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Prog rock giants who spawned a genre, King Crimson, open for The Rolling Stones at a free concert, Hyde Park 1969 – much to everyone’s confusion.
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I’ll go to my grave
knowing Discipline is the
best album ever.
What a weird opener for The Stones but would have been mindblowing to see.
Hendrix said in 1969 they were the best band in the world.
Listened to court of the crimson king at work today, first time in about ten years. So strange and great, especially the strange syncopated drumming. My dad tried to explain this album to me in my teens… didn’t understand until I started learning to play music myself.
Unexpected Kanye sample. Never knew what that was from.
[“…an album like that could turn you into an evil scientist.”](https://youtu.be/Af8ltlcZNi0)
I found out I have a higher-up at work that’s really into prog. I’ve listened to some King Crimson and some Psychedelic Furs, but where do I go from here? Partly because I like it, partly in case I get caught in a conversation lol.
Any recs?
Isn’t that Greg Lake, later to be with Emerson, Lake and Palmer? I saw ELP twice.
ELP did a great cover of this song. That was the first time I had ever heard the song. I feel pretty ridiculous right now because when I was watching that video I was thinking, that singer sounds a lot like Greg Lake. Then it hit me. I had no idea he sang for King Crimson until now. Makes sense why they covered it now.
I’m sure someone will explain to me how I “don’t get it”, but they don’t sound very good in this performance.
I legit just added a bunch of King Crimson to my D&D playlist for tonight’s campaign kickoff!
Killer Queen was better.
They were expecting some English guys to be imitating Blues. They did not get what they expected.
Progressive rock, like progressive politics, is offensive to the senses and sensibilities.
I…. I’ve never heard of King Crimson .. don’t hurt me.
My acting teacher in NYC formed a band with Ian McDonald and I got to see him live a couple of times when they did their gig’s. Felt really bad when I heard that he passed recently, my teacher must’ve been devastated seeing that he talked so passionately about his band andn working with Ian.
Absolutely love this song. Worth checking out the full studio version if you like this as there’s a huge (awesome) chunk of it missing from this performance
King Crimson is fucking amazing. I’d rather hear them than the Stones any day.
I’m just happy to have some context for the Bad Religion song, 21st Century Digital Boy.
TIHI
Damn, not a single shot of young Fripp??
Reminds me of Kraftwerk first playing in 1970 and everyone not quite understanding what they’re hearing…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWUiLJnEYJI
hoo boy. if you think King Crimson spawned Prog, I’ve got great news for you
you get to learn about [The Crazy World of Arthur Brown]( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=en1uwIzI3SE) – a full year before king crimson, and also contained a future ELP member (Carl Palmer)
and even then, the first prog rock record credit often goes to the Moody Blues [second LP](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETB02LAgON8&list=PLzEG2f9QAl8Oq2k0TQ96E3rNhIkdtQkek), which came out in 67.
However it could be argued that Keith Emerson’s original band, [The Nice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvNWFNsuOcU), sounded very much like ELP but in 67
Though today prog would be said to be rooted in the modernist works of [Varese](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nq8SKwi-ycE) (who was a big influence on Zappa)
And of course a lot of that sort of frenetic composition style goes back to [Gershwin](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynEOo28lsbc)
And of course Gershwin was borrowing heavily from Jazz, which comes mainly from romantic era composers like [Liszt](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdH1hSWGFGU), among others.
Greg Lake, one of the greatest prog icons ever.
Only here for KING CRIMSON name…Jojo guys?
Why are these 70’s bands so terrible live, this sounds so awful lmao. It is a good song but they’re playing it terribly am I wrong?
Personally I always preferred this one ;
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgraQ-xkp4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgraQ-xkp4)
N. Shadows
I had a trombone teacher who introduced me to King Crimson in 4th grade. He’s a great guy. I should put on In The Court of the Crimson King
Is that Greg Lake singing, later of Emerson, Lake and Pälmer? Looks like he’s enjoying the warm reception.
I saw King Crimson open for Tool many years ago and the reaction was about the same.
The camera man was also confused at how to hold the camera still.
It’s like when [Hella opened for Mars Volta and System of a Down](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZd7OmU4z_A) in 2005
No one man can have all that power
It’s NEW for me 🤷
Greg Lake’s singing is amazing, the dude literally sings from his soul as if he’s seriously pissed off at the world around him.