Robert Fripp

ROBERT FRIPP
 

 
Robert Fripp  (born 16 May 1946) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer.  As a guitarist for the progressive rock band King Crimson, Fripp has been the only member to have played in all of King Crimson’s line-ups from the late 1960’s to the early 2010’s.  He is the driving creative and political force of the group, bearing responsibility for line-up changes and ending and resuming the group at various points.  He has also worked extensively as a studio musician, notably with singer David Bowie on the albums Heroes and Scary Monsters, and contributed sounds to the Windows Vista operating system.  His complete discography lists more than seven hundred releases over four decades.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

When writing about the Giles Brothers – which was never actually a band, though Peter Giles and Michael Giles were in numerous rock bands, often at the same time – I was mostly exploring the origins of King Crimson.  I worked extra hard to get an associated album, contacting Bomp! Records specifically about making sure that the Giles, Giles and Fripp album, The Brondesbury Tapes (1968) was included in the order.  (The other man in the group is Robert Fripp, the only continuous member of King Crimson over the decades). 

 

(March 2015)

 

Last edited: March 22, 2021