The first airing of the Bonn footage from the King Crimson European tour 2000. The track was featured on the now deleted Heavy ConstruKction 3 Cd Box Set. The audio from this show is available at DGMLive.com vevo.ly/cLtbLA
Fripp has practiced his parts to absolute, unconscious perfection, freeing his mind up to do his favourite thing-- stare accusingly at his band mates like a strict piano teacher at a student's recital.
Don't forget Talking Heads! Remain In Light wouldn't be the same without him, and Mr. Fripp played guitar on I Zimbra from the preceding album Fear of Music.
Belew is sadly underrated. He deserves a lot more attention in the guitar world. Fripp is simply from another world. When Robert and Adrien play clean it's sweet and intricate, lovely. When they step on the fuzz, it is dragonesque, monsterful, yet still wild and wonderful. The contrasts are specular, spectacular.
Robert Fripp described this song as being at the outer edge what is humanly possible for him to play. The sustained energy and discipline required "pull off" playing this number is impossible for me to imagine...
Something I appreciate about KC is that their music is very complex but it doesn’t feel like Guitar wankery. Even with some of the insane ideas being displayed in these tracks, it never feels too self indulgent or tasteless.
+ MerkinMuffly - There are many fine shredmeisters out there these days, but there is only one Robert Fripp. And Adrien is a perfect foil for his maniacal musings.
@@sigmaman721 he rehearsed this in the dark for six months, he rehearses in the dark quite often so he knows exactly where he is on the instrument, it’s also why he sits so the guitar is always in the same place relative to his body. He says he saw this music in a dream during a particularly bad period of his life in the early seventies. When he woke a voice in his head said play what you saw. Six months in the dark followed.
Recall an old interview when the first band formed and Greg Lake allegedly said" Robert ,you can't sit down you will look like a munchkin". Lol. I still recall no nothings thinking Fripp couldn't play because he wasn't a blues guitarist.
Can you imagine what it would have been like if Robert Fripp had stuck with his chosen profession - real estate agent - instead of going into music? Four bathrooms, swimming pool, guest cottage, neighbors drool ... Century 21 schizoid mansion
30 years ago I worked with a bloke that went to school with Bob Fripp. He told me that even then they thought him "a weirdo", and knew he was going to do something unusual with his life.
This video highly shows Fripp is actually a music robot. He spends more time examining his band mates than his playing, zero emotion, plays the hardest thing to play on guitar, he doesn’t blink.
I don't get it what all of the fuss is about, I have been able to play FraKctured for years. I just pick up my guitar, plug it in the amp, make sure it is properly in tuned, and take a few moments to practice a few scales and assorted riffs. Then I put the thing down, and put the appropriate CD into the CD player.
@@heatherperleberg7816 Yup, when he got together with this 1980 group and wrote that song. Sort of like how the Yes alumni got together with Trevor Rabin and were going to call it "Cinema" after a song they wrote, and then went back to Yes because they'd make about 10x more money. Not sure Crim is motivated by money, but it's definitely self defeating to take on an obscure band name unless a label will over-saturate your exposure. (Another example from prog: Asia).
if you watch closely, you can see him briefly transcend time and space and ascend to a higher dimensional plane of existence during the perpetual motion part.. he's definitely not human
In 1975 I was in the much missed Peabody Beer Stube in Baltimore. There was a guitarist playing for tips, when he came by my table I asked for Crimson's 21Century Schizoid Man. He stood in thought for a minute then started playing. I was blown away, he did things with that song I'd never heard befor. I tipped him $5, and praised his performance. Years later I became a Michael Hedges fan and saw a photo of him . It was the guitarist from the Peabody. I then found out that he'd been living in my neighborhood for two years. God how I wish I could have recorded that $5 preformance.
sometimes Fripp's playing can seem simple and beginner level, but then you have songs like this, that when you analyze Fripp's playing, not only is he complex but he is extremely unique
When I was a child and went to the circus, it was not the clowns painted up with outrageous makeup that scared me, it was the high-flying acrobats that were at risk at any moment of falling to the ground should their technique be anything less than perfect. There was the drama, there was the intensity, the artistry, the magic.
Exactamente , King Crimson son como malabaristas, hacen una música genial que solo ellos pueden tocar, es muy fácil equivocarse y hacer que todos se pierdan. Su capacidad interpretativa es astronómica y lo hacen de una forma tan natural y tranquila que uno llega a temer que alguien cometa un error. Pero ellos simplemente caminan tranquilos por la cuerda floja como lo que son: Expertos, monstruos, dioses.
Some say if you miss a note while playing with Fripp, he shoots you a look that gives you bad dreams for a month. Personally I don’t believe it. Maybe a few days at most....
Robert Fripp is the greatest, most abstract, innovative guitarist on this planet, and probably many other planets! There will never be another guitarist like Robert Fripp!!!
Not as great (yet??) but Geordie Greep of black midi has a lot of parallels to fripp but his skill and creativity goes beyond a copy and to something unique
Seriously insane. Robert himself admits that this song is incredibly difficult to play, yet 90% of the time he's just flirting with Adrian while playing
The fourth incarnation was the most balanced, but this was the most chaotic which give a Metal Feeling that you cant found nowhere else in KC history. And thats because Brufford left, he doesnt like this kind of music.
My personal least favorite KC album has to be Beat. Except for Sartori in Tangier the album's not great, ConstruKction has a lot of good songs, they just sound much better live.
Construkction is probably among my top 5 KC albums. I just love the extremely electrical heavy sound they made. No other band managed to catch that same feeling.
