King Crimson - Fracture
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FRACTURE
(Fripp)
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David Cross: Violin, Viola, Keyboards
Robert Fripp: Guitar, Mellotron, Devices
John Wetton: Bass and Voice
William Bruford: Percussives
Produced by King Crimson at AIR Studios, London. January 1974.
Acoustic Co-ordinator: George Chkiantz
Assistant Engineer: Peter Henderson
Cover Design by Tom Phillips
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#RobertFripp
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The devil went down to Dorset, looking for a soul to steal, he saw Robert Fripp sitting on a hickory stump and fled back to hell.
Jimi said Crimson was the best band in the world. :)
Can I steal your quote pls. ?
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One i died and found myself at a wonderfull beach füll of beautyfull women cheering.
Beides at a Wall through a hole
I saw people burning and screaming in torture.
A Man i found sitzing in an armchair enjoying a Cocktail and a cigar.
He was horned and had a Spikes tail.
I asked ; Sorry are You the devil?
Ye.
Is this hell ?
Ye.
Those people behind the Wall ?
What for Grafen,s Sake they do?
Ahh...These are catholics and Corona Vaccine Chicken.
They want IT Like that.
Well, MerkinMuffy : don't you know Zappa's Titties'n'Beer, especially the live verson with Bozzio doing the devil?
It's called "Fracture" because that's what will happen to your fingers if you try to play it.
It's callled "Fracture" because it splits your life into two parts. Once you hear it you'll never hear music the same way ever again.
That's just one of the possible answers. 😊
It's called Fracture because it's meant to open your skull
Listen to John’s isolated bass track on this song! OMGOODNESS
Words could never adequately describe music like this!
Let's not forget Bill Bruford's breathtaking contribution in this song ! This drum set is a melody by itself, simply amazing.
Better in Crimson than Yes IMO.
Don’t forget John Wettons INSANE BASS!
It's percussion. The other dudes do the melody
@@johnhasso8908 doesnt mean he cant play melodically
Bill Bruford e' pazzesco ha uno stile tutto suo..e quando incomincia a viaggiare di contrattempi mi fa impazzire!
golly, this seems really easy to play on the guitar, maybe I'll learn it
Just practice and discipline. Nothing else.
(Mind you keep your wrists loose, keep your body relaxed.)
this guy tried it for 22 years:
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@@TheAxel65 that guy's why I made this comment
@@guidomotshagen7541 And remain seated at all times on a high stool.
@@steveclark3879
@Just Some Lurkerrr
not a barstool 😂
(But follow the examples of seating like among others Fripp and Clapton - or, of course, Fripp's "League of Crafty Guitarists". Or any good classical guitar player. Prince also performed best in the studio sitting on the right chair.)
(Bowie sometimes performed seated on a barstool, you can see and hear how that impacted his playing negatively.)
Thank God Bill had the sense to bail on Yes when he did. This could only have happened at this precise moment in time with this (very) particular band.
Plus Yes were, without knowing it, just cryng for a drummer like Alan White to propel the next steps in their development.
God for the life of me at 9:24 I can't stop thinking that it's the simpsons theme.
Oh god, you’re right
Lol I can hear it 😂
Matt Groening stole from King Crimson?!
D’oh!!
@@johnleeson6946it would be danny elfman but yes lol
@@kanyuphilmahar Chris Griffin wasn't happy that John Williams and his orchestra was killed in "Something, Something, Something Dark Side" and had to resort to Danny Elfman.
"It's a Dead Man's Party" from "Back to School"!!!!
Fripp displaying absolute mastery of guitar
Aloha great people whom have great music taste
Aloha to the ones that don't, too!
If there was ever a guy who thought out of the box, it is Fripp.
He made his own, new box
@@bobvilashomeagain1400 New standard tuning.
have a good day everyone with King Crimson's music!
When anyone is talking about artists having skills, artistry, integrity, d.i.y and honesty in the music world. No one comes remotely close to Fripp, and it has nothing to do with competition. There's a reason Steve Vai and Satriani said to book anything Fripp was working on as their G3 opening slot for their own tour. They realize that even with their skill level, there will always only be one Robert Fripp.
