I was born and live in wimborne, Robert is the best thing to come out of wimborne, makes me proud to see Robert frip loving his town and country side what a star, i met toyah at the rewind festival in Henley was great fun.....
A True Genius is our Robert Fripp ! Some much of the music today couldn't have existed without what Mr. FRIPP has created with is Frippatronics . Thank you for sharing this video.
I will forever be saddened and disappointed by Fripp's decision to not allow his former band mate Greg Lake to rejoin him in the reformation of King Crimson. Shortly before Greg's diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, it was Lake's fondest wish to re-join with Fripp to record what he surely knew was the last ever recording that Greg Lake would ever do. Lake was also very interested in possibly doing a short King Crimson tour as well. Robert Fripp adamantly refused. Nothing like denying a dying man his last wish. :'(
I saw in a video greg wanted to be a part of the reunion he didnt know why robert didnt give him a chance but yes very unfortunate giving the near future of those events
The importance of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp despite the technique and music gadgets used was in the late 70s to bring silence into Pop Music . It was a switch off of all that brilliant music era expressed till there a tabula rasa and then magically they remerged few months later with an entire new music set from Talking Heads, Bowie in Berlin, new King Crimson etc. An epical sound time for our ears and soul .
I grew up in Hampshire, and have returned now in my 50s. RF is not too far away next door in Dorset. I used to know a few other musicians from Dorset mainly from right at the end of 1970s to the end of the 1980s, before moving away in 1989.
alterdestiny Hi Pay our country a visit! I don't think we have any restrictions on Americans visiting, even if they are from the Bronx. If it's a permanent move you're thinking about there are various ways... My significant other works for a Russell Group university just down the road. She goes by bicycle bike cos it's quicker than driving! [I met Fripp once at the university] Anyway they have about 55,000 students including a very large amount from overseas. There is a significant amount of medical students as the university it's tied to one of our very large hospitals . There are also students studying just about every other subject you can think of, for example there is a fully working theatre that you can study lighting, sound engineering, directing , etcetera. They have touring bands , stand up comedians, and others perform there just like any other venue. That's one way go get to this country, but obviously as a non-British citizen you would have to pay for your education. Another way to get over here is to have a skill that we have a shortage of, one area we currently do have problems in is the medical professions, from surgeons, to consulting doctors, to specialist technical staff within our NHS, like for example Xray technicians. We have a shortage in all areas of physiotherapy...I see a lot of those cos of my heath problems, currently I have one for speech and swallowing, one for my neck and spine, and one for my feet. I am not sure about many other professions . But I know that refrigeration and air conditioning engineers for all the luxury yachts we have on our coastline are always sought after. Our house is about six miles from the coast and I played in a band with a guy that made a good living fixing air conditioning units on ships in the late 1980s. Generally speaking we don't have weather to justify air conditioning in our buildings , but luxury yachts do! Hence, the shortage of engineers Bye for now :◎)
Bewitched was my fav of their albums. Another good one, I Advanced Masked. Both superb musicians. My fav Fripp production work includes Peter Gabriel's 2nd album the work he did with King Crimson, in partcular Discipline
not only Robert is one of the greatest musicians I had the chance to meet and learn from, but when I hear him talking, I think he should rule the world!!... of course, he's too humble as a human being for that :)
Fripp. The best electric guitarist that I have ever heard. Andy Summers - very underrated. My two fav..... Fripp albums - 'Scary Monsters' with Bowie & 'The First Day' - Sylvian/Fripp.
This reminds me how much I would have loved a Summers/Fripp tour in the 1980's, 1/2 the show with just the two guitars and the other 1/2 with a full band. Any ideas for the bass, drums and keyboards? ;)
We moved from Wiltshire to a part of Dorset quite close to Wimborne and Horton. Very atmospheric place, and almost desolate (in a good way). Still visit often. Don't blame Robert for loving the area. Thanks for YouTubing video.
Greg: We moved from the area in '79 (I'm a Wiltshire man), but we often went past The Horton Inn in the car. That was apparently Crimson's Mess! Did meet Gordon Haskell once at a gig in Tisbury. Nice fellow.
