Fripp looks like he's trying out a guitar at a music store when suddenly 3 other guys show up and crank shit up.

@ckallaher

3 ай бұрын

He even looks a bit like he was there doing the accounting for the store. They are an interesting collection of personalities.

@daveguitarnowski4402

2 ай бұрын

Haha! that's awesome!

@somarriba333

2 ай бұрын

@@ckallaher Awe man. He just wanted to relax during his hard earned 15 minute break from accounting and be at peace playing some music.

@jayem1826

2 ай бұрын

If I'm not mistaken that's a Roland Synthesiser Guitar

@rkm3

29 күн бұрын

I saw Fripp touring with Peter Gabriel. He had long hair and he stood for the whole show. He's good.

You can be cool, but you will never be adrian belew prancing around on stage wearing a pastel pink suit while singing about the time he nearly got his skull bashed in

@Unicorns8myPoo

4 ай бұрын

Tell that to Buford sitting there in clothes that match his Simmons pads…

@harounel-poussah6936

4 ай бұрын

You've never seen Belew wearing a dress when he was with Frank Zappa...

@lobserve1

4 ай бұрын

With white shoes, and he's killing it.

@rhythmfield

3 ай бұрын

@@harounel-poussah6936 I saw it, at the Palladium in 1979-Belew was wearing a U.S. Army surplus dress, no less !!

@MichaelMut

3 ай бұрын

AND making a dastardly Roland Jazz Chorus feedback noise!

I have no idea how Tony does this but he looks exactly the same today, in 2024.

@greg-warsaw4708

4 ай бұрын

Check out Leland Sklar - he does the same trick.

@Eumesmo_123

3 ай бұрын

He is a vampire

@atomusbliss

3 ай бұрын

Do what you love exceptionally well while avoiding the spotlight. 😃

@michael1

3 ай бұрын

The same way that Dara O Briain has looked 55 years old since he was 25.

3 ай бұрын

He does cycling with Manu Katche every day

Wow. Just got my tix to the Beat Tour with Belew, Levin, Vai, and Carey. Can’t wait!

@darcyperkins7041

3 ай бұрын

Check out the Rick Beato with the 4 of them, plus his separate interview with Vai and Satriani.

@ikkenhisatsu7170

3 ай бұрын

I'm envious. O hope I can see them!

@SenseiNWDA

3 ай бұрын

I'm pissed. Closest the BEAT tour gets to me is Denver.

@alexismoma

3 ай бұрын

@@SenseiNWDA Yeah, it sucks right? Closest to me is Vegas and I'm in central Mexico, I will miss this great reunion along with so many others I have missed because they only play in their countries :(

@SenseiNWDA

3 ай бұрын

@alexismoma I'm 35 minutes from Seattle. Still trying to figure why NO Pacific NW shows.

What I loved about King Crimson is that the corporate office always sent someone down to play guitar with Adrian Belew.

@shable1436

3 ай бұрын

Don't know much about them, so are you saying they were a industrial studio group

@juliangonzalez2953

3 ай бұрын

​​@@shable1436 Nah he's saying robert fripp looks like an average office guy in this video

@afreakinsando

3 ай бұрын

I sometimes think he looks like a vampire who accidentally ended up in Miami Beach in the 80s

@mrbunghole

3 ай бұрын

He looks like an accountant in this one.

@ROLtheWolf

3 ай бұрын

I think Fripp looks spiffy!

Fripp looks like the substitute teacher you had in math class who made math actually interesting for like 2 days before your regular boring teacher came back.

@kipponi

3 ай бұрын

😂😂❤

@Eleventhearlofmars

3 ай бұрын

Nah he hasn’t got any elbow pads on his jacket, or is that physics teachers? 🤔😂

@talkingmudcrab718

3 ай бұрын

@@Eleventhearlofmars yeah. the one who talked about laissez-faire economics and passed out flyers for his run as Libertarian candidate for the State Senate.

@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd

3 ай бұрын

@@talkingmudcrab718 Wow -- YT is not all stupid.

Hard to believe that this was on broadcast TV on a Friday night. We were so cool back then but we didn't even know it.