I'm not even that big a fan that listens to their music all the time, I'm just a guitarist that had to face the facts. King Crimson will always have some the most intricate music a band can play and still have it be fun even if it is super complex. Bruford looks like a happy kid playing with toys on stage, very important spirit needed as an ingredient to bring this type of art to life, live.
Well Andy Latimer is another mega skilled guitarist and musician...
@@Sebas_M_Kinoman Love Camel! Nice to see him still active.
@@Sebas_M_Kinoman Frank Zappa as well
This kind of an orchestral piece done in rock band format. I was 16 when this was released, a week previously l heard Larks Tongues for the first time and when l went to the record store to buy it this album had just been released. I bought both but didn't listen to Starless for a week. When l did my God! I got stoned put on my headphones and listened to it three times consecutively. Some 50 years later Fracture is still one of the finest pieces of prog rock ever composed.
7:40 is one of the most underrated parts of any King Crimson song. Fripp just enters in like a bulldozer with the distortion, making this sound like a cousin to the LTiA suite. Also Br00f Wh00ps.
great riff, sound better live with 73/74 line up
I always grin when the guitar comes in. Still sounds fresh after more than 40 years.
I fucking love
Br00f Wh00ps?
Absolutely. It transforms at that point. The power is immense. Even more so when at high volume in my van!
I still cannot get my head around how the hell Fripp plays this...the most amazing music of the 20th century...
its not really that hard
@@asloii_1749 said the guy who never attempted
@@asloii_1749 Right its extremely easy like smoke on the water. A beginner could learn this shit blindfolded while being repeatedly punched in the face.
@@peen897 No he couldn't you stooge
The greatest piece of musical composition of the 20th Century.
16 years later and still absolutely mind blowing. What an album.
? 1974
@@toshinokyokosenpai9239 watchu mean? its 1990
@@asloii_1749 then i see the future, in 5 years the last good KC album will come out XD
You mean 47 years later from the time you posted your comment. This track was recorded in 1974.
tf lol
Never learned how to play the guitar, but i bought an old guitar the other day so i can learn how to play this one song! Hopefully i’ll get it down pretty quick. Wish me luck!
😅😅😅😅
well well....
The Power. The Glory & The Majesty that IS King Crimson.
Quelle énergie invraisembable ! Je me rappelle avoir dansé comme un damné sur ces rythmes endiablés, surtout dans cette montée vers l'ultime jouissance, à la fin...
Ah yes, the track that made Fripp the Final Boss of guitar. And also the Br00f Wh00p song.
Br00f Wh00ps?
8:26
I'm so glad I discovered king crimson, even if it was through japanese cartoons, the sound is just so mmmm and I love it
If you’ve just started getting into progressive rock, then I recommend to you bands like Yes (they actually made the outro song for JoJo, “Roundabout”, and they have quite a few songs like it!)
I feel the same way. These pieces of art are slowly being forgotten about, so I’m so glad Araki is pushing the younger generation to go back and listen to these gems.
I started playing a fender bass because of John Wetton and these 3 King Crimson records. Fantastic!
Fripp played with legions of great musicians over the decades, but upon Wetton's passing, he said John was the best musician he ever played with ! I'm not surprised!
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I did not know Fripp said this.
But, I am not surprised, either.
Bruford's groove at 3:04 is so fucking hype, always gets me
gets me everytime too
Yanno I've never mentioned it before but it absolutely does slap
i could imagine all the funny expressions when he did that, this guy in his prime was a monster
Around 1983, a friend of my elder brother loaned him a mix tape, which had the song Moonchild on it. After I heard that, I went to the record store, and bought the first king Crimson album I found on their shelves, Starless and Bible Black, without ever having heard it before. I got home and listened to it for the first time, absolutely stunned. It was the most powerful musical experience of my life, at that point-the first time I knew that there can be more to music than I found in the pop everyone had played around me throughout my youth. This is still one of my favorite albums, nearly 40 years later. A masterpiece.
Ahhh dont start talking about starless oh boy such a musical journey
Yeah, Starless & Bible Black got me at the same time. I was at a friend's house when his girlfriend put Starless & Bible Black on the turntable. We were all completely stoned. 38 years later, this album still thrills me like the first time I heard it.
