The Gonzo Daily: September 2013

Monday, 30 September 2013

Michael Des Barres Show 09-19-2013

MDB in the studio, July 25th

Roots and Branches and The Michael Des Barres Show continues its weekly live broadcasts from The Joint Studios in Los Angeles, Wednesdays at 12am PST andThursdays at 3pm PST. Michael is joined by his “side effects” Kimberly Alu and Malcolm Coronel on both shows, and the number you can use to call in is 888-806-8826.

To watch the shows live, visit thejointstudios.com or livestream.com. If you’re having problems with the video stream, it’s also possible to listen to both shows live on errorFM.

In addition, previous episodes have started airing on the online radio station KONG MonsterRock. Roots and Branches airs Saturdays and Sundays at 1pm, while The Michael Des Barres Show airs Wednesdays at 11pm and Fridays at 1pm.

Bruce Dern and MDB

Recent highlights on Roots and Branchesinclude a visit by Slim Jim Phantom of the Stray Cats and an episode focusing on the music of Eminem and Kanye West. OnThe Michael Des Barres Show we’ve had a great interview with musician/drug counselor Bob Forrest and a unique conversation with actor Bruce Dern.

“I have never had anybody ask me questions that are as well-spoken and as prepared as you are, in 50 years of doing interviews”, Bruce Dern told Michael at the end of the interview.

Audio of all episodes is available for free through Soundcloud, while video on demand can now be purchased through Cleeng for $0.99 per episode.

Visit the new radio page here on desbarres.com for a complete list of all the episodes so far, with links to audio and video.

CURRENTLY AVAILABLE AT GONZO

I'm Only Human
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Carnaby Street
CD - £9.99

GERMAN JUDY DYBLE REVIEW

'Women lay silent with dreams in their hair' –

This phrase, from the song “The Sisterhood of Ruralists,” is the best way to describe Judy Dyble’s soft and cuddly Folk Rock music on her new Album, “Flow and Change.” Even when they mature, girls love girl’s music, even more so the more they mature.

Judy’s soft, dark and gracefully aged voice is enveloped by sparkling piano, floating strings, soft keyboards and a quiet rock band. Sometimes a song does get a bit stronger and louder but the electric guitar is confidently placed at the side of the stage. Even when a rock warrior like Pat Mastelotto gets behind the drum kit and a rock arrangement dominates a song, the tracks remain lyrical and aesthetic. They are not aggressive or masculine. They are never edgy or wild. But still, even without instrumental extravagance and “prickly” parts, the sweet Sunday morning mood does not fade.

Judy Dyble career began back in the 60s of the last century with the Incredible String Band. She went on to Fairport Convention for their debut album. Then went looking for a new band with Ian McDonald and found Giles, Giles and Fripp who later became King Crimson. The demo recordings from that time were released in 2001 as “The Brondesbury Tapes”. Judy sang on an early version of “I Talk To The Wind” which was released in 1976.

Soon after that, she formed Trader Horne, joined the remains of Delivery and then, in the early 70s, she vanished from the progressive music scene altogether. In the early 80s she appeared briefly and again in 1997 and 2002 when she joined Fairport Convention on stage at their festival.

Judy Dyble began recording under her own name in 2004 with “Enchanted Garden”. "Spindle" and "The Whorl" followed in 2006, "Talking with Strangers" 2009, "Starcrazy" 2011. She also recorded EPs, download albums and collaborations with other (well known) artists. Truly it seems that Judy really took off end of the 90s.

Harmonious string and horn arrangements float around Judy’s voice, accompanied by bass and piano, the majority of the 10 songs are “ballady” and elegiac, soft and lulling. Instrumental freaks will be unchallenged so they have to surrender to Judy’s fairy voice, which seems to come from Barnaby’s World, and embrace the esoteric world view and expressive love of nature, the melancholy and dreaminess.

Even if younger listeners might slip from the chair in boredom, the older Folk Rock Garde will shed tears of nostalgia while taking in the beholden privacy of this sound pill.

