Great point. I am forever astounded by Robert's picking. Folks out there..........what he is doing is super difficult.

Couldn't agree more. Since the 80s (or maybe, since the late 70s), most of the great "progressive rock" artists have gone stale from copying themselves, or simply shifted their style for commercial success, which doesn't diminish all the wonderful music they may have done in the past, but it surely is something to think about...

+Manuel Campins Absolutely right, "Yes" was a great band of the 70s, maybe THE greatest of all in the "prog rock" category, but stopped progressing, now content with playing their old hits :)

Discipline Music Exactly. They've become a tribute band of themselves.

Discipline Music Funny thing is, the so called "classic period" of Yes is undoubtedly amongst the best of the best in prog rock.

@@manuel8887 Tribute band of themselves. That captures it perfectly.

King Crimson first time i met in midle 70is in Trst(Italy) where i going to buy Picato strings and Lp-s. Now I'm 60 and Crimson is my favorite band Zadar - Croatia

I saw them last tuesday ... and now I have depression post King Crimson, BEST CONCERT EVER!

Fripp is a guitar god.

Rover Dover, to my mind, you are a gazillion percent completely right on... Excellent and wise comment in my opinion, thank you....☆

I'm happy to have played with a musician who played with a musician that played with Fripp. Only 3 degrees separated. I'm only 58 so I have time to improve.

Creo que tengo 2 grados, tuve clases con Horacio sairafi

Yes, I agree, one of the best musicians of our time. I love his works with Brian Eno.

He is

You DID capitalize "is" FOR no Reason.

No he isn't! !

Ha, me too. Saw them in Hyde Park in 69 as a 12-year-old. I remember wondering why he was sitting so still whilst Mel Collins was going crazy playing Schizoid Man as were about 200,000 people in the park that day and assumed that it was because he was playing the moog too but 50 years later there he is, still sitting, still being a genius. One of the best concerts I ever saw and it was free! Great days. Still got the first pressing album too, worth quite a bit apparently but not sure I could ever let go of it.

On the court of the crimson kings: try the larks tounge wit aspeic

After "meanderings" you caved!

@@Super241946 Ha, I know, right. I definately did!

. Wow! I love all the guitars on synchronicity

@Wadsmitter ... and Philip Glass, don't you think?

i don't think you can call the master of odd time signatures and polyrhythms "the master of minimalism". on the contrary, his works are extremely intricate and sophisticated.

This is incredibly wrong lmao

Yeah, if there was an opposite to minimalism, it would be that. Master of maximalism maybe :)

Indeed

I’d cut down on the ‘smoking’ m8.

Ironic that your knocking Yes when it's the band where Bill Bruford first proved himself, and which he kept returning to both as Yes and as Anderson Bruford Wakeman Howe: without Yes Bruford wouldn't be the drummer we know him as and thus albums like Discipline, Red, and Thrak wouldn't be the classics we know today. Also considering Robert has worked with everyone from Van Der Graaf Generator to Talking Heads to Hall & Oates to The Grid I doubt he'd take too kindly to the sort of musical elitism you're displaying. Also I'd like to point out that as of yet Frank Zappa is the only musician to be inducted into both the Rock and Roll and Jazz Halls of Fame, and his classical works are gaining increasing currency. The list of musicians he worked with might be the only place you'll see Tina Turner, Pierre Boulez, Adrian Belew, and Kaigal-ool Khovalyg mentioned in the same place. AFAIK Fripp has never done doo-wop (the entire "Cruisin' with Reuben and The Jets" album,) big-band jazz fusion (Waka/Jawaka and The Grand Wazzoo,) muique concrete (Return of the Son of Monster Magnet,) country (Harder Than Your Husband,) sarcastic disco (Dancin' Fool,) rap metal (Dumb All Over,) or written a proper rock opera (Joe's Garage.) Just throwing that out there.

@@tjenadonn6158 I am with you in your points to the original poster regarding Yes. Don't know why picking on Yes needs to happen here. But from my perspective THANK GOODNESS Robert Fripp has NOT done doo-wop or country or rap (krap) and the like. He has done some non prog collaborations including with his wife but I am thankful that he primarily flies beyond the limitations of those other styles and does his own thing.

@@1ouncebird Frank Zappa didn't deem doo-wop (the entire "Cruisin' With Reuben and The Jets" album,) country ("Montana," "Harder Than Your Husband," "One Shot Deal," etc,) or rap ("Dumb All Over," "I'm The Slime," etc.) to be beneath him. Part of "doing your own thing" is not giving a crap about what is arbitrarily seemed high or low culture and being willing to do whatever it takes to make your vision real regardless of how it might be received. Zappa would go from having Sneaky Pete Kleinow of The Flying Burrito Brothers working with him on one album and French hyperserialist composer Pierre Boulez working with him on the next, he'd quote a piece by Stravinsky in a song called "Titties and Beer," write one piece for Terry Bozio that's considered the hardest thing ever written for a solo percussionist at a standard drumset (The Black Page) and another mocking him for his crush on a particularly effete hair metal guitarist (Punky's Whips.) No limits doesn't mean only seeking the highest highs, but moving beyond the concept of highs and lows.

FRIPP king Crimson..king CRIMSON. Fripp..a journey throu the all ages.

the ocean of outer space

genesis was never real

have you digitized them?

Is there anything else you miss?

Yes, I am quite sure it's a part of it. I just had a look on the record, but there's no subtitle. Does anyone knows about it ? Anyway, it was quite a surprise to hear this transcendant piece live. I would have not thought it possible !

And yes, it's a cooperation with Eno. The other title (one LP side each one !) was called "Swastiska girls" and both are among the finest works of Eno and Fripp. With their other record "Evening star".

It also sounds like "Let yhe Power Fall: An album of Frippertronics".

Yes, the more rhythmic stuff reminds me of Philip Glass' "Electric Counterpoint".

21st century scitzoid men

It's called the chapman stick.

Yes look up Frippertronics on You Tube and you'll find some good examples...

There's a Premier Guitar rig rundown with Fripp's tech. It's a full on digital setup, no guitar amps, just rack FX and pedals to set and manipulate. Very interesting

Thys Ballard sounds like he's using some sort of acoustic simulator

I mean I'm pretty sure that the other guitarists are playing the same thing as he but his tone sounds like a chorus pedal or something, but I'm not sure

It's a synthetized sound, he uses a guitar with a hexaphonic pickup and a roland guitar synth unit (ie. roland gk3 + roland gr55) which lets you fully customize the sound (you can apply different effects to each string for example), and blend it with the original guitar tone or not (not sure if he's using the original guitar tone here, i think he's not)

Never. They are too different. And great artists do not feel jealous only mutual awe

Wow! It is perfectly okay if you don't like this music. But when you said "no talent exists" and implied that the audience is gullible you went too far. That is some wild and high level of talent on this video. You just don't recognize it. That's all. You like other stuff. Cool.

exactly