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Just listen to the drum break right after the fastbebop section of Schizoid Man from the Fillmore East… You actually hearthe audience freak out in amazement at that drum roll…
Fripp speaks of M. Gile’s musicianship in theliner notes of the CD… No one sounded like him, or played like him…
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Iagree with your comments about Mike Giles. I think that M. Giles
drumming with Crimso is amazing. One of myfavorite rock drummers of
all time. :) Perhaps a drummer that has beenoverlooked...?
--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "DavidJacques" <djacques@...>
wrote:
>
> When you think about how those 1969 Crimsonlive tapes were
recorded, it is
> amazing that any fidelity had survived. Ibelieve that the Fillmore
East
> tapes were from an ancient cassette deck heldby someone in the
audience. I
> had one of those when I was 13.
>
> To hear the incredible drumming by MichaelGiles, even in lo-fi, is
just
> mind-boggling... Has anyone, besides Fripp,truly appreciated his
genius?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
> [mailto:Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com]OnBehalf Of mlcsixand78s
> Sent: Sunday, March 12, 2006 2:14AM
> To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Fw: [Mellotronists] Re:Roxy M400 live 1974 (+ King
Crimson
> Live!)
>
>
> In response to earlier posting onthis subject:
>
> LIVE CRIMSON _ LO-FI
> Yes some of the earliest liveKrimson recordings released are lo-
fi.
> But many of the gigs from theWallace & Wetton eras have very good
> fidelity. I have many of the KCkCollectors Kclub releases. I
highly
> recommend them.
>
> KC 1ST LINE UP RECORDINGS
> Since the earliest Crimso was solong ago I heard rumor that T.
> Edison attended some of the firstUS gigs... hmm? Maybe a Detroit
> gig? Perhaps Thomas Edisonmade some boot recordings of Crimso?
> Maybe Fripp got a hold of theseoriginal disks and used them for
some
> of the 'Club releases ...
> ... (haaa, what, huh, where am I?ohhh, what a strange dream).
>
> EDISON DISCOTRON? (orCYLIDRICA-TRON?) (or WAX-CYLI-TRON)?
> Wow, what a beast that would be.All those disks, styli, horns,
etc.
> used as a"sampler/playback" instrument. It could even be powered
> with a small steam engine! Thinkof it! THE ULTIMATE ANALOG (or is
> that analouge?)instrument. Noelectronics needed! What a dream! If
> there was a power cut during agig the 'Edi-Tron-ist' and drummer
> could keep playing happily along,improvising a "duo/solo" to keep
> the audience happy.
> ... ahh, but on stage there mightbe some technical issues with
very
> low freq. vibrations from, forexample, bassists of Wetton
> proportions or drummers with aBonzo like bass drum foot. This
could
> have all those styli hoppingaround like a crowd of punkers in a
mosh
> pit.
>
> OK, enuff. back to reality forme.
>
> ;)
>
>
> --- InMellotronists@yahoogroups.com, lsf5275@ wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 3/11/20066:08:24 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
> > jonesalley@ writes:
> >
> > and the needle snaps back to the start of the groove every time
> you lift the
> >key….hmmmmm……I guess you’d need 35 horns,too…….Can
you
> imagine the
> > sounds coming out ofsomething like that?!?
> > All attack and less thanzero aftertouch.
> >
>
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