Trey Gunn announces he's leaving King Crimson

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Tony Levin to return to King Crimson

Well, no one resonded to this one originally, so maybe this is of zero interest, but Robert Fripp has announced that Tony Levin has agreed to step back into the bass role in King Crimson:

From Fripp's online diary at the DGM website:

So, what is the next stage in Crimson's process? January 13th. 2004 is King Crimson's 35th. birthday, five life cycles since the original five young men met in the basement of a café on Fulham Palace Road. For the 35th. Anniversary Year I have suggested to the other members that:

1. We re-activate The Fifth Man, Tony Levin. Tony has agreed to return to active service in King Crimson. Currently, the plan is for rehearsals to be held at Studio Belewbeloid in the second half of April; then again in June, with a view to King Crimson Line-Up Eight being on full-call for July 2004.

2. Trey moves to The Fifth Man role while TLev becomes re-activated.

3. Once Tony is re-Crimsonised, The Fifth Man is called back to Crimson service, and Trey becomes Crimson-active/available once more.

4. This gives three viable King Crimson performing incarnations:

Quartet: AB, RF, PM, TL >Line-Up Eight
Double Duo: AB, RF, PM, TG >Line-Up Seven
Quintet: AB, RF,PM,TG, TL >Line-Up Nine.

5. All five Crimson members to be in current ongoing-active mode for Crimson ProjeKcting: freewheeling, spontaneous, mobile improv & performance. Initially, this is likely to take place at Studio Belewbeloid. The aims are to generate new material:

for Crimson repertoire;
for music to be made available through new technologies such as the about-to-be-becoming DGM subscription website (incorporating the intent of BootlegTV).

During the Eurotour, I asked Trey to consider the KC Quintet option but, at that time, it didn't appeal to him. I'm hoping that, once TLev is re-activated, it will. Trey has also told me, on this tour, that he has achieved his youthful ambitions as a musician. I have tried to get away from the music industry on several occasions, and failed each time. I hope that Trey is just as successful.
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I've always seen King Crimson as pretty much "Robert Fripp and friends" so I don't think very much about who's around him at any given time...

Somehow I doubt he'd ever choose anyone below brilliant...
 
Somehow, I keep missing the tours they have done recently. I have not been a fan of the more recent music, as much as the older late 60's thru mid 80's line-up's. For a band that has been together for almost 35 years, you have to expect change and there has been some solid and fairly long lasting line-ups. I mean, it's not like the seemingly constant line-up changes of Camel. It's good that Fripp is still doing it and that is what counts and if they come near me anytime soon, I will do my best to see them.
 
Beltrom said:
I've always seen King Crimson as pretty much "Robert Fripp and friends" so I don't think very much about who's around him at any given time...

Somehow I doubt he'd ever choose anyone below brilliant...
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Well, since the early eighties, Robert Fripp, Adrien Belew and friends. You have to be scared about a band in which Adrien Belew is in another guitar players shadow!!!


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"Cowards can never be moral."
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Sure, Fripp is the central guiding force, but all the other musicians make very personal and powerful contributions to the sound. Certainly Belew's singular guitar style and songwriting and singing are absolutely essential to the last twenty years of Crimson. No, it's not Fripp and backup band, it's a band.

Besides, since 1981 there have only been six guys -- Fripp and Belew, Bruford and Levin, and Mastelloto and Gunn. (And Bruford goes back to the '72 lineup.)
 
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