Giles, Giles & Fripp

Giles, Giles & Fripp -- whose name always sounded more like an accounting firm than a rock group -- only existed for a little more than 15 months. They never got to play a single live performance under their own name, never charted a single anywhere in the world, and were so obscure in their own time and their own country that the one album that they recorded for English Decca Records' Deram label sold fewer than 1000 copies. But out of that trio grew the band that became King Crimson. Drummer Michael Giles and his bassist brother Peter Giles were veterans of the rock scene ...