Drummer reacts to "Starless" by King Crimson
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I love the Bill Bruford quote ‘King Crimson is the only band where you can play in 15/9 and still stay in nice hotels!’ ”
People couldn't deny that unweighted talent from these 3 dudes! Absolutely nuts.
Soft Machine would agree.😅
Zappa too ....
My fave quote from him plus ‘you weren’t expected to play anything you’d played before,’
There are more great quotes about King Crimson by band members and critics than any other band I can think of:
"King Crimson are the band that kills your dog, burns your house down and stomps your face into the ground" - Stuart Maconie, BBC.
"Everything you've heard about King Crimson is true: It is a terrifying place" - Bill Bruford.
"Whatever it is you did to get into King Crimson you will cease doing whilst you're a member of King Crimson" - what Robert Fripp says to new band members.
"In Yes there were endless discussions about whether you could play a B minor melody over a G major one. In King Crimson almost nothing was said: You were just supposed to know." - Bill Bruford.
"Leaving Yes to join King Crimson was the musical equivalent of jumping over the Berlin Wall to defect into East Germany" - Prog Rock Britannia referring to Bruford joining KC.
"When we choose to be, we're the heaviest sounding band in the world" - Tony Levin. Let that sink in: When they CHOOSE to be.
"We'll play a nice tune to the others and Robert (Fripp) will sit there and nod along...then he'll say 'CRIMSONIZE IT!' and we have to deconstruct what we've written and put it back together" - Adrian Belew
"Blood rack, barbed wire, politician's funeral pyre, innocents raped with napalm fire, 21st century schizoid man"...I'm not singing that!" - Bryan Ferry auditioning for KC in 1969.
"Letting Robert Fripp mess around your songs is like leaving your favourite niece alone with a child molester" - Tony Levin.
The famous Robert Fripp one note solo.
Except it’s neither one note, nor a solo. Still glorious tho!
Two.
"Starless", the pinnacle of King Crimson.
I love John Wetton. His bass in this song is astounding.
The sound coming out of his bass on this song is stunning. Comes through so clear and deep.
And his vocals!
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The way he and Bruford click together on this record is simply astonishing.
Ever see a Roscoe Beck 5 string bass by Fender?
I went to school with him.
But really cool looking bass.
He left YES precisely BECAUSE he wanted to play more improvisationally and jazzy.
And the fights with Chris 😂
@@mattleppard1964 I'm going to give the reach advantage to Chris.
@@deanzaZZR And that Rickenbacker would swing a good ‘un
Dude you can totally hear It in the music too. He is totally engaged.
@@mattleppard1964 The Fish, God Rest His Soul
Red is absolutely brutal. Easily my favourite KC album and one of the best albums ever.
So far, amazing! I can't wait to finish it.
I think red, larks tongues in aspic and in the court of the crimson king are the best albums. Wait until he hears larks tongues in aspic part 1. I also love Lizard as well.
I agree, Red is their best.
This guy will LOVE RED
@@Saffy-yr8vo I bought my copy the year it was released, and I still have it. I think it's King Crimson's best album! Hands down
This song can sound better when you know the fact that this song is the last song of they intended LAST ALBUM. They considered finishing the band way back in 1974, when this album was released. Imagine the wildness of breaking your band apart with THIS TRACK as your final one. Just incredible
Bro seriously when I heard about that it completely blew my mind. What a crazy track to go out on. It's fucking brilliant.
1974 was a great year for prog.
And Red is still a beast of an album.
He didn’t leave Yes because Close to the Edge was too complicated. The primary reasons were:
He had only played with one band to that point. He couldn’t see how the same group of people could do anything other than “Close to the Edge 2.”
He thought the process of recording with Yes was tortuous and didn’t want to go through it again.
He always had a jazz mentality, where players move about different bands and and projects.
He enjoys improvisation, and Yes was not an improvising band. King Crimson was.
Which leads to the next Crimson piece you should listen to - Asbury Park. This is ‘74 Crim in full flight. Entirely improvised. Not a jam with soloists. Completely improvised. During this era Crim would typically have one or two improvs a night, depending on whether they were an opening act or headliner. The earliest gigs of this lineup in late ‘72/early ‘73 could include as much as 30 minutes or more of the set as improvs.
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Note their piece “Trio” was improvised. Bruford spent the track with his sticks crossed, noting that what was happening didn’t need anything more. Fripp credited him with “admirable restraint.”
