{"id":866,"date":"2007-09-15T16:51:31","date_gmt":"2007-09-15T20:51:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-08-21T17:13:45","modified_gmt":"2010-08-21T17:13:45","slug":"i-summon-the-king-crimson-apologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-summon-the-king-crimson-apologists\/","title":{"rendered":"I Summon the King Crimson Apologists!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1-V6OZdvygo?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><p>Townspeople:<\/p>\n<p>Other than an early, head-scratching introduction to the band through periodic spins of my Dad&#8217;s copy of &#8220;Lark&#8217;s Tongues In Aspic&#8221; (not bad for a guy born in 1930!), my experience with King Crimson is limited, and I am wary.  A recent flyer at a used copy of &#8220;Beat&#8221; didn&#8217;t do much to make me like the band more &#8212; but I did spin 30 seconds of the title track from &#8220;In the Court Of the Crimson King&#8221; on iTunes and liked it well enough.  Oh, and lest ye think I&#8217;m a knee-jerk prog hata, I can also put a check-mark next to the &#8220;saw Robert Fripp deliver lecture on Frippertronics at Georgetown University and liked it okay&#8221; box.<\/p>\n<p>What I really want to know is:  are King Crimson really Great, and &#8212; well, if so, why?<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to your responses.<\/p>\n<p>HVB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Townspeople: Other than an early, head-scratching introduction to the band through periodic spins of my Dad&#8217;s copy of &#8220;Lark&#8217;s Tongues In Aspic&#8221; (not bad for a guy born in 1930!), my experience with King Crimson is limited, and I am wary. A recent flyer at a used copy of &#8220;Beat&#8221; didn&#8217;t do much to make <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/i-summon-the-king-crimson-apologists\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[106,96,304],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}