You might as well be describing my introduction to King Crimson, around the same time, 1982- 1983-ish. I have been listening ever since.
Felt the same. This band, these musicians were playing in a disruptive way, taken from today, in the 80s! Their careers and solo also proved that.
You weren't wrong then, you're not wrong now. Peace and NOISE!
what a catchy tune, the melody has been stuck in my head for the past week.
I think I might take a day aside to learn this one. Seems like an easy little riff that I can show to my friends
Yeah . . .
22 years later…
@@lorenzodelforno28 nice refference
Okay but it sounds like a beginner could play this blindfolded behind their back while being repeatedly kicked in the nuts.
it's a nice campfire song
One of Classic Progs Greatest songs !!!! 🎶
What Prog truly is !!! 👍🎼
Fracture will be my epitaph
I would like this played at my wake.
As I Crawl, Red and Fallen Night
This song actually sounds like it's thinking, it's conscious. It ebbs and flows in magnificence and the virtuoso guitar playing is just Fripp testing limits. Awesome avant-garde progressive rock that is rarely achieved.
This is a song I really want to learn on guitar. But in all seriousness one of Crimson's best albums. This one, the one before it, and the one after it make up for IMO the best King Crimson we've ever had
This guy actually practiced Fracture for 22 years and even wrote a book about it:
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My favorite from this album is still Great Deceiver!!
Perfect Masterpiece 🎭👏🏼 🙋🏻♂️🇦🇷
Lyrics:
"Woo!"
I believe it was Bruford on that
IMO this may as well be the guitar equivalent of The Black Page, an extremely intricate and complex piece that calls for an inmense amount of training and precision from the performing musicians, and so haunting even the people intimately familiar with it still approach it with respect.
Always thrilling to listen to for the audience, too!
The black page is probably more of a conceptual feat of difficulty with the difficult nested tuplet rhythms while this is likely more of an athletic feat of musical difficulty with the semiquavers being sustained for minutes throughout the piece, but yeah both very daunting pieces.
@@sorcyboi2848 how can a semi quaver be sustained for many minutes? Isn't that basically a 16th note? Wouldn't the tempo have to be really slow?
Agreed. Also, Karn Evil 9 second impression by ELP or presto vivace and reprise by U.K comes to mind for prog keyboards, those two compositions are extremely demanding, and De Futura by Magma for bass.
The biggest compliment I can pay this track, is that I've heard it a thousand times and I still don't know how Frippy did it!
Insisto, King Crimson se adelantó a su época. Arte y creatividad en sus composiciones. Abrió la mente de mi generación.
no se adelantaron a nadie.. eran, son y serán así..en toda la historia de la musica moderna, de modernidad K.C. comen aparte
@@serranito1483 No voy a replicar a un experto, ja, ja, ja
un aficionado nada mas, desde mi adolescencia y tengo 63 años@@destellorosse9136
@@destellorosse9136 Esta formacion y estos 3 discos fueron diferentes. Tocados por el mismo Maestro Ivanovich G .
Bass and drums are insane. People don't often mention BB's drums here.... Masterpiece. One more Red Nightmare is usually mentioned. Or Heart of The Sunrise. Or some of his UK stuff. But this is astonishing. (And it was transcribed for his book "When in doubt, roll!")
Good to quote UK, for Wetton :)
If there is one album that is the high watermark of the avant-garde, then this is it. The musical equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, KC paints a landscape where all clocks have melted, logic has been transformed and has been deliberately obscured by apparent chance. Listening, what seems to be dissonance is in fact a dense sculpture, despite sometimes a few slobbery digressions, highly worked with polyrhythms and musical themes that agree with the absurd and playful poetry of these composers 🦨
Still just a shadow compared to Larks Tongues In Aspic.
Obra de arte total.
Trying to do this on a guitar makes you re-think what the word "difficult" is about.
@am end I can beat any dark souls without dying. I can't play Fracture without dying
@@marmota7615 year late but this comments gold
Gets better with every listen.
This is a phenomenal piece of music. I don't know if my neighbors shared my enthusiasm when they had to listen to "Starless and Bible Black" for the thousandth time. The analog version sounds great to this day.
