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6 unusual facts about Robert Fripp


Damage: Live

Damage is a live recording of a 1993 tour by David Sylvian and Robert Fripp.

Dusty Rhodes

Robert Fripp (born 1946), toured with Peter Gabriel's band in 1977 under the name Dusty Rhodes

EntropiK

Cellotronics features a mixture of ambient, introspective tracks chiefly inspired by the Frippertronics technique devised by Robert Fripp along with tracks featuring Middle Eastern and Oriental world influences.

Frederick Charles Fripp

Charlie is the fourth cousin-twice removed of well-known guitarist Robert Fripp.

Lesley Waters

With Tim coming from Devon and Waters' love of Thomas Hardy’s novels, they bought a 16th-century manor house in Evershot, Dorset from punk singer and actress Toyah Willcox and her husband Robert Fripp.

Trouser Press

Initial issues contained occasional interviews with major artists like Brian Eno and Robert Fripp and extensive record reviews.


A Scarcity of Miracles

It united former King Crimson musicians Robert Fripp and Mel Collins with singer-songwriter and guitarist Jakko Jakszyk (at the time, himself never a King Crimson member, although he had previously fronted, sang for and played guitar in 21st Century Schizoid Band, a project set up to reunite King Crimson members from the 1960s and 1970s lineups of the band and to play the band's music from that period; he later became a full member of the band).

Approaching Silence

Approaching Silence is a compilation album of ambient music by David Sylvian (along with Frank Perry and Robert Fripp) collecting the tracks from the 1991 limited release Ember Glance: The Permanence of Memory installation soundtrack CD as well as the soundtrack cassette from the installation "Redemption" (with Robert Fripp), staged in August 1994 at the P3 Gallery in Tokyo.

Matching Mole

For their second album, Matching Mole's Little Red Record, released in November 1972 and produced by Robert Fripp of King Crimson, Sinclair was replaced by New Zealand-born keyboard player and composer Dave MacRae who had already played a guest role on the first album.

Robert Jürjendal

He trained as a classical guitarist, later studied Robert Fripp's Guitar Craft and learned to play loop music.

Soundscapes by Robert Fripp

On May 4, 2006, Steve Ball invited Robert Fripp back to the Microsoft campus for a second full day of work on Windows Vista following up on his first visit in the Fall of 2005.

The Lady, or the Tiger?

Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp released a recording of "The Lady, or the Tiger?" and "The Discourager of Hesitancy" with Willcox reading the stories to electric guitar accompaniment by Fripp.


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