Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists on VH-1 New Visions 

Mine's the best.

Im half way through it and there are some juicy pineapples in there

This comment section sucks. Bunch of chads who want to give talented eccentrics wedgies. Harhar.

CFan What have you done lately? “Shit - goddamn - get off your ass and jam!” even if it’s an Ovation guitar pulled out of a dumpster, or tin cans and a drumstick. The big coffee cans are great - you can alter the pitch by where you strike it, or by using your thumb to add tension. The side ridges are good for raking with a drumstick.

I love their music but the comments are great. Most Fripp fans make fun of RF and his over-the-top and often hyperbolic display of emotion when he performs live.

I changed my user name to defend jeff tweedy online Brilliant! I'm floored!

Yea, it was kind of funny watching all of those people playing with their guitars on the side of their hips because the 1/4” jack input is usually placed in the crouch area of those guitars making it difficult to play without standing up.

an oddly tuned Ovation

Hilarious

@@shroomhilda True that. Brilliant.

sweet genius?

@@3three3three3three lmao yeah

The immortal fripp

He eats them in order to mantain his guitar prowess.

He has gained a little weight over the past years

😂

Haha!! That’s great!

She's a keeper lol

Five minutes before I read this comment my wife said "Music to make your wife disappear?"

@@ScrapsG My wife's dead.

She ain’t lying 🤣😂

LOL

Brilliant

ThePeanutButterCup13 If you dislike his music, why are you here? What musical knowledge can you bring to the table?

@@samandor1 ?

ThePeanutButterCup13 Is the ? a classic passive-aggressive response, in order to shift the discussion and change the agenda? If you have something you want to say, why don’t you just say it? Does “brilliant” describe the music, or the comment? Know what you say, and say what you mean. Love, Your most hated middle-school English teacher

@@samandor1 Are you drunk, or just very stupid?

24/7 . . Yes, that is the time signature he prefers on most of his 'tunes'

Put a gun to my head and pull the trigger.

@chris kozub It would be a distinct pleasure. Is there any particular style? Lol.

Guitar schizophrenia

mmm delitious

That is seriously an incredible idea for a horror film scene!

@@wpdoyle plot twist, they're all aliens that can manipulate sound waves to subliminally control people's minds.

No guitar shop carries that many Ovations!

@@0228christian luckily fripp is never without at least 20 ovations

Robert Fripp and Jimmy Page are probably the only 2 people who could get away with playing Stairway to Heaven at a music store.

I couldn't stop laughing at this comment at 2:35 am lol tears of laughter many THANKS what a great comments section. Blessings from Glasgow.

@@RevGary another scot! here in arbroath

@@finlaymcdiarmid5832 I've been in Arbroath clubbing in the 90's before I became a Bible bashin God squadder lol. Fitbaw team played at Gayfield. Blessings to you and your family bud.

@@finlaymcdiarmid5832 I'm originally from Saltcoats Ayrshire coast.

@@RevGary never really been to the west coast

Oivalf Music, your dad dropped the mic on that one. 😂

I can’t trust a guy in a prog band whose not at least a little bit of a dork...

that is hilarious!

He was at his coolest when he had the Les Paul, black mellotron, and massive Hiwatt stacks.

Classic

Ha that's freaking funny. Is that Joni Mitchell on guitar 😂

@@martydibergi5228 Joni Mitch-hell

Fripps sense of humor is impeccable

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

He is there to provide silence. You think I'm joking.

He's normally a Triangle player but it didn't fit the vibe on this one

I bet that was the best sale you made all month.

Hahaaaaa +1 for Mr. rats

Big fans of the ovation.

😂😂😂

😂

My brain reading this like an IA makes it even funnier

Too Much Indiscipline!

He is the new number 2. Robert took all the water out of the old number 2 and ate him.

You just need to read it in a slight West country accent...

Sounds like that Andy Griffith Show...

Priceless

Porcupine tree flashbacks

God that’s so dead on

I don't think they were allowed to be on vh1, play guitar, watch tv,

Top comment haha nice

Frippception

Fripperautomatons

Frippification

Hear that? That's the sound of inevitability, Mr Anuteamsterium.

His platoon of 21st Century Schizoid Men.

😂😂😂

I would hate to be the guy directly next to him and make a mistake.