"One Sunday night in my bed in Putney I read the second inaugural address of JG Benett to Sherbourne House the second basic course, and the top of my head blew off," are words that no one in eternity has ever uttered before.
Weird to see Robert just hitting straight power chords in such a punk-y and minimal kind of way, he doesn't do just straight power chords very often. I don't either honestly, but they can end up being overshadowed because so many "meh" bands use them so mindlessly. I always found myself avoiding them just because so many uninteresting groups write with *only* power chords (and basic major/minor) in mind, power chords are useful and it's good to remember they have their place sometimes too!
When I listen to Andy Summers' work with Robert Fripp, I think: - The influence of Fripp is clear in the song "Mother" by The Police on the album "Synchronicity". - When King Crimson turned to the trilogy of colors in the eighties ... was the only new influence on Fripp only gamelan music? Could the arpeggios on the album "Reggatta de Blanc" by The Police have also influenced Fripp? I think this because Robert Fripp being a very intelligent person when choosing which other musicians to work with ... Fripp must have seen in Summers a guitarist with very particular ideas about it. I'm remembering the songs "New York, New York, New York" and "Exposure" on the album "Exposure". Greetings from Chile.
It's difficult to communicate when we all speak a different language. Meetings with Remarkable Men was the one that blew my mind open... Becoming a fully balanced 3 brained Being is my aim.. Grace.... Anyone remember the 'Gordon Smith' guitar?
I see many examples of people who also simply put the musicians images or personal lives much as a more important thing than the art that they produced. There are hundreds of examples in the videos I posted ( I have more pages here ) things like : '' what is this shirt this guy is using ? '' -- or '' He was a good musician but was a drug addict '' -- or '' He moves strangely '' -- or '' I like his mucis but since I saw him with this hair I started to like it less '' ...
I agree completeley. And there are much much worse '' discussions '' here on RUclips ( and on Internet in general ) . It looks that nowadays most people dedicate themselves, their time and energy to hate, to disagree, to point their fingers on other´s people life. Few, very few dedicate their times to enjoy music deeply and more to things they like than to things they don´t like.
viva el rey carmesi. robert fripp is king crimson. long live the king. he has a super repertoire in music, with allot of great musicians. from mc donald , giles, byrne, eno, sylvian. rieflin, hammill, bruford, levin, summers, gabriel, lake, etc, etc etc
Listen to his work more closely. He constantly utilizes the 12 bar blues form - he twists it around a lot, but it is evident. In fact, sometimes I am annoyed by it.
Robert is using a Roland gr300 guitar (or was it 303),it was made by Ibanez for Roland and he put a Kahler trem system on it (yikes!!). I had the same guitar in the 80,s,basically an Ibanez musician with Roland's electronics inside. I think in time the music world will finally realise how important this guy is/was. Certainly bands like Tool would not sound as they ,even Rush etc. Amazing man
Listening to corporate rock would not prepare you for the King Crimson experience. Similarly, a working knowledge of mainstream religions is no basis for understanding what RF thinks.
