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Words of wisdom from maestro Robert Fripp:
https://youtu.be/8RY0MAfyl4k?si=JPTxdV71puxD8lCQ
#liminality #burningquestion #purpose #intention #philosophy #robertfripp #kingcrimson -
Words of wisdom from maestro Robert Fripp:
https://youtu.be/8RY0MAfyl4k?si=JPTxdV71puxD8lCQ
#liminality #burningquestion #purpose #intention #philosophy #robertfripp #kingcrimson -
Words of wisdom from maestro Robert Fripp:
https://youtu.be/8RY0MAfyl4k?si=JPTxdV71puxD8lCQ
#liminality #burningquestion #purpose #intention #philosophy #robertfripp #kingcrimson -
Words of wisdom from maestro Robert Fripp:
https://youtu.be/8RY0MAfyl4k?si=JPTxdV71puxD8lCQ
#liminality #burningquestion #purpose #intention #philosophy #robertfripp #kingcrimson -
Words of wisdom from maestro Robert Fripp:
https://youtu.be/8RY0MAfyl4k?si=JPTxdV71puxD8lCQ
#liminality #burningquestion #purpose #intention #philosophy #robertfripp #kingcrimson -
Happy 78th birthday to this guy.
Robert Fripp's 80th is tomorrow.
Have a very May weekend.
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Happy 78th birthday to this guy.
Robert Fripp's 80th is tomorrow.
Have a very May weekend.
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Happy 78th birthday to this guy.
Robert Fripp's 80th is tomorrow.
Have a very May weekend.
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Happy 78th birthday to this guy.
Robert Fripp's 80th is tomorrow.
Have a very May weekend.
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FRIPP & ENO
Evening Star
1980 Canada pressingA favorite for go-to early evening vibeage.
Two masters collaborating for the second time; most effectively on the beautiful title track, and the near 29 minute headfuck that is “An Index Of Metals”, which takes up the entirety of Side 2, which simmers and drones, becomes more distorted, disturbing and disfigured as it unfolds.
Truly one of the fifteen or so best #ambient #minimal albums of all time.
Long. Live. Frippertronics.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #brianeno #eno #robertfripp #1970s #70smusic #70s
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FRIPP & ENO
Evening Star
1980 Canada pressingA favorite for go-to early evening vibeage.
Two masters collaborating for the second time; most effectively on the beautiful title track, and the near 29 minute headfuck that is “An Index Of Metals”, which takes up the entirety of Side 2, which simmers and drones, becomes more distorted, disturbing and disfigured as it unfolds.
Truly one of the fifteen or so best #ambient #minimal albums of all time.
Long. Live. Frippertronics.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #brianeno #eno #robertfripp #1970s #70smusic #70s
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FRIPP & ENO
Evening Star
1980 Canada pressingA favorite for go-to early evening vibeage.
Two masters collaborating for the second time; most effectively on the beautiful title track, and the near 29 minute headfuck that is “An Index Of Metals”, which takes up the entirety of Side 2, which simmers and drones, becomes more distorted, disturbing and disfigured as it unfolds.
Truly one of the fifteen or so best #ambient #minimal albums of all time.
Long. Live. Frippertronics.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #brianeno #eno #robertfripp #1970s #70smusic #70s
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FRIPP & ENO
Evening Star
1980 Canada pressingA favorite for go-to early evening vibeage.
Two masters collaborating for the second time; most effectively on the beautiful title track, and the near 29 minute headfuck that is “An Index Of Metals”, which takes up the entirety of Side 2, which simmers and drones, becomes more distorted, disturbing and disfigured as it unfolds.
Truly one of the fifteen or so best #ambient #minimal albums of all time.
Long. Live. Frippertronics.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #brianeno #eno #robertfripp #1970s #70smusic #70s
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FRIPP & ENO
Evening Star
1980 Canada pressingA favorite for go-to early evening vibeage.
Two masters collaborating for the second time; most effectively on the beautiful title track, and the near 29 minute headfuck that is “An Index Of Metals”, which takes up the entirety of Side 2, which simmers and drones, becomes more distorted, disturbing and disfigured as it unfolds.
