This album comes closest to reproducing a sound that was a mystery to me for the first two decades of my life. A few years before this came out in '73, I was playing in my room on a rainy day and I heard strange music coming out of thin air. I went and asked my mom "Do you hear the music?" She replied "Thank God you hear it too! I thought I was going crazy" We never figured out the source then. So, fast forward to 1983 when I was bike touring in Colorado and I heard the same music again with still no visible source. I kept pedaling and the music became louder and changed until I reached a reservoir where power boats were racing. Then I realized that what I heard were those motors with their harmonics changed by the water and distance. Later that trip I heard the same sound yet again, but this time on a rainy morning with a four-lane highway over a quarter of a mile away. Then I realized that's what my mom and I had heard years before as the nearest highway then was over a quarter mile away and the rainy moisture-filled atmosphere was the same. The sound of car tires was being altered over the distance by the moisture in the air.
I know what you mean. The first time I heard No Pussyfooting my initial thought was "This is me, my thoughts, my sounds, my own personal music". It spoke to me clear as a bell.
That's a great story! It reminds me of how when I was in college there was a room with an old fluorescent lamp that produced a really audible drone sound. Me and my friend used to hum along with it and the humming slowly spread around until there was like 5-6 people all humming in tune with the lamp. Besides me, no one had any experience with music in that room, but I think this shows how music is inherently inside us (and even inside the inanimate objects too).
I still regard this album as something quite miraculous. It was far from the first use of such tape systems, but it was such a leap, it stands above everything that came before, and much of what came after. It remains a desert island disc for me. I never tire of it.
I first bought this when it was released in the 1970's in Australia. Then in the 1990's a friend of my sons heard it, loved it and asked if he could borrow it. I never saw it again. He is now a well known music producer in Berlin and still has my album. It led him to his current path. A brilliant peice of music. The rest of the music world may catch up to Fripp and Eno one day.
Nikolas G. Hilarious story !! Any of his "material" on YT ? Or anything to point us toward to see of his ? I am a true fan of No Pussyfooting and BTW if you haven't "discovered" it yet...pull up 2-3 of the different versions of NP on different TABS and stagger the start of each song and you have endless NP !! They blend together perfectly.
After leaving home and friends behind in high school I hitch hiked to California down the eastern seaboard from Niagara Falls, Ontario in a large U shaped pattern eventually landing in Petaluma to wind up working under the table. No green card. The first album I purchased in that town was No Pussyfooting. It was 1978 so no doubt that album sat in the stacks for a long time before I bought it. I was attracted to the album art and knew nothing of Eno. The rest has been a long and winding musical journey that never ends. Retaining one's youth requires constant exploration. Nostalgia is for the birds.
No Pussyfooting is THE reference point for the crossover of minimal classical music ( eg, Satie, Stockhausen) to the modern era that became "Ambient" or "Electronic(a)". Quite simply a ground breaking album that still stands, after all these years, as one of the best and most influential albums ever recorded of this genre. What probably started as experiments in sound and textures ( and how far you could utilize a tape loop(s)), turned into a masterpiece.
One of the most underrated albums of the 1970s, Mr. Fripp is a master of the underwhelming opening, setting you up for a big surprise as things subtly ramp up, turning to the awesome or terrifying... masterpiece! (And being an instrumental, I often listen while writing... gets me into a curious and innovative frame of mind.)
Bought this Groundbreaking record back in 1973 and I was 14 years old. It blew me away. From the Cover to this very Strange and powerful music. In 1975 I bought Evening Star. I laugh now my Dad said he's back in his bedroom listening to The Weird Shit. That's the best stuff. But he told me being a Artist himself that music was interesting. It still is at 65 years old. David Bowie LOW record and Berlin Triology came from this. Trent Reznor Attitus Ross and many others were moved by this work. I just love it .❤
My best friend (who was a drummer) had bought this album and wasn't too keen on it, so he let me borrow it. I would come home from school and lay down on the floor between the two speakers of our modest hi-fi and start dreaming. I currently am using 5 loopers in my studio setup... Strangely enough, I never took the time to learn how to play guitar, but it is Mr. Fripp's playing that made everything flow so well and be memorable.
