Robert Fripp Has Gone Mad With Power

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  • Опубликовано: 29 ноя 2024
  • Original video "Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists on VH-1 New Visions"
    • Robert Fripp and the L...

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  • @lobosolo7675
    @lobosolo7675 3 года назад +1576

    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

    • @DarkEndRear
      @DarkEndRear 3 года назад +16

      Do I need an only fans account to understand this joke?

    • @user-wx2ek3uv1i
      @user-wx2ek3uv1i 3 года назад +69

      Isn't that just King Crimson?

    • @13thcentury
      @13thcentury 3 года назад +16

      Cat food

    • @pioneertech-w5o
      @pioneertech-w5o 3 года назад +51

      ​@@user-wx2ek3uv1i These are first degree Frippites. The 33rd degree is the inner most circle that consists only of present members of King Crimson.

    • @dickstryker
      @dickstryker 2 года назад +6

      The original video is pretty intense.

  • @markjohnson4217
    @markjohnson4217 3 года назад +1311

    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!!

    • @mansionwb
      @mansionwb 3 года назад +20

      There have to be a video of that

    • @richardt9102
      @richardt9102 3 года назад +136

      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.

    • @ceef8688
      @ceef8688 3 года назад +24

      @@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.

    • @ChrisLawton66
      @ChrisLawton66 3 года назад +24

      @illuminOz we're all assholes.

    • @WeTubule
      @WeTubule 3 года назад +16

      @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.

  • @lb2.0.45
    @lb2.0.45 3 года назад +1484

    He's trained them all to stare directly into people's souls whilst playing the guitar lol.

    • @oe542
      @oe542 3 года назад +15

      ‘Whilst’ 🤣😂💀👍🏻

    • @SpaceCattttt
      @SpaceCattttt 3 года назад +41

      @@oe542 "Whilst" is perfectly good and proper British English. You're the ones who changed it to "while".

    • @kaymonyoung1054
      @kaymonyoung1054 3 года назад +9

      @@SpaceCattttt I'm American and I still use it, sounds professional.

    • @Charles5431
      @Charles5431 3 года назад +1

      hahahahahahahahaha

    • @bruckner6290
      @bruckner6290 3 года назад +5

      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

  • @21centuryhippie61
    @21centuryhippie61 3 года назад +625

    Alternative title: Crimson King raises an army of super soldiers in his own image.

    • @wyrdingroom6081
      @wyrdingroom6081 3 года назад +12

      if i were to be programmed as a super soldier, it had better be for Fripp and his 'ertronics!
      🤣🤘🖖

    • @Davesothoth
      @Davesothoth 7 месяцев назад +1

      KINGU CRIMSON!!!

    • @2w8ofrdeys
      @2w8ofrdeys 3 месяца назад +1

      I would like to be one

  • @digdoug9352
    @digdoug9352 3 года назад +520

    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

  • @traildoggy
    @traildoggy 3 года назад +583

    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.

    • @juankgonzalez6230
      @juankgonzalez6230 3 года назад +130

      That's got to be the most Robert Fripp thing that Robert Fripp has ever done

    • @downhillblur708
      @downhillblur708 3 года назад +34

      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!

    • @brianm2881
      @brianm2881 3 года назад +63

      @@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!"

    • @downhillblur708
      @downhillblur708 3 года назад +5

      @@brianm2881 you are way more clever than me. Well done.

    • @dickgozinia2721
      @dickgozinia2721 3 года назад +7

      Lol the league of crazy gentlemen had some woman in it lol

  • @ericjohnson6105
    @ericjohnson6105 3 года назад +673

    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.

    • @redrockcrf4663
      @redrockcrf4663 3 года назад +23

      So true - those videos can be soooo much fun.

    • @brianm2881
      @brianm2881 3 года назад +55

      I've seen many of those videos. It sounds like he expends 20 percent of his remaining lifeforce whenever he laughs.

    • @drummer78
      @drummer78 3 года назад +16

      His wife was also in the 1979 “Quadrophenia” film.