Truly one of the fifteen or so best #ambient #minimal albums of all time.
Long. Live. Frippertronics.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #brianeno #eno #robertfripp #1970s #70smusic #70s
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“み #kingcrimson #robertfripp #billbruford” / “King Crimson - Sartori In Tangier (Live Kani Hoken Hall Tokyo 30th April 1984)” (1 user) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nchb50mhpKk
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ROBERT FRIPP
Exposure
1979 U.S. pressingOh man, do I ever love this record.
It’s been a while since I’ve played it start to finish.Fripp’s very first solo album, it sticks out a bit for its focus on rock song structures, though his signature “Frippertronics” are still very much present.
This has a murderer’s row of talented guests on it; Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Daryl Hall, Peter Hammill, Brian Eno, and Tony Levin to name just a few.
When Fripp moved to NYC in ‘77 a few years after the OG King Crimson busted up, Fripp became part of the city’s blossoming #punk and #newwave scene, and you can hear a lot of brush strokes of that in some of these songs.
It’s such a satisfying and artful album on every level.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #robertfripp #artrock #prog #progressive
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VARIOUS ARTISTS
First Edition
1982 Canada 10” CompilationGreat little mix of stuff for a chilly Saturday morning, featuring artists that appeared on the EG label.
There’s a few different versions of this comp that came out, depending on the market in which it was being sold.
The U.S. version has a completely different track list and was a traditional 12” record. THAT version had a King Crimson track on it that’s absent on this 10” Canadian version, as well as a few other differences.It’s a killer comp regardless of which one you have. This Canadian one has Adam And The Ants, Robert Fripp, Brian Eno, Jon Hassell, Longe Lizards, and The League Of Gentlemen to name just a few.
One of my favorite compilations ever.
#vinyl #vinylrecords #vinylcommunity #vinylcollection #retro #vintage #art #music #alternative #indie #punk #newwave #nowave #artrock #abstract #1980s #80s #80sMusic #brianeno #robertfripp
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“ #kingcrimson #robertfripp #billbruford King Crimson performing 'Elephant Talk' live at the Kani Hoken Hall Tokyo o... / “King Crimson - Elephant Talk (Live Kani Hoken Hall Tokyo 30th April 1984)” (1 user) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Px8p966aMyU
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#nowplaying während der #abendrunde mit #django
#toyah - #demolitianman
Was für eine Stimme
Was für eine geile #platte
#hoerempfehlung
Übrigens, mit #robertfripp seit 40 Jahren verheiratet
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“ #kingcrimson #robertfripp #billbruford King Crimson performing 'Discipline' live at the Kani Hoken Hall Tokyo on th... / “King Crimson - Discipline (Live Kani Hoken Hall Tokyo 30th April 1984)” (1 user) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOFkbDKsC9U
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King Crimson - eine Band die ihre Zeit prägte https://xenopolias.de/2025/04/03/king-crimson-eine-band-die-ihre-zeit-praegte/ #AdrianBelew, #Bands, #BillBruford, #Fotos, #FullConcert, #GregLake, #IanMcDonald, #KingCrimson-EineBandDieIhreZeitPrägte, #MelCollins, #MichaelGiles, #Musiker, #PeterSinfield, #RobertFripp, #TonyLevin, #Video
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#RobertFripp / #BrianEno - No Pussyfooting
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Toyah e Robert Fripp dal vivo al Isle of Wight Festival 2023
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King Crimson Play “Three of a Perfect Pair”
Listen to this track by highly adaptable and roster rotating progressive rock architects King Crimson. It’s “Three of a Perfect Pair”, the title track from the band’s 1984 record of the same name. That release was, very appropriately, the third and final entry in a trilogy of albums starting with 1981’s Discipline and followed up by Beat in 1982. These three releases represented a new phase for the band after a seven year hiatus that preceded it; the Discipline era. This was an unexpected eventuality considering that founder, guitarist, and chief creative instigator Robert Fripp hadn’t originally intended to regroup under the King Crimson name.