@dthorne4602

2 ай бұрын

Fridays was a great show

This and Elephant talk from the same broadcast, are still to this day, FAR AND AWAY the greatest live performances I've ever seen.

One of the strongest sets ever recorded. Beautiful.

Adrian Belew predicted the 'Miami Vice' look several years before the series started ..

@michael1

3 ай бұрын

The person who made the suit would probably have something to say about that

@user-vn1zb9ov8d

3 ай бұрын

Sometimes it's better to lag fashion than pre-empt.....pink pastel eeeek!!!

So hot Fripp almost came up off his stool.

@franciskhoury4288

7 ай бұрын

Ha ha, fuck yeah!

@autpt

4 ай бұрын

Lllloooll, just don’t take his pic

@infrequentvlogs4433

3 ай бұрын

it's a HOT ROCK JAZZ STOOL, to be fair

@doctorpatient519

3 ай бұрын

ooh- that would be unfortunate, as it would disconnect his "secret" anal probe from controlling his effects pedals

Truly "Heat in the Jungle". More than 40 years old and still unbeatable. Talking about "beating", any more addicts here to Bill's snare drum sound?

The best king crimson line up ever, long live to the King Crimson.

The cut to Bruford mouthing thank you was hilarious. 😂

I can’t believe I found a live performance of this song when they were promoting the release of this album. You have no idea how elated I am as this is my favorite incarnation of Crimson and these guys were unbelievably skilled musicians.

@devolve42

5 ай бұрын

As far as I'm concerned this is the definitive version of King Crimson.

@toniearl3497

3 ай бұрын

I loved this version of King Crimson so much I went to Robert Fripp's Frippertronics lecture on March 28, 1983 at UWO Althouse Theatre. And yes it was a lecture demonstrating how he uses tape loops. OMG that was 41 years ago today...I still have the souvenir t-shirt "The Lecture 1983 Contents: One small, mobile, intelligent unit. Robert Fripp.".

@nodularification

3 ай бұрын

Frickin' supergroup, right there.

@damnvoid6603

3 ай бұрын

complete badasses, workin' like a gotdamn machine

@Eviloverlord545

3 ай бұрын

I am sure you heard about Beat. No Frip but he gave his blessing for it to happen

Fripp looking positively crafty

These guys are like if The Talking Heads thought they were making Metal

@damnvoid6603

3 ай бұрын

exAAAAAAACTly

@donsurlylyte

3 ай бұрын

heads and this and a couple others sort of in the same motel of zeitgeist

Miami Vice Adrian Belew wrote the best King Crimson lyrics ever(and to this day doesn’t get credit) while singing and playing some of the most original guitar licks ever.

I was a student at Musicians Institute (GIT) in LA in 1981. Bill Bruford came in to do a drum seminar which was very impressive. He mentioned that he would be performing with King Crimson on the Fridays show. I watched that and it was mind blowing. I’d never heard anything like it before.

Tony Levin looks the same since 1908

@Pwecko

2 ай бұрын

I didn't know he was born in 1908. Amazing.

@giork2828

Ай бұрын

@@Pwecko He wasn’t. Born in the 1800’s, he looks old and bald since 1908 😀

@Pwecko

Ай бұрын

@@giork2828 Ah, I see. That makes much more sense.

Cool, watching this 42 years to the day later. Discipline was my introduction to King Crimson.

@kallymavromatis123

3 ай бұрын

I saw them in concert on that tour! Really amazing. Love them.

As a KC fan who came to the band from David Bowie by way of Belew, it was a thrill to see Adrian using the same guitar to make the same wild noises he would do while playing the intro to Bowie's Station to Station

@rubintuesday

5 ай бұрын

Crazy how Fripp and Belew both played with Bowie in the late 70s but had no overlap on his albums (Fripp - Heroes & Scary Monsters, Belew - Lodger) and then they formed this lineup of Crimson. I wonder if Bowie had anything to do with them discovering each other?

I remember seeing this when it was broadcast. Great stuff! Been a Crim freak for 50+ years.

Only four of the finest musicians can produce such an experience!

