Robert Fripp circa 1979 FRIPPERTRONICS
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2010
- Christians should celebrate brilliance as sparks emanating from the "imago dei" (the image of God) in people regardless of where they are found. Of course, this doesn't include sparks that tie themselves to vain/defiled/satanic reasonings or imagery. Far too many Christians excuse things that celebrate the very sins that our LORD died to defeat simply because they have some "redemptive" aspect that falls into the Philippians 4:8 rubric of having, for example, excellence of technique. Pretty or candy-coated poison remains poison and should be eschewed. .
But on the other side of the coin, just because something isn't overtly "Christian" or is created by a non-Christian or even an anti-Christian (not to say anything about Robert Fripp's personal beliefs -- of which we have no idea) doesn't mean that we shouldn't enjoy or even celebrate it. Quite the contrary, not only are we unnecessarily denying ourselves some of the proper joys this world has to offer -- we cut ourselves off from a world that the LORD would have us interact with to, among other things, seek to understand, love and win.
So while it might not be your cup of tea, Robert Fripp is ours. Good stuff, son of Adam. - Розваги
"When a guitarist plays a really good blues solo, it sounds like a person crying. When Robert plays a solo, it sounds like the universe crying."- Daryl Hall
That’s a great quote made 1000xs better by the source. I’ve gotta give Hall and Oates a deeper listen.
Fripp produced Hall’s first solo album and Hall sang on Fripp’s Exposure. There was talk of putting a proper band together but it never happened.
@@cobrastriesand7693 Try North Star, if you haven't already, with Hall singing and Fripp playing.
@@hoover728 That "it is the way that it is" song Hall sang on still stings in the memory. It was so brilliantly simple yet stunning -- a rare combination that it would seem impossible to pull off unless you were dealing with more than one genius -- and you were.
Sounds like shit
Criminally underrated and underappreciated guitarist!
Robert Fripp's playing sounds really modern despite the fact that it was recorded in the 70's!
I think he was just so ahead of his time back then!
Mr. Fripp is the "Yoda" of the electric guitar in so many ways. His playing is effortless, and he has amazing technique and creativity. Intellectually, there are very few people that have his ability to describe something in a way that you have never heard of and that translates into his relationship with MusiKC. His interaction with this spiritual element that man calls "music" is why I consider him to be a genius.
Do or do not there is no try
It's effortless because there is hardly any technique..
Damn that was well said.
@@SixStringSlinger1🤓🤓🤓
It seems impossible to realise that this is the same guy who is married to Toyah Wilcox and regularly make videos of the two of them having fun at home during lockdown and Sunday lunch. Just absolutely incredible. Toyah has one of the greatest music teachers on the planet in her own home.
Fripp...r.i.p..
Robert - intellectual and mystic - the antithesis of a rock star.
Yes. One of the most honest musicians in the entire history of music
The best advice I ever got as a guitar player was from him.
@@charmicarmicat2981 What advice was it?
Esteban Blasco Trasobares it was something Adam Jones quoted Fripp saying to him when they were hanging out. It was like a Rolling Stone article or something interview with Jones asking him about his favorite guitar players. But anyway, it was something along the lines of “Your gear doesn’t matter, your tone doesn’t matter, it’s all about attitude and how you wield the instrument.” I’m heavily paraphrasing but it was something like that
No kidding dude, it feels weird calling him a rock star really.
His guitar tone is so unique. Truly a amazing guitarist
What does Pot of Greed do again?
And yes, hes one of my favorites of all time
Robert Fripp usually does orchestral type of music and in his early stages did a unique type of rock...................but this, this isn't music it is more like physical poetry and it is BEAUTIFUL. Never knew he had such a soulful tone to the guitar! It is heart screaming! Like he is pouring a bucket of his soul onto his guitar.
That tone is a Guild Foxey Lady based on the triangle Big Muff Pi playing with the neck pickup. Ehx has reissued the triangle big muff.
his tone has always brought tears to my eyes. so fucking good...