At the dawn of the 1980s, Fripp sought out musicians he’d worked with before and admired as he put a new band together to explore fresh musical ideas in a new era. This included vocalist, guitarist, and lyricist Adrian Belew who, like Fripp, had played with David Bowie and Talking Heads. Bassist and Chapman stick master Tony Levin won his spot after proving himself with Fripp after both played on Peter Gabriel’s first two solo records. Triple-A drummer Bill Bruford rounded out the lineup, having played with the big three in progressive rock by the early 1980s. Bruford had been a member of Yes and he’d played live with Genesis. He also participated in the last iterations of King Crimson from 1972-1974 before the hiatus.
The experience and playing styles of all four musicians brought freshness to the music, and a new incarnation and era for King Crimson commenced. Going under that name seemed to work for Fripp from a musical standpoint. It certainly made commercial sense. That said, the music they made was a progression from earlier incarnations of the band. Their new sound included as much post punk, new wave, gamelan, and funk influences as it did prog rock. Belew’s approach to lyric writing and his background in more pop-centric music became a defining force. The music they made during this period is just as complex and intriguingly hypnotic as ever. But the songs are more compact and focused even as the band retains its experimental edge.
The chemistry of this incarnation of King Crimson indicated that they were musically sturdy and sympatico as a group. In fact, the new ensemble represented the first time since the band’s inception that a King Crimson lineup remained stable from one album to the next. This is not to say it was all smooth sailing. With new musicians come new dynamics, perspectives, strengths and weaknesses, and essential roles that have to mesh for the music to work well. They had to negotiate all that between them. For the most part, the split was between Belew—who served as the songs guy—and Fripp, who was more interested in overall texture, improvisation, and rhythmic pulse.
With the levels of talent and well-known strong personalities involved, it stands to reason that maintaining the tension between these poles took considerable effort. Even the album that shares the song’s title is marked by the friction between two different approaches to making the record. One side is the more accessible. The other, as described by Fripp himself, is “excessive”. This single appeared on the former side, although it still reflects the band’s penchant for complex shifting time signatures and looped sonic patterns. Paired together, they created something entirely new.
As for this specific tune, “Three of a Perfect Pair” is as close to a conventional pop song as King Crimson gets. A big part of that is down to its very pop song theme of relationships between a man and a woman, although this being King Crimson, it subverts convention from there. Lyrically, this song tells the story of a relationship defined by conflict, driven by character flaws, differing priorities, and communication breakdowns.
“Three of a Perfect Pair” could be interpreted as a love song exploring the nuts and bolts of being in a committed relationship while painstakingly working through repeating patterns of disconnection. This aspect of love goes beyond the romance celebrated more often in pop music. Instead, it goes into far darker and more mature territories. This is true even if the split between he and she seem a bit dated today, with the man falling down due to his flawed intellectual perspectives, and the woman doing the same because of her moods.
He has his contradicting views
She has her cyclothymic moods
They make a study in despair
Three of a perfect pair …~ “Three of a Perfect Pair” by King Crimson
Either way, the title and phrase “three of a perfect pair” seems like an expression of dysfunction itself. What is the third party that stands with the two people that makes their relationship such a study in despair? One interpretation is that it’s the dysfunction itself that becomes a presence in a relationship burdened by a lack of communication. When conflict and disconnection become defining features of the way people interact, it can feel as if there is a third presence standing between them like an unholy ghost.
Another take on this is the opposite; that the third presence is the hope that the two parties can come to some kind of compromise and sense of clarity. The third member of the “pair” represents the possibilities, perspectives, and truths that have the power to smash the deadlock if the two people could only see it. It’s the road they could take together if they could only get out of their own ways to discover it. Between the two interpretations, it’s hard to choose which one is the less tragic.
Either way, it’s a perfect mess—like being in a band sometimes is.