@@PrimitiveInTheExtreme There were a few groups in Europe, mainly West Germany and France in the mid 60's that did similar stuff like Popol Vuh (w/Klaus Schulze), Ash Ra Tempel, and the beginnings of Tangerine dream and other bands that later made music for synths, instead of using synths for music... In France most of it went down in university labs, but in Germany it gained more public attention. There was a "Scene", in Munich, Hamburg and in a few other larger cities, and in Berlin with a club that was also a restaurant and intellectual hang out where the bands were more like a piece of graphic art on display, playing often for hours on end where musicians would come and go and the music wasn't written or agreed on... they just let it evolve slowly and naturally, called it things like organic, socially constructive, psycho medicine, and other "Deep" things you would come up with after a few puffs of hashish!😜 Sometimes there was a rhythm and those were more tribal, but anything traditional or genre was a no no! They didn't have synthesizers but used cellos,guitars,organs, and other instruments in odd ways, and through effects, all kinds of electronic devices that just so happen to make make sounds they could use like wave generators, fans, humming motors, toys and all sorts, and still managed to get long sustaining notes and droning and made "atmospheric soundscapes". David Bowie and others were known to show up at the club and enjoy the sonic wallpaper even join in. Fripp wasn't far away and there was already the British German connection in music and musician exchange, so he too may have been familiar with it, possibly The Beatles seeing that they played in Berlin more often than London or Liverpool.
One of my vinyl albums I will never sell. I listened to this on headphones in the 80s and I now have two delays and a looper on my guitar pedal board. 😎😎😎
An essential listen for all truly, committed musical innovators. Inspirational and historically significant. It has been on my listening agenda since 1973 and remains as refreshing and emotionally moving as it did then. I am now 72 and will never let my original vinyl copy out of my sight. Bless you both for creating such a timeless gem.
I had the EHX 16 sec delay pedal in 1982 thanks to you and Adrian Belew. What a great tool that was. I am going to do some looping tonight on the Eventide DDL. I appreciate your polite kicks to my ass yet again. Thanks always.
Before you heard the music, you saw the cover. You saw the cover and couldn't stop looking as you listened to the music and hoped your parents didn't come home while you blasted it out of the stereo. You'd already broken them in by playing Sailor's Tale at dinner time - just the once, but they were henceforth wary. And yet this was in a different dimension again. Infinity mirror room mirrors infinity mirror music.
This is such a wonderful album... suited for many contemplative listening environments. This music has had a profound influence on me personally and on my musical DNA. Dare I say, it's part of my musical DNA!!
I first heard this on the John Peel show, then I went out and bought it. I thought it was great, and I still do. John Peel Show, what a time that was. The warm glow of nostalgia sweeps over me. He kept Pink Floyd alive for years in the beginning, especailly after Syd... left the planet, alas. That Peel loathed Tony Blair showed his heart was in the right place. Robert got me into playing that 'intense' style of guitar playing, too.
i must have an old cassette with my playing the tone knobs on a feedbacking guitar or some ambient effect. later i found out about open reel and splicing a loop of tape to get sound on sound. those are some fun discoveries.
MIlestone album in Ambient genre. Superb at altitude. i have original USA vinyl. a bit worse for wear as it had to endure being played by metal boxes. I was fortunate to have a close friend who was more into Ambient than i was [i was originally a Genesis freak; he helped me consider music as mood and environment, categories as worthwhile as musicianship or melodic craft.] Since these artists came from Prog bands with impressive credibility, it was hard for my prog peers to completely dismiss it. Played it all many times my overnite shows FM radio central coast calif during 80s. included in ambient room sets bay area northern california 90s and post-millennium many time playlists here at YT. perennial favorite, founding classic of genre. well done.
First listened to it in 2019. Don’t usually re-listen albums, but discovering this one is one of the best things that ever happened to me and that I’m grateful for it.
Один из самых лучших альбомов за всю историю электрической музыки. Больше 30 лет он не надоедает. Сначала слушал на кассете, теперь купил пластинку. Perfect, Perfektion, La perfection, Perfezione, 完璧!!!
Yup, I bought this on release. All my friends were listening to Southern Fried Rock and couldn’t wrap their brains around this. I could get them to listen to Pink Floyd. Eno, Fripp, Tangerine Dream, etal were outside reality. Then they discovered the alternate Lysergic Universe. They cried, they howled, they sat quietly in the lotus position and let the wave crash over them.