The first time after the hearing, I had a headache. But when the next auditions followed, I couldn't free myself from the music. For me, one of the most important albums of rock music, and more.
Love this track, it's great. Everyone is awesome in here, but I'd like to highlight wetton, whose bass is just awesome on this track. I never tire of it.
8:26 for your High Sound Quality Br00f Wh00p needs
Br00f Wh00ps?
Bruford think😂
Even in Yours Is No Disgrace😂😂
Between Fracture.
King Crimson.
Black Page by Zappa.
Everyone else meaning Yes
Genesis so forth.
Go back to the Drawing Board.
Level Five.
How about Level 10.
Just Amazing.
I remember hearing this back in 74.
Blew my head off.
I am very confused by this comment but somehow I completely agree
Fracture is undoubtedly a copper-bottom masterpiece, alongside Starless and others of course. But regarding mastery, please don't forget The Magic Band of various eras - people whitter on about it being random noise - NO, they learnt it, played it, note perfect - different keys, time signatures, even tempos, at the same time. People still underestimate the sheer genius of it because it's true ensemble work that functions as a whole, not even considering The Captain. Still ridiculously underappreciated because of the "outsider" tag - but I'm still staggered by its sheer ambition. That is all
Black Page was great but if you really want your mind blown by Zappa, check out The Ocean Is The Ultimate Solution.
Nobody does it like KC does it. There's nothing quite like it in the music world until later when people started trying to imitate them. But no one is quite the same.
KC is more like a family than a band. It takes a special kind of person to be part of that family.
The blood runs gold.
Mahavishnu Orchestra Live 1972 was impressive as well.
@@oupahens9219 which song do you recommend of that band?
@@joaquinlezcano2372 All pieces from Inner Mounting Flame. They are not "Songs" as such.
Acho incrível como os caras convenceram os executivos da gravadora a gravar e lançar esse som. Hoje seria totalmente impossível…
John Wetton is a monster on bass
like i always said, my five 'qualities' that define my taste in music are, Heavy, Melodic, Progressive, Dark, Scary... this one song alone, in the vastness & varations of KC arrangements, captured those elements in the moments of my youth, from 1969 as a 10 year old, my minds blown for the next five years till RED... nothing else compares Rp
David Cross, Robert Fripp, John Wetton and Mr. Bill Bruford...one of the best line-up of KC.!!
Since my youth! Never forgot this disc! Marvelous, completely ahead of its time!
Oooooooooooooohhh! Fracture of time! Fracture of rhythm!
imagine i grew up with this music and still it's the best i've ever enjoyed making everything right to the point
This version always gets my heart racing. Phenomenal.
bought this record 40 years ago to learn fracture. Had to learn it. thought i was pretty good. still can't play it. The Fripp tuning destroys me. I give up. It can't be done. GO Robert Go!
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Buford is f'in crazy
Timeless brilliance.
🎶 incredible track 🎶
Espectacular...! Saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷.
Incredible stuff, and my favorite KC lp. It just edges out LTIA. The second half of this song freeks my Jack Russell out.
for me too
Holy moly this song is good
una joya sónica!!
br00f wh00ps, 8:26 is the pr00f
Br00f in this show be like: Guys, I'm gonna wh00p. Don't stop me. (WOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!)
it's insulting to describe it as g00f? because i think so. don't believe i'm trying to make a sp00f out of br00f, everyone is a bit crazy in the inside. wh00ps are healthy and fun, this case is indeed pr00f.
Fractures the mind!
I look back and cannot believe that this was what I was listening to when I was 10. Wow! Fracture is my favorite song from this album
Fracture is pretty near my favorite from anyone. Hard to choose just one song from a lifetime of listening, but Fracture will always be in the conversation.
After almost fifty years I listen to it again, always infinitely fantastic.
fingerli... fingerbreakin' good
My first listen. AMAZING!!! Loved the first album and then lost track after the second album. I’ll have to go back and see what o might have missed. Sigh… So much music, so little time…
A masterpiece!
Этот замечательный альбом становится ещё лучше, если track 3 переставить в начало. Что я и делаю уже 30 лет.)
