The Story Of King Crimson (1969)

Are we gonna get the story of king crimson (1970)???

Robert Fripp is probably the best rock/prog rock guitarist ever.

IN THE COURT— one of the Greatest LP’s from the Era of the great 1960’s True Classic Rock Band’s 🇺🇸

This band is like a unique spice for exellent dish wichich is a Rock Music.

And here I had always heard Brad Delp died of throat cancer?

This was really interesting! SO WHERE'S THE NEXT PART OF THIS!!

People already know what it's about, one of the greatest bands of all time. Debut album was the perfect collection of musicians, had they all worked it out and stayed together subsequent records would have changed the world of music again and again. It's why Robert was down to leave his own band!

It's sad how things turned out, that being said Robert Frip took King Crimsons to meteoric heights with every rendition of King Crimson. A real genius and truly all of them in the 69 band were as well!

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Bro you made this 2 months ago!? And 165k views congrats to you man I only recently learned the bands full story and this really was a great video 📹

The first and best video about the story of King Crimson narrated. love and peace, greetings from mexico.

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Wow pictures of Robert Fripp standing up and playing..😮

This band left an indelible mark. Thanks so much for creating this, great research keep them coming

So many bands through the years don't have the brains to stay together. Never understanding the special place they are in now. Never to be equalled by any other musical place they will ever be again

I felt like a watched the video from inside a fallopian tube. Great Video!

Thanks a lot! I hope the Crims do not litigate to censor this great work, since their managenent is known to dislike and censor every little thing about KC which is not under their copyrights...

¡Desconozco su historia, pero si puedo decir que he oido miles de veces algunos de sus discos y algunas piezas están a la altura de los grandes clásicos de la música universal!.

“While no reaction was documented, it’s possible that Fripp’s father was devastated, yet Robert stood his ground.”
So… forced melodrama with zero substance whatsoever? Why paint his father to be that way by creating a fictional scenario if you have zero evidence to support any of it? Disliked. Fuck off.

The background music doesn’t fit and the narration is really boring. Thanks anyway.

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Brian Ferry tried out for King Crimson around late '69 or early '70 as a vocalist. They passed...

Saw the in 70

Amazong stuff - where did you get all this content, most of which I hadn't heard befpre? I can't wait to see what you come up with for the next few years of Crimso!

King Crimson became the North Korea of bands in the Rock world. So small in regards to its following, but it punched FAR above its weight, giving more commercially-appealing contemporaries like Pink Floyd a run for their money.

The comparison to North Korea becomes even more accurate considering how the band operated and the expectations it had of its musicians. And their EXTREMELY strict policy forbidding their audience from recording and photographing the band during their live performances.

The fact that they self-produced that debut album is mind-blowing. Massive credit to Ian McDonald for taking the lead on that.

so cool to learn all these details from seminal music of our childhood, brings back many stoned memories staring at that cover, it was in the rotation with Santana and Led Zeppelin every evening in the dorm lounge for sure

There are quite a few histories/overviews of KC out there, many of them thoroughly enjoyable in spite of the occasional error popping up. That said, your effort is superb in all respects especially your recognition of the importance of Peter Sinfield to the group. Now I'm away to look for part two. Very well done mate. Cheers!

I'd say this band is at least EPIC...majestic,,they went where others didn't imagine!!-- with a huge imagination 😮🎉

Good, good, good video. From Italy. Bob ha inventato un genere di musica unico, al pari di grandi compositori del passato. Comunque musica visceralmente romantica. Ciao, bel lavoro.

Fripp has always looked like a dignified 50 years old.😅
Having said that, I love his music. He and Toyahs vids are fun to this day, nice to see him cutting up in his refined way.
Also, the album 'McDonald and Giles'
is one of my very favorite albums in the world, right next to 'In the Court of the Crimson King'
Musically, I have always thought of it as an appendage to Court even though they had parted ways. It has that same depth but maybe more funky and jazzy.

Everybody was in the army back then would go missing sometimes. Two weeks later somebody says they seen them, in army boots out marching in the rain.

Robert frip tells the story of Jimi Hendrix, in front of audience before show in 1981 if I’m not mistaken. One of girls sitting at jimis table saw Jimi Hendrix say they were best band he seen. I could be wrong but seemed like Fripp had NO idea Hendrix was so into king crimson’s music that night. They knew Jimi was in audience but didn’t know how much Jimi loved king crimsons music..All of this was new to Robert frip until 12 years later, when fripp ran into that girl, Same girl who overheard Jimii sitting table. It must of been memorable night, impression it left, made her bring it up conversation.. Fripp tells the story beautiful on stage. Fripp reminds me of Mr pee body, from rocky bullwinkle. And Mr pee body is actual charactor comes from Timothy o leary’s bunch before he was excommunicated during, or before his dropout campaign late 60s

This is enchanting. My young life brought to life. THANK you.

Yet another 'talk video' about music that doesn't even include the music it's talking about. Be honest, what do you earn from this duplicity? Sheesh!

why say 'England's woodstock'? the country is called the UK..not just England.

still love it!!

And that's where greg met keith and history was about to be made..

oh to have been a musician from 67-75 in london. had hendrix lived, he would have joined the new elp. no joke. he loved KC so much, he wanted to play prog rock. true story, keith told me once...

You took a look at that debut album and knew you were going to enter something akin to the twilight zone.

The world of live music is a better place with the numerous live concert recordings that are available of King Crimson.
It was almost impossible to comprehend the amount of music that left the stage at a K.C. Show.
Imagine being in front of a locomotive.
I was fortunate enough to see many tours the first in 1974.
In 1980 My wife & I had tickets to the 8 pm show but we went early to listen outside to the first show.

Clear and concise history of the early days. Thanks.

If you can find the 2005 CD or DVD of *21st Century Schizoid Band: Live in Japan*, you can hear early Crimson music very perfectly played by Ian McDonald, Michael Giles, Peter Giles, Jakko Jakszyk, and Mel Collins. In other words, it's early King Crimson minus only Fripp. If you're a fan of the early Crim, I can't recommend this item strongly enough!

Just discovered them and I'm enchanted.

You are underselling John McLaughlin.

Where da Jojo's fans at ?

What could've been had this lineup continued. That album was mind blowing to say the least.

I believe when Ian and Mike left they recorded the album Mcdonald & Giles.. very enjoyable album!

I can certainly hear a bit of John McLaughlin influence in Red.

What is the draw to there music? It’s very early prog rock. Nothing really hooks me in or connects. It’s so abstract and strange. The tones don’t even get me hyped. To each there. What song should I listen to? I sort of heard a riff or so in Red that was kinda interesting but nothing cohesive as far as making me a fan.

Listen at 1.25 speed. You’ll thank me later.

The first time I ever heard "Court of the Crimson King" I think I had a serious orgasm.