Fripp cannot stand and play... never could.. sad , because u really need to do that as a performer...its alot harder to do! .. and a true stick in the mud...refused to ever change and has just gotten more head strong thru the years putting out some of the most boring , horrid, ostentacious 'music' i ever heard as of late... Robert come home! Capture that 70s spirit and throw your fans a f*cking bone!
@leonakita That could be because he's a left-handed guitarist playing on a right-handed guitar, using an incredibly difficult technique called 'cross-picking'. Prog rock has never been and will never be about 'appealing to the masses'.
I was expecting to be a boring bloody purist saying "dont tamper with this classic", but actually found myself quite liking it, well, except perhaps for the last minute and a half "noodle fest"...Good post anyhows....
Fripp doesn't need to draw attention to himself. He's a self made man & a classy musician. Took a workshop many years ago with Fripp at the Roxy on Sunset Blvd.. We were so stoked none of us played, just listened & watch the master at play.
I love how Fripp doesn't need to be in the light. He composed this masterpiece, plays it like you normally breathe, and makes the show with his art. I've seen the 3 of them in concerts separately, they're all amazing, but Fripp is still one step further... or higher.
Doom is upon us : ) I´m one of the biggest Crimson fans Ever to walk this earth, but still I think this episode of Movements of Energy needs to be considered as a piece of spirituality...
I've seen G3 some years ago with Fripp.Fripp started with his soundscapes,nearly everybody started booing and shouting,I could k.l. that Stuuupid crowd !!!And to be honoust I prefer Fripp and Adrian Belew anyway!!Joe and Steve play their guitars very well,but as musicians I can't remember 1 great song written by them.Like the ending of this Crimson track,just the same old tricks what takes far too long !!Give me Hendrix anytime.Thanx for sharing !
Fripp is amazing: he plays the most MOVE-YOUR-BODY hard rock music I've ever heard, yet while he's playing he stands or sits perfectly still except for his hands. I was a kid when that first Krim album came out and immediately bought it just for the cover. I didn't care if the music sucked. Boy was I pleasantly surprised!
@cliffwalkinfool I think he only stood once while playing, back in the early days when Greg Lake told him that he couldn't be sitting on stage in a rock concert, because he'd look like a mushroom... He said that he didn't feel comfortable at all standing during the performance and he never tried it again.
i feel like people listen to king crimson because of the crazy time signatures and it's a musician thing to like them. they forget that it still sounds amazing regardless.
3 of my absolute favorite guitar players! Robert Fripp, Satch & Vai jamming on one of my favorite pieces! The only thing I could ask for is to have been there!
thinking back to 1974 when I bought this 8 track and the overpowering effect it had on me as a total package..... one of the best proggressive albums of all time with Red maybe one of the most progressive songs of its time...... king crimson has many flavors over the years this was one of the best
It just doesn't work for me. Fripp is British, intellectual, crafted and wonderfully obscure. Joe and Steve are clearly brilliant but they seem to be turning it into a rock extravaganza. No, try again!
Interesting version--the arena-rock version, I guess. I do miss the intro/outro, though. (For those who don't know, the intro/outro features a diminished scale in a metric pattern of 5/8-5/8-3/4-4/4 on a chord progression of B-D/F-Ab/C/E; this is then transposed downward to G-Bb/C#-E/G/D, then the original is repeated, moving to a tritone E chord. Then the "double-stop" riff gets going.)
Was that a cardboard cutout of Robert Fripp in the background?
Didn't these clowns want to give him any room to play?
Yeah, it was their show, but in whose honor was the set? When you have the opportunity to bring one of your heroes onto the stage with you, you don't stand there and show HIM how it's done, you take a bow, step aside, and let him show you why he is your hero in the first place.
I want to learn this version of this song so badly...its hard trying to transcribe this seems like it dose not follow any underline idea of music theory... or does it? urgh lol
One of the most awesome rock guitar instrumentals that I've ever heard, by KC.
I simply cannot listen to this one at a low volume. My neighbours don't like this track. It's mad! It's good these guys appreciate one of the masters. Pity they didn't do the kick ass until red intro & outro.
FRIPP says they hate frippertronics in england so when g3 offered the tour he jumped on it he said if he was younger he would wear spandex pants an play shred speed metal.
No disrespect to Fripp but the whole ambience music style isnt my thing. Satch is the best out of the 3 by far without a doubt in my opinion, Steve is the showman but Satch is the true guitar god looking down on the the other guitar pawns of the world. Rock on you 3 especially Joe!
@lookslikeyouhadenuff Would you call Red ambience? It's a Fripp's classic. I think this concert is about three great rock/contemporary musicians with lots of respect for each other, playing together for the joy/fun/blast of it, while maybe bringing down some mental barriers among their loyal fans.