    • @brianm2881
      @brianm2881 3 года назад +14

      @@drummer78 MAH WAHF

    • @dr.2335
      @dr.2335 3 года назад +2

      Terts

  • @j.ceephuslincoln5857
    @j.ceephuslincoln5857 3 года назад +640

    Nice editing. The cult of Fripp deserves a standing Ovation.

  • @devinthierault
    @devinthierault 2 года назад +75

    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.

  • @matthewhood3897
    @matthewhood3897 3 года назад +470

    It's rumored that after this performance, he bought them all matching Nike Decades and offered them their choice of applesauce or pudding.

    • @rogerlegends166
      @rogerlegends166 3 года назад +5

      There is something horribly similar between this and the heavens gate videos .

    • @BoKnowsZombies
      @BoKnowsZombies 3 года назад +2

      Someone just watched a docuseries..

    • @DJBuglip
      @DJBuglip 3 года назад

      Ahahahahaha!

    • @keeperofthebonessean2872
      @keeperofthebonessean2872 3 года назад +6

      Its the Heaven's Ovation gate cult.

  • @Wise_Person
    @Wise_Person 3 года назад +472

    it's like the start of tubular bells but it's from hell

  • @Noahthelasercop
    @Noahthelasercop 3 года назад +952

    This feels like the Eric Andre Show

  • @spacecowboy2k
    @spacecowboy2k 3 года назад +289

    So much expressionless rage behind his eyes, and the Himmler-esque eyeglasses are NOT helping him blend into his army of hell-bound acolytes.

    • @rogerlegends166
      @rogerlegends166 3 года назад +8

      If it's expressionless , how can you possibly identify it as rage ?

    • @spacecowboy2k
      @spacecowboy2k 3 года назад +9

      @@rogerlegends166 go watch Richard Kuklinski’s interview and you’ll see what I mean. Also, the comment was tongue in cheek. 😂

    • @wavetech_
      @wavetech_ 3 года назад +24

      @@spacecowboy2k...lark's tongue in cheek?
      I'm leaving

    • @rickpa79
      @rickpa79 3 года назад +8

      Himmler-esque.... Brilliant!

  • @TheBlackQueen
    @TheBlackQueen 3 года назад +85

    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!

  • @zoetkarel
    @zoetkarel 3 года назад +129

    I, for one, welcome our Fripp overlords.

  • @AthenisOculi
    @AthenisOculi 3 года назад +158

    He is multiplying. Soon the world will be invaded by a massive troop of prog guitar players.

  • @windlesSpice
    @windlesSpice 3 года назад +62

    Fripp flexing the best delay peddle ever, a cult of talented guitarists. I swear fripp is a character from a Wes anderson film.

  • @arekhautaluoma4276
    @arekhautaluoma4276 3 года назад +84

    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.

    • @ferdinandbardamu.
      @ferdinandbardamu. 3 года назад +36

      Why are the Fripp's like this

    • @NefastusJones
      @NefastusJones Год назад +5

      They're British.

    • @brianm2881
      @brianm2881 9 месяцев назад +3

      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...

  • @CentiZen
    @CentiZen Год назад +33

    Robert Fripp is like the final boss of guitar

  • @codysifford5470
    @codysifford5470 3 года назад +78

    This is the kind of video you randomly send to your friends with no comment

    • @VodkaSelekta
      @VodkaSelekta 3 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/YmCcbZVZH9A/видео.html&ab_channel=StruanThomson

    • @ryanderangedmanclason8247
      @ryanderangedmanclason8247 3 года назад +2

      This is exactly what I intended on doing

    • @Richard_Jones
      @Richard_Jones 3 года назад +2

      @@ryanderangedmanclason8247 Yep, me too,

    • @theparalexview785
      @theparalexview785 3 года назад +2

      Exactly what I was thinking. Clearly Fripp's mind control master plan is working. 😳

  • @manDroidXX96
    @manDroidXX96 3 года назад +43

    "I'm not gonna thank you..."
    *OMINOUS RIFFING*

  • @pricedownproductions9851
    @pricedownproductions9851 3 года назад +131

    "On an unrelated note: the toilets here in the rooms assigned to staff are significantly unpleasant." - Robert Fripp

  • @ExtremelyOnlineGuy
    @ExtremelyOnlineGuy 3 года назад +37

    Idk if I’m supposed to feel frightened, challenged or impressed by this guy.

