Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists on VH-1 New Visions

[@vubear]

This is the best comment section on KZbin, hands down. Well done all you clever buggers.

[@seanmiller7889]

Mine's the best.

[@bretthuhn8666]

Im half way through it and there are some juicy pineapples in there

[@gyd67ckn]

This comment section sucks. Bunch of chads who want to give talented eccentrics wedgies. Harhar.

[@samandor1]

CFan What have you done lately? “Shit - goddamn - get off your ass and jam!” even if it’s an Ovation guitar pulled out of a dumpster, or tin cans and a drumstick. The big coffee cans are great - you can alter the pitch by where you strike it, or by using your thumb to add tension. The side ridges are good for raking with a drumstick.

[@sullyprudhomme]

I love their music but the comments are great. Most Fripp fans make fun of RF and his over-the-top and often hyperbolic display of emotion when he performs live.

[@Jackson-ms8zs]

I give this performance a sitting Ovation.

[@shroomhilda]

I changed my user name to defend jeff tweedy online Brilliant! I'm floored!

[@maximusindicusoblivious180]

Yea, it was kind of funny watching all of those people playing with their guitars on the side of their hips because the 1/4” jack input is usually placed in the crouch area of those guitars making it difficult to play without standing up.

[@resacarat]

an oddly tuned Ovation

[@happygilmoor6838]

Hilarious

[@happygilmoor6838]

@@shroomhilda True that. Brilliant.

[@JackT13]

Fripp sits at the back, gleefully admiring his platoon of 21st century schizoid men

[@ThePeanutButterCup13]

Brilliant

[@samandor1]

ThePeanutButterCup13 If you dislike his music, why are you here? What musical knowledge can you bring to the table?

[@ThePeanutButterCup13]

@@samandor1 ?

[@samandor1]

ThePeanutButterCup13 Is the ? a classic passive-aggressive response, in order to shift the discussion and change the agenda? If you have something you want to say, why don’t you just say it? Does “brilliant” describe the music, or the comment? Know what you say, and say what you mean. Love, Your most hated middle-school English teacher

[@ThePeanutButterCup13]

@@samandor1 Are you drunk, or just very stupid?

[@_fesh]

Rumour has it that once Fripp is finished with teaching a new "League of Crafty Guitarists", he eats the best performer in the class in order to absorb their guitar prowess.

[@3three3three3three]

sweet genius?

[@_fesh]

@@3three3three3three lmao yeah

[@finlaymcdiarmid5832]

The immortal fripp

[@Russocass]

He eats them in order to mantain his guitar prowess.

[@FenceThis]

He has gained a little weight over the past years

[@shawnmcvey7789]

These were the King Crimson fans that never tried drugs. The ones that did ended up in Tool.

[@seba5837]

😂

[@jaredreppert9140]

Haha!! That’s great!

[@ginoabeyta311]

Or Primus 😂

[@JiihaaS]

I listened to this and now my books are in alphabetical order.

[@RevGary]

I couldn't stop laughing at this comment at 2:35 am lol tears of laughter many THANKS what a great comments section. Blessings from Glasgow.

[@finlaymcdiarmid5832]

@@RevGary another scot! here in arbroath

[@RevGary]

@@finlaymcdiarmid5832 I've been in Arbroath clubbing in the 90's before I became a Bible bashin God squadder lol. Fitbaw team played at Gayfield. Blessings to you and your family bud.

[@RevGary]

@@finlaymcdiarmid5832 I'm originally from Saltcoats Ayrshire coast.

[@finlaymcdiarmid5832]

@@RevGary never really been to the west coast

[@sandequation2653]

Jeez imagine being him and hearing this stuff in your head 24/7

[@richardrejmer8721]

24/7 . . Yes, that is the time signature he prefers on most of his 'tunes'

[@chriskozub8012]

Put a gun to my head and pull the trigger.

[@nirradyen-tolobaz3727]

@chris kozub It would be a distinct pleasure. Is there any particular style? Lol.

[@mrbungle3310]

Guitar schizophrenia

[@solojinglesradio1]

mmm delitious

[@tuckedup]

imagine them all walking together into an unsuspecting music shop saying " is it ok if we try out a few of these guitars ? "

[@wpdoyle]

That is seriously an incredible idea for a horror film scene!

[@bondfall0072]

@@wpdoyle plot twist, they're all aliens that can manipulate sound waves to subliminally control people's minds.

[@0228christian]

No guitar shop carries that many Ovations!

[@heggy_69]

@@0228christian luckily fripp is never without at least 20 ovations

[@billsteinly8105]

Robert Fripp and Jimmy Page are probably the only 2 people who could get away with playing Stairway to Heaven at a music store.

