And do you like Robert Fripp?

I like it very much indeed. I spent a lot of time playing his music and the guitar solos with that style.

How many hours in front of my stereo to understand what the hell notes he was playing in twenty century schizoid man.....

Fripp is a classic, in his genre. He is one of those that a musician "not just classical" must simply know, regardless of matters of personal taste, on par with Montgomery, Beck, Metheny or Gilmour. Speaking of tastes, I don't like everything he has done; certain things seem to me like real "false steps" (such as a work for acoustic guitar ensembles in unison, in the '80s, of which I don't remember the title), but there is no doubt that he made history in the most cultured aspect of so-called "light" music.

He was among the founders of progressive and environmental music with Brian Eno... and that is enough, I believe.

I noticed that King Crimson has always liked Japan. I have a friend who goes there often for work (actually used to go, before the recent nuclear disaster) and has always spoken well of it.

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CromaDiBrera wrote:

Fripp is a classic, in his genre. He is one of those whom a musician "not only classical" must simply know, regardless of matters of personal taste, just like Montgomery, Beck, Metheny or Gilmour. If we are talking about tastes, I don't like everything he has done; certain things seem to me like real "false steps" (such as a work for acoustic guitar ensembles in unison, in the '80s, the title of which I don't remember), but there is no doubt that he made history in the most cultured aspect of so-called "light" music.

He was among the founders of progressive and environmental music with Brian Eno... and that is enough, I believe.

Great comment, I like what you wrote.

raffaeleb wrote:

I like it very much indeed. I spent a lot of time playing his music and the guitar solos with that style.

How many hours in front of my stereo to understand what the hell notes he was playing in twenty century schizoid man.....

Geez, raffaeleb, I really didn't see that coming from you...! From someone like you, I would have expected, at most, a scrupulous harmonic analysis of the following piece, "I Talk to the wind"...

Regarding "I talk to the wind", it occurred to me to ask my teacher if he might find a sort of "harmonic dictation" on this piece useful... That is, an ear transcription. He will take me for crazy, but I suppose it could be instructive given the character of the part distribution... Well...?

My friend and fellow citizen Pietro Russino played and recorded with Robert Fripp a few years ago. Just think, my friend Pietro played by ear without knowing written music, a true phenomenon...