Bruford also said (paraphrasing here) that when he left Yes he thought he was hot s**t, but when he joined King Crimson for the new lineup that was to release Lark's Tongues, he realised he was only the second best percussionist in the band after Jamie Muir and had a lot left to learn.
Bruford on Muir: "my biggest influence and the guy who turned my head totally around ... God, did he open my eyes. Jamie saw above and beyond chops. He was into the color of the music, the tone, and being intuitive about it."
You can tell how Bruford really started expaning his palette of percussion after Muir left.
He had a great interview where he explained the difference between playing with Yes and Crimson and how with Yes it was this constant back and forth of "do we want it to be in G, or should we try an F minor, or how about we..." where in Crimson nothing was really said and you were just supposed to know.
Wasn't Starless an improv too, at least in its early stages ?
@@Shaktidej the song portion was written by John. The middle portion is based around a riff Bill played on the piano one day.
The piece itself is quite structured, with the middle break a reprise of the verse melody (on sax), then the same bass motif, just faster, then a return to the opening main melody to close the piece.
Within each section are improvisational elements (typically the sax and drums), but that’s typical, especially for KC.
If you haven’t listened to King Crimson’s Fracture yet, you should. It’s a mind boggling experience.
And once you've done that, "FraKCtured".
This album is the epitome of Metal Prog. No one could have played it better or as well as Bill. Masterful, restrained, graceful and powerful. The perfect music for midnight listening in pitch black darkness. Especially ‘Providence’.
I'm gonna have to try the darkness out, it sounds like it would fit perfect 😁
it is not metal prog .....
@@jabu003 It is prog metal. The album is like Black Sabbath playing it.
Totally agree, plus you ever thought that Lennon’s I am the Walrus is like an early kind of rapping?
It’s not metal prog, it’s only prog music. There’s no element of metal, only prog and jazz. Sabbath couldn’t play this song and ozzy never would sing it because he doesn’t have neither the vocal range, nor the tuning/technique and nor the patience to wait. so many minutes without do anything.
I read that Bill left Yes because of the amount of time that would be spent deliberating over each note. When he joined Crimson, Robert told him to just do something new each time, but otherwise left him to it. This is 70s Crimson at their best.
Man that's a culture shock right there probably after departing Yes l o l
Yes! I’ve seen a video interview with Bill where he said in Yes they would spend hours deliberation whether to play a B or a B minor, and that “In King Crimson you were just supposed to know”
@@L33ReactsThere is an inprov live track titled Clueless And Slightly Slack. Sort of like Starless And Bible Black but more fripped out.
Everything Bruford touches is gold. I was fortunate to see him play with Phil Collins on the 1976 Genesis tour for A Trick of the Tail. His Earthworks jazz period is incredible, but my favorite BB work is what he did in King Crimson.
Me also
I have so much more to explore. Seems I have barely scratched the surface of this well.
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A big shout out for Earthworks - I saw them twenty plus years ago and they were superb.
@@kbrewski1 it was over twenty years ago, but IIRC it was a four-piece band. All instrumentals. Very jazzy.
I'd been to quite a few jazz nights at the local jazz club. Mostly, the outfits were a named guy and some backing musicians. Often good, but no chemistry. Earthworks had been touring for years when I saw them and they were really good and really tight.
That is an appropriate reaction to one of the greatest pieces of music every made.
For me, Starless makes the perfect bookend track to 21st Century Schizoid Man. The latter being the first track from the first album, and Starless being the final song of the final album from the 60s/70s era of the band. Both have that progressive rock meets jazz vibe with a crazy almost-careening-off-the-tracks instrumental section made to set pulses pounding. And each song in its way sets the mind thinking about the tragedy of the human condition.
King Crimson. What a band.
Dude I am so glad I discovered them on here. Absolute masterclass in progressive music. Basically helped write the book on prog. They are in absolute control of every last note they play even though it doesn't sound like it sometimes. They build tension like nothing else.
"I can't believe how old this is" made my wife and I laugh. I met my wife in high school and gave her King Crimson's Larks Tongue in Aspic as a gift. We old I guess. You missed a great era in music. So much creativity.
