Prog-rock band King Crimson is making a comeback this fall with a 17-date US tour, but guitarist Robert Fripp is already warning fans about the shows.
The band will not be playing their signature album, In the Court of the Crimson King, so Fripp is telling fans who are expecting to hear it to sell their tickets at a profit.
“A guiding King Crimson principle is the music is new whenever it was written,” Fripp tells Uncut. “So it’s all new music. What I will say is, if you are coming with the explicit or implicit demand that you need to hear this music or that then don’t come. And if you’ve already bough tickets, sell them to someone and you might make a profit.
“The point is with Crimson, if you come with an open mind, generally something worthwhile happens. If you don’t, it’s less likely. If you go there thinking, ‘If I don’t hear In The Court of the Crimson King I will have a lousy show,’ then you will have a lousy show. It’s not on the setlist.”