@@JsRf13 His work with Bowie and Eno is pretty cool too.
Lovely comment
I have one of those Big Muffs. It needs the battery rewired. My smaller one too. I have an old Electro-Hamonix Microsynthesizer that needs a brain chip. You can all those tone with those 3 pedals.
I remember seeing this tour in a little club in Ann Arbor, Michigan, called The Second Chance. Fripp was handing out lapel buttons that read 'the drive to 1981'. During the performance we were in complete darkness. The only light on Robert was from the VU meters on his tape decks. The speakers surrounded us from behind. We were totally enveloped in sound with no visual distractions. I was so lucky to be able to experience this demonstration of frippertronics that added such a unique sound to experimental and alternative music.
I saw him at a record store that a friend of mine worked at in North Riverside, IL on his Frippertronics tour. I lost my button a long time ago... matching set 'Drive to 1981' and 'Robert Fripp' signature.
I saw Robert’s show at the Kitchen in Manhattan way back when in 78... I don’t know how I got in, I was 16 at the time lol. He greeted all of us in line, shook our hands, I thanked him for all he had contributed towards the building of my young ears’ capacity to appreciate new, phenomenal and groundbreaking music... to see this after all these years brings a lump to my throat and a pause to my heart, truer beauty does not exist.
Wow
I’m from Rockford IL (home of Cheap Trick). Saw Mr. Fripp at Charlotte’s Web, a very small venue in the downtown area. He was doing Frippertronics. There was a line out the door. Fripp came out to speak to everyone in line. I asked him if he still spoke w David Cross. He said he was still around? Got in- saw the show, which was totally great in such a small, intimate setting. Also saw Bruford at the same venue.
Rick Beato.......do a "what makes this musician great" on Mr Fripp ! THIS is pushing the limits and boundaries of the electric guitar, and it was 1979 !
What a humble talented beautiful man..and he gave us every version of Crimson, just an amazing legacy
He's not humble lol.
@@ButterBallTheOpossum I was hoping he was, I knew he was either shy live, or a real dick. Considering how he treated many Crimso members, you are correct, he falls into the latter category. Too bad..gives the music a bad taste..
@@mppaiges Well, he’s actually not really a dick. He was very much a dick in his earlier days. But he grew humbler over times
love the duality of your comments pffttt what a dick joke
@@ButterBallTheOpossum Yeah he’d probably admit it as well
I love how Robert pretends to be human when we all know he's an alien from planet Fripptoria who came for world domination
Oh if only the world could be dominated by one such as Fripp.
But changed his mind when he discovered the guitar.
Is it true what I read in an article 15-20 years ago that Robert has a very very low level of authism????
@@christianreyes4893 no probably not.
Too funny!
My God! I’m 59 and have never heard this. And I’m a guitar player.
Starless?
It's never too late for new explorations in the vast universe of sound and sonics. I'll think you'll love the record Fripp did with David Sylvian. Highly recommended. Enjoy :)
Where have you been .
@@nichttuntun3364 excellent choice.
Also, Fripp and Eno collaborations.
Evening star (side 1) by Fripp and Eno. It will set you free
It's hard to put a category on an artist like Robert Fripp, other than to say he's unique and amazing.
His playing is so beautiful. Tears just poured down my face listening to him.
His guitar tone is from the heavens :)
..pure meditation...😞🥴😞...
Nowadays we have loopers, Reason and all sorts of wonderful ways to make music like this
But to even contemplate such a thing, and then to take massive risks with coming up with the setup that Robert Fripp did here...well, it’s otherworldly!
If you listen to many of the loops on the Exposures boxset, you may come to realize just how humbling an experience it must have been to literally be a one man stage show in terms of musician, composer and engineer while people angrily walked away. Just the tape stretching issue alone must have been fun when it did occur.
loopers wouldnt exist without this
I cry when he plays, and my soul flies.
