Somehow Robert Fripp being the leader of some wierd cult where playing guitar in odd time signatures is a requirement is the most Robert Fripp thing I've ever seen
When I saw them at Ontario Place on the round revolving stage, they began by sitting in quiet meditation for about ten minutes. The audience started cat-calling and complaining, yelling "play Lark's Tongues!!" This went on for awhile, until everyone realized that Fripp was not going to start until they shut up!! He waited...and waited...it was so intense. Then....I didn't even see a cue, they raised their hands to the fretboards in perfect unison...and eleven guitarists began together with no count ...no cue.. The genius of it was terrifying!!
I was there also. I was taking photos during sound check and Fripp saw me. I noticed him call over security and he says something to them, next thing I know they are beside me asking for my film. I made up some crap story that I had photos of my son on the same roll and begged them to not take the film. After a bit of back and forth they let me keep the film but said they would be watching. If I were to so much as lift my Canon they would come back for it. I never took another shot but that’s ok, I already had 33 Exposure....I mean, exposures. And yes, that silence was strange.
@@richardt9102 inspiring story! Always invent a son in matters of confiscation... couldn't they have held your camera during the show? It's a good thing they didn't think of that, but also sad that you couldn't take even nonflash photos.
If you smile more than Fripp, he plays some notes like Willy Wonka and two little guys dressed in Tony Levin costumes drag you off and beat you with sticks
When I saw the league of crafty gentleman there was one moment where Fripp just walked up to the microphone and very seriously said "we are at dance band I want you to dance" and then just went back to the band and they continued to play. No one danced.
I remember him saying that when I saw him at the Bayou in Washington DC. I thought it was so funny then because, come on, how do you dance to Fripp? For someone else to reference that is so cool!
@@downhillblur708 I saw a guy having an epileptic fit one time and I very seriously said, "Oh, shit! He's dancing to Fripp! Quick! Somebody get a Doctor before Fracture starts!"
This is why it's so refreshing to see Fripp and his wife in the quarantine videos. Despite what his persona seems to be, you can actually see a happy human behind it all.
I like to believe that this video isn't unprofessionally cut and this is actually how the song sounds with random momentary interruptions with Fripp's monologues and words of wisdom!
When I saw King Crimson, Fripp's sister was at the merch booth. I tried to tell her a joke, saying "Ah yes, taking care of Robert on tour are you?". She did not take it as a joke and responded "Why no, our mother did that." It was hilarious for me.
I saw a video of her giving a talk. In it she was wearing a big jumper with the screaming face from In the Court of the Crimson King on it. Shouldn't have expected any different, really...
Correct, he plays scales and guitar studies but can pass it off as clever because he's moving in rock circles and he has good technique. It sounds like they're trying to get a gig in a Greek restaurant but the music isn't quite right.
The aspergers guitar club. Saw good ole uncle Bobby 3 times. Crimson in the 80s, then the double trio in the late 90s, then one final time in the early 00s.
After reading the title of the video, I cracked up hard a couple seconds in as soon as everyone’s playing with the slow zoom in on Fripp. Mad with power indeed.
Yow, this video's really blown up in the last week. If you enjoyed it, be sure to share to all your ovation-playing, mullet-sporting, dead-eyed friends.
Saw Fripp and The League of Crafty Guitarists many years ago at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.. There were twelve on stage and for every number one of them would sit there and not play. About halfway through the show Fripp explained that the reason was that one of the League had to represent and play the silence that is also part of the piece.
I attended Guitar Craft 4 and was at the Georgetown show that you mentioned. At another performance, I was asked to play silence, at first I thought it was because of my low level of facility with the guitar craft catalog, but I later learned how much emphasis Fripp put on this role. It was more of a nod of honor for my listening ability.
The algorithm has gone mad with power. Same thing happened to me. Fripp has been associated with lots of musicians over the years, sometimes as a producer, and you clicked on one.
Right?! Like what is everyone in the comment section talking about? Why is the video cut up into 5sec segments? I genuinely feel like I'm missing something really hilarious and it bugs me a bit.
@@danielcj13 that’s just Crimson doing Talking Heads because of Belew. Which I love by the way, no questions asked. But to properly introduce people to Crimson?
