“I Talk To The Wind,” one of two soft, jazzy ballads on the album, is also one of the weakest tracks. It’s been covered by a stunning range of artists, including Ozzy Osbourne, Gov’t Mule, Voivod, April Wine, Norwegian industrial metal act Shining, post-hardcore legends Rorschach, and Japanese jazz pianist Ai Kuwabara (who played only the middle section), and Kanye West sampled it for his song “Power.” It remains their encore to this day, sometimes getting stretched to the quarter-hour mark. “Schizoid Man” is easily King Crimson’s best-known song. Eventually, the massive riff reappears, and Lake delivers one more verse before the whole thing rises to a crescendo of screaming noise. But after two verses, the song speeds up and turns into a manic jazz-rock explosion, with Giles’ machine-gun drums underpinning twin overdubbed saxes and wild keyboard excursions. The opener, “21st Century Schizoid Man,” starts with a massive, crunching riff played in unison by Fripp on guitar and McDonald on sax before Lake begins declaiming the apocalyptic lyrics through a distorted speaker over a single grinding chord. Three of the five tracks on In The Court Of The Crimson King are among the best in the band’s catalog. It was released on October 10, 1969, exactly 50 years ago today, and is considered one of the most influential progressive rock albums of all time. At the end of July, they returned to the studio and finished the album.
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On July 5, they got a major break, opening for the Rolling Stones at a free outdoor concert in London’s Hyde Park, which drew a crowd some have estimated at a half million. A month after that, on May 6, they recorded a BBC session, and in June they began recording ITCOTCK. The band’s first rehearsal was on Januon April 9, they made their live debut at a club called the Speakeasy. As a consequence, they made an impression almost immediately, with Jimi Hendrix and the Who’s Pete Townshend both praising them as one of the most exciting acts around. Their songs were more like collages, jumping from section to section and transitioning from stomping proto-metal to almost string quartet-like austerity to blaring jazz-rock and back again. They had a uniquely dark style that fluctuated between surging, epic psychedelia with elements of jazz and classical and a softer side dominated by Mellotron and flute. The original lineup - Robert Fripp on guitar, Greg Lake on bass and lead vocals, Ian McDonald on reeds and keyboards (including lots of Mellotron), and Michael Giles on drums - sounded like no other band around at the time. When King Crimson’s debut album In The Court Of The Crimson King was released, they’d been together less than a year.
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