[@Croot_Music]

One time I was watching that King Crimson live in Japan DVD. My dad walked in and took one look at Fripp and said, "Look at that dork." and walked out

[@ThrashRebel]

Oivalf Music, your dad dropped the mic on that one. 😂

[@angrybird32495]

I can’t trust a guy in a prog band whose not at least a little bit of a dork...

[@wpdoyle]

that is hilarious!

[@shawnmcvey7789]

He was at his coolest when he had the Les Paul, black mellotron, and massive Hiwatt stacks.

[@anemonina]

Classic

[@nantschev]

“Sounds like the birth of Japanese digital watches” my cousin

[@ronaldp.vincent8226]

"Okay Daniel, you did not properly dispose of your assigned dead body. Your punishment will be sitting in the very front playing absolutely nothing."

[@oiramsq73]

“... number 2, you are smiling. It was not your instruction to smile. You were specifically told to play the drone and stare aimlessly out into space. Please refrain from smiling. It does this whenever it is told.”

[@gabe_ed]

My brain reading this like an IA makes it even funnier

[@eamonwright7488]

Too Much Indiscipline!

[@marthaworc7873]

He is the new number 2. Robert took all the water out of the old number 2 and ate him.

[@DavidWickes]

You just need to read it in a slight West country accent...

[@ksjoyjespeace]

Sounds like that Andy Griffith Show...

[@Mekinhumbel]

"...on Wednesday, we'll have two shows in Boston, and on Thursday we'll be annexing Czechoslovakia"

[@martydibergi5228]

Ha that's freaking funny. Is that Joni Mitchell on guitar 😂

[@spacecowboy2k]

@@martydibergi5228 Joni Mitch-hell

[@aaronm2410]

How did they fit all that charisma in one room?

[@chrissmith3668]

Very carefully. They played the Tetris theme while doing it

[@subg8858]

Sorry tan shirt, I only have parts for 27 guitars on this one.

[@wilsonnester750]

Fripps sense of humor is impeccable

[@davidjoyce310]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[@UpstartThunder]

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ProgRockNerd]

He is there to provide silence. You think I'm joking.

[@poplproductionsmashshts95]

He's normally a Triangle player but it didn't fit the vibe on this one

[@anuteamsterium]

I'm not aware of any artist who has so successfully cloned himself, multiplying into a seemingly limitless number of Fripps.

[@johnhasso8908]

Frippception

[@MrAudioBill]

Fripperautomatons

[@mkv2718]

Frippification

[@rmcq1999]

Hear that? That's the sound of inevitability, Mr Anuteamsterium.

[@KevinLopez-jf5ys]

His platoon of 21st Century Schizoid Men.

[@sveltland]

This is the national anthem from some dystopian apocalyptic future society.

[@MikeBaas]

Sign me up!!!

[@Livesinashack]

😂🤣👍

[@vertyisprobablydead]

Like now?

[@88omair]

Yeah it is for Fripptopia

[@harrygrimley4352]

My brain on shrooms

[@jonmiller9925]

Shit gets real at 8:37. Fripp is watching over all of them like a demon

[@juresaiyan]

😂😂😂

[@wxdevil]

I would hate to be the guy directly next to him and make a mistake.

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

Far out, and you dare not look at the fretboard. Not even an eye movement. With Fripp watching over could be punishment probably via whipped with cat o' nine strings!

[@boataxe4605]

@@bradford_shaun_murray I’ve heard that his punishment is making you play Classical Gas for 24 hours straight.

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

@@boataxe4605 you'd get crazy fast but kind of nuts at the same time lol

[@karlchilders8215]

I never knew the Heaven's Gate members were so talented.

[@finlaymcdiarmid5832]

Priceless

[@MarceloKatayama]

Porcupine tree flashbacks

[@Brittjones]

God that’s so dead on

[@flannigan7956]

I don't think they were allowed to be on vh1, play guitar, watch tv,

[@tomi-jon8798]

Top comment haha nice

[@Vocellano]

Everyone who has ever wanted to listen to that song is already in the room playing it. 100% market saturation.

[@solojinglesradio1]

Except that guy doing 4'33'', japanese guy (Hideyo Moriya) is playing later

[@Borlos.]

Yea... No

[@Bhatt_Hole]

This comment, deserves fellatio by not just one, but an entire team of former nuns.

[@nameisnotrelevant]

@@Bhatt_Hole they need to be christened by the teat milk of jesus first

[@KevinLopez-jf5ys]

@@Bhatt_Hole Bless you, Bhatt Hole

[@Tbone6string1]

Wanted: 18 acoustic guitar players who can play with robotic precision, and maintain a facial expression as if you were writing a spy novel.

