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King Crimson/Roxy Music
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Edited Dec 08, 2007, 18:37
Re: King Crimson/Roxy Music
Dec 08, 2007, 18:32
machineryelf wrote:
Yessongs -once they got rid of Bruford, certainly a great drummer but seemingly incapable of keeping a simple 4 to the floor beat without filling the spaces with jazzy bippity boppity stuff, Yes actually had a groove, a pretty stiff middle class whiteboy groove but a groove non the less. checkout out the latter parts of Yessongs or Going For The One


You are totally right. The last side of Yessongs (Starship Trooper and Yours Is No Disgrace) does rock pretty hard. Though those are at heart tunes built by and for Tony Kaye's organ (rather than Wakeman's moogs) and you can hear the Peter Banks influence in the riffage.

I was thinking more of say the Going For The One album where they tried to update their sound but only really hit the mark on the brilliant Awaken which is classic neo-classical prog and possibly the finest piece of music of its kind. But it doesn't rock. Their version of I'm Down which they were playing on the 76 tour is just hilarious. James Last Orchestra covering Easy Livin had more about it!

You're right about Roxy too. Only Be Bop Deluxe did the futurist retro thing with anything like the same degree of invention.
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