Robert Fripp: The most beautiful guitar solo? |
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Gandalff
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Topic: Robert Fripp: The most beautiful guitar solo? Posted: September 24 2010 at 09:34 |
Which Fripp´s solo do you consider as the most beautiful? May not to be technically perfect, but simply the nicest for your ears.
(My favourite is the one from Sailor´s Tale...) Edited by Gandalff - September 24 2010 at 09:35 |
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel
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Ruby900
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 09:37 |
Book of Saturday
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harmonium.ro
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 10:25 |
For the moment it's this one: Evening Star The Essential Fripp & Eno , 1994
Edited by harmonium.ro - September 24 2010 at 10:25 |
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thellama73
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 10:35 |
My favorite is the one on I'll Come Running To Tie Your Shoe from Brian Eno's Another Green World. It's not the best song on the album, but the solo is amazing.
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 10:43 |
I love the last few seconds of the otherwise wretched Earthbound album where an unaccompanied Fripp plays just a few simple notes that never fail to raise the hair on the back of my neck.(Dunno)
Otherwise, his solos on the No Pussyfooting album with Eno are uniformly sublime. Similarly, the Sailors Tale represents a side to his playing never heard before or since to my ears. Not really a solo as such, but the hook on Starless is so beautiful it audibly aches.... |
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Triceratopsoil
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 12:34 |
Eno's "St. Elmo's Fire"
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WalterDigsTunes
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 12:38 |
David Sylvian's "Upon This Earth"
Robert Fripp and David Sylvian's "Bringing Down the Light" |
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Gandalff
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 12:57 |
Interesting, one could wait that the majority of suggestions will comes from King Crimson. The opposite is truth.
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Formentera Lady
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 13:09 |
King Crimson - The Night Watch, studio version, but also this live version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncgC7pDzcrQ |
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The Quiet One
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 17:26 |
Sailor's Tale guitar solo beautiful? Wow, people do have very different ears/tastes. I love that solo, but would never call it beautiful.
I would say Book of Saturday.
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jammun
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 17:38 |
I always liked the solo on The Night Watch. But now I'm going to have to go give another listen to those Eno albums...
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crimhead
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 18:02 |
That is a nice one. Edited by crimhead - September 24 2010 at 18:03 |
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ergaster
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 18:30 |
The one that comes at the end of Peter Gabriel's "White Shadow". One of Gabriel's best songs, and a sublime solo.
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jammun
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Posted: September 24 2010 at 23:17 |
Okay, listened to some Eno and some KC. Really, isn't something like The Night Watch just one continuous guitar solo? The shimmering guitar at the beginning, the harmonics then following, the melodic guitar accompanying the song proper, then the "solo", followed by the leslie guitar, followed by the eastern-influenced sound. It seems with Fripp there are "solos" proper, but they rarely tell the whole story.
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Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
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himtroy
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Posted: September 25 2010 at 00:03 |
His solo in Evening Star (the title track of the album). Starting at about 45 seconds he just makes the perfect choice of notes, and that tone is so soft....
His most beautiful solos are almost all from Fripp and Eno in my mind. Edited by himtroy - September 25 2010 at 00:03 |
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idoownu
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Posted: September 25 2010 at 01:00 |
Prince Ruperts Lament, right before the end of LIzard.
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Ruby900
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Posted: September 25 2010 at 03:42 |
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that. That is a belter. Beautiful though?? |
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Gandalff
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Posted: September 25 2010 at 04:07 |
I´m sorry, but "I´ll Come Running" is one of the worst Eno´s songs ever, thus any, even excellent guitar solo don´t save it.
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A Elbereth Gilthoniel
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Gandalff
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Posted: September 25 2010 at 04:30 |
What about excellent Starless? Or, from the beginning, Suite No. 1 (Cheerful Insanity)?
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ergaster
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Posted: September 25 2010 at 11:20 |
So what? The question was about the solo, not the song it was in. |
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