The progressive rock world misplaced a really fascinating drummer and percussionist after former King Crimson member Jamie Muir handed away. He was 82 years previous.
Muir had been a member of the enduring prog rock band from 1972 to 1973, throughout which level he was featured on the band’s album Larks’ Tongues in Aspic. After leaving the band, he moved to Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland to develop into a Buddhist monk.
Nevertheless, by 1980 he got here again to play music in London, accruing album credit with artists like Derek Bailey, Evan Parker and Paul Rogers, Firm, and Laurie Scott Baker.
Muir’s passing only a couple months after the demise of the band’s co-founding member Peter Sinfield. Longtime King Crimson drummer Invoice Bruford, who’d performed with the late percussionist again within the day, confirmed Muir’s demise in a press release.
“Jamie was the drummer/percussionist with whom I labored on the King Crimson album Larks’ Tongues in Aspic (1973). He had a volcanic impact on me, professionally and personally, within the temporary time we had been collectively a few years in the past – an impact which I nonetheless keep in mind half a century later. I’m sorry we misplaced contact, however his departure from our working relationship was so sudden and sudden, I kind of assumed he didn’t need something extra to do with me and my colleagues in King Crimson!
“He was a beautiful, inventive man, childlike in his gentleness. There was most likely a darkish aspect beneath. It could possibly be be glimpsed as he climbed the PA stacks in a wolf’s fur jacket, blood (from a capsule) pouring from his mouth, on a wet Thursday evening in Preston, Lancs., to hurl chains throughout the stage at his drumkit. Certainly one of these Robert Fripp will inform you, solely narrowly missed him.
“His conversations with Jon Anderson at my 1973 marriage ceremony celebration, in Jon’s phrases, ‘modified my life’. Jamie additionally modified mine.
“I think about it a privilege to have recognized, and benefitted from the corporate of, a person of such quiet energy, even briefly. He struck me as a kind of about whom one would possibly honestly say he was an attractive human being. He can be a lot missed. Goodbye, Jamie.”
We at MetalSucks wish to supply our condolences to Muir’s buddies and family members throughout this troublesome time.