Robert Fripp plays in Worcester Cathedral

Dave Boothroyd · From: Staffordshire Moorlands

I, along with my students, had an amazing experience yesterday. Word went round that Robert Fripp (guitarist with King Crimson) was playing a lunchtime concert in the Cathedral, next door to our College. There was no publicity except for a little flyer on the door. The set up was Robert, with a couple of very special Les Paul copies, a floor full of pedals and a rack of equipment.
He strolled up to the Choir steps, picked up the guitar, pressed a few buttons and started to lay down layers of sounds and harmonies.
What a fantastic experience! Heavenly sounds in a building that has been a holy place for over 1000 years.
Even an old heathen like me could feel the presence of God!
If you ever get the chance to hear RF's soundscapes, and you are prepared to go along with John Taverner style musical mysticism, make sure you give them a listen.
Your soul will enjoy it!.
Cheers
Dave

Charlie McDonald · From: out of the blue

Too cool.

Ron Whitfield · From: Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA

Very too cool!

One of the few players that goes for what true music is.

After seeing KC in '73 & '74 I got to see him twice more at the Roxy in LA on Peter Gabriel's 1st solo tour and the second night had THE ultimate seat 4 feet from his face while he ripped his Les Paul Custom in typical RF fashion, then afterwards I snatched his drinking glass for a momento (a very dry wine).
Prior to these LA gigs he would not only hide/play behind the stage curtain for the whole show, but would be introduced as 'Dusty Rhodes' or ? and never as Robert Fripp. So I feel pretty lucky for that night in particular.

He's bad ass, whether doing the dreamy stuff or stipping the paint off the walls of your skull.

Havn't seen him in 30 years and wish I'd have been there with you Dave. Thanx for posting!

For some of the best classic Crim, get the '74 Central Park CD. It was the end of the road for that version and they are totally on fire, especially Fripp who just can't contain himself.

The guy's got a great sense of humor too.

Andy Greatrix · From: Edmonton Alberta

Has anyone heard an LP called
"Giles, Giles and Fripp"?
Very musically tasty and original.

David Mason · From: Cambridge, MD, USA

Fripp has been playing in what he calls the New Standard Tuning for a long time now - CGDAEG*, low to high. I've kept some guitar or another around in that tuning for several years now. The bottom 5 strings are tuned in fifths like a violin, and it gives you much wider chord voicings and is a really good way to break out of fingerbox ruts. John McGann called this an "octave mando-cello tuning" or some such thing, with a high G (the high string should be a B, you find an .006 that won't break). I end up using mine mostly for my pseudo-imitation Stanley Jordan tap-o-holic stuff, but sooner or later some kid is going to come along and learn to read in that tuning, learn a bunch of jazz standards and blow some old fogeys' minds. The tuning almost forces you to play scales using four notes per string rather than three, which is not a bad thing to know how to do anyway.

*(Edited due to brain/finger malfunction, AKA "stupidity")

[This message was edited by David Mason on 08 June 2006 at 02:54 AM.]

Kevin Macneil Brown · From: Montpelier, VT, USA

Robert Fripp--and the tape delay looping style he developed with Brian Eno-- changed my musical life many years ago.
What a treat it must have been to experience that music in such a powerful space!
I was just last night listening to the brand new re-isssue of Fripp's EXPOSURE. I'd forgotten that there's pedal steel guitar on one track. (Played by Sid McGinnis, I think.)

David L. Donald · From: Koh Samui Island, Thailand

One of a very few guitarist who have
truely created a path of his own.
That few if any have been able to follow.

I would have loved to see this show.

CDGAEG, low to high very curious

GDAE is mandolin/ violin tuning

CGDA is fairly typical mando-cello
and I believe viola.
That big violin that hangs out near the violin section of orcestras,
but closer to the woodwin and flute sections

CGDAE is fairly typical 5 string violin tuning, mostly found on electrics.

My green 6 string electric mandolin is tuned
GDAEBF#
but an octave down from most mandos.

But It might be CGDAEB if I can get strings to tension right in normal mando tension.
I don't think it's possible
based on the last time I tried. But I like the high B

[This message was edited by David L. Donald on 08 June 2006 at 12:30 AM.]

David Mason · From: Cambridge, MD, USA

I meant to say CGDAEG - fifths from the bottom up. Mu typewriter wasn't working right that day, darn thing...

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