GUITAR WOLF...Robert Fripp
Some might consider it unfair that Robert Fripp’s best-known guitar work isn’t with the band he devoted decades of his life to, King Crimson. It’s on David Bowie’s “Heroes”: The reverb-heavy leads on the title track alone are ingrained enough in the consciousness of popular music to guarantee that Fripp will never be unheard. Even if he’d just been a session legend and invented the Frippertronics tape-loop system of ambient sound creation, Fripp would have a place on this list. But, of course, he did so much more.
Plenty of post-rock and avant-garde musical artists owe a considerable sonic debt to King Crimson or Fripp’s various collaborative efforts—particularly the haunting sounds he provided to Brian Eno on songs like “Here Come The Warm Jets” and “St. Elmo’s Fire.” His style on the essential Crimson albums isn’t much different from what he’d provide in his best-known sidework: improvisation-heavy, sharply distorted, influenced by free jazz and classical as much as blues and psychedelia. Although the riffs and leads on “21st Century Schizoid Man” are some of rock’s most iconic, Fripp had little to no interest in conventional ideas of how to use the guitar, introducing the folk crosspicking style to the rock canon and often eschewing traditional tones and time signatures for unpredictable arrangements that would baffle many guitarists attempting to emulate them.
Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx
Discipline,1996
official bootleg live 1980
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