This album, more than any other, proved a capable psychopomp for carrying me to the other side beyond ego and self. In the '70s some of us heads in Charlotte would listen to this and John Cage and Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Xenakis, and the "serious" composers. Fripp is of that class of composer, and just happens to do rock now and again.
So someone explain why all the different versions of this album and the fact that the videos saying they are the first version are actual version 3 or 4 AND why they are all attributed to King Crimson ? Shouldn't they be attributed to Fripp and Eno ? By attributed to, I mean when you hit the "show more" tab (?) it says the artist is King Crimson.
Thanks for sharing this Robert, and also the stories of the album's title and its other track. I wonder if 'Terry Riley in C' was an influence on either of you here?
I am interested in licensing this or otherwise getting permission to use it on a personal animation video that I want to upload to RUclips. Can anyone tell me who I need to talk to?
Sounds like Jacob's Ladder... Like beautiful smoke... Like prayer... Like thanksgiving... Seeing as GOD does not need CPR, this is like a Divine Kiss of Love between Heaven and Earth...which, to me, are the same...but, what do I know...I am only a Human Being Woman.
although of course this is a piece of "planned" sound architecture- the real heart of it is Robert's guitar soloing- this is not accidental music- it seems to me this is mostly "played" this is what it sounds like inside the Fripp of that time's head!
50 years later still far out of the mainstream doodoo, listen to the whole album when yuo are on your own or give it to the world at maximum volume. it is your decision
This album comes closest to reproducing a sound that was a mystery to me for the first two decades of my life. A few years before this came out in '73, I was playing in my room on a rainy day and I heard strange music coming out of thin air. I went and asked my mom "Do you hear the music?" She replied "Thank God you hear it too! I thought I was going crazy" We never figured out the source then.
So, fast forward to 1983 when I was bike touring in Colorado and I heard the same music again with still no visible source. I kept pedaling and the music became louder and changed until I reached a reservoir where power boats were racing. Then I realized that what I heard were those motors with their harmonics changed by the water and distance. Later that trip I heard the same sound yet again, but this time on a rainy morning with a four-lane highway over a quarter of a mile away. Then I realized that's what my mom and I had heard years before as the nearest highway then was over a quarter mile away and the rainy moisture-filled atmosphere was the same. The sound of car tires was being altered over the distance by the moisture in the air.
I love this story, thank you. I hear those things too, sometimes it's very confusing. I'm very glad to read your wonder-full comment.
I know what you mean. The first time I heard No Pussyfooting my initial thought was "This is me, my thoughts, my sounds, my own personal music". It spoke to me clear as a bell.
I heard all of Eno’s output but didn’t listen to this until the mid-eighties. Loved it. Frippertronics was intoxicating.
That's a great story! It reminds me of how when I was in college there was a room with an old fluorescent lamp that produced a really audible drone sound. Me and my friend used to hum along with it and the humming slowly spread around until there was like 5-6 people all humming in tune with the lamp. Besides me, no one had any experience with music in that room, but I think this shows how music is inherently inside us (and even inside the inanimate objects too).
I still regard this album as something quite miraculous. It was far from the first use of such tape systems, but it was such a leap, it stands above everything that came before, and much of what came after. It remains a desert island disc for me. I never tire of it.
I first bought this when it was released in the 1970's in Australia. Then in the 1990's a friend of my sons heard it, loved it and asked if he could borrow it. I never saw it again. He is now a well known music producer in Berlin and still has my album. It led him to his current path. A brilliant peice of music. The rest of the music world may catch up to Fripp and Eno one day.
Nikolas G. Hilarious story !! Any of his "material" on YT ? Or anything to point us toward to see of his ? I am a true fan of No Pussyfooting and BTW if you haven't "discovered" it yet...pull up 2-3 of the different versions of NP on different TABS and stagger the start of each song and you have endless NP !! They blend together perfectly.
After leaving home and friends behind in high school I hitch hiked to California down the eastern seaboard from Niagara Falls, Ontario in a large U shaped pattern eventually landing in Petaluma to wind up working under the table. No green card. The first album I purchased in that town was No Pussyfooting. It was 1978 so no doubt that album sat in the stacks for a long time before I bought it. I was attracted to the album art and knew nothing of Eno. The rest has been a long and winding musical journey that never ends. Retaining one's youth requires constant exploration. Nostalgia is for the birds.