@@MrBiggysmalls87 agreed... It's different and wouldn't be my "go-to" sound... but I owned one once, and loved the tone (acoustic, never liked the elec./acoustic ones). Loved the way it played. Unfortunately they really start to bow over time because the plastic back just isn't ridgid enough. My whole top was bowing in. Got rid of it while I could still get a couple bucks for it. Want to get one again one day.
I heard the story about somebody firing up a joint at one of their shows, and Fripp immediately stopped, look out into the audience and said for whoever fired up the marijuana cigarette to immediately put it out and leave the auditorium. In which apparently the person complied.
I seriously thought it said "League of crappy guitarists" first time around and Fripp was just trying to embarrass a bunch of his students live on stage
That is actually a longstanding prank inside Fripp's teaching circle! He is notorious for taking people "out on the town for a show"...what you don't realize is he and the teachers have booked a show, found an audience and taken all the student's guitars to the venue. So you show up as a student thinking you're about to watch a concert with Robert Fripp when in reality YOU are the performer and no you must pull a 45 minute set out of your collective bums. Haha. My class was lucky. We were given 24 hrs to plan, write, rehearse and perform a 45 minute set for Fripp, the teachers and the full League Of Crafty Guitarists. It was nerve-wracking! Also, Robert thoroughly enjoys yelling "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" very loudly at nervous people. Hahaha
I gotta disagree. I owned a beautiful Ovation and it had great tone and depth as well as great action and response. Acoustic / Electric with no controls. I played many a gig in large concert halls and small venues with it both miked and plugged in. One of the most versatile instruments Ive owned.
@@keeperofthebonessean2872 I agree with you. I have the flat version of the ovation celebrity and it allows the full range from arcoustic to electic guitar. It certainly is not a regular guitar, but a cagegory of its own (Like Rob is)
fripp: you are about to contribute to the guitar noise of The League. have you said goodbye to your life at ease? me: where do i sign? fripp: no, no, no. you do not sign, you only practice. (hands me an out of tune guitar and a water bowl)
iota-09 It's like a pitch fork, except you can change the key. It can also be used for busking, defense, or simply as a haircut template. "Give a man a glass of water, and you'll quench his thirst. Teach him to water bowl and you'll feed him forever." - Bobbert Frippe
My former guitar teacher Martin Simpson wrote a review for the local paper of a live show of Fripp’s league of crafty guitar players. The lol moment was something about the annoying “quack” of ovation guitars played through piezo pickups.
@@collinbeal I was really fortunate- in the late 80s he and his (now ex) wife and kids moved to my hometown for a few years when I was in high school. Took 8 weeks of lessons in 1990! He later moved to New Orleans for a couple years where i was already living and playing. Lost track of him after the moved back to the uk
I'm still wondering if the guy in the front row to the left of the dude with shades and sweater played a single note in the whole show... Please let me know so I can sleep at night, thanks!
Oh and I forget to mention; On that tour he decided to don't play a single note at all, not only in this video... Robert even encouraged him to play on this video, but well, he kept his word. ;)
Its always plaisir to haire you , You are absolutely have good knowledge of rythme, And this point its very important in music, So thank you so mach then after 40 years it’s plaisir always to see you .
Saw a League show (sans Fripp) in Atlanta and it was *intense*. We wouldn't let them leave until they exhausted their repertoire. :) What was funny was, early on during the show you'd think you had worked out which ones had been doing this for ten years and which ones started last week...and then in the very next song it all would have all been swapped around. Let me tell you, that low C coming out of seven or eight wired-up Ovations at once will get your frickin' attention.
I was lucky enough to attend a Guitar Craft course and The League just randomly walked into our dinner one night and played a 5 song set. It was impossible to describe. Myself and the other 20 or so students were encircled by the tightest group of musicians I have ever witnessed and our class spent a good hour trying to figure out how the hell and who the hell. Haha
You mean like Fripp himself here? czcams.com/video/ktYVgKBrhIo/video.html When do the members of the orchestras smile, youth or not? The vast majority are serious as hell. You want to make a misplaced comparison (and politically illiterate)
@@luisdidonna Like this? czcams.com/video/DeGdJgWXJ6Q/video.html You should loosen your hatband. Politically illiterate? Please. What does politics have anything to do with this anyway? Sounds like you've got one argument on your mind and use it for all occasions.
