TagYrIt@aol.com wrote:
*Not to single out jzitt@metatronpress.com, but....
**But the instrumental composing only seems "highly developed" in the sense that Fripp's gotten his bag of tricks so well defined that he can crank out yet another reshuffling of them without much trouble.
What do you want from King Crimson at this point? What band of similar vintage and age (or even a newer band for that matter) is doing this better?
When you listen to the things that they are doing well, the flaws seem more regrettable. What I would want, perhaps, is for Fripp to refrain from cranking out the same piece repeatedly until he gets at least one new compositional idea. As the more improvised material, such as the ProjeKcts and the Soundscapes, show, they do quite well without the redundancy generator. The riffs also work quite well as beds for songs, and Toyah, David Sylvian, Belew, and others have done quite good things over them. But without that combination they're just tired. Fripp loudly, repeatedly, and famously demands a lot of his audiences. It seems right to expect the same of him.