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| Name: | Rick Jones |
| Country: | United?States |
| E-mail address: | rickjonesart@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I love your vision of the wicked word=world....your written verse is light and darkness,good and evil,Poetic and Rock-contrary to anthing of the bland,always there to spark my interest.... |
| Name: | Nicholas Daniels |
| Country: | Australia |
| E-mail address: | daraibn@yahoo.com.au |
| Name: | David Tett |
| Country: | uk |
| E-mail address: | tettmalteser@aol.com |
| Comments: | Im a crimson fan, pfm fan and I cherish my vinyl copy of Still, still. Thanks for all the magical lyrics Pete. |
| Name: | Matt Kennon |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | mkennon10@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://myspace.com/tunacowboys |
| Comments: | The music and lyrics of King Crimson create the most beautiful, stimulating, and startling art that I believe I have ever come across. Well wishes to all who make, or have been affected by music, for it is the greatest gift we can hope to receive. Thanks for the words Pete!
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| Name: | Randall Fansler |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | randall.fansler@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | I am a lifelong fan of Sinfield, King Crimson, PFM, ELP and saw many shows. Best wishes from Austin, Texas. I love all you guys! Keep the peace!
Randall Fansler |
| Name: | Joel Reid |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | joel.tarp@comcast.net |
| Comments: | I bought Still in 1974 sometime after an ELP show. Possibly the famous New York Xmas concerts with Greg singing "Silent Night" and the choir sitting behind the stage with snow falling all around. THEN..it was snowing outside as well. Now that was well scripted!
I lost "Still" (the album) to a theif with 100's of other great albums some 20 years ago. I have chills when I think about that song and how great the lyrics were. Greg's voice on that could make me cry! Genius!!! I have been trying to get the CD for 3 years. My CD store ordered it (Japan import) but the company it ordered from went under. So I just reordered again. I hope I get it this time. That album played many, many nights while I lived my life. I hope the knucklehead who stole all my music at least listen to Still before he tried to sell them! Missing great music here in South Florida! |
| Name: | Ram |
| Country: | ISRAEL |
| E-mail address: | ramspetsyal@gmail.com |
| Comments: | king crimson
never had enough listen to them for 25 years. |
| Name: | Mark Hoffmeister |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | ianfleming@calcentral.com |
| Comments: | I love this site. I am enjoying the dreambook and all the beautiful photos regarding the Islands inspirations. All the best to music lovers everywhere in 2008 |
| Name: | Joce |
| Country: | Québec |
| E-mail address: | carbone14@vl.videotron.ca |
| Comments: | Happy new year!!!
King Crimson make me discover another side of me that i still digging... Thank you so much!! |
| Name: | Fred |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | fzumpano@aol.com |
| Comments: | Just bought my son an digital photo player for Christmas. One of the first of my 1970's progressive LPs I wanted converted was "Still". Hope all is well with you. I probably have the only copy in Akron, Ohio, and now my son is enjoying it. |
| Name: | Neil |
| Country: | uk |
| E-mail address: | obviouslysixbelievers@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | This is to wish my favourite Capricorn happy birthday, and I'm glad that you are 'dawn, torn (and finally) reborn'.
Your card is in the snail mail and your present is waiting for the end of an e-bay auction (no, its not Hammond's bloody car). I will definitely get in touch in the new year. Love to you and to Jon For 'thread of heaven'-ly thoughts......... "Look out kid It's somethin' you did God knows when But you're doin' it again" ;) Neil |
| Name: | Georgie Groat |
| Country: | Sweden |
| E-mail address: | gunnar.westerberg@sydsvenskan.se |
| Comments: | Dear Peter!
I belong to the past But I found You at last For all what You did I owe You some quid I googled up your many scores and came to think of Dinty Moores There you were - two wardens Of 9 A Harley Gardens Is Peter Fearnside still around, I wonder Or has he even moved down under? According to King Crimson-scenes You dropped the telephone-answering-machines And Peter: If eternity took The Six Bells we´ll have a Red Barrel somewhere else Georgie Groat |
| Name: | brad c dost |
| Country: | usa |
| E-mail address: | dostart@optonline.net |
| Comments: | i've admired & sang your work for a long time.
As a prolific artist your work influences my work. Love, B r a d |
| Name: | Neuro-Surgeon |
| Comments: | 
CAT'S FOOT IRON CLAW............. |
| Name: | Rogerio Silva |
| Country: | Portugal |
| E-mail address: | rogeriosilva@netcabo.pt |
| Comments: | nice |
| Name: | Nephtaly Lugo |
| Country: | Hawaii, U.S.A. |
| E-mail address: | LNeph@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Aloha Pete
I've been digging your lyrics since 1971, after the release of Lizard, in high school while studying at the Free School of Music in Puerto Rico. Thank you for your insight, wisdom & inspiration. Cheerio! Neph |
| Name: | ALETCHE DE MEYER |
| Country: | SOUTH AFRICA NOW LIVING IN UK |
| E-mail address: | www.aletchedemeyer@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | hey this is a strange question, i have been writting all my life i have published loads of poems in south africa, uk,usa but still i have no idea how to get my poetry out there how to make a living of it like you do and i want to ask you if there might be any posibility if you can maybe give me some guidens just read some of my poetry and tell me what you think. sorry it thats rude but it would honestly mean alot if you could help. |
| Name: | Chan |
| Country: | Vietnam |
| E-mail address: | thanchan@vtn.vm |
| Comments: | YEEEEEEAAAh ! Why did you change the background photo |
| Name: | Johnny J Blair |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | jjb@johnnyjblair.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.johnnyjblair.com |
| Comments: | Amazing site! I've been around the song ITCOTKC since I've been 14, but I never realized how far the images went. A month ago I heard the song in the CHILDREN OF MEN movie. It was an effective scene. I haven't stopped listening to the track since. I'm trying it on an acoustic 12-string guitar for my solo act. I tune my guitar to the key of C in an E Major position. I'll let you know how that works out. All the Best, JJB |
| Name: | Ray White |
| Country: | UK |
| E-mail address: | ray@whitefiles.org |
| Homepage URL: | http://whitefiles.org |
| Comments: | Just to say I've moved my website. Still enjoying Still! All the best, Ray |
| Name: | Richard Medrington |
| Country: | Scotland |
| E-mail address: | richard@puppetstate.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.puppetstate.com |
| Comments: | Still was one of my favourite albums back in the 70s and I have kept an eye out for it over the years (still have the vinyl copy). The other day I found Stillusion on iTunes and am enjoying it all over again (actually it's even better than I remebered). Also love Can You Forgive A Fool.