  • @koine2002
    @koine2002 8 месяцев назад +4

    This video deserves a standing…Ovation.

  • @christrudell7966
    @christrudell7966 3 года назад +22

    Fripp's got the the coolest stage presence I've never seen...

  • @radiomindchatter7994
    @radiomindchatter7994 3 года назад +1633

    Fripp is actually very funny but his humor is bone dry so people don't get it...

    • @geoffpoole483
      @geoffpoole483 3 года назад +183

      Even by British standards he's very dry...... but he's hilarious.

    • @radiomindchatter7994
      @radiomindchatter7994 3 года назад +77

      @@geoffpoole483 He really is and so is Bill Bruford...

    • @dickgozinia2721
      @dickgozinia2721 3 года назад +76

      You know Fripp has a sense of humor,he hired Adrian Belew who is a Frank Zappa illumi

    • @geoffpoole483
      @geoffpoole483 3 года назад +4

      @@radiomindchatter7994 Yep!

    • @badsanta518
      @badsanta518 3 года назад +6

      is it really funny if people don't think it is? How do we know its funny if it doesn't make us laugh?

  • @ethanlocke3604
    @ethanlocke3604 3 года назад +7

    I have no idea why I was recommended this but I’m glad I was and I’m glad I clicked. What a legend

  • @DoctorTillinghast
    @DoctorTillinghast 4 года назад +146

    I want 2 hours of this.

    • @Erikvinje65
      @Erikvinje65 4 года назад +7

      I want three

    • @dublplus
      @dublplus 3 года назад +4

      You could be a candidate for the spaceship.

    • @blacklodge8499
      @blacklodge8499 3 года назад +7

      This should be on 24/7...just rotate people in & out as needed

    • @jbradleymusic
      @jbradleymusic 3 года назад +2

      It's better when you take a week.

  • @demonicsweaters
    @demonicsweaters 3 года назад +46

    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.

  • @octofish
    @octofish 3 года назад +215

    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.

    • @kevindangelo1091
      @kevindangelo1091 3 года назад +28

      The asperger's guitar club. LOfuckingL

    • @___xyz___
      @___xyz___ 3 года назад +17

      asperger's approved

    • @JBert246
      @JBert246 3 года назад +30

      The female guitarist should be sacked. She was smiling. Until the shot of Robert looming over her.

    • @TheRocknrollmaniac
      @TheRocknrollmaniac 3 года назад +2

      hahahahhahah they really are a specific, no, special bunch

    • @rushnerd
      @rushnerd 3 года назад +1

      Man, having seen 80's KC and then the double Trio must have been insane. The contrast between the two is pretty huge.

  • @DanRelayer_Ukraine
    @DanRelayer_Ukraine 2 года назад +10

    there is definitely a timeline somewhere in which every single human being is part of the Crafty League with Fripp being its Supreme Leader.

  • @JBert246
    @JBert246 3 года назад +489

    This sounds like it was just an excuse for Fripp to practice scales

    • @danielshade710
      @danielshade710 3 года назад +8

      But none of the melodies are actually scales....

    • @JBert246
      @JBert246 3 года назад +5

      @@danielshade710 And your ellipse isn’t an ellipse, it should be . . .

    • @slurpzum7077
      @slurpzum7077 3 года назад +74

      @@JBert246 ellipse these nuts

    • @lordundhimself1310
      @lordundhimself1310 3 года назад +10

      @@danielshade710 Yes they are. They're Frippian scales

    • @matreynolds1
      @matreynolds1 3 года назад +23

      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.

