Robert Fripp: The most beautiful guitar solo?
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Topic: Robert Fripp: The most beautiful guitar solo?
Posted By: Gandalff
Subject: Robert Fripp: The most beautiful guitar solo?
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 09:34
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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...) ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
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Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 09:37
| Book of Saturday |
Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 10:25
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For the moment it's this one: ../mp3.asp?id=1401 - Evening Star The Essential Fripp & Eno , 1994 |
Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 10:35
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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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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 10:43
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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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Posted By: Triceratopsoil
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 12:34
| Eno's "St. Elmo's Fire" |
Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 12:38
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David Sylvian's "Upon This Earth" Robert Fripp and David Sylvian's "Bringing Down the Light" |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 12:57
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Interesting, one could wait that the majority of suggestions will comes from King Crimson. The opposite is truth. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: Formentera Lady
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 13:09
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King Crimson - The Night Watch, studio version, but also this live version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncgC7pDzcrQ - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncgC7pDzcrQ |
Posted By: The Quiet One
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 17:26
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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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Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 17:38
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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... ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: crimhead
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 18:02
That is a nice one. |
harmonium.ro wrote:Posted By: ergaster
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 18:30
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The one that comes at the end of Peter Gabriel's "White Shadow". One of Gabriel's best songs, and a sublime solo.
------------- We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty. Captain Malcolm Reynolds Reality rules, Honor the truth Chemist99a R.I.P. |
Posted By: jammun
Date Posted: September 24 2010 at 23:17
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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. ------------- Can you tell me where we're headin'? Lincoln County Road or Armageddon. |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: September 25 2010 at 00:03
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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. ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: idoownu
Date Posted: September 25 2010 at 01:00
| Prince Ruperts Lament, right before the end of LIzard. |
Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: September 25 2010 at 03:42
Oh yeah, I'd forgotten about that. That is a belter. Beautiful though?? |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date 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.  ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: September 25 2010 at 04:30
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What about excellent Starless? Or, from the beginning, Suite No. 1 (Cheerful Insanity)? ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: ergaster
Date Posted: September 25 2010 at 11:20
So what? The question was about the solo, not the song it was in. ------------- We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty. Captain Malcolm Reynolds Reality rules, Honor the truth Chemist99a R.I.P. |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: September 25 2010 at 12:04
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------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: September 25 2010 at 12:24
It´s alright, but I´ve meant I cannot remember every beautiful solo appeared in truly terrible song. That´s "out of my recognition abilities". I´m sorry. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: September 25 2010 at 12:55
Oooohhhh Starless.......oh yes! |
Posted By: ergaster
Date Posted: September 26 2010 at 12:53
LOL. That's okay. I happen to like that song, though..... ------------- We have done the impossible, and that makes us mighty. Captain Malcolm Reynolds Reality rules, Honor the truth Chemist99a R.I.P. |
Posted By: 40footwolf
Date Posted: September 26 2010 at 15:13
------------- Heaven's made a cesspool of us all. |
Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: September 26 2010 at 15:31
Don't think that the Fripp and Eno records are almost not been made by humans, such is utter difference to anything recorded anywhere else. I mean how would you decribe them to someone who'd never heard them?? Beautiful though, I agree with that. |
Posted By: UndercoverBoy
Date Posted: September 26 2010 at 16:34
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Posted By: sydbarrett2010
Date Posted: September 27 2010 at 12:49
| red - king crimson |
Posted By: Thin_Man
Date Posted: September 27 2010 at 14:57
| I can't believe no one mentioned "Exiles"... "White Shadow" and "Evening Star" are also great! |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: September 27 2010 at 15:20
Thats what me and a friend who are big fans have always had trouble with. It's very hard to describe. We're saying things to people like "well it's....ambient...but like theres guitar in it, but not the kind of guitar you'd think would....this is going nowhere!" ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: September 27 2010 at 15:48
Good one! ------------- "I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: September 28 2010 at 08:32
------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: sydbarrett2010
Date Posted: September 28 2010 at 08:45
thats an instrumental song the whole song is guitar solo |
Posted By: Kailash
Date Posted: September 28 2010 at 08:48
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Starless ------------- Rick Wakeman (Yes): "When the first list was being drawn up in the rock 'n' roll book of Genesis, it would have been: In the beginning, God created Pink Floyd." |
Posted By: esky
Date Posted: September 28 2010 at 13:52
Astutely put. And that solo was truly beautiful!