So, just thought I'd say that. Cheers Richard |
| Name: | Carol M. Nordmeyer |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | cmnord@earthlink.net |
| Comments: | So, did I get my question answered? No,but the reading was interesting and instructive. Here's the question:. No, first the why. I spent the '60's thru much later having, feeding, changing, burping, loving, furious, weeping, laughing...in other words, I raised 7 children. One thing I refused to do was to listen to their music (Neil Diamond and Bob Denver excepted). Now I am paying attention to music that is wonderful to hear, played at a local book store, and I'm certain it's from the '60 - '70's. One particular song is "Tryin' to Catch the Wind". OK, now here's the question: Who wrote it, and who is singing? The words make me think of Bob Dylin--which is ridiculous since all I know about him is that he's a poet/songwiter and wrote/sang protest and social commentary things. Somewhere I read/heard that his voice wasn't musical at all ("whining")so maybe it isn't Bob Dylin singing; the voice I'm hearing seems beautifully matched to the words. But nobody can tell me who"s singing. Can you? (Surely there aren't many male musicians who have recorded this song. Forgot to mention that there is guitar accompianment.) |
| Name: | monty coleman |
| Country: | usa |
| E-mail address: | mcoleman550@gmail.com |
| Comments: | i still feel greatly moved by yours lyrics on court of the crimson king and wake of posiedon. i was in my mid teens when those albums came out and i still regard them as great works of art.....thanks, monty |
| Name: | Brian Hart |
| Country: | Thailand |
| E-mail address: | Barfly80@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hi Pete - long time no see. Hey, we're both still alive ! Regards, Brian |
| Name: | Tim Crow |
| E-mail address: | timc@karen-earl.co.uk |
| Comments: | We never did finish that script Pete...but what a great start we made. Life got in the way I guess...which is how it should be.
PS...are your initials. Now there's a thought. |
| Name: | Baku llama |
| Country: | US |
| E-mail address: | whitehur@msn.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://bakullama.com |
| Comments: | Something keeps drawing me back to read on. Great site. |
| Name: | torquil creevy |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | torqbob@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Just a fabulous chap and not a little talented!!
Been a pleasure listening to your songs. |
| Name: | Ferrand |
| Country: | France |
| E-mail address: | ferrand61@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | 2007 ? Three great names on my personal dictionary : Deangelo, Green, Sinfield.
Take parisian accent in account if you read those words, please. |
| Name: | Daniel |
| Country: | Uruguay |
| E-mail address: | daniel.doldan@montevideo.com.uy |
| Comments: | Felicitaciones por una pagina fascinante que devela tantos misterios de la musica que escuche en mi adolescencia.
Congratultions for a fascinating page, where so many misteries of the music of my younger years are revealed. And please EXCUSE MY ENGLISH |
| Name: | Lynne |
| Country: | UK |
| E-mail address: | Lynne@wildwitch.karoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | profound - I'd forgotten - so long ago, so many memories; amazing how sounds recreate memories so well.
Thank you for reminding me. |
| Name: | Laurent |
| Country: | Belgium |
| E-mail address: | laurentrobot@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hey ! I've got 3 heroes, Green, Sinfield, and David Deangelo |
| Name: | Pyry |
| Country: | Finland |
| E-mail address: | pmh@city.fi |
| Comments: | Dream is soft and deep world of my mind |
| Name: | gottfried |
| Country: | panama |
| Comments: | Sheer Inventive Nuclear Freak Irksome Eccentric Lullaby Dream
Intense tear time ... World class skills culture show ... Heavenly arrogant humour. |
| Name: | banjo777 |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | mikegarrison70@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I was searching the web for anything re Kali; I'm still not sure what I found, but I am fascinated and won't leave until I've gleaned every bit I can. |
| Name: | Colin |
| Country: | Devon, UK |
| E-mail address: | lambfan@gmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.cjonesdesign.co.uk |
| Comments: | For no particular reason, Peter's name came to me this morning, so I Googled it. What a blessing, to see so many things, and now I have resurrected my copy of Still and am enjoying it again immensely. It never really left my thoughts.
Blessings on you. x |
| Name: | Douglas Bienenfeld |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | douglas.bienenfeld@ichotelsgroup.com |
| Comments: | Thank you for "Still", and your work with Crimson & Roxy Music. Your imagination is a real joy to all who admire your work.
Thanks Pete, appreciate your efforts. Doug Bienenfeld Ann Arbor, Michigan United State of America |
| Name: | stephan songcrafters master specialists |
| Country: | france |
| E-mail address: | aworldofmusic14@yahoo.fr |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.allonsongwriters.monsite.wanadoo.fr |
| Comments: | Although i kept 1973manticore album still because of hopes &dreams&that florida night i slept on grass cause i missed lastrain to miami i must say lyrics &music are too complicated &i rather the adult contemporary of think twice call the man &wallkaway where the music is great&lyricsophisticated without requiring dictionnary for translation id love to hear from you &most of all hear youre working with richardkerr #1songmaker of alltime |
| Name: | Baku Llama |
| Country: | USA |
| Homepage URL: | http://bakullama |
| Comments: | I have recently come to the realization that King Crimson cannot exist without Peter Sinfield. The DGM King Crimson is a very good band with much talent and a direction all their own. But The King Crimson I remember ceased to exist with the departure of Peter so very long ago. It was you with the magic... the soul, I just realized it today. |
| Name: | Bruce Thomson |
| Country: | UK |
| E-mail address: | bthomson@myhomeworld.co.uk |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.myhomeworld.co.uk/BruceWorld |
| Comments: | In short thank you, your words, your works helped me at various times in my life especially in the 70s and having recently just re purchased Still on CD was reminded of this, and find myself singing "Still" on my way to work today...
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| Name: | john strain |
| Country: | scotland |
| E-mail address: | gun_smith10@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | very interesting site....give a new perspective on the band and its lyrics |
| Name: | David |
| Country: | America |
| E-mail address: | ewheel4@excite.com |
| Comments: | Dear Peter,
Thank you for the power of your words and for helping to lift the veil of a blind mind's eye. May good health and happiness fill your days. What was begun has not ended and will go forever on. |
| Name: | Howard Thompson |
| Country: | UK |
| E-mail address: | howard_th@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | You have a talent on the edge of measurement, however, you remain a bit of a freak magnet.
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| Name: | Brandon Edward Joki |
| Country: | U.S.A |
| E-mail address: | www.Dragonloch@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I am the Reincarnation of Arthur Micheal Pendragon(Castus)
I like what I saw of your explanation on everything but I weilded two swords not one and lived from August 21, 573 A.D. to 614 A.D. and oh yeah Avalon exists still in the heart of south Britain if you look for a magickal forest then you will find Avalon (and pure of heart and meant to be there) with regards Brandon |
| Name: | Rose |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | rose2bead@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | I found a most wonderful site in this one today! While searching for Ravel's Bolero! How did that happen? Destiny? First of all, I'm Sicilian born, and obsessed with Learning about its History, and especially Frederick II. I had a private tour of the Pallazzo Normanni in Palermo last year. My cousin works there. It is amazing, beautiful and mind blowing. Just like Frederick himself. You should include it on this site. You have made my day! You managed to bring the sixties back for me today, and the wonderful music and people. I might sound old now, but they were the good old days! thanks again.....Ciao....Rose |
| Name: | Bruno "Elevteros" Libert |
| Country: | Belgium |
| E-mail address: | brunolibert@skynet.be |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.brunolibert.be/ |
| Comments: | Hi Peter! (after all those years...)
