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{{Short description|English musician (born 1946)}}
{{for|the architect|Robert McKay Fripp}}
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{{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Musicians -->
| name              = Robert Fripp
| image             = Toyah & Robert IOW230624 (91 of 367) (53818508938) (cropped).jpg
| caption           = Fripp in 2024
| background        = non_vocal_instrumentalist
| birth_name        = 
| alias             = 
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1946|5|16|df=yes}}
| birth_place       = [[Wimborne Minster]], Dorset, England
| instrument        = {{hlist|[[Guitar]]|[[Keyboard instrument|keyboards]]|[[synthesizers]]}}
| genre             = {{Flatlist|
* [[Art rock]]
* [[progressive rock]]
* [[post-progressive]]<ref>{{cite web |url=https://journals.openedition.org/transposition/7101 |title=A Mellotron-Shaped Grave: Deconstructing the Death of Progressive Rock |last=Merlini |first=Mattia  |date=October 2022|work=OpenEdition |access-date=2023-08-09|quote=Indeed, such an analysis can explain why new post-progressive artists (e.g. Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Robert Fripp) }}</ref>
* [[ambient music|ambient]]
* [[experimental music|experimental]]
}}
| occupation        = {{hlist|Musician|songwriter|producer}}
| years_active      = 1967–2009, 2013–present
| label             = {{hlist|[[E.G. Records|E.G.]]|[[Virgin Records|Virgin]]|[[Discipline Global Mobile]]}}
| current_member_of = [[King Crimson]]
| past_member_of    = {{hlist|[[Giles, Giles and Fripp]]|[[Fripp & Eno]]|[[The League of Gentlemen (band)|The League of Gentlemen]]|[[FFWD]]}}
| associated_acts   = {{flat list|
*[[Giles, Giles & Fripp]]
*[[Fripp & Eno]]
*[[Brian Eno]]
*[[David Bowie]]
*[[Daryl Hall]]
*[[Peter Gabriel]]
*[[Blondie (band)|Blondie]]
*[[David Sylvian]]
*[[League of Gentlemen (band)|League of Gentlemen]]
*[[Van der Graaf Generator]]
*[[Peter Hammill]]
*[[The Roches]]
*[[No-Man]]
*[[G3 (tour)|G3]]
*[[Porcupine Tree]]
*[[Toyah Willcox]]
*[[The Damned (band)|the Damned]]
*[[Talking Heads]]
*[[Andy Summers]]
*[[Trey Gunn]]
*[[Theo Travis]]
*[[Judy Dyble]]
*Slow Music Project
}}
| spouse            = {{marriage|[[Toyah Willcox]]|16 May 1986}}
| website           = {{URL|dgmlive.com/robert-fripp}}
}}

'''Robert Fripp''' (born 16 May 1946) is an English musician, composer, record producer, and author, best known as the guitarist, founder and only constant member of the [[progressive rock]] band [[King Crimson]].<ref name="Larkin">{{cite book|title=The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Virgin Books]]|date=1997|edition=Concise|isbn=1-85227-745-9|pages=493/4|title-link=Encyclopedia of Popular Music}}</ref> He has worked extensively as a session musician and collaborator, notably with [[David Bowie]], [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]], [[Brian Eno]], [[Peter Gabriel]], [[Daryl Hall]], [[the Roches]], [[Talking Heads]], and [[David Sylvian]]. He also composed the startup sound of [[Windows Vista]], in collaboration with [[Tucker Martine]] and Steve Ball.<ref>{{Cite web |date=4 January 2006 |title=Robert Fripp - Behind the scenes at Windows Vista recording session |url=https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/scobleizer/Robert-Fripp-Behind-the-scenes-at-Windows-Vista-recording-session |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101013085537/https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/scobleizer/Robert-Fripp-Behind-the-scenes-at-Windows-Vista-recording-session |archive-date=13 October 2010 |access-date=13 August 2017 |website=Channel 9 |publisher=Microsoft}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Veitch|first1=Martin|title=Robert Fripp's Vista sounds are here|url=https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1028126/robert-fripp-vista-sounds|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630191458/http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1028126/robert-fripp-vista-sounds|url-status=unfit|archive-date=30 June 2011|website=[[The Inquirer]]|access-date=13 August 2017|date=10 November 2006}}</ref> [[Robert Fripp discography|His discography]] includes contributions to more than 700 official releases.

His compositions often feature unusual [[asymmetric rhythm]]s, influenced by classical and folk traditions. His innovations include a [[tape loop|tape delay]] system known as "[[Frippertronics]]" (superseded in the 1990s by a more sophisticated digital system called "Soundscapes") and [[New standard tuning|New Standard Tuning]].

Fripp is married to English singer and actress [[Toyah Willcox]].

==Early life==
Robert Fripp was born in [[Wimborne Minster]], a town in [[Dorset]], [[England]],<ref name="Larkin"/> the second child of a working-class family. His mother Edith (''[[Birth name|née]]'' Greene; 1914–1993) was from a [[Welsh people|Welsh]] mining family; Fripp considers himself to be half Welsh.<ref>BBC Radio Wales, 19 October 2023</ref> Her earnings from working at the Bournemouth Records Office allowed his father, Arthur Henry Fripp (1910–1985) to start a business as an [[estate agent]].<ref name=BoT>{{cite AV media notes|last=Fripp|first=Robert|year=1995|chapter=Basis of Eulogy for Edie Fripp delivered at [[Wimborne Minster]] on July 30th. 1993 during the service to celebrate her life and commemorate her death.|title=A Blessing of Tears: 1995 Soundscapes - Volume Two - Live in California|publisher=[[Discipline Global Mobile]]|id=DGM 9506}}</ref> In 1957, at age eleven, Fripp received a guitar for Christmas from his parents and recalled, "Almost immediately I knew that this guitar was going to be my life".<ref name=BBC2>{{Cite episode|title=Robert Fripp: New York•Wimborne|series=Late Night in Concert|network=[[BBC Television]]|station=[[BBC Two]]|date=1985}}</ref> He then took guitar lessons from Kathleen Gartell and Don Strike;<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.elephant-talk.com/wiki/Interview_with_Robert_Fripp_in_Rock_and_Folk|title=Interview with Robert Fripp in Rock and Folk|website=Elephant-talk.com|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref> [[Elvis Presley]]'s guitarist [[Scotty Moore]] inspired Fripp to play rock and roll,<ref name="rskc2019">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/king-crimson-robert-fripp-press-conference-819254/ |title=King Crimson's 50th Anniversary Press Day: 15 Things We Learned |first=Hank |last=Shteamer |date=8 April 2019 |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=15 Mar 2021}}</ref> moving on to traditional jazz at thirteen and modern jazz at fifteen. Fripp has cited jazz musicians [[Charlie Parker]] and [[Charles Mingus]] as musical influences during this time.

In 1961, the fifteen-year-old Fripp joined his first band, the Ravens, which also included [[Gordon Haskell]] on bass. After they split in the following year, Fripp concentrated on his [[GCE Ordinary Level (United_Kingdom)|O-level studies]] and joined his father's firm as a junior negotiator. At this point, he intended to study [[Property management|estate management]] and, eventually, take over his father's business.<ref name=BBC2/> However, at seventeen, Fripp decided to become a professional musician. He became the guitarist in the jazz outfit The Douglas Ward Trio, playing in the [[Chewton Glen]] hotel in [[New Milton]], followed by a stint in the rock and roll band The League of Gentlemen, which included two former Ravens members. For a time, he gave guitar lessons to a local Wimborne friend, [[Al Stewart]], who went on to achieve fame as a singer-songwriter. Much later, when Fripp was asked if any of his guitar students had found success, he replied, "Only one of them ever made it, and that was Al Stewart, and he did it by ignoring everything I ever tried to teach him.”<ref>https://www.loudersound.com/features/al-stewart-prog</ref>

