In 1991 in a small English village in Dorset, 3 young men from Belgium, Japan, Salt Lake City met in retreat with legendry rock guitarist Robert Fripp of King Crimson. (Excuse a proud sister) Robert considers his life work teaching. Not just guitar playing, more about the discipline of how to live one’s life.

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Robert Fripp Links

  • Discipline Global Mobile
    This is Robert Fripp’s personal company. A small, mobile and independent music company.
  • Elephant Talk
    Home of the Internet newsletter for Robert Fripp and King Crimson enthusiasts!
  • Elephant Talk Discography: Robert Fripp
    A discography of: Robert Fripp including the works of King Crimson, The League of Gentlemen, and The League of Crafty Guitarists, et al.
  • Guitar Craft
    Guitar Craft came into being in March 1985 as the result of a request for Robert Fripp to present a short series of residential seminars at Claymont Court near Charles Town, West Virginia. The response and demand was such that from 1985 until this day, over a hundred courses and projects ranging from three days to three years have taken place all over the world.
  • Krimson News
    Your up to the moment King Crimson and related news source.
  • California Guitar Trio
    With a whirlwind of instrumental styles fusing classical, rock, blues, jazz, world music bluegrass, as well as the quintessential California musical genre surf music, the California Guitar Trio’s stunning virtuosity and sly sense of humor have earned them a rabid following.

    CGT music was featured in the television coverage of the 1998 and 2000 Olympics, and on CBS, NBC, CNN World Beat, and ESPN TV programs. The CGT performed on the 2003 Grammy Awards nominated track Apollo from Tony Levin’s CD Pieces of the Sun; and CGT music was sent into outer space as wake up music for the crew aboard NASA’s Space Shuttle Endeavor.

    Paul Richards of Salt Lake City, Utah, Bert Lams of Brussels, Belgium, and Hideyo Moriya of Tokyo first met in England at one of Robert Fripp’s Guitar Craft Courses in 1987.

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Brother learned this when he was in retreat with JG Bennet:

All life is one and everything that lives is holy.

Plants, animals and people all must eat to live and nourish one another.

We bless the life that has died to give us food.

Let us eat consciously, resolving by our labors to pay the debt of our existence.

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“AMG EXPERT REVIEW: Innovation and Robert Fripp once again go hand in hand. Considered to be one of rock’s more enigmatic figures, Fripp has authorized this series of cassette tapes containing over eight hours of live and spontaneous questions and answers featuring Fripp interacting with 11 different audiences who initially had come only to hear a solo instrumental Sound Scapes performance.

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When I first received the 10(!) cassette collection, my first reaction was, “Oh great, well, let’s hope none of them get eaten by my old tape player!” My second reaction was to search for the tape player. Mere seconds later, it was found and I started my journey. I received the collection just prior to my move to my new apartment, which is presently where my wife and I live. This being so, I had plenty of quality time to listen to the cassettes whilst I toiled away at my room, attempting to sort out some sort of, “trash”, “not trash”, organization.

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When the National Speakers Association held a Performance Lab in Las Vegas Dan Thurman gathered an amazing group of individuals to speak. They came from NSA, Cirque, the Movie Industry, and Show Business. Rich Little gave a great speech on “Fame People I Have Known and Been.” My brother Robert Fripp spoke about “The Assumption of Innocence Within a Context of Experience.” Here is the 4th clip from that speech…

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From the San Francisco Chronicle—Friday, December 3, 1999 by Jon Carroll

THERE WAS A time in my life, a very rich and lovely time, when I almost lived in New York City, staying down on Gansevoort Street long before it became chic and walking to work at the Village Voice every day. And yet, I paid no rent and got to go back to California a lot. Oh, golden year!

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