@lookslikeyouhadenuff JS and SV are great musicians in their world of rock and add the flair, showmanship and play their music their way and RF, like Frank Zappa play their music their way without needing to be showmen. I used to Like SV and JS, but prefer RB now as his music is more meaningful to me
@lookslikeyouhadenuff you should really try to get into it! try to lose the whole guitar idol thing, anyone can have skill with practice. fripp created everything that wasnt stuff like Deep Purple, it takes a true artist to create those half-ambient atmospheres from nothing
the amount of respect payed by these two good kids is paired by the huge level of disrespect tributed by a disordered and ignorant public. shame to anyone who booed the author of red as he played in sync with the times (and in a slightly different timbre).
@diegochersicola I Watched that show, it was fun because the chump besides me, who was criticising Fripp for no "pyrotechnic guitar", was stunt after this song, and even said " wow, it must be a new Vai song" ... It was fun to correct him.
I've met Robert Fripp,and he is a nice -- but somewhat peculiar -- man. He's a god, yes, but -- an introspective god who's more interested in putting his music spotlight upfront-and-center than his person. Remember Chevy Chase's character in _Caddyshack_, who loved to play golf by himself? Fripp is kinda like that, but with guitar.
Actually Fripp didn't write Red - it was Wetton and Bruford. Fripp really didn't like the song and it was only because Wetton and Bruford lobbied so strongly for it that it made it onto the record.
Vai adapts to suit the song in his solo, surprisingly enough (didn't Zappa use to challenge him to see if there was anything he could NOT play?), but Satriani doesn't, really.
The stuff at the end is pure G3 but kinda comes out of left field; no wonder Fripp remains calm.
Utterly brilliant. love this meeting of English and American guitar gods. Brilliant stuff! The world may never know how utterly innovative King Crimson has been.
1980, Agora Ballroom, ATL, King Crimson Disipline tour. I was standing in back of the balcony, looked to my left and this very proper English gentleman was standing next to me. I nodded, he nodded back....then I realized it was Robert Fripp! He sensed the recognition, and quietly walked away. What followed was the BEST show I've ever seen.
Wow what was with that last two minutes? The song was good and it was nice to hear the bit of in the court of the crimson king but damn those last two minutes were atrocious. I hate to image what steve's gonna do to hendrix songs.
Doesn't really work does it ? Sure Satriani and Vai play their licks off, and it sounds fantastic; but maybe they could've hung out the back a bit with Fripp, in respect, comradery, friendship as it feels kind of uncomfortable to watch.
Equally Fripp could've moved his chair at little closer to the front of stage.
I remember reading about this Gig in Fripp's diary, I'll say no more except it was interesting ... as a English Gentlemen. Hey Fripp helped M$ with sounds for Vista, how about that !
Actually, Robert Fripp has always been very modest in his playing. He always sits kind out of view of the audience, even though he is truly one of the greatest of all time. He made a comment that "we are all turkeys" on stage even though most would watch him play and be amazed.
welllll.... sitting in the background and having your section of the solo quite drowned out are two different things. Of varying importance. Maybe its was just the soundmans' lack of diligence. or just being seduced by the "performance" of the clown princes of guitar technique.(Vai, of course the much more pathetic attention starved child of "THE TWO") But doesn't Steve realize how embaressing his POISONesque, 80's act is ? For me, it makes the guitar work very forgettable. audio only, please
@kevnote Is that Steve Vai, the man Eric Clapton described as the guitarist most mentally and phisically connected to his instrument of any guitarist he had ever seen? Can't be that bad then...;)
I've seen two King Crimson shows...years apart....Fripp always stays put on a chair in the background...his choice. He toured once with Peter Gabriel and was pretty much over at the side of the stage out of sight the whole time! That's Bob....
@Miquitzli yeah, but if you get Bruford there, Vai and Joe would be confused the whole song, not knowing what to do xD just kidding, all of them are fantastic and i love their music
@Miquitzli Couldn't agree with you more! Bruford would have made this a 10, rather than a 9.5! the bass player did an awesome job laying it down for these three legendary virtuosos, but it would have been cool to have Levin there, too!
@Miquitzli you know, BB said "when in doubt, roll!!" bruford is really amazing, and he is himself even if he's drumming on a nursery rhyme..wow! thnx God for fripp&Co.
Oh man, I love this tune, really love it. To see these three play it is almost akin to a religious experience. Thanks for sharing, if only it was a pro-shot video and audio. Audio orgasm time.
Yeah, that's cool. If you enjoyed that, check out the original by King Crimson on the album called Red from 1975. That whole album is amazing, not just for guitar, but for drums (Bruford) and bass (Wetton).
That is a really G3! I have seen them in Mexico, Satriani, Vai and Fripp. Now I admire Satriani and Vai more than before, because they invited R. Fripp to play with them. They recognized who is the Master and they are amazing guitar players too. It is a pity that there are people who do not understand why Fripp plays in G3. They do not know about music, but Vai and Satriani they do.