  • @nigel8247
    @nigel8247 3 года назад +174

    It’s like some sort of cult right strange bunch

  • @MrBiggysmalls87
    @MrBiggysmalls87 3 года назад +49

    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.

    • @rodrigolloreda7012
      @rodrigolloreda7012 3 года назад +13

      😂😂😂 it’s not a particularly pleasant sound is it

    • @MrBiggysmalls87
      @MrBiggysmalls87 3 года назад +5

      @@rodrigolloreda7012 I love em.

    • @Wizardofgosz
      @Wizardofgosz 3 года назад +3

      Yeah, awful.
      Plastic guitars should be fucking banned.

    • @urwholefamilydied
      @urwholefamilydied 3 года назад +3

      @@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.

    • @MrBiggysmalls87
      @MrBiggysmalls87 3 года назад +1

      @@Wizardofgosz did you get a high or low end one?

  • @SPaulAndrewMaertens
    @SPaulAndrewMaertens 3 года назад +9

    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.

  • @paulwatson746
    @paulwatson746 4 года назад +142

    He's a strange fellow, but a genius.

    • @MosoKaiser
      @MosoKaiser 2 месяца назад

      In the words of Supernintendo Chalmers: he's an odd fellow, but brews a good prog.

  • @YakobBell
    @YakobBell 3 года назад +42

    This came up on my youtube recommendations with absolutely zero context and I am completely confused

    • @gbeachy2010
      @gbeachy2010 3 года назад +2

      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.

    • @HighlandMike325
      @HighlandMike325 3 года назад +4

      You have been chosen

    • @danielcj13
      @danielcj13 3 года назад +1

      Search King Crimson - Elephant talk, and smoke some weed before you listen to the song

    • @Gilnar13
      @Gilnar13 3 года назад

      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.

    • @NainUsar
      @NainUsar 3 года назад +1

      @@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?

  • @chefofthejungle179
    @chefofthejungle179 3 года назад +14

    Every great band needs 18 guitarists.

  • @SoftTangerineDreams
    @SoftTangerineDreams 3 года назад +8

    I love how all of them look like they're playing the guitar at gunpoint

  • @JellyBlockLP
    @JellyBlockLP 3 года назад +15

    The sinister undertones of King Crimson are coming through loud and clear in this vid

  • @struanthomson1855
    @struanthomson1855  3 года назад +549

    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.

    • @Justin_Kipper
      @Justin_Kipper 3 года назад +1

      Seems to be a lot of people complaining about the sound quality of VHS tapes recorded from television. Whatever, it's good stuff :)

    • @rushnerd
      @rushnerd 3 года назад +11

      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.

    • @Asshat237
      @Asshat237 3 года назад +3

      Yeah, why do they ALL have ovation guitars?

    • @PoutyTrout
      @PoutyTrout 3 года назад +4

      Thank you for inspiring me to grow a mullet.

    • @bobgreen8142
      @bobgreen8142 3 года назад +2

      Are they all playing in New Standard Tuning?

  • @eugeneroberts2736
    @eugeneroberts2736 3 года назад +18

    The joy of making music is just soooo contagiously scary

  • @dcuss7294
    @dcuss7294 3 года назад +10

    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.

  • @HughCorbyCruick
    @HughCorbyCruick 3 года назад +11

    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.

    • @unclepepe1184
      @unclepepe1184 3 года назад +2

      What a goober.

    • @marcleonetti
      @marcleonetti 2 года назад +1

      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.

  • @peteaimaro
    @peteaimaro 2 года назад +8

    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.

  • @barefootarts737
    @barefootarts737 2 года назад +2

    The shortness of the clips can never do justice to these full landscapes and the flora. This is a very interesting place to visit.

  • @brucesimian3743
    @brucesimian3743 3 года назад +87

    The Heaven's Gate Orchestra

  • @OlafProt
    @OlafProt Год назад +6

    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.