In 1965, Fripp left the group to attend [[Bournemouth and Poole College|Bournemouth College]], where he studied economics, economic history, and political history for his A-levels.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=9547 |title=Friday, 15th February 2008 |department=Robert Fripp's Diary |publisher=Discipline Global Mobile |place=[[San Francisco]] |access-date=27 April 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160531172741/http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=9547 |archive-date=31 May 2016  }}</ref> In February 1965, Fripp went to see the [[Duke Ellington]] Orchestra, an experience which moved him deeply.<ref name="rskc2019"/> He subsequently spent three further years playing light jazz in the Majestic Dance Orchestra at Bournemouth's Majestic Hotel (replacing [[Andy Summers]], who had left for London with [[Zoot Money]]). During this time, Fripp met musicians that he would collaborate with in his career, including [[John Wetton]], [[Richard Palmer-James]], and [[Greg Lake]].<ref>Sid Smith. ''In the Court of King Crimson''. London: Helter Skelter Publishing, 2002, pp. 16-18.</ref> At age 21, going back home from college late at night, Fripp tuned on to [[Radio Luxembourg]], where he heard the last moments of [[the Beatles]]' "[[A Day in the Life]]". "Galvanized" by the experience, he went on to listen to the Beatles' 1967 album ''[[Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band]]'', [[Béla Bartók]]'s [[List of string quartets by Béla Bartók|string quartets]], [[Antonín Dvořák]]'s ''[[Symphony No. 9 (Dvořák)|New World Symphony]]'', [[Jimi Hendrix]]'s ''[[Are You Experienced]]'' and [[John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers]]. Many years later, Fripp would recall that "although all the dialects are different, the voice was the same... I knew I couldn't say no".<ref name=BBC2/> As a band leader, Fripp pointed out that [[Miles Davis]] and Duke Ellington inspired him to seek "constant change".<ref name="New Court">{{cite magazine |first=Hank |last=Shteamer |date=2019-04-15 |title=The Crimson King Seeks a New Court |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/robert-fripp-interview-king-crimson-tour-david-bowie-kanye-west-820783/ |magazine=Rolling Stone |access-date=2024-05-11 |archive-date=2021-10-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026141319/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/robert-fripp-interview-king-crimson-tour-david-bowie-kanye-west-820783/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Career==
===1967–1974: Giles, Giles and Fripp and King Crimson===
In 1967, Fripp responded to an advertisement placed by Bournemouth-born brothers [[Peter Giles (musician)|Peter]] and [[Michael Giles]], who wanted to work with a singing organist.<ref name=BBC2/> Though Fripp was not what they sought, his audition with them was a success and the trio relocated to London and became [[Giles, Giles and Fripp]]. Their only studio album, ''[[The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp]]'', was released in 1968.<ref>{{cite web|author=Cheerful Insanity of Giles Giles & Fripp |url=https://www.amazon.com/Cheerful-Insanity-Giles-Fripp/dp/B000001F74 |title=Cheerful Insanity of Giles Giles & Fripp: Music |website=Amazon |access-date=27 December 2012}}</ref> Despite the recruitment of two further members – singer [[Judy Dyble]] (formerly with [[Fairport Convention]] and later of [[Trader Horne (band)|Trader Horne]]) and multi-instrumentalist [[Ian McDonald (musician)|Ian McDonald]] – Fripp felt that he was outgrowing the eccentric pop approach favoured by Peter Giles, preferring the more ambitious compositions being written by McDonald, and the band broke up in 1968.

[[File:Robert Fripp 2.jpg|right|thumb|upright|Fripp, on tour with King Crimson, in 1974.]]
Almost immediately, Fripp, McDonald and Michael Giles formed the first lineup of King Crimson in mid-1968, recruiting Fripp's old Bournemouth College friend [[Greg Lake]] as lead singer and bassist and McDonald's writing partner [[Peter Sinfield]] as lyricist, light show designer and general creative consultant. King Crimson's debut album, ''[[In the Court of the Crimson King]]'', was released in late 1969 to great success: drawing on rock, jazz and European folk/classical music ideas, it is now regarded as one of the most influential albums in the history of [[progressive rock]].<ref>{{cite web|author=DigitalDreamDoor.com|url=https://digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/best_albumsprog.html |title=100 Greatest Progressive Rock Albums |access-date=5 May 2020}}</ref> The band was tipped for stardom, but, due to growing musical differences between Fripp on one side and Giles and McDonald on the other, broke up after its first American tour in 1970. A despondent Fripp offered to leave if it would allow King Crimson to survive; however, Giles and McDonald had independently decided that the band's music was "more Fripp's than theirs" and that it would be better if they were the ones to leave.

During the recording of the band's second album ''[[In the Wake of Poseidon]]'', Greg Lake departed to form [[Emerson, Lake and Palmer]] with [[Keith Emerson]] of [[the Nice]] and [[Carl Palmer]] of [[Atomic Rooster]]. King Crimson issued two more albums, ''[[Lizard (album)|Lizard]]'' and ''[[Islands (King Crimson album)|Islands]],'' with Fripp and Sinfield the only constants in a regularly changing lineup variously including Gordon Haskell, woodwind player [[Mel Collins]], drummers [[Andrew McCulloch (drummer)|Andy McCulloch]] and [[Ian Wallace (drummer)|Ian Wallace]] and future [[Bad Company]] bassist [[Boz Burrell]], in addition to a palette of guest players. Fripp was listed as the sole composer of the band's music during this time, which built on the first album's blueprint but progressed further into [[Jazz fusion|jazz-rock]] and [[free jazz]] while also taking form from Sinfield's esoteric lyrical and mythological concepts.

In 1971, Fripp ousted Sinfield and took over ''de facto'' leadership of King Crimson (although he has always formally rejected the label, preferring to describe his role as "quality control" or "a kind of glue"). From this point onwards, Fripp would be the only constant member of the band, which in turn would be defined primarily by his compositional and conceptual ideas. With avant-garde percussionist [[Jamie Muir]], violinist [[David Cross (musician)|David Cross]], former [[Family (band)|Family]] bassist and singer [[John Wetton]] and former [[Yes (band)|Yes]] drummer [[Bill Bruford]] now in the ranks, King Crimson produced three more albums of innovative and increasingly [[experimental rock]], shedding members as they progressed: beginning with ''[[Larks' Tongues in Aspic]]'', progressing with ''[[Starless and Bible Black]]'' after Muir's departure and culminating in ''[[Red (King Crimson album)|Red]]'' after Cross was fired. Fripp formally disbanded the group in 1974, in what eventually turned out to be merely the first in a regular series of long hiatuses and further transformations.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ft.com/content/f588e100-d7ee-11e1-9980-00144feabdc0|archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210211210/https://www.ft.com/content/f588e100-d7ee-11e1-9980-00144feabdc0#axzz2cu9RP95h|archive-date=10 December 2022|url-status=live|title=The day the music died|url-access=subscription|work=Financial Times|date=3 August 2012|access-date=24 August 2013}}</ref>

===1971–1985: Collaborations, side projects, and solo career===
Fripp pursued side projects during King Crimson's less active periods. He worked with [[Keith Tippett]] (and others who appeared on King Crimson records) on projects far from rock music, playing with and producing [[Centipede (band)|Centipede]]'s ''[[Septober Energy]]'' in 1971 and ''Ovary Lodge'' in 1973. During this period he also worked with [[Van der Graaf Generator]], playing on their albums ''[[H to He, Who Am the Only One]]'' and ''[[Pawn Hearts]]''. He produced [[Matching Mole]]'s ''[[Matching Mole's Little Red Record]]'' in 1972.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Little Red Record:2cd Expanded Edition |url=https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/little-red-record2cd-expanded-edition/ |access-date=2022-09-09 |website=Cherry Red Records |language=en-US}}</ref> Prior to forming the ''Larks''-era KC, he collaborated on a spoken-word album with a woman he described as "a witch", but the resulting ''Robert Fripp & Walli Elmlark: The Cosmic Children of Rock'' was never officially released.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dgmlive.com/news/perry-fripp-eno |author=Sid Smith |title=Perry, Fripp & Eno |website=dgmlive.com|date=April 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite interview |first=Robert |last=Fripp |interviewer=Ihor Slabicky |title=Robert Fripp Would Like a Word |url=https://trouserpress.com/robert-fripp-would-like-a-word/ |date=18 Oct 1974 |work=[[Trouser Press]] |location=New York |access-date=17 Mar 2021}}</ref>

With [[Brian Eno]], Fripp recorded ''[[(No Pussyfooting)]]'' in 1972, and ''[[Evening Star (Fripp & Eno album)|Evening Star]]'' in 1974. These experimented with several avant-garde musical techniques that were new to rock. On "The Heavenly Music Corporation" from ''(No Pussyfooting)'', Fripp used a [[Delay (audio effect)|delay]] system using two modified [[Revox]] A77 reel-to-reel tape machines. The technique went on to play a central role in Fripp's later work, and became known as "Frippertronics".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-06 |title=Frippertronics: how Robert Fripp and Brian Eno brought looping to life |url=https://happymag.tv/frippertronics/ |access-date=2022-09-09 |website=Happy Mag |language=en-US}}</ref>

In 1973, Fripp performed the guitar solo on "[[Baby's on Fire]]" from Eno's solo album ''[[Here Come the Warm Jets]]''. In 1975, Fripp and Eno played live shows in Europe, and Fripp also contributed guitar solos to Eno's 1975 album ''[[Another Green World]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The Quietus {{!}} Features {{!}} Anniversary {{!}} Brian Eno's Another Green World, Revisited By William Doyle |url=https://thequietus.com/articles/19387-another-green-world-brian-eno-review-anniversary |access-date=2022-04-07 |website=The Quietus |language=en-us}}</ref>

Fripp started what was intended as a permanent sabbatical from his musical career in 1975, during which he studied at [[John G. Bennett|J. G. Bennett]]'s International Academy for Continuous Education, becoming interested in the mystical and philosophical ideas of Bennett's teacher [[George Gurdjieff]]. He returned to musical work the following year as a session guitarist on [[Peter Gabriel]]'s [[Peter Gabriel (1977 album)|debut solo album]], released in 1977. Fripp toured with Gabriel to support the album, but used the pseudonym "Dusty Rhodes" and concealed himself on stage.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.elephant-talk.com/discog/fripp/indexu.html |title=Robert Fripp Discography: Other Unauthorized Releases |publisher=Elephant-talk.com |access-date=19 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011040818/http://www.elephant-talk.com/discog/fripp/indexu.html |archive-date=11 October 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

