After Bobby Frippertronic’s critique of Jimi and Clapton t’other day here’s something to make your own mind up! Here he is some eight years later . . .
More fascinating finds from FLOPPY BOOT STOMP / VOODOO WAGON Facebook pages . . . .
Another from the Flikkenbuch pages of Voodoo Wagon > Floppy Boot Stomp
Tony Levin on what it was like auditioning for King Crimson!
Robert is At Home, reporting on his pitiful stature as a human being, demonstrating the production line of income-generating artworks, fine points of the acoustic guitar part to In The Court Of The Crimson King, and how not to play Heroes...
I can’t quite recall if we have mentioned Robert Fripp’s broadcasts about guitars and playing them before. He has a remarkably silly YouTube series of him with his wife Toyah singing and doing mad things but he also does a podcast, vidcast whatever they’re called about guitar playing and it is often truly fascinating!
This one is no exception . . . . . . . .
Robert At Home - March 2023
"Robert considers five primary forms of practising, receives a late-arriving Valentine gift from ‘Sweetlips' Wilcox, addresses the calisthenics of two finger combinations, gets excited by a proper wind machine, files old fan letters in Mr. Johnson's trunk, puts out two Valentine cards in the attic office, and Danny of Roadrunner Records sends three Slipknot vinyl albums and one by Gojira."
He is of course as mad as a fruitcake! Which is why we like, nay love him!
This from Robert Fripp’s Facebook page. Now I really admire Robert Fripp and discovered him really through Brian Eno. I was aware of King Crimson but not really much of a fan apart from classic rock numbers like 21st Century Schizoid Man but really found them a tad hokey (it's a word and I know what I mean . . . . .)
but his work with Eno was much more interesting. The story of how Brian got him to play on Heroes in Berlin with David Bowie is a classic. His vids with his wife Toyah are of course hysterically funny and he is clearly besotted with the ex-punk rocker but isn’t everyone’s ahem, cup of tea but his solo videos on his work on guitar playing are exceptional and show a much more extraordinary serious side of the man! Technical as well as fascinating the man knows his instrument like few others.
So this clip is fascinating and really made me sit up and reassess what I thought I knew of the man
FRIPP & ENO
FLAC no less*