  • @Corilo91
    @Corilo91 3 года назад +10

    Despite what some peoples think, Fripp is just a weird, lovable genius. Glad I saw him play 3 times!

  • @THEDUSTINLEWITSHOW
    @THEDUSTINLEWITSHOW 3 года назад +3

    This is perhaps the greatest video ever made in the history of videos.

  • @yuvgotubekidding
    @yuvgotubekidding 3 года назад +4

    Wow! The electricity and emotion are over the top!

  • @deltabilly1
    @deltabilly1 3 года назад +15

    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
      @collinbeal 3 года назад

      Martin Simpson taught you guitar?!!

    • @deltabilly1
      @deltabilly1 3 года назад +1

      @@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

    • @geoffpoole483
      @geoffpoole483 3 года назад +1

      @@deltabilly1 WOW!! You were so fortunate.

    • @deltabilly1
      @deltabilly1 3 года назад

      @@geoffpoole483 no doubt!

  • @amercadodf
    @amercadodf 4 года назад +71

    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!

    • @mikesguitarstuff4639
      @mikesguitarstuff4639 3 года назад +7

      He didn’t ....jkjk

    • @amercadodf
      @amercadodf 3 года назад +2

      @Sean Hennessey Thank you!

    • @Ocktavio_S
      @Ocktavio_S 3 года назад +12

      He didn't play a single note by own will and decision... Sweet dreams!

    • @andresgagge6977
      @andresgagge6977 3 года назад +3

      @Sean Hennessey LMAO what do you mean "to provide silence"?

    • @Ocktavio_S
      @Ocktavio_S 3 года назад +7

      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. ;)

  • @babakpezeshknia5281
    @babakpezeshknia5281 2 года назад +1

    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 .

  • @Fidel_L.Bousquet1970
    @Fidel_L.Bousquet1970 Год назад +3

    I was waiting for Fripp to yell "Not quite my tempo" and throw a guitar at someone.

  • @78thedayafter
    @78thedayafter 3 года назад +7

    The guy sitting front and center with the shades is all business.

  • @soupdujour5807
    @soupdujour5807 3 года назад +21

    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

    • @Crowbar11115
      @Crowbar11115 3 года назад +7

      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

  • @svenred6eard757
    @svenred6eard757 3 года назад +16

    Like being in the acoustic section of a large guitar shop...on acid.

  • @bristolfashion4421
    @bristolfashion4421 2 года назад +4

    plunky twunky plunky funky innit twang wiggle waggle plunka plunka twangle spangle innit

  • @JianLakerson
    @JianLakerson 3 года назад +11

    He looked so relieved at the last note of that riff, such intense concentration. I'm not kidding that's incredible.

  • @numerousattention103
    @numerousattention103 3 года назад +15

    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

  • @miaouew
    @miaouew 3 года назад +120

    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.

    • @VoxDeserta
      @VoxDeserta 3 года назад +18

      Wow, slow down that coolness

    • @andysott
      @andysott 3 года назад

      agreed. you couldnt pay me to listen to this drivel....who exactly is he trying to impress?

    • @lippalassi
      @lippalassi 3 года назад

      hahahah

    • @BenDowdy
      @BenDowdy 3 года назад +3

      The blonde's kinda nice, though.

    • @Sam-hh3ry
      @Sam-hh3ry 3 года назад +2

      I like Fripp but this is still funny

  • @1KidGaming
    @1KidGaming 3 года назад +6

    No one man should have all that power

  • @HaloFlutie27
    @HaloFlutie27 3 года назад +9

    Poor guy in the blue shirt is trying so hard not to smile.

  • @hubbsllc
    @hubbsllc 4 года назад +45

    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.

    • @RaymondPeckIII
      @RaymondPeckIII 3 года назад

      ❤️

    • @Crowbar11115
      @Crowbar11115 3 года назад +2

      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

  • @ivanaraque
    @ivanaraque 3 года назад +2

    Darts, what an amazing piece, I spent decades trying to find it!!! (Those were the days...)