Fripp also produced and played on Gabriel's [[Peter Gabriel (1978 album)|second album]] in 1978. "Robert is particularly skilful at keeping things fresh, and I like that a lot," Gabriel enthused. "I was very interested in Robert's experimental side; that corresponded exactly to what I wanted to do on this second record… There are two ''(Fripp)'' solos: one on 'On the Air' and the other on 'White Shadow'. And then he plays on 'Exposure'. He gives the colour to this piece, being fifty per cent responsible for its construction. And he also plays classical guitar here and there. He's a musician I admire a lot, because he's one of the only ones to mix discipline and madness with so much talent."<ref>''Best'' magazine, May 1978; translated in Gabriel fanzine ''White Shadow'' (#1, pp13) by editor Fred Tomsett</ref>

In 1977, Fripp played on [[David Bowie]]'s album ''[["Heroes" (David Bowie album)|"Heroes"]]'' at Eno's invitation. Fripp soon collaborated with [[Daryl Hall]] on ''[[Sacred Songs]]''.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Power |first=Ed |title=The hidden, avant-garde side of Eighties hit machine Daryl Hall |url=https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/the-hidden-avant-garde-side-of-eighties-hit-machine-daryl-hall-1.4836105 |access-date=2022-04-07 |newspaper=The Irish Times |language=en}}</ref>

During this period, Fripp began working on solo material, with contributions from poet/lyricist Joanna Walton and several other musicians, including Eno, Gabriel, and Hall (including the latter's partner, John Oates), as well as [[Peter Hammill]], [[Jerry Marotta]], [[Phil Collins]], [[Tony Levin]] and [[The Roches|Terre Roche]]. This material eventually became his first solo album, ''[[Exposure (Robert Fripp album)|Exposure]]'', released in 1979, followed by the ''Frippertronics'' tour in the same year.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Live |first=D. G. M. |date=2007-11-27 |title=Robert Fripp, 1st of January 1980 at Arny's Shack |url=https://www.dgmlive.com/tour-dates/1103 |access-date=2022-09-09 |website=DGM Live |language=en}}</ref>

While living in New York, Fripp contributed to albums and live performances by [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]] (''[[Parallel Lines]]'') and [[Talking Heads]] (''[[Fear of Music]]''), and produced [[The Roches]]' first and third albums, which featured several of Fripp's characteristic guitar solos. A second set of sessions with Bowie produced ''[[Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)]]'', and he collaborated with Gabriel again on [[Peter Gabriel (1980 album)|his third solo album]]. With Blondie, Fripp appeared live on stage at the Hammersmith Odeon on 12 January 1980, participating in a cover version of Bowie's {{"'}}Heroes{{'"}}.

In 1980, Fripp would release ''[[God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners]],'' a project that saw two different musical approaches to Frippertronics on one LP. The "A" side of the record, titled "God Save the Queen" attempted what Fripp referred to as "pure Frippertronics" which is "where Frippertronics is used alone."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fripp World H.Q. |url=https://sinistersaladmusikal.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/100_7028.jpg |title="Frippertronics is defined as..." |publisher=Polydor |year=1980 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621190732/https://sinistersaladmusikal.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/100_7028.jpg |archive-date=21 June 2023}}</ref> The "B" side of the record, titled "Under Heavy Manners" featured a collaboration with bassist [[Busta Jones]], drummer Paul Duskin, and [[David Byrne (musician)|David Byrne]] of Talking Heads (as Absalm el Habib).<ref>{{Citation |title=Robert Fripp - God Save The Queen / Under Heavy Manners |year=1980 |url=https://www.discogs.com/release/561797-Robert-Fripp-God-Save-The-Queen-Under-Heavy-Manners |access-date=2022-06-01 |language=en}}</ref> The sounds of this side of the record featured what Fripp called "Discotronics" which was defined as "that musical experience resulting at the interstice of Frippertronics and disco."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Fripp |first=Robert |date=1980 |title="Discotronics is defined as ..." |url=https://sinistersaladmusikal.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/100_7034.jpg |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230621191059/https://sinistersaladmusikal.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/100_7034.jpg |archive-date=21 June 2023 |access-date=21 June 2023}}</ref>

Concurrent to this, Fripp would assemble what he called a "second-division touring new wave instrumental dance band"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/robert-fripp-mn0000238440/biography |title=Robert Fripp: Biography |last=Deming |first=Mark |website=Allmusic.com |access-date=21 May 2020}}</ref> under the name [[League of Gentlemen (band)|League of Gentlemen]], with bassist [[Sara Lee (musician)|Sara Lee]], keyboardist [[Barry Andrews (musician)|Barry Andrews]] and drummer [[Johnny Elichaoff]] (credited as "Johnny Toobad").  Elichaoff was later replaced by Kevin Wilkinson. The LOG toured for the duration of 1980.

In 1985 he produced the album ''Journey to Inaccessible Places'' by classical pianist [[Elan Sicroff]], released on the [[Editions E.G.]] label.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sicroff.com/|title=HOME : Elan Sicroff|website=Sicroff.com|access-date=10 August 2024}}</ref>

===1981–1984: Reforming King Crimson===
[[File:-Possible Productions knotwork- by Steve Ball.svg|thumb|Later versions of ''Discipline'' featured this design by Steve Ball.]]
1981 saw the formation of a new King Crimson lineup, reuniting Fripp with Bruford and opening a new partnership with two American musicians: bassist/[[Chapman Stick]] player [[Tony Levin]] (who had played with Fripp on ''Exposure'' and in the first Peter Gabriel touring band) and [[Adrian Belew]], a singer and guitarist who had previously played with Bowie, Talking Heads and [[Frank Zappa]]. Although the band had been conceptualised under the name Discipline, it came to Fripp's attention that the other members thought the name King Crimson was more appropriate: for Fripp, King Crimson had always been "a way of doing things" rather than a particular group of musicians. With the more pop-inspired Belew as main songwriter (complementing Fripp as main instrumental composer) the band took on a new style incorporating influences from Indonesian [[gamelan]], [[New wave music|new wave]], and [[Minimal music|classical minimalism]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=King Crimson: Disciplined Beats 1981-4 |url=http://www.jazzshelf.org/kc80s.html |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=Jazzshelf.org}}</ref> with both guitarists experimenting extensively with guitar synthesizers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=“They introduced guitar synthesizers to the scene”: Steve Vai names one thing “people don't realise” about King Crimson |url=https://guitar.com/news/music-news/steve-vai-king-crimson-guitar-synth/ |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=Guitar.com {{!}} All Things Guitar |language=en-GB}}</ref> After releasing three albums (''[[Discipline (King Crimson album)|Discipline]]'', ''[[Beat (King Crimson album)|Beat]]'' and ''[[Three of a Perfect Pair]]''), Fripp dissolved the band in 1984.

During this period Fripp made two albums with [[Andy Summers]] of [[The Police]]. On ''[[I Advance Masked]]'', Fripp and Summers played all the instruments. ''[[Bewitched (Andy Summers and Robert Fripp album)|Bewitched]]'' was dominated more by Summers, who produced the record and collaborated with other musicians in addition to Fripp.

In 1982 Fripp produced and played guitar on ''[[Keep On Doing]]'' by the Roches.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-01-24 |title=Maggie Roche: The Hidden Heart of The Roches |url=https://www.pastemagazine.com/music/the-roches/maggie-roche-the-hidden-heart-of-the-roches/ |access-date=2022-05-06 |website=pastemagazine.com |language=en}}</ref> ''[[Village Voice]]'' rock critic [[Robert Christgau]] wrote that the album "sounds so good I'm beginning to believe Robert Fripp was put on earth to produce the Roches."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.robertchristgau.com/get_artist.php?id=1532&name=The+Roches|title=The Roches|website=RobertChristgau.com|access-date=27 April 2023}}</ref>

===Guitar Craft===
[[File:Claymont Court Front Entrance.jpg|thumb|The first Guitar&nbsp;Craft course began 25 March 1985 at the [[Claymont&nbsp;Court]] site in [[Charles&nbsp;Town, West&nbsp;Virginia]].<ref>{{harvtxt|Tamm|2003|p=[http://www.progressiveears.com/frippbook/ch10.htm 127]}}</ref>]]
{{Main|Guitar Craft}}
Fripp was offered a teaching position at the American Society for Continuous Education (ASCE) at Claymont Court in [[Charles Town, West Virginia]], in 1984. He had been involved with the ASCE since 1978, eventually serving on its board of directors, and had long been considering the idea of teaching guitar through ideas derived from Bennett and Gurdjieff. His course, Guitar Craft, was begun in 1985, an offshoot of which was a performance group, "the League of Crafty Guitarists", which has released several albums. In 1986, he released the first of two collaborations with his wife, [[Toyah Willcox]]. The members of the [[California Guitar Trio]] are former members of The League of Crafty Guitarists and have also toured with King Crimson. Fripp is the patron of the [[Guitar Craft#Community|Guitar Circle of Europe]], which was founded in 2007,<ref>{{Cite journal|url=http://www.guitarcircleofeurope.com/index.html|publisher=Guitar Circle of Europe|title=Home|journal=Guitar Circle of Europe|access-date=19 November 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111216182059/http://www.guitarcircleofeurope.com/index.html|archive-date=16 December 2011}}</ref> and of the [[Guitar Craft#Community|Seattle Circle Guitar&nbsp;School]], which was founded in 2010.<ref name="SCGS">{{Cite journal|title=A Few Words from the Patron|first=Robert|last=Fripp|journal=Seattle Circle Guitar School|url=http://seattlecircle.org/guitarschool/a-few-words-from-the-patron/ |access-date=19 November 2011}}</ref>