[@richardhoffman2681]

Underrated comment

[@joemama-vk9qo]

these guys buy socks specifically made for sandals

[@resacarat]

I bet that was the best sale you made all month.

[@nathanricker1]

Hahaaaaa +1 for Mr. rats

[@happygilmoor6838]

Big fans of the ovation.

[@josephvonbulow1164]

😂😂😂

[@Starch1b2c3d4a]

😂

[@hyfowlf]

"They've been Frippnotized" -drlids

[@OfficerOverpowered]

Robert Fripp has the ability to be the god-like boss character in an RPG while also providing his own score

[@irrationallyexuberanttv7269]

Loved playing this on Guitar Hero.

[@boataxe4605]

I tried, but my 12 year old nice still beat me.

[@PurpleBled]

???? Is this a joke

[@daveydudely9954]

hahahaha as a fripp fan for forty years i laffed

[@James-3000]

While the League was known popularly for their guitar performances, their real work was in crime fighting, espionage and even the occasional covert toppling of dictators. The whole "guitar" thing was just a cover for Fripp's true passion: Justice.

[@dima.jiharev]

Lore 🧠

[@DavidKleinProductions]

It’s become so clear now, thanks.

[@mattford1593]

Coolest nightmare ever. Seriously, Fripp has one extraordinary mind.

[@finlaymcdiarmid5832]

Its called schizophrenia

[@danielawesome36]

@@finlaymcdiarmid5832 People with Schizophrenia: "I'm sorry, what???" People with ADHD: "Actually, we can relate. You sure he's not one of ours?"

[@finlaymcdiarmid5832]

@@danielawesome36 it was a joke..

[@danielawesome36]

@@finlaymcdiarmid5832 I know... But there are good jokes, and there are bad jokes. Also, I just wanna take this chance to be informative😅

[@finlaymcdiarmid5832]

@@danielawesome36 nobody else was here, i know the difference..

[@misterquanalocho3593]

This is what I have come to expect from the dangerous brain of Robert Fripp and his gang of sympathizers. More please.

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

8:37... he looks like a Bond villain watching over his subjects whilst plotting and scheming world domination via dissonant progression.

[@jimmythebold589]

his gang of (human sequencers) synthesizers?? :D

[@sam_uelson]

My wife from the other room "this is divorce music"

[@RevGary]

She's a keeper lol

[@ScrapsG]

Five minutes before I read this comment my wife said "Music to make your wife disappear?"

[@chriswakefield9538]

@@ScrapsG My wife's dead.

[@MrSpeed-lt8gr]

She ain’t lying 🤣😂

[@S728-u9x]

LOL

[@michaelgraham9774]

Imagine one of these guys busting out a guitar at a bonfire and playing this stuff

[@andyharman3022]

Sure as hell isn't Michael Row The Boat Ashore!

[@ActuallySettle]

SM0R3 FR4CTUR3

[@pvillez]

after Kumbaya, you'd be thanked...

[@SeattleScotty]

Imagine EVERYONE else busting out a guitar and playing this while staring at you like that.

[@watermusic4381]

😂

[@jzbass72]

A truly whelming experience.

[@linusfotograf]

It’s just right

[@KevinLopez-jf5ys]

Surely whelming.

[@slinkyseal5783]

This is a very underrated comment.

[@elitestarquake3597]

I feel whelm in my cockles.

[@marydoob]

I wore out my Crafty Guitarists tape, just walking around town... listening... and I was thinking... this is a dangerous place...

[@JulioHernandez-wy8nh]

Are you a Cop?

[@marydoob]

Naah, musician… 😊

[@user-zt2wc3uh1l]

She was refering to a line in a King Cimson song. " this is a dangerous place..."

[@marydoob]

@@user-zt2wc3uh1l i know, it was a bad joke, my first comment was a reference to the same.

[@gerrithooyer]

What a weird way to play Wonderwall.

[@MMoturi22]

Wonderwall reharmonized

[@fasuto8656]

@@JohnAlexanderiii DUNDUNDUN

[@SoftTangerineDreams]

Wonderwall is the only acceptably guitar song

[@NeuroticNatty]

I believe this is the music from the final boss fight in Double Dragon II on NES.

[@diu4hgruqyrgrgy333]

are you the mean teacher from anne with an e

[@beno526]

Strong AC/DC influences

[@franriding6473]

I was part of this cult. I tried to leave but was captured. As punishment Robert made me play classical gas for 24hrs straight. My fingers were really sore afterwords.

