Re: [LAU] Some new* music

Ken Restivo wrote: Aw, you're just trying to make me blush now! I wish I could sing like Wetton though, I love his voice, especially on Starless. Fortunately for eveyone everywhere I can't break out my violin (which I haven't touched in about 18 years) because the bridge looks to be in danger of collapsing. Funnily enough, on the way to work this morning, after listening to this (I know it sounds vain, but I find the complete change of scenery good for giving a mix a critical listen) I queued up both Larks' Tongues and Red, no doubt inspired by Allcoms' mention of it last night. Bruford's drumming was a definite target to aim for with the drumming in this. I'm a big fan of much of his style, I love the stilted, subtle work in Starless, the wonderful little off-kilter shuffles he uses, bouncing between kick and snare and the endless paradiddles for fun and profit! I'm also a fan of some of Fripp's guitar tones, again a target for some of the guitar in this, namely that seems best achieved by the rhythm pick-up of a Les Paul with the tone backed right off, for example in the first part of Starless and the outro of Exiles (one of my favourite Crim tracks, again with superb Bruford stick work). And the Tron in the first section might have had a teensy bit of inspiration from Starless of course ;-) Overall though, in spite of being able to point to specific bits and pieces that were inspired (or nicked!) from Crimso, I wouldn't have said they were a huge influence, given the structure and instrumentation (heavy on the synths, aa fair amount of church organ and a touch of Hammond). There are other bits I can point to snippets of Camel, Dire Straits, Arena, maybe a touch of Floyd and even the Red Dwarf theme music, but I'm still have no clue as to what this sounds like to me. Which is perhaps a good thing :-) Were the 20 tracks of Tron strings in the Egyptian Massed Mellotron Orchestra not sufficient for you :-P Best wishes Q