King Crimson Larks Tongues In Aspic Part II ( The Noise Live At Fréjus 1982)
Ah, here we return to King Crimson in full flight, back in 1982. Looks suspiciously like were having fun in my spiritual home with a bed of nails. In 1982, confidence was sky high. We were pretty sure we were one of the better bands on the block with an interesting perspective on how and what rock musicians should be doing, and what they should be doing it with. Lots of boobams, electronic drums, stick bass, guitar synthesisers, outboard effects processors and pink suits would all be in the mix. Im playing double bass drums: the one on my left foot is a Simmons trashmetal bass drum, prominent here at 332. The slashing 3322 figure that begins the thing has links to Igor Stravinskys work. In musicologist Andrew Keelings words The 10, 8 metre bears some similarity to the Auguries of Spring from Stravinskys the Rite of Spring and Bartoks Bulgarian Dance No 153 from Mikrokosmos VI, and the theme music for the TV series Mission Impossible (Keeling, A. A Musical Guide to Lar
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