[@bradford_shaun_murray]

...soundtrack for your above comment ---> 8:59 👀

[@KevinLopez-jf5ys]

Yes@MrHaney1994

[@malachia8590]

😂😂😂

[@chrissmith3668]

@MrHaney1994why wouldn’t he be?

[@Gurogun]

​@MrHaney..both the comments you answered to were sarcastic

[@scaredypicker]

I would just sit there and try to jam regular blues pentatonic riffs and see how long I survived

[@MaynardOwns]

You wouldn't. Pretty sure the guitars are tuned in NST. Fripp's "new standard tuning." BTW it's still not the standard...

[@happygilmoor6838]

Dude... sync up to the frequency residence. You must be strong of Cunning.

[@happygilmoor6838]

And slow to Wrath.

[@samandor1]

No you wouldn’t - first, you’d never pony up the bucks to attend a class like this, because you think you already know everything there is that needs to be known, that is important - and fail to notice that Things To Know only ratchets upward, when you know them, or think you know them. If pentatonic jams float your boat, and that’s all you need, why do you care that others are learning things that you don’t even want to know?

[@HWingo]

@@samandor1 I believe the comment was self-deprecating, not critical or dismissive of these players or their knowledge.

[@northvend]

The League of crafty aspergers (love it)

[@barkebaat]

Yes, there is a certain autistic quality to this music - much brain, little body.

[@chaoticnique9748]

@@barkebaat Do they play the guitar with their brain?

[@barkebaat]

@@chaoticnique9748 : Do you think that was what I meant ?

[@dzeremipegla8783]

ass burgers

[@MingusAhUmmUhhhh]

Sums it up perfectly (I also love it)

[@theakstonsrock]

...don't worry. As long as we stay perfectly still they can't see us. They can only sense the movement...

[@TotinosOtherBoy]

This sounds like stairs falling down themselves. I love it

[@d3lt452]

But you're listening to the whole thing in reverse

[@mkv2718]

You would really like a Jacob’s Ladder toy

[@Marknorthway]

I am sitting here at Bahrain airport, headphones on and tears of laughter running down my cheeks. No-one knows why. Brilliant comment!

[@Fo-Flats]

That's quite accurate.

[@Zavala1]

It's not early Idlewild.

[@courtcomposer]

The music track to my last prostate examination.

[@evilgary747]

I like King Crimson, but I wasn’t ready for this.

[@garywordsworth9302]

I'm sure as a minimum 75% of those guitarists are being held against their will and the other 25% are clearly mentally ill Notice how non of them tap their feet . That's because they have been nailed in place to prevent them from running .

[@ThePeanutButterCup13]

Hahaha

[@martinjefferies666]

so far you win, but it's only been 4 years

[@asammler]

... and they've been forced to do finger exercises until they can't even hold a fork anymore

[@markcarson5118]

Fripps style is stoic discipline.they are following perfect direction.they are as classical musicians.

[@h92o]

Gary Wordsworth you’re wrong they’re all android robots having been preprogrammed,. To make these exact sounds into songs or possibly clones of the frippery mind body concept...against their will? There is no will any more just emptiness in sound and such. I am watching further thinking just clones of the one real person Fripp,.. oh yeah, there’s nothing wrong with Fripp clones and it’s easier to do these days,..

[@DemonSlide]

- "Knock, knock". - "Who's there?" - 12:38

[@mrbungle3310]

We'd like to have a word with you,is that KC that u play on Spotify?

[@finlaymcdiarmid5832]

Tricked but not treated

[@TheMorbillos96]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

[@alchemysticgoldmind4164]

12:48..PARTY TIME!!!

[@spacecowboy2k]

So much expressionless rage behind his eyes, and the Himmler-esque eyeglasses are NOT helping him blend into his army of hell-bound acolytes.

[@finlaymcdiarmid5832]

Heinrich frippler

[@mikek4537]

This next piece is called “Poontang repellant in C”.

[@paulsmith1879]

Genius. That should so be a Zappa song

[@vanshipman]

I’m crying 🤣

[@Onlyelshafto1]

Thats fkn hilarious🤣🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿!!!!!!!! Perfect comment

[@tjdonaldson6923]

Best comment ever

[@tjdonaldson6923]

The youtube algorithm just became self aware so it could laugh at this comment.

[@sergiestevecarbo7310]

i m waiting for a belew elephant sound

[@mrbungle3310]

Belew told me he had to go through this course 6 months ,before he could enter KC

[@salmanalaikum]

What a bunch of nerds. Love em.

[@psychoidmusic]

You can tell at around 10:30 Fripp is questioning all the choices that lead him to be the kind of person that would write and perform Darts. His eyebrow gestures must be regarded as a cry for help from a man consumed by a masochistic compulsion to practice.

