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Heavy Nettles
There is a renewed emphasis on improvisation in live
performance in King Crimson's music of [1972]--but not
the kind of improvisation common in jazz and rock,
where one soloist at a time takes center stage and
riffs and rhapsodizes, running through his chops while
the rest of the band lays back and comps along with
set rhythm and chord changes. In its best moments
King Crimson improvisation during this period was a
group affair, a kind of music-making process in which
every member of the band was capable of making
creative contributions at every moment . Mindless
individual soloing was frowned upon; rather, everyone
had to be listening to every one else at every
moment, to be able to react intelligently and
creatively to the group sound...
Violinist/keyboardist David Cross described the
process this way: "We're so different from each other
that one night someone in the band will play something
that the rest of us have never heard before and you
just have to listen for a second. Then you react to
his statement, usually in a different way than they
would expect. It's the improvisation that makes the
group amazing for me. You know, taking chances.
There is no format really in which we fall into. We
discover things while improvising and if they're
really basically good ideas we try and work them in as
new numbers, all the while keeping the improvisation
thing alive and and continually expanding."
Excerpted from
"Robert Fripp: From King Crimson to Guitar Craft"
by
Eric Tamm
, Faber and Faber, 1990, pp.66-67
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