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Re: [newmellotrongroup] King Crimson ProjeKct - A Scarcity Of Miracles

2011-05-02 by Thomas C. Doncourt

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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> 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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> As a huge  KC fan since the early days I couldn\u2019t 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.
> Very strange mix as well.
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> From: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_
> (mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com)
> [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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