RED AND ME: PAT MASTELOTTO

“I remember thinking, ‘What is this thing?’ It was indecipherable to my brain.”

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“I first saw King Crimson at the Cow Palace in San Francisco in June 1974. They opened for Ten Years After. They played a short set, but they played Starless. I know because I left with the bass riff and the coda going through my head for weeks after. I remember thinking, ‘What is this thing?’ It was indecipherable to my brain. Bruford would stand while he played the percussion over the two-note guitar solo, I remember. Then with that fast section of the coda, I couldn’t count fast enough to understand what was happening. And then the show was over but that tune haunted me from then on. About two weeks later they played at the Shrine in LA. That’s a big part of why I moved to LA,…

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