Far out, and you dare not look at the fretboard. Not even an eye movement. With Fripp watching over could be punishment probably via whipped with cat o' nine strings!

@@bradford_shaun_murray I’ve heard that his punishment is making you play Classical Gas for 24 hours straight.

@@boataxe4605 you'd get crazy fast but kind of nuts at the same time lol

Wonderwall reharmonized

@@JohnAlexanderiii DUNDUNDUN

Wonderwall is the only acceptably guitar song

Very carefully. They played the Tetris theme while doing it

Sign me up!!!

😂🤣👍

Like now?

Yeah it is for Fripptopia

My brain on shrooms

8:37... he looks like a Bond villain watching over his subjects whilst plotting and scheming world domination via dissonant progression.

his gang of (human sequencers) synthesizers?? :D

Underrated comment

I tried, but my 12 year old nice still beat me.

???? Is this a joke

hahahaha as a fripp fan for forty years i laffed

Its called schizophrenia

@@finlaymcdiarmid5832 People with Schizophrenia: "I'm sorry, what???" People with ADHD: "Actually, we can relate. You sure he's not one of ours?"

@@danielawesome36 it was a joke..

@@finlaymcdiarmid5832 I know... But there are good jokes, and there are bad jokes. Also, I just wanna take this chance to be informative😅

@@danielawesome36 nobody else was here, i know the difference..

...soundtrack for your above comment ---> 8:59 👀

Yes@MrHaney1994

😂😂😂

@MrHaney1994why wouldn’t he be?

​@MrHaney..both the comments you answered to were sarcastic

Lore 🧠

But you're listening to the whole thing in reverse

You would really like a Jacob’s Ladder toy

I am sitting here at Bahrain airport, headphones on and tears of laughter running down my cheeks. No-one knows why. Brilliant comment!

That's quite accurate.

It's not early Idlewild.

It’s just right

Surely whelming.

This is a very underrated comment.

I feel whelm in my cockles.

are you the mean teacher from anne with an e

Are you a Cop?

Naah, musician… 😊

She was refering to a line in a King Cimson song. " this is a dangerous place..."

@@user-zt2wc3uh1l i know, it was a bad joke, my first comment was a reference to the same.

Except that guy doing 4'33'', japanese guy (Hideyo Moriya) is playing later

Yea... No

This comment, deserves fellatio by not just one, but an entire team of former nuns.

@@Bhatt_Hole they need to be christened by the teat milk of jesus first

@@Bhatt_Hole Bless you, Bhatt Hole

We'd like to have a word with you,is that KC that u play on Spotify?

Tricked but not treated

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

12:48..PARTY TIME!!!

You wouldn't. Pretty sure the guitars are tuned in NST. Fripp's "new standard tuning." BTW it's still not the standard...

Dude... sync up to the frequency residence. You must be strong of Cunning.

And slow to Wrath.

No you wouldn’t - first, you’d never pony up the bucks to attend a class like this, because you think you already know everything there is that needs to be known, that is important - and fail to notice that Things To Know only ratchets upward, when you know them, or think you know them. If pentatonic jams float your boat, and that’s all you need, why do you care that others are learning things that you don’t even want to know?

@@samandor1 I believe the comment was self-deprecating, not critical or dismissive of these players or their knowledge.

Sure as hell isn't Michael Row The Boat Ashore!

SM0R3 FR4CTUR3

after Kumbaya, you'd be thanked...

Imagine EVERYONE else busting out a guitar and playing this while staring at you like that.

😂

they are

Yeah... the Ovation guitar cult! ;) Sounds Eno-ish? Or is it Oldfield-ish?

Frippish.

"He's just this guy, you know?" ;)

that comment was like being hit in the head with a lemon slice wrapped around a gold brick,

Hahaha

so far you win, but it's only been 4 years

... and they've been forced to do finger exercises until they can't even hold a fork anymore

Fripps style is stoic discipline.they are following perfect direction.they are as classical musicians.

Gary Wordsworth you’re wrong they’re all android robots having been preprogrammed,. To make these exact sounds into songs or possibly clones of the frippery mind body concept...against their will? There is no will any more just emptiness in sound and such. I am watching further thinking just clones of the one real person Fripp,.. oh yeah, there’s nothing wrong with Fripp clones and it’s easier to do these days,..

@5:44 I CAN REMEMBER ITS IN BOSTON!