That would blow peoples minds if it was on tv today. Awesome

I remember this night! I came home and looked in the tv guide for what was on and I saw Friday's with musical guest King Crimson...WHOA!! They opened with 'Elephant Talk'..I was blown away..

The best King Crimson performance I have ever seen, Tony Levin and Andrew Belew - WOW!, they are from a different planet!!

I Was at that Fridays show that night. ABC Prospect Studios in Los Angeles. Great Times!

@VPR2B

7 ай бұрын

Nice! Two of my brothers were there too, which is what prompted me to roll an audio tape on the network feed.

@rhythmfield

3 ай бұрын

@@VPR2Bhow did you access that network satellite audio feed? It’s a bit raw and funky but that’s probably EXACTLY what the band sounded like live on the stage itself - amazing recording !

@VPR2B

3 ай бұрын

@@rhythmfield I was working at an independent TV station at the time and for an unknown reason, AT&T would often feed ABC down our (seldom used) network feed line. I was fortunate that they were doing so on this night!

@Stratmanable

3 ай бұрын

"Great times"...? Something remarkable happened to you, and ALL YOU HAVE TO SAY ABOUT IT IS "Great times"...?

Best copy of this video out there. Great sound.

@VPR2B

10 ай бұрын

Still kicking myself for not rolling a 1-inch on this …

@DosEckesProductions

10 ай бұрын

Ha! Keep kicking!

In the recent Rick Beato interview featuring the re-birth of King Crimson (Vai, Belew, Cary, Levin) Adrian laughed about how he played thru a Roland Jazz Chorus. 02:55 Something like "When it was my turn to solo, I would just run back to the amp and start twisting knobs!" Of course I paraphrase, but he made it sound funny, and this is epic. I just hope I get a chance to see the American version of King Crimson in person.

@kipponi

3 ай бұрын

Yes watched it too funny man❤😂.

@stevebourne6826

3 ай бұрын

I looked this video up after hearing his comment about his solo.. Who plays behind the nut? Great interview I love what Rick is doing.

@johnnyxmusic

3 ай бұрын

@@stevebourne6826Bill Bruford?

@steelewheels1365

3 ай бұрын

I had a Jazz Chorus. Those were amazing amps. So clean and loud!

@EleanorPeterson

2 ай бұрын

​@@johnnyxmusic​- "Who plays behind the nut?" [Unusual guitar-playing technique.] "Bill Bruford?" [At the back, on drums.] Oh, that's brilliant, dear boy! Belew is indeed bonkers, but I'm afraid your observation may be too droll for KZread.😁

What a band. Probably one of the GOAT. Every musician was at the top of their game. Simply awesome, as awesome as any band can be.

Tony Levin...what a bad ass bass player! One of the best.

When I saw them twice, they came out with the Yellow album. Belew had the sound bar by the mike stand and Bruford had the stand up drum set

I was at the Seattle stop of this tour at the Showbox and will never forget Adrian Belew pointing at the sleeve of his red jacket and saying, "This is RED!" before they launched into Red. Best concert ever!

SO GREAT! Brings me back to the musically diverse and fabulous 80s and 90s. Looking back....Innocent Times.

Musicianship is mind blowing

@joeday9333

2 ай бұрын

Actual music!

Robert’s counter-tempo playing is just magic here.

It's a nice touch that God decided to make himself visible and put on a suit and tie for this performance.

Just excellent excellent excellent fun... Some of my favourite players. But it's the ease with which you gel that's most impressive. Robert from Accounts does a great job of steering the good ship Crimson. Adrian, love the loose limbs & Barbara Cartland pink. Tony, always Mr Cool. Right notes, right time, right rig. You da man... & Bill... well, what a fine drummer this young fella has been for many years. Toot sweet, lads! You all deserve your pensions...

Had the pleasure of meeting Mr Levin this year while touring with Gabriel. A genuinely nice guy.

