History Funny / KingCrimson

* As recorded on one of the Collector's Club releases, possibly during a ProjeKct performance, a bra was tossed on the stage. After the next song was over, Frip walked over and picked it up. He acknowledged how rare and significant this was (a nod to the notoriously sausage-filled nature of prog audiences), and proceeded to raffle off said item with an impromptu KC trivia competition.

** From the title track, "Bolero: The Peacock's Tale" - After a SweetDreamsFuel laden intro, the band proceeds to reprise the previous section, the moody "Prince Rupert Awakes", as a Creator/RatPack-styled swing.

--->[''Of a persistently hostile Torontian rock writer''] Better he vent his ire on me than in poking small animals.

* Back in the 1970s, some of Robert Fripp's onstage announcements (as documented on live albums like ''The Night Watch'' and ''The Great Deceiver'') are extremely dry, the more so because of his mild-mannered West Country voice.

-->'''Fripp''': [''to audience''] This is in, er, this is in response to a request from the band, that I creep to the front, in my usual sensuous fashion, and win you over to the band's cause by a few well-chosen and personable words. [''Beat''] Hello. [''Beat, audience applauds''] Is there life out there? At a moment like this, ladies and gentlemen, I'm completely overwhelmed by the sense of occasion, in fact, "feeble-witted" would be a more potent description, so all I can do is fall back upon...may I say, a classic and ''historic'' announcement from the past. This doesn't, regrettably, belong to me, but a now legendary band in England, the famous Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, and the, the announcement, which took place at the Marquee, was something like this. [''Pause, stridently''] "Right! Hands up those who like it, those who don't, fuck off, me eyes feel like piss-holes in the snow, this is the last one tonight, this is called 'Seeds of Space Fly By My Face'." [''laughter and applause''] I think you'll be prepared to admit that in the face of a message quite as devastatingly cosmic as that, anything I could muster forth would only pall by comparison. [''audience member shouts "Rodney Toady!"''] Nooo, not "Rodney".[[note]]Allusion to "The Saga of Rodney Toady", a song by Fripp's previous band Giles, Giles and Fripp.[[/note]] This, however, is... [''audience member is still heckling''] A moment, a moment's silence, sir, thank you, thank your for your encouragement, but control is needed. This is an improvised piece of music, which is completely out of the top of our heads. Your enthusiasm is encouraged.

* The ''Happy with What You Have to Be Happy With'' EP includes a bonus track at the end of the album which features almost 4 minutes of (sometimes ridiculous) improvisations, and a lot of random banter between the group.

* "Happy with What You Have to Be Happy with", oh god...

One wouldn't think King Crimson capable of managing one, but the ''Three of a Perfect Pair'' bonus track "The King Crimson Barber Shop" proves otherwise.

* "Happy With What You Have To Be Happy with", oh god...

* "Indiscipline" has in its spoken-word narration "I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress..."

* Robert Fripp's reaction to a stressed out Adrian Belew kicking him out of a studio during the ''Beat'' sessions: "so much for bring me the leader of King Crimson."
* "Elephant Talk" contains some of the funniest lyrics ever written. It also helps that Adrian Belew sounds like David Byrne from Music/TalkingHeads.

** From the title track, "Bolero: The Peacock's Tale" - After a SweetDreamsFuel laden intro, the band proceeds to reprise the previous section, the moody "Prince Rupert Awakes", as a RatPack-styled swing.

* Robert Fripp's reaction to a stressed out Adrian Belew kicking him out of a studio during the ''Beat'' sessions: "so much for me bring the leader of King Crimson."

* The lyrics to "Neurotica", which is a bit like the classic Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus skit "Mr. Smoke-Too-Much" ''[[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on a crate of Red Bull]]'':

* "Elephant Talk" contains some of the funniest lyrics ever written. It also helps that Adrian Belew sounds like David Byrne from [[Music/TalkingHeads].

* "Elephant Talk" contains some of the funniest lyrics ever written. it also helps that Adrian Belew sounds like [[Music/TalkingHeads David Byrne].

* Robert Fripp's reaction to a stressed out Adrian Belew kicking him out of a studio during the ''Beat'' sessions: "so much for me bring the leader of King Crimson."

--->''"[[MotorMouth Good morning, it's 3am in this great roaring city full of garbage eaters ravaging parking spots beneath my plaza window I see cheetahs in their tight skins and tired heels all-night hippo in the diner crossing the street swarthy heards of young Impala flambastic gibbon even a struggling monza and over there that brilliant head ornament on that Japanese macaque but look closely at the hammerhead hand in hand with the mandrill, it's a sight you're unlikely to see anywhere else on the planet...]]"''

* Robert Fripp's reaction to a stressed out Adrian Belew kicking him out of a studio: "so much for me bring the leader of King Crimson."

* Back in the 1970s, some of Robert Fripp's onstage announcements (as documented on live albums like ''The Night Watch'' and ''The Great Deceiver'') are extremely dry, the more so because of his mild-mannered West Country voice.

** "Cirkus" has "Worship! cried the clown, I am a TV, bareback ladies have fish"

* "Indiscipline" has in its spoken-word narration "I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress, I repeat myself when under stress..."

* The lyrics to "Neurotica", which is a bit like the classic MontyPython skit "Mr. Smoke-Too-Much" ''[[ThisIsYourPremiseOnDrugs on a crate of Red Bull]]'':

--->''"[[MotorMouth Good morning, it's 3am in this great roaring city full of garbage eaters ravaging parking spots beneath my plaza window I see cheetahs in their tight skins and tired heels all-night hippo in the diner crossing the street swarthy heards of young Impala flambastic gibbon even a struggling monza and over there that brilliant head ornament on that Japanese macaque but look closely at the hammerhead hand in hand with the mandrill, it's a sight you're unlikely to see anywhere else on the planet...]]"''

* Happy With What You Have To Be Happy with, oh god...

** From the title track, "Bolero: The Peacock's Tale" - After a SweetDreamsFuel laden intro, the band proceeds to reprise the previous section, the moody "Prince Rupert Awakes", as a RatPack-styled swing.

* A lot of the songs on "Lizard".
** Cirkus has "Worship! cried the clown, I am a TV, bareback ladies have fish"
** Indoor Games has "Each afternoon you train baboons to sing"
** In Happy Family, just about every lyric cracks me up.