And why not?

http://www.ragazzi-music.de/judydyble13.html

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Flow and Change
CD - £9.99

Talking With Strangers
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THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Ian Boddy, David Wright - Halcyon

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Live 86-89
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#askYES: Steve Howe’s Guitar Inspirations

For the weekly #askYES feature over 5 weeks, the current touring members of YES choose tracks they find inspiring and hope will be an inspiration for people learning their chosen instruments.

You can also listen to this playlist on Spotify or watch and listen on YouTube.

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Union (Standard DVD)
DVD - £9.99

Union (2CD)
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Rock Of The 70's
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The Lost Broadcasts
DVD - £7.99

Robin Williamson of the Incredible String Band is a real Celtic Bard ...

Robin Williamson came to fame as a founder member of the Incredible String Band back in the tail end of the 1960s. Blending Eastern influences into their folk-rock songs and using a wide variety of instruments the band soon gained a very large following and were to inspire many other acts to follow in their footsteps by using the sitar and other ethnic instrumentation in their songs and music.

After the band broke up in the 1970s Robin carried on with a solo career in which he diversified into becoming an author of books on playing penny whistle and fiddle tunes, releasing a series of cassette albums of spoken word Celtic tales, composing and recording instrumental music and becoming an accomplished harp player.

He also started performing as a storyteller and published a book of an epic poem entitled Five Denials on Merlin’s Grave.

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The Lost Broadcasts
DVD - £4.99

ROBERT WYATT: Scaling musical heights

'Towering genius disdains a beaten path," Abraham Lincoln once said. "It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."

Robert Wyatt hasn't physically been able to go too far in his wheelchair but his music – the stuff of towering, bona fide genius – has taken him, and us, to emotional regions hitherto unexplored.

A major influence on the likes ofThom Yorke, Jarvis Cocker andDamon Albarn, among many others who consider themselves innovative in their field, artrock prog-behemoth Wyatt is possibly one of the most wilfully dogmatic artists in British music.

Born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge on January 28, 1945, in Bristol, "at the end of theSecond World War," he says, adding, as a consequence that his first "awareness of the zeitgeist was this sense of elation I could see in the adults around me. For the previous five years, they thought they were going to be bombed, and their neighbours had just been bombed, and they weren't sure who was going to win. The idea of being overrun like Holland or France or Austria was very, very scary for them. People say we were poor then, but that sense of relief put a spring in people's step, I think."

Anyone who listens to Wyatt's canon – his version of Elvis Costello's anti-Falklands War masterpiece Shipbuilding from 1982 is one of my favourite songs of all time – could argue the gifted curmudgeon has put a spring in people's step with his often-brilliant music.

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

Rob Ayling writes:

"Thom the World poet is an old mate of mine from way back in my history. Even pre-dating Voiceprint, when I was running "Otter Songs" and Tom's poetry tapes and guest appearances with Daevid Allen, Gilli Smyth, Mother Gong are well known and highly regarded. It just felt right to include a daily poem from Thom on our Gonzo blog and when I approached him to do so, he replied with in seconds!!! Thom is a great talent and just wants to spread poetry, light and positive energy across the globe. If we at Gonzo can help him do that - why not? why not indeed!!" (The wondrous poetpic is by Jack McCabe, who I hope forgives me for scribbling all over it with Photoshop)

IN MEMORY OF

DIMMING OF EYES

slow river speech.How many dead?(all beyond reach-

Teach young to absorb elders /like tea stains on carpets

Stir the sweetness in.Tongues still taste/additions/deletions

Edited memories make another creature-one quick snap frozen Wikipedia

Google and a brief resume will say"He was forgotten in his own day"

She,too,the deeper darker depth to which he was addicted/has Daddy issues

Bold,brave,time-tale-tellers,now cut tongue butchered ,hung in Halls like golden trophies

Where they went no soul will venture again.Is it enough to touch the silver

or to steal lines of a courtesan cortege procession/one day's drizzle fog and forget?

They cannot question who accept.Now either miniatures or epic.Neither/none.

One may leap (silver fish)up imaginary waterfalls

for the right to Niagara gush and barrel boy.Witnesses dispute

whether any bubble word /can drown truth.