No Pussyfooting is THE reference point for the crossover of minimal classical music ( eg, Satie, Stockhausen) to the modern era that became "Ambient" or "Electronic(a)".
Quite simply a ground breaking album that still stands, after all these years, as one of the best and most influential albums ever recorded of this genre.
What probably started as experiments in sound and textures ( and how far you could utilize a tape loop(s)), turned into a masterpiece.
One of the most underrated albums of the 1970s, Mr. Fripp is a master of the underwhelming opening, setting you up for a big surprise as things subtly ramp up, turning to the awesome or terrifying... masterpiece! (And being an instrumental, I often listen while writing... gets me into a curious and innovative frame of mind.)
Every listening brings you in a different mood, such a masterpiece.
True dat....A greeting from Italy
@@Burt472 ciao sono italiano anche io. 😀
I have the original vinyl release, bought in 1973. King Crimson mania! My friends didn't understand why I liked it.
Don't worry. We do, my friend
This album drove my mom crazy, more than punk or anything else that had any rhythm 🙂
@@runrig97 Ha! This happened to me with my mom and "An Index of Metals" from Evening Star.
My Lead Zeppelin infatuated friend freaked when I bought and played this.
@@russkinter3000 Ah well, bless 🙂
Been loving this one since it's original release.
This record seems like it was pivotal for both Eno & Fripp. It still holds up, half a century on.
Heard this music as 'pre-show' for the the first tour of LTinA. It certainly sets a mysterious and contemplative atmosphere.
What a wonderful masterpiece!
Bought this Groundbreaking record back in 1973 and I was 14 years old. It blew me away.
From the Cover to this very Strange and powerful music.
In 1975 I bought Evening Star.
I laugh now my Dad said he's back in his bedroom listening to The Weird Shit. That's the best stuff.
But he told me being a Artist himself that music was interesting.
It still is at 65 years old.
David Bowie LOW record and Berlin Triology came from this.
Trent Reznor Attitus Ross and many others were moved by this work. I just love it .❤
My favorite piece of recorded music.
Still have my original copy, purchased in 1979. An absolutely perfect LP, and cool cover art to boot.
Very cool cover.
My best friend (who was a drummer) had bought this album and wasn't too keen on it, so he let me borrow it. I would come home from school and lay down on the floor between the two speakers of our modest hi-fi and start dreaming. I currently am using 5 loopers in my studio setup... Strangely enough, I never took the time to learn how to play guitar, but it is Mr. Fripp's playing that made everything flow so well and be memorable.
Bought this when it was released way back in 1973, sublime album
It was in Badalona and my first concert, and one of the best
Two of the greatest composers of music together. It could only come out a wonderful album.
These were not compositions but rather "Evolutions".
@@Bob-of-Zoid right!
@@PrimitiveInTheExtreme There were a few groups in Europe, mainly West Germany and France in the mid 60's that did similar stuff like Popol Vuh (w/Klaus Schulze), Ash Ra Tempel, and the beginnings of Tangerine dream and other bands that later made music for synths, instead of using synths for music... In France most of it went down in university labs, but in Germany it gained more public attention. There was a "Scene", in Munich, Hamburg and in a few other larger cities, and in Berlin with a club that was also a restaurant and intellectual hang out where the bands were more like a piece of graphic art on display, playing often for hours on end where musicians would come and go and the music wasn't written or agreed on... they just let it evolve slowly and naturally, called it things like organic, socially constructive, psycho medicine, and other "Deep" things you would come up with after a few puffs of hashish!😜 Sometimes there was a rhythm and those were more tribal, but anything traditional or genre was a no no! They didn't have synthesizers but used cellos,guitars,organs, and other instruments in odd ways, and through effects, all kinds of electronic devices that just so happen to make make sounds they could use like wave generators, fans, humming motors, toys and all sorts, and still managed to get long sustaining notes and droning and made "atmospheric soundscapes".
David Bowie and others were known to show up at the club and enjoy the sonic wallpaper even join in. Fripp wasn't far away and there was already the British German connection in music and musician exchange, so he too may have been familiar with it, possibly The Beatles seeing that they played in Berlin more often than London or Liverpool.
