Jeremy Stacey has been talking about his career and the challenges of joining King Crimson. If you think coming in and learning those complex drumming parts might be difficult, then spare a thought for Jeremy who not only had to get his head around the drums but the keyboards as well...
The keyboards were difficult to start with because I used Bill Rieflin’s keyboard rig originally (I have my own rig now). Getting used to his sounds and the way he patched things took a while. All that stuff was just as much of a learning curve as learning the music. Ok, I have to press this foot pedal down, press this button, change the reverb on this and now play the part for four bars and then go back to the kit. It was a bit of a nightmare to learn – but like anything, once you learn it, you’ve got it. Now I could probably do it pretty much on automatic – even though I totally object to being on automatic.
