King Crimson : Artists Who Changed Music - Part 2 

Have you done CAN yet?

Thank you for this 🙏 I’ve been in your replies harping on about king crimson for a while! 😮 Let me please add a plus one on Can, also Neu! (Maybe a krautrock special?)

How about any of these? Bad Brains Primus Chicago (Terry Kath era) Allman Brothers Band Motorhead Nine Inch Nails The Mahavishnu Orchestra Miles Davis (especially early 70s fusion era) Herbie Hancock Django Reinhardt

JEFF BECK. From psych, raga and garage with the Yardbirds, to heavy rock with his May 1966 'Beck's Bolero' session, to heavy blues with his reworking of 'Shapes of Things' on his 'Truth' album, to jazz(y) rock (minus horns) on 'Rough and Ready', to rock-funk and rock-fusion on 'Blow by Blow' and 'Wired', Mr. Beck has never ceased to surprise and delight by challenging the status quo. Billy F Gibbons often recounts how Hendrix was enamoured by Jeff's playing. THE YARDBIRDS. From decent white boy blues band to innovators that kept the Beatles on their toes. Paul McCartney's guitar solo on 'Taxman' has an uncanny resemblance to what Jeff Beck (today a good friend of McCartney's) was doing. And thanks to the aforementioned 'Beck's Bolero' session featuring Beck and Jimmy Page, the Yardbirds evolved into the template for Led Zeppelin. Plus, nobody plays guitar like Jeff. JOHN MAYALL'S BLUESBREAKERS not only put British blues on the map, but inspired so many players and bands that followed, from Gary Moore to Aerosmith and ZZ Top, to Camel (via Andrew Latimer's love of the Bluesbreakers) to just about every guitarist since then, including John Mayer, Joe Bonamassa, Snowy White, Duane Allman and Dickie Betts, Derek Trucks etc. The Bluesbreakers not only included Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor, but many other major names including John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Aynsley Dunbar, Keff Hartley, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Jon Hiseman.... VANILLA FUDGE. Often overlooked in the discussion about who created heavy rock and prog rock, in 1967 these New Yorkers were deep into both. When they played in London they were the talk of the scene, with Ritchie Blackmore and what became Deep Purple stating that their mission was to be the 'European Vanilla Fudge'. The Beatles may have triggered the progressive concept via the likes of 'Strawberry Fields' and 'Tomorrow Never Knows', but on their '67 debut album the Fudge laid the groundwork for the grander concept that was followed by the Nice, King Crimson, Yes etc. CHICAGO. Their debut album did for jazz rock what 'Are You Experience' did for psych rock. In fact, Hendrix was so impressed upon seeing them play the Whiskey on Sunset Strip that he enlisted them as support for his tour. And he used Chicago guitarist Terry Kath's 'Free Form Guitar' concept for his own 'Star Spangled Banner'. Al Kooper was also impressed at those Whiskey dates, so much so that he immediately flew back to New York and assembled Blood Sweat & Tears. Jon Hiseman may have credibly argued that his band, Colosseum, was the first jazz-rock band, but it was Chicago that confirmed it as a genre.

Faith No More and Killing Joke

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Agreement. I would have killed for this documentary when I was a kid.

@@proto-geek248aw shucks! Thanks ever so much

@@Producelikeapro Don't mention it! 😃👍

with out a doubt

Amazing quote

I purchased his book, there's a whole chapter that I consider to be an essay/philosophical expansion on this quote. After reading a few pages in general, I get a headache, wrapped up in thought, and return to reread the previous paragraph. This does not disappointment.

@@InsaneCarville that's amazing! Such a great book!

@@InsaneCarville What is the full title of this book? I can't seem to find it. 🤔

@@w-hisky The Guitar Circle - Robert Fripp

Even more original version, if that's even possible.

King Crimson in the '90s was frickin' awesome! I had drifted away from the band for a while, but Thrak pulled me back in like the gravity of a black hole. I don't know any KC fan who wasn't blown away by their output at that time, so I don't know if I would call it "underrated". But then again, I don't know that many King Crimson fans. Most of my normie friends think of Crimson as dissonant noise.