Great reaction! Since you enjoy Bruford's drumming so much, you should totally check out his fusion band UK. Same rhythm section as here (Bill Bruford and John Wetton); and instead of Fripp on guitar, you have the legendary Allan Holdsworth, plus keyboardist/violinist Eddie Jobson. Opening track "In the Dead of Night" is the perfect place to start. Cheers mate!
that first UK album does rule. my recommendation: if you are going to do In The Dead Of Night, make sure to do the whole suite of the first three tracks, as it all works as one piece. That is In The Dead Of Night/By The Light Of Day/Presto Vivace And Reprise. A real mind blower
Saw them live, UK 🇬🇧 Rendezvous 6:02. Fricken Jobson, Bozzio a killer drummer in his own right, saw him and his wife with Missing Persons live in Tampa back in the day!
Bruford's three jazz fusion albums from the late 70s and early 80s are fantastic.
Awesome thank you for the recommendations bro! I will definitely check out UK
Yes indeed- check out the album, the band UK. 🤘🏼🎧🤟🏼
I can't believe this hasn't gotten blocked. One of the greatest pieces of Prog Rock ever written.
I am pleasently surprised as well. This is one of my new favorite songs :)
Thanks for doing my recommendation. Loved how you talked about how the song made you feel after being blown away. Heavy song for sure. Next song - Larks' Tongues in Aspic 1 & 2
This song is killer. One of my favorite KC.
Red is a fricken Masterpiece!
Thanks again James! This was incredible! I will tackle larks next.
Care to talk?
Good one
“i don’t wanna talk because i don’t wanna miss anything”. this is the reason i love king crimson. there are so many tiny, incredible details that all add together to make the song a masterpiece
It is the most insane buildup EVER, man. I'm enjoying it along with you. Tension and release!!! I loved this when I was 15 and now at 66!!
This song is immense. It captures what deep depression must be like. Bill Bruford, as you may know, is a renown drummer having also played with Yes and for a short time toured with Genesis (1976) before they found Chester Thompson (Frank Zappa and Weather Report). Worth finding the live concerts with him. Bill also played with Phil in a fusion band called Brand X. (Phil Collins has said he thinks his all-time best work on drums was with Brand X)
You can feel the somber depression like sound permeate this entire track. Its kind of wild.
This song is also amazing on Live, where 3 drummers play because why not (one of them being our own gavin harrison), its a must listen my friend. Great reaction as always!
Hey bro!! Great to see you
Thank you as always my friend. I will definitely check it out. If I don't post it on here I will post it on patreon and send you a link for it
Phil Collins and Bill Bruford are two of my favorite drummers.
Don't forget B.J. Wilson, the "octopus in a bathtub"!
You definitely need more King Crimson, the whole "Red" album is masterful, "In the Court of the Crimson King", "Lark's Tongues in Aspic", "Starless and Bible Black" and "Discipline" are all works of a rare kind of genius. Also, the live "U.S.A." shows them doing this stuff on stage in front of a gobsmacked audience who literally cannot beleive their ears.
I would pay so much money to see my first reaction to this song you’re soo lucky
John Wetton was so stoked to be in this band, and that line up only lasted three albums, what a shame.
7:55 - Walking down the street somewhere you aren't supposed to be (or at least Adrian wasn't) - that's Thela Hun Ginjeet.
Listen to the entire RED album!!! In my opinion this is hands down the best that Fripp, Bruford, & Wetton recorded, a true MASTERPIECE!!!
This brings a smile to my face 😆 Can YOU be that drummer?
I’ve seen Crimson live… they don’t make anything up on the spot. Pure genius.
I was wandering around town (16 YO) and happened to see a concert about to start, paid (Ithink) 6 bucks, and went in. King Crimson was the 2nd warm-up band for Humble Pie. I was completely blown away. KC fan for life.
Starless a brilliant prog rock classic. Always better live, in whatever arrangement. Personally I always liked the late John Wetton singing this live. He sadly died in 2017 and saw him do some guest spots on Steve Hackett's tour where he sang a brilliant version of Afterglow, one of Genesis's iconic tracks. Such a beautiful haunting melodic hook to this song, and John always done this brilliantly. Love the crazy slow section too, it's as if you are drifting away in a weird dream, with the repetetive guitar, and monotonous bass, it just builds up so much, and works so well, then we have the crazy almost jazz fusion, resolving back to the original hook. True Prog at it's finest. Can see you really got into it. Good stuff.
