I'm amazed how everyone has thrown "Watcher" under the bus like it was a 2000 era bullshit Fripp tune... (boring!)
That opening defined that era... Don't hide...
Hey... Wake up y'all... This is why we are here... Not because some dude from the 18th century wrote some tune that "brings you back"... or some dude in 2008 who pretends to write the same bull shit that nobody gives a shit about that "brings you back"...
Don't care... What was important was hearing Wakeman destroy the sound system at the Spectrum in Philly opening up with Firebird in 73'... That was important...
We are here because someone took this piece of machinery and played "And You and I", or "Court", or "Tuesday" or "Cirkus" or some other bull shit "Prog" tune... Don't over-analyse...
It really pisses me off when I hear the real people slag it off like it didn't exist...
I work with a person who always wondered what the fuck that sound was... So I played it for her and now there is another "sucker", I mean person, who understands how "Heart of the Sunrise" begins...
Never forget...
"But when you think of me tune in the frequency, Come out and play come out and play"
...Gandalf Murphy and The Slambovian Circus of Dreams
"Nothing can change the shape of things to come."
...Max Frost
"Any talent that we are born with eventually surfaces as a need"
...Marsha Sinetar
Never miss a thing.