@@Bob-of-Zoid what a marvel 🪐
Changed my life. The start of my obsession with loopers.
One of the most inspired masterpieces of the 20'th century music. I love it.
Thanks a lot for sharing .
One of my vinyl albums I will never sell. I listened to this on headphones in the 80s and I now have two delays and a looper on my guitar pedal board. 😎😎😎
Same story here 👽
An essential listen for all truly, committed musical innovators. Inspirational and historically significant. It has been on my listening agenda since 1973 and remains as refreshing and emotionally moving as it did then. I am now 72 and will never let my original vinyl copy out of my sight. Bless you both for creating such a timeless gem.
I love this music- I can't even remember how many times I've listened to this- glorious-❤
Thank you for sharing this. Such an incredible soundscape and exploration of technology and simplicity.
Every time listen (hundreds of times along 50 years) is a new experience, an iconic master piece of sound, hard to find music like yours
Awesome! Haven’t heard this album since 1982.
Ha ! Nostalgia and tears , a lot of tears ... Timeless .
Iconique!
Classic ambient album, very nice.
One of my favorite albums
I had the EHX 16 sec delay pedal in 1982 thanks to you and Adrian Belew. What a great tool that was. I am going to do some looping tonight
on the Eventide DDL. I appreciate your polite kicks to my ass yet again. Thanks always.
Always loved this album
Love this and have for decades.
Love this and Evening Star-timeless! And that cover art is the coolest.
This album changed the way I listened to music.
Hard to pin down which makes this LP timeless. Elements of classical music is sprinkled all over the synth, guitar and tape machine. Brilliant.
Thank You for posting this Mr Fripp. I grooved out several copies of this back in the day. You are truly one of the greats, right along side of Eno.
Before you heard the music, you saw the cover. You saw the cover and couldn't stop looking as you listened to the music and hoped your parents didn't come home while you blasted it out of the stereo. You'd already broken them in by playing Sailor's Tale at dinner time - just the once, but they were henceforth wary. And yet this was in a different dimension again.
Infinity mirror room mirrors infinity mirror music.
This is such a wonderful album... suited for many contemplative listening environments. This music has had a profound influence on me personally and on my musical DNA. Dare I say, it's part of my musical DNA!!
I first heard this on the John Peel show, then I went out and bought it. I thought it was great, and I still do. John Peel Show, what a time that was. The warm glow of nostalgia sweeps over me. He kept Pink Floyd alive for years in the beginning, especailly after Syd... left the planet, alas. That Peel loathed Tony Blair showed his heart was in the right place. Robert got me into playing that 'intense' style of guitar playing, too.
I heard that Peel played it at the wrong speed😂
@@mr.bloodvessel260 Me too. He was ahead of his time.
@daveandfriendsdoingmusic3622 lol, did he talk to Peel about it on the air?
@@mr.bloodvessel260 I heard he played it backwards as it was supplied on reel-to-reel tail out and he did not rewind the tape before playing it.
i must have an old cassette with my playing the tone knobs on a feedbacking guitar or some ambient effect. later i found out about open reel and splicing a loop of tape to get sound on sound. those are some fun discoveries.
Ahead of the time then and ahead of all time forever....Genius
I used to play this all the time back in the day. Still have all of their original vinyl.
Transcendent, withstands hundreds of listens, either focused in on the music or ignoring in the background!
Bought "Court" when I was 12... Needless to say, it's been Perfect a Wonderful Lifetime Experience!
MIlestone album in Ambient genre. Superb at altitude. i have original USA vinyl. a bit worse for wear as it had to endure being played by metal boxes. I was fortunate to have a close friend who was more into Ambient than i was [i was originally a Genesis freak; he helped me consider music as mood and environment, categories as worthwhile as musicianship or melodic craft.] Since these artists came from Prog bands with impressive credibility, it was hard for my prog peers to completely dismiss it. Played it all many times my overnite shows FM radio central coast calif during 80s. included in ambient room sets bay area northern california 90s and post-millennium many time playlists here at YT. perennial favorite, founding classic of genre. well done.
Alas, on you tube!!! Thank you Mr. Fripp.