Not exactly. J.G. Bennett was one of the successors to P. D. Ouspensky & G. I. Gurdjieff. Unfortunately, explaining the ideas of Gudjieff, Ouspensky, Bennett, & others from that lineage (sometimes called 'The Fourth Way') is not possible in a few words, or even a book, but I will try to impart a very basic idea:G. I. Gurdjieff, born in Armenia in 1866, developed a burning question: What is the sense and significance of organic life in general, and human life in particular? This is not a trite as it might sound, nor was his efforts to find an answer to this question trite. He spent over 20 years traveling, observing, studying with Yogis, in monasteries, with dervishes and yes, with monks.. he explored both philosophy & psychology deeply.. anything that could be of use to him in answering his fundamental questions was explored, experienced & weighed for its value, all with the aim of finding practical answers about the possibilities of Man. He took what worked and rejected what didn't; melded all the ideas and techniques he collected and stripped them of any dogma, then began to 'teach'. Sadly, this is hardly scratching the surface, and those who are actively involved in the 'work' of Gurdjieff & Ouspensky may well object to this thumbnail sketch, but hey, this is a comment on RUclips.. Anyway - One of the primary conclusions he came to was that most people sleepwalk through life - that is to say, they react as opposed to act; they rarely 'do' anything in the deeper sense; they give precedence to imagining and daydreaming instead of any real 'work'; they almost never complete anything they set out to do, and if they do manage to complete something, the end result is rarely what they aimed for at the outset; they have no real unified sense of 'I', etc.. He also noted that people make poor use of their bodies, in the sense that , granting that we have different 'centers' - 'autonomous' - emotional - intellectual, etc. - there is neither unification of action between these centers nor proper separation regarding the functions appropriate to each center. Nor is there a real & sustained 'attention' with most people. To be blunt (and a bit harsh) we are 'broken machines'.. capable of awareness, attention and efficient functioning, but with few exceptions we have lost the knowledge or ability to be 'aware', 'attentive' and to function efficiently.Anyway, he began to teach various exercises that ranged from the physical (especially 'temple dances') to the mental, including 'self observation' - and even combined these practices in an effort to find the most efficient way to help people gain a unified sense of 'I', the ability to 'remember oneself' and to function efficiently on all levels. (I am still not doing these ideas - concepts - teachings justice; I just hope to pique your curiosity so you might decide to find the best material to learn, assess and test these ideas for yourself, then make your own evaluation). It is true that Gurdjieff spoke of God, religion & spirituality, but he considered most religious institutions to be bereft of any meaning intended by their originators, and he considered most 'occultism' to be 'workshops for the perfection of psychopathy.' He believed in 'God', but he joked about the anthropomorphizing most 'religious' people do of a concept he saw quite differently. 'If you want to lose your faith, make friends with the priest'.Gurdjieff / Ouspensky centers still exist (yet beware of imitations - E. J Gold and Robert Burton come to mind); and ideas / techniques of others such as Matthias Alexander have also been incorporated into some of the curricula, which makes sense, since one of Alexander's goals was to release unneeded body tension to increase fluidity and freedom of movement and decrease distraction & 'reactivity'). Look up Matthias Alexander & read about his ideas & aims to get a taste of what Fripp is referring to. Then read P. D. Ouspensky's book 'In Search of the Miraculous' and/or 'The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution' to get a bigger picture. If you want to know more about the originator of the Ouspensky - Bennett schools, I recommend the biography 'Gurdjieff' by James Moore as an excellent beginning. A final note - Fripp's Guitar Craft courses were modeled around and influenced by the ideas & techniques of Gurdjieff; in fact, one might say it is Fripp's contribution to the work started by Gurdjieff, adopted by Ouspensky and continued by J. G. Bennett, Henriette Lannes and Jeanne de Salzmann.
The contrast between Robert's extremely calm demeanor vs his at times insanely chaotic guitar playing really fascinates me. Genius
It called "Scenius" - The collective mind that synthed with every member of a group
@@SemenSonyahSorry? No, he's a fantastic guitarist. Seems effortless to him. Dude can play.
@@blankyfrank you clearly misunderstood my 2 year old comment 😵💫
"The Lord of the Strings". My favorite guitar player ever. Robert deserves a REAL documentary!
the lords of the string
I was born and live in wimborne, Robert is the best thing to come out of wimborne, makes me proud to see Robert frip loving his town and country side what a star, i met toyah at the rewind festival in Henley was great fun.....
A True Genius is our Robert Fripp !
Some much of the music today couldn't have existed without what Mr. FRIPP has created with is Frippatronics .
Thank you for sharing this video.
Robert fripps rhythm playing was better than mosts lead playing!
Was? How about is! Dude's still got it
I was thinking that! Always thought he wasn´t good at rythim; he´s better than Summers on leading
here
I will forever be saddened and disappointed by Fripp's decision to not allow his former band mate Greg Lake to rejoin him in the reformation of King Crimson. Shortly before Greg's diagnosis of pancreatic cancer, it was Lake's fondest wish to re-join with Fripp to record what he surely knew was the last ever recording that Greg Lake would ever do. Lake was also very interested in possibly doing a short King Crimson tour as well. Robert Fripp adamantly refused. Nothing like denying a dying man his last wish. :'(
Were you a friend of Greg?
That's kinda messed up.
