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Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England, United Kingdom (16 May 1946 – present)

Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946 in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England, United Kingdom) is a guitarist, composer and a record producer, perhaps best known for being the guitarist for, and only constant member of, the progressive rock band King Crimson. His work, spanning five decades, encompasses a variety of musical styles.

Fripp began playing guitar at the age of eleven. He says he was tone-deaf with no sense of rhythm when he started. His comment on dealing with the obstacle is “Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice”.

Being taught guitar basics by his teacher Don Strike, it was the time when he developed the technique of crosspicking, which would later become a significant technique taught in Guitar Craft.

In 1984, Fripp began using the New Standard Tuning, which would also become the official tuning of Guitar Craft.

Fripp is left-handed, but plays a right-handed guitar.

Fripp’s earliest professional work began in 1967, when he responded to an ad looking for a singing organist for a band being formed by bassist Peter Giles and drummer Michael Giles, despite being neither a singer nor an organist. Though unsuccessful as a live act, Giles, Giles and Fripp did manage to release two singles, as well as an album, The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp.

Following the band’s breakup, Fripp, along with drummer Michael Giles, made plans for the formation of King Crimson in 1968, with Greg Lake, Peter Sinfield and Ian McDonald.
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  • ButchGantenbein

    Happy Birthday King Robert !

    16 May 3:03pm Reply

  • sunheadbowed

    Toyah's sidekick.

    8 May 8:18pm Reply

  • Kjetsaa

    Those tags make me proud to be on last.fm (2)

    3 May 5:20am Reply

  • AmirShahbazi

    Man Behind The Curtain...

    24 Apr 10:28am Reply

  • easterntrees

    those tags make me embarrassed to be on last.fm.

    24 Apr 4:31am Reply

  • RurouniPsycho

    Goddamn, love his works. I have almost everything at my album collection. I don't care about K West, he doesn't mean shit in my life, but why the album covers aren't here? I just play the KC and stuff songs here to show and organize sort of my musical taste and albums that i REAL have. I bought the albums, so please, free the small album covers, I hate the fact that the covers of my favorite albums are blank at my digital music list.

    16 Apr 7:03pm Reply

  • gatomigas

    Diva [2]

    23 Mar 8:23pm Reply

  • a_ste

    Kanye West seriously, is better of Fripp. Franc Ocean also.

    16 Mar 8:57am Reply

  • Bastard1

    lol, what a douche.

    14 Mar 7:32pm Reply

  • easterntrees

    Fripp's complaints about the music industry are legitimate. some of his story is totally insane, such as his struggle with Universal to get them to acknowledge that they *no longer owned the rights* to the King Crimson catalogue and so could they please stop SELLING it (!!), and his justified anger at the miniscule royalties streaming services pay artists. I quite like much of his philosophy, as well. but his general demeanor, on the other hand...

    10 Feb 2:33am Reply

  • dawoodb

    merry xmas god....

    26 Dec 2012 Reply

  • Kjetsaa

    Diva.

    19 Dec 2012 Reply

  • TiagoVentura

    These days, almost all Robert Fripp's related stuff are widely available in many P2P networks, most of them ripped in lossless format including high resolution cover and booklet scans. I really can't understand Fripp's efforts to avoid 300x300 album cover images at last.fm. What is the point ?

    8 Dec 2012 Reply

  • Creepcleaner

    Thinking Kanye West is making mindless music is just stupid.

    24 Nov 2012 Reply

  • tamijo-lfm

    Sometimes people forget who is paying for their coffe. But he was/is still one of the best, sad story that he cought the Howard Hughes syndrome.

    10 Nov 2012 Reply

  • dawoodb

    fripp is God.

    22 Oct 2012 Reply

  • rhinowing

    @CMBFlor20 I actually fucking love Kanye West, I meant to imply that Fripp is trolling

    22 Oct 2012 Reply

  • exSpectacularrr

    I'm giggling: http://www.progrockmag.com/news/robert-fripp-quit-music-over-rights-fight/ <--- "See ya sucka. And don't let that door hit ya on the ass!"

    6 Sep 2012 Reply

  • exSpectacularrr

    @CMBFlor20 -- I am actually inclined to agree with that possibility -- if his constant legal actions and steady stream of online bitching are any indication, then either Fripp or his attorneys or his cronies seem to obsessively keep tabs on his digital presence, even in exceedingly obscure corners of the web. If not every day, then nonetheless pretty regularly. If it were for something grander, one might call it megalomaniacal, but given the petty bullshit he picks fights over, I think it's more the bullying of a spoiled brat. I love the music, but Robert Fripp's behavior is appalling.

    3 Aug 2012 Reply

  • CMBFlor20

    Based on his actions, that's not that farfetched, Smek. If he's that upset about his music being on sites like this, who is to say that he doesn't keep close tabs on them?

    2 Aug 2012 Reply
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