Fracture by KC ; Is Fripp a god? - Progressive Rock Music Forum

What do you think about it? Isn't it marvelous?

I wondered also, do you guys know if some band (from today or yesterday) did some songs like Fracture or the Lark's series?

So don’t evade the surgeon’s blade
Cos the answer could be in your mind
Maybe one cut and we’ll find
We’re just a wavelength behind

But we are entwined

And I know what you need

Grumpyprogfan wrote:

Good song, but there are plenty of songs released in the last ten years that are better.

Do you have any example?

So don’t evade the surgeon’s blade
Cos the answer could be in your mind
Maybe one cut and we’ll find
We’re just a wavelength behind

But we are entwined

And I know what you need

Fripp a god? Of course. Only gods create things and Fripp created Symphonic prog.

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Fracture is a notoriously difficult piece for guitar players. Fripp himself said it was "impossible" to play in a 2016 interview.

"Larks' tongues. Wrens' livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars' earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they're hot. They're lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar."

Larkstongue41 wrote:

Fracture is a notoriously difficult piece for guitar players. Fripp himself said it was "impossible" to play in a 2016 interview.

Not impossible for this chap.

I like Fracture but it isn't even in my top 10 fave KC songs right now.

Fracture is very good, but still down the list of his best material. Starless remains the pinnacle for me.

“Living in their pools, they soon forget about the sea.”

I once saw a video clip of Fripp playing the guitar bridge to Fracture, with Bruford playing "drums" on the back of a wooden chair. It might have been filmed in a hotel room.

Bruf's "clickety-clack" playing was remarkable, and perfectly in sync with Bob's playing!

I know Bob personally, he is no God and would not like being discussed in those terms. However, he ranks as one of the most inventive and creative musical geniuses of history, up there with the big names like Mozart, Beethoven, Bartok etc. IMHO.

He invented his own guitar tuning (new standard tuning) because he found the old E-A-D-G-B-E tuning to be "limiting" and "arbitrary." He applied advanced jazz techniques like cross-picking and chordal shapes to rock music, which was (at the time) very much based upon American Blues concepts. In the 1980s, he brought out the Roland GR-300 guitar synth to the masses in "Discipline," and was a pioneer in guitar sound looping (Frippertronics and Soundscapes). The list could go on.

Did he write the best, most beautiful songs in the prog universe? Nah, probably not, except for a few like "Starless." Did he shake the music world, numerous times? No doubt. Thanks, Bob!

I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!!

Great track by Fripp and KC...not their best though ............

and Bill Murray is a god.

One does nothing yet nothing is left undone.
Haquin

He's not a god. He's a mad scientist. I actually heard a radio dj call him that once.

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