Just listen to the drum break right after the fast bebop section of Schizoid Man from the Fillmore East… You actually hear the audience freak out in amazement at that drum roll…
Fripp speaks of M. Gile’s musicianship in the liner notes of the CD… No one sounded like him, or played like him…
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I agree with your
comments about Mike Giles. I think that M. Giles
drumming with Crimso is amazing. One of my favorite rock
drummers of
all time. :) Perhaps a
drummer that has been overlooked...?
--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "David Jacques"
wrote:
>
> When
you think about how those 1969 Crimson live tapes were
recorded, it is
> amazing that any fidelity had survived. I believe that
the Fillmore
East
> tapes
were from an ancient cassette deck held by someone in the
audience.
I
> had one of those when I was
13.
>
> To hear the incredible drumming by Michael Giles, even
in lo-fi, is
just
>
mind-boggling... Has anyone, besides Fripp, truly appreciated his
genius?