Jayesskerr wrote:
I won't lie, that's a cool piece of music. Thanks, dudes.
I am thinking I am literally the only guy who owns a Stick who never really listened to King Crimson before.
You're not alone. Someone I know once introduced me to another musician in his band and told him I played Stick. For the next half hour he tried discussing his favorite albums by KC with me. Didn't have a clue what he was talking about. Tried telling him I'm not familiar with those albums, but it didn't work. The only album I had was Thrak, which I bought on cassette sometime in the 1990's after reading an interview with Tony Levin in a magazine. From my perspective KC was a very obscure band that no one I knew listened to, and never heard on radio. I am rather curious about how people found out about them before the internet. For me it was just reading Tony Levin and Trey Gunn interviews in magazines. With Levin's huge resume, interviews with him that I read never really focused just on KC. I bought the Thrak album as I was curious to hear some Stick solos and with Trey Gunn on it, I'd get to hear another instrument like it as well. At times it can be a bit embarrassing when someone who is not a Stick player assumes I'm a die-hard KC fan just because I play Stick. The usual question that often comes up is what era of KC do I like best - which I can't answer even to this day. Most of what I know about KC nowadays comes off this forum. There's a ton of old music I'm also finding out about after getting Sirius FM in my Ford Escape, and on some occasions, KC is played.
