#RobertFripp

[indisciple]

i want to keep them in my pocket and play with them like little dolls THEY ARE SO ADORABLE!!!!!!!!!!!

[frankienereau]

Il y a 45 ans, j'avais 16 ans (bordel....) et le premier album solo de Peter Gabriel sortait. Attendu comme le loup blanc. On se vautrait dans son écoute avec les potes du lycée, après 2 ans d'attente depuis son départ de Genesis. On décortiquait la moindre phrase, on cherchait sur la pochette des indices pour comprendre de quoi les morceaux retournaient. On s'ébahissait devant la diversité musicale de cet album. On buvait chaque respiration du morceau final : "Here Comes The Flood".

En 1979, j'avais 18 ans (putain...). Robert Fripp sortait "Exposure". On avait aussi attendu longtemps ce premier album solo depuis la séparation de king crimson. Enfin, solo, je m'entends... Avec les potes de la fac, on a passé des soirées (voire des nuits) à decortiquer cet album qui nous a littéralement cloué sur place. Découvert que Darryl Hall n'était pas qu'un chanteur de soul blanche permanenté. Exploré jusqu'à la double croche cet album d'une diversité incroyable. Qui se terminait par la version DEFINITIVE, dépouillée de ses arrangements, de "Before The Flood" chantée par Peter Gabriel. Dont on buvait chaque respiration.

Aujourd'hui, alors que Robert Fripp annonce un coffret de 32CD des sessions de "Exposure", je ne cesse de revenir regulièrement vers cet album plus que vers celui du Gab'. Mais ils restent tous les deux intimement mêlés dans ma mémoire musicale. La colorant d'une teinte bleutée délicatement électrique.

[claudestar2017]

1977, what a trio!

Fripp / Bowie / Eno

[canadianstud]

MUSICIANS WHO DON'T LOOK LIKE ROCK STARS

[longliverockback]

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[toyahinterviews]

TOYAH AND ROBERT ON BBC RADIO MANCHESTER WITH MIKE SWEENEY 31.5.2023

MIKE: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp, one show business' most recognisable couples. They've had some massive hit records. Toyah on her own and Robert Fripp as a member of King Crimson. During lockdown their brilliant "Sunday Lunch" YouTube videos were incredible   They got such a reaction to those videos that they're coming to The Lowry (in Salford, 9.10.2023) to celebrate both of their careers. To find out more, I sat down with Toyah and Robert earlier this week TOYAH: Well, when the dreaded lockdown started we just didn't know what was going on - like everyone else. We're live musicians and performing is our oxygen. Our audience is quite simply our family. We put this jive video out on a sunday lunch (time), about the 9th of April and we got 100,000 replies within five minutes from around the world. New Zealand, Bali, Manila, Hong Kong. It was all from people who were alone We decided that we would just continue posting these "Sunday Lunch" videos, which was very absurd. We don't take ourselves seriously. It grew and grew and grew. We had 111 million visitors to Toyah YouTube channel. And we now feel we want to take this out into a live environment, touring. Myself and Robert Fripp and we just want to share the love now MIKE: Robert, I think we're a similar age. I started in bands in the 60s and you've come through that with King Crimson and then onwards through these decades. We're here now, it's 2023. When you look at your start in rock and roll and where you are now - it just fascinates me what a journey that's been. How do you view it? ROBERT: Well, I view myself strapping on and rocking these rock classics with my wonderful little wife. Very much like the last time I strapped on and rocked out with the League Of Gentlemen in 1965. In between I seem to have been sidetracked into writing music and playing with good musicians this strange material, which has been accepted by some but rejected by most people in the mainstream     So I might as well go back to what I began doing, which is playing great rock songs with my chums. In this case, my bestest is chum in the world, little Willcox TOYAH: I'd like to abbreviate that answer, if I may (Robert and Mike snigger) My husband has ended up working with David Bowie. One of the main guitarists on “Scary Monsters”, on “Heroes”. He's worked with Blondie. He's actually worked with them all and they're all legendary musicians ROBERT: Yeah, but none of them played “Enter Sandman” or “Paranoid” (Toyah laughs) Or “I Want To Be Free”. I mean c’mon!      

MIKE: You will have different musical directions. How do you decide - so it’s a proper team effort - what the actual songs are going to be?