How they can just let fripp sit at the back there is just criminal. Okay, if he didn't want the limelight, but fripp absolutely floors them both. That's grossly disappointing. Just because fripp isn't showy.
Every fiber of my KC being despised this. Those guys are the anti-Fripp. Mugging it all the way. I should add that I hated when Belew performed it as well even as part of KC.
@JoeSatrini I've seen Fripp play several times, with King Crimson and with Projekct Two. He is usually hidden in the back on the side and often not well illuminated. This appears to be the way he likes it.
@Brocattoroo Fripp has said in documentaries that he prefers to sit down and play, that standing up is improper for the way he learned and generally makes him unhappy.
Robert Fripp has always preferred staying in the background with few lights because he wants the audience to concentrate on the music and not on the guitarist
@moroney88 Actually, he prefers to play music only, and avoid that kind of exposure. If he could have choose, I think we would have play in total darkness.
Actually, he, per example, toured with Peter Gabriel and played all shows behind a courtain. Just playing, not fancy hands or headbanging.
@moroney88 I'd bet almost any amount of money that that's exactly where he asked to be. In the "double trio" King Crimson days, he was stationed between the drummers in the back row, with no spotlights or anything. I think he just likes to keep a low profile, even when he's onstage.
There's actually stories about how he refused to perform on stage without his stool. It was his main reqest he would ask for. I guess he just prefers it that way :)
As focused as many are on Satriani and Vai, this is of course originally a King Krimson piece, the master playing behind these two originally wrote Red. Robert Fripp is true god in the world of guitarist. And yes I have a great deal of respect for Satriani who of course taught Vai and a few other amazing guitartist like a old friend. Of course Fripp's style is that of an English gentlemen sitting on his chair playing while he blows out the most amazing guitar riffs
my god!!!:O:O:O:O, satch and vai really fuckin need to record together, i know they've talked about it before and said that they're doing too much to do it now and when they're doing nothing and start to settle down they'll do it then but this is proof that they need to drop everything to record one badass album!!
amazing talent, incredible virtuosity, matched be postering, phalic showboating. Does talent like this HAVE to come with such teenage wanking??
enoboye 2 weeks ago
Fripp cannot stand and play... never could.. sad , because u really need to do that as a performer...its alot harder to do! .. and a true stick in the mud...refused to ever change and has just gotten more head strong thru the years putting out some of the most boring , horrid, ostentacious 'music' i ever heard as of late... Robert come home! Capture that 70s spirit and throw your fans a f*cking bone!
leonakita 1 month ago
@leonakita That could be because he's a left-handed guitarist playing on a right-handed guitar, using an incredibly difficult technique called 'cross-picking'. Prog rock has never been and will never be about 'appealing to the masses'.
dharmaseed 1 month ago
I love the way Fripp is just sitting there with a look on his face like Cohen the Barbarian saying "I'm OK, just try to keep up."
McGoonagle 2 months ago 2
I was expecting to be a boring bloody purist saying "dont tamper with this classic", but actually found myself quite liking it, well, except perhaps for the last minute and a half "noodle fest"...Good post anyhows....
ognibandyrrah 3 months ago
Fabulous it's an honor for King Crimson... A two better guitarist of 80's play King Crimson ouahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
younn555 4 months ago
Fripp doesn't need to draw attention to himself. He's a self made man & a classy musician. Took a workshop many years ago with Fripp at the Roxy on Sunset Blvd.. We were so stoked none of us played, just listened & watch the master at play.
~~~Aloha~~~
InfraRedSky5150 4 months ago 7
I love how Fripp doesn't need to be in the light. He composed this masterpiece, plays it like you normally breathe, and makes the show with his art. I've seen the 3 of them in concerts separately, they're all amazing, but Fripp is still one step further... or higher.
Freddwith2D 5 months ago 4
increibles!!!!
miguepdvoraks 5 months ago
Fripp said that Crimson played music that would cause most heavy metal bands to mess their trousers.
PhysicsForTheFuture 5 months ago 2
Fripp is the man. Kindly and benevolent.
