Gavin Harrison says it is a “robust query” when requested what the longer term holds for King Crimson.
A cryptic remark that chief Robert Fripp posted instantly after their last booked present in Japan final December led to hypothesis about whether or not the band was completed. He known as that day “a big second in time as King Crimson ‘moved from sound to silence.'” The dates have been additionally a part of a run dubbed the “Completion Tour.”
Nonetheless, Harrison argued that there was one other method to interpret the state of affairs.
“Robert appears at issues otherwise to the traditional particular person,” the drummer tells Metal Injection. “He appears at issues in truly very attention-grabbing methods of doing issues. The band disbanded on the finish of 2008. I heard nothing from Robert till 2013, and he stated ‘I’ve received this concept for a undertaking for the band. It consists of three drummers on the entrance of the stage. The remainder of the fellows can be behind on a riser.’ He might see all of it in his thoughts and the undertaking in Robert’s thoughts lasted from 2013 [until it] accomplished in Japan in 2021.”
Nonetheless, Harrison added, “that does not essentially imply that’s the top. It’s simply we achieved what we got down to obtain. That undertaking accomplished itself. Now, whether or not it wants reiteration or it wants to come back again or a brand new King Crimson comes again or King Crimson by no means comes again, all these issues are doable. To simply say, ‘Oh, the band’s over,’ doesn’t actually match the best way Robert thinks.”
Harrison stated he wasn’t making an attempt to “skirt the query,” even when it appeared prefer it. “I do not know whether or not that was actually the final time King Crimson performed,” he emphasised. “It did really feel a bit like that once we have been there, as a result of we knew there have been no extra projected dates. Usually once we end a tour, we already know in 18 months time we’re going to go to the States, we’re going to go to South America, we’re round Europe or no matter. … There have been no additional plans previous 2021, and Robert stated, ‘This band, it’s reached a completion.’”
He hailed Fripp’s “lovely” mind-set, including: “King Crimson, it’s all the time been King Crimson – however it hasn’t all the time been the identical folks. It’s a kind of idealism in a manner that I’ve by no means skilled with another band. Most different bands are fairly black and white: We’re completed or we’re beginning, or it is off or it is on.
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