I mean, I'm pretty sure that greg's disease was hidden from most people. Still, Frippy has been known for denying entry to KC to some members.
I saw in a video greg wanted to be a part of the reunion he didnt know why robert didnt give him a chance but yes very unfortunate giving the near future of those events
The importance of Brian Eno and Robert Fripp despite the technique and music gadgets used was in the late 70s to bring silence into Pop Music . It was a switch off of all that brilliant music era expressed till there a tabula rasa and then magically they remerged few months later with an entire new music set from Talking Heads, Bowie in Berlin, new King Crimson etc. An epical sound time for our ears and soul .
The part where Robert Fripp and andy Summer are rehearsing was recorded at my old friend, Tony Arnold's studio where they recorded the record.
dbbubba01
where was that? it rings a bell.
I grew up in Hampshire, and have returned now in my 50s.
RF is not too far away next door in Dorset.
I used to know a few other musicians from Dorset mainly from right at the end of 1970s to the end of the 1980s, before moving away in 1989.
alterdestiny
Hi
Pay our country a visit! I don't think we have any restrictions on Americans visiting, even if they are from the Bronx.
If it's a permanent move you're thinking about there are various ways...
My significant other works for a Russell Group university just down the road. She goes by bicycle bike cos it's quicker than driving! [I met Fripp once at the university]
Anyway they have about 55,000 students including a very large amount from overseas. There is a significant amount of medical students as the university it's tied to one of our very large hospitals . There are also students studying just about every other subject you can think of, for example there is a fully working theatre that you can study lighting, sound engineering, directing , etcetera. They have touring bands , stand up comedians, and others perform there just like any other venue.
That's one way go get to this country, but obviously as a non-British citizen you would have to pay for your education.
Another way to get over here is to have a skill that we have a shortage of, one area we currently do have problems in is the medical professions, from surgeons, to consulting doctors, to specialist technical staff within our NHS, like for example Xray technicians. We have a shortage in all areas of physiotherapy...I see a lot of those cos of my heath problems, currently I have one for speech and swallowing, one for my neck and spine, and one for my feet.
I am not sure about many other professions .
But I know that refrigeration and air conditioning engineers for all the luxury yachts we have on our coastline are always sought after. Our house is about six miles from the coast and I played in a band with a guy that made a good living fixing air conditioning units on ships in the late 1980s. Generally speaking we don't have weather to justify air conditioning in our buildings , but luxury yachts do! Hence, the shortage of engineers
Bye for now
:◎)
@@The1stMrJohn Lay off the lamb! 0
They're working on "What Kind of Man Reads Playboy" at the beginning. Epic album. They should have done some more.
A Robert Fripp documentary that's under 9 minutes long?! C'mon! Don't even scratch the surface!
This is only an excerpt. The Doc title is Robert Fripp New York-Wimborne. Type that in and you'll get the three part documentary.
No.......this pretty much sums it up.
Bewitched was my fav of their albums. Another good one, I Advanced Masked. Both superb musicians. My fav Fripp production work includes Peter Gabriel's 2nd album the work he did with King Crimson, in partcular Discipline
not only Robert is one of the greatest musicians I had the chance to meet and learn from, but when I hear him talking, I think he should rule the world!!... of course, he's too humble as a human being for that :)
Fripp. The best electric guitarist that I have ever heard. Andy Summers - very underrated. My two fav..... Fripp albums - 'Scary Monsters' with Bowie & 'The First Day' - Sylvian/Fripp.
yeah but i love the track chicago too, sung by hammill
God, just think if it was Robert Fripp in the Police rather than Andy. I honestly think, somebody wouldn't be getting out of that breakup alive.
Robert Fripp playing a 12 bar blues and jazz standards? I never thought I'd see the day!
This reminds me how much I would have loved a Summers/Fripp tour in the 1980's, 1/2 the show with just the two guitars and the other 1/2 with a full band. Any ideas for the bass, drums and keyboards? ;)
Whoa whoa whoa, was that Robert Fripp providing accompaniment for a Django Reinhardt tune for a bit? Dude.
We moved from Wiltshire to a part of Dorset quite close to Wimborne and Horton. Very atmospheric place, and almost desolate (in a good way). Still visit often. Don't blame Robert for loving the area. Thanks for YouTubing video.