56BUICKRiviera 5 months ago 4
JS and SV are great, but they can't hold a candle to Fripp
MrMusicman456 5 months ago 3
Doom is upon us : ) I´m one of the biggest Crimson fans Ever to walk this earth, but still I think this episode of Movements of Energy needs to be considered as a piece of spirituality...
lisanders11 5 months ago
robert is always like "fuck this stupid dancing on stage, i'd rather sit and don't move but play some real music"
turtlliwdnifuoyehthr 6 months ago
The intro they played is from "The Court of the Crimson King" by King Crimson, the rest is "Red" of the same band...
britocho 6 months ago
Why did they skip the intro of "Red"??? xD
Anyway, never expected this guys to play a tribute to KC :)
britocho 6 months ago
This song is called RED
BrunoSirilo 6 months ago
I've seen G3 some years ago with Fripp.Fripp started with his soundscapes,nearly everybody started booing and shouting,I could k.l. that Stuuupid crowd !!!And to be honoust I prefer Fripp and Adrian Belew anyway!!Joe and Steve play their guitars very well,but as musicians I can't remember 1 great song written by them.Like the ending of this Crimson track,just the same old tricks what takes far too long !!Give me Hendrix anytime.Thanx for sharing !
zenobowie 6 months ago
Fripp is amazing: he plays the most MOVE-YOUR-BODY hard rock music I've ever heard, yet while he's playing he stands or sits perfectly still except for his hands. I was a kid when that first Krim album came out and immediately bought it just for the cover. I didn't care if the music sucked. Boy was I pleasantly surprised!
cliffwalkinfool 7 months ago
@cliffwalkinfool I think he only stood once while playing, back in the early days when Greg Lake told him that he couldn't be sitting on stage in a rock concert, because he'd look like a mushroom... He said that he didn't feel comfortable at all standing during the performance and he never tried it again.
MrLizardisle 6 months ago 2
i feel like people listen to king crimson because of the crazy time signatures and it's a musician thing to like them. they forget that it still sounds amazing regardless.
300daysandnights 7 months ago
The album Red is all about Billl Bruford, in my book. The other musicians have a handful of moments on it, each.
uninoculated 8 months ago
3 of my absolute favorite guitar players! Robert Fripp, Satch & Vai jamming on one of my favorite pieces! The only thing I could ask for is to have been there!
RockinReeseBoyd 8 months ago
Why the hell is Fripp in the Backgroung? He's the one to be spotlighted!
iRrawrrr 8 months ago
I think this song is one most metal bands would have loved to have written.
capricious71 8 months ago 6
whos that tall lady standing next to satriani the whole time?
KJB2010 8 months ago
i was here.........
peterkopko 8 months ago
Not really a piece for soloing over.
burlearth 9 months ago
thinking back to 1974 when I bought this 8 track and the overpowering effect it had on me as a total package..... one of the best proggressive albums of all time with Red maybe one of the most progressive songs of its time...... king crimson has many flavors over the years this was one of the best
gregot4 9 months ago
Gotta get Bruford
timbrecoup 9 months ago
WOW!!! how can there be three gods in a single stage?!
JuancaBassist 9 months ago
who nees a second coming when you got satch, vai and fripp on the same stage at the same time - awesome
shenstone 10 months ago
It just doesn't work for me. Fripp is British, intellectual, crafted and wonderfully obscure. Joe and Steve are clearly brilliant but they seem to be turning it into a rock extravaganza. No, try again!
cluelessingaza 10 months ago
Interesting version--the arena-rock version, I guess. I do miss the intro/outro, though. (For those who don't know, the intro/outro features a diminished scale in a metric pattern of 5/8-5/8-3/4-4/4 on a chord progression of B-D/F-Ab/C/E; this is then transposed downward to G-Bb/C#-E/G/D, then the original is repeated, moving to a tritone E chord. Then the "double-stop" riff gets going.)
ProgRockNerd 10 months ago
Man all these people that make a scathing remark on someone and follow it up with saying peace really look like self righteous bastards
GenericName86 10 months ago
Was that a cardboard cutout of Robert Fripp in the background?
Didn't these clowns want to give him any room to play?
Yeah, it was their show, but in whose honor was the set? When you have the opportunity to bring one of your heroes onto the stage with you, you don't stand there and show HIM how it's done, you take a bow, step aside, and let him show you why he is your hero in the first place.
cliffwalkinfool 10 months ago
This must be one of the strangest amalgam of personalities since Hendrix opened for The Monkees.
dbmayne 11 months ago 61
@dbmayne One of the best comments ever
Panurgije 1 week ago
I want to learn this version of this song so badly...its hard trying to transcribe this seems like it dose not follow any underline idea of music theory... or does it? urgh lol
rokku87 11 months ago
One of the most awesome rock guitar instrumentals that I've ever heard, by KC.
I simply cannot listen to this one at a low volume. My neighbours don't like this track. It's mad! It's good these guys appreciate one of the masters. Pity they didn't do the kick ass until red intro & outro.
MalquiLans 11 months ago
Fripps solo = phalanx of chainsaws tearing into a thousand live babies
ChillingInAFire 11 months ago
Alway's KC... with Satriani and Vai...wow
delganun 1 year ago
if the were cuttin heads they both lost to fripp
jmhoelzel1 1 year ago
Fripp ALWAYS wants to be in the background. Even when he plays solo, he plays behind his Lunar Module system.