[@SeattleScotty]

"Oh god this song is horrible what have I done??"

[@jimk4874]

The one guy in the front left doesn't do anything, he's just sitting there like he's storing energy to bust out a solo, but nothing...brilliant.

[@deanstanley2125]

Why does he have to have a guitar if he doesn't play a note? My only guess is sympathetic buzz

[@jimbailey1122]

That's the spare in case one breaks down.

[@ejotacero]

He plays when he's not on camera, you can hear it if you pay attention

[@adam_levine]

@@deanstanley2125 Fripp's said that guy is there to "play the silence that is a part of music"

[@Rivecha]

@@adam_levine could be, but there were some folks on the King Crimson subreddit who said that was a passive-aggressive way for Fripp to say that the guy had messed up on a previous performance and had to sit out here. Idk though.

[@beefen3907]

Robert fripp is a certified beast just for getting this many adult autists in one room

[@hankkoepke7064]

I saw Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists in 1990. Odd vibe. Beginning of the performance was an uncomfortably long silence, meditation I guess. Then they proceeded to noodle on and on, just like they do in this video. I was dysphoric for weeks after. Kind of looks like they were taken hostage and made a forced confession video.

[@ApexLaneProductions]

Under Fripp's system, properly doing nothing is a necessary precedent to doing something properly. It's about enhancing performance and proper body ergonomics through heightened self-awareness. It draws very heavily upon the Alexander Technique.

[@ApexLaneProductions]

@@GwaliaMusic So I suppose these people were there against their will? No, my friend. This is Guitar CRAFT. It's an exercise in developing the CRAFT of playing the guitar. To be an inspired musician, it helps to develop your craft to the point where your hands can literally take you anywhere inspiration can possibly take you. Hence all of GC's emphasis on body mechanics and efficient movement. This is a level of craft that can be achieved by those who aren't stoned off their arses like The Beatles. I get it, there's more to music than the craft, but Guitar Craft exists primarily for this reason. It enabled many of these folks to be able to go off and do some really wicked stuff on their own. Trey Gunn is a good example. Some of his solo stuff is just savage and beautiful.

[@elysianfury]

If I were to play under Fripp's direction I would absolutely pretend my participation is nonconsentual

[@Blowhard]

"I was dysphoric for weeks after" ahahahaha

[@kirbyculp3449]

Maybe he was listening to a lot of Residents albums for a few years before.

[@JohnGLewis1964]

If you see some people not playing... I believe Robert established a policy that if you were unsure about the level of any particular contribution you might make to the team's music... you did not have to play. Just sit and listen and try to learn. No pressure. This was in good degree a school for young guitarists, of course: a training program.

[@vealcutlet]

+John G. Lewis I recall reading - I believe it was in Eric Tamm's book on Fripp/Guitar Craft - that the gentleman in the lower right was asked by Robert to "provide the silence" in visual form, as silence is the source form which music emerges.

[@JohnGLewis1964]

vealcutlet Ok...

[@Mr13wonderboy77]

Does anyone know if any of these players moved on to achieve any sort of success outside of this group in the way that, for example, Steve Vai did after Frank Zappa? Just curious.

[@SvenTviking]

It's not ability that gets success, it's the ability to write good music or improvise good solos when you're In a band. Cak is cak, even if brilliantly played.

[@resacarat]

David Scott , yes some went on to have lucrative careers. Google California Guitar Trio or Trey Gunn.

[@Luthiart]

Professor Fripp and his Amazing Human Sequencer

[@hughgallagher6372]

1990 I go to the Bottom Line to see Robert Fripp and LoCGs. Have no idea what to expect. But when I walk in, before the show starts, I see Fripp talking to a bunch of people. I thought it was the audience. So I just walked into the group and sat down. Then it got slowly awkward. I realized that everybody was looking at me. Fripp turns to me and says: "Do you mind? This is my band." I was like... "Oh." And slinked away. But hey, Robert Fripp talked to me.

[@UncleGrunt]

It's like they're all part of some weird cult

[@amaro9085]

they are

[@jdavis417]

Yeah... the Ovation guitar cult! ;) Sounds Eno-ish? Or is it Oldfield-ish?

[@zaphodbeatlebrox4906]

Frippish.

[@jdavis417]

"He's just this guy, you know?" ;)

[@robertheazlit5809]

that comment was like being hit in the head with a lemon slice wrapped around a gold brick,

[@nickcharles6530]

I believe this was Fripp’s big experiment with his rhythmic concepts and the New Standard Tuning he has devised. With a group of students to play his experiments, it allowed him to filter out what would go into modern King Crimson albums and what would go to the cutting floor. Quite a success I must say.

