Former King Crimson percussionist Jamie Muir has died at 82 years outdated. Muir performed on (and has writing credit on) King Crimson‘s 1973 album Larks’ Tongues in Aspic. Muir left the band in 1973 and went on to play percussion intermittently on albums by Derek Bailey, Evan Parker and Paul Rogers, Firm, and Laurie Scott Baker.
Muir‘s dying was confirmed by long-time King Crimson drummer Invoice Bruford, who wrote the next:
“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 transient time we had been collectively a few years in the past – an impact which I nonetheless bear in mind half a century later. I am sorry we misplaced contact, however his departure from our working relationship was so sudden and surprising, I kind of assumed he did not 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 in all probability a darkish aspect beneath. It might 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. One in every of these Robert Fripp will inform you, solely narrowly missed him.
“His conversations with Jon Anderson at my 1973 marriage ceremony occasion, in Jon‘s phrases, ‘modified my life’. Jamie additionally modified mine.
“I take into account it a privilege to have identified, 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 a ravishing human being. He shall be a lot missed. Goodbye, Jamie.”
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