Submission for rec-music-gaffa

[dasys1!jzitt@uunet.uu.net (Joe Zitt)]

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From: jzitt@dasys1.UUCP (Joe Zitt)
Newsgroups: rec.music.gaffa
Subject: Re: King Crimson
Keywords: Who were They?
Date: 10 Apr 89 20:48:05 GMT
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Reply-To: jzitt@dasys1.UUCP (Joe Zitt)
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In article <464@pta.oz> Love-Hounds@GAFFA.MIT.EDU writes:
>Really-From: munnari!pta.oz.au!davidc@uunet.UU.NET (David Clark)
>	Does any body have any information on King Crimson?

<deep breath here...>

Robert Fripp is the heart of King Crimson, and the only consistent member. 
The beginning lineup had Greg Lake (later of ELP) on bass and vocal, Ian
McDonald (later of Foreigner) on winds and keys, and Mike Giles on
drums. The lineup is volatile -- apparently putting up with Fripp can be
difficult. Other members have included:

Keith Tippett
Pete Giles (bass)
Gordon Haskell (vocals)
Mel Collins (sax)
Andy McCullough (drums) (later of Greenslade)
Boz Burrell (bass, vox) (later of Bad Company)
Ian Wallace (drums)
John Wetton (bass/vox) (later with Asia)
Jamie Muir (percussion)
David Cross (violin/flute)
Eddie Jobson (violin)

Fripp broke up KC in 1974, then reformed it in 1980, with Bill Bruford
(drums), Tony Levin (bass, stick, voice), and Adrian Belew (voice,
guitar, animals). This band did the impossible -- stayed together for 3
albums and 2 videos. Belew now has a new band, the Bears; Bruford and
Levin are in a quasinew band, Reunion, with Jon Anderson, Steve Howe,
and Rick Wakeman; Fripp is touring with a group named, modestly, "Fripp,
Fripp", with his wife, Toyah Wilcox (vocals), Trey Gunn (Stick), and
Paul Duskin (drums).
 
All Crimson albums are good; for my money, the 3 essentials are:

In The Court of the Crimson King (1969) with the original lineup
Red (1974) with Wetton and Bruford
Discipline (1981) with Bruford, Levin, and Belew.

[Much of this info was appropriated from Pete Frame's indispensable
<Rock Family Trees>.]

*gasp* 
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