You largely go through groups thinking, well this lot’s alright but it only uses major seventh chords and I want to be in a group that uses ninths and then you get in another group and you’re thinking ahead to a group that uses thirteenths, but this group uses everything that I know about music. That’s great, but on the other hand there’s no one left for me to work with after this one and the logical step is not to be a musician after this one, which is frightening. So hopefully it’ll go for a long time.
There’s a number of groups, fewish number, but a number of groups that are on the precipice in a way, beyond which there’s a blackness, a kind of void, and they’re peering into it hoping that it may go this way, but knowing that it may not go this way at all, it may be completely wrong.
I feel that King Crimson now is one of those groups.
–Bill Bruford, drummer, King Crimson, as quoted in the liner notes to KC’s 1973 album Larks’ Tongues in Aspic
This is not the kind of thing you hear from members of Good Charlotte.