Greg: We moved from the area in '79 (I'm a Wiltshire man), but we often went past The Horton Inn in the car. That was apparently Crimson's Mess! Did meet Gordon Haskell once at a gig in Tisbury. Nice fellow.
The best guitar player of all time!!!
VNGEL CVSTRO ...
listen to some Shawn Lane albums,
there's not many as he battled with illness and pain all his life,
dying at 40.
2 of the best
@Greg Moonen
I totally agree.
Have you heard Fripp tell is Hendrix's story?
Two masters of the most beautifulll instrument. The guitar!!!
Amazing stuff about an absolutely AMAZING guitarist!!!
Frippotronic😎is the Best guitariste of Prog!
i'm hallucinating!!..Summers & Fripp jamming together?...freeavantgardevideos you're awesome!!
lovely footage and music. thanks.
crossing the Salisbury road was not a life changing experience for me, but I love Roberts self assured conviction about it.
Depends on the traffic.
Loved Robert and Andy’s work together.
"One Sunday night in my bed in Putney I read the second inaugural address of JG Benett to Sherbourne House the second basic course, and the top of my head blew off," are words that no one in eternity has ever uttered before.
THX for posting.....
I had no idea about the sherborne house/JG Bennett stuff..interesting!
If you look him up, and George Gurdjieff too, you'll gain some insight into what Mr. Fripp was getting into.
Very much so
Weird to see Robert just hitting straight power chords in such a punk-y and minimal kind of way, he doesn't do just straight power chords very often. I don't either honestly, but they can end up being overshadowed because so many "meh" bands use them so mindlessly. I always found myself avoiding them just because so many uninteresting groups write with *only* power chords (and basic major/minor) in mind, power chords are useful and it's good to remember they have their place sometimes too!
Thanks WTUL
When I listen to Andy Summers' work with Robert Fripp, I think:
- The influence of Fripp is clear in the song "Mother" by The Police on the album "Synchronicity".
- When King Crimson turned to the trilogy of colors in the eighties ... was the only new influence on Fripp only gamelan music? Could the arpeggios on the album "Reggatta de Blanc" by The Police have also influenced Fripp?
I think this because Robert Fripp being a very intelligent person when choosing which other musicians to work with ... Fripp must have seen in Summers a guitarist with very particular ideas about it. I'm remembering the songs "New York, New York, New York" and "Exposure" on the album "Exposure". Greetings from Chile.
You can post the entire doc. Why don´t you do that ? I didn´t see what you posted until now ...
Still amazing.
I have this album as well as I Advance Masked, These two are among the best prog players.
It's difficult to communicate when we all speak a different language. Meetings with Remarkable Men was the one that blew my mind open...
Becoming a fully balanced 3 brained Being is my aim.. Grace....
Anyone remember the 'Gordon Smith' guitar?
What a talented man
Fripp would not say this is a "documentary."
It's more a jam, wit Andy, man.
Peace on earth.
SuperCool Vid by a guitarist that inspired my music.
I really like his side projects with Sylvian and Andy Summers.
Where is the rest of it ? or the start of it? or any more of it ?
Great master!
"I'm Robert Fripp!"
-Robert Fripp
I love Andy's playing.
I see many examples of people who also simply put the musicians images or personal lives much as a more important thing than the art that they produced. There are hundreds of examples in the videos I posted ( I have more pages here ) things like : '' what is this shirt this guy is using ? '' -- or '' He was a good musician but was a drug addict '' -- or '' He moves strangely '' -- or '' I like his mucis but since I saw him with this hair I started to like it less '' ...
I agree completeley. And there are much much worse '' discussions '' here on RUclips ( and on Internet in general ) . It looks that nowadays most people dedicate themselves, their time and energy to hate, to disagree, to point their fingers on other´s people life. Few, very few dedicate their times to enjoy music deeply and more to things they like than to things they don´t like.
When was this recorded?
Great!
5:36 reminds me black sabbath
Who is Robert jamming with in the beginning? And what kind of guitar is Robert using?
