Following what may have been King Crimson’s final show ever, watch the band play “21st Century Schizoid Man” at a 2015 Japan gig.
“And the idea of drummers being in front of the stage as opposed to the back … We were like, ‘How is this going to possibly work?’ “
Having the drummers in the front of stage was indeed a very unusual call, but Fripp’s vision somehow worked, and the reconstituted band toured steadily for years. Ticket sales were surely helped by Fripp’s decision to finally play the group’s early classics like “In the Court of the Crimson King” and “21st Century Schizoid Man” after decades of resistance. Here’s video of them playing the latter song at a 2015 gig in Japan.
Crimson played 38 shows this year, including a two-month American slog where they traveled the country by bus and had precious few nights off. When we caught up with Mel Collins midway through it, he had just driven 13 hours from Sandy City, Utah, to Concord, California. “It’s not the most comfortable thing to be sleeping in a bunk driving along a motorway with the engine and the bumps and everything,” he said. “You do the best you can, really. But it’s pretty grueling this tour. We’re pretty tired.”
That exhaustion may explain why Fripp is saying the band is going back into hibernation. Before we label King Crimson dead forever, let’s see how he feels after having a year or two off. After all, we’re just a little over six years from the band’s 60th anniversary. Will he really let that pass without yet another comeback tour?
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