossible.

[page20000]

the major difference between then & now is creativity, apart from music, when was the last time you decide to buy a record/cd just by the artwork of it. i did quite often back then, and i was not even an art frantic.

[Possesssed666]

Fucking 'ell this is raw! Love it!!

[Shadic159]

Greg seems to be shy here, he isn't singing very well

[BenjamminClark]

Man all the people who thought Led Zep were the kings of live shows back then, holy fuck did their minds get blown when they saw this band. Not even Botham can touch Giles on the drums.

[the9thplague1]

prog-awesome.. great sound.. 69? has to be the original tour for 21st.. wonder who recorded this..

[Ared6uitar]

@the9thplague1 Maybe Bill Graham???

[kingcrimson1204]

I loaned my father The Mars Volta's 'Deloused in the comatorium' album and he told me they were reminiscent of King Crimson... so I got him to rip all his King Crimson albums to cd and I haven't looked back!

[kingcrimson1204]

This video is a perfect example of why time machines are such a must for the 21st century! hello?

[hampstershat123]

This is good, but to say there are no good musicians out there today is ignorant.

[jnld5]

I hope this doesn't insult anybody. I mean no harm, but you should check out The Mars Volta – Cygnus....Vismund Cygnus. It's the only thing that I think comes close in music THESE DAYS!!!

[iRoxC]

@jnld5 Yee, brah.

[iRoxC]

Good music still exists today, you dad-rocker tards. This is incredible, but music has evolved so much and you're all so blind to it. Flame away, call me a whippersnapper why don't you?

[confoozled3737]

@iRoxC Preach!

[holden415]

tool sucks. Crimson RULES!

[Mrpztron]

the only good contribution from KC is ,TOOL, the greatest band of all time!!!!

[yonaguska4]

@Mrpztron Are you on any perscription medication? Or were you born that stupid?

[dannyhood66]

@Mrpztron The band 'TOOL' would never say that...Saying (21st century man) is the only good contribution from King Crimson.. King crimson did not pick TOOL, TOOL picked King Crimson, TOOL is influinced by KC.. But please tell me if i am wrong? If its that important I dont have time for wikipedia, tell the truth no nonsence.,

[CrimsonKingl2]

@Mrpztron ROFL, u should hang yourself dude.

[slayerized86]

Wow... What a gem! Thank you so much for posting this.

[commentnotapproved1]

I remember numerous magazines from the 70's bitching and whingeing about "Dinosaur bands" and "self indulgent musicians"....I hope those fuckwits are happy with what we have now!

[qbc177]

@commentnotapproved1 Amen to that,brother....cheers.

[avalanche344]

@commentnotapproved1 Well said brother well said. I hope the bastards choke on their words and die in an eternal hell listening to lady gaga or whatever and Justin Biever

[JackOrion0670]

@commentnotapproved1 assholes selling their opinion of how things should be. Magazines were only worth the pictures anyways. I never read them, just flipped through.

[kfsfkakf]

@commentnotapproved1 Every musican "self indulgences" when they play the music they want to

[commentnotapproved1]

@kfsfkakf Not 'Every'......session and studio musicians' play music they want to'....because it earns them money (even nowadays crappy stuff), it gets them a step closer to playing with someone really famous like 'Britney or Taylor'.

[kfsfkakf]

@commentnotapproved1 Well I wanna be a session musician and would love to play music on albums and songs I like instead of famous crap

[commentnotapproved1]

@kfsfkakf Don't we all!

[dannyhood66]

@commentnotapproved1 haha I hear you man! The critics wrote so much shit about black sabbath in 70s so far from the truth unreal!.. So nowdays blacksabbath puts the 70s critic news paper clippings in their concert tour books sold at shows.. It shows them critics who's talking now'' having the last laugh, being it still sells 40 years later, like many 'dinosaur' bands will continue to do..

[commentnotapproved1]

@dannyhood66 Go the Sabbath..!

[sublimeaqua]

@commentnotapproved1 Theres room for everyone. Take your pick. Lots of good stuff during Punk and since...also a lot of crap

[commentnotapproved1]

@sublimeaqua There's not room for everyone in my music collection. I wouldn't classify (punk) turning up a guitar as loud as possible and bashing out 3 chords in any major key as music. Why have 28 different female solo artists (i'm not using the word "singers") yelling the same style of music. The music industry could have 6 female solo artists and 22 SONGWRITERS if it was encouraged, but they probably wouldn't be as fashion conscience.

[sublimeaqua]

@commentnotapproved1 This is Punk for me. It was played to me by my older brother in the late Sixties when I was 7 and it blew my mind. It has passion and rawness and its good Rock and Roll. It makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck. I like all sorts and this stands up to the Punk stuff I like. I liked Punk but 99 per cent of it was awful and formulaic.

[komimakojaketu]

@commentnotapproved1 Yeah,with the 'New Musical Express' idiots leading the pack.Couldn't agree more with you,brother.Peace.

[nemea23]

@commentnotapproved1 Why on earth it's not okay for musicians to create and play the most interesting, evocative music they can is beyond me. Sounds like the "prog complainers" were a bunch of jealous losers to me.