[@aletondaX]

Agreed, for example: Thrak. Anyway, most of their repertorie was composed by the students, in this video Darts and Calliope are Fripp's authorship, but i think overall, if you listen to the live albums, 80% or 90% of the repertorie was made by students.

[@michaelcox5166]

Only Robert Fripp would invent a guitar tuning that about seven people in the whole world use and call it The New Standard Tuning... Imagine Fripp and Philip Glass together.

[@EastmanD]

not a bad idea...

[@ThrashRebel]

Michael Cox, well, considering that violins, violas, cellos, mandolins & some other instruments are tuned to 5ths NST makes sense because it makes it easier for a larger group of musicians (i.e., classical musicians) to be able to pick up a guitar & play it. If you know how to play mandolin you wouldn’t have much issue playing in NST.

[@fredmachine]

@@ThrashRebel It's less about tuning in fifths and more about that he called it "New Standard Tuning" even though the entirety of guitarists using it fit into a single room. But then again, he also called a tape looping delay "Frippertronics" and a combination of effects and loops "Soundscapes by Robert Fripp", so I'm just surprised the songs aren't called "Fripping to Frippistan" and so on.

[@pitparra1924]

@@fredmachine fripping on frippistan You sir, just Made my day

[@MpSniperM1911]

actually 8 people i'm using right now

[@roundy72]

They can't wait to get home to their model train sets

[@ryansouthard4929]

So this is what happens when you don’t hug children

[@guitaralligator7250]

😅

[@vicesquadpunk]

I was so relieved to hear some notes lasting longer than a 1/16th.... it filled me with deep joy 💥😜💥 x

[@jimmythebold589]

HERETIC! THOU SHALT HAVE NO TIME VALUES OTHER THAN THE HOLY SEMIQUAVER, BLESSED BE THE SIXTEENTH NOTES, OF TAIN (Wink wink, allan)

[@jimmythebold589]

the triplet piece towards the end! yes!

[@zerozeroisland]

Wow, this takes me back. I was at one of the Boston shows at the Paradise he mentions at around 6:30 i think? And yes indeed, there was someone onstage at every show he called the "Practitioner of Silence". I think they picked a different member each show to 'practice silence". He'd get his guitar ready before each song, with the pick all poised and ready to go, and then not play a note. I even remember him checking his tuning between songs with the rest of them! :) I also recall Fripp did his usual Q&A session with the audience and someone asked about his "New Standard Tuning" (CGDAED) and he wouldn't say what it was, but he did play each open string and said "Those with ears will hear" hahahahaha

[@plume...]

The way they glance at each other with knowing rhythmic eroticism and a wry smile is magical. "Ooh Yau!"

[@SeveringJuan]

When you put all the midi instruments on a track as acoustic guitars you get this But seriously Fripp's effort to push guitar playing forward is admirable

[@oneandonlyadi]

Hahahaha so true 🤣

[@alfsmith4936]

I heard when Robert Fripp heard black midi for the first time, he said it was too easy to play and added a Chapman stick.

[@Christian-97]

@@alfsmith4936The Fripperman on a black midi track would be beautiful.

[@ChrisJohnson-pd4hh]

I found myself humming this all day. A right ear worm!

[@ThePuertoricanBeastJonathan]

The technique in that room was over 9000

[@lawrencefuller8841]

That honor goes to John Petrucci. And Goku.

[@Actiomedey]

@@lawrencefuller8841 Meanwhile, Fripp laughs at bith of them and busts out fracture at 200 bpm

[@ThePhoenix9508]

When math rock becomes rock math.

[@thBrilliantFool]

This is far from being rock in any sense.

[@GreenManalishiUSA]

@@thBrilliantFool it's kind of like rock, stripped of all of its blues influences. killer technique, nearly devoid of get-down.

[@thBrilliantFool]

@@GreenManalishiUSA not at all. Just a bunch of notes played without any rhythmic variation or feeling, in other words a soulless performance. A far cry from from epic masterpieces like In the Court of the Crimson King.

[@ThePeanutButterCup13]

@@thBrilliantFool idk man it was pretty enjoyable to me

[@davilathegreat]

It's more like jazz, if you want to get pedantic. But the joke stands.

[@rspratt]

If Kraftwerk played guitars

[@misterquanalocho3593]

Puleese! Not even close.

[@sanluismariagrigniondemont5778]

Yes, it's kinda The league of 8-bit guitarists.

[@rspratt]

Exactly :)

[@iamhereblossom1588]

They did.

[@AlexShults1]

Robert Fripp truly has an extraordinary odd sence of humour

[@destroybot3000]

@5:44 I CAN REMEMBER ITS IN BOSTON!