Great to see the young ones liking this. Saw Wetton with KC very early days Glasgow Scotland. I knew he was something good, but now I REALLY KNOW.
john wetton’s bass playing ability is very much in display on this track .. and the whole album actually..between John Wetton and Greg Lake they sang and played bass on some of the most incredible prog rock music ever recorded .. RIP John , Greg and Keith 🙏🏻 🫶✌️
This is Been in my top 10 favorite songs of all time. Since I was a child and I'm 55.
I listen to this song every couple days now. . . It's so just so damn good lol
I’m older
Same, except I am 58.
Great reaction to a classic prog masterpiece. And yes, that is Mel Collins on sax. He was also in KC Mark II before this band got together. he plays on IN THE WAKE OF POSEIDON (second album), LIZARD (third album) and ISLANDS (fourth album and he toured with that incarnation, as he has been with the most recent version, the 7 piece with 3 drummers up front on stage).
The touring and basic band on this album which features “Starless”, was a trio of Robert Fripp on guitar and Mellotron, John Wetton on bass and vocals and of course, the great Bill Bruford on drums and percussion. Right before this, they were a quartet with David Cross on electric violin and Mellotron. The first album of that and lineup, LARK’S TONGUE IN ASPIC, also featured Jamie Muir on percussion, who left quite an impression and mark on Bruford and the rest of the band. The box set of that album featured not only lots of outtakes and alternate takes and in-studio improvisation, but as many of the few live gigs which Muir played on that they could still salvage.
And Bruford didn’t leave Yes *because* of CLOSE TO THE EDGE, or because of how complex it was, but rather he felt that was as far he could go with that type of music. That it was too formal for him. It was too constricting and he felt that Jon Anderson was too dictatorial. He wanted to stretch more and get more into improvisation and really “progress” in progressive music.
As far as where to go with King Crimson, if you haven’t yet, start with their first album, IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING, with another legendary prog drummer, Michael Giles.
My all time favorite John Wetton vocal. And one of my top five KC tracks.
For further mind blowing, here is a recent tour version with three drummers:
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From the same year (1974) but an album earlier (somewhat confusingly 'Starless & Bible Black' album - my personal favourite) perhaps the King Crimson song 'Fracture' might be of interest to you. It's a creeping rage monster with some of guitarist Robert Fripp's most iconic guitar noodling - and for the drummers, it's got Bill Bruford too😉
The same album's opening track 'The Great Deceiver' is also a banger, but short and to the point.
One thousand percent agree with this recommendation.
Own it, Great Album!
IMO this is THE BEST track they did - but i'm happy to be shown more LOL
Recently saw Robert Fripp play in a band with his wife Toyah!
He is in his 70's and still plays amazingly and practices for hours everyday
I caught the show at the Ryman on their last (final?) tour, and Starless was the encore. I'm not ashamed to say I literally shed a tear at the opening notes. I love this song.
One of the best recordings EVER wore out my first copy it gets better the more you hear it
I know that this comment is late but I just wanted to say “Hey thanks! “ Enjoyed your expressions and comments! I reacted exactly the same way to this song when I first heard it and still sends shivers down my spine! All of Red is wickedly great!
This song is the musical definition of elegant sophistication.
To address a couple of issues you raised: How does Bruford remember it all? Seems he didn't - he just varied it at will each time he played it; never the same way twice, as one can hear from live recordings - improvised anew each night. That's one thing that makes King Crimson great, the ability to vary the same material in countless ways spontaneously. The fast "jazzy part" has the same bass line and progression as the slow build up before it, but it's played twice (three times?) as fast. The meters are 13/4 and 13/8. When Bruford jumped ship from Yes to Crimson he had expressed discomfort with excessive planning and debate in shaping the music in Yes-about Crimson he said there was little talk, one was just supposed to know what to play.
The recent live versions of this with the 3 drummers is pretty great too. They go nuts in the middle section... and gotta give props to the OG drummer Michael Giles, I feel like he kinda layed the foundation for that kinda ratcheting, falling down the stairs kinda drum fills, and Bill took the baton and ran.
"Cat Food" and "Pictures of A City" are sick early tunes
My fav King Crimson song. The riff is truly mesmerizing, I can listen to it for hours
Bruford, Copeland, Collins (+Thompson) - my top three drummers.
It was a pleasure seeing your reactions to my favorite song of all time! Reminds me of my own reactions every time i listen to it.