This is absolutely insane. The guitar isn't an instrument anymore, more like an extension of his soul
Lol cheesy
@@Two_Seat_Pete_FatA55 Cheesy and crackers
Fripp was definitely one of the originators of prog rock. It is great that he is still touring with KC.
@@humanman2358 At the time of the post, he was.
But now King Crimson have moved into silence..
@@kevinmulrooney3353 Not really. As long as a group's songs are available for people to hear, the music never dies. Here's one of mine for you, Kevin: ua-cam.com/video/VeP2dardrFc/v-deo.html. It is doing well internationally right now. There is a good reason why. Take care.
Gwyn, I have listened to that track you sent me the link to. Definitely not radio friendly and as a result.. brilliant. Love it
@kevinmulrooney3353 A new project/variant called Beat is on the horizon... Belew, Levin, Stevie Vai and the drummer from Tool (can't think of his name) playing KC
Late 70's I witnessed a performance of Fripp's Frippertronics in the Tower Records store on Ashby Ave in Berkeley California . . . very impressive! Just a man, a Les Paul Custom guitar and two Revox reel to reel tape recorders.
If you're reading the comments as you're listening, please note that at 3:46 the performance ends and there is a terrible ending (jingle?) so yeah. maybe be careful with that. it was very jarring after such peaceful three minutes.
Hallo there! Ravel's Bolero, After growing chorus After chorus reaches his acme and suddenly collapses on itself like Building that falls. Coming to Fripp, knowing Better his style and way of thinking at that times wouldn't find strange that closing in contrast with preeceding calm, that closing Is pure Fripp
I saw him do his Frippertronics in the early 80s at university. Amazing
Music from a highly developed mind. I think what makes this so astounding, is that it's technologically remarkable, certainly for it's time, but his mastery of this set-up allows him to continually adapt to what will _soon come through the looping feedback_ and play in an expressive, emotional way to make it work.
Two absolute greats together - well sort of. That liquid guitar sound of Robert Fripp's is marvellous. I can truly say that he is my favourite guitarist . Not just for his skill, but for the way he has transformed the sound of the electric guitar. If there was only one guitar player in the world with whom I could spend a morning with, and just watch and learn from, then he would be the one!
For real dude
The only other in my book would be John McLaughlin. Imagine the 2 of them with levin on bass and someone like Steve Gaad on drums...
@@Creed_fan_69 can’t go with McLaughlin sorry.He was very fast creating a lot of notes but was it ever nice to listen to for more than one track. Melody and sound are as important as speed. Saw Mahavushnu live in 76 .....Jean Luc Ponty was brilliant
@Music Suladze Really no need to shit on one in order to praise the other. This isn’t a competitive linear thing, and Fripp contributes his own unique music. He and McLaughlin are very distinct.
@@musicsuladze4772??
Why the need to shit on Robert Fripp?
I'd like to dedicate this to my fràther The passed away one year after this came he passed away and I know he would loved it as i do. Thanks dad¡!!¡
I really liked Robert Fripp during the late 70s and early 80s, he had so many different facets but of course no matter what style he played, you could recognize his singing guitar tone and precise technique.
I attended a Frippertronics demo Robert did at a small auditorium in Winnipeg. Every guitarist and musician in town was there as well as all the KC fans. Robert, two Revox tape decks, a guitar and it was magic.
I saw this when it aired on The Midnight Special in the pre-MTV years. I made sure to follow what Robert Fripp was doing ever since then, and I have never been disappointed.
Speechless and full of emotion
I love the way he hides his antennas , just the way Holdsworth did...
hahahaha
hahaha
"Thank you, Rick James.."...They left that part out.
After the "Big Bang" there are possibility's enough to play and learn on guitar such unique music.
Thanks Robert.
Hearing Frippertronics for the first time and then finding out how it was achieved was mind-blowing.
This guy is a guitar God! 😎👍🏾🎸🔥🔥🔥
Most guitar gods express their music as an explosion, this gentleman expresses his as a high intensity focused laser. I suspect that this music is the language that Quasars use to talk to each other.