In February 2009, Fripp recommended that Guitar Craft cease to exist on its 25th anniversary in 2010.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=13491|title=Saturday, 14th February 2009|department=Robert Fripp's Diary|publisher=Discipline Global Mobile|place=Bredonborough|access-date=19 February 2012<!-- authorlink=Robert Fripp -->|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120218212036/http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=13491|archive-date=18 February 2012}}</ref>

On 1 September 2022 Fripp published ''The Guitar Circle'', a book of writings concerning Guitar Craft.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dgmlive.com/news/the-guitar-circle-book-by-rf-on-its-way|title=The Guitar Circle Book by RF|date=22 August 2022 |publisher=Discipline Global Mobile|access-date=10 September 2022}}</ref>

===Soundscapes===
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Fripp returned to recording solo in 1994, using an updated version of the Frippertronics technique that creates loops employing digital technology instead of analogue tapes. Fripp has released a number of records that he called "soundscapes", including ''1999'', ''Radiophonics'', ''A Blessing of Tears'', ''That Which Passes'', ''November Suite'', ''The Gates of Paradise'', ''Love Cannot Bear'' and ''At the End of Time'', as well as numerous download-only live recordings. (The sampler ''Pie Jesu'' consists of material compiled from ''A Blessing of Tears'' and ''The Gates of Paradise''.)

===1990s collaborations with David Sylvian and others===

Fripp's collaborations with [[David Sylvian]] feature some of his most exuberant guitar playing. Fripp contributed to Sylvian's twenty-minute track "Steel Cathedrals" from his ''[[Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities]]'' album of 1985. Then Fripp performed on several tracks from Sylvian's 1986 release, ''[[Gone to Earth (David Sylvian album)|Gone to Earth]]''.

In late 1991, Fripp had asked Sylvian to join a re-forming King Crimson as a vocalist.<ref name="SYLVIAN & FRIPP REISSUED"/> Sylvian declined the invitation, but proposed a possible collaboration between the two that would eventually become a tour of Japan and Italy in the spring of 1992.

Also in 1991, Fripp released an album with the project Sunday All Over The World, also featuring his wife Toyah Willcox, former League of Crafty Guitarists member [[Trey Gunn]] on Chapman Stick, and drummer Paul Beavis. The prior name of this band was Fripp Fripp, and they toured as such in 1988. They renamed to SAOTW, and toured again as SAOTW, in 1989.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://api.discogs.com/artists/670919|title=Sunday All Over The World|website=Discogs.com|language=en|access-date=8 February 2019}}</ref>

In July 1993, Sylvian and Fripp released the collaborative effort ''[[The First Day (David Sylvian and Robert Fripp album)|The First Day]]''. Other contributors were soon-to-be King Crimson member [[Trey Gunn]] on [[Chapman Stick]] and Jerry Marotta (who, like Sylvian, almost became a member of King Crimson) on drums. When the group toured to promote the CD, future King Crimson member [[Pat Mastelotto]] took over the drumming spot. The live document ''Damage'' was released in 1994, as was the joint venture, ''Redemption – Approaching Silence'', which featured Sylvian's ambient sound sculptures (Approaching Silence) accompanying Fripp reading his own text (Redemption).<ref name="SYLVIAN & FRIPP REISSUED">{{Cite news|url=https://www.dgmlive.com/news/sylvian-fripp-reissued|title=Sylvian & Fripp Reissued|date=13 June 2014|work=DGM Live|access-date=6 October 2017|language=en}}</ref>

During the early and mid-1990s Fripp contributed guitar/soundscapes to ''[[Lifeforms (The Future Sound of London album)|Lifeforms]]'' (1994) by [[the Future Sound of London]] and ''[[Cydonia (album)|Cydonia]]'' (released 2001) by [[the Orb]], as well as ''[[FFWD]]'', a collaborative effort with the latter's members. In addition, Fripp worked with Brian Eno co-writing and supplying guitar to two tracks for a CD-ROM project released in 1994 entitled ''[[Headcandy]]'' created by Chris Juul and Doug Jipson. Eno thought the visual aspects of the disc (video feedback effects) were very disappointing upon completion, and regretted participation. During this period, Fripp also contributed to albums by [[No-Man]] and [[The Beloved (band)|the Beloved]] (1994's ''[[Flowermouth]]'' and 1996's ''X'', respectively). He also contributed soundscapes and guitar to two albums by the UK band [[Iona (band)|Iona]]: 1993's ''[[Beyond These Shores]]'' and 1996's ''[[Journey into the Morn]]''.

===1994–2010: King Crimson redux===
[[File:King Crimson - Dour Festival 2003 (01).jpg|thumb|Trey Gunn, Adrian Belew, and Fripp from 2003 King Crimson]]
In late 1994, Fripp re-formed King Crimson for its fifth incarnation, adding Trey Gunn and Pat Mastelotto to the 1980s quartet in a configuration known as a "double trio". This line-up released the ''[[Vrooom|VROOOM]]'' EP in 1994 and the ''[[Thrak|THRAK]]'' album the following year.

Though musically and relatively commercially successful, the double-trio King Crimson proved difficult to sustain in the long-term. From 1997 to 1999, the band "fraKctalised" into five experimental instrumental sub-groups known as [[ProjeKcts]]. By 1998 Bruford had quit the band altogether: in 2000, Fripp, Belew, Gunn and Mastelotto reunited as a four-piece King Crimson. This lineup produced two [[industrial metal]]-influenced studio albums, ''[[The Construkction of Light|the construKction of light]]'' in 2000 and ''[[The Power to Believe]]'' in 2003.

Gunn departed at the end of 2003. Although Levin immediately returned to replace him, another hiatus followed until King Crimson reappeared in 2007 with the addition of [[Porcupine Tree]] drummer [[Gavin Harrison]]. This version of the band toured the eastern United States in 2008, reassessing the 1981-2003 back catalogue and introducing lengthy duets between the two drummers. No new original material was recorded by this line-up, and in 2010, Fripp announced that King Crimson were on another indefinite hiatus.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=18729 |title=Sunday, 5th December 2010 |department=Robert Fripp's Diary |publisher=Discipline Global Mobile |place=[[New York City]] |access-date=16 July 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927135039/http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=18729 |archive-date=27 September 2013  }}</ref>

===Work with G3, Porcupine Tree, Slow Music, Theo Travis, the Humans and others===
In 2004, Fripp toured with [[Joe Satriani]] and [[Steve Vai]] as part of their [[G3 (tour)#2004|G3]] series. He also worked at [[Microsoft]]'s studios to record the startup sound for [[Windows Vista]]. Fripp designed the soundscape and composed the melody, while [[Tucker Martine]] created the rhythm and Microsoft's Steve Ball added the harmonies and created the final arrangement.<ref name="vista">{{cite web
|url=http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=151853
|title=Robert&nbsp;Fripp-Behind the scenes at Windows&nbsp;Vista recording&nbsp;session
|date=12 January 2006
|access-date=29 April 2006
|work=Channel 9
|publisher=Microsoft
|archive-date=6 May 2008
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080506193340/http://channel9.msdn.com/Showpost.aspx?postid=151853
|url-status=dead
}}</ref><ref name="vista2">{{cite web
|url=http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=287615
|title=Making Windows&nbsp;Vista sing: Robert&nbsp;Fripp and the Vista melody
|date=2 March 2007
|work=Channel 9
|publisher=Microsoft
|access-date=3 March 2007
|archive-date=13 February 2008
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080213063227/http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=287615
|url-status=dead
}}</ref>

{{quote box|width=33%|quote=this interesting factoid: in addition to 200 million Vista users with the 4 note splash, an extract from the Soundscapes' Vista sessions is estimated to strike up 91% of 32 trillion times on the new MS Mail programme this year. So, one of the planet's least popular music forms will also be the planet's most sounded in 2008. This has to be some kind of a record.|source=Fripp's online diary at dgmlive.com<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?artist=&show=&member=3&entry=12444|title=Saturday, 8th November 2008|department=Robert Fripp's Diary|publisher=Discipline Global Mobile|place=[[Redmond, Washington|Redmond]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109061120/http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?artist=&show=&member=3&entry=12444|archive-date=9 January 2014|df=dmy-all}}</ref>}}

In late 2005 and early 2006, Fripp joined [[R.E.M.]]/[[Nine Inch Nails]] drummer [[Bill Rieflin]]'s improvisational Slow Music project, along with R.E.M. guitarist [[Peter Buck]], bassist [[Fred Chalenor]], session drummer [[Matt Chamberlain]] and [[Hector Zazou]] on electronics. This collective of musicians toured the west coast of America in May 2006.

