Half a Pica Distance (Free subscription) | 17/11/2008
The amazing Robert Fripp: Best known for his work with King Crimson, Robert Fripp is one of the guitarists who revolutionized guitar playing in the late '60s/early '70s. He's one of those guys always attempting to push limits with what can be done with sound and technology. In the above video he's using a tape delay technique he called "Frippertronics." While this doesn't sound at all odd to our ears...
LAist (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
Photo courtesy of Patricia Fripp Guitarist Robert Fripp would like it to be known that his forthcoming appearance at the Sheraton Los Angeles on Sunday, November 9 will not feature any guitar playing whatsoever. He's not bringing a guitar. He will instead be talking at length about how to give more effective business presentations. Under most circumstances you might think a punch line was coming up....
KID SHIRT (Free subscription) | 01/11/2008
Well, Farmer Glitch has quite rightly diverted me from my current UK-Fusion Micro-Binge - aka The Drive to Annette Peacock (to paraphrase Robert Fripp's Three-Year "Drive to 1981" Plan) - basically, just an excuse to post photos of the fabulous and much-overlooked Annette Peacock ... The Farmer has correctly divined the Non-Peacock-Fixated subtext of my recent posts as being about *ahem* The Guitar....
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 20/10/2008
Of Montreal's Skeletal Lamping is out tomorrow in a dizzying array of formats (including t-shirts and totebags). What the week lacks in star power it makes up in quality releases. From what has already crossed my path, I can...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
With a name like California Guitar Trio, at least three things are for sure. The band has ties to the Golden State. It features three members, and the instruments of choice are guitars. The group's music, though, is a surprise.
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
She has long counted Leslie Ash as a close confidante, so Toyah Willcox was well aware of the risks of cosmetic surgery. Rather than being put she did her research and now advocates other women do the same.
Austinist (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
Also out (and highly recommended) this week: Lambchop's OH (Ohio) , Juana Molina's Una Dia , Spinto Band's Moonwink and Brian Eno & Robert Fripp's Evening Star reissue. Castanets City of Refuge (Asthmatic Kitty) Ray Raposa decided to record his next Castanets album -- the fourth full length for Asthmatic Kitty -- in a small Nevada town last year while on the road. Hunkering down in a locally owned...
Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
She has long counted Leslie Ash as a close confidante, so Toyah Willcox was well aware of the risks of cosmetic surgery. Rather than being put she did her research and now advocates other women do the same.
The Truffle (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
The lady's name is Toyah Wilcox and she was a punk star in the UK during the early 1980s. Nobody in the US knows who she is, except for a handful of King Crimson fans, who know she's married to Robert Fripp. This clip is from "Urgh! A Music War" and it's a really striking song. Early 1980s synthy dance rock at its best.
LSI Online News (Free subscription) | 01/10/2008
USA - Prog-rock innovator Robert Fripp and his band King Crimson recently completed a short string of select American dates reinforced by a Midas XL8 console at FOH, manned by Ian Bond. In ...
Thumbrella - Words To A Void (Free subscription) | 18/09/2008
An assortment of Fripp custom guitars and some other nice looking guitars too.Crimson Guitars
Odd Bits of Life in New Orleans (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
I am not a musician. Instead, I write a bit: sketch a simple picture, perhaps tell a bit of a story, offer and defend my opinion. Nothing fancy here. If you want art, try the library or the museum. Sometimes the words don’t come. Staring at this glowing panel, songs sometimes come into my head. [...]
Uncertain Times (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
This interview was taped in Santa Monica, California, during Fripp's Drive to 1981 Tour . This means he would have been playing tunes from Exposure , which is an utterly badass album. Small Mobile Intelligent Units must find and consume. Robert Fripp Although the interviewers are a bit out of their depth, it gets progressively better: pt.2 pt.3 pt.4 Check The Boffomundo Show for more interviews, including...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 30/08/2008
While he's often (and understandably) considered the creative force behind perennial art rockers King Crimson, cofounder/guitarist Robert Fripp is, in fact, a far more democratic leader than he's given credit. Bassist/Stick man Tony Levin--one of the fundamentals behind the 1980-'84 and 1994-'97 incarnations of Crim, recently returning to the fold after a hiatus during the group's 2000-'03 years--makes...
