The Crimson Avenger wrote:Where the hell is the 'It's all good as long as John Wetton is on a different continent option'?
Yorkshire Square wrote:The Crimson Avenger wrote:Where the hell is the 'It's all good as long as John Wetton is on a different continent option'?
Well at least he hasn't taken the fucking banjo up. So that's good.
KC need JW like JW needs KC. ie not at all. Paths have diverged and there recrossing seems very unlikely. Same goes for Billy Boy.
Now Bobby is a different kettle of fish. He spouts some terribly pretentious shit now and again, but when he says "for KC, Fripp is necessary but not sufficient" he hits the nail bang on the head. It wouldn't be KC without the old git at the helm.
The only problem is I'm not sure he wants to sail the old tub anymore...
Krimzep wrote:he didnt even want to captain the boat, it was thrust apon him by fate.
Fripp may be the last surving "member" but I think that the rest of the blokes who started the band and subsequently took over roles by those who left are just as important to Kc as fripp is.
Thats why the music is far more important than any one member of the band.
Yorkshire Square wrote:Krimzep wrote:he didnt even want to captain the boat, it was thrust apon him by fate.
Fripp may be the last surving "member" but I think that the rest of the blokes who started the band and subsequently took over roles by those who left are just as important to Kc as fripp is.
Thats why the music is far more important than any one member of the band.
But that was 36 years ago! You and I were still picking bogies and wiping them on our dungarees. (You may still be, I don't know...)
Anyway whatever the circumstances of his "Captaincy", mutiny or election by abdication, for the past 35 years, Fripp has been the steer behind the band and his influence has become such that without him you would not really have KC.
If you are referring to one album and a few dozen gigs, that I very rarely listen to incidentally, then yes the music is more important than any of those five members.
But thereafter the story changes...
Krimzep wrote:you may say that the music wouldnt be there without fripp but I say that if no one wanted to hook up with him then there would be no Kc to speak of after the first breakup anyway. the music depends on the deck hands as much as it does the captain.
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