  • @legojedi3217
    @legojedi3217 3 года назад +6

    1:23 Mario music from the alternate universe when Fripp works at Nintendo

  • @modularmuse
    @modularmuse 3 года назад +68

    It's like the North Korean kid orchestras, with no smiling.

    • @luisdidonna
      @luisdidonna 3 года назад

      You mean like Fripp himself here? ruclips.net/video/ktYVgKBrhIo/видео.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)

    • @modularmuse
      @modularmuse 3 года назад +2

      @@luisdidonna Like this? ruclips.net/video/DeGdJgWXJ6Q/видео.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.

    • @r.t.5767
      @r.t.5767 3 года назад +1

      Hahahah :D

    • @JBert246
      @JBert246 3 года назад

      The female guitarist should be sacked. She was smiling. Until the shot of Robert looming over her.

    • @kenkinnally6144
      @kenkinnally6144 3 года назад

      @@JBert246 Looked like he was glad to be around a pretty girl playing guitar to be honest.

  • @jordanforbes149
    @jordanforbes149 3 года назад +8

    The guitarists wearing sunglasses are 100% stoned

    • @JamesBlevins0
      @JamesBlevins0 2 года назад +3

      Nope.
      No drugs on Fripp projects (apart from coffee and chocolate).

  • @smeagolmazurenko5238
    @smeagolmazurenko5238 3 года назад +11

    The only thing with a prayer of stopping this guy is Janet Reno

  • @olddoggeleventy2718
    @olddoggeleventy2718 3 года назад +6

    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.

    • @CraftyGtrist
      @CraftyGtrist Год назад

      That man is blind fyi. I knew attended the GC1 & 1.5 with him.

  • @cassianowogel
    @cassianowogel 3 года назад

    Best video title on the entire web. Congrats.

  • @flutter8712
    @flutter8712 3 года назад +26

    Moral of the story:
    Not everyone can do Fripp

    • @andsalomoni
      @andsalomoni 3 года назад +3

      Most people have better things to do (and play).

    • @flutter8712
      @flutter8712 3 года назад +2

      @@andsalomoni you wish

    • @andsalomoni
      @andsalomoni 3 года назад +1

      @@flutter8712 Ask Fripp to play "Shake That Thing". I don't think he can, in any credible way.
      ruclips.net/video/06k657rggVs/видео.html

  • @TheShadowphoenix888
    @TheShadowphoenix888 2 года назад +2

    Is this some kind of version of hell where guitarists go to get tortured by Robert Fripp and forced to play guitar against their will? If so, sign me up

  • @joefelice5062
    @joefelice5062 3 года назад +5

    The 80’s in Hair: a Retrospective

  • @octopusmime
    @octopusmime 3 года назад +1

    The title alone had me cracking up. The Cheerful Insanity of Giles Giles and Fripp is one of my all time favorites. 🌼💜🦋

  • @attackofthepacifists
    @attackofthepacifists 3 года назад +97

    It doesn’t matter how many Ovation guitars you put in a room together, they’ll never sound like a non-plastic guitar.

    • @wookiewhat
      @wookiewhat 3 года назад +8

      I think that's why he likes them

    • @Ian_sheridanuk
      @Ian_sheridanuk 3 года назад +11

      They sound awful, don't they?!

    • @keeperofthebonessean2872
      @keeperofthebonessean2872 3 года назад +6

      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.

    • @Cyberlithicum
      @Cyberlithicum 2 года назад +3

      @@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)

    • @gjustg1540
      @gjustg1540 2 года назад +3

      True, the Ovation is to guitar as the recorder is to woodwind

  • @kaynesantor8136
    @kaynesantor8136 3 года назад +1

    I hope at least one person gave a standing ovation. No? Anyone? Mkay, I'll show myself out.