As your spelling.

Typically English, this sense of humour

Under Fripp's system, properly doing nothing is a necessary precedent to doing something properly. It's about enhancing performance and proper body ergonomics through heightened self-awareness. It draws very heavily upon the Alexander Technique.

@@GwaliaMusic So I suppose these people were there against their will? No, my friend. This is Guitar CRAFT. It's an exercise in developing the CRAFT of playing the guitar. To be an inspired musician, it helps to develop your craft to the point where your hands can literally take you anywhere inspiration can possibly take you. Hence all of GC's emphasis on body mechanics and efficient movement. This is a level of craft that can be achieved by those who aren't stoned off their arses like The Beatles. I get it, there's more to music than the craft, but Guitar Craft exists primarily for this reason. It enabled many of these folks to be able to go off and do some really wicked stuff on their own. Trey Gunn is a good example. Some of his solo stuff is just savage and beautiful.

If I were to play under Fripp's direction I would absolutely pretend my participation is nonconsentual

"I was dysphoric for weeks after" ahahahaha

Maybe he was listening to a lot of Residents albums for a few years before.

Heinrich frippler

Genius. That should so be a Zappa song

I’m crying 🤣

Thats fkn hilarious🤣🤣🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿!!!!!!!! Perfect comment

Best comment ever

The youtube algorithm just became self aware so it could laugh at this comment.

"Oh god this song is horrible what have I done??"

Belew told me he had to go through this course 6 months ,before he could enter KC

Puleese! Not even close.

Yes, it's kinda The league of 8-bit guitarists.

Exactly :)

They did.

Agreed, for example: Thrak. Anyway, most of their repertorie was composed by the students, in this video Darts and Calliope are Fripp's authorship, but i think overall, if you listen to the live albums, 80% or 90% of the repertorie was made by students.

Why does he have to have a guitar if he doesn't play a note? My only guess is sympathetic buzz

That's the spare in case one breaks down.

He plays when he's not on camera, you can hear it if you pay attention

@@deanstanley2125 Fripp's said that guy is there to "play the silence that is a part of music"

@@adam_levine could be, but there were some folks on the King Crimson subreddit who said that was a passive-aggressive way for Fripp to say that the guy had messed up on a previous performance and had to sit out here. Idk though.

+John G. Lewis I recall reading - I believe it was in Eric Tamm's book on Fripp/Guitar Craft - that the gentleman in the lower right was asked by Robert to "provide the silence" in visual form, as silence is the source form which music emerges.

vealcutlet Ok...

Does anyone know if any of these players moved on to achieve any sort of success outside of this group in the way that, for example, Steve Vai did after Frank Zappa? Just curious.

It's not ability that gets success, it's the ability to write good music or improvise good solos when you're In a band. Cak is cak, even if brilliantly played.

David Scott , yes some went on to have lucrative careers. Google California Guitar Trio or Trey Gunn.

HERETIC! THOU SHALT HAVE NO TIME VALUES OTHER THAN THE HOLY SEMIQUAVER, BLESSED BE THE SIXTEENTH NOTES, OF TAIN (Wink wink, allan)

the triplet piece towards the end! yes!

Hahahaha so true 🤣

I heard when Robert Fripp heard black midi for the first time, he said it was too easy to play and added a Chapman stick.

@@alfsmith4936The Fripperman on a black midi track would be beautiful.

@@SquirrelASMR😂😂

I guess I'll never know...

This is far from being rock in any sense.

@@thBrilliantFool it's kind of like rock, stripped of all of its blues influences. killer technique, nearly devoid of get-down.

@@GreenManalishiUSA not at all. Just a bunch of notes played without any rhythmic variation or feeling, in other words a soulless performance. A far cry from from epic masterpieces like In the Court of the Crimson King.

@@thBrilliantFool idk man it was pretty enjoyable to me

It's more like jazz, if you want to get pedantic. But the joke stands.

Truth

except if would be played by 11 year old girls and not 40 year old virgins.

Yeah cause they can appreciate great music

The third set of guitarists were caught expressing emotions during the performance. I hope their families have been properly notified and their remains buried with respect.

LOLOLOL! trying to find a witty repost but i'm too busy pissing my pants!

Yes, there is a certain autistic quality to this music - much brain, little body.

@@barkebaat Do they play the guitar with their brain?