Though Mr Fripp has been a magician master. I knew that Frippertonic it was just a project, appearing in Exposure, out of King Crimsom
Then I bought a serie of masterpieces, five or six landscapes, in solitude where I earned that these landscapes were really the fripppertronics, which produced along several years. I deep admire this
genius, and his works with Brian Eno... This theme remember me the reiterate "Starless" what made another work with David Cross called Starless again... But I think the Frippertonics soundscapes serie was really Frippertonics... This I don't know as so. Pardon for my bad English. I'm a world's citizen....
I doubt Mr. Fripp was the slightest bit interested in anyone's religious ramblings when he played this piece.
He is not an atheist but interested in stuff you wouldnt understand
I concur
@@callactm14 Stuff I wouldn't understand huh, typical reply from the intellectually challenged. Why do you always use the same quips? Oh, never mind, I know. And who said anything about atheism?
@@myearsloveit And you...try a little original thought. At least you could own something.
I didn’t hear anyone’s ramblings any more than their internal quietly held beliefs.
I produced one of his shows at a univ in 1982. I had no idea what he was doing.
Yup, he did this in Baltimore around that timeframe...we were astounded!
This is my first time hearing this and I was expecting some slow mainstream rock solo from the 70’s but dang I thought to myself “wow, what have I discovered?… 😮” after listening
The guitar mad scientist. Musical Einstein. Love this.
So glad I had the chance to see him 4 times at different stages of his brilliant music forever the MASTER ❤🙏 thank you !
The guy is simply amazing. And his Beautiful wife! Kudos, Mr. Fripp.
I can hear the mahogany in that Gibson Les Paul - a guitar named after two great guitar makers. RIP Orville & Les
I'm sorry, but you can't.
Completely spellbinding and unique. Floored.
What should be mentioned is, that also in 1979 Robert Fripp produced and played on The Roches eponymous debut album 'The Roches'. Listen to 'The Hammond Song' LP track for example, where you can clearly hear him playing Frippertronics to beautiful effect. While your at it listen to the whole album if you get a chance. He produced the whole album using no studio effects at all, at the sound is just beautiful. He also produced their beautiful 3rd album 'Keep On Doing' .
I agree Eric ... I can feel his presence while listening to this music too.
Fripps guitar tone is amazing. I feel so lucky to hear this work of experimental andbeautiful guitar
This is fantastic! Thank you for posting!
I saw Fripp at the Kitchen in NYC. In those days instead of tickets, you got cassettes of lectures by J. G. Bennett
This was extremely brave, so many potential hazards he avoided through courage and purity, and discipline, real musicians know
Eric Holmberg - I love that little write up you wrote on engaging a celebratory attitude toward a work of art that is inspiring (for all the right reasons), regardless of whether its author is Christian or not, or even anti-Christian.
The idea that all good artists carry within them a little spark of their Creator, is indeed inspiring.
And it's inspiring whether you are some kind of believer or not, indeed...
Credit where it's due - very few were doing anything like this back then. Now, looping and overdubbing live is an actual thing, worldwide!
Robert Fripp partly inspired the way I play guitar. I was always looking for something different; I was fed up with everybody playing the same riffs all the time! But men like Robert Fripp & Mark Knoppfler are brimming with talent and personality!
If you are interested in my mould-breaking music with digital "moving paintings," please head over to my channel!
I remember watching this at the time, 18 yrs old, enraptured.
That’s awesome dude.
A Groundbreaking, curious soul.
You can see why John Frusciante looks up to this guy
I thought he was mostly inspired by Allan Holdsworth
He's really unique and awesome.
"Thank You Very much Rick James. I'm Robert fripp and this is Frippertronics. I think this is a very Brave thing the producers of the show we're doing, since they have no real idea of what it is that i'm about to do, but dedicating this performance to the proposition of Hazard Neither do i, but if we did, maybe it wouldn't be Quite as Interesting."