After having watched this in its entirety of 1.54 minutes, I just realised how much I appreciate the clarity, pureness and sense of those simple but beautifully assembled chord and riff patterns of AC/DC, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, SRV, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Johnson and Eddie Van Halen. Having said that, Fripp's guitar playing does have relevant uses - now that the death penalty has been abolished in most parts of the world - it would make excellent punishment for serial killers and convicted terrorists to listen to. Not many would be able to survive six doses per day of the 1.54 minutes of the notes played in this clip.
Somehow Robert Fripp being the leader of some wierd cult where playing guitar in odd time signatures is a requirement is the most Robert Fripp thing I've ever seen
Do I need an only fans account to understand this joke?
Isn't that just King Crimson?
Cat food
@@user-wx2ek3uv1i These are first degree Frippites. The 33rd degree is the inner most circle that consists only of present members of King Crimson.
The original video is pretty intense.
He's trained them all to stare directly into people's souls whilst playing the guitar lol.
‘Whilst’ 🤣😂💀👍🏻
@@oe542 "Whilst" is perfectly good and proper British English. You're the ones who changed it to "while".
@@SpaceCattttt I'm American and I still use it, sounds professional.
hahahahahahahahaha
i head this inna wit frip n he says that he practices songs in the dark so he doesn’t have to look at the guitar when he’s playing
Alternative title: Crimson King raises an army of super soldiers in his own image.
if i were to be programmed as a super soldier, it had better be for Fripp and his 'ertronics!
🤣🤘🖖
KINGU CRIMSON!!!
When I saw them at Ontario Place on the round revolving stage, they began by sitting in quiet meditation for about ten minutes. The audience started cat-calling and complaining, yelling "play Lark's Tongues!!"
This went on for awhile, until everyone realized that Fripp was not going to start until they shut up!! He waited...and waited...it was so intense.
Then....I didn't even see a cue, they raised their hands to the fretboards in perfect unison...and eleven guitarists began together with no count ...no cue..
The genius of it was
terrifying!!
There have to be a video of that
I was there also. I was taking photos during sound check and Fripp saw me. I noticed him call over security and he says something to them, next thing I know they are beside me asking for my film. I made up some crap story that I had photos of my son on the same roll and begged them to not take the film. After a bit of back and forth they let me keep the film but said they would be watching. If I were to so much as lift my Canon they would come back for it. I never took another shot but that’s ok, I already had 33 Exposure....I mean, exposures. And yes, that silence was strange.
@@richardt9102 inspiring story! Always invent a son in matters of confiscation... couldn't they have held your camera during the show? It's a good thing they didn't think of that, but also sad that you couldn't take even nonflash photos.
@illuminOz we're all assholes.
@illuminOz THIS is proof? I thought this was a collection of snippets taken out of contact and edited together in a bizarre way for amusement.
If you smile more than Fripp, he plays some notes like Willy Wonka and two little guys dressed in Tony Levin costumes drag you off and beat you with sticks
Chapman Sticks
@@gitardude6 indeed
@@gitardude6 Of course!!!
but there's been a mixup, and they accidentally ordered chapsticks instead
lmaooo
When I saw the league of crafty gentleman there was one moment where Fripp just walked up to the microphone and very seriously said "we are at dance band I want you to dance" and then just went back to the band and they continued to play. No one danced.
That's got to be the most Robert Fripp thing that Robert Fripp has ever done
I remember him saying that when I saw him at the Bayou in Washington DC. I thought it was so funny then because, come on, how do you dance to Fripp? For someone else to reference that is so cool!
@@downhillblur708 I saw a guy having an epileptic fit one time and I very seriously said, "Oh, shit! He's dancing to Fripp! Quick! Somebody get a Doctor before Fracture starts!"
@@brianm2881 you are way more clever than me. Well done.
Lol the league of crazy gentlemen had some woman in it lol
It's rumored that after this performance, he bought them all matching Nike Decades and offered them their choice of applesauce or pudding.
There is something horribly similar between this and the heavens gate videos .
Someone just watched a docuseries..
Ahahahahaha!
Its the Heaven's Ovation gate cult.
