While living in New York, Fripp contributed to albums and live performances by Blondie and Talking Heads (Fear of Music), and produced The Roches' first album, which featured several of Fripp's characteristic guitar solos. This material eventually became his first solo album, Exposure, released in 1979, followed by the Frippertronics tour in the same year. During this period, Fripp began working on solo material, with contributions from poet/lyricist Joanna Walton and several other musicians, including Eno, Gabriel, and Hall, as well as Peter Hammill, Jerry Marotta, Phil Collins, Tony Levin and Terre Roche. Fripp soon contributed his musical and production talents to Peter Gabriel's second album, and collaborated with Daryl Hall on Sacred Songs.
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Fripp agreed to play guitar for the album, a move which initiated a series of collaborations with other musicians. In 1977, Fripp received a phone call from Eno, who was working on David Bowie's album "Heroes". Fripp toured with Gabriel to support the album, but remained in the wings and used the pseudonym "Dusty Rhodes".
He returned to musical work as a studio guitarist on Peter Gabriel's first self-titled album in 1976, released the following year. Bennett (studies which would later be influential in his work with Guitar Craft). Fripp and Eno also played several live shows in Europe in 1975.įripp spent some time away from the music industry in the later 1970s, during which he cultivated an interest in the teachings of Gurdjieff via J.G. This system came to be known as "Frippertronics". These two albums featured experimentation with several novel musical techniques, including a tape delay system utilizing dual reel to reel Revox tape machines that would come to play a central role in Fripp's later work. Collaborating with Brian Eno, he recorded No Pussyfooting in 1972 and Evening Star in 1974. During this period he also worked with Van der Graaf Generator, playing on the 1970 album H to He, Who Am the Only One, and in 1971, on Pawn Hearts. He worked with Keith Tippett (and others who appeared on King Crimson records) on projects far from rock music, producing Septober Energy in 1971 and Ovary Lodge in 1973. Crimson went through a number of line-ups before Fripp disbanded the group for the first time in 1974.ĭuring King Crimson's less active periods, Fripp has pursued a number of side-projects. To date, Robert Fripp has remained the only consistent member of the band. Initially, Fripp had offered to leave the group however Giles and McDonald felt that King Crimson was his. Due to musical differences with Giles and McDonald, King Crimson broke up shortly after the release of the first album, to be re-formed again several times over the years. Their first album, In the Court of the Crimson King, was released in late 1969, to mixed critical reviews. Though unsuccessful as a live act, Giles, Giles and Fripp did manage to release two singles, as well as an album, The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp.įollowing the band's breakup, Fripp, along with drummer Michael Giles, made plans for the formation of King Crimson in 1968, with Greg Lake, Peter Sinfield and Ian McDonald.
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In 1984, Fripp began using the New Standard Tuning, which would also become the official tuning of Guitar Craft.įripp is left-handed, but plays a right-handed guitar.įripp's earliest professional work began in 1967, when he responded to an ad looking for a singing organist for a band being formed by bassist Peter Giles and drummer Michael Giles, despite being neither a singer nor an organist. His comment on dealing with the obstacle is "Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice".īeing taught guitar basics by his teacher Don Strike, it was the time when he developed the technique of crosspicking, which would later become a significant technique taught in Guitar Craft. He says he was tone-deaf with no sense of rhythm when he started. His work, spanning five decades, encompasses a variety of musical styles.įripp began playing guitar at the age of eleven.
Robert Fripp (born in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England) is a guitarist, composer and a record producer, perhaps best known for being the guitarist for, and only constant member of, the progressive rock band King Crimson.
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