What an interesting site, great work, and quite a trip down memory lane! I have never forgotten the time we worked together (sorry about the exhaustion and the "hard time" we gave you :o) and what an honour it was for us to record under the guidance of such a talented and sensitive man. To me, and - judging by the comments and mails I still get today from all over the world - to a lot of people, Danse Macabre was worth the blood, sweat and tears... Avec mon très amical et respectueux souvenir, Bruno "Elevteros" Libert PS: would you mind if I put a link to your site on my "Links" page? |
| Name: | Charles Neal |
| Country: | Canada |
| E-mail address: | cncn@nbnet.nb.ca |
| Comments: | From the first time I heard the group in 1970 as a college kid to a music lover at 55, the group still remains my favourite. King Crimson, in its many incarnations, to this day stays relevant.
Amazing that the melletron influences groups to this day. |
| Name: | michele |
| Country: | italy |
| E-mail address: | mi25va@fastwebnet.it |
| Comments: | qqqq |
| Name: | Andrew |
| Country: | Britain |
| E-mail address: | taoist.hermit1@virgin.net |
| Comments: | Hi, Peter. You were one of the wonderful visionary people who helped me though some difficult times when I was younger. That isn't ususual, I'm sure.
I've since thanked most of those visionary people, and in one or two cases found new friendships that way, deepening the experience in a more mature and equal way. But I've never said thanks to you yet, so I'd like to do that now. I've just reviewed Stillusion for Amazon. I hope that helps more people to become aware of your work. Incidentally a singer I know was hoping for some songs from me, but I think she's finding my synthesiser excursions a little far out, so I'm not sure how this is going to go. :D I'm going to mention your music to her. I thought I'd mention it in case you've ever fancied writing for a beautiful exotic Jewish singer/dancer. :D You never know. Life is rich and wonderful. Thanks for helping me to be aware of that. Take care. |
| Name: | Neal Warner |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | nealwarner@dslextreme.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.cafepress.com/rocknrollrehab |
| Comments: | As a fellow fan of the classic prog rock album The Court of the Crimson King, I thought I’d alert your attention to the release of the new Court of the Crimson King poster. This is not a reproduction of the famous album cover but rather an interpretive painting that has each line of the classic 1969 title song of King Crimson’s debut album acted out by the whimsical characters of a medieval fantasy kingdom. Painted using medieval painting conventions such as hierarchy of scale and with a nod to Hieronymus Bosch, it evokes perfectly the mood, time and place of the progressive rock classic. It can be viewed online at; www.cafepress.com/rocknrollrehab
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| Name: | Lee |
| Country: | Germany |
| E-mail address: | bahner@leeseisenbahnen.de |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.leeseisenbahnen.de |
| Comments: | Hello! On my journey through the net I had to stop at your beautiful homepage to give you a big wave.
trainy regards Lee |
| Name: | Peter Gustavsson |
| Country: | Sweden |
| E-mail address: | homoaeternus@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.oneiricworld.nu/index800f.html |
| Comments: | Peter! I have always treasured your warm, very english surrealism and also like your haiku´s A LOT. THANK YOU! I´m a swedish painter, singer/songwriter and enthusiast for a number of things.
When I was 15 ( 1969), I heard you lyrics sung for the first time an your imagery has interested me since. Take a look at my paintings if you like; on my homepage. I have always writtten songs and poetery as well.and dabbbld with a filmmanuscript "As within Broken Glas".. I have a fond relation with England though my brother in music; Jeremy Sagar,who was the first inger in Skin Alley once upon the time..we visit Putsburough Sands togeter almost every year and sometimes hit London. Very Well, drop me a lin if you feel for it..Im now reading further o your homepage.. CHEEERS! ( with Abott´s Ale I think...hrm ) Peter G |
| Name: | Jory |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | joryjr2004@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Thank you for all the (------><-------) |
| Name: | Eson |
| Country: | Elam |
| Comments: | Hi,
Merry Birthdays, and the more exceptional the guy is, the harder the human community brings him the challenge that " calls him by his name " so he finds it natural to go for a thing or another ( and when he does it ... Halleluyah ... ) Long life to The Internet !! |
| Name: | Maurice Cloud |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | baltzercloud@comcast.net |
| Comments: | A very merry Christmas and peace-filled New Year to you Peter. And, if you are so inclined, perhaps you could drop copies of your new album into our stockings. Not a problem to leave them up a bit longer . . . |
| Name: | Tom O'Bedlam |
| Country: | UK |
| E-mail address: | paulnroz@ntlworld.com |
| Comments: | Thank you Jon and Peter for my most satifying web experience to date-Promenade is one cunning hypnotists crystal of a puzzle-if that is truly what it can be defined as...I recently aquired a CD copy of Peters meisterwerk 'Still' and was listening to 'song of the sea goat'for the first time since about 1976...It left me so awed out I felt compelled to visit your site-so glad I did,I spent most of the weekend pouring over Promenade-what an amazing distillation of hermetic thought-I'm sure I'll be back again.PS..cant wait to hear your new album!
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| Name: | John |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | red11384@gmail |
| Comments: | Great site. |
| Name: | Carlos Lincoln Marks |
| Country: | Argentina |
| E-mail address: | kkpatchwork@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.marks-entertainment.com |
| Comments: | Insert visions into experienced simple minds.Type Ryder dot com.
Photos of ghosts snatchers. A new house; pimball in a room. Hell is being scrambled. The fragile simulation of the enemies. |
| Name: | funkyfreddy |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | fred41957@aol.com |
| Comments: | Amazing website, Peter. I will return often to ponder..... and thank you for all the great music you've helped bring in to being. Thanks, Fred |
| Name: | Neil Warden |
| Country: | Scotland |
| E-mail address: | cd@neilwarden.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.music.neilwarden.com |
| Comments: | Pete,
Found your site by accident. I was a friend of Dear Boz, played music with him for several years. Dearly missed. Interesting video clip, I used to talk about Johnny G Watson for hours with Boz. Thanks for providing that clip. Nice one! Neil |
| Name: | Rimbo |
| Country: | England |
| E-mail address: | arimbo@excite.com |
| Comments: | Found my way here by accident
Followed a link about Boz Very sad news. I bought 'Still' so many years ago..... It's on vinyl and unplayed for far too long I will set the system up again to play this old chestnut And return to my youth for a little while. |
| Name: | peter bjorklund |
| Country: | untied kingdom |
| E-mail address: | petebjorklund@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | mea nde ring and e loquent w ith curve d fr ames
crimso mad eme so intox icat ed in t he he t70's |
| Name: | Daniel |
| Comments: | Here's about Rosemary Breen, Syd barrett's sister :
http://pinkfloyd.tribe.net/thread/09ce3ff6-f78d-465b-8120-8736437244ae Reverences to the SSoS team ! |
| Name: | Davo |
| Country: | Australia |
| Homepage URL: | http://users.bigpond.net.au/Australian_landscape_photos/ |
| Comments: | Good on you Pete and more credit to you for your work. |
| Name: | Davo |
| Name: | Maurice Cloud |
| Country: | U.S.A. |
| E-mail address: | baltzercloud@comcast.net |
| Comments: | "Islands", always achingly beautiful, now reveals its true powers of exaltation. May Boz Burrell find the infinite peace his wind-turned spirit deserves. Exeat . . . Maurice Cloud |
| Name: | Mark Kenderdine |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | markk15@msn.com |
| Comments: | You have no idea how deeply and profoundly the lyrics/music/art of the original King Crimson affected me in 1969..and to this day.