Bro I'm so glad you enjoyed it! It's one of my most replayed songs from the channel so far. It's absolutely amazing 🙃
I can tell you really understand music - I'm going to subscribe. Very impressed. Crimson has probably the most diverse sounds of any band I can think of. Nothing is quite like Starless, but you might like Fallen Angel (also on the album Red), In the Court of the Crimson King, Epitaph... and about 50 others. As a drummer, you might like 21st Century Schizoid Man in particular. Talk about tight musicianship. @@L33Reacts
@TheLordofShadow64 my friend, if I may direct you to my patreon, I have a TON of Crimson on there for free. I just upload it there cuz it usually gets blocked on here. I mean a ton of crimson.... Www.patreon.com/L33Reacts
@TheLordofShadow64 I've done 21st century. I'm sure it's on there too. kc is one of new favorite bands that I've discovered on here lol
Bill's drumming on "One More Red Nightmare" is spectacular!
But "Starless" is so poignant because this was their last song and then they played before they broke up (for this, the very best iteration of King Crimson - Robert Fripp, Bill Bruford, John Wetton, with David Cross on Violin, Cello and Mellotron, and Mel Collins on Sax).
Try:
"The Great Deceiver" from the album Starless and Bible Black
"Lament" from the album Starless and Bible Black
"Fracture" from the album Starless and Bible Black
"One More Red Nightmare" from the album Red
"Easy Money" from the album Larks Tongues in Aspic
"Asbury Park" from the album Live in USA
"Indiscipline" from the album Discipline.
David Cross does not play the cello.
@@atlasking6110 Correct! Violin, Viola and Mellotron.
The eeriest, most haunting, sorrowful melody ever...
It is so gratifying to watch a drummer's reaction to this song. I've always described Bruford as playing "Lead Percussion" on this song - there's no other way to describe it.
Thank you for the video man.. I'm 40 years old and heard this for the first time 20 years ago - and it is my #1 favorite song ever since - and I think that it will always be.
i just adore seeing this. I remember when i first heard this song, decades ago, i had a reaction really very similar to yours: laughing in disbelieve. Keep up the good work man. Greetings from Belgium.
Probably one of my favorite King Crimson albums, RED. I like them all, Starless and Bible Black, Court of the Crimson King! I fricken love KC, you want to hear some sick drumming listen to the title track, RED! Ian McDonald played all of the flute, horns, backup vocals, he started Foreigner. One of my all-time favorite KC songs with Ian playing a beautiful flute piece is I Talk To The Wind, check it out, it's the video with John Wetton, Ian McDonald playing flute, and again if you haven't heard the song Red you'll be absolutely blown away by Bruford. ✌
Bill didn't leave Yes because it was too complicated. He left because he thought was the most he could achieve with Yes. Also, there was more freedom in Crimson to improvise whereas Yes was just play the song like on the album. I'm glad that KC songs are no longer being blocked. KC is a deep well of awesomeness. Larks' Tongue in Aspic parts 1 & 2, Level Five, Frame by Frame, One More Red Nightmare.
I have so many tracks left to tackle of KC. I CANT WAIT lol. And yeah it's hit or miss now they either leave it up or take it down. Your agitator, sir.
seeing them gig in real life helped me psychologically.
I wanted to thank you for what you're doing! I'll try to get with your patreon, guess when I finally get past some of these hurdles. It's refreshing to see a young dude like yourself appreciate the sheer genius of these great bands from back in the day! It's really helping me to forget/escape the bullshit going on in this day and age! Thanks! Progressive Rock Rules, and so does Jazz Fusion! ✌
Thank you so much Joseph comments like these make me feel pride in what I do... and sadly for a lot of my life I was not proud of anything I was doing
So thank you. This makes my hard days feel worth it 👌
If people of my generation are continued to be fed slop for art eventually a lot of them will reach back into the past to discover the real stuff. I'm glad I caught on. 😌
@@L33Reacts Glad you discovered this music 🎶 cause without it, life would be a Mistake!"
