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  1. Re:Flat pricing on iTunes by Red+Flayer · · Score: 1 · on Jobs Resists Music Industry Pressure

    Not sure if any of the tracks are original, but KC (or Epitaph) did release a double-album in 1976: "A Young Person's Guide to King Crimson."

    http://www.elephant-talk.com/discog/fripp/indexk.h tml

  2. Re:Men are from mars... by Cujo · · Score: 1 · on Animated View from the Mars Rover

    Adrian Belew summed it up quite nicely:

    Sex, sleep, eat, drink, dream.
  3. Re:They're running out of combinations... by killjoe · · Score: 1 · on Rendezvous Renamed to OpenTalk

    For all the king Cromson fans there is elephant talk

  4. Tom Petty Owes me a Keyboard by robochan · · Score: -1, Offtopic · on What Was Your Worst Computer Accident?
    or How Tom Petty Almost Made Me Quit Smoking

    ^@%$#%^@##@%$^%@#$ Tom Petty
    How dare he make an album like Wildflowers, that can make you zone out and get lost for an hour. I just got done with a zone session that ended up with a cigarette burning through the left CTRL key on my nifty Keytronic LT Wireless Keyboard, the keyboard I've been faithfully typing away at for almost 5 years now.
    :-(
    :-(
    :-(
    That keyboard, along with my trusty Logitech Cordless Mouseman, has been the direct interface between myself and the virtual world for some time now. The freedom was incredible. I could ease into my La-Z-Boy recliner, kick back, and surf for hours and hours and hours....[droooooooooool]

    Tom Petty, along with other artists like King Crimson and Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, have been responsible for many hours of zoned out internet surfing to some of my favorite sites. You've been there - putting on some tunes, firing up your browser, zoning out and surfing away...
    Two minutes later, an hour has passed, the album has ended, and you've been around the world and back and hopefully learned something new.

    That's just how I started off the other night. I popped Tom Petty's Wildflowers cd into the drive, cranked up the volume, and fired up the browser. I was immediately sucked in by the sweet acoutic guitar sounds of the title track. Click... Click... Click... You Don't Know How It Feels comes up, I hear the sentimental lyrics, and I drift back to my younger days... Click... Click... Click... Another 30 seconds rolls by and half the album's over... Cabin Down Below just nails me with the big fat Telecasters running through tube amps turned up to 11 sound... Click... Click... Click... I finally make it to Wake Up Time ... "Time to open your eyes... And rise and shine..." and...

    I'm accosted by the stench of burning pl

  5. Re:King Crimson? by stereoroid · · Score: 2 · on Ideas for a Recording Industry Alternative?
    And it's Robert Fripp, not Peter Fripp. Peter Giles (brother of drummer Michael) worked with them before they were KC and some session work later. Carl Palmer was not involved!

    For more on the Crim, past, present and future, there are three worthwhile sites to visit:

    They toured with Tool last year, and have just released a new EP, "happy with what you have to be happy with". There's also an in-house "remix" album called BPM&M: ExtraKcts and ArtifaKcts, which has already cost me a loudspeaker - more bass than you can shake a Stick at.
  6. Re:Surprise! by jzitt · · Score: 1 · on lowercase music

    It'll be great until some smartass makes a track that's 45 minutes of near-silence followed by A LOUD BANG!

    Granted that these were before most readers here were born, but this trick (with somewhat less silence) was done with King Crimson's In the Court of the Crimson King in 1969, and Haydn's Surprise Symphony somewhat earlier.

  7. What about less popular music? by mfarah · · Score: 2 · on NSync Copy Protected CD

    I happen to dislike massive commercial music, and prefer less commercial genres (King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Brand X, Spock's Beard, Steve Hackett, Camel etc. - you get the drill). Many of the artists I like have their own independent labels and issue their CDs by themselves.

    I can't help but wonder what do they think about the whole issue (other than their piracy policies, which are already well known).

  8. Most of my collection is not RIAA. by chipuni · · Score: 1 · on Non-RIAA Record Companies?

    I tend to collect unusual music, from other countries. If you want to stay away from RIAA companies, the easiest way is to purchase import albums. (Not all of them qualify, of course. Arista and Virgin might be from Great Britain, but they're both members.)

    One album company that I want to feature: Discipline Global Mobile is the recording company for King Crimson . On the back of their album "The Deception of the Thrush" is the comment:

    The phonographic copyright in these performances is operated by Discipline Global Mobile on behalf of the artists, with whom it resides, contrary to common practice in the record industry. Discipline accepts no reason for artists to assign the copyright interests in their work to either record company or management by virtue of a "common practice" which was always questionable, often improper, and is now indefensible.

    Their business aims on their website goes into more detail of how they apply their philosophy.

    (Note: I am not affiliated with Discipline Global Mobile in any way, except that I love King Crimson's music.)

  9. Soundtrack by frivolous · · Score: 1 · on Neuromancer: The Movie

    Any news on who's doing the soundtrack this time round?

    The guitarist Robert Fripp (of King Crimson fame) reported a few years back how he started work on a soundtrack in the late eighties. (More info on Fripp and his contemporaries can be found at the web site for his company Discipline Global Mobile or at Elephant Talk - an enthusiast site.)

    FYI...