Nice editing. The cult of Fripp deserves a standing Ovation.
SITTING ovation
XD
i see what you did there AHAHAHAHA
Very clever! I smirked.
All of that piezo quack would drive anyone mad
This is why it's so refreshing to see Fripp and his wife in the quarantine videos. Despite what his persona seems to be, you can actually see a happy human behind it all.
So true - those videos can be soooo much fun.
I've seen many of those videos. It sounds like he expends 20 percent of his remaining lifeforce whenever he laughs.
His wife was also in the 1979 “Quadrophenia” film.
@@drummer78 MAH WAHF
Terts
The fact that this video replicates Fripps sense of rarely seen humour shows a unique perspective into the editors mind. He's a real fan.
it's like the start of tubular bells but it's from hell
Thank you I thought i was the only one
You mean a deeper pit of hell?
Tubular Bells from hell? I don't even want to think about it.
Yes!!!!!
Spot on
I, for one, welcome our Fripp overlords.
I like to believe that this video isn't unprofessionally cut and this is actually how the song sounds with random momentary interruptions with Fripp's monologues and words of wisdom!
So much expressionless rage behind his eyes, and the Himmler-esque eyeglasses are NOT helping him blend into his army of hell-bound acolytes.
If it's expressionless , how can you possibly identify it as rage ?
@@rogerlegends166 go watch Richard Kuklinski’s interview and you’ll see what I mean. Also, the comment was tongue in cheek. 😂
@@spacecowboy2k...lark's tongue in cheek?
I'm leaving
Himmler-esque.... Brilliant!
This feels like the Eric Andre Show
For real, it's so good
The Eric Fripp Show
I'm getting more Tim & Eric, Good Fripp! vibes
lol
Bird up.
He is multiplying. Soon the world will be invaded by a massive troop of prog guitar players.
BRB gonna write a conceptual of it.
I would like that
That would be so grand and intoxicating.
Fripp flexing the best delay peddle ever, a cult of talented guitarists. I swear fripp is a character from a Wes anderson film.
Fripp is actually very funny but his humor is bone dry so people don't get it...
Even by British standards he's very dry...... but he's hilarious.
@@geoffpoole483 He really is and so is Bill Bruford...
You know Fripp has a sense of humor,he hired Adrian Belew who is a Frank Zappa illumi
@@radiomindchatter7994 Yep!
is it really funny if people don't think it is? How do we know its funny if it doesn't make us laugh?
When I saw King Crimson, Fripp's sister was at the merch booth. I tried to tell her a joke, saying "Ah yes, taking care of Robert on tour are you?". She did not take it as a joke and responded "Why no, our mother did that." It was hilarious for me.
Why are the Fripp's like this
They're British.
I saw a video of her giving a talk. In it she was wearing a big jumper with the screaming face from In the Court of the Crimson King on it. Shouldn't have expected any different, really...
This is the kind of video you randomly send to your friends with no comment
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This is exactly what I intended on doing
@@ryanderangedmanclason8247 Yep, me too,
Exactly what I was thinking. Clearly Fripp's mind control master plan is working. 😳
Robert Fripp is like the final boss of guitar
This sounds like it was just an excuse for Fripp to practice scales
But none of the melodies are actually scales....
@@danielshade710 And your ellipse isn’t an ellipse, it should be . . .
@@JBert246 ellipse these nuts
@@danielshade710 Yes they are. They're Frippian scales
Correct, he plays scales and guitar studies but can pass it off as clever because he's moving in rock circles and he has good technique. It sounds like they're trying to get a gig in a Greek restaurant but the music isn't quite right.
Idk if I’m supposed to feel frightened, challenged or impressed by this guy.
Yes.
Correct
Fripp's got the the coolest stage presence I've never seen...
I want 2 hours of this.
I want three
You could be a candidate for the spaceship.
This should be on 24/7...just rotate people in & out as needed
It's better when you take a week.
The aspergers guitar club. Saw good ole uncle Bobby 3 times. Crimson in the 80s, then the double trio in the late 90s, then one final time in the early 00s.
