John Wetton, most appreciated around here for his part played as King Crimson vocalist and bass player and later with the rather excellent UK, has sadly passed away this morning (31st January) at the age of 67. He had been battling cancer. Breaking the news first on Twitter, John’s Asia bandmate Geoff Downes wrote: “Dear All,…
News is coming in this morning of the passing of Greg Lake, the man who fronted both the mighty King Crimson and Emerson, Lake and Palmer, has died aged 69…. KING CRIMSON @DGMHQ 54 minutes ago The death of Greg Lake has been announced. A message on his Facebook page posted by his manager and friend,…
Apparently it isn’t “cool” to be seen to be enthusiastically writing about art, apparently the done thing is to not admit to any kind of notion of excitement or interest, seems art should be aloof and elite, talked of only in whispers, only in the right places and only by the right people, art should…
Someone not worth naming accusingly spat out that these Organ pages were just far too positive when it comes to the art and the music explored. Maybe so? But really, this is just about signposts and links and brief words that point you in the direction of the interesting things out there and really what…
Things things things, things ain’t working out down on the farm. Some things for you to explore (while you wonder why Robert Fripp thinks £50 is reasonable). Still annoyed about those King Crimson ticket prices, they may have been one of the constantly great bands of our times, but those prices really are taking the…
“Following their acclaimed tour of America in 2014, King Crimson returns to active service in 2015 for a series of performances across the UK and in Europe. Beginning in Aylesbury on 31st August the band then appear in several cities in the UK and Europe throughout September, making this is most extensive list of UK…
While the great musical drought of 2015 continues and nothing much turns up this year to really excite us enough to want to share it here, we shall relapse back to raw power of1974 and Central Park, New York, that and wait for the Chinese New Year to hit that Soho car park again. Eleven…
Tuesday things, same as Monday things or Wednesday things really. A random bag of earfood selected from the things that have come this way today… What do we have today? Sweet Jesus, ex-Have Heart, F**king Invincible, Dropdead and such, have announced their debut album You Destroy Yourself The album is due out on February 3rd…
A hummer? A man with a tapeworm in his brain? Never mind any of that, yer man said it was a hummer. A feeding frenzy? Humming? “A hummer” said yer man Fripp as he described the proposed new King Crimson live album. Of course it will be a hummer, how could it not be? So…
Thing of the day, not been here for days, have you? Left you with a trojan horse and went off dealing with leaf growth, demolition orders and such. While we were away it seems that the Robert Fripp has launched a YouTube channel for his label DGM Live, describing it as the place to go…
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