The perception of the audience is the interesting part. If the audience doesn't hear what is going on, is it going on or not?
So, you can set up an orchestra down this end of the railway station playing one particular area, and simultaneously at the other end something completely different going on. And in the middle they meet, or not, depending.
Now, if King Crimson accepts responsibility for innovating its own tradition, you can't accept responsibility for the audience. And there is an enormous tangible weight of expectation, which comes from an audience attending a King Crimson concert.
Music can be transformative, utterly transformative. The act of music is utterly transformative.
There are no mistakes, save one: the failure to learn from a mistake.