Thanks to all who contributed then...and now. Mark |
| Name: | John von Brach |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | scathach30@aol.com |
| Comments: | It was about six years ago. Sitting in my room at my computer late at night, I was listlessly trolling the pages of, the now defunct, IUMA.com (short for Internet Underground Music Archive) for new bands to which to listen.
The sad thing was, this was more a cynical pursuit than one born out of any eagerness to find fledgling bands over which to be enthused. By 2000, my faith in Rock was all but gone. I started thinking of Rock like one thinks of a loved one that passed away twenty years ago: a person that will always have a special places in ones heart, but one, the memory of whom, is fading from ones mind with each passing day. I suppose I figured that, if I cannot listen to the great Rock bands anymore, I could at least amuse myself with the cavalcade of mediocrity that passed before my ears as I checked out the bands on IUMA. It was then that I heard HIM. As I was going through the profiles of progressive-Rock bands that started with the letter k, I came across an artist named Ryan Kickland. On his webpage were a number of songs from his album 3D Collapsing Star. I clicked on the first track called Now Then. It was fitting that the song was about spiritual awakening and revelation because it was just that. I was thunderstruck by what I heard; it was as if Ryan Kickland had gotten a hold of the Rock-music version of the Necronomicon and was using it to invoke a song of the most frightful power like Abdul Alhazred summoning Cthulhu! In short, everything I loved about Rock was in that song in microcosm. I clicked on the next track: it was the same thing. The fact was each track I heard thereafter was equally astounding in its scope. After I finished listening to all of them, I realized we had a monster on our hands as fearsome as anything H.P. Lovecraft had ever dreamed of. It was right around this time that Ryan was forming a band of musical kindred spirits in Sioux Falls, South Dakota...a band called Animalcule. Not long after my visit to Kickland's IUMA page, I purchased his cd 3D Collapsing Star as well as Animalcule's debut album. Listening to them in their entirety left no doubt in my mind that this was a band that ranks with the all-time greats as well as the finest band around today hands down. The following is a review of the band's second album Cerebellumusic. For the Animalcule acolyte, this is the best cd to use to be initiated into the mysteries of the band, as it give the greatest overall view of both band's sound and power. Pulling no punches, straightway Cerebellumusic opens by disgorging a massive torrent of psychedelic sound in the form of Animalcule's elegiac indictment against avarice called The Suited Man. The song's intro, with Ryan Kickland's dark, loopy guitar lines flitting about like bats around a light and Patrick Ondrozek's keyboards providing wah-soaked volume-swells in counterpoint, engulfs the ear of the listener like one of those great Martian sandstorms grips the whole of the Red Planet from time to time. Then, as if the song's beginning was just a smokescreen to mask the lurking force behind, it suddenly gives way to reveal a massive, serpentine riff that snakes its way through the listener's mind like a sandworm rumbling through the dunes of Arrakis. Along with the Jedi Knight-like precision of the band's musical chops, The Suited Man also shows the equally deft skills of vocalist and guitarist Ryan Kickland as an arranger and composer, especially of the parts he is to sing. Unlike your average emo songster, who can, at best, fashion but crude phrases to sing that slavishly follow the contour of moronically jangling chords her or she is playing, Kickland is a Vulcan of vocal melodies, forging them in the foundry of his imagination to be as cutting as the sharpest steel yet as delicate as the finest lace. Thus, like a butterfly fluttering between the coils of the snake in perfect time, the euphony of lilting voice and slithering guitar in The Suited Man is entrancing indeed. As a caveat, if the late Stanley Kubrick were alive and directing a film about the fall of Enron, this song would be the perfect soundtrack for the scene depicting Kenneth Lay's dying moments. After picking oneself up off the floor from the sonic assault that was The Suited Man, one is struck again by the wistfully subdued yet no less powerful Accessory To Man-Napping. An ode about having ones identity usurped by another, it shows still another trait of Ryan Kickland's that is the hallmark of a great composer: the ability to take the sparest of muscial materials and fashion them into a multi-faceted gem of a song. With only a sparse but incisive acoustic riff, interspersed by the watery chords of an of an electric guitar drenched in reverb and tremolo, Accessory To Man-Napping manages nonetheless to be a lush kaleidoscope of sound that swirls and eddies through the listener's ears. In fact, when it comes to crafting laconically lollicking shuffle ballads in minor keys, NO ONE can match Ryan save the mighty Syd Barrett himself, and now, with the recent passing of Mr. Barrett...Ryan is now king. Next comes the song Animal Kingdom, whose majestic riffage proudly struts forth like a prancing lion. Spearheaded by Josh Hilpert's skulkingly superb bass riff, the song's rhythm stealthily prowls like the aforementioned big cat crouched low to the ground stalking its prey. Along with his bass-playing, it is here that Hilpert's vocals step to the fore as well. Like many a folk singer of old, Hilpert has an eerie and smooth baritone free of the annoying warble one hears in the singing of the grunge and nu-metal stylists that are legion. In short, imagine a gothic Roger Whittaker on vocals with Robert Fripp on guitar sitting in on Jethro Tull's recording of Bungle In The Jungle; that is Animal Kingdom. Next comes Animalcule's ode to the wanderlust of micro-organisms, the mirthful blues-romp Zygote Hits The Road. With its rambling rhythms and haunting whinny of its slide guitar, it evokes picaresque images of wending ones way through the dark swamps of the Mississippi delta or through the uterus (it is about a zygote after all). Think Bukka White meets the O Brother Where Art Thou? soundtrack meets your biology class! The fact that a group can play old country blues with such authenticity and authority, despite all its members being under thirty, absolutely staggers the imagination. The sixth song on this album (and this reviewer's favorite) is the hard-charging Different In Town. Wow! Like Pink Floyd in overdrive to the point of morphing into Deep Purple, this song is a perfect maring of melody and power. Barreling down the listener's ears, the interlocking riffage of Kickland's guitar and Ondrozek's organ are like two wheels of a juggernaut, impelled by the cut-time groove of rhythm section Guthrie Graylobe and Josh Hilpert, which conveys perfectly the song's sense of madcap urgency. Concerning Different In Town, imagine if you will the Droogs, that derby wearing street-gang from the film A Clockwork Orange, overrunning a small South Dakota town. Cavorting with only the finest naked myspace babeage, they hop from bar to bar, drinking absinthe like it is water and terrorizing old ladies and their grandchildren along the way...to such a scene this song would provide the soundtrack. Like Frank Zappa before them, Animalcule are also the masters of infusing humor into their music. Unlike most alternative bands, who seek to be funny and ironic and only end up sounding stupid, the musical raillery of Animalcule is truly deft. This can be clearly heard on the seventh track of the album The Birds And The Beans. With its tribal/mongoloid chanting and its driving, Downs Syndrome-drenched rhythms, it is guaranteed to give your funny bone multiple orgasms. Concerning, The Birds And The Beans, imagine if you will Karl Childers, the character Billy Bob Thornton played in Sling Blade, trying tell his young friend Frank about the facts of life. Now imagine that, while doing so, Karl is heating some baked beans to go with his french-fried potaters. Now imagine that, with his back to the stove, the thread of the buttons that fastens his suspender-straps suddenly snaps, causing his overalls to fall right at the ill-starred time when he had to release a dreadful cloud of flatulence (made even worse by the fact that he forgot to put on underwear). Now imagine the fire from the gas stove igniting the flatulence, causing jets of flame to shoot everywhere, including one that shoots into his rectum like a flamethrower scorching a pillbox, singing, to boot, all the hairs off Karl's body from his anus to his chode. Now imagine Karl, dumbfounded, looking back at the stove, seeing his baked beans burnt to ash, and then looking back at Frank, who, eyes wide with horror, says, "You mean that's what happens when people have sex? Shit you can count me out!" To such a scene, this song would provide the soundtrack. Not queer funny...hah hah funny. Perhaps the most dramatic and poignant piece on Cerebellumusic is the song So Blue. A languid ballad like Accessory To Man-Napping, one feels like one is soaring through the aural azure created by the gentle waves of sound that are Kickland's spacey chords as well as by the echoic, birdlike, guitar sounds, which he spreads like sonic glitter across the musical tableau. Concerning itself with the transitoriness of life and the waning of ones faculties during old age, it brings to mind the scene in Soylent Green in which Sol Roth (the character Edward G. Robinson played) goes off to die, placed in a room where nature scenes from his youth are projected on the walls all around him as sweet music is softly played in the background as he slowly passes away. This song is where Hilpert's vocals are sued to best effect, as his droning, girthy baritone, sung during the chorus, is like a powerful mantra, inducing the listener further to succumb to the song's forlorn mood. From the gloom of So Blue, we shift to the sylvan spritliness of Black Silo. Replete with a rollicking mandolin, this pastoral number ambles through ones ears like friends sauntering down an old country road on a summer road on a summer day (which is what the song is about). This tune would be ideal to listen to when one is taking hay-rides whilst drink hard cider. At song's end, crowning the interplay between guitar and mandolin, which are lovingly entwined like a Celtic knotwork pattern, Kickland croons a lithely haunting vocal melody, reminiscent of the kind of thing Lindsay Buckingham would conjure up on a Fleetwood Mac tune. Showing off his otherworldly tenor, the melody Ryan hums hovers over the piece like a watchful spirit looking down on the revelry below. In the tradition of Blue Oyster Cult's Harvester Of Eyes and Judas Priest's The Electric Eye, comes Animalcule's own ode to ocular invasiveness, The Wandering Eye. Like The Suited Man, this song too starts off with a maelstrom of melodic dissonance, whereupon The Wandering Eye then launches into a lurching pendulous riff, bringing to mind images of a giant eye floating a hundred feet above the ground...looking left and right for any hapless souls it can zap like a boy frying bugs with a magnifying glass. Like a manic version of songs from King Crimson's Discipline album, the latter half of the tune then shifts into overdrive as Kickland and Ondrozek rake the ears of the listener with the tracer-fire of fast notes. The last song on Cerebellumusic is the eldritch instrumental The Mickey Routine. With its chime-like keyboard figures, hissing cymbal-fills, and gurgling bass lines, it handily brings to mind grainy and scary films of the early seventies like Equinox and The Dunwich Horror for which The Mickey Routine could easily have served as soundtrack music. Also the dissonant saxophone notes wafting their way through the piece have a melting, deflating quality to them as if the Salvadore Dali painting The Persistence Of Memory had been transmogrified into notes. In short this song is a supernal ending to a supernal record. An album of devastating power, Cerebellumusic achieves a standard few records rarely match, records from ANY era. Moreover, the music of Animalcule is made more exciting by the fact that it is created by a group that exists NOW , making music in real time. They are not a group from the distant past, who has either sold out, burned out, or died out. In this era of post-success, which Rock now finds itself, an era in which the fortunes of current bands are slim to none, it is a moral obligation that fans of Rock support the few bands like Animalcule that are left and sacrificing so much to carry on Rock's great traditions. The fact is excellence should NOT be punished with tormented obscurity such as Animalcule suffers. Hence we must support this band. To order Cerebellumusic as well as many other fine releases from the Animalcule camp go to http://www.animalculemusic.com/ordercule/index.html Your money will never have been better spent. Also be sure to check out their myspace page at http://www.myspace/animalcule In addition to the excellent albums Animalcule offers, they also provide ear-candy for that sonic Pez-dispenser that is your cellular phone. Two Animalcule songs in the form of ringtones can be downloaded at http://www.isound.com/animalcule/ringtones Not only will you get the best ringtones that can be had for your phone, but you will be able to support Animalcule further in their move to Tennessee. As an epilogue to this review, Guthrie Graylobe, the band's drummer, left Animalcule to study philosophy (A drummer who studies philosophy! Just like Niel Peart!). He was replaced by the equally capable Clint Wood. Along with being an excellent drummer, he is also an excellent blogger, and he has his own myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/vuducat Sadly, like the Maytag Repairman (and Animalcule of course), his blog sits alone, its use untapped, the depth of its richness hardly plumbed. Hence I enjoin you to remedy this situation by adding him as a friend. |
