"Chairman Kaga" (mike-mckinnon)
02/07/2014 at 14:01 • Filed to: None
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"Chairman Kaga" (mike-mckinnon)
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What I'm listening to today. Dozens of hours of live King Crimson...
One of rock's most underappreciated evil riffs emerges at around 5:00 and goes totally apeshit soon thereafter. Epic.
Just a dirty, grimy song. Lovely.
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> Chairman Kaga
02/07/2014 at 14:13 |
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Robert Fripp is the Colin Chapman of guitar.
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Chairman Kaga
> With-a-G is back to not having anything written after his username
02/07/2014 at 14:14 |
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Man. That's the most astute analogy I think I've ever heard. I was just watching this...
SwedishMachine
> Chairman Kaga
02/07/2014 at 14:28 |
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"Epitaph" and "In the court of the crimson king" are m,y favorite King Crimson songs. Great band!
Marcus Rhatigan
> Chairman Kaga
02/07/2014 at 14:34 |
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My favorite iteration of King Crimson. Lark Tongues in Aspic, Starless and Red were as fine as any trio of rock albums ever.
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> SwedishMachine
02/07/2014 at 14:36 |
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I love that first record, but my favorite version of the band was this one. Wetton, Bruford, Cross and Fripp. All of the live material from that era is simply mind blowing. The Nightwatch is possibly the best live record of all time.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Night…
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> Chairman Kaga
02/07/2014 at 14:37 |
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I only got into him by way of his collaborations with Brian Eno, but he certainly has the "it doesn't matter if the car explodes and you die at the finish line as long as you finish first" ethos of Chapman.
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SwedishMachine
> Chairman Kaga
02/07/2014 at 14:37 |
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You sir have excellent taste in prog rock music.
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> SwedishMachine
02/07/2014 at 14:42 |
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Blame my old drummer. In order to be in a band with him I had to step up my chops, and getting into stuff like Crimson, Zappa, Genesis, etc. was the only way to get there. Just understanding and digesting the rhythmic complexities, more than anything. Dude was waaaay into 11/8 polyrhythms. Maybe why that band never went anywhere... That and we wore capes.
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> Marcus Rhatigan
02/07/2014 at 14:52 |
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We listened to that run of records as we drove across the Sonora Desert at night. Trippy as hell. Borderline terrifying at times. Amazing music though. I still strive for the sheer sexy ferocity of Wetton's bass tone on those records. Like Entwistle's on Live at Leeds. I think he was running an Ampeg with the pre-gain cranked wide open through a guitar cab with 12"s instead of 15"s. And Rotosounds on a Fender. That's the formula, but I still can't quite get it down. Must be right hand technique. They both really hammered the strings and with my tendinitis I just can't get the same sort of snap. ANYWAY.
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Marcus Rhatigan
> Chairman Kaga
02/07/2014 at 15:14 |
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Nothing like a V4B. I always used Rotosounds on my Thunderbird IV. Boiled them to keep them sounding crisp when I was broke. Which was often.
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> Marcus Rhatigan
02/07/2014 at 15:57 |
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I used to buy them by the case from Amazon when I was gigging. Fender Jazz Deluxe mainly, but also have a '78 Gibson Ripper with T-Bird hardware and pickups that sounds exactly like God. Feedback prone, so I don't use it a lot.