grimtraveller
If only for a moment.....
I read about them for 22 years before I listened to them. Then just around the time my first son was born {end of 2001} I read a really good biography of them by a guy called Sid Smith and that inspired me to check out two albums, "In the court of the Crimson King" and "Larks tongue in aspic." I got them out of my local library. I wasn't immediately blown away, in fact, I found them a bit overrated. I didn't like "Epitaph" on the first album or "Talking Drum" on the second. But I gave them time and within a couple of months, grew to love them. I still do.I never got into King Crimson
And Ian McDonald was integral to that first album, as a songwriter, on guitar, flute, sax and mellotron.