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Posted By: Bitterblogger
Date Posted: September 28 2010 at 18:23
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: September 28 2010 at 18:29
It's not a solo if everyone is playing a composition is unison and without an individual being the highlight of the section/piece. |
Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: September 28 2010 at 18:39
Meh, Robert Fripp never really is the highlight of a section or piece. ------------- 
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Posted By: WalterDigsTunes
Date Posted: September 28 2010 at 18:45
If that were the case, no one would've mentioned any tracks on this thread. Evidently, you're absolutely wrong. |
Posted By: The Sleepwalker
Date Posted: September 28 2010 at 18:56
That's nonsense. He never plays with any feel and his style is very repetitive and dull. -------------
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Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: September 28 2010 at 21:15
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Are you just trying to piss people off saying stuff like that in a KC thread?^ Fripp is far from dull, and just because his emotion is shown in composition and not long bends doesn't mean he shows no emotion. If there was no emotion KC wouldn't have the following they do, instead they'd be like shred guitarists where all the fans are teenage guitarists. ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: September 28 2010 at 23:01
 ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: sydbarrett2010
Date Posted: September 29 2010 at 04:29
u mean comfortably numb doesnt have any solo because all the members are playing with david gilmour at the time he plays guitar solo and theyre playing the same riff thats the same as red its all guitar playing in the song so its a guitar solo and what about the part when all the band stops and just fripp plays a solo |
Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: September 29 2010 at 04:38
------------- "I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman |
Posted By: Cosmivorous
Date Posted: September 29 2010 at 07:38
| I Talk to the Wind guitar solo is gorgeous. Emotional simplicity captured. |
Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: September 29 2010 at 07:46
------------- "I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman |
Posted By: esky
Date Posted: September 29 2010 at 08:34
I wish I would have thought of that one. Nice call.
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Posted By: esky
Date Posted: September 29 2010 at 08:35
Why don't you take a nap.
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Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: September 29 2010 at 19:07
Do you know nothing about music? Or can you just not read what he said? Because he didn't say other people can't be playing at the same time as the solo, he said "and without an individual being the highlight of the section/piece." So basically, yes Comfortably Numb is a solo. Just like he was talking about the band is playing the really boring repetitive structure (okay, the adjectives are added by me) while the blaring guitar solo is clearly the highlight or center of whats going on. And he is correct.
------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: sydbarrett2010
Date Posted: September 30 2010 at 04:49
look were not fighting here dude youre saying its not a solo thats what you think i think this song has a solo and i really like it |
Posted By: zachfive
Date Posted: September 30 2010 at 13:41
| Definitely not a solo, but the guitar Fripp plays on The Sheltering Sky behind Belew always gives me goosebumps. |
Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: September 30 2010 at 16:37
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Most beautiful? ...mmm probably Brian Eno's St Elmos fire
------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: September 30 2010 at 16:39
Come on, let's not fight, you are all equally stupid! ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?"
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Posted By: Lark the Starless
Date Posted: September 30 2010 at 21:19
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I'd say Exiles...very moving. ------------- 
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Posted By: Gandalff
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 13:46
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What about 21st Century Schizoid Man? Noteless but very impressive guitar solo. ------------- A Elbereth Gilthoniel silivren penna míriel o menel aglar elenath! Na-chaered palan-díriel o galadhremmin ennorath, Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon! |
Posted By: himtroy
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 15:25
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People can say Red is a solo if they want to...but if you look at it from a structure point of view it's definitely not a solo........ ------------- Which of you to gain me, tell, will risk uncertain pains of hell? I will not forgive you if you will not take the chance. |
Posted By: Ruby900
Date Posted: October 04 2010 at 15:27
This is true. I cannot people on here failed to recognise a solo when the heard one................ ------------- "I always say that it’s about breaking the rules. But the secret of breaking rules in a way that works is understanding what the rules are in the first place". Rick Wakeman |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: July 02 2013 at 20:53
| "The Night Watch". |
Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: July 02 2013 at 20:54
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: July 02 2013 at 21:29
| I actually have some trouble remembering guitar solos on King Crimson, but the one I remember that I think fits best and really like is the one at the end of the live versions of Starless, just amazing. |
Posted By: Nogbad_The_Bad
Date Posted: July 02 2013 at 22:27
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Baby's on Fire
------------- Ian Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on Progrock.com https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-avant-jazzcore-happy-hour/ |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: July 02 2013 at 23:50
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Exiles. Between Larks Tongues and USA, my King Crimson Collectors Club albums, the 4CD Great Deceiver box set, and my 4 70's era vinyl bootlegs, I must have 15 different versions of Exiles and Fripp's solo raises goosebumps for me on nearly every single one. ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: July 02 2013 at 23:52
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Starless ------------- |
Posted By: dr wu23
Date Posted: July 03 2013 at 00:00
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Real tough choice there......I talk To The Wind, Exiles, Night Watch, Starless.....they are all great.
