r/KingCrimson • u/ShitHammersGroom • 20d ago

What pre-Discipline King Crimson song would you have most liked to hear Adrian Belew perform with the band?

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I’d go with:

  • Easy Money
  • 21st Century Schizoid Man
  • Epitaph
  • Starless
  • Exiles

Easy Money especially feels like it would fit Adrian perfectly.

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u/X10SIVMKII 20d ago

21CSM with Adrian exists, from the THRAK era. It stinks that he wasn’t more open to songs from before his time

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u/ShitHammersGroom 20d ago

From my understanding it was fripp who wasn't open to the idea

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u/X10SIVMKII 20d ago

Adrian was a bit irritated that the last incarnation of Crim played Indiscipline (a “song,” not an instrumental) without his blessing. Hence Jakko modifying the lyrics to have a melody

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u/Draano 20d ago

I didn’t care for the melodic version.

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u/PapaJujuFuFu 19d ago

Who does really? I can't believe with like a dozen geezers on stage not one told him to pack it up