Stephen Stills honored for free speech through music

In the 221 years since ratification of the Bill of Rights, Americans have had the right to speak out. And sing out.

In recognition of the power of free speech set to music, the First Amendment Center and the Americana Music Association join together each year to honor a prominent musician who has used his or her music to contribute to the markeplace of ideas. Awardees have come from a wide musical and political spectrum, including Johnny Cash, Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson, Charlie Daniels and Mavis Staples.

Stephen Stills, a two-time member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Buffalo Springfield, received the 2013 award at the Americana Music Association Honors and Awards Show at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville this week.

“For What It’s Worth”. one of his most famous compositions, is widely regarded as a protest song, but that misses the mark. Yes, the song was inspired by a confrontation between police and young people on the Sunset Strip, but his tone was one of observation, not outrage. “There’s somethin’ happening here, what it is ain’t exactly clear” he sang on that early Buffalo Springfield hit. He even poked fun at the protesters who carried signs “most saying hurray for our side.”

Throughout his career, Stills has used his music to encourage us to look at our society and ourselves. His response to the world’s challenges has been reflective, not reflexive.

As a member of one of America’s most political bands – Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young – Stills often offered a measured counterpoint. Neil Young’s “Ohio” was a chilling indictment of the government that could shoot dead four students at Kent State University. The flip side of that single was “Find the Cost of Freedom,” a four-line Stills song about sacrifice and liberty.

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CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FROM GONZO

The Lost Broadcasts
DVD - £9.99

Sunday, 29 September 2013

Steve Hackett: The song’s the thing

It was 16 years between GenesisRevisited albums for Steve Hackett, yet without pressing the progressive guitar great, he admits to an ulterior motive for releasing Volume II last year.

“The desire to want to do it live, to be honest,” he said. “I did the album as an excuse, which turned out as a great sounding album. The amount of guest performers we had on it transformed what was once a group into basically an orchestra’s worth of guest appearances. So I was very pleased with the way the album turned out. It was far stronger than I’d hoped it was going to be.”

Reproducing the classics from his run with the group from 1970-77, Genesis Revisited II does give Hackett his wish to get back on the road (he and his band play the Best Buy Theater in New York City on Wednesday), but at the same time it gives the fans fresh sounding versions of the songs they love while allowing the Londoner a chance to play perfectionist.

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STEVE HACKETT

Spectral Mornings
DVD - £9.99

THE RIDES FEATURING STEPHEN STILLS, KENNY WAYNE SHEPHERD, BARRY GOLDBERG, CHRIS LAYTON- WILBUR THEATER, BOSTON, MA

As the term super-group gets used more often to describe bands that are composed of already successful musicians, it has started to lose its meaning. However, in regards to The Rides, donning it with such a title wouldn’t do it justice. This band touts a muti-generational composition of extremely talented singers, songwriters and musicians.

Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Stephen Stills shares the driver’s seat with the hot-rodded blues sensationKenny Wayne Shepherd. Stills and Shepherd are backed by Electric Flag’s songwriter and keyboardist extraordinaire, Barry Goldberg, former drummer of Stevie Ray Vaughn’s famed Double Trouble, Chris Layton and Crosby, Stills & Nash bassist Kevin McCormick. The cumulative talent and experience that The Rides share made for a jambalaya of a performance who were in town supporting the band’s first release Can’t Get Enough.

When the house music stopped and lights dimmed, an increased sense of anticipation was palpable as a hush blew over the audience. The band lined up behind the curtain, stage left, and waited for their cue. McCormick and Layton led the charge on stage followed by Shepherd, Stills and Goldberg. Stills, dressed in all black and smiling from ear to ear greeted the crowd. Shepherd, also completely clad in black waved and took his mark. As the crowd cheered, both took hold of twin sunburst Stratocasters and the Rides tore into the first song of the night, “Born In Chicago.”

They followed with a low down, nasty original, “Roadhouse.” “That’s A Pretty Good Love” stayed quite true to the original with ample opportunity for Shepherd, Stills and Goldberg to solo on their respective instruments. Another new track, “Don’t Want Lies” slowed the tempo of the set down as Stills sang with complete sincerity.