The frippertronics concept was invented almost 50 years ago and still 50 years ahead of our time
Merci pour ce moment , ou l'art divin rencontre l'art de l'esprit , pour ce morceau magnifique
Man that tone. Good lord.
Saw him do this at an in-store (!) In the late, great Peaches record store in Fort Lauderdale. Amazing.
Thank you, Robert Fripp. Beautiful.
perfect!
Simply the Best ever.
¡Increíble Robert Fripp, por aventurarse en lo que hoy conocemos como looping!
Wow ... truly a musical journey !
Damn I've been lookin for this song for over 3 years now finally I found it time to light up a joint
Esteve vai también tomo inspiración de este gran guitarrista
If I close my eyes, I think of Mike Oldfield.
I saw that back in 79 in a club at Montreal. Some of my friend still do not understand what they saw that night.
the only rockstar that can rock a suit
Bowie?
@@ysalimirii I was certainly expecting some Bowie here... 😁👏👏
Brilliant guitar..
God save Fripp!
Wonderful though this is, it really appears to be Fripp playing lead over a tape of previously generated Frippertronics. Was hoping to see the actual creation, as that was such an original form of music.
This sounds like an elegy to me. Beautiful.
BEAUTIFUL
HE’S STANDING!!!!!!🤯
Simplemente Don Robert Fripp
¡Nada menos!
Unique sound.👍🏻
"A small mobile intelligent unit"...love it.
lol The video description is really funny. Oh, man. Anyway, cool stuff!
10 seconds in how does one not enjoy this he even said i do not know what im about to do lol this is the futre in the past thanks fripp
the OG shoegazer
Fripp is a stand alone guitarist
Those hammer trills are unreal.
All I can say is AMAZING 🤩
Fripp's mum described him as 'My curious child.'
Amazing ❤
I was at the 1975 - ish Fripp & Eno Victoria Plaza Concert with my mate, where we were astounded by the presentation only to be disappointed by the lack of any form of encore. Still wouldn't have missed it for the world! A truly unique experience.
No one ever owes an audience an encore. Selfish listening- everything fripp personally dislikes.
@@paulbatlan6584 there is an unspoken transaction between paid performer and paying audience. If anyone wants to practice their art in isolation - fine fill ya boots. But when you step on stage you need to remember where you ability to publicly show off comes from whether Robert Fripp likes it or not.
@@chrisvaughan159. Encores are not the part of the mandated performance - they are at the discretion of the artist. They are not owed every-time an artist steps on stage and to think otherwise is selfish and undermines the integrity of the artist/audience relationship that Fripp rails about. Especially in the context of an improvised collaboration between two artists like Fripp and Eno performing an electronic musical form that requires thought, time and setup to execute properly. This sort of hippie attitude led to melt downs at the Isle of White festival and bombastic and degrading artist audience as consumer vampiric relationship that led to Robert shutting down King Crimson in 1974 and going out on frippertronics tours as a small intelligent mobile unit. Last thing, thank god for punk rock that arose shortly after this performance and swept away smug hippy entitlement with 24 minute sets of one minute songs and no encores. That was a well deserved colonic.
@@paulbatlan6584 W
This sounds like some something my 3rd grade substitute history teacher would play for the class
Me: 👁👄👁
Very cool, you can tell that John Frusciante took a lot of tonal inspiration from Fripp. Mainly referring to JF’s last stint as a solo artist (2009?- rejoining RHCP)
Sounds just like him.
Psychedelic bliss😊
Te amo, Rob💖
This is a mash up of beautiful dreams
00:35 Boards of Canada before there ever was one! Wonderful manipulation of electronic ambient/downtempo/New Age music to almost jazz guitar!
Beautyful themes.
🖤🖤🖤
still love it!!
@Kevbox2008 somehow I find the statement that you posted that "you don't get it" sort of reassuring....keep tryng? is that good advice?
what‘s name this song， it is so amazing