@@josephnaja Well spoken, fellow from the past 😊
@@progperljungman8218 Thanks ✌🎶
love your reaction Lee 👍🏻 Red is my fav King Crimson album 👍🏻✌️🫶
You nerding out over Bill Bruford is fantastic, I feel like many people don't make it to the end of this song but the payoff is soooo good
Мне безумно нравится эта песня.Я впервые ее услышал в 85 году и через 30 лет я ее нашел.Я возьму эту песню с собой в небеса
One more red nightmare is my fav drum piece by bruford. Starless and the entire album is a masterpiece! Check out the album Discipline! Fripp Levin Bruford and the amazing Adrian Belew
One of my favorites!
One of the most "perfect" songs of Progressive Rock!! When I heard it over 30 years ago I didn't instantly appreciate it, and over time it became my N.1 King Crimson song!! ❤❤ Bill Bruford he was the first drummer who had "Yes" and then moved on to King Crimson!!
This is a heavy one! You can hear the despair and sadness in each droning note. It's wonderful haha
Starless It's an awesome song!! My opinion as Rocker and Metal of a little more than 4 Decades ago, is that Progressive Rock is Classical Music that was born in the twentieth century, the Artists of this Genre are too Virtuous, obviously leaving aside bands like: The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Doors, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, The Who, and a very Long etc... which are pillars del Rock in general
Dude, you are into some damn fine amazing music here!
You are absolutely correct bro. I owe it all to you guys, yall put me on to this amazing art.
Yes, this is incredible. Thank you. One of my top groups. Fripp, Tom Waits, Аукцыон (Auction), Kolibri (Hummingbirds, last two are Russian), Queen, especially Black and White (Queen II). Pink Floyd too. Atomic Heart.
There are a lot of greats, in any style or age. I admire Beethoven, Grieg, Shostakovich and many others in classics, older blues, other national styles, like Astor Pyazzola and so on and on. Zappa is a too much of an inkborn sometimes, brilliant, but not this much breathtaking. Others did greatest things too, but never this widespread through styles and being so refined, distilled this way at the same time. Pure feeling in the musical form, from start till the last sound. Maybe, no uneven word in the lyrics, too, but this was about the emotions in the music, in the first hand.
“Starless” is the perfect combination of solace and tension combined…Wetton’s masterpiece. I read that initially Robert Fripp didn’t want to record it.
Used recently in the opening of the film Mandy. Slow clap. 👏
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Where you went with your discussion was excellent, from not knowing what to say to talking about how it made you feel. When in doubt, go with that.
Here's a little fun fact, Jon Anderson, Chris Squire and I think the rest of the original band Yes went to see King Crimson live way way back in the day! Jon was so blown away with their performance he said, and I quote..."we need to practice." KC was a huge influence for the Great prog band YES!!
Bill Bruford was Yes's drummer for their first 5 studio albums, through Close to the Edge
Then looking for a new challenge in 1972 Bill left Yes to join King Crimson.
@@mrtyreus0 Bruford was the drummer for Yes until he quit to join Crimson, Banks Kaye Squire and Anderson along with Bruford formed the band Yes. The original drummer for Crimson was Giles.
@@josephnaja tell me something I don't know... How convenient it is to be able to edit comments these days 🤣
@@mrtyreus0 saw an interview I think it was with Rick Beato when Anderson made that comment. He was talking about back in the day when Yes first formed they saw Crimson in a club in London somewhere and there again he was so blown away by KC he said to the other guys Bruford, Kaye, Banks and Squire, "we need to practice!" Which I think says a lot coming from the lead singer of Yes! Totally unedited, it is a nice feature. I'm 67 years old and I grew up listening to this music.
This song live is KILLER!
He actually left Yes after Close to the Edge. Because he felt He contributed all he could contribute to that band and there's nothing better that would ever come out of that band... and he was kinda right.
Saw them do this live very early KC . Unreal. Changed me. I was 17.
Now you should listen to UK : "Carrying no cross" , the only track that top Starless (IMO)
It's great to see you getting into this stuff the same way we did back in the day. It really is awesome stuff. Yes Bruford is a monster. My favorite song on this album is actually Fallen Angel so hoping you do that sometime.
Hey Kevin! Glad you enjoyed it. This is one of my favorite tracks I've ever found on the channel. It's just perfect in every way.
Bill Bruford is one of the best that ever lived. He's a drummer's drummer. Just like Robert Fripp is a guitarist's guitarist and King Crimson are musician's musicians. There are not enough accolades I can give to this band.
