FOR 40 YEARS, fans â and especially a lot of musicians â have told me that this era of the band was a watermark,â Adrian Belew says, discussing the version of King Crimson that he led alongside founder and visionary Robert Fripp in the 1980s. âWas it popular and well-known by MTV lovers? No. But thatâs not what the intent was in the first place. We werenât trying to make hit records. We were trying to be adventurous.â
âAdventurousâ is an understatement. The three records that Belew, Fripp, drummer Bill Bruford and bassist and Chapman Stick wizard Tony Levin released during that period â 1981âs Discipline, 1982âs Beat and 1984âs Three of a Perfect Pair â represent some of the most groundbreaking, challenging and creative music of the bandâs lifetime.
The original Crimson, under Frippâs guidance, tended to cloak its proggy compositions in heavy drama and encase them within epic song structures. The â80s iteration instead embraced the contemporary sounds of new wave, post punk and funk, along with exotic and avant-garde styles like Indonesian gamelan and minimalism, and used new technology like the Roland GR-300 guitar synthesizer to create music unlike anything in the Crimson canon. This was a new type of progressive rock: short, sharply played songs that were rhythmically taut, harmonically dense, and often built upon knotty and repetitive interlocking note patterns â what Belew calls a ârich tapestry.â
âThe sound right out of the box was kind of shocking,â he says. âWhen you put those records on and you hear them now, they still, to my ear, sound ahead of their time. Thereâs been nothing like them before or since.â
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PREVIOUSLY PART OF PRS's Maryland-built guitar line, the SE NF3 was recently reissued in the company's offshore-produced SE series. The SE NF3 is so named for its Narrowfield Deep Dish (a.k.a. DD) \"S\" pickups. These unique PRS-design units have deeper bobbins to accommodate more windings and extra metal pieces between the magnets to yield a more powerful \"single-coil\" tone, while remaining noise-free because they are in fact humbuckers. A control set consisting of master volume, tone and a five-way blade switch allows the usual selections of bridge, middle and neck pickups by themselves and the neck-plus-middle and bridge-plus-middle combinations that allow the SE NF3 to veer into Strat-like territory in switch positions two and four.
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