TOYAH: They have to suit who we are. Without a shadow of a doubt we've got to do these versions absolutely brilliantly. We are doing “Enter Sandman” and we are doing “Paranoid” and they have to be Toyah and Robert doing them. So we sit down and I usually start off with a list of songs that I love. I love classic rock. Then Robert listens to it. He says “I  really love that!” And we both develop a passion for the same song and then we work out how we're going to do it. So the tour that we're doing, the Toyah and Robert "Rock Party/Sunday Lunch" tour is a celebration of how incredible heritage rock is and it is breathtaking. We're going to be covering people from David Bowie, because of Robert’s history with David Bowie ...      We're doing my hits as well. But we're also dipping our toes in with Marc Almond “Tainted Love”, Blondie. Many, many other artists that were playing the songs of ROBERT: Metallica's “Enter Sandman” is not one that I would normally expect me to play but this popped up on the "Sunday Lunch", which is actually our highest ever viewing figures. The riffs in the in Metallica are phenomenal so rock out with that MIKE: How are you preparing for that transition from being on YouTube as a couple to being on stage as a couple? TOYAH: Well, we've done five secret gigs already and three of them had to call in extra security. It turned into an absolute riot. The audience got very, very excited. It is a transition. So we're very much going out there with a large band. It's a show band. It's got eight musicians - ROBERT: Yeah, we have two keyboard players, who sing and a wonderful electronic drummer. Two guitarists - TOYAH: Three guitarists - ROBERT: Well, that's when you add me. And if everyone sings and it's been suggested by me that I don't join in the backing vocals on this one - there can be seven people singing and me cheering them on TOYAH: So what we've developed is a very big rock show, which honours - totally by accident - 50% of the songwriters are American, 50% of English. So it's a complete celebration of this kind of heritage rock and we're calling it a "Rock Party". It is absolutely inevitable that Robert's and my humour is going to come on to that stage, but the humour isn't the carrying force. The carrying force is the shared love of music So when we're on the road in October, we're going to use the imagery of "Sunday Lunch" as part of the projection screen production so that the posters are going to keep flashing up. What we've learned is that the posters are what people identify with     Now, if anyone's listening ,who's never seen what we do on social media - there's always a very big colourful poster in the background saying something like "Fripp's Ma Bitch" or "Bollocks". These posters are going to be up on the big screen as we're performing so we're bringing in the visuals of "Sunday Lunch" via media while doing an incredibly live rock show ROBERT: So the question is how to honour the spirit of "Sunday Lunch"? Well, the quick answer is we're going to have fun and we're going to rock out with nothing solemn here whatsoever. We are aiming to give people a good time    

MIKE: Final question to the two of you. I get where you're at, Robert. My wife's my best mate, I adore the woman but she's not in the music business. I often wonder how we’d get on if she was a really successful broadcaster, which is what I do now         You two - you've got to have egos to get to where you are. You really care for one another. That always came over, funnily enough, in the kitchen videos - your affection for one another. But how do you balance that? Robert wants this or Toyah wants this TOYAH: (they both laugh) We typically fight! ROBERT: That's an easy one, Mike. You learn to say “yes, dear” MIKE: Well, there we are. Can I just say it's wonderful talking to the two of you. I remember getting an Island (record company) sampler. I think it might’ve been “You Can All Join In”   - ROBERT: (It was) “Nice Enough To Eat” MIKE: It had “Court Of The Crimson King” on - ROBERT: No, it has “Schizoid Man ” - MIKE: It did! (Toyah cackles) That's when I first discovered you. And then Toyah I've met because of radio various times since the middle of the 80s. It's brilliant talking to the two of you. A great rock and roll city, when you come to Manchester. I hope you realise that TOYAH: We do. Respect   MIKE: You take care, both of you. Robert, thanks for being with us. Toyah, thanks for being with us TOYAH: Pleasure. Thank you, Mike ROBERT: Bless you, Mike Listen to the interview HERE

[minstrel75itg]

