Peter Sinfield, the lyricist for King Crimson’s first four albums, has toddled off to the Court of the Crimson King. He was 80.
Progressive rockers like King Crimson and Pink Floyd were big on my personal hit parade in the late Sixties and early Seventies. Probably the upshot of taking piano and flute lessons, playing in school orchestras, digging the big-band music my parents loved, and like that there. A “more-is-more sensibility,” as The New York Times obit puts it.
The single “21st Century Schizoid Man” was killer, you should pardon the expression, since it took actual killers to task with lyrics like “Blood rack, barbed wire/Politicians’ funeral pyre/Innocents raped with napalm fire. …”
Eventually my musical tastes became less grandiose, more stripped down. Even so, I still prefer bombast to bombs.
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Vick Floyd hit the silk, too.
Oops. Vick Flick. Getting my wires crossed…Pink Floyd….Vick Flick.
King Crimson along with early Genesis changed the musical scene in my little world. Was sort of fed up with white Brit boys trying to lay down blues when WHAM!! The Court of the Crimson King came forth out of the underground FM stations. Listening through those venerable Koss Pro4A’s we heard new instruments seeming to come into the songs with each playing. So many layers. I still have the vinyl as well as the boxed set of CD masters. Time to listen to them but this time pushed through speaker towers at as loud as I can stand. The drum tracks were superb.