The Mellotron Group

Surely David Cross was joking and had a good laugh after typing that.

Clay


--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@...> wrote:
>
> Even as a KC fan, this sort of thing makes me *despair*.
> 
>  From David Cross' diary:
> 
> /"I have just scanned through a preview copy of Andrew Keeling's 
> 'Musical Guide to Larks' Tongues in Aspic by King Crimson'. In this book 
> Andrew has applied some powerful analytical tools, deconstructing tonal 
> and metrical materials using Bartok's Axis system of tonality, the 
> Golden Section and the Fibonacci series. He has also engaged with the 
> ritualistic, occult and mystical components implicit in the album 
> through the lens of Jungian psychology and revealed some fascinating 
> numerical symbolism (particularly around the number 5) whilst developing 
> a finely argued view of the music's place in the spectrum of rock. 
> Andrew recognises the developmental importance of LTIA in uniting 
> disparate musical features within a shared language as opposed to the 
> polystylism of earlier progressive rock."/
> 
> -- 
> Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
> 
> Free Music Project: http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/ 
> Or http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+Dickson                  
> Or http://soundcloud.com/mikedickson
> Or http://www.planetmellotron.com/revd4.htm#mikedickson   
> Or http://www.myspace.com/mellotronworks
>