King Crimson would go on hiatus again at Fripp’s prompting after the release of this third record in their Discipline period. All four musicians in that configuration would reunite by the mid-Nineties as parts of a “double trio” with two other musicians who doubled the band’s bass and drum parts. Talk about excessive! But this had been the nature of King Crimson from the beginning; a context for musicians in various combinations of personalities and instrumentation to come up with something unique between them, differing playing styles, approaches, tensions, and all.
For more about King Crimson’s long history as a unique musical entity, check out the trailer for the 2022 documentary film In the Court of the Crimson King: King Crimson at 50. Director Toby Amies shot the film during the anniversary tour between 2018 and 2020. Instead of a straightforward chronicle of the band through the years, the movie reveals some (well, quite a lot) of the fractiousness involved in being a member of King Crimson in present day circumstances, some of those caused by a decades-long history of unresolved tension between members. Because of that, the film makes for some fascinating, uncomfortable, hilarious, and poignant viewing.
As he once did in 1974 and again by 1984, Robert Fripp intended to lay King Crimson to rest by 2022—really this time. But at the time of this writing, there have been whisperings of a new King Crimson album to follow up 2003’s The Power to Believe. Learn about it right here.
Enjoy!
#80sMusic #adrianBelew #kingCrimson #postPunk #progRock #robertFripp
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Broadcast #OnThisDay 45 years ago:
The League of Gentlemen - Inductive Resonance (Peel Session)
Inductive Resonance by The League of Gentlemen, taken from the Peel Session recorded in late 1980 and broadcast on 17 November 1980.
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Broadcast #OnThisDay 45 years ago:
The League of Gentlemen - Inductive Resonance (Peel Session)
Inductive Resonance by The League of Gentlemen, taken from the Peel Session recorded in late 1980 and broadcast on 17 November 1980.
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Broadcast #OnThisDay 45 years ago:
The League of Gentlemen - Inductive Resonance (Peel Session)
Inductive Resonance by The League of Gentlemen, taken from the Peel Session recorded in late 1980 and broadcast on 17 November 1980.
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Broadcast #OnThisDay 45 years ago:
The League of Gentlemen - Inductive Resonance (Peel Session)
Inductive Resonance by The League of Gentlemen, taken from the Peel Session recorded in late 1980 and broadcast on 17 November 1980.
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Broadcast #OnThisDay 45 years ago:
The League of Gentlemen - Inductive Resonance (Peel Session)
Inductive Resonance by The League of Gentlemen, taken from the Peel Session recorded in late 1980 and broadcast on 17 November 1980.
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“He was a very cool, nice guy to work with and not like any kind of ego lunatic person,” he recalls. “The stuff he did on Bowie’s ‘Heroes’ — he got that tone for us. He was unique and just sounded like #RobertFripp.” #guitarists #Blondie www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/b... #FrankInfante #music
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“#kingcrimson #robertfripp #billbruford #tonylevin #adrianbelew #crimsonking” / “King Crimson - Indiscipline (King Crimson In Concert - Live In Munich, 1982)” (1 user) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIBsSZvmSN0
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Daryl Hall - Sacred Songs
To start, one thing you have to know is that Robert Fripp produced this, and wanted Daryl Hall to be the vocalist for King Crimson.
Not quite what you'd expect from Daryl Hall of Hall & Oates, eh?
Well, he's a great singer and composer, and combined with the more avant garde Fripp, you get Sacred Songs, an album RCA considered so uncommercial they delayed its release from 1977 to 1980 (and then didn't promote it)...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXrpFxHfppI
The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
When silence drowns the screams?Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl, a cracked and broken path
If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be cryingBetween the iron gates of fate
The seeds of time were sown
And watered by the deeds of those
Who know and who are known
Knowledge is a deadly friend
If no one sets the rules
The fate of all mankind, I see
Is in the hands of foolsThe wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
When silence drowns the screams?Confusion will be my epitaph
As I crawl, a cracked and broken path
If we make it, we can all sit back and laugh
But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Crying
Crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Yes, I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
Crying#KingCrimson #PeterSinfield #RobertFripp #GregLake #IanMcDonald #MichaelGiles
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The Test of Time: passed.
