Posted on 01/25/2020 2:59:22 PM PST by SamAdams76
I think I played this song at least 10 times today.
I discovered this because I am building a playlist of songs that were popular a half century ago. I intend to carry this through for the rest of my life. The playlist is called "50 Years".
I was born in 1962 so I only started remembering music around the year 1970 but back then, it was Partridge Family, Archies, that type of stuff, because I was only 7 years old, you know.
But this song by King Crimson is EPIC. Turns out that the late Greg Lake did vocals. It's a 10+ minute masterpiece. Said to be the first real "prog-rock" album.
Anyhow, it's great to discover music a half century after it came out. The album art is ugly but I'll post a lion down below, which is pretty cool.
Tru dat!
My wife and I saw ELP in late 70s (?) on their “Works” tour that included a small orchestra and choir. Absolutely amazing!
But when the trio did “Karn Evil #9”, the crowd went totally bonkers - incredible power generated by those 3 guys.
Great song. An even better song is “Epitaph” from the same album.
There used to be a box truck in my area that I saw a few times that had an excellent rendition of the image from that album cover completely covering the back of truck.
It was awesome!
Yep, that’s the cover.
If I recall, the “song” had a very long “interlude” of meaningless sounds, but I liked the main part - didn’t understand all the references, though.
My all time favorite tune,evah
Bong out, man.
One of the best songs EVER. I still put it on in the background while looking at FR.
“Red” is a great album. Much different than “Court of the Crimson King,” Other than Robert Fripp (the only constant among all the KC albums), it was a completely different album.
The biggest drawback of the albums of that period of King Crimson was John Wetton. Not that great a vocalist, great bass guitar player.
One of the best songs EVER. I still put it on in the background while looking at FR.
WOW! I think I lasted about that too.
Just pinging for later
I have that record. I haven’t listened to it on over 40 years.
Listened to it a lot in 10th and 11th grade.
Always a pleasure listening to it the last 49 years whenever it comes up.
Still have a 33 vinyl and something to play it on.
I discovered Gram Parsons a few years ago...was curious about his connection with Emmylou Harris. I’ve got his album Grievous Angel and one other I can’t remember. Some pretty good stuff. Not great in my opinion, but good. These days most of my music exploration is in older music — there’s still a lot of it that’s new to me.
Those of you keeping score at home will note that
-singer/bassist John Wetton didn't sing on the original version, but WAS in KC,
-drummer Carl Palmer was in ELP, which included the vocalist on the studio version/KC alumni, Greg Lake,
-guitarist Steve Howe was in Yes, a big contemporary of KC, and
-keyboardist Geoff Downs was in the Buggles, whose hit "Video Killed the Radio Star" ushered in MTV
Genesis with Peter Gabriel was one of my all time favorite bands. I particularly liked “The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway” and “Selling England by the Pound.”
The first time I heard of Genesis was seeing them live in concert. They were the warm-up for Humble Pie (just after Framption left). I was stoned (my normal state at that time) and the lead singer came out on stage dressed in outrageous costumes with masks. That, alone, caught my attention, but the music was awesome.
I guess I can feel lucky I heard it when it was released. It was a big deal. 2nd LP (Lizard) was ground breaking too. Red was great.
Welcome to the party pall. The first three King Crimson albums are all worth a listen.
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