| Name: | LEMARCHAND Nicolas |
| Country: | FRANCE |
| E-mail address: | rxra23@yahoo.fr |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.yahoo.fr |
| Name: | Richard Avery |
| Country: | Spain |
| E-mail address: | ravery at terra.es |
| Comments: | What an extraordinary site, "And now explain thus this next grain of sand" |
| Name: | laura |
| Country: | usa |
| E-mail address: | laur234,@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.green-teas.info/. |
| Comments: | Just surfing today, good site :) |
| Name: | Jacqueline (nee Sinfield) |
| Country: | England |
| E-mail address: | madeleine_mcd@yahoo.co.uk |
| Comments: | Peter, Do the names Florence and Percival mean anything to you. Maurice (Ian (obviously) & Deirdre (sometimes known as Jo) (obviously), Linda (probably in Canada)? I am Jacqueline and don't want to put any more info on a web-site but this is a genuine contact - it would be great to get a response from you if you're at all intrigued!! By the way the web-site is excellent and informative. |
| Name: | Neal |
| E-mail address: | nealwarner@dslextreme.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://unsigned-records.com |
| Comments: | I once bumped into Mike Pinder and John Lodge of the Moody Blues in an airport and mentioned that us college kids in San Diego (originally from L.A.), had recently discovered In The Court Of The Crimson King. This was 1972 or 73. They told me that it was a big hit in England when first released in '69, which surprised me that it took so long to hit the West Coast. And even then it was a cult record. As a professional artist and animator I have dreamed of a rock & roll version of Fantasia and one of the segments would be Court of the Crimson King. Although I have produced animated music videos (see www.rocktasia.com), the sheer scope of the production of a full length movie, the licensing rights and the public's quickly changing tastes has made my dream highly unlikely. But I have produced "inspirational" art for a purposed Crimso segment. Each line of the classic 1969 title song of King Crimson’s debut album is acted out by the whimsical characters of a medieval fantasy kingdom. 3 ft. x 2 ft and painted using medieval painting conventions such as hierarchy of scale and with a nod to Hieronymus Bosch, it evokes perfectly the mood, time and place of the progressive rock classic. If anyone is interested, I will gladly email a JPG if requested. This album has not only inspired a whole genre of rock music but also visual art and film as well. |
| Name: | Daniel Lightfoot |
| Country: | Canada |
| E-mail address: | dl_artist999@hotmail.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://dlighted.deviantart.com/gallery/ |
| Comments: | Hello Sir Peter
You are looking good there. Hope you are feeling well. It's been a long time since we corresponded. Just thought I would add my gallery at deviantart to let you knoe what I have been doing. Been getting very drawn to Somerset area and Glastonbury and may make a trip over there...would love to drop by and say hello, lift a glass or two. Take care friend. Daniel |
| Name: | Leslie Smith |
| Country: | usa |
| Name: | Erik Vatne |
| Country: | Ireland |
| E-mail address: | mediciboy@aol.com |
| Comments: | Peter Sinfield was an important lyricist/poet when I first began writing poetry at fifteen. The lyrics he wrote for Greg Lake's solo album; especially Lend Your Love to Me Tonight, were life saving during that difficult time.
Over 20 years later I am a published poet and currently writing a memoir of my early years and will pay homage to Mr. Sinfield. |
| Name: | cocko |
| Country: | australia |
| Comments: | I sat and lit a fire when I read a fable about a fool king as a a young teenager, believing it to be my destiny I was embarassed and frightened by its egocentricity and power. Now it seems like it was the beginning of a journey, the human condition. Simplicity of expression lies for me in my work but impending doom still intimidates me, it's like I have to remain a knowing fool mute while I cross my own river of madness. Congratulations on your achievements. |
| Name: | Roy |
| Country: | England |
| E-mail address: | roy.farrant@btinternet.com |
| Comments: | Found an old photo of you and I in my MGA on our way to see the Beatles in Bournemouth 1963. Happy days! |
| Name: | Andrew |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | filmsnobbery@spam_me_not_lyc0s.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://filmsnobbery.tripod.com |
| Comments: | I had no idea Peter was the man behind all of those great songs I heard in my youth until I stumbled across this site. Fantastic lyrics - you're a true poet! |
| Name: | Robert Hults |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | robnrob@frontiernet.net |
| Comments: | Peter,
I have been a fan for many years. I was of course first introduced to you through the first KC album. And "Still" is still one of my favorite albums. Thank you. Robert |
| Name: | Pierre-Richard Gaudreault |
| Country: | Canada |
| E-mail address: | pr.gaudreault@usherbrooke.ca |
| Comments: | Ladies of the Road is still my favorite song as far as lyrics are concerned. I have a strong tendancy to include it on every one of my home-made « best of all times » tapes (now burnt CDs), vol. 1, vol. 2, etc. How many girls did I embrace tightly, dancing while The Court of the Crimson King mellotronized our synapses ? Still waiting for the follow up to Still. Your pot-scented lyrics and songs gave me much pleasure over the years, I owe you, even if I paid for every syllable and note. The site is like black worm seed. Take care. |
| Name: | Octa Lopes |
| Country: | Brazil |
| E-mail address: | octaciliolopes@ig.com.br |
| Comments: | Hello. I'm from S.Paulo. I'm a 31 old painter and a die hard fan of Mr. Sinfield's work with the Crimson and E.L.P.
I really love the Mr. Sinfield's paintings, and my favorite is the cover art from the "Islands" LP. P.S.: Sorry for the gramatic. |
| Name: | JMTz |
| Comments: | "The Pillory/The Battle" ... A similar work, but this time adapted for children, is the music I do currently go for indeed ! ... Greetings ( from the same realm ),
Jayem |
| Name: | Daniel Cross |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | cross.979@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | "blissfully unaware that I'm about to become..."
