Friday, February 17, 2017

The Robert Fripp Quintet and League of Crafty Musicians

Hear musicianship which may be sufficient to convince most players of stringed-instruments to reconsider their thoughts about law school.



Taken from the RFSQ Video release "Live in Japan", Trey Gunn treats us to a performance of Chromatic Fantasy in D Minor 00:00:00 and the California Guitar Trio perform Blockhead with a solo from Robert Fripp 00:01:52 On the third track Hope 00:05:44, we hear a beautiful haunting solo from Trey Gunn and shared with Paul Richards of the California Guitar Trio. It was filmed at Tokyo FM Hall for "Wowow" TV on November 11th, 1992.  In 1992 and 1993, the Robert Fripp String Quintet did a few short tours in Japan, Italy, Argentina, England and the USA

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I did not see Robert Fripp on this tour but I did see him on an earlier one with his League of Crafty Guitarists.  The video quality isn't so good in this one but Fripp's play is astounding.

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