Hey I am back!

[lenron]

Talk about gross negligence. I completely forgot to keep coming back to the AM forums! Not that you all desperately missed me or anything, but its not polite to join a community then vanish. So I have returned!

How are things?

I have been spending some time with the following discs of late:

"Power To Believe" - Crimson
"Trout Mask Replica" - Captain Beefheart
"Three Friends" - Gentle Giant

and for some reason I can't get enough of Morello on several RATM cuts lately.

NINO

[lenron]

Incidentally, I mentioned I was listening to "Power To Believe", and I have been hearig mixed reviews around the web and around my friends about it. Many say its just horrid, others think its decent. No one thinks its superb, like I do. The only glaring error, so to speak, is that some of the lyrics are a little, well, lame. But hey, while its clearly NOT "Discipline", this 2002 incarnation of KC works for me. And the lyrics to "Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With" spell it all out in the sense of the state of modern rock music.

NINO

[Bob Lentil]

I love Power to Believe. It's definitely my favorite of their more recent releases. I might be persuaded to make an even bolder statement than that, but I'm not familiar enough with King Crimson's middle catalogue to make the call.

[moses]

I like The Power To Believe a LOT. I don't think it's overdoing it to say it's their best since Discipline, perhaps even on par with it.

[lenron]

Completely agree that its a great record! I wouldnt say its "on par" with Discipline, but only because - to me - they can't be compared.

For 1980's and later Crimson, the premiere records for me are "Discipline", "Three Of A Perfect Pair", "Thrak", and "Power To Believe".

A band that evolve and change but still be undeniably who they are is a rare feat. You can "blame" Fripp for that.

NINO

[lenron]

In reagrds to the chorus of Power To Believe's "Happy With What You Have To Be Happy With" :

I am counting an 11/8. I think it may have an injected 12/8 mixed in here and there, but I keep going back and forth on my "final answer" of the measure sequence. There are, of course, several factors that throw my ear off, the most egregious being the vocals, which bounce on and off the down and up beats with impunity. What say ye friends? 11/8?

NINO

[moses]

I don't have the song with me right now and I don't want to ruin the theme by requesting it, but I seem to remember that exact thing... 11/8 for two measures, 12/8 for one, back to 11/8...

Something like that. Of course, it depends on which musician you're listening to. One of them is playing in a different time sig than the rest of them, IIRC.

[lenron]

He wouldn't have it any other way. If the band is doing "11, 11, 12, 11" - then by golly he'll be doing 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 7, 3 or something (to match the 45 total). Gotta love that.

Even if you don't bother counting it out (as I always do), those multimeters he creates keep a unique texture to KC tunes. Somehow, Fripp & Co. seem to do that concept better than most, methinks.

NINO