I was in then my mid twenties when I heard and bought this, their seventh release. All i can say is they never ceased to impress me. Sure, some of their works weren't especially noteworthy, but when I was doing doobs and this song started I was intrigued. When they blasted my ears through my headphones at point 7:40, I was blown away with a vision of a juggernaut . To this day I still repeat that vision. I can't understand why soundtrack artists never picked up this for any type of sci fi movie with huge powerful beasts or machinery.
I was listening to this for the first time around 24 February of this catastrophic year so forgive me for associating this point in Fracture with Russian tanks invading Ukraine...
You can hear the excitement at 8:26. John Wetton, probably?
Bill brufford
YT only permits me to 👍🏻 this once. Hey-ho 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This is a masterpiece, period🤘🤘🤘.
Sounds good thanks💕
Good Stuff
perfect combination of LTiA and Red
Love You deep King Crimson 🙏
amazing song, amazing album
i mean br00f wh00p
Nothing can ever compare
that "woo" never sounded better
Énorme ce titre j'aime bien jouer l'air d'oreille à la guitare awesome
S'il y a un album qui soit le filigrane élevé de l'avant-garde, alors c'est celui-ci. L'équivalent musical d'une peinture de Salvador Dali, KC peint un paysage où toutes les horloges ont fondues, la logique s'est transformée et a été délibérément obscurcie par le hasard apparent. A l’écoute, ce qui semble être dissonances est en fait une sculpture dense, malgré parfois quelques digressions baveuses, hautement travaillée de polyrythmies et de thèmes musicaux qui s'accordent avec la poésie absurde et ludique de ces compositeurs
It took me a long time to figure out what visual image or story went with this tune; I now think that this is what it sounded like when Cain killed Abel.
7:41 is the precise moment Tool was born.
I don't think it was on the Worcester FM station... Maybe the U.Mass or RPI station... Late at night. After almost 50 years, it still gets the blood surging.
I used to listen to WRPI.
“If you’ve heard it before, you won’t hear it here.”
@frankhoulihanfh4972 During the FM era, as you traveled west on Route 9, you could listen to the Worcester station until you were well past the Cummington/Windsor line: at which point WRPI became increasingly clear and was very clear by the time you got to Windsor Center.
During the day, in the AM era, it was WBZ until you got to about the Whale Inn, in Goshen and WPTR (Albany) and WTRY (Troy) from there until the sources, in NY State.
At night, it was pretty much WKBW from Freedonia, NY, all the way to the Cape. West of about Freedonia, it was a God Awful station from Chicago.
We should be putting a disc or record on our latest spacecraft, as we did with Voyager so many years ago, and put albums such as this KC effort "out there" for the benefit of whomever we think could possibly be listening.. Music like this is, after all, philosophical, or even just good listening, to creatures all over the universe. The engineers and thinkers at places like NASA don't think like that, at least regularly.
A Monster.
素晴らしい
Goooood!
Musica classica fatta con strumenti rock. Opera d arte.
最高だ…
My favorite part is what sounds like John Wetton shouting at 8:26
its bruford!
based
Possibly redpilled
@@elon_bust nope starless and bible black pilled
Guys, whatever you do do not try to play Fracture on guitar. Worst mistake of my life
even the main riff in first part is hard?
@@igorrodrigues97. The power chords in between the first part and the "insane" part is about the only "easy" part of the tune. Everything else ranges from medium hard to insanely hard.
4:00 i don't even want to think about the tabs only by hearing this.
@@igorrodrigues97. It's playable until the power chords, as the other dude said. Everything past that is insane
As an update, I got the first part up to the "moto perpetuo" down pretty well, so that part is definitely doable. I can actually do the "moto perpetuo" part slowly to some extent, but try as I might, I can't get it up to speed to save my life.
Inarrivabile per chiunque altro. E io adoro Steve Howe, ma qui non ce n'è per nessuno...
8:39 the bass tho
Live, this is great.
At home it misses atmosphere.
Just crank it up more! Perhaps you don’t have the required decibel level.
whoop
The high art/low art divide is pure fiction.
Tendinitis the song
William Burford, then.
this is insane