Ya, that was good. Very cool to see the lads young and excited, charting new ground, and experimenting. It takes me back to the time I got to see them live for the first time, probably in 83, for the Three of a Perfect Pair tour. I'd literally just bought the album, and only listened once or twice, so it was pretty radical stuff. I was unfamiliar with all of the music. It was at the SDSU Amphitheater, and the crowd was tiny. We got to move down to the middle of the row, and watch and listen from a perfect position. One of the all time best musical experiences for me. Being a recreational bass player myself, Levin inspired me to purchase a Chapman Stick when I could eventually afford it, which didn't happen for several years. Thanks for posting this clip.

@andyharman3022

5 ай бұрын

I used to deliver travel trailers for a living, and in 2017 had a delivery to Kingston, NY. I stayed the night in a Super 8 motel and at breakfast in the morning I noticed that a lot of the guests were wearing King Crimson t-shirts and carrying Chapman Sticks in their carrying cases. I asked one of the guys and he said "we are here for the summer seminar that Tony Levin puts on every year." What are the odds of that happening to a King Crimson fan?

@marshallross3373

5 ай бұрын

@@andyharman3022 Very cool. Ya the camp still happens every year. Would love to go myself, but it's not feasible. As you point out, we do live in a small world, made smaller by the internet, even. Thanks for sharing your encounter.

Great song, great band, great performance, and 2 wonderful Roland JC-120s in the background.

@jmason61

6 ай бұрын

All the vintage gear is so cool

@SoundOldies

3 ай бұрын

cristal clear and finally well supporting tons of saturation sound :-)

@StuartConstantine

3 ай бұрын

The dueling JC 120's are my favorite part!

@SoundOldies

2 ай бұрын

@@StuartConstantine 😁

Discipline is one of my favorite albums, and this performance kicks ass. But, this would make a hilarious "shreds" video.

@rhythmfield

3 ай бұрын

I’d LOVE to see that !!!!

ABSOLUTELY MAGISTERIAL, not o mention they are coming back somehow with Steve Vai and Tool's Drummer, I can'¡t wait to see them live oh yah

@danoaudio9896

3 ай бұрын

got my Houston tix yesterday....

Many here are pointing out the obvious Talking Heads influence. I think that Tony & Robert's previous work with Peter Gabriel should also be factored in to this version of KC.

@jeremyhopkins577

2 ай бұрын

I think Brian Eno is also part of the DNA.

Interesting how someone mentioned the Talking Heads. In a video on prog in the 80's someone said that had Franz and Weymouth had their way they would have kicked out David Byrne and replaced him with Adrian Belew.

@devolve42

5 ай бұрын

This is correct. Belew got all integrity-filled and didn't want to do it. So they formed Tom Tom Club instead.

@jeffreykinart8858

3 ай бұрын

@@devolve42 And were given a song by Adrian which became their biggest hit and they stiffed him on royalties

@johnnyxmusic

3 ай бұрын

@@jeffreykinart8858What song?

@jeffreykinart8858

3 ай бұрын

@@johnnyxmusic Genius of Love

@johnnyxmusic

3 ай бұрын

@@jeffreykinart8858 Thank you.

Fridays always had the cutting edge artists

@SenseiNWDA

3 ай бұрын

Remember when they had The Plasmatics with Wendy O. Williams on? Fridays was (for Friday) what SNL was for Saturdays.

BRAVO! Us young stoners would grok on these players on vinyl.... seeing them on TV was so cool

I liked the Fridays show. It had Michael Richards, Larry David, and some people who appeared on Seinfeld later like Bruce Mahler and Melanie Chartoff. This King Crimson set was the kick ass thing and made me a KC fan after that.

@andyharman3022

5 ай бұрын

Melanie Chartoff I still remember when she wore that fur coat. I wanted to take her home and kiss her all over.

Saw them on their "Discipline" tour with this lineup and this and the other awesome tunes from that period. What a phenomenal band just blowing the lid off. Nothing like it.

No shortage of cool sounds from that solid state Roland Jazz Chorus !!!###

This studio audience got more than they bargained for that day…

I've been a Crim fan since 1971, through all the iterations, but this was probably them all playing at their peaks. Loads of positive energy.

That accountant can really play guitar.

the guitar tone is godlike

Going to be interesting what Vai and Carey bring to the new Crimson.