Still performed 56 years later and on the other side of the Earth."But I fear tomorrow I'll be crying..."
#KingCrimson
#RobertFripp
#PeterGiles
#GregLake
#IanMacdonald
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Dreamtime - watching a well-lit TV studio performance by a 1974 incarnation of #KingCrimson fronted by Cozy Cole. Not sure if either #BillBruford or #RobertFripp were in the lineup. Note - Cozy Cole is not Cozy Powell who was only one degree separated from KC.
The thing I thought of was the video that went around of Lawrence Welk performance overdubbed with Velvet Underground's Sister Ray.
Cole released singles called Topsy and Turvy. Here's his song Topsy-Turvy:
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“His thing is the polyrhythmic #guitar lines. That’s what he does. He doesn’t really do anything else. He doesn’t play the blues. He’s never played the blues in his life. That’s not who he is.” #music #guitarists #RobertFripp #AndySummers www.guitarworld.com/artists/guit...
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“His thing is the polyrhythmic #guitar lines. That’s what he does. He doesn’t really do anything else. He doesn’t play the blues. He’s never played the blues in his life. That’s not who he is.” #music #guitarists #RobertFripp #AndySummers www.guitarworld.com/artists/guit...
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“His thing is the polyrhythmic #guitar lines. That’s what he does. He doesn’t really do anything else. He doesn’t play the blues. He’s never played the blues in his life. That’s not who he is.” #music #guitarists #RobertFripp #AndySummers www.guitarworld.com/artists/guit...
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“His thing is the polyrhythmic #guitar lines. That’s what he does. He doesn’t really do anything else. He doesn’t play the blues. He’s never played the blues in his life. That’s not who he is.” #music #guitarists #RobertFripp #AndySummers www.guitarworld.com/artists/guit...
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Andy Summers ; Ona ‘Robert, neden biraz değişik akorlar çalmıyorsun’ diyemezdiniz.
#Andysummers #robertfripp #prog #progrock #rock
https://los-endos.com/andy-summers-fripple-farkli-ama-uyumlu-bir-is/
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Andy Summers ; Ona ‘Robert, neden biraz değişik akorlar çalmıyorsun’ diyemezdiniz.
#Andysummers #robertfripp #prog #progrock #rock
https://los-endos.com/andy-summers-fripple-farkli-ama-uyumlu-bir-is/
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Andy Summers ; Ona ‘Robert, neden biraz değişik akorlar çalmıyorsun’ diyemezdiniz.
#Andysummers #robertfripp #prog #progrock #rock
https://los-endos.com/andy-summers-fripple-farkli-ama-uyumlu-bir-is/
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Andy Summers ; Ona ‘Robert, neden biraz değişik akorlar çalmıyorsun’ diyemezdiniz.
#Andysummers #robertfripp #prog #progrock #rock
https://los-endos.com/andy-summers-fripple-farkli-ama-uyumlu-bir-is/
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Andy Summers ; Ona ‘Robert, neden biraz değişik akorlar çalmıyorsun’ diyemezdiniz.
#Andysummers #robertfripp #prog #progrock #rock
https://los-endos.com/andy-summers-fripple-farkli-ama-uyumlu-bir-is/
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Starless ( King Crimson) Arranged for guitar solo Giovanni Monoscalco
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Oooh. This is some sweet news. Those #AndySummers / #RobertFripp albums have always brought joy. https://www.dgmlive.com/news/andy-summers-and-robert-fripp
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Oooh. This is some sweet news. Those #AndySummers / #RobertFripp albums have always brought joy. https://www.dgmlive.com/news/andy-summers-and-robert-fripp
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Oooh. This is some sweet news. Those #AndySummers / #RobertFripp albums have always brought joy. https://www.dgmlive.com/news/andy-summers-and-robert-fripp