On this day 53 years ago King Crimson's debut, In The Court Of The Crimson King was released. The album entered the UK charts at No.5 and later, No.28 in the US, catapulting King Crimson from underground cult status to mainstream success.
RF: Bless you & thank you to all those generous people who have been sending good wishes on this particular day. I have had a wonderful wonderful day, and it is continuing. And I even managed a little practising, too...
Onstage at 18.40, doors held for 10' to allow the audience to enter. A full house.
The first set: one hour and three minutes. Overall length: 2 hours and 24 minutes.
KC’s final note of Starless, the last note of this Completion Tour in Japan, moved from sound to silence at 21.04.
Larks' Tongues In Aspic 50th anniversary will be celebrated with two comprehensive sets, a 2 CD / 2 Blu-ray set & a 2 LP on 200 gram vinyl one, set for release on Oct 13th this year, feat. 2023 Steven Wilson Mixes & 2023 David Singleton Elemental Mixes.
We’re raising a glass to celebrate Robert Fripp’s seventy-seventh birthday, today!
This is a day of much celebration in the Frippcox household. On this day in 1986, Toyah and Robert were married in Witchampton - RF's fortieth birthday.
Red will be 50 next Oct 6 In celebration of the anniversary of this classic King Crimson album, a 50th Anniversary Edition will be released on Oct 11, available as a 4-disc boxed set (2 Blu-ray & 2 CDs) and as a 2-LP 200-gram vinyl set. Info and pre-order:
RF: Learning to play in E tuning, Beginning Again, continued. From the dressing room at the Marcus Center, Milwaukee on Saturday 8th. October, an excerpt from Developing Variations...
Bill Bruford is celebrating his 74th birthday today. Bill has been overseeing the reissue of his solo and Earthworks back catalogue. The most recent release, Earthworks In Santiago, completes the planned run of albums.
'This is a pre-show dance-off' at Wickham Festival...
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RF: The first day of KC rehearsals here in Tampa. At 13.47 EST a Crimson Enfistulation was undertaken to formally mark the beginning of this US tour...
RF: I'm ignorant. But it doesn't matter very much that I'm ignorant. It would matter a very great deal if I didn't know that I was ignorant. Embracing my ignorance, I might seek knowledge.
RF: Many thanks to all those many pals, both known and yet to be personally embraced, on their good wishes for my Continuing To Breathe Day. More importantly, also for the thirty-six Anniversary of Sweetlips Willcox promising to honour and obey That Awful Man...
Today DGM Ltd is delighted to announce the public launch of the highly anticipated documentary ‘In the Court of the Crimson King, King Crimson at 50,’ directed by Toby Amies (The Man Whose Mind Exploded), October 19th & 22nd.
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On this day in 1975, Fripp & Eno
@brianeno
were on tour…
From this tour, a rare and beautifully restored bootleg, often regarded as “legendary”, is available on DGM Live. Listen to excerpts, download in full, and read more about it here:
"...a phenomenal player in his own right.” Guitarist magazine has interviewed RF for their September 2022 issue, now in the shops.
An extensive interview, from childhood through today, and what’s in between.
On this day in 1975, Fripp & Eno had arrived in Paris, and were performing at Olympia. Long-standing Frippertronics expert and unofficial archivist, Allan Okada: "It is one of the most rewarding live recordings this writer has ever heard."
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On this day in 1995, King Crimson was at The Royal Albert Hall. Excerpts and full downloads:
Some of Mr.Stormy's notes: “stomping” Red, B’Boom, VROOOM VROOOM, Thrakking (w/RF’s playing reminding him of the ambient bit of Fracture)...
Photos: Tony Levin
Larks' Tongues In Aspic is 50 years old, Robert is even older but appears able to still play some of the guitar lines... Robert At Home - April 2023, live now!
RF: When things are going really, really well it doesn't always feel that things are going really, really well. So good to persist just knowing that things are going really, really well.
This week!
WORLDWIDE CINEMAS – WEDNESDAY - 19 OCTOBER - ONE NIGHT ONLY
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WORLDWIDE STREAMED/DIGITAL EVENT – SATURDAY 22 OCTOBER
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On this day in 1979, the Frippertronics Tour of Europe was underway and this was the first performance in a short residency at Theatre Le Palace in Paris.
Excerpts and full download:
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RF: Clearly the attempt to achieve popularity by broadening my repertoire has failed dismally...
On this day in 1979, RF was performing solo at Record Revolution, Cleveland’s oldest record store.
Excerpts and full downloads:
This is a classic Frippertronics concert painstakingly restored by Alex Mundy from the source reels and audience recordings.
Robert continues to learn how to play guitar in E tuning, today a symmetrical scale. A few books on shelves, a Christmas present or two, and little to be said other than a rocking New Year to Slinky Groovers everywhere...
USA, recorded towards the end of King Crimson's final US tour of the 70s in June 1974 and issued as an epitaph for the band in Spring 1975, makes its debut on King Crimson's YouTube this Friday, December 1st, at 16:00 CET:
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In The Court Of The Crimson King: King Crimson At 50
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, by Toby Amies,
IS COMING TO SELECT THEATERS IN THE US NOVEMBER 3
and will be AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE ON VOD DECEMBER 1!
Confirmed dates (and more to be added soon) + tickets:
Today DGM Ltd is delighted to announce the public launch of the highly anticipated documentary ‘In the Court of the Crimson King, King Crimson at 50,’ directed by
@TobyAmies
(The Man Whose Mind Exploded), October 19th & 22nd.
Detailed information:
Toyah & Robert’s Weekend!
Toyah & Robert’s Sunday Lunch - The Kids Aren't Alright
Toyah & Robert’s Upbeat Moments of the Week (Jan 7 2023)
Robert At Home - January 2023
There are 9 soundscapes available for downloading:
They are taken from RF's tour of Argentina in 2007 with The LCG. Please note that only RF's soundscapes are available. There are 9 performances, which can be downloaded singularly or as a bundle.
The latest in Stormy Monday Selection(Occasional Series · Acts of Random Archive Rummaging):
The Howler - Instrumental.Odyssey Studios, London(March 1982).
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Today, finds RF having arrived home from Tokyo, after the completion of the KC tour Music Is Our Friend.
This day, seven years ago, finds RF writing “Time to shake things up.” and “Never be afraid to let go of a good thing.”
More on RF’s diary:
Alex 'Stormy' Mundy has made two additions to the online archives from King Crimson's two consecutive performances at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles in 1984. Detailed information and download:
A new bundle of Frippertronics performances, taken from the Canadian leg of the Frippertronics Tour 1979, is now available almost 45 years to the day after the original performances:
In the Court of the Crimson King - Spatial audio mix by
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Jan 11 - London, 7:30pm (sold out) & 9:00pm
Jan 12 - LA (Westlake Village), 6pm & 8pm
Listening sessions in the dark, blindfolded, at L-Acoustics spaces.