Robert Fripp

[aging_rocker]

Somebody had to say it...
Band name alert - "Sweater Puppies"

Also, regarding the Teletubbies, I partied many moons ago with a former Tinky Winky - top bloke.

 

[Kandinskyesque]

Also, regarding the Teletubbies, I partied many moons ago with a former Tinky Winky - top bloke.

Similar thing happened to my old keyboard player; he ended up deep in conversation at a party with a guy who played Bungle from Rainbow.
Top bloke also.
Maybe that's a prerequisite for those kinds of jobs.

 

[Happy Enchilada]

You know what OPINIONS are akin to, yes?
And everyone - including Frippsypoo - thinks theirs is the cutest.
Mine's just bony and butt ugly (pun intended).

 

[Happy Enchilada]

Similar thing happened to my old keyboard player; he ended up deep in conversation at a party with a guy who played Bungle from Rainbow.
Top bloke also.
Maybe that's a prerequisite for those kinds of jobs.

Still waiting for the Wiggles/Coldplay tour ...

 

[aging_rocker]

Still waiting for the Wiggles/Coldplay tour ...

That would destroy any credibility they may have left (The Wiggles, that is...)

 

[Colo Springs E]

I saw King Crimson in Germany at a music fest along the Rhein River in Germany 40 years ago.

Closest thing to annnoying, unmusical noise I’d ever heard in my life— before or since. Absolute garbage to my ears. No idea how anyone likes that stuff.

With Bowie and Talking Heads? Loved him.

 

[Endless Mike]

I like KC well enough and have seen them once. But is he just a massive Schwantz?

His Sunday Lunch things aren’t entertaining unless maybe you like old women with implants.

I follow him on FB but talk about tedious…

Robert Fripp, musically, and personally, is for certain types of people. As is anyone, really. I'm a Fripp sort of person. Musically, I *love* King Crimson, and most everything he's done; David Sylvian, Bowie, Eno, League of Crafty Guitarists. Saw him with LOCG in 90 or 91. Had a brief experience with him then, and found him to be funny, and very human.

Personally, I like what he does, and how he thinks. He makes perfect sense to me. He has a very philosophical, spiritual, subtle and nuanced way of seeing the world. I appreciate it greatly. He also has a healthy sense of humor and doesn't take himself seriously (see the "Sunday Lunch" series). He had an experience in 1973 that he said "blew the top of his head off" and changed him forever. Because of this, he ended KC and went to Sherborne House for just over a year to try to make sense of it, and integrate it. I too had an experience almost exactly like that, which forever upended my life, changed everything irrevocably. Completely undid the fabric of how I saw and understood the world. So I understand Fripp on that level as well.

He seems to be one of the most misunderstood public figures, possibly ever. Here's a guy Bill Bruford will bellyache about into eternity. Can you hear Bruford in the void, whining?* Others disagree. Yet everyone in KC is paid equally, even if all they contribute is silence, as Fripp once put it. He gives KC band members utter freedom to contribute, which was an issue for Bruford, as he said he was waiting to be told what to play. Fripp had said, if he needed to tell someone what to play, why are they working together? He has done a great deal to try to see to it that musicians are paid fairly for their work. I've worked for bandleaders that could learn a thing or two from Fripp. His most recent vocalist/2nd guitarist has said he found Fripp wonderful to work for.

Fripp is probably akin to Citizen Kane, Roshomon or an Rorshach ink blot. What someone sees is entirely dependent on the person viewing him, them or it. How terribly quantum of Robert, now, don't you think?

*I happen to like Bruford a lot as well. Seems like a good sort.

 

[grandstick]

Robert Fripp, musically, and personally, is for certain types of people. As is anyone, really. I'm a Fripp sort of person. Musically, I *love* King Crimson, and most everything he's done; David Sylvian, Bowie, Eno, League of Crafty Guitarists. Saw him with LOCG in 90 or 91. Had a brief experience with him then, and found him to be funny, and very human.

Personally, I like what he does, and how he thinks. He makes perfect sense to me. He has a very philosophical, spiritual, subtle and nuanced way of seeing the world. I appreciate it greatly.

I am along the same lines as you, Mike. He must have caught my attention at just the right time in my life; his philosophy towards music, and living in general, lined up with where I was at that time.

When I pick up a guitar, chances are pretty good that you will a Fripp lick emit from it (or something Fripp-ish/Belew-ish). I honestly couldn't play you a Clapton lick if my life depended on it.

 

[Endless Mike]

I am along the same lines as you, Mike. He must have caught my attention at just the right time in my life; his philosophy towards music, and living in general, lined up with where I was at that time.

When I pick up a guitar, chances are pretty good that you will a Fripp lick emit from it (or something Fripp-ish/Belew-ish). I honestly couldn't play you a Clapton lick if my life depended on it.

While I was a *HUGE* Fripp and Belew fan in the 80s and 90s, it manifests more as sounds and noises for me. Or to try to make a guitar sound like something other than guitar. Having said that, I later became a big Robben Ford, Larry Carlton and Gilmour fan. So blues-oid sounds can be made to come from the guitars I play. I was even the guitar player in the house band at a blues club for a year. But that's not where my heart is. I default to David Torn, Andy Summers, Alex Lifeson, Bill Frisell and the guitar synth sounds of Fripp and Belew.

For years, Fripp's tendency to refer to people as characters went right past me. Then there was this *huge* shift, everything was different, and I finally *got* what he was pointing to. He's quite Zen, when it comes down to it.