TheWinkler74 1 year ago 3
FRIPP says they hate frippertronics in england so when g3 offered the tour he jumped on it he said if he was younger he would wear spandex pants an play shred speed metal.
maxinedal 1 year ago
No disrespect to Fripp but the whole ambience music style isnt my thing. Satch is the best out of the 3 by far without a doubt in my opinion, Steve is the showman but Satch is the true guitar god looking down on the the other guitar pawns of the world. Rock on you 3 especially Joe!
lookslikeyouhadenuff 1 year ago
@lookslikeyouhadenuff Would you call Red ambience? It's a Fripp's classic. I think this concert is about three great rock/contemporary musicians with lots of respect for each other, playing together for the joy/fun/blast of it, while maybe bringing down some mental barriers among their loyal fans.
suguspjr 1 year ago
@lookslikeyouhadenuff You really need to see a specialist to see if they can boost that IQ to at least the double-digit realm.
gormarx 11 months ago
@lookslikeyouhadenuff JS and SV are great musicians in their world of rock and add the flair, showmanship and play their music their way and RF, like Frank Zappa play their music their way without needing to be showmen. I used to Like SV and JS, but prefer RB now as his music is more meaningful to me
bobby666666 10 months ago 6
@lookslikeyouhadenuff you should really try to get into it! try to lose the whole guitar idol thing, anyone can have skill with practice. fripp created everything that wasnt stuff like Deep Purple, it takes a true artist to create those half-ambient atmospheres from nothing
DimebagsLeftToe 9 months ago
@lookslikeyouhadenuff Satch RULES.
floridashorti 9 months ago
Robert Fripp is always at the back. He doesn't need to prance around the stage like some...he's just a musician.
MrBigredbus007 1 year ago 82
@MrBigredbus007
Yeah, but it would be good if had a spotlight on him too. He is a great guitarist, after all.
Raelspark 4 months ago
@MrBigredbus007
Fripp needs to get off his ass. There's a reason he's the only fat one on stage.
davidbrucemusicvideo 1 month ago
WOW! :0
pollaris18 1 year ago
I wonder if there's a backing track to this song
rokku87 1 year ago
the amount of respect payed by these two good kids is paired by the huge level of disrespect tributed by a disordered and ignorant public. shame to anyone who booed the author of red as he played in sync with the times (and in a slightly different timbre).
diegochersicola 1 year ago 3
@diegochersicola I Watched that show, it was fun because the chump besides me, who was criticising Fripp for no "pyrotechnic guitar", was stunt after this song, and even said " wow, it must be a new Vai song" ... It was fun to correct him.
dannopper 1 year ago 6
Theres Vai and Satch at the front, giving it the rock god, and seated behind them, the vicar, Reverend Fripp, who wrote the bloody tune!
SvenTviking 1 year ago 2
Yes guys, Robert is not your typical rocker, externally.
What he plays is more extreme than anyone but Hendrix.
revtkatt 1 year ago 2
@revtkatt uhm, id say Fripp's music is much more extreme than hendrix's.
WyattTheGuitarist 7 months ago 2
por dios que temazo de Crimson!!!! estos 3 guitarristas son unos genios
cerpintaxt92 1 year ago
When I saw Fripp/King Crimson in 1974 Fripp was seated. He says he can't play properly while standing.
kurtizzyflush 1 year ago
you know that, deep down inside the cold mathematical recesses of fripp's brain, he's like "omfg this is so much fun"
jcfbell3001 1 year ago 10
For me Satriani is a great guitar soloist, Vai is a great sohwman with perfefct technic playing but Mr Fripp simply is... A GENIOUS
FerranK68 1 year ago 8
If only they could have Bruford... This would be pretty amazing.
MasterYumyums 1 year ago
SATRIANI and VAI are masters of the electric guitar no doubt...
But no-one can much FRIPP'S originality, inspiration and virtuosity...
i wish Satriani didn't have to be standing right in from of him during his terrific corded solo...
MrLizardisle 1 year ago 3
Ohhhhhh I love it ....
Wernerandreasli 1 year ago
I've met Robert Fripp,and he is a nice -- but somewhat peculiar -- man. He's a god, yes, but -- an introspective god who's more interested in putting his music spotlight upfront-and-center than his person. Remember Chevy Chase's character in _Caddyshack_, who loved to play golf by himself? Fripp is kinda like that, but with guitar.
craig8128 1 year ago 6
Actually Fripp didn't write Red - it was Wetton and Bruford. Fripp really didn't like the song and it was only because Wetton and Bruford lobbied so strongly for it that it made it onto the record.
vdgghead 1 year ago
@vdgghead you're wrong, just read Eric Tamm's book
AndrewGull87 7 months ago
@vdgghead
Are you joking? Red credited to Fripp alone and it's his signature tune. Check your facts, please.
