King Crimson: Classic Or Dud

I think it's always been curious to me that as divergent and distinctive Belew is as a player, you can still hear his allegiance to something as basic or conventional as the Beatles. Whereas Fripp was always about starting over, ignoring influences, doing his own thing. That both ended up in a band together for so long is pretty remarkable, given Fripp's unique presence, which doesn't really allow a lot of room for outside influence.

I've always wondered what Belew would have been like without the Talking Heads. Did David Byrne allow him to be himself, or was Belew so enamored that he couldn't help but imitate?

Fripp gives me a Bob Hoskins as a serial killer vibe

lol i was trying to figure out a way to talk about robert fripp's personality without using the words "serial killer"

"like don't get me wrong when i say 'serial killer vibe' i don't mean that in a _bad_ way"

like i could say "bob fripp is the kind of guy where you wouldn't be surprised to find out that he kept women chained up in his basement" but i feel like it's something i'd need to go into greater detail on. being chained up in weird guys' basements is kind of a special interest of mine and there are a lot of different sorts of people that sentence could describe

first off, he's not the kind of guy i'd _want_ to chain me up in his basement. i'm sure robert fripp is an extremely slutty man but he just doesn't have that sort of robert-pattinson-in-twilight energy about him. (make fun of that robert-pattinson-in-twilight energy all you want but that _is_ a thing and i don't _care_ how "bourgeois" you think it is.) at the same time it's not one of those "oh my god i'm not getting out of here alive am i" situations. like it would all be very decent and respectful and above-board, no hanky-panky, no fooling around. none of that. maybe he'd take a couple of (completely chaste) pictures, but what he'd do with those pictures later is his business and nothing to do with me.

what he reminds me of most are those guys with the private dungeons where i'm not really into them, but i'd scene with them just because it was a really nice dungeon with some cool gear. nothing _against_ him per se, but mostly i'm just there for the dungeon.

pardon me y'all, i very conspicuously did _not_ get chained up in a dungeon this weekend and i was _very much expecting to_ and i'm sort of working out some of my frustrations here.

If anything he strikes me as a sub. The stereotype of the control freak who gets off on totally relinquishing it.

he only subs to the _music_, maaaaaaaaaaaan

idk like i said this has nothing to actually do with robert fripp haha

You know Beato is in his imperial phase because he keeps getting all these great interviews:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbQM09t5E2c

I don’t know much 80s KC except the instrumental to “sleepless” sounds cool as hell slowed down

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcNe8cDbpWE

I ended up buying tickets to see them in Chicago and again in Madison. I figured you know, this music has given me so much joy over the years, and Belew is 74 and Levin is 77, and both of them are one of a kind talents and can't do this forever. And then there's Carey and Vai, who are about the same age (62 and 63, not young, either), and while I don't care about Vai, he and Carey are incredibly gifted. Factor in other commitment schedules (Carey with Tool, Levin with Gabriel, Vai with whatever it is that Vai does), and honestly I don't know how easy it will be to get these nerds together again after this run.

I don't know if it's been mentioned already, but David Cross is touring with a band that's doing all of Lark's Tongue and some Starless and Red material too.

lol my first thought was the comedian.

And they're both touring, so I can imagine lots of disappointed KC and comedy fans.

Well I'll see you at the Madison show Josh, why not.

Yeah! yolo, etc

Steve Vai looks like The Baron in What We Do In the Shadows

does everyone know this except me: "up until the age of eight, [peter sinfield] was raised largely by his mother's german housekeeper maria wallenda, a high wire walker from the circus act the flying wallendas" ??

it reads like the notes towards a richard palmer-james lyric lol

loool @ the Baron

it reads like the notes towards a richard palmer-james lyric

...or an inspiration for "Cirkus"?

doesn't mention any high-wire work!

tho tumblers is i guess a name for acrobats (quite a funny one too, like calling the goalkeeper "the guy who lets them in")

I just looked up tickets for Beat at their Boston show and the ones remaining are ... >$200?!? The hell?

I suspect those are resale.

now this is the kind of content the internet was made for

https://www.threads.net/@tonylevin/post/C5g8-KfyEs6