Frank Zappa Vs. Robert Fripp!

Hard to vote against the late, great Frank Zappa but that's exactly what I did.

Zappa, no question

SteveG wrote: cemego wrote: Completely different styles of playing.   My 4 faves are Zappa, Fripp, Belew, and Holdsworth.  But they are all vastly/stylistically different! Why does everything have to be a competition? You don't need to take these polls seriously. We have all been out of high school for some time now, so we can laugh at them.

Well, this is the polls section of the forum. Competition is what you can expect to find here.

Fripp is the better guitarist, stylistically and technically speaking....however, Frank was the better composer by far.  And, he was no slouch on the 6-string either!  

As  band leading guitarist who could do the 20 minute solos in rock, a composer Zappa is terrific. I think Fripp has some of the more immediately memorable moments (Red, Starless, Heroes). His sense of economy gives him an edge.

Zappa has a terrific sense of melody as a composer, a great sense of the big picture, as a writer he is more there than RF who has the occasional great idea (LTIA 2 and Red) while everything Zappa thinks of is at least interesting sometimes spell binding. RF is well attuned to the guitar and his crafty guitarist adventures attest to his influence as everyone does their best to sound like him. But he begat the California Guitar Trio. I think Belew and Fripp make amazing band guitarists while Zappa is great at playing but getting others to do the hard work as well.

Adrian Belew, with his heritage, is unique, versatile and has probably the more spontaneous imagination. Plus for a guitarist he can actually sing. FZ can Shut Up An' Play his Guitar. Heh, whose band is better, Fripp's Crimson or any of Frank's?

Really I can't decide. But if I had to get a guy to be in my band I'd choose Ade.

Uncle Frank, but had it been Frith rather than Fripp...

^ Exactly 

Zappa, hands down. 

Zappa.

wouldn't call myself a real fan of either.. though like my insightful post predecessor.. I do too have a f**king brain and recognize they have musical capabily haha.