@@esmailalbertoghassemishuak1355 its cutted out in this video BUT before he plays, he says thx to Rick James. Which basicly means that there was a time that Robert Fripp and Rick James were on the same show. 🥰
He has been the most talented and innovative musician in the world in 70s and 80s. Frippertronics got me mad about it, in those days. An outstanding genius.
Thanks to Brian Eno for the first incarnation of what became Frippertronics, after Terry Riley proposed the idea of a two-deck analogue live-delay system. A whole album dedicated to this concept was Eno-Fripp's "No Pussyfooting"
Yes. When I transferred to SFCM in 1980, they had, in "electronic music lab" two Revox A or B 77s. I had seen the setup diagrammed on iirc the liner notes to Eno Music for Airports. So I fed a tape of very clean microphone/loudspeaker feedback into this, with a mixer between the end of the path and the beginning. I lost that, being negligent/stupid.
@@Civilizashum Always good to lose those things. I threw out almost all my quadraphonic recordings from the 80s. Now I'm designing a quad VCA that will allow me to recreate what I did back then.
One of the best guitarists I have ever discovered, his work with King Crimson mesmerised me. I would just love to sit down and just pick his brain on what he thinks of music today, rock music especially
It's worth noting that Fripp insisted on referring to as Frippertronics is actually a tape loop system that was first used by composers like Terry Riley and Pauline Oliveros back in the mid 1960's.
Fripp’s girlfriend coined the term. He used it to refer to his use of guitar with that tape loop system. It’s not like he was trying to take credit for it.
@@psilocypherHe might not have been deliberately taking credit (and in fact, I've seen him specifically state in public that he's aware that other people had used similar systems before him), but a lot of people who don't know the history of experimental music like to give him and/or Eno credit for inventing it. They both did some interesting things with looping, but neither of them invented it.
@@bobconnor1210 Les didn't do looping. Contrary to popular belief, it turns out the Les Paulverizer, the gizmo he mounted on the back of the body of his guitar, was really just a remote control for an otherwise more or less conventional tape machine. I know, he did that schtick in concert, where he'd play something, and then the tape machine would play it back, and he'd play another part on top of it. As I said that was all schtick, showmanship. All the Les Pauliverizer did was start and stop the tape machine, and maybe selectively mute tracks, depending on which part Les wanted to play right there and then.
i listen to this clip and i discover fripp almost 10 years ago when i began to play the guitar. It's amazing how good art can stuck with you and became part of your path as a musician without notice ir. Amazing :)
Just imagine: Rick James performed just before this!! Back in the 1970s, there was a lot more variety on music television, there was more risk and experimentation, which seems completely “illegal “now. You would never ever see something like this happening after a Taylor Swift performance… I think the world would be a better place if we would allow for more open experimentation.
Zappa playing Black Napkins on the Mike Douglas Show followed by an excellent conversation between Frank, Mike, Jimmie "J.J" Walker, and Kenny Rogers is a personal favourite 70s TV show moment.
At the beginning of King Crimson Live in Tokyo, Mr. Fripp starts the show with an electronic version of Frippertronics. I believe he has four or five layers going at once. Very cool.
@@KohntarkoszHe is referring to Fripp's soundscapes where he uses the midi pickups in his guitar to add different textures to the loop-mostly strings and brass.
Funny thing for all the technical parts of the original concepts... This was just Fripp soloing over backing tracks.... I wish you would have used a bit of the tape delay in his solo
I was thinking the same thing, and that his remark about “not knowing what he was going to do” was rather disingenuous. I would have much preferred to see him build the loop… but at the time probably a good idea he did it this way considering his audience
@@brianfergus839You realize the loops fade out with time and are replaced by new loops, right? There’s nothing disingenuous about what he said. The only thing that was predetermined was the starting loop, which was only prerecorded for the sake of saving time on a tv show.
Lovely but misleading, as it was at the time, as he is soloing 'over' Frippertronics rather than actually laying it down. Still mesmerising after all these years though
Took me a while to get close but I think it’s a combination of rolled off tone, a good amount of soft clipping od or compression, humbuckers and a very heavy guitar. There’s an EHX pedal called the attack decay and you can roll off the initial attack and allow set the decay to the longest time and it’ll give you a similar effect. His tone is so ridiculous
You can create close to infinite sustain with some distortion pedals by cranking “level” all the way up and “drive” all the way down, or maybe it was vice-versa.
Heavy fuzz (Burns Buzzaround, Big Muff or something similar) running into a volume pedal to create the attack and decay, and definitely some treble cut somewhere in the chain. It's a pretty simple formula but you have to have a very controlled technique for it to sound any good.
@@MrShortysArtz Yeppers. Based on the work he did with Eno, and based on the work pioneered at the San Francisco Tape Music Centre. A lot of that technique is featured in Allen Strange's Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques and Controls... which I just republished last year.