In 2006 Fripp contributed his composition "At The End Of Time" to the Artists for Charity album ''[[Guitarists 4 the Kids]]'', produced by Slang Productions, to assist [[World Vision International|World Vision Canada]] in helping underprivileged children.<ref name=AFCGFTK>{{cite web|title=Slang Productions - Guitarists 4 the Kids|url=http://slangproductions.com/artists-for-charity-guitarists-4-the-kids.html|publisher=Slang Productions|access-date=30 March 2014|date=11 September 2006}}</ref> Throughout 2006, Fripp performed many solo concerts of soundscapes in intimate settings in churches around England and Estonia.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://dgmlive.com/diaries/Robert%20Fripp/dgm-hq-a-grey-day-12-210916 |title=Robert Fripp's Diary: DGM HQ. |first=Robert |last=Fripp |date=30 March 2007 |website=dgmlive.com}}</ref> In October 2006, ProjeKct Six (Fripp and Adrian Belew) played at select venues on the east coast of the U.S.,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dgmlive.com/<!-- /diaries.htm?entry=13491 --> |title=News |publisher=Dgmlive.com |access-date=19 February 2012}}</ref> opening for Porcupine Tree. In the same year, Fripp contributed to two songs from [[Porcupine Tree]]'s ''[[Fear of a Blank Planet]]'' ("[[Way Out of Here]]" and "[[Nil Recurring]]"). Fripp also sporadically performed as an opening act for Porcupine Tree on various tours from 2006 through 2009.
[[File:Robert_Fripp.jpg|alt=Robert Fripp|thumb|Fripp in 2007]]
In 2008, Fripp collaborated with [[Theo Travis]] on an album of guitar and flute-or-saxophone duets called 'Thread', and the duo played a brief English tour in 2009 (repeating the collaboration with the ''Follow'' album in 2012). Also in 2009, Fripp played a concert with the band [[The Humans (British band)|the Humans]] (which consists of his wife [[Toyah Willcox]], [[Bill Rieflin]] and Chris Wong), appeared on [[Judy Dyble]]'s ''[[Talking With Strangers]]'' (along with Pat Mastelotto and others) and played on two tracks on [[Jakko Jakszyk]]'s album ''The Bruised Romantic Glee Club''. In 2010, Fripp contributed a guitar solo to an extended version of the song '[[Heathen Child]]' by [[Grinderman]], released as a B-side on the 'Super Heathen Child' single.

In 2021, the ambient/electronica album Leviathan was released. Fripp produced it and played guitar, in collaboration with British [[electronic dance music|EDM]] Duo [[The Grid]].{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}

===''A Scarcity of Miracles'', musical 'retirement' and new lineup of King Crimson===

In May 2011, Jakko Jakszyk, Robert Fripp and Mel Collins released ''[[A Scarcity of Miracles|A Scarcity of Miracles: A King Crimson ProjeKct]]'' on the Panegyric label. The album also featured contributions by Tony Levin and Gavin Harrison, leading to speculation that the project was a dry run for a new King Crimson lineup.

In an interview published 3 August 2012, Fripp stated that he had retired from working as a professional musician, citing long-standing differences with [[Universal Music Group]] and stating that working within the music industry had become "a joyless exercise in futility".<ref>{{cite web |last=Hunter |first=Ludovic |url=https://www.ft.com/content/f588e100-d7ee-11e1-9980-00144feabdc0 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20221210211226/https://www.ft.com/content/f588e100-d7ee-11e1-9980-00144feabdc0#ixzz25mEnRslA |archive-date=10 December 2022 |url-access=subscription |title=The day the music died |publisher=FT.com |date=3 August 2012 |access-date=27 December 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.planetrock.com/news/rock-news/king-crimsons-robert-fripp-quits-music-biz/ |title=King Crimson's Robert Fripp Quits Music Biz &#124; Rock News &#124; News |publisher=Planet Rock |date=7 September 2012 |access-date=27 December 2012}}</ref> This retirement proved to be short-lived, only lasting as long as it took to come to a settlement with UMG.

In his online diary entry for 6 September 2013, Fripp announced the return of King Crimson as a seven-piece unit with "four Englishmen and three Americans". The new lineup was Fripp, Levin, both Mastelotto and Harrison on drums, returning 1970s band member Mel Collins and two new members: [[Jakko Jakszyk]] as singer and second guitarist, and Bill Rieflin as a third drummer.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=24091|title=Friday, 6th September 2013|department=Robert Fripp's Diary|publisher=Discipline Global Mobile|place=Bredonborough|access-date=24 September 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140328224034/http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=24091|archive-date=28 March 2014}}</ref> This version of the band went on tour in 2014 and 2015 with a setlist reworking and reconfiguring the band's 1960s and 1970s material (plus songs from ''A Scarcity of Miracles'' and new compositions). In early 2016, it was announced that former [[The Lemon Trees|Lemon Trees]]/[[Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds|Noel Gallagher]] drummer Jeremy Stacey would substitute for Rieflin on that year's tour while the latter was on sabbatical. King Crimson continued touring as a seven- or eight-piece unit with Stacey as a permanent member on drums and keyboards, plus Rieflin (when available) on keyboards and "fairy dusting" until 2021. Rieflin last played with Crimson in 2018; he died 24 March 2020.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-03-25 |title=Seattle musician Bill Rieflin of King Crimson, R.E.M. dies at 59 |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/music/seattle-musician-bill-rieflin-of-king-crimson-r-e-m-dies-at-59/ |access-date=2024-06-09 |website=The Seattle Times |language=en-US}}</ref>

==Equipment==
During the early years of King Crimson (1968–74), Fripp used two [[Gibson Les Paul]] guitars from 1957 and 1959. The '57 guitar featured three humbucker pick-ups (with one volume control on the pickguard controlling the middle pick-up). In the band's 1980s era, he favoured Roland GR-303 & GR-808 guitars for both straight guitar and synth control. In subsequent years, Fripp has used customized Les Paul-style guitars by [[Tōkai Gakki|Tokai]], 48th St Custom, and [[Fernandes Guitars|Fernandes]].

A signature model named for the guitarist (Crimson Guitars Robert Fripp Signature)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://crimsonguitars.com/gallery/custom-models/robert-fripp-guitars/ |title=Robert Fripp Guitars &#124; CrimsonGuitars.com &#124; the gallery |publisher=CrimsonGuitars.com |access-date=19 February 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111125171121/http://crimsonguitars.com/gallery/custom-models/robert-fripp-guitars/ |archive-date=25 November 2011  }}</ref> features [[Fernandes Sustainer]] and MIDI pickups with a Les Paul-style body. A significant difference from the Gibson Les Paul is that the signature model is built using a [[Set-through neck|deep set neck tenon]] rather than a traditional set neck.

Fripp recommended that Guitar Craft students adopt the [[Ovation Guitar Company|Ovation]] 1867 Legend [[steel-string acoustic guitar]].<ref name="Tamm130">{{harvtxt|Tamm|2003|p=130<!-- MicroSoft Word document -->}}</ref><ref name="Intro" >{{cite book|first=Robert|last=Fripp|title=An introduction to Guitar Craft |year=2004 |series=Guitar Craft Monographs|publisher=Guitar Craft
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040805181801/http://www.guitarcraft.com/monographs/introduction.htm 
|url=http://www.guitarcraft.com/monographs/introduction.htm|archive-date = 5 August 2004
|access-date=26 October 2011<!-- authorlink=Robert Fripp -->}}</ref> "Fripp liked the way the Ovation 1867 fitted against his body, which made it possible for him to assume the right-arm picking position he had developed using electric guitars over the years; on deeper-bodied guitars, the Frippian arm position is impossible without uncomfortable contortions", according to Tamm.<ref name="Tamm130"/> While the 1867 Legend is no longer manufactured, it influenced the design of the Guitar&nbsp;Craft Pro&nbsp;Model of Guitar&nbsp;Craft Guitars, which <!-- by two of Fripp's GC associates Hernán Nuñez and Fumihito Hatano; their GC Model --> has been endorsed by Fripp.<ref name="GCG">{{Cite web|url=http://www.guitarcraftguitars.com/|title=&#124; &#124; &#124; Guitar Craft Guitars &#124; &#124; &#124;|website=Guitarcraftguitars.com|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref>

==Guitar technique==
[[File:Guitar Craft symbol by Steve Ball.png|thumb|The knotwork symbol of Guitar Craft]]
{{See also|New standard tuning|Guitar Craft}}
Fripp began playing guitar at the age of eleven.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dgmlive.com/<!-- /diaries.htm?entry=13491 --> |title=Robert Fripp bio |publisher=Dgmlive.com |access-date=19 February 2012}}</ref> When he started, he was [[Amusia|tone deaf]] and had no rhythmic sense, weaknesses which led him later to comment that "Music so wishes to be heard that it sometimes calls on unlikely characters to give it voice."<ref>{{harvtxt|Tamm|2003|loc="Chapter two: The guitarist and the practice of music"|p=[http://www.progressiveears.com/frippbook/ch02.htm 16]}}</ref> He was also naturally left-handed but opted to play the guitar right-handed.<ref>Sid Smith. ''In the Court of King Crimson.'' London: Helter Skelter Publishing, 2002, p.15</ref>

While being taught guitar basics by his teacher Don Strike,<ref name="Tamm14"/><ref>{{Cite web|author=Steve Ball|title=History of the Guitar Craft Plectrum|url=http://www.steveball.com/words/history/PickHistory/index.htm|access-date=2023-02-20|website=Steveball.com}}</ref> Fripp began to develop the technique of [[crosspicking]], which became one of his specialities.<ref name="Tamm14">{{harvtxt|Tamm|2003|p=[http://www.progressiveears.com/frippbook/ch02.htm 14]}}</ref> Fripp teaches crosspicking to his students in Guitar&nbsp;Craft.<ref>{{harvtxt|Tamm|2003|pp=[http://www.progressiveears.com/frippbook/ch10.htm 137 and 141 (Chapter 10)]}}</ref>