a) a Nick Kershaw fan b) A basketball afic ... c) well ... Arsenal would lose to Liverpool ... Hooligans'nerve and brain components would be brought one against the other which is like an interstoned clash, and keep on wearing it all in a "classic" process of loss of energetic fluidity |
| Name: | georgie |
| Country: | Australia |
| E-mail address: | fattlott2@hotmail.com.au |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.linknet.com.au |
| Comments: | It' such a buzz to see "Still" and Pete Sinfield are in the conciousness of the generations which followed, after the release of the album. It is a prized piece in my collection of eclectic vinyls. This is an opportunity for me to say thank you, albeit 30+ odd years down the track. |
| Name: | ABA OWERRI |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | ABA@MSN.COM |
| Comments: | THIS IS AN INTRESTING SITE. |
| Name: | ReenRen |
| Country: | A land not far from Oz |
| E-mail address: | reenrens-there@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | ...as I contemplated my suicide... late nite underground radio ..Beeker Street.. sent a message ..Court of the Crimson King.. to carry on... |
| Name: | Robert Gurtner |
| Country: | Liechtenstein |
| E-mail address: | jemens@denouveauuneadressebidon.com |
| Comments: | Ah Péchamp, tu crois peut-être me battre au jeu électronique tout ça parce que tu as "réussi" eh bien moi je te dis essaie, mon gars, essaie de me mettre une caisse au "first person shooting", ou aux jeux de stratégie; Nannan commence pas à parler de marguerite et de fruits de mer maintenant, relève le gant, mon vieux. Quel score fais tu à:
Call of Duty I & II Homeworld ( first edition ) Aladdin Civilization II + III / Call to Power I + II / Test of time Gates of ... Et autres jeux anglo-saxons & + ou - internationaux. Oh et puis zut. Je ne suis rien!! Je suis TOUT! |
| Name: | Ian |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | kiail@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Wow, it's amazing that things so simple can make the universe so complex. Just think...it's 2006 now...in 6 more years...an 8 year transit(Venus) will be completed....sounds like music of the stars. |
| Name: | Jon |
| Country: | USA |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.songsouponsea.com |
| Comments: | Jeff,
Peter tells me that the Crimson King was not meant to represent the life of any particular monarch but, rather, "any ruler who presided over an intense period of learning, yearning and burning and apparently benificial progress (HA) towards the elevation of mankind." Additionally, the Crimson King (as well as the other characters from the four Sinfield albums, including the Schizoid Man, Moonchild, Yellow Jester, Fire Witch, Gardener and the Keeper of the City Keys etc.) represents a Jungian archetype. according to Wikipedia: "In the psychological framework of Carl Jung, archetypes are innate prototypes for ideas and may be used to interpret observations. A group of memories and interpretations associated with an archetype are a complex, e.g. a mother complex associated with the mother archetype." We remember and interpret the lives of historical, mythical and fictional figures such as Napoleon, Arthur, King Lear, Frederick II, Christ the King and even the Crimson King as archetypes of the Great Ruler, Hero, Übermensch ("Superman", the Omnipotent), Sky Father or Wise Old Man. Like the fictional monarchs of Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, Peter Sinfield's Crimson King conforms to medieval archetypes of king as quasi-priest, as judge, as warlord, as fount of honour. Frederick II was all of these things. Hence the confusion (ie. shock of recognition). Kingship in the Work of the Inklings by Charles A. Coulombe "The job of the artist is to deepen the mystery." – Francis Bacon |
| Name: | Jeff Davis |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | theweightofcreation@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Hello
It is with the greatest of respect that I ask simply whether the lyrics to the first King Crimson LP were written and performed by KC with the intentions of the band to have the lyrics metaphorically interpreted by the audience, or were these lyrics to convey a specific description of imagined events within the life of an actual King? Thank You, Jeff Davis theweightofcreation@yahoo.com |
| Name: | JOHN OWERR |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | owerri@msn.com |
| Comments: | THIS IS AN INTRESTING SITE.I WILL COME VISITE AGAIN |
| Name: | Mike |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | inb@inbox.com |
| Comments: | Thank You! |
| Name: | spiritual_emergency |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Homepage URL: | http://spiritualemergency.blogspot.com/ |
| Comments: | I've spent the past few several weeks coming and going from the many cubbies and hidey-holes of this site, and enjoyed my visits immensely. I've especially enjoyed the sections related to Kali/Kundalini and the Dark Night of the Soul. |
| Name: | Ed Renzi |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | edrenzi@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | Then she thought, (in a dream within the dream, as it were,) how this same little Alice would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman: and how she would keep, through her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood; and how she would gather around her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a wonderful tale, perhaps even with these very adventures of the little Alice of long-ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days. |
| Name: | Sam Creecy |
| Country: | Florida, USA |
| E-mail address: | creecys@bellsouth.net |
| Comments: | I have been listening to Lizard and others all these years and never knew. I always listened to them like viewing clouds in the sky as pictures. Thanks for the images in my head.
sam |
| Name: | alastair m carmichael |
| Country: | scotland |
| E-mail address: | carmichal@aol.com |
| Comments: | Good evening Peter
Recently I discovered a somewhat tatty receipt for the princely amount of £1.70 from Virgin Mail Order dated sometime in 1974 which covered the purchase of one of my most treasured possessions whilst at boarding school. All those years later, Still, along with Islands, the first album I ever bought, remains to me something that could never be bettered by any artist. You have much to be proud of with such a creation, and from scrawny schoolboy to old bastard, Still will always remain my favourite selection of music. I recall that you also did a book of poems, I think called Under The Sky, and I gave up looking for it many years ago, but rather belatedly it occurs to me that if anyone on this planet knows how to get a copy, it would likely be your goodself. Can you help? Yours aye Alastair M Carmichael |
| Name: | Gregory Stomberg |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | gregorystomberg@netscapenet |
| Homepage URL: | http://syberite.tripod.com |
| Comments: | I had not heard 'In the Wake of Poseidon' for over 20 years so a friend loaned it to me and it was fantastic to hear those great songs again. I think the first two king crimson albums were the best. |
| Name: | clouded configuration |
| Country: | England |
| E-mail address: | hardcore_moomin@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | ?w?h?e?r?e???i?s???m?y???m?i?n?d???
perhaps it is within the grand sun of harriet jump, min or phil? |
| Name: | Mike Martin |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | mpmartin@copperfast.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://backonearthband.com |
| Comments: | I really enjoy your site and have been a King Crimson fan since "The Court".
I`d also like to thank you for putting Jeff Beck on the site, and was wondering what happened to the song he was playing on? Thanks for the great site! Cheers, Mike |
| Name: | James Mohler |
| Country: | U.S. |
| E-mail address: | panzerman78@yahoo.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.yahoo.com/ |
| Comments: | Hi! I'm very intrigued, and thankful, I stumbled across your excellent site! I bought my first King Crimson album almost ten years ago, which was 'In the Court'. I was perplexed listening to it at that time, yet I knew there was something bigger happening. Unfortunately, I felt so much power in this album I couldn't understand, that I rid myself of it.
I bought another copy about 4 years ago, trying to figure it out. Your site has ended many of these questions, and has opened up a new world to me! Thank You! |
| Name: | joanna (jenny) |
| Country: | england |
| E-mail address: | jennylbarnet@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | lovely. |
| Name: | Charles |
| Country: | Argentina |
| E-mail address: | carlosaguilar1986@yahoo.com |
| Comments: | Well, I'm 19 years old and King Crimson is one of my favorite bands. I consider their recordings (especially the earliest ones) to be among the most imaginative, awe-inspiring, fascinating and profound works of art ever committed to tape, but you get my drift... it's just the regular stuff every other prog-head like me will tell you about the ol' Crimso.
Peter, you have such a colorful use of words. I'm an aspiring writer myself. And even though I plan to focus on conjuring up lengthy stories rather than lyrics or poetry, you're certainly one of my greatest influences. I hope you're doing well, and I wish you all the best. Greetings all the way across the Atlantic. P.S. Oh yes... your site is fairly superb!!! Keep up the good work! |
| Name: | Tony Francis |
| Country: | England |
| E-mail address: | thedurangokid45@msn.com |
| Homepage URL: | http://....N/A |
| Comments: | King Crimson a band from the past. I'm an ex-musician who played guitar for The Holy Rollers. We never hit the big time but had a lot of fun!!.
Our son Will plays drums for D'Silva, they will make it big. |
| Name: | Tony Francis |
| Country: | England |
| E-mail address: | thedurangokid45@msn.com |
| Homepage URL: | http:// N/A |
| Comments: | I saw it, I read it and was intrigued. I was looking for Tanit and found her. |
| Name: | Essjay |
| Country: | Kernow |
| E-mail address: | essjay1340@aol.com |
| Comments: | King Crimson / Pete Sinfield memories of a youthful madness long gone, I also sign this on behalf of my good friend "Chuds" taken from us too early, he would have loved this site, I am still the proud owner of Still and a signed copy of the book, thanks to my wife! = Essjay. |
| Name: | Matthieu Witasse |
| Country: | France |
| E-mail address: | mwitasse@wanadoo.fr |
| Comments: | Well;i discovered king crimson a few years ago.This is a very good band for the prog-rock music.
