From toby at cs dot man dot ac dot uk Thu Jun 18 09:29:50 1992 Return-Path: Date: Mon, 27 Jan 92 10:40:16 GMT Reply-To: toby at cs dot man dot ac dot uk Sender: toby at cs dot man dot ac dot uk Precedence: bulk From: toby at cs dot man dot ac dot uk To: toby at cs dot man dot ac dot uk Subject: discipline #20 discipline, Number 20 Monday, 27 January 1992 Today's Topics: 1992 Crimson Holst and Fripp Islands [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] From: MICHAEL dot LEE at mail dot admin dot wisc dot edu Subject: 1992 Crimson Date: Mon, 06 Jan 92 08:19 CST I've been gone on vacation, so I was going to mention the Goldmine article myself. What I find interesting is that it appears that the 1992 Crimson will be the same line up as the 80's King Crimson -- Levin and Belew are apparently back, and I'd guess it isn't a coincidence that Bruford quit Yes again. Is there going to be any additions to the line up, perhaps? I'd be interested in seeing either a Keyboardist or a violinist, just to be different from the previous incarnation. I wouldn't be surprised to see this (at least in theory) to be the most successful (commercially) King Crimson yet. In the generic discussion of the level of interest in prog-rock - Goldmine has had two prog-rock covers in 1991 - Yes (which isn't a surprise, really) and King Crimson (which is). True, Goldmine probably doesn't represent what is popular in "the grand scale" very well. Mike [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Subject: Holst and Fripp Date: Tue, 21 Jan 92 12:31:07 GMT From: Phil Kime Does anyone know the story behind the remarkable similarity of Holst's 'Mars - the bringer of War' part of the Planets suite to the piece on side two of Wake of Poseidon? -- *********************************************************************** * Phil Kime * * Dept. of Artificial Intelligence * * Edinburgh University * * E-Mail: philkime at aisb dot ed dot ac dot uk Phone:(031) 650 2690 * *********************************************************************** [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] Date: Fri, 24 Jan 92 12:06:04 -0800 From: Academic Fraud Subject: Islands My room-mate and I listened to the classic Crimson album 'Islands' last night. We were struck by the difference in sound this incarnation of Crimson had from eras previous and following. In fact, the opinion Alex and I came up with was that Fripp essentially wrote some very artsy music for a cover band...a very high quality cover band. Even Sinfield's lyrics are dissimilar from his other endeavours. In particular, the instrumentation was the major difference. Fripp gave the parts he would normally play on guitar to Mel Collins and his array of saxes. And the guitar solos Fripp did, particularly on 'The Sailor's Tale' and 'The Letter' are nothing like his classical-based melodies on later albums. Still haven't found many people who like this album -- if I remember correctly, Islands was voted the _worst- Crimson album in the rec.music.misc poll done a half-year ago...I think it demands more attention, but really can't be compared to previous and later works. Anyone else have views on this album? -elba **** 'Wreathe snatch-hand briars, where owls know my eyes violet skies touch my island, touch me.' -SINfield and Fripp [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][] To join this group or have your thoughts in the next issue, please send electronic mail to Toby Howard at the following address: toby at cs dot man dot ac dot uk The views expressed in discipline are those of the individual authors only.