I’m sure I’m in the minority, but the eighties Crimson is really my very favorite version of the band, a group with four highly individual and idiosyncratic personalities that largely played original material with just a nod or two to the past. The fact that they probably never could have done justice to the Mellotron drenched days of yore isn’t especially a concern for me. I don’t get remotely get near that sense of identity from the current band which makes them boring to me like the current Yes is also boring though Crimson sports much more zing and firepower than Yes does these days. I have to give them that.
I am interested in hearing the new version of TCOL as that album never quite got there for me. I listen to the live versions of that stuff when I want to hear it like just about every one else does. I liked Heaven & Earth and The Projekcts box much better and I thought TPTB was an amazing record. Maybe that one really should be the end of the studio catalog. I don’t know. It was a five star record for me in 2003 and it’s still one for me today.
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