@@chaoticnique9748 : Do you think that was what I meant ?

ass burgers

Sums it up perfectly (I also love it)

HAHAHAHA! Best comment yet!

If the only reason you have a guitar is to get laid, there are probably easier props to carry around. Maybe you just need to change your wallpaper, or listen to a different radio station. Or get a motorcycle, or a boat!

Samandor I sense that the joke was lost on you.

I bet that female guitarist lays the SHIT out of guys like that😂

Benjamin Collins how can she when she spends all her time working on her polyrhythms?

not a bad idea...

Michael Cox, well, considering that violins, violas, cellos, mandolins & some other instruments are tuned to 5ths NST makes sense because it makes it easier for a larger group of musicians (i.e., classical musicians) to be able to pick up a guitar & play it. If you know how to play mandolin you wouldn’t have much issue playing in NST.

@@ThrashRebel It's less about tuning in fifths and more about that he called it "New Standard Tuning" even though the entirety of guitarists using it fit into a single room. But then again, he also called a tape looping delay "Frippertronics" and a combination of effects and loops "Soundscapes by Robert Fripp", so I'm just surprised the songs aren't called "Fripping to Frippistan" and so on.

@@fredmachine fripping on frippistan You sir, just Made my day

actually 8 people i'm using right now

definitely his answer

This is one of the best comments.

Ahahhaha best comment

crying - you don't even care enough to arrest me! Where's my psycho-drama..!?

hahahahahahahahahahah genius

hmm

really? if that's a legit quote (and it does rather sound like him), you/himself might have just unlocked a big piece of my heart

Right. Said Robert Fripp one day in his life. The next day he said, "I'm not really interested in life - it's just something to do until you die."

Im not really interested in drugs. Drugs are just a means of creating a magical cult.

Thanks

The song at 6:30 is sketch for summer by the durruti column

@@Whiteyy191 sounds nothinng alike

@@vtv123here6 could the mods ban him?

@@guitarplayer30001 what do you mean?

omg that is seriously terrifying. This is seriously some weird stuff.

Robei Josephson elements of this turn up so many places. Spot on ‘ Discipline ‘, I detect elements in Alan Parsons I-Robot, right on over to Jeff Beck. I also hear A smattering of Jethro Tull in there. This music is unreal

That's what I thought, as well. Maybe the intro to Neil and Jack and I.

Nah, Discipline is definitely more tame, just some 5/4 and 4/4 polymetry and then a true 4/4 part.

I mean, he used to be tone or rhythm deaf before playing guitar, later rearranging his whole musical thinking by himself with only his bare mind. It doesn't get creepier than that

long live to mental disorder

Fripp is no sociopath. Brilliant, introverted, pedantic, and obsessive-compulsive.

He has said that he was but I'm pretty sure that he wasn't actually tone and rhythm deaf, just not that great right at the beginning. If he was truly tone and rhythm deaf I'm pretty sure all the practice in the world wouldn't have made any difference.

You simply cannot be a sociopath with a Dorset accent.

I might recommend Steve Vai's Tender Surrender, but I have different tastes.

@@davilathegreat Thank you

More like LSD.

there's a woman

Indeed. Were I not already happily married, I would propose!

LMAO. They really are all that guy

I've met most of the players here and they're actually some of the nicest people, sorry.

"discordant"? where did your ear learn music?

Dad can we play darts at the pub? But we have darts at home. Darts at home:

I bet in Fripps tuning it could be quite a challenge :-) I would love to see THAT tutorial. Anyone?

@@janattaaya it's not THAT hard, i found out that the "new standard tuning" (which Fripp himself called all fiths tuning or (something like that) can still play smoke on the water, but it's not the same thing of course

@@janattaaya He fucking did it. It's in Toyah's channel

@@juankgonzalez6230 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-p0oGk96S6Jc.html love them

Nope, trunk is already full of bodies.

Imagine one of them finding a guitar at a house party. Picks it up. Someone in the back screams "PLAY WONDERWALL". They chuckle and shake their head. And then 8:37 happens.

lol

And countless hours home

My Bloody who? This is true lovelessness in musical form!

Ha that’s hilarious

That honor goes to John Petrucci. And Goku.

@@lawrencefuller8841 Meanwhile, Fripp laughs at bith of them and busts out fracture at 200 bpm