Turning the set on its head, The Rides surprised the audience with the Stooges’ classic “Search and Destroy. Shepherd ditched his Strat for a shiny white Les Paul Custom and took the wheel singing lead vocals while throttling his axe.

Stills greeted the audience once again and gave some insight into this new project. Then the band came together, played the title track “Can’t Get Enough” and then Stills then took another moment to introduce keyboardist Barry Goldberg and noted his musical contributions before playing “My Imagination” which Goldberg wrote with the famed Gerry Goffin. It was a number one hit for Gladys Knight and it went over exceptionally well at the Wilbur. Muddy Waters’ “Honey Bee” followed with Shepherd on lead vocals. This classic kept the engine purring with another tasty nugget for fans of early blues music.

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CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FROM STEPHEN STILLS AT GONZO

The Lost Broadcasts
DVD - £9.99

GONZO WEEKLY MAGAZINE #45

I have been promising for some weeks that the Gonzo Daily publishing empire would spread "into more traditionally magaziney areas", and I wasn't lying. I have just sent out #45 of the Gonzo Weekly newsletter, together with its swish new layout, to nearly 2,000 subscribers.

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THIS WEEK WE BRING YOU PAUL McCARTNEY, YESTERDAYS, STEVE IGNORANT, MISS CRYSTAL GRENADE, CAROL HODGE, Dr CHRIS CLARK, MICHAEL ELBAZ, DAEVID ALLEN, CHRIS CUTLER, YUMI HARA, YOU ME AND US, RICH DEAKIN, WILKO JOHNSON, CRASS, LEMMY, MOTORHEAD, COPERNICUS, DIALETO, SIMULACRUM, NIC JONES, CHUBBY CHECKER, EDISON'S CHILDREN, MARILLION, JACKIE LOMAX, CARL PORTMAN, PINK FLOYD, RON GEESIN, BART LANCIA, ROGER WATERS, PUSSY RIOT, CANTERBURY SCENE, MATTHEW WATKINS, ANDY COLQUHOUN, MICK FARREN, THE DEVIANTS, DAN WOODING, KING SQUEALER, MAURICE O'MAHONEY, MERRELL FANKHAUSER, STEVE HOWE, JON ANDERSON, BEATLES, CITIZEN CAIN, RICHARD FREEMAN, RICK WAKEMAN, ROB AYLING, HAWKWIND, YES, C.J.STONE, THOM THE WORLD POET, PETER McADAM, THE NINE HENRYS, CAPTAIN FRUNOBULAX THE MAGNIFICENT

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

adapted to Texas in astonishing ways-

much of their life home made and hand made-

from inks and rope to home cooking on chuck wagons

they learned from indigenous to share stories songs and epic tall tales.

So it is that open air and under tree @Schreiner University,annually

schoolchildren are bused in -to learn their Texas folk traditions.

In a tipi made for tales,from a table with lassos and saddles

from a man in a coonskin cap holding a flint lock musket packed with black powder

another in chaps lassoing students.More with acoustic instruments-fiddles,guitars,squeezeboxes

sharing Texas songs and melodies to sing a long with.And poet/storytellers-to celebrate Jimmie Rodgers's songs-

his family comes along(the Schreiner community is strong)-to pass the torch of folk cultures on.

Diversity and openness.Endless learning experiences.Each goes away with more of themselves -

learning from elders and ancestors-new ways of adapting to Texas .Each year,a new lesson.Every day,a Festival!

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: Jack Bruce - Theme From An Imaginary Western

CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FROM GONZO

Rope Ladder To The Moon
DVD - £9.99

Saturday, 28 September 2013

JUDY AT CRITICAL JAZZ

http://www.criticaljazz.com/2013/09/judy-dyble-flow-and-change-gonzo.html

A lyrical tapestry...heartfelt, evocative and emotionally stirring.
Brent Black /

www.bop-n-jazz.com

Aside from music I have another guilty pleasure if not passion, food. In an ironic sense music is indeed food for the heart and mind of the listener. One thing I have learned is that one must always be willing to take what they know and what they like and then try and move past that. Judy Dyble's Flow and Change may well be the perfect soundtrack for this simplistic view on life and the various journeys one encounters along the way. If you don't experience more than one, you are doing something wrong.