[@brutallyremastered4255]

As your spelling.

[@bertpraxenthaler5543]

Typically English, this sense of humour

[@boataxe4605]

The run that Fripp does at 8:50 is outstanding.

[@skaf008]

@@SquirrelASMR😂😂

[@brutallyremastered4255]

I guess I'll never know...

[@KnjazNazrath]

I hate playing darts at the pub, but I love listening to darts at home.

[@finlaymcdiarmid5832]

Dad can we play darts at the pub? But we have darts at home. Darts at home:

[@oolongoolong789]

This stuff would go down well in North Korea.

[@thBrilliantFool]

Truth

[@totigerus]

except if would be played by 11 year old girls and not 40 year old virgins.

[@ivyssauro123]

Yeah cause they can appreciate great music

[@cattybound2011]

The third set of guitarists were caught expressing emotions during the performance. I hope their families have been properly notified and their remains buried with respect.

[@davehall8584]

LOLOLOL! trying to find a witty repost but i'm too busy pissing my pants!

[@MerkinMuffly]

Fripp is like Phil Spector, but without the gun fetish and emotions. He's a highly functional sociopathic musical genius.

[@SuperGorak]

I mean, he used to be tone or rhythm deaf before playing guitar, later rearranging his whole musical thinking by himself with only his bare mind. It doesn't get creepier than that

[@erenanidem3479]

long live to mental disorder

[@markkeen341]

Fripp is no sociopath. Brilliant, introverted, pedantic, and obsessive-compulsive.

[@crimfan]

He has said that he was but I'm pretty sure that he wasn't actually tone and rhythm deaf, just not that great right at the beginning. If he was truly tone and rhythm deaf I'm pretty sure all the practice in the world wouldn't have made any difference.

[@Fatgeologist]

You simply cannot be a sociopath with a Dorset accent.

[@solojinglesradio1]

Trey Gunn playin' that two notes is like a triangle in a big orchestra

[@milkwater1204]

I like to imagine Fripp packs them up when he goes on tour just in case he needs them.

[@CoolGuyWithShoesOn]

This is probably one of the greatest things I've ever heard.

[@davilathegreat]

I might recommend Steve Vai's Tender Surrender, but I have different tastes.

[@Eddfumigadorerrante]

@@davilathegreat Thank you

[@johng2880]

I'm not really interested in music. Music is just a means of creating a magical state. Robert Fripp

[@ellenbottas1982]

hmm

[@kumoyuki]

really? if that's a legit quote (and it does rather sound like him), you/himself might have just unlocked a big piece of my heart

[@sbearly]

Right. Said Robert Fripp one day in his life. The next day he said, "I'm not really interested in life - it's just something to do until you die."

[@finlaymcdiarmid5832]

Im not really interested in drugs. Drugs are just a means of creating a magical cult.

[@Crezelltree4261]

A guitar orchestra. Sounds mystic. Does sound highly innovative. This is vintage Robert Fripp.One of the most fascinating guitarists around today.

[@vincelupone]

You walk in the room late at night. You flip the light on in a dark house. 8:59 is the music you suddenly hear, the lights flip on. Everyone is staring at you, just like at 8:59. H O R R O R !!!

[@SeattleScotty]

omg that is seriously terrifying. This is seriously some weird stuff.

[@sankalchi]

12:39

[@MelvinSanderz]

Robert’s first guitar teacher: “Start practicing the scales” Robert: “It’s a good Idea”

[@TheMorbillos96]

definitely his answer

[@joemama-vk9qo]

a whole group of "that guy at work nobody likes" playing discordant polyrythms. great

[@sirvidia]

there's a woman

[@Fatgeologist]

Indeed. Were I not already happily married, I would propose!

[@MaynardOwns]

LMAO. They really are all that guy

[@digreig]

I've met most of the players here and they're actually some of the nicest people, sorry.

[@kumoyuki]

"discordant"? where did your ear learn music?

[@wuggasnaby]

00:00 Bicycling to Afghanistan 03:12 Spasm for Juanita 06:25 Close Enough for Jazz 07:27 Leap of Faith 08:38 Darts 10:43 Calliope

[@resacarat]

Thanks

[@Daz912]

The song at 6:30 is sketch for summer by the durruti column

[@vtv123here6]

@@Daz912 sounds nothinng alike

[@guitarplayer30001]

@@vtv123here6 could the mods ban him?

[@vtv123here6]

@@guitarplayer30001 what do you mean?

[@LeeBarry]

"A musician is a trained, responsive and reliable instrument at the service of music."