I doubt that Thrak is underrated. Almost any fan appreciates it a lot. There's a even a Reddit thread exclusively devoted to Thrak where people have shared so much love that it could melt Polar ice caps. Probably it's even related, huh.

Brilliant album!!!

Every time I listen to Thrak....if I make it all the way through....I feel like I've been punched out! That's not a criticism, just a reality.

He doesn't play Fripp's part alone, so it still seems complicated, when it's really a simple tune. It's two bars, A and B, Belew plays AA and Fripp plays AB and B is the same as A but dropping one note towards the end. So Fripp's pattern is one beat shorter and he gets progressively out of phase with Belew until they meet again, IIRC after seven of Belew's AA's. If you hear Fripp's part in isolation it's quite obvious. And it's a brilliantly simple idea; the genius is to make it musically valid. You can try various melodies with a looper in a reducing pattern as described above, and 99% of the time you get cacophony.

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I agree fully. His guitar on the short, perfect song "St. Elmo's Fire from Eno's "Another Green World" album is as good as any of his works, simply beautiful.

He is the most overrated I think and as dark as it gets. When I think hard, he is Unique as anyone else. After album#1 the fragmenting began and each year they faded till they couldn't sell tickets to the smallest venues and had to sell them 2 for 1. The only thing keeping them around was that 1st album and another reincarnation won't matter. Annoying is his sound to me. If you love him Great ! .....but ,a session band playing the 1st album wringing it out for decades is my take.

@@dancolonna7844 Agreed. I love his solo on Peter Gabriel’s “White Shadow” which concludes the first side of the album (on vinyl, it’s an endless loop that works so well, in a Frippertronics way). His solo on Bowie’s “Teenage Wildlife” is immense. So versatile, so interesting, so “mildly terrifying”!

And he played it sitting down - typical rock star pose

Yes. Although I prefer Frame by Frame, but yes.

Thela Hun Ginjeet

Welcome to the club, you will enjoy it

Very well said Charlie!

Welcome!

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Belew's beat-up Strat is right up there with other famous guitars: Gilmour's black strat, McCartney's Hofner bass, SRV's strat, and Rory Gallagher's strat.

@@andyharman3022 You mean Jimi Hendrix’s beat up old Strat ;) ? If I remember the story right, it went from Hendrix to Frank Zappa to Belew. It apparently sounds the way it does because it has a busted neck pick up that Adrian liked the sound of so never got repaired…

Ok, everybody just stop saying Fun Fact.

Thanks ever so much Randy!

Also I would love a video about the band Marillion

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Other than the Court, always one of my favorite albums in my 65 years,never appreciated the volume of the enormity of their art until only in recent years. But I'm OK with that. I was too narrow minded and set in my ways to open up other music. Just happy I got so brilliant after realizing what a stubborn fool I'd been for so long.😅 Great job on your documentary on such a phenomenally brilliant band!!!

Agreed on that! The title song is unreal.

Thanks! Yes, amazing renditions!

Wonderful! Have yu checked out part 1? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VqSAPi-sIaw.html

@@Producelikeapro not yet. Didn't even notice that I watched part 2 😄

Thanks ever so much Dean for the wonderful comment and agreed, Gavin Harrison is a wonderful musician!

That would hav3 been one hell of a show let alone experience! That is awesome 👊🧡👍

Wow! I bet that was amazing & groundbreaking. The live recordings of that show sounds amazing, but I can't even begin to imagine how otherworldly it must have been to be there in person. Nobody was playing anything like King Crimson in 1969.

Amazing Kim!

Didn't see them live but I bought the record. Bizarrely entertaining.

Aw shucks! Thanks ever so much! I love all types of music!!

Wow! Amazing! Thanks for sharing!

Very well said!!

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Thanks ever so much! Glad you enjoyed them

I have to agree- these video documentaries should be a required viewing for any and all KC fans! A tremendous amount of research was collected to create Parts 1 & 2 which demonstrates Warrens unyielding passion and meticulous examination of the 50 +years of this epic band and lineup of musicians! It is obvious why this channel is among the top staples of my music and education viewing here on YT. Just fantastic, thank you Warren :)

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Agreed! So amazing seeing that lineup! And frankly all of the lineups!!

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I've always regarded them as the North Korea of rock bands.

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