King Crimson, red hair dye and a singing Jack Russell: the boisterous memoir of Jakko Jakszyk

[@peterellison3478]

Wonderful stuff. I was the schoolboy guitarist in 64 Spoons before Jakko. I was utterly defeated by the complexity of the the music -the other band members could swap instruments at will and I'd only just completed Bert Weedon's Play in a Day!

[@thewordofgord]

Thanks guys and thanks Jakko: this and the recent one with Joe Boyd were marvellous! Informative, intelligent and witty. Guess what I'm 72 and can recall the times and I bought the first Nick Drake. Sudden thought: what about Roy Harper?

[@callingdrhoward8293]

I first heard King Crimson on the legendary station CHOM out of Montreal when I was 14. In 1969 their first US gig (a warm-up, I guess) was at Goddard College (a hippie/trustafarian school where they taught classes in navel gazing and basket weaving) in Plainfield, Vermont - a tiny dorf not far from the tiny dorf I was living in. I convinced my parents to let me attend with an older friend who had a car. I didn't come home that night...Fripp noted in his diary of October 29, 1969: "Flew to Vermont in morning. Played gig at wierd (sic) college in the woods. Not to(sic) good." I thought it was grand.

[@Smudgie]

I hope the BEAT version of King Crimson comes to Europe.

[@jonathancole833]

R.I.P. John Peel. Hard to believe it was 20 years ago today.

[@Baz63]

Great interview. Just wanted to congratulate David on his latest tome...unputdownable as per all the others.

[@apolloc.vermouth5672]

You forgot to ask if Jakko is still in touch with Eduardo!