CarryingNoCross 5 months ago
Vai and Satriani were taking guitar lessons while playing with that monster
calculoramas 1 year ago 9
When I saw King Crimson at The Roxy-Sunset Strip- 30 years ago, Fripp sat behind his amps. He was very modest then and still is now.
musicgod9 1 year ago 5
Vai adapts to suit the song in his solo, surprisingly enough (didn't Zappa use to challenge him to see if there was anything he could NOT play?), but Satriani doesn't, really.
The stuff at the end is pure G3 but kinda comes out of left field; no wonder Fripp remains calm.
youraisemyrent 1 year ago
they both lookn up to fripp like us all
numberwang2020 1 year ago
Utterly brilliant. love this meeting of English and American guitar gods. Brilliant stuff! The world may never know how utterly innovative King Crimson has been.
ChordCluster 1 year ago 4
1980, Agora Ballroom, ATL, King Crimson Disipline tour. I was standing in back of the balcony, looked to my left and this very proper English gentleman was standing next to me. I nodded, he nodded back....then I realized it was Robert Fripp! He sensed the recognition, and quietly walked away. What followed was the BEST show I've ever seen.
Frooshenglasen 1 year ago 5
Wow what was with that last two minutes? The song was good and it was nice to hear the bit of in the court of the crimson king but damn those last two minutes were atrocious. I hate to image what steve's gonna do to hendrix songs.
phirana2 1 year ago 3
if you understand Fripp you will know why is on the back sitting down...it's all bout his philosophy...too advanced..humiliation and glory
drbassclinic 1 year ago
Doesn't really work does it ? Sure Satriani and Vai play their licks off, and it sounds fantastic; but maybe they could've hung out the back a bit with Fripp, in respect, comradery, friendship as it feels kind of uncomfortable to watch.
Equally Fripp could've moved his chair at little closer to the front of stage.
I remember reading about this Gig in Fripp's diary, I'll say no more except it was interesting ... as a English Gentlemen. Hey Fripp helped M$ with sounds for Vista, how about that !
Bruce097 1 year ago 3
When was this?
cyclysm748 1 year ago
Actually, Robert Fripp has always been very modest in his playing. He always sits kind out of view of the audience, even though he is truly one of the greatest of all time. He made a comment that "we are all turkeys" on stage even though most would watch him play and be amazed.
dynmohum 1 year ago
These two guys look kinda rookies in front of Robert Fripp... Excellent song!
rubenpx1 1 year ago 7
fripp has become the les paul of metal!
coreyagraph 1 year ago
Wow the intro of The Court Of The Crimson King,
I love KC and for me the best song to play in a G3 should be 21st century schizoid man!
genesisjazzzz 1 year ago
why isn't there a cd for this? If im correct this was G3 right, id definitely buy a cd of this whole performance.
Choji11 1 year ago
ding dong & fripp
fraterlucifer888 1 year ago
Robert shuns the lime light. He is an enigma. Trust me I know him.
gimpdak 1 year ago
il peut se mettre derrière ; il est tellement loin devant !!!
gammaGTgammajereste 1 year ago
welllll.... sitting in the background and having your section of the solo quite drowned out are two different things. Of varying importance. Maybe its was just the soundmans' lack of diligence. or just being seduced by the "performance" of the clown princes of guitar technique.(Vai, of course the much more pathetic attention starved child of "THE TWO") But doesn't Steve realize how embaressing his POISONesque, 80's act is ? For me, it makes the guitar work very forgettable. audio only, please
kevnote 1 year ago
@kevnote Is that Steve Vai, the man Eric Clapton described as the guitarist most mentally and phisically connected to his instrument of any guitarist he had ever seen? Can't be that bad then...;)
SvenTviking 1 year ago
Pistoia 2004, am I wrong? I was there!!! Thank you for uploading!
brimone1982 1 year ago
he has all his peddles and effects and stereo monitors right there and he sits.
plus look at those 2, who would wanna take part in that cheese show?
JDB808 1 year ago 4
@JDB808 vai shames this
hojima 1 year ago
@hojima Vai shames this??? How? tell me how he shames this?
stevezane 1 year ago
I've seen two King Crimson shows...years apart....Fripp always stays put on a chair in the background...his choice. He toured once with Peter Gabriel and was pretty much over at the side of the stage out of sight the whole time! That's Bob....
bmugwump 1 year ago
I love that these guys are paying homage to Robert Fripp. the Steve Vai solo is SICK !!!!
rixwerld 1 year ago
bob qas "always" in the back, it's his philosophy, gurdjieaf phil
the piece is red by king crimosn 1974
haaden2 1 year ago
fuking drummer is playing it too straight.. get Bruford up there!! have him fuck up the time sig and FUCK WIT YO MIND!!! Bruford and Fripp forever!!!