@consulentecomunicazionestr3072

3 ай бұрын

With Fripp blessing

This is an awesome video. Ade on his classic beat-up Strat mesmerizing the audience with controlled feedback.

Love Bill riding on the roto like there’s no tomorrow.

@rhythmfield

3 ай бұрын

I dug that Roto riding very much. Bill was probably very frustrated, being forbidden to use high hats by the professor (Fripp)… But I really like the primal sound, and forcing limitations can lead to wonderful new things.

@deruberschwarze3943

3 ай бұрын

Those are actually octobans.

@boysherman

3 ай бұрын

@@deruberschwarze3943 He rode on both for this song. FYI, Danny Carey but 3 of them from a Bruford Auction and will be using them for the Fall '24 Beat tour.

@deruberschwarze3943

3 ай бұрын

@@boysherman Nice catch. He did. BTW, Fripp endorsed the tour.

A pivotal performance in my appreciation of music when I witnessed this broadcast.

I am proud to say I had the three albums of this KC configuration back in the 1980s when I was a teen...it was the kind of thing we did before the internet

great stuff, hadn't seem this one before

Bruford kills it here ... five stars

Saw this back when. This audio has much more "Umph!" in the bass and drums~~~ Thanks for posting !!

Every guitarist who saw this in 1981 had his mind blown. Maybe even sold his guitar the next day and took up the French horn.

Love that lp and Fridays, of course.

@phillippitts6294

3 ай бұрын

It was a seriously underrated show .

Superbe groupe, quel enthousiasme, quel son torturé !!!

A few weeks earlier they were in a bar in Atlanta and I snuck past the bouncer (with a ticket) at sixteen. November 13, 1981, I think. It's still the best show I ever saw. And I taped this live on the family VCR...

glad this got reposted

great song ... killer performance

saw this when it aired , went out and bought the album the next day

Thank you for uploading this :)

I remember watching this live on Fridays--I was sleeping over at a friend's house and we were both blown away. Probably bought Discipline the next day.

Great, have 👁️there moire times, also two drummer and bassmen....... Gooooooood👏👏👏👏👏

Yes, it was that good.

Great stuff. This is a shortened version of the song, however. I saw this formation of King Crimson at a small venue in NYC, playing the "Discipline" program. It's the kind of stuff that gives the lie to the cliche that "rock n roll is easy to play."

A perfect take !!

So good, thanks KROQ for introducing me.

saw this tour in Royal Oak Mich,,,,,,,awesome

Wow! Look how easy Bill Buford makes ot look!

@aeropilot4419

2 ай бұрын

... they call him the human metronome

Fridays always had cooler musical guests than SNL.

See it live this year the #BEAT BAND ON TOUR 2024. Belew Vai Levin Carrey. Support live music!

@SuperMururoa

3 ай бұрын

Saw the band, with that same lineup, in Milan, late August '82. Openers? ROXY MUSIC! What a night... Outside and inside the Vigorelli Velodromo (where they had bycicle races, we the public were on the wooden racetrack). 😎😉

@user-xb8bg7eu4p

3 ай бұрын

I am lucky enough to have a ticket to the show at paramount theatre den next winter it sold out in minutes. Saw adrian last year remain in light tour he killed it🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

I remember watching this live. I taped it with a dictation cassette recorder and played it constantly.

This should have way more views

Belew's stage antics are a weird counterpoint to Fripp's headmasterly cool.

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers took a bit of thier style.

Scorching. Fire in musical form.

Where have ALL THE good times gone!!

What do you call 3 guys and a musical genius? King Crimson.

@consulentecomunicazionestr3072

3 ай бұрын

Four musical geniuses

I watched this when it first aired and went out and bought the Discipline lp the next day...

This song kicks ash!!

The beat With bill bruford

Adrian Belew is the arc angel of meta musical cool

insidiously good!

One of the few Crimson songs I do not like, but is still fun to watch them play.. and enjoy it..

Just got tickets for the BEAT tour and found this post 2 days later lol.

What a performance! WOW!

Love the Roland jc 120s scattered

"They wanted to kill me, tear my limbs off"...lol.

Belew is incredible. Insane guitar !!!

Electric performance!!!