King Crimson finally split?
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King Crimson finally split?
I've seen a tweet posted yesterday from their biographer Sid Smith that "on this day in 2021, King Crimson played their final note onstage".
Anyone know anymore details?
Anyone know anymore details?
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Re: King Crimson finally split?
Fripp has stated a few times he has retired from touring.
Will see.
Will see.
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No more Genesis, no more KC. The world suddenly has become a better place.
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Purgatory Brite wrote:I've seen a tweet posted yesterday from their biographer Sid Smith that "on this day in 2021, King Crimson played their final note onstage".
Anyone know anymore details?
https://www.loudersound.com/news/what-n ... QJmZNtaTA0
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Crimson should have called it a day after "Red"
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slightbreeze wrote:Crimson should have called it a day after "Red"
thank god they didn't !!!!
Love so much of their stuff let alone all the wonderful live shows I've been seeing for the past 26 years.
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I'm not saying they should have stopped performing, just that their material after Red left me cold. Can you honestly say that "Beat" or "Three of a perfect pair", even "Thrak", are as good as anything 1969-74? The one concession would be "Discipline" which is half decent.
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slightbreeze wrote:I'm not saying they should have stopped performing, just that their material after Red left me cold. Can you honestly say that Beat or Three of a perfect pair, even Thrak, are as good as anything 1969-74?
Hightea can! he likes any old shite
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slightbreeze wrote:I'm not saying they should have stopped performing, just that their material after Red left me cold. Can you honestly say that "Beat" or "Three of a perfect pair", even "Thrak", are as good as anything 1969-74? The one concession would be "Discipline" which is half decent.
oh brother not the left me cold bs.
Yes Discipline was better than some of the 70's albums. The rest no but still listen to plenty of those other albums songs especially live. KC never put out a bad album.
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I thought "left me cold" was more polite than "mainly piss poor". Perhaps I should have stuck with middle ground and said " underwhelming "
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ConnyOlivetti wrote:https://www.loudersound.com/news/what-next-for-king-crimson?fbclid=IwAR2rLk1WHbwoHtJf2L4Gq7jL5O9zlcKt32elVxQRDXCMVcR44QJmZNtaTA0
When Robert Fripp posted on his Facebook page that King Crimson had “moved from sound to silence” at the end of their last date in Japan, it seems to confirm that, for this line-up at least, King Crimson is at an end.
The full post reads: “King Crimson at the Shibuya Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Tokyo; Wednesday 8th. December 2021 Onstage at 18.40, doors held for ten minutes to allow the audience to enter. A full house. The first set: one hour and three minutes. Overall length: two hours and twenty-four minutes. King Crimson’s final note of Starless, the last note of this Completion Tour in Japan, moved from sound to silence at 21.04.”
Am I missing something? I know Fripp can be cryptic, but I don't see anything in that post that even suggests that these musicians have disbanded for good.
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One can hope, though
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slightbreeze wrote:Crimson should have called it a day after "Red"
I'm inclined to agree, although I confess I haven't kept up with recent iterations of the band.
I saw them tour Beat, I think (1983 or so?), and it stunk, imo.
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Charlie O. wrote:ConnyOlivetti wrote:https://www.loudersound.com/news/what-next-for-king-crimson?fbclid=IwAR2rLk1WHbwoHtJf2L4Gq7jL5O9zlcKt32elVxQRDXCMVcR44QJmZNtaTA0When Robert Fripp posted on his Facebook page that King Crimson had “moved from sound to silence” at the end of their last date in Japan, it seems to confirm that, for this line-up at least, King Crimson is at an end.
The full post reads: “King Crimson at the Shibuya Bunkamura Orchard Hall, Tokyo; Wednesday 8th. December 2021 Onstage at 18.40, doors held for ten minutes to allow the audience to enter. A full house. The first set: one hour and three minutes. Overall length: two hours and twenty-four minutes. King Crimson’s final note of Starless, the last note of this Completion Tour in Japan, moved from sound to silence at 21.04.”
Am I missing something? I know Fripp can be cryptic, but I don't see anything in that post that even suggests that these musicians have disbanded for good.
No, you are not missing something.
And Fripp did not say they have disbanded for good.
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Drown your sorrows or raise a glass in celebration with this…
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Tom Waits For No One wrote:Drown your sorrows or raise a glass in celebration with this…
https://burningshed.com/kingcrimson/kin ... erchandise
I won't be buying it, of course, but that is fabulous.
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They're sold out. Slightbreeze got them all.
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mudshark wrote:One can hope, though
They're not listening to you Muddy, but you and I can raise a glass to their hoped-for demise in April.
Bugger off.
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The sod mentioned a tour in Australia this year. So yeah, that's pretty much out of the question then.
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