Another King Crimson concert from 1974 will come to vinyl for Black Friday (November 27). After the release of Live - Penn State University 29 June 1974 for Record Store Day earlier this year, the show at Toronto's Massey Hall on June 24th, gets an outing as a 200g 2LP (1500 copies worldwide). This show first became available as a 2CD in 2011. It contains an early version of Starless and improv elements that would pop up later in One More Red Nightmare.
A fabled King Crimson concert will be released as a 2LP for Record Store Day (April 18). Live - Penn State University 29 June 1974 first became available as a download in 2007. Two tracks - Easy Money and It is for You, but Not for Us made it unto The Great Deceiver 4CD box set in 1992.
2000 copies worldwide on 200-gram audiophile vinyl, with a recording of 21st Century Schizoid Man in Central Park as a bonus track.
Beat, the supergroup that bring 80s King Crimson to Europe next year, have added a show in Zamek W Ćmielowie in Poland. Adrian Belew (guitar, vocals), Steve Vai (guitar), Tony Levin (bass) and Danny Carey (drums) will be performing @ Stratocastle on July 17.
Beat bring 80s King Crimson to Europe next year, with a lengthy tour in June and July. Adrian Belew (guitar, vocals), Steve Vai (guitar), Tony Levin (bass) and Danny Carey (drums) know their shit, so this will be good.
At long last: King Crimson have posted the footage of their concert at the Alabamahalle in Munich, Germany on September 29, 1982. It has been circulating among collectors for decades. Robert Fripp (guitar), Bill Bruford (drums), Adrian Belew (vocals, guitar) and Tony Levin (Chapman stick, bass, and vocals) were promoting the Beat album.
English musicians and music geeks extraordinaire Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness have posted a new episode of their podcast The Album Years. They talk about 1982, discussing albums by John Cale, Pete Townshend, Squeeze, King Crimson, and a whole lot more. This is part #5 about this year. The pair can be watched on YouTube as well.
English musicians and music geeks extraordinaire Steven Wilson and Tim Bowness have posted a new episode of their podcast The Album Years. They talk about 2000, discussing albums by King Crimson, Neil Young, Merzbow, and a whole lot more. This is part #4, the final episode about this year. Also: the pair can be watched on YouTube now as well.
Watch Jerry Harrison and Adrian Belew perform the Talkng Heads album Remain in Light in full @ Hardly Strictly Bluegrass 2022 in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA on October 1st. Thye opened with the Heads's debut single Psycho Killer and inserted a cover of King Crimson's Thela Hun Ginjeet.
The core band - Harrison, Belew, bass player Julie Slick and percussionist Yahuba Garcia-Torres, was joined on stage by former Turkuaz members. That NYC funk rock band ceased to exist in November 2021, citing musical differences. A 2021 tour with Belew and Harrison was cancelled after a couple of shows, because of the pandemic.
English avant-garde musician Colin Robinson (Jumble Hole Clough, Churn Milk Joan, Big Block 454) broadcasted the 7th episode of his monthly Answers On A Postcard show on Otto Radio. Missed it? It is now on Mixcloud:
This one covers rock, prog rock and folk from the early 1970s - so expect Deep Purple, Led Zep, ELP, King Crimson and Richard Thompson. And the Bonzo Dog Band. Don't forget them.
Watch Norwegian black jazz band Shining tackle the King Crimson classic 21st Century Schizoid Man. Recorded live @ Rockefeller Music Hall in Oslo On November 3, 2010.
English avant-garde musician Colin Robinson (Jumble Hole Clough, Churn Milk Joan, Big Block 454) broadcasted the second episode of his monthly Answers On A Postcard show on Otto Radio on March 6th. Missed it? It is now on Mixcloud.
Set aside for an hour of music by King Crimson, Faust, Van der Graaf Generator, Henry Cow, Parliament, and much, much more.
English avant-garde musician Colin Robinson (Jumble Hole Clough, Churn Milk Joan, Big Block 454) broadcasted the first episode of his monthly Answers on a Postcard show on Otto Radio on February 6th. Missed it? It is now on Mixcloud.
Set aside for an hour of music by Eno, Zappa, Can, Captain Beefheart, Funkadelic, Richard and Linda Thompson, King Crimson, a chat about improvisation with Simon Partridge from Cold Bath Street and much, much more.
The eagerly awaited KingCrimson documentary In The Court of the Crimson King wil have its worldf premier @ SXWS in Austin, TX in March. Directed by Toby Amies the film hopes to shed some light on the creative process and internal dynamics within this long-running progressive band, with founder member and band leader Robert Fripp as the instigator and keeper of the flame throughout it 50 years existence.
Drummer Bill Bruford has launched his own YouTube channel. Happily retired as a performing artist he plans to share clips from his days being on the road with Genesis, Yes, AWBH, Earthworks and of course King Crimson. He posted an appearance of the band playing Elephant on the cheesy US TV late night show Fridays in 1982 as well as a couple of tracks performed live in Munich, Germany. The Belew, Bruford, Fripp and Levin line-up almost msde it to the mainstream after they had released the Discipline album in 1981, but the general public shied away pretty quickly.
Watch the Levin Brothers tackle the King Crimson classic Elephant Talk. Recorded @ the Bearsville Theater in Woodstock, NY on June 26, 2021 during their “Vaccinating Rhythm” tour.
Levin Brothers:
Tony Levin: bass, vocals
Pete Levin: keyboards
Jeff "Siege" Siegle: drums
Jeff Ciampa: guitar
French progressive rock quartet 7 Weeks pulled off a memorable cover of the King Crimson classic Cirkus for their latest EP The Sisyphus Sessions. The accompanying video was directed by William Windrestin.
King Crimson's classic debut album In the Court of the Crimson King has be reissued in a wealth of configurations, but the big one is coming on October 23rd 2020: The Complete 1969 Recordings, a 26-disc boxed set.
The complete audio history of one of the most important debut albums of all time is presented across 26 discs in this boxed set. Featuring a new Dolby Atmos mix by Steven Wilson, 6 CDs' worth of session material on CD & Blu-Ray for the first time (fully mixed by David Singleton), a further disc of newly compiled studio material, the box also includes the original studio album, every alternate take known to exist, every mix known to exist, all live recordings known to exist & a selection of pre/Crimson 1968 recordings.
Innerviews has an in-depth interview with King Crimson frontman Jakko Jakszyk:
When I first was asked to join the group, it was a culmination of all sorts of things musically and ambition-wise. It was difficult not to acknowledge the 13-year-old boy in me who'd seen the band at Watford Town Hall back in 1971. In the ‘80s, I looked back somewhat cynically at that moment and thought of it as a kind of rather over-romanticized ideal that I'd witnessed this group and experienced some magic that had somehow changed my life. Then I got to the age I am now and you know what? It really did change my life and here I am in the midst of that music. That music that made me want to become a professional musician in the first place. It was difficult to escape the shadow of that experience when I first joined King Crimson. It was also difficult to escape the shadow of the enormity of the task I had decided to take on. I remember Robert saying to me at one point, "Be careful what you wish for."
One-man band Daniel Huffman, aka New Fumes, and The Flaming Lips team up for a rendition of Moonchild, of the King Crimson debut album In The Court of the Crimson King. Recorded in the Dome Home in Dallas, TX and at Pink Floor studio, OKC, OK in August 2012. The album wil be covered in full, with Stardeath & White Dwarfs as a third partner.
