King Crimson Proofs

I'm reading Realist Magic proofs and listening to King Crimson.

A little known fact about "Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part I" is that it's my father playing the violin solo. He was brought in because Cross couldn't quite nail it. He got a "string arrangement" fee in exchange for not being credited on the album. I think he enjoyed himself doing it.

It's easy to tell it's my dad, for me—the Vaughan Williams like quality, and the way he riffs on the fifth chords about half way through: I used to hear that stuff around breakfast time when I was on holiday or on a weekend, about five years old, which was when he was recording it...