King Crimson's "In the Court of the Crimson King" - Common Good Gathering

About This Event

Friday April 18th, at 7pm, we are grateful to offer the 10th expression of this meaningful tradition of a hybrid concert/worship service, where the musicians of Pine Street Church perform an entire album chosen from the “secular” ranks. The experience is framed with narration that considers the music and lyrics through a lens of the story of the season, the Passiontide. This year’s album is King Crimson's, In the Court of the Crimson King. In a 2019 50th anniversary re-issue of the 1969 album Pitchfork’s Ryan Reeds had the following to write about the debut alum of the legendary band.It’s all there in the Schizoid Man’s face. Barry Godber’s cover art—a man mid-scream, nostrils flared, gaze fixed on a horror we can’t see—teases a manic, transformative head trip. In the Court of the Crimson King marks a vast fault line in the geology of rock music, refining a nascent genre into a pinnacle of the progressive rock form. The Moody Blues’ symphonic grandeur, Brian Wilson’s expansive production, the psychedelic experiments of Pink Floyd and the Beatles—these are some of prog’s essential building blocks. But with their first record, King Crimson shaped those pieces into a monument, wielding a sorcery unduplicated in the five decades since.​