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Topic: Robert Fripp's guitar-playing is so sick, but.. Posted: October 13 2010 at 13:58
I really would love to hear some other guitarists in the same league as him. It would be really cool if he was in a 70's-ish prog band just like KC, but it doesn't really matter.
Does anyone have some solid recommendations on guitarists that play really cool stuff kinda like Fripp's work in the song Fracture? It's so quick, abstract, and weird and I love hearing it, but it's so rare to hear that kind of musicianship elsewhere.
Fripp took lessons from a Jazz guitarist.....teacher. Fripp went the distance with tri-tones. He combined them in such an inventive way. This is telling because most kids interested in tri-tones learn sci-fi TV themes first. Fripp watched Mission Impossible and was probably attracted to TV themes as a child. Some of the guitar sections in "Fracture" are reminiscent of Bernard Hermann's "The Day The Earth Stood Still". It is only reminiscent in the choice of notes and not the way in which they were played. Fripp was also a fan of Mahavishnu Orchestra's Birds Of Fire. When I was age 20, a guitar piece from Fripp would take me about 4 hours to master by ear. It was evident that he was a hard worker. There is an abundance of sweat and toil when applying his alternate right hand picking technques. Steve Howe was a pretty close race with some of Fripp's right hand picking on electric. Especially on "The Yes Album". Fripp's influences were evident but it was the beauty of how he added those influences to his own vocabulary.
The guitarist with Halloween. Especially on Merlin. Some of the acoustic work of Gentle Giant. Especially when displayed on "Excerpts from Octopus" from Playing the Fool.
The guitarist from Gracious. National Health's Missing Pieces contains some distorted sounding Fripp style
The guitar work on Lucifer's Friend's "Rose On the Vine" of all things.
Jade Warrior's "Bride Of Summer"....totally in the early 69-71 Fripp mode.
Mike Oldfield's guitar playing on David Bedford's Stars End Various guitar sections from The Enid's Touch Me where Lickerish and Stewart harmonize. Stewart on "The Seed and the Sower" by The Enid.
The guitarist from Pulsar crosses between Hackett and Fripp on the Halloween album and Hackett himself is influenced by Bob Fripp's playing. Hackett though produces a distintive sound of his own.
Most of these people have carried the torch with Fripp's many styles. I'm sure there are many more that I am not aware of.
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Posted: October 15 2010 at 19:21
mmmreesescups wrote:
I really would love to hear some other guitarists in the same league as him. It would be really cool if he was in a 70's-ish prog band just like KC, but it doesn't really matter. Does anyone have some solid recommendations on guitarists that play really cool stuff kinda like Fripp's work in the song Fracture? It's so quick, abstract, and weird and I love hearing it, but it's so rare to hear that kind of musicianship elsewhere.
John Weinzierl from Amon Duul 2. - Start with Yeti, and then to Dance of the Lemmings and then Wolf City and then Vive La Trance ... and you can catch Live in London while at it ... totally satisfying and amazing.
The late Michael Karoli from CAN - From the ripping "Mother Sky" in Soundtracks to Tago Mago, to Ege Bamyasi, to Future Days to Soon Over Babbalooma to the over the top totally insane Landed ... if you don't hear these, you will not appreciate one of the most adventurous and expressive guitarist that is not doing just scales and blues ... he's "over-educated" and knows music, and he just rips ...
David Allen - Carmen. You can only hear 3 albums but they are all three worth it. Spanish guitar picker with a touch of gold using an electric guitar and making guitar gods sound stupid and over rated ... and he gave it up, because he couldn't even get a pat in the back as "stars" on the same shows were getting the attention with less work and cheaper music and quality. The gypsy put away the electric guitat forever, and it was magical and beautiful and amazing ...
Mr. Gurley ... Cheap Thrills -- Janis Joplin and Big Brother ... and if you have not heard "Ball and Chain' you have not heard one of the guitarists that taught all of London how to blow out an audience. And her voice went toe to toe with him all the way! ... that's insane and amazing!
Riuichi Sakamoto -- He actually doesn't play them but arranges guitars beautifully in his work. Check out Beauty, Neo Geo and that time period ... and specially put on "Amore" out loud!
Edited by moshkito - October 15 2010 at 19:38
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Posted: October 16 2010 at 12:53
It's not rock but it's hard to get more aggressive and abstract than Derek Bailey.
There's a fair amount of him on Youtube if you're interested, he started playing in the '60s so the '80s stuff that dominates the Youtube uploads is sort of his late period.
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Posted: October 16 2010 at 13:53
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez sounds to me like a modern Fripp in the experimental side with a Jimmy Page rockin' style, all making a very unique style that doesn't actually rip-off any of the two guitarists.
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Posted: October 16 2010 at 14:04
The Quiet One wrote:
Omar Rodriguez-Lopez sounds to me like a modern Fripp in the experimental side with a Jimmy Page rockin' style, all making a very unique style that doesn't actually rip-off any of the two guitarists.
Himtroy and Triceratopsoil in one thread? All we need now is Walterdigs to complete our trifecta of pretentious youngin d0uchery. You three all take first place in my book.
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Posted: October 16 2010 at 14:25
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Himtroy and Triceratopsoil in one thread? All we need now is Walterdigs to complete our trifecta of pretentious youngin d0uchery. You three all take first place in my book.
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Posted: October 16 2010 at 22:12
Triceratopsoil wrote:
TheClosing wrote:
Himtroy and Triceratopsoil in one thread? All we need now is Walterdigs to complete our trifecta of pretentious youngin d0uchery. You three all take first place in my book.
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Posted: October 16 2010 at 22:15
progkidjoel wrote:
Triceratopsoil wrote:
TheClosing wrote:
Himtroy and Triceratopsoil in one thread? All we need now is Walterdigs to complete our trifecta of pretentious youngin d0uchery. You three all take first place in my book.
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