In 1985, Fripp began using a tuning he called "[[New standard tuning|New Standard Tuning]]"<ref name="Heroes">Baldwin, Douglas (November 2007). "Guitar Heroes: How to Play Like 26 Guitar Gods from Atkins to Zappa", edited by Jude Gold and Matt Blackett, ''Guitar Player'' p.111.</ref> (C<sub>2</sub>-G<sub>2</sub>-D<sub>3</sub>-A<sub>3</sub>-E<sub>4</sub>-G<sub>4</sub>), which would also become popularised in Guitar Craft.<ref>{{harvtxt|Tamm|2003|pp=[http://www.progressiveears.com/frippbook/ch10.htm 134, 142, 148 (Chapter 10); cf. pp. 160], [http://www.progressiveears.com/frippbook/preface.htm 4]}}</ref>

Fripp's guitar technique, unlike most rock guitarists of his era, is not blues-based but rather influenced by [[avant-garde jazz]] and [[European classical music]]. He combines rapid [[alternate picking]] and crosspicking with motifs employing [[whole tone scale|whole-tone]] or [[diminished seventh chord|diminished]] pitch structures and extended [[sixteenth note|sixteenth-note]] patterns in ''[[perpetuum mobile|moto perpetuo]]''.<ref name="Heroes"/>

Rather than stand when performing, he seats himself on a stool (unusual for a performer in rock music), and by doing so was called in a May 1974 issue of ''Guitar Player'' "the guitarist who sits on stage".<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.elephant-talk.com/wiki/Interview_with_Robert_Fripp_in_Guitar_Player_(1974)|title=Interview with Robert Fripp in Guitar Player (1974)|website=Elephant-talk.com|access-date=11 October 2019}}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Fripp married singer and actress [[Toyah Willcox]] on 16 May 1986 in [[Poole]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.findmypast.com/BirthsMarriagesDeaths.jsp |title=Marriages England and Wales 1984–2005 |publisher=Findmypast.com |access-date=19 February 2012 |archive-date=20 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090220163304/http://www.findmypast.com/BirthsMarriagesDeaths.jsp |url-status=dead }}</ref> From December 1987 until July 1999 they lived at and renovated [[Reddish House]], the former home of [[Cecil Beaton]], in the village of [[Broad Chalke]] in Wiltshire.<ref name=RF>{{cite web | title=Wednesday, 4 April 2007| url=http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=6481| department=Robert Fripp's Diary| publisher=Discipline Global Mobile|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20110607151301/http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=6481| place=[[Salisbury]]| access-date=9 November 2008|archive-date = 7 June 2011}}</ref><ref name="Broad">Broad Chalke, A History of a South Wiltshire Village, its Land & People Over 2,000 years. By 'The People of the Village', 1999</ref>

Fripp previously lived at Thornhill Cottage, Holt, Dorset (1971–1980) and Fernhill House, [[Witchampton]] (1980–1987).<ref name="diary 29042020">{{cite web |url=https://www.dgmlive.com/diaries/Robert%20Fripp/rf-diary-april29-2020 |title=Robert Fripp's Diary: Bredonborough. |first=Robert |last=Fripp |date=29 April 2020 |website=dgmlive.com}}</ref> After Reddish House, the couple lived at [[Evershot]] Old Mansion (1999–2001). They then moved to their present home in [[Pershore]], Worcestershire.<ref name="diary 29042020"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Moss |first=Chris |date=11 October 2014 |title=Eckington Manor, Pershore, Worcestershire: hotel review |url=https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/oct/11/eckington-manor-worcestershire-hotel-review |work=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> The couple have no children and have arranged their will so as to leave their assets to the establishment of a musical educational trust for children.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s)/no by-line.--> |title=Toyah Willcox: I've had a facelift... now I want a tummy tuck and my boobs removed because I can't bear them |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/toyah-willcox-i-ve-had-a-facelift-now-i-want-a-tummy-tuck-and-my-boobs-removed-because-i-can-t-bear-them-6908625.html |work=[[Evening Standard]] |date=12 June 2008}}</ref>

Fripp is the patron of the Seattle Circle Guitar School in the United States and the Shallal Dance Theatre in [[Penzance]].<ref name="SCGS"/> He also has had engagements as a [[motivational speaker]], often at events with his sister Patricia,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://robertfrippspeaks.com/robertfrippinterview.html |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120718061718/http://robertfrippspeaks.com/robertfrippinterview.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 July 2012 |title=Robert Fripp Speaking Engagements – articles, interviews and links |publisher=Robertfrippspeaks.com |date=19 February 2008 |access-date=19 February 2012 }}</ref> who is a [[keynote speaker]] and speech coach.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fripp.com/ |title=Patricia Fripp & Associates: Experts in Presentation Skills |publisher=Fripp.com |date=4 June 1912 |access-date=19 February 2012}}</ref>

Fripp is a [[pescetarian]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dgmlive.com/diaries/Robert%20Fripp/vegetarian-restaurant-of-wonder-and-210916|title=2 July 2003|department=Robert Fripp's Diary|access-date=9 August 2016|place=[[Barcelona]]|website=DGMLive.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402173233/http://dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=622|archive-date=2 April 2015|quote=Nowadays I accept that, properly put, I am a fishetarian...|date=12 December 2004}}</ref> [[Nevill Drury]] details in ''Music for Inner Space: Techniques for Meditation & Visualisation'' that Fripp was interested in the [[Hermetic Qabalah]], [[Wicca]], [[German Renaissance]] philosopher [[Paracelsus]], and [[George Gurdjieff]] via [[John G. Bennett|J. G. Bennett]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Drury |first=Nevill |title=Music for inner space: techniques for meditation & visualisation |date=1985 |publisher=Prism Press ; Unity Press |isbn=978-0-907061-74-8 |location=Dorset ; San Leandro, Calif. : Sydney}}</ref>

During the [[COVID-19 lockdowns]], Fripp and Willcox uploaded many short, humorous videos to [[YouTube]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ultimateclassicrock.com/robert-fripp-toyah-wilcox-viral-video/|title=Robert Fripp Was 'F—ing Furious' Over First Viral Video|date=5 February 2021 |publisher=Ultimate Classic Radio|access-date=7 February 2021}}</ref> usually covers of well-known songs, and mostly titled ''Toyah and Robert's Sunday Lunch''. According to rock and metal news website [[MetalSucks]], their stories about these covers were extremely popular; their cover of [[Metallica]]'s "[[Enter Sandman]]" was the site's sixth-most popular story that year.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-12-15|title=MetalSucks' Top 25 Most Popular Stories of 2021|url=https://www.metalsucks.net/2021/12/15/metalsucks-top-25-most-popular-stories-of-2021/|access-date=2021-12-23|website=MetalSucks|language=en}}</ref> The duo toured the UK in 2023, performing the ''Sunday Lunch'' songs in concert.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://guitar.com/news/events-news/toyah-willcox-robert-fripp-sunday-lunch-rock-party-tour-dates/ | title=Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp reveal Sunday Lunch Rock Party tour dates }}</ref>

[[Alfie Fripp]], the last of the "39ers", shot down by the [[Luftwaffe]] and then held in 12 different POW camps during [[World War II]], was his uncle.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sunday, 11th November 2012 |url=http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?artist=&show=&member=3&entry=22739 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111131245/http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?artist=&show=&member=3&entry=22739 |archive-date=11 January 2014 |access-date=4 January 2013 |publisher=Discipline Global Mobile |place=Bredonborough |department=Robert Fripp's Diary}}</ref>

== Awards and honours ==
Asteroid [[81947 Fripp]], discovered by [[Marc Buie]] at [[Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory|Cerro Tololo]] in 2000, was named in his honour.<ref name="MPC-object" /> The official {{MoMP|81947|naming citation}} was published by the [[Minor Planet Center]] on 18 May 2019 ({{small|[[Minor Planet Circulars|M.P.C.]] 114955}}).<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive" />

Fripp is ranked 62nd on ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' magazine's 2011 list of the 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time, having been ranked 42nd by [[David Fricke]] on its 2003 list.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123|title=100 greatest guitarists|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=3 October 2012|year=2012|url-access=subscription|archive-date=30 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151230011218/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-20111123|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists/100-greatest-guitarists-of-all-time-19691231/robert-fripp-19691231|title=100 greatest guitarists of all time: David Fricke's picks|magazine=Rolling Stone |date=17 September 2003|access-date=13 October 2012|last=Fricke|first=David|author-link=David Fricke}}</ref> Tied with [[Andrés Segovia]], he is ranked 47th on [[List of Gibson players|Gibson's]] Top 50 guitarists of all time.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Top-50-Guitarists-524/|date=24 May 2010|last=Drozdowski|first=Ted|others=Besides Ted Drozdowski, a panel of other experts and readers|title=Gibson.com Top 50 guitarists of all time–50 to 41|publisher=Gibson.com|access-date=3 June 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100530105529/http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/Top-50-Guitarists-524/|archive-date=30 May 2010}}</ref>