Rather a good LP - always handy to have under your arm to impress your friend with: hey look what I'm into man!
Excellent thanks for sharing💕
sublime
Magnifico
If, like me, you've loved this piece for decades, you owe it to yourself to listen to it backwards.
Por que?
Driving Me Backwards.
First listened to it in 2019. Don’t usually re-listen albums, but discovering this one is one of the best things that ever happened to me and that I’m grateful for it.
❤ this
a very happy birthday to both! - at least as happy as you've been making us
This is my soundtrack for a good nights sleep
Thank you
As extraordinary and incendiary today as it was in 1973
Один из самых лучших альбомов за всю историю электрической музыки. Больше 30 лет он не надоедает. Сначала слушал на кассете, теперь купил пластинку. Perfect, Perfektion, La perfection, Perfezione, 完璧!!!
@Slava Ukraini! ????????
I have the album on CD and LP, and when I was still living home, I had to use headphones because my mother hated it and begged me to turn it off 😂
Yup, I bought this on release. All my friends were listening to Southern Fried Rock and couldn’t wrap their brains around this. I could get them to listen to Pink Floyd. Eno, Fripp, Tangerine Dream, etal were outside reality. Then they discovered the alternate Lysergic Universe. They cried, they howled, they sat quietly in the lotus position and let the wave crash over them.
This album, more than any other, proved a capable psychopomp for carrying me to the other side beyond ego and self. In the '70s some of us heads in Charlotte would listen to this and John Cage and Elliott Carter, George Crumb, Xenakis, and the "serious" composers. Fripp is of that class of composer, and just happens to do rock now and again.
Why was it trimmed down to 6:17 from the original 20:52?
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.
sublime!
The most important album in history of music with Little Red record by Matching Mole"s, Close to the Edge by Yes and Trasmission IV by Porcupine Tree.
I sometimes use this album to help me fall asleep.
je l'ai écouté en boucle...
Yay!
>>>Evening Star
This is my third desent to planet earth and the first time hearing this!
I still have my original copy!
No compromise.
Definitely not pussyfooting around . One of my favorite( perfect for LSD) recordings 👽✌️
This is awesome, “Evening Star” was even better for that purpose!
First heard heavenly music corporation on the hitchhikers guide to the galaxy radio show
A classic Fripp Eno jam.
Svastika girls ... 👍😉
So someone explain why all the different versions of this album and the fact that the videos saying they are the first version are actual version 3 or 4 AND why they are all attributed to King Crimson ? Shouldn't they be attributed to Fripp and Eno ? By attributed to, I mean when you hit the "show more" tab (?) it says the artist is King Crimson.
Thanks for sharing this Robert, and also the stories of the album's title and its other track. I wonder if 'Terry Riley in C' was an influence on either of you here?
There is an old interview where Robert said he was familiar with “Rainbow in Curved Air”.
I am interested in licensing this or otherwise getting permission to use it on a personal animation video that I want to upload to RUclips. Can anyone tell me who I need to talk to?
👍👍👍👍👍
Let us begin…
Sounds like Jacob's Ladder... Like beautiful smoke... Like prayer... Like thanksgiving... Seeing as GOD does not need CPR, this is like a Divine Kiss of Love between Heaven and Earth...which, to me, are the same...but, what do I know...I am only a Human Being Woman.
The frippification is overpowered by enocification❤️
although of course this is a piece of "planned" sound architecture- the real heart of it is Robert's guitar soloing- this is not accidental music- it seems to me this is mostly "played" this is what it sounds like inside the Fripp of that time's head!
What is this 6 minute version? just the first 6 minutes of the 21-minute track?
This was playing over the airport loudspeaker when Pussy Galore & her squadron flew in from Fort Knox for refueling.
Alguien viene por el señor maslaton??? Porque yo si.
Nunca me imaginé a Maslatón relacionado con esto, decime cuándo lo dijo porque la curiosidad me mata
My friends don't understand either. I pity them.
Hall of mirrors cover was just as influential as well
50 years later still far out of the mainstream doodoo, listen to the whole album when yuo are on your own or give it to the world at maximum volume. it is your decision
This album title shows the dedication to condemning one of the more obscure fetishes out there
no what
Krautrock rip-off.
aguante milei vieja