IN THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING

Very good album. That's my first Crimson's album, and it introduces me very well into this band of intelligence and virtuosity. I discovered it when I was looking at the top 100 guitar solos, where you can find, after Clapton, Hendrix and Hammet, a less popular... Robert Fripp...

Let's jump into 21st century schizoid man... Oh, man, 25 seconds and only train sounds? I don't hear anything, put it higher! And... KABOUM! Amazing guitar sound, and Lake's vocals (from far into him...), are very hard and strict... Good song with jazz inspirations and for the sixties, a new type of guitar solo... The prog one...

I talk to the wind isa the less strong song on this album, personaly... (I precise personaly, because when I read a reiew saying that Shine On you crazy Diamond is the less good piece on the album, it gets me on my but). Very low ballad, contrary to Schizoid, helping us to jump in the contracts of the album...

Epitaph is a very good piece of music. Greg' the one that impresses me the most, there. Excellent vocals and lyrics of graveyard... Amazing, considering the keyboard stuff there was in the sixties...

Moonchild is great, very low, too. Nice ambiance there and combiantions of Fripp and McDonald.

Then, the title track,a s big as the nose of the pink man n the cover. When the chorus goes on, it almost flies into the sky, it's so high! I personaly love when the guy says the words of the title before to jump and touch the stars with his head... Nice intensity just there...

I don't think that anyone could say that this album is overrated... Maybe it ain't Crimson's best one, but no one was as much innovative... Thank you, Fripp.