==Discipline Global Mobile==
{{Main|Discipline Global Mobile}}
In 1992, Fripp and producer/online content developer [[David Singleton]] co-founded [[Discipline Global Mobile]] (DGM) as an [[independent record label|independent music&nbsp;label]]. DGM releases music by Fripp, KC, related acts, and other artists in CDs and in downloadable files. A 1998 ''Billboard'' profile stated that DGM had ten staff-members in [[Salisbury]] (England) and Los Angeles (USA). DGM has an aim "to be a model of ethical business in an industry founded on exploitation, oiled by deceit, riven with theft and fueled by greed."<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.dgmlive.com/pages/about-dgm |title=About DGM |website=dgmlive.com |access-date=1 February 2021}}</ref> DGM insists that its artists retain all copyrights; consequently, even DGM's "knotwork" corporate-logo ''(pictured above)'' is owned by its designer, Steve Ball;<ref>{{cite web |url=https://shop.schizoidshop.com/king-crimson---absent-lovers-p2.aspx |title=King Crimson - Absent Lovers |website=shop.schizoidshop.com |access-date=1 February 2021}}</ref><ref name="HHcredits" >{{harvtxt|Hegarty|Halliwell|2011|loc=[http://cipg.codemantra.us/UI_TRANSACTIONS/Marketing/UI_Marketing.aspx?ID=WP9780826423320&ISBN=9780826423320&sts=b "Illustration credits: Chapter&nbsp;9", p.&nbsp;xii]}}
</ref> the "knotwork" logo appeared earlier on the cover of later versions of the ''Discipline'' album. DGM's aims were called "exemplary" by Bill {{harvtxt|Martin|1997}}, who wrote that "Fripp has done something very important for the possibilities of experimental music" in creating DGM, which "has played a major role in creating favorable conditions for" King Crimson.<ref name="Martin269">{{harvtxt|Martin|1997|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=APmUFlgm0R4C&q=Discipline+Global+Mobile 269]}}</ref>

DGM publishes an on-line diary by Fripp, who often comments on performances and on relations with fans. A moderated forum allows fans to ask questions or to leave comments. Together, Fripp's diary and the fan&nbsp;forum display delayed&nbsp;dialogs in which Fripp and fans discuss diary-entries and forum-postings.<ref name="Atton43"/>

===Copyright infringement complaints===
In 2009, Fripp released a statement claiming that [[EMI]] and Sanctuary Universal had uploaded music to various music stores without his consent, stating "NONE of these downloads were licensed, authorised or legitimised. that is, every single download of any KC track represents copyright violation. or, to use one syllable instead of seven, theft."<ref>{{Cite web |title=A message from Robert Fripp to all King Crimson fans and enthusiasts... |author=Sid Smith |work=DGM Live |date=31 January 2009 |access-date=28 September 2021 |url= https://www.dgmlive.com/news/a-message-from-robert-fripp-to-all-king-crimson-fans-and-enthusiasts |quote=}}</ref>

In 2011, Fripp complained that the streaming service [[Grooveshark]] continued to stream his music despite his having delivered repeated [[notice and take down|takedown notices]]. Fripp and Grooveshark's correspondence was published by ''[[Digital Music News]]''<ref name="NYT14Dec11"/><ref>{{cite news|title=Grooveshark Lawsuit Reveals Details of Universal Music Group's Allegations|first=Glenn|last=Peoples|date=21 November 2011|newspaper=billboard.com|url=https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/1159821/grooveshark-lawsuit-reveals-details-of-universal-music-groups-allegations |access-date=5 February 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Rochell |last=Abonalla |date=13 October 2011 |title=King Crimson Can't Get Their Music Off of Grooveshark. So They cc'd Digital Music News… |url=https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2011/10/13/cc/ |work=[[Digital Music News]] |access-date=1 February 2021}}</ref> and in his diaries, which appear on the website of Discipline Global Mobile.<ref name="Atton43" >{{harvtxt|Atton|2001|p=43}}: {{cite journal|first=Chris|last=Atton|journal=Popular Music|year=2001|volume=20|issue=1|pages=29–46|publisher=Cambridge&nbsp;University Press|doi=10.1017/S0261143001001295|title='Living in the Past'?: Value discourses in progressive&nbsp;rock fanzines|jstor=853693|s2cid=191358373}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Smith |first=Sid |date=1 May 2015 |title=Going, Going, Grooveshark Gone |url=https://www.dgmlive.com/news/going-going-grooveshark-gone |website=dgmlive.com}}</ref>

Fripp's published exchange was included in a suit against Grooveshark by [[Universal Music Group]], which was filed in November 2011.<ref name="NYT14Dec11" >{{cite news|title=Sony and Warner are said to sue web music service|first=Ben|last=Sisario|date=14 December 2011|newspaper=New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/15/business/media/sony-and-warner-are-said-to-join-suit-against-grooveshark.html?_r=1|access-date=30 May 2012}}</ref><ref name="Sandoval"/> UMG cited internal documents revealing that Grooveshark employees uploaded thousands of illegal copies of UMG-owned recordings.<ref name="Sandoval">{{Cite web|last=Sandoval|first=Greg|title=Lawsuit claims Grooveshark workers posted 100,000 pirated songs|url=https://www.cnet.com/culture/lawsuit-claims-grooveshark-workers-posted-100000-pirated-songs/|access-date=2023-02-20|website=CNET|language=en}}</ref> Fripp had previous experience protecting his music in litigation with music companies.<ref>{{harvtxt|Bruford|2009|p=[https://books.google.com/books?id=R4iW0tsxLqQC&q=EG%2C+Virgin%2C+EMI%2C+Fripp 142]}}: {{cite book|title=Bill&nbsp;Bruford: The autobiography: Yes, King&nbsp;Crimson, Earthworks, and more|first=Bill|last=Bruford|author-link=Bill Bruford|publisher=Jawbone Press|year=2009|isbn=978-1-906002-23-7}}</ref>

Fripp has stated that he believes "Unauthorised streaming or MP3 giveaways – it amounts to the same thing – copyright theft."<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=20192 |title =Robert Fripp's Diary for Friday, 12th August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131213184848/http://www.dgmlive.com/diaries.htm?entry=20192 |archive-date=13 December 2013 |url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Discography==
{{Main|Robert Fripp discography}}
{{See also|King Crimson discography}}
Fripp has been extremely active as a recording musician and a producer. He has contributed to more than 700 official releases. The Robert Fripp Discography Summary, compiled by John Relph, also lists 120 compilations and 315 unauthorised releases (such as [[Bootleg recording|bootlegs]]). This means that more than 1100 releases (including both official and unofficial ones, as well as both studio and live recordings) can be found with Fripp participating. Studio releases are listed here.

===Giles, Giles & Fripp===
* 1968 : ''[[The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp]]''
* 2001 : ''The Brondesbury Tapes''
* 2001 : ''Metaphormosis''

===Solo===
====Studio albums====
* 1979 : ''[[Exposure (Robert Fripp album)|Exposure]]''
* 1980 : ''[[God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners]]''
* 1981 : ''[[Let the Power Fall: An Album of Frippertronics]]''
* 1998 : ''[[The Gates of Paradise (album)|The Gates of Paradise]]''

====Live albums====
* 1994 : ''1999: Soundscapes Live in Argentina''
* 1995 : ''Radiophonics: 1995 Soundscapes volume 1''
* 1995 : ''A Blessing of Tears: 1995 Soundscapes volume 2''
* 1996 : ''That Which Passes: 1995 Soundscapes volume 3''
* 1998 : ''November Suite: Soundscapes - Live at Green Park Station 1996''
* 2005 : ''Love Cannot Bear''
* 2007 : ''At the End of Time: Churchscapes Live in England & Estonia''
* 2021 : ''Music for Quiet Moments''

===Brian Eno===
* 1973 : ''[[(No Pussyfooting)]]''
* 1975 : ''[[Evening Star (Fripp & Eno album)|Evening Star]]''
* 1994 : ''The Essential Fripp And Eno''
* 2004 : ''[[The Equatorial Stars]]''
* 2006 : ''The Cotswold Gnomes'' aka ''[[Beyond Even (1992–2006)]]''
* 2021 : ''Live in Paris 28.05.1975''

===David Sylvian===
* 1993 : ''[[The First Day (David Sylvian and Robert Fripp album)|The First Day]]''
* 1993 : ''[[Darshan (The Road To Graceland)]]''
* 1994 : ''[[Damage: Live]]''

===Andy Summers===
* 1982 : ''[[I Advance Masked]]''
* 1984 : ''Bewitched''
* 1984 : ''Andy Summers & Robert Fripp Speak Out'' - Promo album

===The League of Gentlemen===
* 1981 : ''[[The League of Gentlemen (album)|The League of Gentlemen]]''
* 1996 : ''Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx''

===The League of Crafty Guitarists===
* 1986 : ''Live !''
* 1991 : ''Live II''
* 1991 : ''Show Of Hands''
* 1995 : ''Intergalactic Boogie Express - Live In Europe 1991''

===Theo Travis===
* 2008 : ''Thread''
* 2012 : ''Follow''
* 2012 : ''Discretion''