Your Words are great on the marvellous LP"In the court of the crimson king"I say that and i'm only 27. Thank you. |
| Name: | Harald Gerzsabek |
| Country: | Austria |
| E-mail address: | recyclingman@gmx.at |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.oekostrom.at |
| Comments: | Hello Pete!
Good Luck for the Future from the greatest austrian Pete Sinfield Fan. I play percussion, drums & synthesizer in the austrian tranquil avantgarde prog band "TRITONYA´S CURSE" and i´m searching for members. My E-mail address is recyclingman@gmx.at ...to discover musical newland... Best Wishes and HAPPY FAMILY ONE HAND CLAP....... www.makepovertyhistory.org |
| Name: | Rock55Lobster |
| Country: | usa |
| Comments: | Elephants forgot, force-fed on stale chalk
Ate the floors of their cages (YUK!) I ran for the door, ringmasters shouted . . . |
| Name: | Sadie |
| Country: | England |
| E-mail address: | sarah21508@aol.com |
| Comments: | Hello Peter
Long time no speak (or see). Was trawling the internet for Peter Unsworth and got directed to your site - v.g and most interesting so I thought I would take the opportunity and drop you a line. Would be lovely to hear from you and catch up on what's been happening and also would love to have Cate's mail address too. Best regards to you and hope to hear from you soon. Sadie x |
| Name: | Jon |
| Country: | USA |
| E-mail address: | jongreen@sbcglobal.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.songsouponsea.com/Promenade/GuestbookArchive2005.html |
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| Name: | Jon Green |
| E-mail address: | jongreen@sbcglobal.net |
| Homepage URL: | http://www.songsouponsea.com |
| Comments: | Kenneth,
I agree with you that, at first glance, at the first or exoteric level of meaning, Peter's Prince Rupert is (or can be) Prince Rupert of the Rhine (1619-1682). As you point out, the lyrics of Prince Rupert Awakes contain enough specific references to support your interpretation. But the lyrics are also remarkably obscure, allowing for any number of counter interpretations. The final arbiter in all this, of course, is Peter Sinfield and on our website you will find this exchange: Jon Swinghammer wrote:: Is there anything to what Jon Green is saying about your lyrics? Peter Sinfield: "I am amused/amazed & bemused to say there is! However although he unwittingly flatters my knowledge regarding Fred2 and ignores the er, Courts of Arthur, Alexander, Borge, Rameses, Victoria, Augustus, Louis, JFK, Elizabeth1, Charlemagne, Saladin, Assorted Mings, Xerxes, A Foundation Here and A Worm Rider There Etc Etc. . .ie any ruler who presided over an intense period of learning, yearning and burning and apparently benificial progress (HA) towards the elevation of mankind - Since Fred2 is a such a suitable archytype for said societal rumblings (allegoricaly speaking) -It would be churlish of me to quibble!!! - Jon Green: Peter, judging from your response to Jon Swinghammer, you consciously conceived the Crimson King as a composite of several historical figures. Peter Sinfield: "Ok - It was that ... and a game of archetypes, symbols, and purposefully 'vulgar' colours. [The Magus/Gormenghast/Lord Of the Rings/The Prince/The Hidden Persuaders(V.Packard), some Heinlein...etc etc ]" Jon Green: I am still wondering about Frederick II's accidental presence in the title song. There are simply too many coincidences here. Peter Sinfield: "I agree. . . ." |
| Name: | Kenneth Knowlton |
| E-mail address: | kendknowlton@comcast.net |
| Comments: | Hi, I have some comments on the intepretations of "Prince Rupert Awakes". This had been my favorite song while I was in my teens, we're talking more than 30 years ago, and I did some research of my own on it.
Prince Rupert was not Frederick II. Prince Rupert is referred to as “Prince Rupert”, because that’s exactly who he was. He was named Rupert and he was the son of King Frederick V, making him a prince. (Prince Rupert had an older brother named Frederick who drowned while Rupert was still quite young.) Prince Rupert’s father, King Frederick V, was king only very briefly, due to a catastrophic military defeat, after which he was deposed. He was insultingly referred to as “The Winter King”, due to his short time on the throne. Prince Rupert was not known for the Crusades. He didn’t even live in the right time period. Prince Rupert lived from 1619 to 1682. What he is known for are his military campaigns during the English Civil War. Although Prince Rupert never became king, he was recognized as an effective military commander on the Loyalist side during the English Civil War, and rewarded as such. When “Prince Rupert Awakes”, he finds his own effectiveness as a conquering prince, despite his father’s tremendous failure as a military leader. “Prince Rupert’s tears of glass” refers to Prince Rupert’s drops. These are teardrop shaped pieces of glass that are melted and dropped directly into water. The outside of the drop cools quickly. The inside cools more slowly and contracts as it does so. This puts the drop under tremendous contraction. The contraction makes the drop so hard that the head of the drop can be placed on an anvil, struck with a hammer, and not break. However, the internal stress is so great that breaking off the tail of the drop causes it to instantly explode into miniscule fragments. Prince Rupert was the first person to introduce these drops to England. The reference in the song seems to suggest that Prince Rupert could be very strong but was also vulnerable to tremendous internal stresses. (It also suggests that his tears are not genuinely human, as you pointed out.) You’re correct about what a pie powder court was. It was a local court that predominately handled trade disputes. Such courts generally dealt with traveling merchants at fairs. You are correct that the term “pie powder” comes from the Anglo-French “pied-poudreux”, meaning a person with dusty feet. However, I don’t see any inference to the papacy. When “Piepowder’s” court is “gone soon”, it suggests that Prince Rupert was replacing local jurisdiction with a more centralized jurisdiction. He was imposing his jurisdiction, and that of the Loyalists, over the locals. |
| Name: | Robert Mosby |
| E-mail address: | RMOSBY0116@AOL.COM |
| Comments: | As a servant and devotee of Kali I throughly enjoy your web site. Keep up the good work for all creation!!! |
| Name: | Dan Lightfoot |
| E-mail address: | dl_artist@hotmail.com |
| Comments: | Hello Peter
After a very long time of not communicating...Happy New Year! Benn a while since I had the chance to connect with you again. I myself have been painting, having procured a studio for my visual rants and raves. You can check out what I have been up to on my spaces thingy. And if you need a guitarist, who is not such a virtuoso but an eager and uninhibited explorer of the effectronics and (listening to the Jeff Beck piece as I type) boldly trying things way beyond my actual ability ( how else to learn? jamming to Liquid Tension Experiment, Pat Metheny and Ray Charle (scofield versions)I'm your man! Hey, even an album/CD cover would be an honour. Take care my fellow traveller and talk to you soon. Dan |
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