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IanB wrote: It's about two branches of Psych I reckon.
I'd go along with that, especially with KC, obviously a big influence on Acid Mothers and even Wata (from Boris) covered Islands on her last release. I think Crimson were a classic mash-up really. Some noodly jazz, some psyche, some folk, some prog, some rock, something else. Quite eccentric which may well explain peoples' fairly ambivalent attitude towards them and I think Fripp was more a sonic artisan than any kind of genre stalwart. They were often bordering on noise merchants which is kinda why I love them so. Oddly in the US they have a reputation of being something of a proto-metal band (and are much revered). Listening to The Great Deceiver (which has been re-issued and is essential) you can kinda see it at times. Great band, far more pushing of the the envelope and subversive than the posh-kid musings of Waters-era Floyd, Yes or Genesis.
I confess to having *no idea* what was going on with Roxy. Brilliant though they were.
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