This legendary folk singer has released folk music for a new age, not new age folk music. Autobiographical emotional short stories that are part of a lifetime mosaic made up of life, love, and loneliness. Perhaps the most engaging aspect of this recording is the way in which a folk singer whose first recorded work was roughly forty years ago has been able to find a most compelling space in the technology driven industry that is music and with the use of a simple laptop is able to pull together such breathtaking sound scapes with musicians from around the globe that she has never actually met.

Lyrical poetry is by its very nature improvisational at conception. Dyble's eclectic vision captured within the context of aging gracefully is as emotionally gripping as it is whimsical and evolving. Flow and Change magically takes on a life force of its own. An organic microcosm of space and time with promises both fulfilled and broken. Judy Dyble's Flow and Change is far more than a traditional release. Flow and Change is an emotional journey to be savored.

Tracks: Black Dog Dreams; Featherdancing; Beautiful Child; Crowbaby; Driftaway; Head Full of Stars; Silence; Letters; Wintersong; The Sisterhood of Ruralists.

CURRENTLY AVAILABLE FROM GONZO

Flow and Change
CD - £9.99

Talking With Strangers
CD - £9.99

THOM THE WORLD POET: The Daily Poem

I ASKED THE YOUNG POETS

"How many stars do you see?"

Some said 20,some said 3.Many did not know

those blinking lights were planes(or spy satellites)-so i mentioned meteors and asteroids

the difference between planets and stars,and their eyes grew large,and they absorbed

folk legends from modern cage age days.Pre-telescope,with only small lens oculars

to grasp concepts of time,gravity,distance..I would have gone on about galaxies and constellation-but their time was small

and they wanted to learn more than versions of visions..Each of us on an island staring @stars.

Some falling,some rising.Each of us watching Heavens,as we release.

THE GONZO TRACK OF THE DAY: THE EDGAR BROUGHTON BAND - Apache Drop Out (1970)

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Edgar Broughton Band
DVD - £12.99

Rick Wakeman new patron of cat rescue home

World famous multi-million-selling rock musician Rick Wakeman has become patron of Feline Care, the East Harling charity which works to save pets lives.

Wakeman, who has produced over 100 solo albums selling more than 50 million copies, has been a huge supporter of the cat re-homing charity.

The renowned keyboard player with the former group Yes said: “There is nothing better for any cat than a loving home, but sadly, so many don’t have this luxury and are abandoned or simply discarded.

“Feline Care gives many such cats another chance and it is the most impressive rescue centre I have yet to see and all who are involved with Feline Care have hearts of gold. What they do is priceless and they deserve all the help they can get.”

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ADRIAN BELEW SAYS HE WASN’T ASKED TO BE PART OF REUNITED KING CRIMSON

Adrian Belew King Crimson Reunion — E.G. Records

Just days after Robert Fripp announced that he was putting together a new version of King Crimson, guitarist Adrian Belew revealed that he won’t be part of it.

Belew — whose long career includes gigs with David Bowie, Talking Heads and Nine Inch Nails — said on his Facebook page that he is no longer a member of King Crimson. He set up the post in the form of a Q&A:

questions and answers.

q: are you in the new King Crimson planned for next september 2014?

a: no. after 32 years I am no longer in King Crimson.

q: were you asked to be in the new King Crimson?

a: no, I was not. robert informed me in an email that he was starting a 7-piece version of the band. he said I would not be right for what the band is doing.

Additionally, the question “So, how do you feel?” was answered with an upbeat ”Happy with what I have to be happy with … which is quite a lot.” Specifically, Belew said that he’s moving forward with the type of projects that have kept him busy over the past couple of decades, including a tour of South America with his Power Trio and a European tour next spring with the Crimson Project, which performs King Crimson music. “Life is great,” he wrote.