The big difference in your generation and mine which was King Crimson’s as here was we could all sit down play this, LISTEN, take it inwards, patiently, enjoy, like eating a meal, digest it, discuss it, swap conclusions. Your generation can’t shut up for one minute. Learn to be silent, you will learn so much more of music and your world around you. It’s society’s fault they’ve told you you’re opinions matter yes they do but sometimes you’ve got to go outside yourself to learn then form opinions.
Oh and KC was a huge influence for Yes! I bought the album Red the year it was released and still have my copy, played the shit out of it.
I've listened to this a million times. Even taught the baseline to one of my students and I still hold my breath every time.
This song fills me with extra feels. Last song on the last album of this configuration of King Crimson. Back then in 1974 we thought they'd never exist again. We were heartbroken.
And it was eight long years before Fripp and Bruford reformed King Crimson with Adrian Belew and Tony Levin. Check out the album "Discipline" if you haven't.
Blessings.
Thanks! I just watched this again and shared it on Facebook. It’s really a great reaction and shows your “big ears”
Look for some interviews with Bruford. He's obviously a very intelligent fella who was always looking to explore and improve. He must've bored easily because he didn't like to repeat himself a lot. He'd seemlessly put things in, take things out.... He'd be in a pocket and take out a snare hit then insert one where you didn't expect it. He'd do the same with the kick. But it was so subtle that unless you had an ear on the drums you wouldn't notice it. His creativity kept the songs interesting even though most people had no idea what the mad professor was doing back there on the drums. In retrospect, his leap from yes to king crimson was the exact right decision.
There used to be a 73 live version of Starless on TH-cam. Bruford’s work on that middle section in 13 was phenomenal. ✌️❤️🎶🐶
Wetton And Bruford drives this bass and drums. Let the kids now hear the original drum n bass. The hierarchy.
Haunting. They are even better live.
Great reaction! I luv King Crimson. Saw them live in 1972. I believe it was the "Red" album tour.
I’ve seen KC 4xs once in the 70s and 3 xs in the last 6 years. They had 3 drummers. Really incredible
Great reaction! Like the other guy has said here, I recommend you to listen to Larks Tongues' in Aspic 1 & 2
For all I know, Bill left Yes because he felt he wouldn't accomplish anything else with them, not because he thought their music was overly complex. So he joined KC to keep expanding his musical horizons, to keep experimenting, jamming and improvising. And he was right! See, I love Yes, but KC is a monster of its own. They were always on the vanguard since they first appeared in '69 and everybody else was just playing catch up ever since. Fripp's approach of "fresh when it's written", never afraid of trying new stuff, essentially kept KC ahead of any other bands. Starless is their magnum opus if you ask me, but they have tons of great, innovative material throughout their entire career, especially considering the many breakups, hiatuses and lineup changes.
Bill Bruford left Yes because of the intense rehearsal sessions. In King Crimson, he said there was no tight direction as to who does what when, you just know
Hey there Mr. Lee ~~~
Tonight was the first time I samples your channel. Very enjoyable, your reactions are so for-real that I watched 3 of them--
Gentle Giant, UK and King Crimson. Thanks for posting !!
"Red" is a classic album.
Great reaction! Right on with your comments after the song! Bruford is a fricken animal man!!
"Insanely incredible" works!
It really does fit. This shit is bananas. Lol
After hearing Starless the world will never be the same. Good luck on your journey!
Loved watching this. Its a mind blowing tine good to see someone react like i did.
Thanks!
Masterclass somberness! And the beauty of it! ❤❤❤
That's an apt description my friend. Somber yet beautiful. What a crazy ride.
Damn man. Just found you & this KC reaction that’s been up 3 days. “So subdued and mellow” Mellow like a Mellotron muthafucka! Glad this joint is still up and I’m here to experience one of my favorite KC compositions with you, my man!🤘🏼🎧🤟🏼
Glad to have you aboard my friend! You are lucky Cuz it already got taken down once already lol. This is hands down my favorite song of theirs so far I love it
Cool! That is a little different to the vinyl version I have. Red is an amazing album. Bill Bruford (whom I saw live with his band 1986) has stated that he had "trouble" giving what was needed from him by perfectionist Fripp. He delivered. God-like drummer!
King Crimson best song ever!
(miracle that your video didn't get blocked)
Yeah, I don't know how this one stayed up. I have a treasure trove of KC reactions on my patreon though. Www.patreon.com/L33Reacts
SO good!
Absolutely! My favorite KC song still. It's amazing.