{"id":1114,"date":"2008-01-03T11:12:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-03T16:12:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-09-15T22:54:58","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T22:54:58","slug":"they-don-t-make-em-like-that-anymore-kin-1973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/they-don-t-make-em-like-that-anymore-kin-1973\/","title":{"rendered":"They Don&#8217;t Make &#8217;em Like That Anymore: King Crimson, 1973"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not everything old and outdated is worth revisiting &#8211; and even some things old and outdated are worth admiring, if not bringing back. There&#8217;s much I admire in the following King Crimson performance from 1973.<br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aRBk-Zbv3V8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nLet&#8217;s start with <strong>John Wetton&#8217;s Look<\/strong>. His hair and sideburns are <em>perfect<\/em>! Why can&#8217;t someone in a critically acclaimed band I&#8217;m supposed to love, like Wilco or White Stripes have hair like that? I also dig his floppy jacket and the excusable fashion faux pas of wearing his own band&#8217;s t-shirt onstage. Someone had to be the frontman for this nearly amelodic, seemingly asexual collective. Wetton lays it on the line.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bill Bruford<\/strong>&#8216;s sporting some good &#8216;burns himself, although they&#8217;re not quite matched. The right sideburn seems to be coming out further and it not as thick. That&#8217;s OK. As you&#8217;ll see toward the end of this clip, it&#8217;s not a tank top he&#8217;s wearing but some kind of <strong>stylized overall\/jumpsuit<\/strong>. I guess lots of drummers don&#8217;t bother dressing up because they don&#8217;t get to jump off their throne and bang a rack of gongs.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nBruford excels at the <strong>Attentive Drummer<\/strong> technique as the foundation of his <strong>Rock Facework<\/strong>. <em>Is there a drummer in the house?<\/em> Do you ever make sure to look over your shoulder at the singer, like the fate of the song in play depends on your coordination with his next move, the way Bruford does at the <strong>1:35 mark<\/strong>? Wettton must have felt like a <em>god<\/em> with the knowledge that his drummer was at least pretending to pay his so much respect as a frontman. Bruford continues with this sign of respect at the 2:08 mark, flashes Wetton his Patience of a Saint expression during <strong>David Cross<\/strong> and <strong>Robert Fripp<\/strong>&#8216;s mellotron\/guitar interlude at <strong>2:53<\/strong>, and works into a pre-ejaculatory porn grimmace at <strong>3:15<\/strong>. At the <strong>4:29 mark<\/strong>, the camera catches Bruford in a brief, final flicker of delight. I will give props to <strong>Meg White<\/strong> for having studied Bruford&#8217;s facial work.<\/p>\n<p><em>The jam continues&#8230;<\/em><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/13LD7Xz2HQs?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nIt goes without saying that Cross needs to do something about those split ends, but for a prog-rock multi-instrumentalist <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cupofwonder.com\/EDDIE.jpg\" title=\"http:\/\/www.cupofwonder.com\/EDDIE.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">he could do worse<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Fripp in his simple black ensemble and seated on a <strong>stool<\/strong> is always a treat. The bushier-than-usual hair and beard work for him. Of all the fashion options offered in this clip, this is probably the one Look that was most influential on modern-day indie rock musicians. As for the stool, though, I don&#8217;t think anyone else has made that work while playing triplets on a Les Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everything old and outdated is worth revisiting &#8211; and even some things old and outdated are worth admiring, if not bringing back. There&#8217;s much I admire in the following King Crimson performance from 1973. Let&#8217;s start with John Wetton&#8217;s Look. His hair and sideburns are perfect! 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