The asperger's guitar club. LOfuckingL
asperger's approved
The female guitarist should be sacked. She was smiling. Until the shot of Robert looming over her.
hahahahhahah they really are a specific, no, special bunch
Man, having seen 80's KC and then the double Trio must have been insane. The contrast between the two is pretty huge.
I've always loved Robert Fripp's demeanor when he plays the guitar. He looks so proper and elegant, even when he's playing pure Satan.
He's a strange fellow, but a genius.
There's something meditative about sitting with an acoustic and improvising these weird diminished scale moto perpetuo style pieces
After reading the title of the video, I cracked up hard a couple seconds in as soon as everyone’s playing with the slow zoom in on Fripp. Mad with power indeed.
"On an unrelated note: the toilets here in the rooms assigned to staff are significantly unpleasant." - Robert Fripp
❤️
He's a legend
Yow, this video's really blown up in the last week. If you enjoyed it, be sure to share to all your ovation-playing, mullet-sporting, dead-eyed friends.
Seems to be a lot of people complaining about the sound quality of VHS tapes recorded from television. Whatever, it's good stuff :)
You picked the absolute perfect title. I already knew what the clip was and from the title and thumbnail I was already laughing. 11/10.
Yeah, why do they ALL have ovation guitars?
Thank you for inspiring me to grow a mullet.
Are they all playing in New Standard Tuning?
It’s like some sort of cult right strange bunch
It is
Every great band needs 18 guitarists.
Saw Fripp and The League of Crafty Guitarists many years ago at Georgetown University in Washington D.C.. There were twelve on stage and for every number one of them would sit there and not play. About halfway through the show Fripp explained that the reason was that one of the League had to represent and play the silence that is also part of the piece.
What a goober.
I attended Guitar Craft 4 and was at the Georgetown show that you mentioned. At another performance, I was asked to play silence, at first I thought it was because of my low level of facility with the guitar craft catalog, but I later learned how much emphasis Fripp put on this role. It was more of a nod of honor for my listening ability.
I have no idea why I was recommended this but I’m glad I was and I’m glad I clicked. What a legend
there is definitely a timeline somewhere in which every single human being is part of the Crafty League with Fripp being its Supreme Leader.
The sinister undertones of King Crimson are coming through loud and clear in this vid
This came up on my youtube recommendations with absolutely zero context and I am completely confused
The algorithm has gone mad with power. Same thing happened to me. Fripp has been associated with lots of musicians over the years, sometimes as a producer, and you clicked on one.
You have been chosen
Search King Crimson - Elephant talk, and smoke some weed before you listen to the song
Right?! Like what is everyone in the comment section talking about? Why is the video cut up into 5sec segments? I genuinely feel like I'm missing something really hilarious and it bugs me a bit.
@@danielcj13 that’s just Crimson doing Talking Heads because of Belew. Which I love by the way, no questions asked. But to properly introduce people to Crimson?
The Heaven's Gate Orchestra
Brilliant, made me laugh
Yes
If I was blind, and I heard this video, I’d know there were a bunch of ovations being played. They just have that certain sound to em.
😂😂😂 it’s not a particularly pleasant sound is it
@@rodrigolloreda7012 I love em.
Yeah, awful.
Plastic guitars should be fucking banned.
@@MrBiggysmalls87 agreed... It's different and wouldn't be my "go-to" sound... but I owned one once, and loved the tone (acoustic, never liked the elec./acoustic ones). Loved the way it played. Unfortunately they really start to bow over time because the plastic back just isn't ridgid enough. My whole top was bowing in. Got rid of it while I could still get a couple bucks for it. Want to get one again one day.
@@Wizardofgosz did you get a high or low end one?
The joy of making music is just soooo contagiously scary
I love how all of them look like they're playing the guitar at gunpoint
I heard the story about somebody firing up a joint at one of their shows, and Fripp immediately stopped, look out into the audience and said for whoever fired up the marijuana cigarette to immediately put it out and leave the auditorium. In which apparently the person complied.
"I'm not gonna thank you..."
*OMINOUS RIFFING*
You mean ominous Fripping? XD
Sometimes when I'm playing I imagine Fripp is watching me from the shadows silently. His disapproval causes me to be short with my family.
This video deserves a standing…Ovation.
The shortness of the clips can never do justice to these full landscapes and the flora. This is a very interesting place to visit.