The Eno collaborations are also nice but for some reason I like the solos in the KC tracks better. ------------- One does nothing yet nothing is left undone. Haquin |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: July 03 2013 at 01:48
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Eno's : Baby's on Fire ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: July 03 2013 at 02:05
Every Fripp solo on Bowie's Scary Monsters 
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Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: July 03 2013 at 02:31
dis! sorry, this! oh, and ummm.... i'll think about it... ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: DiamondDog
Date Posted: July 03 2013 at 07:28
| Robert is always interesting, clever, eclectic, inventive....but beautiful is not one of the adjectives I would readily subscribe to in his case. |
Posted By: King Only
Date Posted: July 03 2013 at 12:44
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I really love Fripp's work on the album "Damage", the collaboration he did with David Sylvian. |
Posted By: akamaisondufromage
Date Posted: July 03 2013 at 13:32
..and this too! He's quite talented man ------------- Help me I'm falling! |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: July 03 2013 at 14:15
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I really enjoy STARLESS. it's so haunting and just flat out one moody f**k of a brilliant solo mid way through the 12min epic. That is my opinion so far. He has so many though. The guy is a freakin genius and one of the very best guitar players/composers on this planet earth. Period.
------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: July 03 2013 at 23:57
| I like the Book of Saturday, Exiles, and Night Watch as beautiful solos that were already named. Let me add to that Satori in Tangier. |
Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: July 06 2013 at 02:57
| Starless wins this one handily, but I also give honorable mention to Exiles and The Night Watch. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: July 06 2013 at 16:00
Or even ... Blank Frank!
But if I have a preference it would be the obvious one for me ... "No Pussyfooting" ... and it's continuous work.
Solo's for me, are ... not necessary half the time ... it's almost like telling everyone you have to speed up and get faster and louder, so you can come quicker and the song is over!
I get tired of the 3 minute orgasms and solo's, not to mention, songs!
I'm studying the 1 hour orgasms with Heather Graham! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: hellogoodbye
Date Posted: July 06 2013 at 16:43
| I love too his accoustic guitar playing at the beginning of Lizzard. These notes are fantastic. |
Posted By: The.Crimson.King
Date Posted: July 06 2013 at 17:05
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^ I think Cirkus is his best acoustic guitar work... ------------- https://wytchcrypt.wixsite.com/mutiny-in-jonestown" rel="nofollow - Mutiny in Jonestown : Progressive Rock Since 1987 |
Posted By: Neo-Romantic
Date Posted: July 06 2013 at 18:21
Yup |
Posted By: The Passion Play
Date Posted: July 24 2013 at 15:59
| It has to be either "Fracture" or "Starless". Only others that come close are "Schizoid Man" and "Easy Money". |
Posted By: prog4evr
Date Posted: July 24 2013 at 17:38
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, to be sure. I like "Requiem" from 'Beat' especially when Belew and the rest join 2 minutes in to the end...
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: July 24 2013 at 18:19
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Bob is an interesting player... he seems to draw his greatest inspiration from those he plays with, versus playing on his own! He's rather self-deprecating on his own talent, interestingly. My own personal favorite is his solo in "Wave" by David Sylvian! If I were to pick a single KC song for "beautiful solo," it would be "Starless." |
Posted By: BrufordFreak
Date Posted: July 26 2013 at 20:58
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The most beautiful solo I've ever heard Fripp play is on "Losing True" from The Roches 1982 album Keep on Doing--though "Upon This Earth," the last song from the second disc of David Sylvian's Gone to Earth would be a close second. Evening Star, Sheltering Sky, Sartori in Tangiers, Baby's on Fire, Waves, Gone to Earth, are all great. And YES to all the solos on Scary Monsters. Also like BTW: The pedal steel lap guitar solo at the end of Gabe's "White Shadow" is ALL Sid McGinnis. I revered it, too, and thought it was RF until I saw it performed live. I was TOTALLY shocked when seeing them on tour that year (Fall of 1978--the "bald" tour)--seeing Sid up front and center playing that one on his lap--OWNING it as if it were all his own--and Robert "Dusty Roads" Fripp was on-stage (playing from a stool behind the stacks of speakers). ------------- Drew Fisher https://progisaliveandwell.blogspot.com/ |
Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: July 26 2013 at 23:56
^Very nice post, BF! Great contributions, thanks!  I forgot about his work with "The Roches," some excellent stuff by RF, TL and BB!!
