Robert Fripp - Frippertronics, Interview

Robert Fripp - Frippertronics, Interview

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Music

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• robert
• fripp
• frippertronics
• king
• crimson
• ambient

[zappatx]

These days it's rare to hear someone saying so much by saying so little.

[UFOGEAR]

For those of you who say that Fripp is pretentious or sounds so might recant your views and check out the YouTube videos, 'Robert Fripp: New York - Wimbourne (Parts 1,2 & 3). These videos show where Robert is coming from (so to speak). IMO he is anything but pretentious. He's just not willing to 'dumb-it-down' for (some mass bone-head audience).He speaks plain English with a basic vocabulary, but his thoughts are evolved, developed, not crude or rudimentary.

[llanbo]

I do like that West County yokel burr in his voice. Him and Joe Meek ;-)

[LilyLemony]

"Maturity in a musician would be the point at which one is innocent at will." Although Fripp makes this quote about music, you could really apply it to any of The Arts. He is a brilliant man.

[TFMTraining]

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[marwatt1959]

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[GangstaGTV]

Does anyone know what kind of guitar Robert Fripp is using in this video? And, if its not the same as the guitar he played with King Crimson in the 1980s' what is that one?

[andybass61]

@zappatx

I hope you are being sarcastic. I wish I had some up with that one.

[andybass61]

@UFOGEAR

Erm. Yes he is pretentious.  He constantly says really really obvious things in a round about over the top way.

[tbenkey]

...will vary. But saying you created that music is like saying a prism creates light. All the frequencies of light are always there. The prism just makes them visible. Fripp is taking that to a macroscopic level and saying the music already existed in the ether and the musicians who 'find' it are merely the prisms where the light becomes visible for time. This is anathema to atheists, and I am not judging either way, but I make music and tend towards Fripp's POV.

[tbenkey]

...your own filter distorting the ideas being presented. Speaking of filters, it is silly for atheists and spiritual people to argue. You will never agree. Fripp believes in a higher power translating the music. He isn't alone. Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, etc. all believed that as well. Some modern composers I am sure, did not. But to say a classical musician playing a master's piece is 'creating' music is inaccurate. Yes, they are recreating the sounds that were composed and the versions (cont)

[tbenkey]

The responses this brought are wildly entertaining, lol. Ok, first of all, intelligence does not equal pretense. And ironically, it is usually the smarter people who feel this way because they feel they are being talked down to and so get their backs up. It is a case of ego. You see someone intelligent, and your ego tells you that he thinks you are an idiot and probably won't understand what he is saying. I am guilty of it myself at times. You have to recognize it as your own filter (cont)