No one man should have all that power
I seriously thought it said "League of crappy guitarists" first time around and Fripp was just trying to embarrass a bunch of his students live on stage
That is actually a longstanding prank inside Fripp's teaching circle! He is notorious for taking people "out on the town for a show"...what you don't realize is he and the teachers have booked a show, found an audience and taken all the student's guitars to the venue. So you show up as a student thinking you're about to watch a concert with Robert Fripp when in reality YOU are the performer and no you must pull a 45 minute set out of your collective bums. Haha.
My class was lucky. We were given 24 hrs to plan, write, rehearse and perform a 45 minute set for Fripp, the teachers and the full League Of Crafty Guitarists. It was nerve-wracking! Also, Robert thoroughly enjoys yelling "BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" very loudly at nervous people. Hahaha
He looked so relieved at the last note of that riff, such intense concentration. I'm not kidding that's incredible.
It doesn’t matter how many Ovation guitars you put in a room together, they’ll never sound like a non-plastic guitar.
I think that's why he likes them
They sound awful, don't they?!
I gotta disagree. I owned a beautiful Ovation and it had great tone and depth as well as great action and response. Acoustic / Electric with no controls. I played many a gig in large concert halls and small venues with it both miked and plugged in. One of the most versatile instruments Ive owned.
@@keeperofthebonessean2872 I agree with you. I have the flat version of the ovation celebrity and it allows the full range from arcoustic to electic guitar. It certainly is not a regular guitar, but a cagegory of its own (Like Rob is)
True, the Ovation is to guitar as the recorder is to woodwind
Like being in the acoustic section of a large guitar shop...on acid.
fripp: you are about to contribute to the guitar noise of The League. have you said goodbye to your life at ease?
me: where do i sign?
fripp: no, no, no. you do not sign, you only practice. (hands me an out of tune guitar and a water bowl)
Wait, what's the water bowl for?
iota-09 It's like a pitch fork, except you can change the key. It can also be used for busking, defense, or simply as a haircut template.
"Give a man a glass of water, and you'll quench his thirst. Teach him to water bowl and you'll feed him forever." - Bobbert Frippe
Darts, what an amazing piece, I spent decades trying to find it!!! (Those were the days...)
Despite what some peoples think, Fripp is just a weird, lovable genius. Glad I saw him play 3 times!
For all the good work Jimmy Page did toward getting legions of guitar players laid, these dorks are sure trying their hardest to undo it all.
Wow, slow down that coolness
agreed. you couldnt pay me to listen to this drivel....who exactly is he trying to impress?
hahahah
The blonde's kinda nice, though.
I like Fripp but this is still funny
Wow! The electricity and emotion are over the top!
Absolutely brilliant!
My former guitar teacher Martin Simpson wrote a review for the local paper of a live show of Fripp’s
league of crafty guitar players. The lol moment was something about the annoying “quack” of ovation guitars played through piezo pickups.
Martin Simpson taught you guitar?!!
@@collinbeal I was really fortunate- in the late 80s he and his (now ex) wife and kids moved to my hometown for a few years when I was in high school. Took 8 weeks of lessons in 1990! He later moved to New Orleans for a couple years where i was already living and playing. Lost track of him after the moved back to the uk
@@deltabilly1 WOW!! You were so fortunate.
@@geoffpoole483 no doubt!
The guy sitting front and center with the shades is all business.
I'm still wondering if the guy in the front row to the left of the dude with shades and sweater played a single note in the whole show... Please let me know so I can sleep at night, thanks!
He didn’t ....jkjk
@Sean Hennessey Thank you!
He didn't play a single note by own will and decision... Sweet dreams!
@Sean Hennessey LMAO what do you mean "to provide silence"?
Oh and I forget to mention; On that tour he decided to don't play a single note at all, not only in this video... Robert even encouraged him to play on this video, but well, he kept his word. ;)
Its always plaisir to haire you ,
You are absolutely have good knowledge of rythme,
And this point its very important in music,
So thank you so mach then after 40 years it’s plaisir always to see you .
The title alone had me cracking up. The Cheerful Insanity of Giles Giles and Fripp is one of my all time favorites. 🌼💜🦋
Poor guy in the blue shirt is trying so hard not to smile.
