Legendary drummer/percussionist, Jamie Muir, has died. Muir performed on one album, “Lark’s Tongue in Aspic” (1972) with King Crimson and accompanied them on the road before pulling up his stakes and heading for a more spiritual existence. After joining a monastery, he would retire from music but reappear to play and perform again in the 1980’s.

It was while supporting Crimson that Muir created his unique image as a prowling, stage stalking percussionist and drummer alongside Bill Bruford. Muir utilized bird whistles, gongs, slabs of metal and bells to accentuate King Crimson’s sound. Muir would climb up amp stacks and strike his sheet metal and gongs oftentimes with a heavy chain. Another one of Muir’s tricks was to use stage prop blood capsules that he would chomp down on and then spit out the contents. Wow! A lunatic that Ozzy Osbourne could admire.

We celebrate this unique madman!