That be Andy Summers, formerly of the Police.
synth guitar processor by roland
amazing to see and hear ... best ... masters
All he plays sounds goooood.
So cool!
viva el rey carmesi.
robert fripp is king crimson.
long live the king.
he has a super repertoire in music, with allot of great musicians. from mc donald , giles, byrne, eno, sylvian. rieflin, hammill, bruford, levin, summers, gabriel, lake, etc, etc etc
Для Энди Саммерса это великая честь - играть с гением! Это тебе не со Стингом по сцене прыгать!
Listen to his work more closely. He constantly utilizes the 12 bar blues form - he twists it around a lot, but it is evident. In fact, sometimes I am annoyed by it.
Agreed. The Lizard album is amazing, innovative and deeply eccentric, but the basic 3-chord thing does crop up even there.
WOw I got this album !
@olofspet for shore, Andy and Fripp had mutual album..bewitched..is`n t it?
They just make that stuff up as they go.
Why does fripp keep staring at Summers when they ate jamming ?
Possibly - someone already replied, however it was [Andy Summers] (former Police member)
@olofspet Yes, they did a couple albums in the 80s!!
@adamresyk2112 "Quite good?" I'd like to hear what you would describe as 'good'.
Robert Fripp: Mr. Atmosphere creator.
Robert is using a Roland gr300 guitar (or was it 303),it was made by Ibanez for Roland and he put a Kahler trem system on it (yikes!!).
I had the same guitar in the 80,s,basically an Ibanez musician with Roland's electronics inside.
I think in time the music world will finally realise how important this guy is/was. Certainly bands like Tool would not sound as they ,even Rush etc. Amazing man
50 year Anniversary tour. ON NOW!!
Got tix in Toronto for September date.
Enjoy!
Wow!
And he tought Captain Sensible guitar!
Chromium Dioxide tapes! Remember them?
New found respect for Andy. Underutilized in the Police I felt..
It is Andy Summers.
Wow! Seeing them create one of my favourite albums! :)
@olofspet pause at 39 seconds. says says something about bewitched album with andy summers
Eight and a half minutes? That's all Robert Fripp rates in a "documentary"?
I remember watching this, this is just a small excerpt from the programme originally aired in 1985.
GenghisAttenborough ...
same here, probably still got on VHS amongst hundreds of disorganized recordings in the loft!
frippertronics @ 4:32
the best!
Genius.
@ShumadijskiKonji , and the other one id "I advance , masked"
I do believe this Robert is God, in some way. Hahaha!!
I think the guitar Robert is using is an Alembic.
Roland
@adamresyk2112 Or you could just keep your closed mind, and simpleminded comments to yourself...save the rest of us from enduring it.
full doc is at ruclips.net/video/rtK_YBZBEQA/видео.html
Sounds a bit like Rodney Toady????😉
Is that Andy Summers?
i didn't know every guitarist was required to play 12 bar blues & jazz standards...
A bit of Jango cool
at about 2 minutes it really sounded like Frusciante - but I suppose it was the other way around!
mastelotto, bellew, dyble, cross, wetton and many other i forgot..
this is real music. the rest is only imitations today...
Fripp is one of the best Christian musicians ever.
I think he is a zen musician , he follow the darma way.
Andy summers. ( the plice )
@olofspet Looks like him, sounds like him. Also, Fripp calls him "Andrew" at ca. 0:31
This ain't no documentary. Get out the dictionary my good sir.
He's a devout Christian. He praises the Lord.
Not in the slightest.
@@prodevus W/E just so you're not a Buddhist - with its foundational *muladhara*, which is associated with the anus. Lliterally an asshole religion.
@@prodevus This account doesn't look real.
Uh huh.
2:31
@adamresyk2112 You should follow your own advice.
Is Andy wearing lady shoes?
tagomauro2 probably
it not bad for geezer hoo tone deaf and no sence of rhyhthm, innit ps with them sports sox you often get smell feet - oh dear
I certainly hope he isn't religious. He doesn't seem like the gullible wishful thinking type.
Listening to corporate rock would not prepare you for the King Crimson experience. Similarly, a working knowledge of mainstream religions is no basis for understanding what RF thinks.
