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Points: 65934 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 10 2010 at 09:50
Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Presto changeo, Robert Fripp is now amazing for you.
Wait a second, is it not working??? Tongue
It really isn't working.  LOL 
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Originally posted by American Khatru American Khatru wrote:

Originally posted by HTCF HTCF wrote:

Listen all the way through the song Fracture with the volume loud enough to pick up the quiet guitar in the middle

then listen to Starless

then listen to the guitar solo work on The Night Watch

then listen to his noodly guitar bits on Brian Eno's album Another Green World, especially the song Saint Elmo's Fire

then pick up the minimalist space jam album The Equatorial Stars by Fripp and Eno

That might be a good start

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Then listen to the acoustic guitar on Cirkus, carefully now, miss nothing (the in-betweens are as impressive as the parts that jump out).  You tell me, of all the electric guitarists out there who'll tear down the house once there's a little distorted warmth in the line, who else have this high level of skill and consistency on an unadulterated acoustic guitar?  Maybe you'll find, what, a few?

[edit: Cirkus, first track on album Lizard]



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Points: 17995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: May 10 2010 at 18:05
Originally posted by rushfan4 rushfan4 wrote:

Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

Presto changeo, Robert Fripp is now amazing for you.
Wait a second, is it not working??? Tongue
It really isn't working.  LOL 


Did you actually follow my step-by-step instructions?
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Discipline has some very nice interlocking and layered guitars alongside Adrian Belew... it's not one of my favorite KC albums, but it has some very nice guitar work.  I also really like (some might find this weird) the solo from " I Talk to the WInd " from KC's first album.. i don't know , i just really like its tone and subleties.. so check that one out and, if you're like me, you might find it quite interesting.  Also, as stated before, The Power to Believe is definitely one of KC's better and more guitar-oriented albums of the last decade.
    
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I just found the most touching piece of guitar work I've listened to in years: http://www.progarchives.com/mp3.asp?id=1401 (audio sample)

Makes me Cry, I Heart it...


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Originally posted by harmonium.ro harmonium.ro wrote:

I just found the most touching piece of guitar work I've listened to in years: http://www.progarchives.com/mp3.asp?id=1401 (audio sample)

Makes me Cry, I Heart it...
Thanks Alex.  That was a nice piece of music.  Unfortunately, that is the kind of stuff that is better at putting me to sleep than getting my blood pumping.  It was too ambient for my tastes. 
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If you think that's too ambient, wait till you hear what he's doing now... Compared to what he's doing now, "Evening Star" is like a Hollywood action blockbuster LOL
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Yikes! LOL
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This should make you love Fripp:


If not... check Fracture out (the Starless and Bible Black or Great Deceiver version)...

If it doesn't work... you have no cure...

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For some reason that reminds me of Flight of the Bumblebee
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Originally posted by ProgressiveAttic ProgressiveAttic wrote:

This should make you love Fripp:


If not... check Fracture out (the Starless and Bible Black or Great Deceiver version)...

If it doesn't work... you have no cure...

That was some pretty good stuff there.    There may still be no cure for me. 
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Originally posted by ProgressiveAttic ProgressiveAttic wrote:

This should make you love Fripp:


If not... check Fracture out (the Starless and Bible Black or Great Deceiver version)...

If it doesn't work... you have no cure...


Now see I thought Fripp was amazing, but after hearing this I've become totally disenchanted with Robert.LOL

But seriously, I know a lot of people here who latched on to KC's itchycock first don't care for this one, but I love the humor or should I say humour? Tongue
Plus Fripp had developed his guitar style really well by then.


Edited by Slartibartfast - June 07 2010 at 18:28
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Fripp & Eno - Evening Star and Equatorial Stars are amazing albums. I didn't like ambient at all when I first heard it but now I put it along side progressive rock for favorite genre. Unfortunately there do not seem to be too many samples online.

I did find this though which is pretty cool - Fripp & Eno Live in 1975:
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In one sentence: Fripp invented prog rock as we know it.

MIND=BLOWN
Trendsetter win!

The search for nonexistent perfection.
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I agree with him being very good with Adrian alongside him.  But in my opinions his most dominant guitar came about in the Wetton era.  Songs like Fracture and many others in that 1973-1974 era.  Especially live.
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Originally posted by himtroy himtroy wrote:

I agree with him being very good with Adrian alongside him.  But in my opinions his most dominant guitar came about in the Wetton era.  Songs like Fracture and many others in that 1973-1974 era.  Especially live.
 
 
Agree with all but the first sentence: with Adrian there came a lot of dischord/distortion that made me lose interest. But in the Lark's Tongue/Red period KC was untouchable; shatteringly powerful, so tight, and heavy (which does not mean just loud). Especially live as you say, unforgettable.
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I really loved what Adrian and Robert did together with Bill and Tony.  Larks and Starless and Red are pretty much my favorites though. The '80's would have probably really sucked for me, musically speaking. without what they did.  Discipline above all the rest of the three.


Edited by Slartibartfast - June 15 2010 at 14:14
Released date are often when it it impacted you but recorded dates are when it really happened...
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Originally posted by Slartibartfast Slartibartfast wrote:

I really loved what Adrian and Robert did together with Bill and Tony.  Larks and Starless and Red are pretty much my favorites though. The '80's would have probably really sucked for me, musically speaking. without what they did.  Discipline above all the rest of the three.


Red is, for me, one of the most important prog albums ever made, and should melt the heart of even the most assured sceptic, but I do agree re discipline, which remains a seminal album of its decade.
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think about some of those KC songs man, there's some evil stuff going on, forget all the death metal and black metal. i dare say Fripp has written some of the most evil and petrifying music ever conceived by anyone (without being corny)

and then he has written some of the most beautiful music ever. sometimes intertwined with the dark tri-tones or heavy riffs. some KC music has brought me to the edge of tears. other times to the gates of hell themselves.

and then there's the 80s era where i feel like im in this strange world and things are bouncing around Cool

TPTB is crazy too, probably the most insane album post-Red, it heavy, scary, beautiful, evil, electronic, and gripping. this can be said about most of his albums.

that's amazing

btw im having deja vu...
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This might be my favorite Fripp guitar solo of all time, it starts at 1:32


If you don't think this is amazing, go sign up for a Michael Jackson forum or something.
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