Robert Fripp
| Robert Fripp | |
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Fripp in 2007
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| Background information | |
| Born |
16 May 1946 Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England |
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| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, producer |
| Instruments | Guitar, mellotron, synthesizers |
| Years active | 1967–present |
| Labels | E.G., Polydor, Discipline Global Mobile |
| Associated acts | King Crimson, Giles, Giles & Fripp, Fripp & Eno, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Peter Gabriel, Blondie, David Sylvian, League of Gentlemen, Van der Graaf Generator, The Roches, G3, Porcupine Tree, Toyah Willcox, The Damned, Talking Heads, Andy Summers, Trey Gunn, Theo Travis, Slow Music Project |
| Website | Robert Fripp's Diary |
| Notable instruments | |
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Gibson Les Paul Roland GR-300 Synth Guitar Ovation Guitar 1867 Legend (Guitar Craft) Robert Fripp Signature Guitars |
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Robert Fripp (born 16 May 1946) is an English guitarist, composer and record producer. As a guitarist for the progressive rock band King Crimson, Fripp has been the only member to have played in all of King Crimson's line-ups from their inception in the late 1960s to the present. He has also worked extensively as a studio musician, notably with singer David Bowie on the albums "Heroes" and Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), Brian Eno, and contributed sounds to the Windows Vista operating system. His complete discography lists more than seven hundred releases over four decades.
He is ranked 62nd on Rolling Stone magazine's 2011 list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time after having been ranked by David Fricke 42nd on its 2003 list. Tied with Andrés Segovia, he also is ranked 47th on Gibson's Top 50 guitarists of all time.
His compositions often feature unusual time signatures, which have been influenced by classical and folk traditions. His innovations have included Frippertronics, soundscapes, and new standard tuning.
The son of an estate agent from a working-class background, Robert Fripp was born in Wimborne Minster, Dorset, England. On Christmas Day 1957, aged 11, he got a "very cheap" guitar from his parents, saying "almost immediately I knew that this guitar was going to be my life". Fripp took guitar lessons with teachers Kathleen Gartell and Don Strike, which quickly advanced his skills: at 11 years of age, he was playing rock, moving on to traditional jazz at 13 and modern jazz at 15. At this time he was influenced by such modern jazz players and composers as Charlie Parker and Charlie Mingus.
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