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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Second thoughts

From: Rick Blechta <rick@rickblechta.com>
Date: 2007-12-15


On Dec 15, 2007, at 2:52 PM, David Jacques wrote:

Most sources document that Ian left Crimson because he was deeply missing his girlfriend while on that famous 1969 tour of the  US (where I saw them at the West Palm Beach Festival). Ian and Michael Giles were also tired of playing “gloomy” songs. So while driving up the west coast on their way to their last gig at the Fillmore, they told Fripp that they were quitting. Fripp was very quiet in the front seat. (Ian documents all this in his diary).

That was then, my experience was in 2001. Funny how time changes things in one's mind. The one thing Ian did say is that he should have taken a month off after that tour to just get his head back together. Missing a girlfriend (long since gone) is no reason to leave a very successful band, and he acknowledged that. Basically, all the reasons he had at the time were nothing in the great scheme of things.

A few years later, he was all set to join the band again.

Rick