===Other recordings===
* 1981 : ''The Warner Brothers Music Show - The Return Of King Crimson'' (interviews with music inserts)
* 1985 : ''Network'' (EP, compilation)
* 1986 : ''The Lady or the Tiger'' (With Toyah Willcox)
* 1991 : ''Kneeling at the Shrine'' (With Sunday All Over the World)
* 1993 : ''The Bridge Between'' (With The Robert Fripp String Quintet)
* 1994 : ''[[FFWD (album)|FFWD]]'' (With [[The Orb]])
* 1999 : ''The Repercussions of Angelic Behavior'' (With Bill Rieflin & Trey Gunn)
* 2000 : ''A Temple in the Clouds'' (With Jeffrey Fayman)
* 2007 : ''Robert Fripp : Unplugged'' - 3 CD Box-set
* 2011 : ''[[A Scarcity of Miracles]]'' (With Mel Collins & Jakko Jakszyk)
* 2012 : ''The Wine of Silence'' (With Andrew Keeling, [[David Singleton]] & [[Metropole Orkest]])
* 2015 : ''Starless Starlight'' : David Cross & Robert Fripp

===Collaborations===
* 1970 : ''[[H to He, Who Am the Only One]]'' : [[Van der Graaf Generator]]<ref>{{cite AV media notes|title=H to He, Who Am the Only One|publisher=[[Charisma Records]]|id=CAS 1027|url=http://www.vandergraafgenerator.co.uk/htohe2.jpg}}</ref>
* 1971 : ''[[Pawn Hearts]]'' : Van der Graaf Generator
* 1971 : ''Fools Mate'' : [[Peter Hammill]]
* 1971 : ''[[Septober Energy]]'' : [[Centipede (band)|Centipede]]
* 1972 : ''Blueprint'' : [[Keith Tippett]]
* 1972 : ''[[Matching Mole's Little Red Record]]'' : [[Matching Mole]]
* 1973 : ''Ovary Lodge'' : Keith Tippett
* 1974 : ''[[Here Come the Warm Jets]]'' : [[Brian Eno]]
* 1975 : ''[[Another Green World]]'' : Brian Eno
* 1977 : ''[["Heroes" (David Bowie album)|"Heroes"]]'' : [[David Bowie]]
* 1977 : ''[[Before and After Science]]'' : Brian Eno
* 1977 : ''[[Peter Gabriel (1977 album)|Peter Gabriel I]]'' : [[Peter Gabriel]]
* 1977 : ''[[Magic is a Child]]'' : [[Nektar]]
* 1978 : ''[[Parallel Lines]]'' : [[Blondie (band)|Blondie]]
* 1978 : ''[[Music for Films]]'' : Brian Eno
* 1978 : ''[[Peter Gabriel (1978 album)|Peter Gabriel II]]'' : Peter Gabriel
* 1979 : ''[[Fear of Music]]'' : [[Talking Heads]]
* 1979 : ''[[The Roches (album)|The Roches]]'' : [[The Roches]]
* 1980 : ''[[Sacred Songs]]'' : [[Daryl Hall]]
* 1980 : ''[[Peter Gabriel (1980 album)|Peter Gabriel III]]'' : Peter Gabriel
* 1980 : ''[[Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)]]'': David Bowie
* 1982 : ''Keep On Doing'' : The Roches
* 1985 : ''Alchemy: An Index of Possibilities'' : [[David Sylvian]]
* 1986 : ''[[Gone to Earth (David Sylvian album)|Gone to Earth]]'' : David Sylvian
* 1987 : ''[[Couple in Spirit]]'' :  Keith Tippett and [[Julie Tippetts]]
* 1992 : ''[[456 (album)|456]]'' : [[The Grid]]
* 1992 : ''[[Nerve Net]]'' : Brian Eno
* 1993 : ''[[Beyond These Shores]]'' : [[Iona (band)|Iona]]
* 1994 : ''Sidi Mansour'' : [[Cheikha Rimitti]]
* 1994 : ''Flowermouth'' : No Man
* 1994 : ''Battle Lines'' : [[John Wetton]]
* 1995 : ''Cheikha Rimitti Featuring Robert Fripp and Flea'' : Cheikha [Unreleased Tracks From The Sidi Mansour Album]
* 1996 : ''[[The Woman's Boat]]'' : [[Toni Childs]]
* 1998 : ''Lightness: For The Marble Palace''
* 1998 : ''Arkangel'' : John Wetton
* 1999 : ''Birth of a Giant'' : [[Bill Rieflin]]
* 1999 : ''Approaching Silence'' : David Sylvian
* 2000 : ''Everything and Nothing'' : David Sylvian
* 2001 : ''Sinister'' : John Wetton
* 2001 : ''The Thunderthief'' : [[John Paul Jones (musician)|John Paul Jones]]
* 2002 : ''Trance Spirits'' : Steve Roach & Jeffrey Fayman With Robert Fripp & Momodou Kah
* 2002 : ''Camphor'' : David Sylvian
* 2006 : ''Side Three'' : [[Adrian Belew]]
* 2011 : ''Raised in Captivity'' : John Wetton

=== Production ===

* 1971 : ''Septober Energy'' : [[Centipede (band)|Centipede]]
* 1972 : ''[[Matching Mole's Little Red Record]]'' : [[Matching Mole]]
* 1972 : ''Blueprint'' : [[Keith Tippett]]
* 1973 : ''Ovary Lodge'' : Ovary Lodge - With Keith Tippett, [[Roy Babbington]], etc.
* 1978 : ''[[Peter Gabriel (1978 album)|Peter Gabriel]]'' : [[Peter Gabriel]]
* 1979 : ''[[The Roches (album)|The Roches]]'' : [[The Roches]]
* 1980 : ''Sacred Songs'' : [[Daryl Hall]]
* 1991 : ''The California Guitar Trio'' : The California Guitar Trio - Executive producer
* 1995 : ''Intergalactic Boogie Express'' : Coproducer.
* 1998 : ''Pathways'' : California Guitar Trio - Executive producer

== See also ==
* [[List of ambient music artists]]

== Notes ==
{{reflist|30em|refs=

<ref name="MPC-object">{{cite web
  |title      = 81947 Fripp (2000 OF69)
  |work       = Minor Planet Center
  |url        = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?object_id=81947
  |access-date = 3 June 2019}}</ref>

<ref name="MPC-Circulars-Archive">{{cite web
  |title      = MPC/MPO/MPS Archive
  |work       = Minor Planet Center
  |url        = https://www.minorplanetcenter.net/iau/ECS/MPCArchive/MPCArchive_TBL.html
  |access-date = 3 June 2019}}</ref>

}} <!-- end of reflist -->

==References==
* {{cite book|last1=Hegarty|last2=Halliwell|date=25 August 2011|title=Beyond and before: Progressive rock since the 1960s|first1=Paul|first2=Martin|publisher=Continuum|isbn=978-0-8264-4075-4}}
* {{cite book|first=Bill|last=Martin|title=Listening to the future: The time of progressive rock, 1968–1978|isbn=0-8126-9368-X|page=376|year=1997|publisher=[[Open Court Publishing Company|Open Court]]}}
* {{Cite book|title=Robert&nbsp;Fripp: From crimson&nbsp;king to crafty&nbsp;master|first=Eric|last=Tamm|url=http://www.progressiveears.com/frippbook/ch10.htm|year=2003|orig-year=1990|publisher=Faber and Faber (1990)|isbn=0-571-16289-4|edition=Progressive Ears|id=[http://www.erictamm.com/rf.zip Zipped Microsoft Word Document]|access-date=26 October 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111026180438/http://www.progressiveears.com/frippbook/ch10.htm|archive-date=26 October 2011}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite book|last=Fripp|first=Robert|title=Seven Guitar&nbsp;Craft themes: Definitive scores for guitar ensemble|publisher=Partitas Music|year=2011|editor-first=Horacio|editor-last=Pozzo|url=http://partitasmusic.com/ |id=[[International Standard Music Number|ISMN]]&nbsp;979-0-9016791-7-7. [[Discipline Global Mobile|DGM]]&nbsp;[[Stock-keeping unit|Sku]]&nbsp;partitas001|edition=First limited|others="Original transcriptions by Curt Golden", "Layout scores and tablatures: Ariel Rzezak and Theo Morresi"<!-- |author-link=Robert Fripp -->}}
* {{cite book|title=In the court of King Crimson|first=Sid|last=Smith|publisher=Helter Skelter Publishing|year=2001|isbn=1-900924-26-9}}

==External links==
{{commons category|Robert Fripp}}
{{wikiquote|Robert Fripp}}'''Robert Fripp's official website''' - [https://robertfripp.com robertfripp.com] (2024)

'''Discipline Global Mobile''' (DGM) - [https://dgmlive.com/ DGM Live] is a small, mobile, independent music company that aspires to Intelligence. Founded by Robert Fripp and David Singleton in 1992, its website is the home of all RF music, tour dates, diaries, news, as well as King Crimson's, among other related artists, groups, and initiatives.

'''Guitar Craft & The Guitar Circle''' - [https://guitarcraft.com/ Home] Robert Fripp describes his work as Founder of Guitar Craft, and director of the associated seminars on four continents since 1985, as his 'proper work in life'. The GC website is the online home of the living history of GC, news, GC Aphorisms, and RF writings, including new yet unpublished ones.

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