  • @jamskiwilliams9663
    @jamskiwilliams9663 3 года назад +9

    0:47 makes me laugh everytime

  • @vergedrums
    @vergedrums 3 года назад

    I saw the League just a few years ago here in Madison. It was amazing. Truly beautiful.

  • @xavierorangearms635
    @xavierorangearms635 3 года назад +4

    I am so deep in this rabbit hole that youtube has started to reccomend me memes about prog bands

  • @JacobGorny
    @JacobGorny 3 года назад +2

    At a course, during a particularly intense exercise, Robert requested that we all play 'with tighter lips' - as if that were possible.

  • @Dolores5000
    @Dolores5000 3 года назад +31

    I have two of these discs
    It’s pretty cool
    My only complaint is I don’t care for the sound of ovation guitars

    • @struanthomson1855
      @struanthomson1855  3 года назад +8

      Likewise

    • @pricedownproductions9851
      @pricedownproductions9851 3 года назад +5

      yeah i fantasized about going to Fripp's guitar camp but was like, buy an Ovation? nah

    • @RaymondPeckIII
      @RaymondPeckIII 3 года назад +2

      Check out the Atomic Chamber Ensemble disc. It's here on RUclips.

    • @JacobGorny
      @JacobGorny 3 года назад

      @@RaymondPeckIII You can still buy it on Amazon in digital format. I do miss the Seattle Circle.

    • @majorpayne8373
      @majorpayne8373 3 года назад

      I have an ovation nylon string which I quite like. About the steel string Ovations I agree.

  • @miyukishijisha8540
    @miyukishijisha8540 3 года назад

    Old Dorset drop out, love you man, all the way from the USA via Blandford Forum.

  • @isaacwilson5863
    @isaacwilson5863 3 года назад +4

    It's a sitting ovation.

  • @panthonybond7557
    @panthonybond7557 3 года назад +1

    Absolutely brilliant!

  • @frozendivots1564
    @frozendivots1564 3 года назад +21

    Moments later they all drank the kool-Aid. The scene was horrendous...

    • @JacobGorny
      @JacobGorny 3 года назад +1

      If they were lucky. It would save them from the beating when they returned to the course.

  • @mediastarguest
    @mediastarguest 5 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @BichaelStevens
    @BichaelStevens 3 года назад +3

    I don't know anything about guitars but these, as you people call them, "ovation" guitars remind me a lot of SpongeBob music. Like those sound effects after scene transitions.

  • @kanal-zm4qt
    @kanal-zm4qt 3 года назад +2

    this is how I imagine the court of the crimson king

  • @roberthill4652
    @roberthill4652 3 года назад +3

    His humor is like I don't know if I want to punch him or laugh

  • @MarceloKatayama
    @MarceloKatayama Год назад +2

    I think the tape may have been run improperly when transferring this to digital form, because this is the deepest I've heard Fripp speak. His voice is typically a bit "squeakier", if that makes any sense.

  • @michaelgraham9774
    @michaelgraham9774 3 года назад +4

    They all look like Fripp hand-picked their outfits for the day

  • @theflev-matic4892
    @theflev-matic4892 3 года назад +2

    When the bard is also a warlock

  • @lvateinn8258
    @lvateinn8258 3 года назад +6

    The court of the crimson king ?
    More like the cult of the crimson king

  • @danielshade710
    @danielshade710 3 года назад +6

    That league shi is so cray sometimes I think my face is melting into my soup bowl and my brain is sure to follow. After 12 minutes my dog shit himself and ate his leg. Birds crashing into my windows like a Hitchcock movie. Weirder than that alien probe thing I suffered last year.

  • @jdrace12
    @jdrace12 3 года назад +16

    I've always thought that Ovation guitar tone is the silliest acoustic tone ever.

  • @portal432
    @portal432 3 года назад +2

    Now all you need is toyah dancing in it

  • @MCJaccard4music
    @MCJaccard4music 4 года назад +3

    Playing is great.

  • @Thindoublechin
    @Thindoublechin 3 года назад +1

    I bet they are all playing in NST as well.