Date: Fri, 8 Oct 93 10:35:02 -0400 From: Mark "Crimson" Friedman <crimson at ihz dot compuserve dot com> Subject: Re: King Claypool
Last ish, Anil asked about the glaring absence of acknowlegement of Crimson influences in Primus. Well, I'd seen a little bit myself, actually. Les *always* bows down to Tony Levin in interviews, and occasionally talks about Stick sound and playing. He's also said that he's a Crimson fan.
And what about Lar and Herb? Damn if I can find any interviews with them: it always seems like Les who gets to talk.
As for the press drawing comparisons on their own, the only one I've seen was an article in one of the guitar mags entitled 'The Court of the Crimson Cheese', or something like that. Bit of a comparison later in the article, too. Perhaps the Rush comparison is a little easier for the press since their first album, "Suck on This", was introed by the starting riff of "YYZ".
Oh well, I've seen the comparison for a long time. Heck, I'd even joked at the beginning of the new Crimson lineup rumours that it'd end up being Primus + Fripp! I'd still love to hear that one...
- mark
Geee, look at my sig...imagine, sometime in '94 I'll be able to remove that Fripp quote that's been there since I'd originally heard it at a local Crafty gig way back then! 7'>
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