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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
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Subject: Re: King Crimson concert review (*****)
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Date: Wed, 27-Jun-84 15:49:53 EDT
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A couple of things that accidentally missed out on getting tacked on to my
previous article on the Crimson concert:

What I found most refreshing about the band and the show was the fact that
here we had a combination of BOTH originality AND craftmanship.  In an age
where so often both these artistic facets are simply missing, or (at best)
only one is present, it's great to hear music that involves both elements.

My usual complaint about the progressive rock dinosauritis is its obsession
with flash.  Not Rod Stewart in shiny outfits, but rather musical flash.
("Watch me play this really difficult phrase in 7/8 while the rest of the band
plays in 22/7 [TT time??]...")  It's a difficult virus to get rid of, as I was
often asking myself "what time signatures are they using?" during the show.
For the most part, the band has overcome the prevalent tendency to abuse their
skills just to "show off", but sometimes it seemed as though songs had been
written in 7/8 just for the sake of having written them in 7/8.  Overall,
King Crimson seems to be at the point where they are using their incredible
proficiencies with a direction and purpose of an intended sound, rather than
just using them to show us how good they are.
-- 
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This will not occur again.  (BEEP)		Rich Rosen   pyuxn!rlr