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Floating Anarchy Manifesto - Daevid Allen

Response to Australian election, 7th September 2013.

https://soundcloud.com/flamedogrecords/floating-anarchy-manifesto

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES: PINK FLOYD MEDDLE JAPAN REEL TO REEL TAPE TOSHIBA OXA-5084 4TRACK 7 2/1IPS RARE

But $9,999.99? You must be kidding! The vendor writes:

PINK FLOYD MEDDLE JAPAN REEL TO REEL TAPE TOSHIBA OXA-5084 4TRACK 7 2/1IPS STEREO

HOLY GRAIL FOR PINK FLOYD COLLECTORS WORLDWIDE.

IN 1971, TOSHIBA MUSICAL INDUSTRIES JAPAN RELEASED THIS ITEM, BUT SOLD POORLY, SO THERES ALMOST NO SURVIVE COPY FOUND EVEN IN JAPAN. VERY SMALL QUANTITY WAS MADE WHEN RELEASED, AND KNOWN AS FAR BETTER SOUND QUALITY THAN USUAL US REEL TO REEL TAPES.

THIS ITEM IS VERY WELL TAKEN CARE OF BY PREVIOUS OWNER, REEL TO REEL COLLECTOR FROM 1970S, SO CONDITION IS VERY CLEAN. TAPE BOX HAS SMALL STICKER ON REAR. TAPE HAS ORIGINAL CLEAR PLASTIC COVER AND LEAD IN AND LEAD OUT TAPE ATTACHED BY PREVIOUS OWNER. JAPANESE LYRIC INSERT INCLUDED IN VERY CLEAN CONDITION.

I WILL SEND THIS ITEM ONLY BY REGISTERED, EXPEDITED AND INSURED AIR MAIL, NOT $3
GOOD LUCK FOR BIDDING.
THIS IS ONCE IN A LIFETIME FIND.

Friday, 27 September 2013

WELL IT IS THE BIGGEST STORY OF THE WEEK

King Crimson to re-form, says Robert Fripp
The Guardian
Robert Fripp has announced his intention to re-form King Crimson, reuniting with saxophonist Mel Collins and a handful of more recent collaborators. One year after declaring he had "given up [his] career as a musician", Fripp revealed that he is once ...
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King Crimson Announce 2014 Reunion
mxdwn.com
Rarely has a band survived as long as prog-rock supergroup King Crimson, forming over 45 years ago, and struggling to continue and thrive through the adversity and heartache that the music industry can be. However, this strong-willed inspiration that ...
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Prog Legends King Crimson To Reform (Again)
theMusic
Legendary prog-rock group King Crimson have existed – on and off – for the best part of 45 years now, and it looks like they are to return to active duty for the first time since 2009 after a blog post from founder Robert Fripp published earlier this...
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King Crimson return with new lineup
Kill Your Stereo
King Crimson return with new lineup. King Crimson have announced their return from a four year hiatus with a new, seven-piece lineup. The new loadout consists of Tony Levin on bass, Mel Collins on sax, multi-instrumentalist Jakkso Jakszyk, drummers Pat ...
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King Crimson announce reunion for 2014 | Consequence of Sound
Prog-rock legends King Crimson have become the latest act to announce reunion plans. (For those keeping score, that makes 5382 bands this year alone.) In a.
consequenceofsound.net/.../king-crimson-announce-reunion-f...

Fripp Announces King Crimson Are Back! | Uncategorized | Prog ...
Robert Fripp confounds prog fans the world over by resurrecting legends KingCrimson.
www.progrockmag.com/.../fripp-announces-king-crimson-are...

Robert Fripp Resurrects King Crimson - Ultimate Classic Rock
Robert Fripp says he plans to resurrect his band King Crimson in 2013.
ultimateclassicrock.com/king-crimson-2013/

King Crimson unveil new-line up and 2014 tour plans - Uncut.co.uk
Speaking to Uncut, Fripp said: "King Crimson is returning to active service. We are on-call to be ready for a live performance on September 1, 2014.
www.uncut.co.uk/king-crimson-unveil-new-line-up-and-2014...

King Crimson Returns with New Lineup - Jambands.com
Its looks like King Crimson are back in action. The band announced the news on their Facebook page today when they revealed that the eighth incarnation of ...
www.jambands.com/.../king-crimson-returns-with-new-lineup

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