Miquitzli 1 year ago 78
@Miquitzli ....you took the words right out of my mouth
poodleenvy 1 year ago
@Miquitzli If you watch the later live versions with Bruford (THrAK tour), he plays it more straight, more danceable.
JackBlair2 1 year ago
@Miquitzli Actually, Bruford played it a lot straighter than this.
andaloudog 7 months ago
@andaloudog not true listen to the original again
poodleenvy 2 months ago
@Miquitzli yeah, but if you get Bruford there, Vai and Joe would be confused the whole song, not knowing what to do xD just kidding, all of them are fantastic and i love their music
GoranKami 7 months ago
@Miquitzli Couldn't agree with you more! Bruford would have made this a 10, rather than a 9.5! the bass player did an awesome job laying it down for these three legendary virtuosos, but it would have been cool to have Levin there, too!
Revvin 6 months ago
@Miquitzli you know, BB said "when in doubt, roll!!" bruford is really amazing, and he is himself even if he's drumming on a nursery rhyme..wow! thnx God for fripp&Co.
jonesthecat00 6 months ago
those stupid solos ruined the song, that part is supposed to be focused on the bass.
musicalmason88 1 year ago 5
Fripp was not much for the LIMELIGHT!
blah4477 1 year ago
The ending is so... well longest i've seen!
LeZouave 1 year ago
Oh man, I love this tune, really love it. To see these three play it is almost akin to a religious experience. Thanks for sharing, if only it was a pro-shot video and audio. Audio orgasm time.
ewilliams247 1 year ago
you mean
robert fripp's red with steve vai and joe satriani!!!!!!!
thnks for the upload.
ithamar000Y 1 year ago
grande fripp estos 2 son menos ke fripp mucho menos
chipavistor 1 year ago 4
Fripp's solo sounds like a thousand souls lamenting in hell.
akyeager 1 year ago 63
@akyeager Definitely... A genius...
SomethingforNothingR 5 months ago
@SomethingforNothingR if you like Red listen to Breathless on Exposure with Tony levin and Narada michael Walden
poodleenvy 2 months ago
@kristo67 King Crimson's Red if from 1974. The 1975 album is USA, wich is live.
zeppelinre 1 year ago
Espectacular Fripp!!!!!!
Floydss 1 year ago 2
Yeah, that's cool. If you enjoyed that, check out the original by King Crimson on the album called Red from 1975. That whole album is amazing, not just for guitar, but for drums (Bruford) and bass (Wetton).
kristo67 1 year ago
That is a really G3! I have seen them in Mexico, Satriani, Vai and Fripp. Now I admire Satriani and Vai more than before, because they invited R. Fripp to play with them. They recognized who is the Master and they are amazing guitar players too. It is a pity that there are people who do not understand why Fripp plays in G3. They do not know about music, but Vai and Satriani they do.
marcobandini1 1 year ago
el video seria fabuloso sin Satriani ni Vai .. xD
rodrigo8881 1 year ago
3:45-4:25 the rest are standing still, recording qulity is not to good unfortunately
spicken 1 year ago
How they can just let fripp sit at the back there is just criminal. Okay, if he didn't want the limelight, but fripp absolutely floors them both. That's grossly disappointing. Just because fripp isn't showy.
Phobia017 1 year ago
Every fiber of my KC being despised this. Those guys are the anti-Fripp. Mugging it all the way. I should add that I hated when Belew performed it as well even as part of KC.
hfhifi 1 year ago
totally awesome!
VLombardi01 1 year ago
Let´s just say that Robert Fripp is the one and only, perhaps the top 5 best guitarist in the world are (for me):
1.Omar Rodriguez-Lopez (The Mars Volta)
2.Adam Jones (Tool)
3. Robert Fripp (King Crimson)
4. John Frusciante (The Mars Volta)
5. Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree)
errincon 1 year ago
@errincon Without Robert Fripp, there wouldn't be any of the guitar players you mention, bro.
Peace.
Carlosmr1984 11 months ago 11
@errincon
john frusciante is actually more known for being in red hot chili peppers.
funny how you mentioned him as a mars volta guitarist while he played only 2 or 3 solos on their records.
although he was considered as a studio guitarist
turtlliwdnifuoyehthr 6 months ago
They look like children near him=)
maik341 1 year ago
Why is Fripp in the background? Don´t think that´s very fair.
moroney88 1 year ago 16
@moroney88 I think it's more to do with the fact that he likes to sit down - rather than being asked to be in the background?
