I keep hearing that mentioned, but to be honest I can't truly detect it in the music. They were by 1975-76 (particularly on Mental Notes) a far more musically accomplished and artistically determined unit than anything I ever heard by any 80s "neo prog" enterprise. Very good.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Bookmarks