I won't lie, that's a cool piece of music. Thanks, dudes.

I am thinking I am literally the only guy who owns a Stick who never really listened to King Crimson before.

I have to admit when "Discipline" first came out I was addicted to it. But it really didn't draw me to the Stick. It wasn't until we had no bass player and I was the only guitarist at my church that I started looking at it.

But I have to say after watching "The Stick Men" live, I can't believe I don't have any of Tony's work in my music collection (I will fix this now)!
He comes from a totally different perspective on Stick than what I would call "mainstream" players. Watching and hearing him in a live scenario was really over the top! Markus on Touch Guitar is also a whole nother universe his lead lines were amazing, he was also using his "Acoustic" model. Clean sounds were amazing on that thing.

+1. Coming from the guitar, I fell into the tapping world by way of Stanley Jordan. At that time, I had never heard of King Crimson, Tony Levin, the Chapman Stick, or Emmett himself. In 1994, I saw an ad for the Stick in a guitar mag, and thus began the magnificent obsession. I was a broke kid working crappy jobs, so my father did me the greatest kindness ever by buying me my first Stick, ironwood #745.

While waiting for the instrument, I bought some Stick CDs through SE so I could hear examples of its potential. The King Crimson album "Thrak" was among them. Stylistically, it wasn't exactly my cup of tea, but the things Tony and Trey were pulling off on their Sticks was just amazing. The album a!so yielded one of the most beautiful songs I'd ever heard; the ethereal, Orbison-esque "Walking on Air." Good memories.

Yeah, I'm older. I was into Crimson WAY before the Stick. Like I said previously, even though i was into the many incarnations, the Bruford, Cross, Fripp, Muir, Wetton assemblage took the top of my head off. Total muscular elecytric improvisation. Oh, and the live compilation of this brutal band (minus Muir) is called The Great Deceiver. John Wetton pushed the amplified bass to the limits during this period in my opinion.