Not exactly. J.G. Bennett was one of the successors to P. D. Ouspensky & G. I. Gurdjieff. Unfortunately, explaining the ideas of Gudjieff, Ouspensky, Bennett, & others from that lineage (sometimes called 'The Fourth Way') is not possible in a few words, or even a book, but I will try to impart a very basic idea:G. I. Gurdjieff, born in Armenia in 1866, developed a burning question: What is the sense and significance of organic life in general, and human life in particular? This is not a trite as it might sound, nor was his efforts to find an answer to this question trite. He spent over 20 years traveling, observing, studying with Yogis, in monasteries, with dervishes and yes, with monks.. he explored both philosophy & psychology deeply.. anything that could be of use to him in answering his fundamental questions was explored, experienced & weighed for its value, all with the aim of finding practical answers about the possibilities of Man. He took what worked and rejected what didn't; melded all the ideas and techniques he collected and stripped them of any dogma, then began to 'teach'. Sadly, this is hardly scratching the surface, and those who are actively involved in the 'work' of Gurdjieff & Ouspensky may well object to this thumbnail sketch, but hey, this is a comment on RUclips.. Anyway - One of the primary conclusions he came to was that most people sleepwalk through life - that is to say, they react as opposed to act; they rarely 'do' anything in the deeper sense; they give precedence to imagining and daydreaming instead of any real 'work'; they almost never complete anything they set out to do, and if they do manage to complete something, the end result is rarely what they aimed for at the outset; they have no real unified sense of 'I', etc.. He also noted that people make poor use of their bodies, in the sense that , granting that we have different 'centers' - 'autonomous' - emotional - intellectual, etc. - there is neither unification of action between these centers nor proper separation regarding the functions appropriate to each center. Nor is there a real & sustained 'attention' with most people. To be blunt (and a bit harsh) we are 'broken machines'.. capable of awareness, attention and efficient functioning, but with few exceptions we have lost the knowledge or ability to be 'aware', 'attentive' and to function efficiently.Anyway, he began to teach various exercises that ranged from the physical (especially 'temple dances') to the mental, including 'self observation' - and even combined these practices in an effort to find the most efficient way to help people gain a unified sense of 'I', the ability to 'remember oneself' and to function efficiently on all levels. (I am still not doing these ideas - concepts - teachings justice; I just hope to pique your curiosity so you might decide to find the best material to learn, assess and test these ideas for yourself, then make your own evaluation). It is true that Gurdjieff spoke of God, religion & spirituality, but he considered most religious institutions to be bereft of any meaning intended by their originators, and he considered most 'occultism' to be 'workshops for the perfection of psychopathy.' He believed in 'God', but he joked about the anthropomorphizing most 'religious' people do of a concept he saw quite differently. 'If you want to lose your faith, make friends with the priest'.Gurdjieff / Ouspensky centers still exist (yet beware of imitations - E. J Gold and Robert Burton come to mind); and ideas / techniques of others such as Matthias Alexander have also been incorporated into some of the curricula, which makes sense, since one of Alexander's goals was to release unneeded body tension to increase fluidity and freedom of movement and decrease distraction & 'reactivity'). Look up Matthias Alexander & read about his ideas & aims to get a taste of what Fripp is referring to. Then read P. D. Ouspensky's book 'In Search of the Miraculous' and/or 'The Psychology of Man's Possible Evolution' to get a bigger picture. If you want to know more about the originator of the Ouspensky - Bennett schools, I recommend the biography 'Gurdjieff' by James Moore as an excellent beginning. A final note - Fripp's Guitar Craft courses were modeled around and influenced by the ideas & techniques of Gurdjieff; in fact, one might say it is Fripp's contribution to the work started by Gurdjieff, adopted by Ouspensky and continued by J. G. Bennett, Henriette Lannes and Jeanne de Salzmann.
Stopped watching at 3:03 v boring.
Only bored if UR boring yourself.
Ol joke, just seems appropo hete, sorry
no way I am boring x @@dcweir2827
@@Cristiano48239 read again. Only if .....
Can only repeat the joke I cant help you understand.
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No idea what you are talking about@@dcweir2827
Watched the rest of it. The area looks so familiar @@dcweir2827