King Crimson: In the Court of Rock and Roll’s Loopiest Fanbase

I’ve gotten nearly 3,000 hits on Medium in the last few days for blogging about unfollowing Robert Fripp of King Crimson on-line because he turned out to be a disciple of the early 20th Century cult leader G.I Gurdjieff. There are four comments on there so far, I read the first two. I don’t have time to sort through all that crap. It wouldn’t even be the first time I’ve had to deal with Gurdjieff people. My friend Harry Essex died in his thirties homeless as he was a schizophrenic and an alcoholic. I once borrowed his copy of Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson just to get out of his apartment. King Crimson was always a band I liked but I was never obsessed with the band as I’ve learned many are, I also didn’t know there was any connection between Gurdjeiff and King Crimson, but then I ran into Robert Fripp two weeks on Facebook talking a whole lot of what I recognized to be Gurdjieff-speak. I blogged about him and watched as the fun began. It’s funny that in the late 60’s and early 70’s you had two rockstars who were on their high horse about drugs, Frank Zappa and Robert Fripp, and they were actually six times weirder than anyone who was, <a href="https://medium.com/@williamwheaton66/king-crimson-in-the-court-of-rock-and-rolls-loopiest-fan-base-3c3afaf25f31">Read More</a>