Saw a League show (sans Fripp) in Atlanta and it was *intense*. We wouldn't let them leave until they exhausted their repertoire. :) What was funny was, early on during the show you'd think you had worked out which ones had been doing this for ten years and which ones started last week...and then in the very next song it all would have all been swapped around. Let me tell you, that low C coming out of seven or eight wired-up Ovations at once will get your frickin' attention.
❤️
I was lucky enough to attend a Guitar Craft course and The League just randomly walked into our dinner one night and played a 5 song set. It was impossible to describe. Myself and the other 20 or so students were encircled by the tightest group of musicians I have ever witnessed and our class spent a good hour trying to figure out how the hell and who the hell. Haha
This is perhaps the greatest video ever made in the history of videos.
I saw the League just a few years ago here in Madison. It was amazing. Truly beautiful.
I am so deep in this rabbit hole that youtube has started to reccomend me memes about prog bands
It's like the North Korean kid orchestras, with no smiling.
You mean like Fripp himself here? czcams.com/video/ktYVgKBrhIo/video.html
When do the members of the orchestras smile, youth or not? The vast majority are serious as hell. You want to make a misplaced comparison (and politically illiterate)
@@luisdidonna Like this? czcams.com/video/DeGdJgWXJ6Q/video.html
You should loosen your hatband. Politically illiterate? Please. What does politics have anything to do with this anyway? Sounds like you've got one argument on your mind and use it for all occasions.
Hahahah :D
The female guitarist should be sacked. She was smiling. Until the shot of Robert looming over her.
@@JBert246 Looked like he was glad to be around a pretty girl playing guitar to be honest.
After having watched this in its entirety of 1.54 minutes, I just realised how much I appreciate the clarity, pureness and sense of those simple but beautifully assembled chord and riff patterns of AC/DC, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, SRV, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Johnson and Eddie Van Halen.
Having said that, Fripp's guitar playing does have relevant uses - now that the death penalty has been abolished in most parts of the world - it would make excellent punishment for serial killers and convicted terrorists to listen to. Not many would be able to survive six doses per day of the 1.54 minutes of the notes played in this clip.
Best video title on the entire web. Congrats.
Moral of the story:
Not everyone can do Fripp
Most people have better things to do (and play).
@@andsalomoni you wish
@@flutter8712 Ask Fripp to play "Shake That Thing". I don't think he can, in any credible way.
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The guitarists wearing sunglasses are 100% stoned
Nope.
No drugs on Fripp projects (apart from coffee and chocolate).
Hardly anybody born after 1965 gets Fripp. He has the driest humour possible. And rarely, if ever corpses. He’s not unhappy. He’s Fripp.
Old Dorset drop out, love you man, all the way from the USA via Blandford Forum.
0:29 When you're trying to flirt with your lover but then you can't whistle properly so you picked a guitar and a slide and played it instead
0:47 makes me laugh everytime
I was waiting for Fripp to yell "Not quite my tempo" and throw a guitar at someone.
This is the kind of content I crave
The only thing with a prayer of stopping this guy is Janet Reno
Playing is great.
plunky twunky plunky funky innit twang wiggle waggle plunka plunka twangle spangle innit
Loved this ! Very cheeky
The 80’s in Hair: a Retrospective
A Robert Fripp clone spotted @ 1:02 in the maroon pullover. He'll go to any lengths to ensure proper timing. Well done Mr. Fripp.
That man is blind fyi. I knew attended the GC1 & 1.5 with him.
I'm stunned!!
I hope at least one person gave a standing ovation. No? Anyone? Mkay, I'll show myself out.
It's a sitting ovation.
1:23 Mario music from the alternate universe when Fripp works at Nintendo
yep - oddest video I've ever watched during covid - Thanks RF, standing Ovation!
When the bard is also a warlock
I've always thought that Ovation guitar tone is the silliest acoustic tone ever.
Army of Fripps!!!
I didn't know The League of Crafty Guitarists were such a large ensemble... yay!!!
love it!!
They all look like Fripp hand-picked their outfits for the day
The court of the crimson king ?
More like the cult of the crimson king
Pioneer of video game music.
Now all you need is toyah dancing in it
In a sheer white shirt