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I saw King Crimson's 40th anniversary concert with Porcupine tree's
drummer as well as Pat Mastellato (sp?) ....They kicked my ass and for a
band that has nothing to say I heard "go home and practice" pretty loud
and clear. I do think that Fripp has to have a "songwriter" on board to do
any of the real classical Crimson work....

> Both hardly seem relevant anymore, with little to say. They have that in
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> In a message dated 5/2/2011 6:34:31 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
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> It has to be better than the musical tedium of REM which has somehow
> hoodwinked the world. What I have heard is NOT KC but musical
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> _mellotronics.co.uk_ (http://mellotronics.co.uk/)
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> On 2 May 2011, at 23:26, tronbros <_tronbros@aol.com_
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> On 2 May 2011, at 17:55, Gary Brumm <_gabru@comsec.net_
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> Hi Bruce,
> As a huge KC fan since the early days I couldn’t agree more with your
> review. It is spot on. I hope the rest of the album
> is better than this. It seems to be without direction and uninspired.
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> From: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_
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> [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bruce
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> Sent: Monday, May 02, 2011 9:00 AM
> To: (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com)
> _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_
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> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] King Crimson ProjeKct - A Scarcity Of
> Miracles
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> Opinion. The sample video of "A Scarcity of Miracles" (noted that it was
> an "edit") gave me the initial impression of un-Crimson-like production
> smoothness. Okay, it is a King Crimson "Projekct", so it kind of removes
> itself from KC. Nice variable ambience. The music dosen't fly anywhere
> unique. Fripp's guitar is buried. No excuse for the sax sounding too
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> Kenny G. So, it is hard to listen to it twice. There it is, no
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> --- On Sun, 5/1/11, Robert < (mailto:rmrmax@yahoo.com) _rmrmax@yahoo.com_
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> From: Robert < (mailto:rmrmax@yahoo.com) _rmrmax@yahoo.com_
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> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] King Crimson ProjeKct - A Scarcity Of
> Miracles
> To: (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com)
> _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_
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> Date: Sunday, May 1, 2011, 9:27 PM
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> Has anybody on this list received an advance copy of the new album ?
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> (http://www.burningshed.com/store/kingcrimson/multiproduct/313/2188/)
> _http://www.burningshed.com/store/kingcrimson/multiproduct/313/2188/_
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