King Crimson

I was fortunate enough to be in the audience at the West Palm Beach Motor Speedway in Oct. 1969, where the original KC performed a set each of the 3 nights.  Fripp, Lake, MacDonald and I think Giles on drums.  They were brilliant and delivered a live sound very close to what you hear on "CotCK", with the mellotron amped through Leslie speakers.  Other acts that impressed were many...Spirit did most of "Sardonicus", Rotary Connection with Minnie Ripperton, Pacific Gas & Electric was tremendous, Johnnie Winter jamming with Janis Joplin backed up by Vanilla Fudge, swilling Southern Comfort all the while.  The last performer...the Stones during the "YaYas tour.  Almost anti-climactic in the near freezing wee hours of Monday AM.

 Back when Greg Lake was in the band before Emerson Lake and Palmer, I missed King Crimson as well but I don’t miss ELP!

I mean I didn’t miss ELP loved them. 

I loved KC from the first album through all of the ones with John Wetton and Bill Bruford, and fell by the wayside after that. 

When I was in college in 1969, some art students painted the inside elevator doors in our dorm building, with half of the cover of 'Court of the Crimson King' on each elevator door, so that once you were in the elevator and the doors shut, you were presented with a wonderfully painted cover of that album! Alarmed a few students under the influence of various psychedelics who saw it for the first time, but there ya go.

Steven Wilson remixes are excellent. 

Heavens. All these years with thinking the band got wiped out in a plane crash.

I still have "Court of Crimson" album and remembering to be so sad when i heard that news years ago. Dirty, rotten rumor?