Album Number Four Hundred Eighty Nine “Evening Star” is the second studio album by British musicians #robertfripp and #brianeno. It was recorded from 1974 to 1975 and released in December 1975 by Island Records. My copy is on E. G. Records - EGS 103 (#egrecords was a British artist management company and independent record label, mostly active during the 1970s and 1980s. The initials stood for its founders, #davidenthoven and #johngaydon.) ….. The pair signed on as managers of #kingcrimson in early 1969, during the formative stage of the band and prior to the release of debut #inthecourtofthecrimsonking, with it springboarding their entrance into the record label and music publishing markets. They also signed #trex, #emersonlakeandpalmer and #roxymusic to management. This album's recording and the preceding seven-show European tour by #frippandeno marked Fripp's first output after disbanding King Crimson and his last before temporarily retiring from music (at the time thought to be permanently) to study at the International Academy for Continuous Education in Sherborne House. #rockandroll #ambientmusic #dronemusic #theseventies https://www.instagram.com/p/CqQX2pPuJAc/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[akiyasu-k]

Released on 23 March 1973 😎 ⁡ King Crimson Larks’ Tongues in Aspic - 1973 ⁡ Editions EG Collectors’ Edition Half-Speed Mastered Version 1987 ⁡ Produced by King Crimson Cover Design by Tantra Design, London ⁡ #billbruford #jamiemuir #davidcross #johnwetton #robertfripp https://www.instagram.com/p/CpZDKELPDee/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[frankbrodauf]

[Scary Monsters (and super Creeps)] [David Bowie] [LP] [1980] With musicians like Pete Townsend, Robert Fripp, Carlos Alomar, Tony Visconti. Andy Clark and others, the album "Scary Monsters" is already on a pretty high level. But by "Ashes to Ashes" ,which captivates by its ingenious mood changes, it is catapulted into highest spheres! . Beside this for all times unattainable masterly track there are also other extremely worth hearing tracks like for example the almost even more impressive "Teenage Wildlife" or the progressive "It's no game" dominated by Robert Fripp. Not to forget the title track "Scary Monsters" a track that intelligently merges Rock, Progressive Rock and New Wave and thus becomes a very unique track. . All in all not the best album by David Bowie, but alone by the tracks mentioned here a not everyday, impressive work and a "must have"!

[thisiskabe]

Damage, by David Sylvian and Robert Fripp

stars to hold songs to sing

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[blunderbussin]

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Rules: Answer the questions, then tag five people you want to get to know better in a new post

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[indisciple]

count your days incelthirdworld9858 and jeffmacarthur9722

[milkyway-ashes]

what are some of your favorite classic rock/prog rock blogs?

WHAT WHAT WHAT

most of my tumblr moots are classic rock/prog fans, plus some blogs that I’m only their follower and those are classic rock-related too :,(

it’s frickin’ difficult to choose favs (I love everyone!)

but here’s a list of some fab blogs that are either mainly focusing on prog/classic rock content (their misc posts are less) or the ones that I’d followed them only bc of their classic rock content at first:

@robertfripp (their King Crimson and Pink Floyd content are the best😭)

@minstrel-in-the-gallery (Jethro Tull Jethro Tull Jethro Tull Jethro…)

@progschmog @pasta-connoisseur @good-oysters @death-by-mercury

@dulu0z0427 @zralokx (both of them are such talented artists🥹 I love their prog fanarts sm <3)

@youre-no-good (one of my top fav Deep Purple blogs on tumblr, for sure)

@modishanachronism (Steve Howe girlie…)

@prog-rock-confessions @dadrockconfessions

@frootyrooties @grxtsch @mayplantstarrwaters @eddie-rifff @burn-on-the-flame

@glamidols @doktordyper

these blogs have got lots of misc posts and I hadn’t only followed them for their music content, but they do deserve to be mentioned :D : @blunderbussin @junecast-moonfast @hammill-goes-fogwalking 🥰🥰🥰

I know that there were many blogs that I forgot to mention. I’m so sorry😩

I love all of my moots with all my heart <333

[mayplantstarrwaters]

what are some of your favorite classic rock/prog rock blogs?

In case you really want, here's a few i could name for you :3

@hammill-goes-fogwalking @robertfripp @dulu0z0427 @medl2ey39 @yesterdaysanswers @zralokx favorite prog blogs who are also my cool besties and mutuals

@fancycolours @hoppkorv @balladofsallyrose @birdie-hop @chrysochromulina @closertotheheart @freezerfreys a few classic rock blogs that are my fav

[canadianstud]

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