[@craighudson7294]

Robert Fripp. A very talented man. Very lucky too, having played with Bowie on one of his best albums and he gets to see Toyah coming out of the shower every morning.

[@m3tatr0n]

Drummer here - I appreciate this so much!

[@robbinbanx7439]

Man...the 1st song sounds like an "outtake" from King Crimsons "Discipline" record... Carry 0N,R F!!

[@chrisbyars4422]

Robei Josephson elements of this turn up so many places. Spot on ‘ Discipline ‘, I detect elements in Alan Parsons I-Robot, right on over to Jeff Beck. I also hear A smattering of Jethro Tull in there. This music is unreal

[@spencergroup]

That's what I thought, as well. Maybe the intro to Neil and Jack and I.

[@mounsterchef]

Nah, Discipline is definitely more tame, just some 5/4 and 4/4 polymetry and then a true 4/4 part.

[@alexadias7473]

Amazing but can you play smoke on the water?

[@janattaaya]

I bet in Fripps tuning it could be quite a challenge :-) I would love to see THAT tutorial. Anyone?

[@MpSniperM1911]

@@janattaaya it's not THAT hard, i found out that the "new standard tuning" (which Fripp himself called all fiths tuning or (something like that) can still play smoke on the water, but it's not the same thing of course

[@juankgonzalez6230]

@@janattaaya He fucking did it. It's in Toyah's channel

[@thirdeyes9993]

@@juankgonzalez6230 kzbin.info/www/bejne/pmHSeJ5va7hpgMU love them

[@yamnehroncero4238]

I'm pretty sure Robert Fripp is an alien disguised as a human being. His music is otherworldly in every way lol

[@markjohnson4217]

I introduced a buddy to King Crimson and after watching Fripp play for several minutes, he turned to me and said very seriously, " my god...he is just like little Stewey with a guitar.."

[@unhingedconnoisseur164]

legend has it if one plays a wrong note they are held down by the others and beaten to death by fripp and his guitar

[@MrWilly2204]

And now...guitar styles that will ensure you never get laid.

[@PopeShaitan]

HAHAHAHA! Best comment yet!

[@samandor1]

If the only reason you have a guitar is to get laid, there are probably easier props to carry around. Maybe you just need to change your wallpaper, or listen to a different radio station. Or get a motorcycle, or a boat!

[@MrWilly2204]

Samandor I sense that the joke was lost on you.

[@bencollins51]

I bet that female guitarist lays the SHIT out of guys like that😂

[@MrWilly2204]

Benjamin Collins how can she when she spends all her time working on her polyrhythms?

[@YazGuitarChannel]

or, How To De-Phallusize the Guitar. They look like an orchestra of America's 1980s serial killers.

[@ivyssauro123]

Ahahhaha best comment

[@stueyapstuey4235]

crying - you don't even care enough to arrest me! Where's my psycho-drama..!?

[@gianmariotagliabue8509]

hahahahahahahahahahah genius

[@alejandrotiscornia8589]

So this is what lack of love sounds like

[@MpSniperM1911]

lol

[@mrbungle3310]

And countless hours home

[@juankgonzalez6230]

My Bloody who? This is true lovelessness in musical form!

[@alexfxlll]

Ha that’s hilarious

[@LateCambrian]

Ah Yes, VH1...the best hits of the 70's 80's and today.

[@Jkrome]

Asperger's Shredding needs to establish itself again

[@ramlathers8182]

Has there ever been anything similar to this League Of Crafty Guitarists features performances by talented amateurs before? I think Fripp deserves a lot of credit for this experimental music.

[@ThePmfan]

Blame you mean, right?.

[@joeysplats3209]

I found myself looking for the mandolins and keyboards.

[@SeattleScotty]

@@joeysplats3209 Gimme some actual BASS

[@bessiebraveheart]

Hi from England, I'm a 73 yr old rock n roll player, I have never seen or heard anything like this. The diversity of music is astounding. Wonderful musicianship, I love it. Thank you.

[@rageforthemachine]

Why yes Robert a glass of Kool-Aid sounds lovely right now.

[@FrOggyArtist-123]

This is one of the best comments.

[@K2squaredplus]

Still the best comment

[@lornebrinkman-countrymusic3158]

I had a chance to see Fripp and L.O.C.G. perform in Madison WI 1990. It was Absolutely Amazing. This is so cool being able to stumble onto this again. If Insanity itself could be converted into music and weaponized, this would definitely be it! Imagine an army of guitarists being able to use chord and melody structures to hypnotize and mesmerize any audience at will. The riffs and melodies are so original and out of the box, that it goes beyond what the human mind can even conceive.

[@freepadz6241]

Actually quite listenable. Beautiful chords and progressions.