My aim in walking onstage...
Words 48 · RF@80 Series.
Photo: Tony Levin · King Crimson, December 8th. 2021. Tokyo.
My aim in walking onstage is to give music my best shot. Anything which fails to support this aim is irrelevant… anything which detracts from this aim will be avoided.
[Excerpt from RF’s King Crimson Touring Diary – May 9th. 2000]
I do miss playing in front of an audience in a lot of ways. I miss those moments when I put musical detours into songs, so as to place who I was at that moment in time therein.
That gave the songs a life of their own, a journey that made them interesting to me. If I altered the bass line, guitar part, keyboard run, whatever I was playing for that particular song, and the others joined in, then that feeling of being locked in together to that emotional state was like nothing else in the world.
Those moments were rare, but magical.
Good advice for everyone.