Sometime prior to 2019, King Crimson guitarist/co-founder/dictator Robert Fripp approached director/former MTV host Toby Amies to chronicle the band’s 50th anniversary.
Amies follows them on their 2018/2019 tour, yacking with nearly every member of the current band and scoring interviews with various former members. He avoids the “and then this record happened” format entirely. Then again, it doesn’t help that several members, mostly men about 15 or so years younger, clearly have a paternal relationship with Fripp; these are musicians at the highest level of their craft who want nothing but an “attaboy” from a withholding father. This movie could have been calledTo hear several current and former subjects of the Crimson crown tell it, being in the band is and was an exhausting experience. Some seem to have dealt with it well , some not so well .