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Posted By: Dmrprog
Date Posted: March 26 2014 at 16:31
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I likewise have been impressed at the gorgeous guitar lines Fripp
pulls off in "Book Of Saturday," "Night Watch," and the intro to "Starless". Beautiful examples those. I think he's at his rip- roaring best in the ProjeKcts. A bold, screaming kind of guitar line (the word "extraterrestrial" would best describe it) hits you in tunes like "1 ii 2" (P.1) and "Deception Of The Thrush" (the ProjeKct 2 Live Groove version, duplicated also on KC's live double-CD Cirkus.) Goldang, that last one is some twisted and sublime solo! |
Posted By: Blacksword
Date Posted: March 27 2014 at 05:51
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Book of Saturday for me.. ------------- Ultimately bored by endless ecstasy! |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: March 28 2014 at 16:22
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So hard to choose...I need more time! ;) ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: Gryphon
Date Posted: March 29 2014 at 16:03
| the night watch |
Posted By: ProgMetaller2112
Date Posted: March 29 2014 at 20:25
------------- “War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.” ― George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four "Ignorance and Prejudice and Fear walk Hand in Hand"- Neil Peart |
Posted By: dog1995
Date Posted: April 01 2014 at 13:01
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Comfortably numb
------------- Mother, should i trust the government? |
Posted By: Tedhead
Date Posted: April 02 2014 at 18:09
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I'd like to throw in the track "The New World". Its on the first 'League of Crafty Guitarists' album (1986), and is the only Frippertronics track and the only studio track. Unlike 'Let The Power Fall', the Frippertronics are accompanied by a solo going the length of the song. I can never believe how quickly the time passes whenever I listen to it. ------------- all men must die... |
Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: April 03 2014 at 00:21
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Probably Book, Watch or Sheltering for me. ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: tamijo
Date Posted: April 03 2014 at 04:18
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my all time favorite is the one from Eno's Baby's on fire ------------- Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours |
Posted By: Einsetumadur
Date Posted: April 03 2014 at 07:23
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There might be more remarkable solos, but Fripp's lead guitar work on Peter Hammill's "The Birds" is totally gorgeous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDUPIcCG4tQ ... other favorites: Eno's "Golden Hours", The Roches' "Hammond Song", King Crimson's "Starless" and David Bowie's "Heroes". ------------- All in all each man in all men |
Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: April 03 2014 at 13:57
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Posted By: `[email protected]
Date Posted: September 17 2016 at 20:35
| Too many to exist, but Exiles (Lark's Tongues In Aspic). Many honorable mentions. |
Posted By: HackettFan
Date Posted: September 19 2016 at 08:02
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Not sure if I posted already, I'll have to look, but how about Sartori in Tangiers. Most specifically, the live version off the Three of a Perfect Pair video. ------------- A curse upon the heads of those who seek their fortunes in a lie. The truth is always waiting when there's nothing left to try. - Colin Henson, Jade Warrior (Now) |
Posted By: Rednight
Date Posted: September 20 2016 at 12:43
------------- "It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno |
Posted By: Magnum Vaeltaja
Date Posted: September 20 2016 at 22:03
Exiles would probably be my pick as well. ------------- when i was a kid a doller was worth ten dollers - now a doller couldnt even buy you fifty cents |
Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: September 21 2016 at 20:48
| I know just about nothing from Fripp outside Crimson, and I haven't read the whole thread, but I have seen mentioned the beginning of Starless... however, I would rather go for the ending of Starless on the live versions, where the main theme is played with the electric guitar very powerfully... well, at least on the "Collectible King Crimson Vol 1, disc 1", other live versions aren't as cohesive nor have the same strength at the end. However, for such a great guitar player, I have a hard time remembering guitar solos from him. |
Posted By: heracleum wotsit
Date Posted: November 23 2017 at 17:09
| The one that really stands out for me is the solo in Sailor's Tale on the Earthbound album. I'm afraid there's no doubting that it's a horrible album overall, but that particular solo has always fascinated me. There have been numerous versions of it on different bootlegs, but that one is damned near perfect. How the hell was it done? How does it break from those soft, oozing notes into that plaintive, cracked wail, then back into liquid tones teetering on the edge of feedback? Is it done by using a wah-wah pedal to play tease the notes to the very edge of feedback or is it by some other kind of alchemy? The perfection of that solo was never repeated, yet Fripp has obviously taken great steps to prevent it from reappearing on YouTube. To me that solo has everything and means far more to me than any technically perfect piece of guitar virtuosity. That one reaches down into your soul and catches you on a very emotional level. |
Posted By: Barbu
Date Posted: November 23 2017 at 19:07
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Fripp + Beautiful = A Blessing of Tears ------------- |