It was his blueprint that was adopted for each successive edition of the group. He decided when the group stopped and when it started again. But as the only remaining original member, and the only man without whom the group could not exist, he was the de facto leader. Robert always insisted the band was “a way of doing things” and that he was no more than “the glue that held it together” – certainly nothing as coarse as the bandleader. Nominally, drummers are expected to play at the back, but Blakey was the face of the band, which was fitting, because his pummelling. Blakey doubled as frontman and percussionist for Jazz Messengers, legitimising the role of a percussionist, and their importance to the band. Had I not joined, I would have been less likely to develop any potential that subsequently surfaced, and for this I have King Crimson to thank. Most interestingly, Bruford named Art Blakey as a favourite of his. I agree with Robert’s analysis that I wasn’t ready when I joined the band, but after a year with the older and wiser percussionist Jamie Muir, I became ready. This was going to be more than three chords and a pint of Guinness. Wicca, personality changes, low-magic techniques, pyromancy – all this from the magus in the court of the Crimson King. See more ideas about bill bruford, king crimson, progressive rock. Bennett, Gurdjieff, and Castaneda were all hot. Explore YES Fanss board 'Bill Bruford', followed by 104 people on Pinterest. I wasn’t given a set-list when I joined the band, more a reading list. I might have known it was going to be an interesting ride when the first of the two gifts he gave me in some 35 years was a book entitled Initiation Into Hermetics. The Man With A Plan – but since he wasn’t exactly letting on what the plan might be, a certain amount of inspired guesswork was called for.
He was the superior intellect with a silver tongue, in possession of some arcane or possibly occult knowledge to which the rest of us weren’t privileged. Perhaps Robert was unused to having such artistic resilience in the band. It required several rounds from an elephant gun to get me down, and even then I was only winded. I was the ingénue, the man with too many ideas, too much enthusiasm, and a genuinely thick skin.
‘Almost immediately, Robert Fripp and I took up positions that we seemed to defend for most of our working relationship. Here’s a little of what Bill had to say about his early working relationship with guitarist Robert Fripp in an excerpt from ‘Bill Bruford-The Autobiography’: Frequent enforced hiatuses became part of the working practice of King Crimson. L-R Wetton, Cross, Bruford, and Fripp wait for transport in the lobby of a hotel somewhere in Europe, 1974. L-R Wetton, Cross, Bruford, and Fripp wait for transport in the lobby of a hotel somewhere in Europe, 1974.įrequent enforced hiatuses became part of the working practice of King Crimson. Bill Bruford September 20th 1974 King Crimson ‘ceased to exist’ Previous Next Another happy day on the road.
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