Hawkwind Mention

[Darrin McKeehen]

Hey Now!

A fellow posted a message on DAT-Heads asking a question about a CD-R that
he recently received of ProjeKct 4 concert. I was unsure of what he wanted
to know so I told him what I thought that he was looking for....

He sent me a reply today w/ some of the responses that he got. Some amusing
stuff! I picked the 2 best ones (IMHO) and they follow. Hawkwind was
surprisingly mentioned....

Time We Left

Darrin

np: Ratdog 3/24/00 DAT

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hey there,
Fripp was and is the guitarist for King Crimson  (notice the Kc)  and has
been doing side projects with various combinations of the band, which
officially has 6 members currently, I believe. He numbers the projects as
they go. I saw ProjeKct Two a year ago. Great music.

Fripp is a guitar genius. However, he is adamantly anti-recording and
bootlegging, and takes the time whenever he can to talk or write about the
rights of artists, and how they should own every note they ever play, and
how the music industry is a bunch of vultures.

He needs to take a chill pill, if you ask me.  He would stop a concert and
ask a taper to leave if he noticed one.  I was at a show, taping, and he
mentioned between numbers something about asking people not to record it, as
it was "Stealing the music from the air".

Whatever, Robert, just play the guitar.... :-)

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As far as with your question, Robert Fripp in case you don't know, was the
founder of the British progressive rock group King Crimson back in 1969.

Fripp and KC are still around to this day, in fact he's the ONLY one to stay
with them all 30+ years.

Maaaaaan, if you have not yet been turned onto King Crimson, prepare
yourself for a musically mind-expanding journey of the spheres!!!!!!!!

ProjeKCt Four is one in a series of 4 band configurations that Fripp toured
very briefly with (sort-of King Crimson side projects).  Each version
(ProjeKCts One, Two, Three, and Four) consisted of Fripp and a couple
members of KC, mixing personnel each time around.  I think Fripp did this
line of "Projects" from early '97 late '98, touring very briefly for each
band.

But where can I start... it goes waaaaaaay beyond that!  As far as I'm
concerned, King Crimson from a rich, musically-aesthetic point of view, are
one of my all-time favorite bands ever!!!!  They were the frontiersmen of
English progressive rock, along with Hawkwind, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and
Yes.  Still KC were never the commercial powerhouses that made ELP and Yes
so famous.  Like Hawkwind, it was more their live improvisation that made
them cult heroes.   All of them were definitely ahead of their time!!!!

The history of King Crimson is very interesting to say the least.  I am not
aware of any biographies about KC, but you can read a lot about it in the
Frame By Frame boxset booklet.  The KC family roots spread far and wide,
from Greg Lake of ELP, to Bill Bruford of Yes, Boz Burrell of Bad Company,
John Wetton of UK and Asia, Adrian Belew formerly of Zappa and Talking
Head's touring bands, etc.  All of them are either former or current
members.  (And that's not even half of them).  But through all of it, Robert
Fripp was the only mainstay.  You can pretty much gather that it was, and
still is, HIS band.  ;)

Fripp also owns an independent record company too - Discipline Global
Mobile.  Check it out for any KC merchandise: www.disciplineglobalmobile.com
<http://www.disciplineglobalmobile.com>

Well, I know I gave you a mouthful about "the man named Robert Fripp" and
more. But they are easily in my all-time Top 5 Bands list. With the
exception of Yes, there has hardly been a progressive rock outfit that
matches the musical creativity, virtuosity, and force such as with KC.  Just
take one listen to "Larks' Tongues In Aspic" and you'll hear what I mean!

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