This Album Inspired Everybody! King Crimson In the Court of the Crimson King

[@sweetpealee056]

I had this album on vinyl until it was stolen a few years ago! One of my faves...used to really groove to this one, and i can still hear it in my head when i want! Yes, I'm old...70 this year.

[@davidmichael4002]

Greg Lake wonderful on this.

[@antinatalope]

Please do a follow-up on Mcdonald and Giles. 🙏

[@miguelangelmontenegro9939]

The photo is not from Hyde Park . The bass player is not Greg Lake in the Picture. Maybe Bozz Burrel... There are many photos from Greg Lake with KC in the Hyde park 69. Thanx Olaf the viking ?😂😂 Cheers from Buenos Aires Argentina 🤙 Thanx for the video!

[@miguelangelmontenegro9939]

The Illumination from Pete Sinfield refer to the stage Lights , ok ? The Production really was from Greg Lake..., but the company , etc , told KC. Fripp and Lake confirm that

[@LiminalSpacesTalksMusic03]

Thank you so much for all the info! I'm sad I got duped by the picture!

[@miguelangelmontenegro9939]

@@LiminalSpacesTalksMusic03 You are welcome! The video is Great! Cheers 🍻

[@gumbypokey]

Iconic...have enjoyed all permutations of the band. Epitaph and 21st Century fit nicely with Moorecock's 'The Final Programme'... The wall on which the prophets wrote Is cracking at the seams Upon the instruments of death The sunlight brightly gleams When every man is torn apart With nightmares and with dreams Will no one lay the laurel wreath The silence drowns the screams Confusion will be my epitaph As I crawl, a cracked and broken path If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying Between the iron gates of fate The seeds of time were sown And watered by the deeds of those Who know and who are known Well, knowledge is a deadly friend When no one sets the rules The fate of all mankind I fear Is in the hands of fools

[@trashandcheese3636]

Comments:- (1) Giles is pronounced with a soft-g/"j" sound. (2) There may have been a 600,000-ish crowd when the Rolling Stones played their set, but King Crimson were bottom of a long support bill, playing to a relatively small and mostly partisan audience. (3) The main part of the Moonchild track - the Dream & Illusion part - is completely improvised. Free improvisation was central to the KIng Crimson method/identity - if you have trouble with that, you won't enjoy albums like ThrakAttak or even The Great Deceiver.

[@LiminalSpacesTalksMusic03]

Great info!

[@JoeChewBaca]

Nice. I get two days if KC talk. SOT was talking about the three 80s albums yesterday. Discipline is my favorite of those three. This album is pretty damn awesome. I actually heard most of these songs on cassette compilation "The Young Person's Guide to King Crimson", so I'm used to those versions. "Moonchild" is truncated and I never knew there was a second part until I bought the actual album. That compilation also has the alternate version of "I Talk to the Wind" with Julie Duble(sp) on lead vocals. I'm so used to that one that I actually don't like the Greg Lake version. So much Mellotron!!! Love it! A very dark and brooding album. If you do get a chance grab a copy of that comp as it has some alternate song choices specific to it. Check out the McDonald and Giles album they did after leaving KC, it's really good. It's like happy KC. I never knew when I was listening to early Foreigner back then, that I was hearing one the members of the most influential Prog bands. Ian McDonald. Everyone from Yes to Ambrosia was changed by seeing KC live.

[@miguelangelmontenegro9939]

In the court and in the wake.... GREG LAKE Enough

[@garym7317]

Isnt "moonchild" referring to aleister crowley's moonchild, a futuristic human?

[@LiminalSpacesTalksMusic03]

I'm not sure, but it sounds right!

[@rob4835]

Agree with much of your perspective on this transformative album. Sorry but you're wrong about the original mellotron. I got a chance to play it in Fripp's study room in the early 2000s. Give the spacey Moonchild interlude a chance for the opening ItCotCK mellotron riff wouldn't be as impactful without it.

[@LiminalSpacesTalksMusic03]

Are you sure? I swear Peter Gabriel talks about buying it. I'll listen to the interview tonight, I could've totally mis-remembered. I'll come back and let you know what is in the interview!

[@LiminalSpacesTalksMusic03]

Okay, looks like Peter Gabriel and Steve Hackett both discuss their buying of the King Crimson mellotron, the Ultimate Classic Rock page has an entire interview discussing the purchase with Steve Hackett. I wonder if it passed back into Fripp's hands later? I bet it did, considering Genesis went in a different direction.

[@wizard5637]

In actuality, this album is usually everyone's first intro to real prog and not even the best imo. So many more obscure and just as talented bands from the Canterbury scene produced incredible work. Check out guitarist Steve Hillage early work in Arzekiel, then his band Khan, then when he left to go to school, they turned into a 3 peice called Egg. Please check out Egg's first album. It will change you.

[@JoeChewBaca]

Nice. I get two days if KC talk. SOT was talking about the three 80s albums yesterday. Discipline is my favorite of those three. This album is pretty damn awesome. I actually heard most of these songs on cassette compilation "The Young Person's Guide to King Crimson", so I'm used to those versions. "Moonchild" is truncated and I never knew there was a second part until I bought the actual album. That compilation also has the alternate version of "I Talk to the Wind" with Julie Duble(sp) on lead vocals. I'm so used to that one that I actually don't like the Greg Lake version. So much Mellotron!!! Love it! A very dark and brooding album. If you do get a chance grab a copy of that comp as it has some alternate song choices specific to it. Check out the McDonald and Giles album they did after leaving KC, it's really good. It's like happy KC. I never knew when I was listening to early Foreigner back then, that I was hearing one the members of the most influential Prog bands. Ian McDonald. Everyone from Yes to Ambrosia was changed by seeing KC live.