Frippertronics-era Robert Fripp: Let's Discuss

jfc

Not sure if I've read anywhere about nauseating tweeness being a side-effect of self-isolation?

oh cmon these are completely endearing.

Er, OK?

they are saved by humor imo

listening to that Kitchen recording from Feb 1978, so freakin good

i dunno I don't begrudge anyone their manner of trying to bring some brightness into the current situation, particularly someone who has the reputation of being as self-serious as Fripp.

Some italian guy took huge offence to these and Fripp reposted all his rants on FB last week.

Fripp reposted all his rants on FB last week.

I'd say the dancing is for everyone else's enjoyment but the reposting was for his.

they are saved by humor imo

What humour? I suspect tolerance for this sort of middle class English whimsicality is a bit lower this side of the pond.

!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM9svvfhLxc

<3 what a joy, thanks for posting!

Amazing :D

Hostage video vibes there

Possibly in standard tuning, too, so yeah, clearly being held prisoner.

It's definitely not in standard! Look at his fingers during the bassline in the verse and pick out the notes he's playing: the 6th string is tuned to a low C and the 5th is tuned down to G. Lol at the fingerings he uses to play the power chords.

I believe that's Fripp's New Standard Tuning.

"How can I make 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' hard to play?"

Yeah, actually, it did seem a bit weird looking to me. His New Standard is ... cello tuning?

C-G-D-A-E-G from the bottom.

It's the tuning that was taught in the Guitar Craft seminars. In his book, Eric Tamm describes how the students had to perform a new piece in public in this tuning. Tamm's composition was gentle, melodic and had a recurring C major chord, which made Fripp make retching sounds from the audience.

Will admit that using that tuning as a baseline standard seems kind of insane to me. Lol though that Fripp would object to someone writing a recurring C major chord in a tuning that spells out a C major pentatonic scale (with octave displacements natch).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khkKfMotNoI

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Lol at the stretches to play that in Guitar Craft tuning.

They did "Anarchy in the UK" in December as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEiNW4HmFPE

I love the idea that after decades of alternate tunings designed to make playing certain things easier, Fripp has devised and perfected the one alternate tuning designed to make everything harder.

Content warnings on the comments for that first video

lol I knew better than to look until your comment, so I looked, and some of those responses are as funny as they are predictable.

They, uh, don't seem to mind the response:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFaQExRwLUM

can't wait for the studies and papers on lockdown syndrome ;)

I like to imagine Anita Dobson coming down to breakfast, hurling that newspaper headline in the face of Brian May with a disgusted "fucking Toyah!"

Brian thinks back to the last slightly tipsy garden barbeque at the Fripp-Wilcoxes, and sighs with a thought of what could have been, then gets up and slowly potters off to catalogue his plectrums again....

one thing that quarantine has made very clear is that robert fripp fucks...a lot

"Ladies of the Road" already provided a hint.

ew

Great thread revive.

Oh! Oh!

firestarter!

(look it up yourself, it's NSFW)

Man oh man, I love Sundays...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWMY7TVzgcE

Fucking hell...

https://www.dgmlive.com/news/robert-fripp-exposures-32-discs-boxed-set-robert-fripp-studio-live-1977-1983

The long-awaited 32-disc boxed set of Robert Fripp in the studio and in concert 1977 - 1983 will be released on 27th May 2022. The set will feature many previously unreleased tracks, outtakes and rarities as well as numbers tracks becoming on CD for the first time.

Holy shit, I'm exhausted just trying to read the tracklisting.

I haven't gotten any of the monster-size KC boxes, but I'll probably be getting this.

Yeah holy fuck, I think this is kind of a mandatory purchase.

dear god

WmC I will happily trade you 32 CDRs of your choice for rips/files if/when you get this

Don't know if this is "the writing project" as mentioned by RF over the years, but https://dgmlive.com/news/the-guitar-circle-book-by-rf

The long-awaited first book from Robert Fripp - 'The Guitar Circle' - collects much of RF's writing about Guitar Craft, as well as his unique approach to guitar playing, collaborating and personal development.

Presented in a limited edition first print hardcover format (and printed on high-end Italian Fedrigoni paper), the book is due to be published on September 1st 2022 by Panegyric Publishing.

This is the first in a series of books to include The DGM Diaries, Crimson Chronicles and membership of King Crimson (1969-2021) and personal commentary on living in New York during and after the recording of Exposure at a point in the late 1970s when New York was the fulcrum of a wider cultural rebirth.

The book will be available via Burning Shed and other major online bookstores from September 1st. Click here to pre-order.
(For U.S. customers, the book will be available to pre-order via Inner Knot soon.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAmC8VRxC1g

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— tarotplane (@tarotplane_) February 9, 2023