King Crimson - Dinosaur (Live At The Warfield Theatre, San Francisco, 1995)
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To stand up in front of thousands of rock fans and call yourself a dinosaur is bound to be a risky business. By 1995, progressive rock was viewed with great suspicion by both critics and Commentariat, seen as bloated, pompous and preening - barely able to walk, like a dinosaur on the verge of extinction. If you call your song ‘Dinosaur’, you’d better be good with irony and making sure the listener gets it. I winced when I heard the plan, and gave it a low estimate of success. Actually, I thought we’d be murdered.
I needn’t have worried. Happily, Belew’s masterful lyric is full of self-deprecating, deeply ironic humour (just like an honorary Brit), but at the same time painfully honest:
“Ignorance has always been something I excel in
followed by naiveté and pride
doesn’t take a scientist to see how
any clever predator could have a piece of me
standing in the sun, idiot savant,
somet
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