JoeSatrini 1 year ago 26
@JoeSatrini I thought as much but it just doesn´t look right. Kinda makes the other 2 look bad to be honest. Even if it´s not their decision.
moroney88 1 year ago
hes always sittin back there....
matthewlesco 1 year ago
@JoeSatrini and @moroney88, Maybe it's Vai and Satriani playing to a young crowd that won't get the old school show.
mlund5 1 year ago
@JoeSatrini Robert Fripp loves to sit back and be low profile
cris11cros 1 year ago
@JoeSatrini : And I think he is a humble, no-showboat sort of man these days.
rezeski 1 year ago
@JoeSatrini
Yup - go and watch some King Crimson videos and he sits in exactly the same position with Crimson as here.
landsberger64 1 year ago
@JoeSatrini I've seen Fripp play several times, with King Crimson and with Projekct Two. He is usually hidden in the back on the side and often not well illuminated. This appears to be the way he likes it.
shaynegryn 1 year ago
@JoeSatrini
That or Fripp isnt as much into the attention aspect of a performance as he is the music itself.
Brocattoroo 1 year ago
@Brocattoroo Fripp has said in documentaries that he prefers to sit down and play, that standing up is improper for the way he learned and generally makes him unhappy.
MasterYumyums 1 year ago
@moroney88 But Fripp has always wanted to stay in the background, without lights
Atomearthman 1 year ago
@moroney88 he likes to be there
julianbastidas 1 year ago
@moroney88 Fripp sits. That's what he does.
bighondo77 1 year ago 4
@bighondo77 He also writes pieces like Red, that will be played in 2030, 2050...
douzilles 1 year ago
@moroney88 In the seventies when playing with Peter Gabriel he sometimes played behind the stage
brajtnerinjo 1 year ago
@moroney88 Fripp always sits in the back or behind something.
RedLarkBolero475 1 year ago
@moroney88 hehehe..'couse he doesn't need to be in the middle..I know he's there, as he always was..greatest of greatests..huge, actually..
jonesthecat00 1 year ago
@moroney88
Robert Fripp has always preferred staying in the background with few lights because he wants the audience to concentrate on the music and not on the guitarist
Atomearthman 1 year ago
@moroney88 He likes to do that
JackBlair2 1 year ago
@moroney88 Actually, he prefers to play music only, and avoid that kind of exposure. If he could have choose, I think we would have play in total darkness.
Actually, he, per example, toured with Peter Gabriel and played all shows behind a courtain. Just playing, not fancy hands or headbanging.
Zanteeh 1 year ago
@moroney88 I'd bet almost any amount of money that that's exactly where he asked to be. In the "double trio" King Crimson days, he was stationed between the drummers in the back row, with no spotlights or anything. I think he just likes to keep a low profile, even when he's onstage.
ThingyBlahBlah3 1 year ago
@moroney88
fripp was sitting from the first years of king crimson
bluezlick 1 year ago
@moroney88 Fripp does always sit in the background. He dont have the need for beeing in the spotlight like Vai and Satriani.
BlueboyzNr1 1 year ago 3
@moroney88
Fripp always sits down and almost always upstage. Its his preference.
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ChordCluster 1 year ago
@moroney88 He likes it that way. It's a fortune that he is even visible at all.
jarbear 1 year ago
@moroney88
There's actually stories about how he refused to perform on stage without his stool. It was his main reqest he would ask for. I guess he just prefers it that way :)
DeadWhiteButterflies 1 year ago
@moroney88 If you knew the guy you would know that is his style. When he plays with good musicians he lets them shine playing HIS music.
He can stay in the background because everyone knows it's his music, The artists just add their interpretation. One cool dude.
loffe9 1 year ago
@moroney88 Fripp is always in the bakground. He does not like the up front attention. He has been this way his whole life. Quirky but talented dude.
dbroeman 1 year ago
@moroney88
Fripp has never seen himself as a lead man, and I think he'd be fine with these two up front.
wmpr88 1 year ago
@moroney88 Tis Robert's choice. Because he's a crazy old goat. ;-p
ponchred 1 year ago
What year does this took place?
Bagas 1 year ago
As focused as many are on Satriani and Vai, this is of course originally a King Krimson piece, the master playing behind these two originally wrote Red. Robert Fripp is true god in the world of guitarist. And yes I have a great deal of respect for Satriani who of course taught Vai and a few other amazing guitartist like a old friend. Of course Fripp's style is that of an English gentlemen sitting on his chair playing while he blows out the most amazing guitar riffs
vatzhizname 2 years ago 58
Long live Robert Fripp.
MCNOISE666 2 years ago
my god!!!:O:O:O:O, satch and vai really fuckin need to record together, i know they've talked about it before and said that they're doing too much to do it now and when they're doing nothing and start to settle down they'll do it then but this is proof that they need to drop everything to record one badass album!!
hunnuit 2 years ago 2
Excelente! 5*
Parabéns!
afonsomario 2 years ago
BEAUTIFUL!
Trustkill3r 2 years ago
AWESOME!
EthnHayabusa 2 years ago