I saw the first performances of this song at the three tour rehearsal shows in Nashville at 12th & Porter May 19-21, 2000. During one performance of FraKctured Robert stopped the song about 3/4 of the way through. He shouted out that they were going to back up and continue on. These were the tour warm-up shows so why not? It was in a tiny room in a club. Couldn't have been more that 50-100 people. I was so close to them each night I could hear Adrian and Robert's pedals clicking. Before the show we sat on the floor and listened to Patricia Fripp telling stories. At one point Robert came out to dispute what she was telling us as he was embarrassed! During the middle of FracKctured every night Adrian had nothing to do (and nowhere to hide) so he just stood there doing nothing but looking out at us while Robert tore it up with Trey and Pat. An amazing sequel to the original masterpiece Fracture.
I was at one of those Nashville shows. During intermission, I went out to the parking lot for some fresh air, and there was Robert, still with his guitar. I smiled at him with a knowing look and a nod, and he smiled back. No need for words.
That, my friends, is what is called "talent", but in reality is thousands of hours of really hard work, to make the difficult seem effortless. Hats off to them!
I have been practicing this song for nearly 2 years. Fripp actually fumbles during the brutal section at 6:00 where he plays a few wrong notes. I think his hand slipped out of place. You can see him briefly look at his guitar neck to find his positioning again. It's hardly noticeable and doesn't detract from the performance, but I thought it was interesting enough to point out.
Before walking onstage with his League of Crafty Guitarists in the 80s, Fripp addressed the assembled squad and said: "Mistakes will be made by everyone, including me. But I shall recover superbly."
Unbelievable. Mr. Fripp has more power and dexterity in his left pinky than most people have in their biceps. And he's fretting and picking every single note! Not hammering on, pulling off, finger tapping or using delay! Contrast with Satriani, Val, or a million other shredders. Pure class.
On top of being a genius, Fripp is a musician. He uses technique to convey emotions. The guys you are refering to (and thousands of others) are using music to serve their ego. That's what shredding is about: narcissism.
I don’t blame Vai. Fripps picking technique makes no sense really, it’s something you can do and he has for 60 years or more but i wouldn’t expect anyone in the modern age to pick up/down every note. Nobody teaches that and you can’t play Hendrix like that, he predates hendrix so he’s got his own pianistic style or impressionist style. I appreciate it but i couldn’t play that way!
Well,actually a lot of do called shredders do this too. Most of them plays technique called alternate picking and this is exactly this. Tapping and legato are just options be cause that techniques sounds different ,alt picking are more agressive and other two are more fluid
Without Robert Fripp we would never have had King Crimson. For this and staggering innovation and craft on guitar playing and his service to music he should be awarded an MBE.
What an incredible performance. Belews tone is so complimentary to fripps. Love it so much. Is like golden streams of nostalgia and forgotton memories of lost other worlds stteam in.
5:07.... Jesus Fucking Christ!!??... I will always, ALWAYS love Steve Howe, my all time guitar inspiration and hero.... but God DAMN, Fripp blows his fucking doors off here!!!!! HOLY SHIIIIITTTT!!!!
Howe Is an excellent country picker among a huge field of country pickers. Fripp is a unique, innovative one-off. I know of no other guitarist quite like him. Scary thing is I can say the same thing about Belew and to a lesser extent Gunn. The amount of talent on that stage is terrifying.
I can't recognize myself in the audience... but I was there. It was the 6th of June 2000. I've stand not far from the stage, little bit right from the middle. The venue was very nice between two museums. The show was brlliant. They mostley played new material. Great sound feeling. About 20 years ago... oops!
I would think the most nervous person on the planet would have to be anyone who had to accompany Fripp on a second guitar...can't imagine the pressure.
What is King Crimson? It's like an abstract poem, that doesn't fully make sense, so you turn it over and over in your mind, until one day you see its structure, its beautiful, terrifying structure, and you feel a sense of darkly shimmering peace wash over you.
For some reason, this special gig as a whole , while short, holds a special place in my heart. Alchemy is of the purest kind, and RF marching on showing to the new milennium what he's got. Now 23 Years later still holds up for the new generations to pick it up as influential as ITCOCK
Robert Fripp is a true precise and virtuoso guitar hero. Just we shall remember when Ritchie Blackmore said that Fripp was the unique guitar player that he did not get play the chords easily.
Unfortunately just not commercial enough or in with the right crowd. Got nothing to do with music as others have inferred. I am just grateful Fripp is still out there with yet another incarnation and playing. Awards? Inductions? That and 50 cents will get you on the subway as we used to say in NY way back.
This has always been my favourite track since I fell off my chair at 5-06, the first time I played it. Truely mind bending and I have been following Fripp since 1969
The sound quality for the fuzzy guitar monstrosity at 5:07 (also known as the money shot in this song) is really nicely "clear" in this recording. Plus, except for maybe one overly loose out of control moment, this version is faster and throat-chokingly gnarlier than the album version.
Yeah, Robert's discipline is best demonstrated here how even with the occasional bum note (or not so occasional), he doesn't completely lose his footing. Wrong note at the right time, indeed.
@@eddievhfan1984 Yeah, I see many comments stating that he never misses a note and that's plainly wrong in this recording (you can see him almost panicking at 6:00) but his ability to keep on going after a blunder is absolutely staggering. Not even counting the fact that this recording is at least 10 bpm faster than the (already barely playable) original's 138bpm and played live with what seems like subpar monitoring (he doesn't seem to have in-ears)... Yeah, his discipline is off the charts. I can barely play the original in my bedroom, let alone live.
@@eddievhfan1984 Yes, and he's been playing on headphones ever since, truly a man of fine taste ! He seems really more comfortable in the TPTB tours too, having little to no interference surely helps
