an Evening with King Crimson at Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

In their first tour since 2008, King Crimson returns to the stage this fall with 18 US performances. Born on January 13, 1969, in the basement of London's Fulham Palace Cafe, this is the eighth incarnation of King Crimson, featuring Gavin Harrison, Bill Rieflin, and Pat Mastelotto on drums, Tony Levin on bass and vocals, Mel Collins on sax and flute, Jakko Jakszyk on guitar and vocals, and Robert Fripp on guitar. In his DGM Diary for September 6, 2013, when King Crimson's return to live performance was announced to an outbreak of media frenzy, fan adoration and spontaneous outpourings of affection, Fripp wrote, 'at 18.55 King Crimson VIII moved to its next stage of actualization...

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In their first tour since 2008, King Crimson returns to the stage this fall with 18 US performances. Born on January 13, 1969, in the basement of London's Fulham Palace Cafe, this is the eighth incarnation of King Crimson, featuring Gavin Harrison, Bill Rieflin, and Pat Mastelotto on drums, Tony Levin on bass and vocals, Mel Collins on sax and flute, Jakko Jakszyk on guitar and vocals, and Robert Fripp on guitar. In his DGM Diary for September 6, 2013, when King Crimson's return to live performance was announced to an outbreak of media frenzy, fan adoration and spontaneous outpourings of affection, Fripp wrote, 'at 18.55 King Crimson VIII moved to its next stage of actualization. This is a very different reformation to what has gone before: seven players, four English and three American, with three drummers. The Point Of Crim-Seeing was of a conventional Back Line reconfigured as the Front Line, The Seven-Headed Beast of Crim is in Go! mode.'

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