[commentnotapproved1]

@nemea23 Me too! Here's my theory for what it's worth: Up until the mid 70's when PUNK came along, the music industry (which did have some musicians at the executive level, but were quickly replaced with middle management) (and was taking a natural progression since the 1920's & 30's) realised that the listening public didn't know the difference between a good musician/band and a Aquaduct. There was, and is a lot of money to be made from being fashionable...oh! and being attractive..!

[nemea23]

What was the "one more tune"? What could they possibly play after this? An epic tour de force.

[Innerspace100]

@nemea23 Mars, maybe...

[lamecasuelas2]

@commentnotapproved1 fuck music critics,fuck all of them!! they are only frustrated musicians!!!!screw them an long live Prog rock!!!

[thefrogprog]

POWERFUL!!!!!!!

[DarkAmbient93]

Absolutely brilliant! I very much like KC's first album. However, the Wetton era was the real, earth shattering monster! That line-up outshined any other prog band of the time; and I'm a huge fan of Yes, Genesis, ELP, and way too many others to mention. Boo me if you like, but I also like the live renditions of this song as sung by Wetton over that of Lake. Lake was better with ELP. Still, as I said at the beginning. This is a great live rendition of the song.

[azarkiowa]

This must've scared the shit out of the American bands. How the hell do you follow this?

And Giles is absolutely untouchable. The best drummer Crimson ever had.

[dannyhood66]

@azarkiowa I think a lot of bands from europe during 60s scared the shit out american bands..What did we have one blue cheer song summertime blues and iron butterfly in da gadda vidda? Nothing really heavy from american psycadelic i can think of?

[beroth77]

@dannyhood66 take a look at "sir lord baltimore" and a bootleg from iron butterfly from 67... its heavy..realy.Peace

[dannyhood66]

@beroth77 Thanks ill check em out.. The iron butterfly theme galaxy theater 67 was the heaviest i heard from them, to bad it never got recorded good in studio, heavy for 67 totally unknown for 40 years, least me anyways,

[martin2sax]

Is this from the Epitaph album?

[paeganmushroom]

@martin2sax yeah. it's in the first cd and supposed to be seventh track.

[Marauder1962]

@martin2sax No it's from the court of the crimson king.

[paeganmushroom]

fuck the one who disliked this, fuck them who will.

[TheGargoyleLives]

0:49-0:52 is brilliant. And I'm a guitarist.

[Optalem]

Blood Rack, Barbed Wire... Politicians Funeral Pyre... Innocents raped with Napalm Fire, Twenty First Century Schizoid Maaaaaan!!!! (8)

Supremme!!!!!

[aeroglifo]

Insane

[joethelionjoethelion]

I cant think of any first album by a band that hit everthing perfectly and defined Progressive.. Those melodys are impossible to let go of. I sometimes go off for days singing" I Talk to the Wind ". As a drummer I have learned more from from Master Giles than anyone else!

[artysanmobile]

@joethelionjoethelion I can't count the number of times I have listened in awe to that record. It never grows old. It never fails. It reminds me that music is a mountain with no peak, and my life's purest goal is to climb, climb, climb. That record is a rare gem in modern musical history and I consider myself very fortunate that it took its place in that history during my growth as an artist.

[19kiggs]

I just noticed something. This picture is the original troll's face.

[moralreef]

the drums are so heavy!

[kkingcobra2155]

lol sounds funny but epic

[Wobble2009]

Outstandingly good live version... Both Lake and Fripp sound better than any take I've heard before... Thanks for sharing...

[TouchFasterImaging]

wow...this is an unreal live version. Do you have any more of this set?

[spenckey]

The once and future KING! Jaw-dropping performance. Best live version i've heard.

[MRMERCEDES101]

Remember when musicians had musicianship?

[VirtualDynamite]

@MRMERCEDES101 I don't really think that many bands have ever had musicianship even near as good as king crimson 69.

[pteeng1]

@MRMERCEDES101 Aye! Bands nowadays don't bother with musicianship/inventiveness. Musical artists are at the mercy of commercial corporations (read: Record Companies) and afraid of experimentation.

[coolpinkblack]

@MRMERCEDES101 if only musicianship had survived.

[Sunchild333]

@MRMERCEDES101 Oh it's still there. Just hard to find it. It's the whole band that needs musicianship to create such music. Not only one individual who is usually brought down by the other band members nowadays.

[SirShakes6TH]

@MRMERCEDES101 Remember when musicians played instruments?

[MrPekingCat]

@johnnysavana the original

Greg Lake - vocals and bass guitar

Ian McDonald - reeds and woodwinds

Robert Fripp- guitar

Michale Giles- percussion

Pete Sinfield- sitting to the side dreaming of further lyrics and inspirations

[johnnysavana]

@MrPekingCat

giles was a beast in this show

[MrPekingCat]

@johnnysavana

a beast he was!

[theroseofthevalley]

Best live version of this great classic that i've found here on YT.Thanks a lot for posting!!

[POPOUPOPOULE]

This is a seriously good take! Thanks for sharing....

[nagenayr]

Such a sweet live version of this awesome song!!!