King Crimson - FraKctured (Live in Bonn, Germany 2000)
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- The first airing of the Bonn footage from the King Crimson European tour 2000.
The track was featured on the now deleted Heavy ConstruKction 3 Cd Box Set. The audio from this show is available at DGMLive.com
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Fripp has practiced his parts to absolute, unconscious perfection, freeing his mind up to do his favourite thing-- stare accusingly at his band mates like a strict piano teacher at a student's recital.
Hah, almost fell for it. As if Robert needs practice
So you also saw his little wry grin when he heard some fucking around 1:59 and they tightened right tf up boiiiiii
Makes tubular bells seem like a child's nursery rhyme..😊😊
" Hey Maestro "
@@88omair - Robert practices daily, and will tell you so.
Nothing like sitting around a campfire with some friends and playing tunes like this.
lmfao
The best comment ever
Yeah, we used to sing this at Bible camp.
Hahaha
I'll be whistling THAT on the way to work tomorrow
Lyrics:
Beautiful night for a concert
...
"are you ready robert?"
Lmfao
(you ready Robert)
Ready Bob ?
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Metronomes practice their timing using Robert Fripp
Those weird time signatures are good
@Omair sheikh, that's funny man😂
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Best KC comment ever!
Love it - this could become one of my favorite quotes.
"You ready Robert?" The most unnecessary question that has ever been asked.
It was clearly a joke since Fripp doesn't laugh dont make sense for Adrian to laugh alone
Man you made me laugh!! So true
Actually, its: Ready Bob? Haha
Do not see like this. Just to realize he was able to play his part and that’s it!!!
In Adrian’s defense NOT asking if Robert was ready would be akin to a guy driving a speedboat with a water skier bobbing in the water without skis on!
Fripp is the supervillian of the electric guitar
So I guess you think Picasso was the supervillain of the paints.
@@duaneberry3298 "Supervillain" doesn't necessarily have negative connotations. Do I like The Joker more or Batman? *THE JOKER* :)
@@omairsheikh3982 lol. Fripp is more civil than The Joker though.
@RDE Lutherie Or Botticelli, (who painted the entrance into hell from Dante's Divine Comedy)?
Dark souls meets Guitar Hero and Robert is the final unbeatable boss.
Robert Fripp described this song as being at the outer edge what is humanly possible for him to play. The sustained energy and discipline required "pull off" playing this number is impossible for me to imagine...
Heh... discipline.
@@yarlodek5842 Heh heh.
@@someonegaming7710 Heh heh heh.
Unbelievable. Mr. Fripp has more power and dexterity in his left pinky than most people have in their biceps. And he's fretting and picking every single note! Not hammering on, pulling off, finger tapping or using delay! Contrast with Satriani, Val, or a million other shredders. Pure class.
On top of being a genius, Fripp is a musician. He uses technique to convey emotions. The guys you are refering to (and thousands of others) are using music to serve
their ego. That's what shredding is about: narcissism.
I think Vai might agree, he mentioned that he can't even play all of Fripp's parts correctly and has to put his own spin on it.
If you have played with David Bowie, Frank Zappa and King Crimson as Adrian Belew has. You are a world class guitarist.
Not to mention a songwriting genius
Don't forget Talking Heads! Remain In Light wouldn't be the same without him, and Mr. Fripp played guitar on I Zimbra from the preceding album Fear of Music.
I LOVE THIS PIECE.
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@@tjenadonn6158 Belew also toured with Talking Heads in 1980: th-cam.com/video/2KQjy02eqOk/w-d-xo.html
And talking heads among others
Belew is sadly underrated. He deserves a lot more attention in the guitar world. Fripp is simply from another world. When Robert and Adrien play clean it's sweet and intricate, lovely. When they step on the fuzz, it is dragonesque, monsterful, yet still wild and wonderful. The contrasts are specular, spectacular.
Belew has never been underrated. He is very known musician in the circles! May be for listeners a little bit...
I think he is widely recognised as the superb guitarist he is
No way Belew is underrated.
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Underrated by the general public but he was always regarded very highly by other musicians, otherwise he wouldn't have that musical CV
5:06 The last time the Devil went down to Georgia, he saw Robert Fripp sitting on a stump and fled back to hell.
I think when Robert Johnson sold his soul to the Devil, he looked up and it was Mr Fripp.
The Devil went down to Dorset
Brilliant, lol.
fripp/faust?
Robert Fripp goes Sicko mode
Something I appreciate about KC is that their music is very complex but it doesn’t feel like Guitar wankery. Even with some of the insane ideas being displayed in these tracks, it never feels too self indulgent or tasteless.
Yeah, this era has many elements of insanity, but the overarching melodic ideas are still present and every interesting
Can you imagine what it would have been like if Robert Fripp had stuck with his chosen profession - real estate agent - instead of going into music? Four bathrooms, swimming pool, guest cottage, neighbors drool ... Century 21 schizoid mansion
30 years ago I worked with a bloke that went to school with Bob Fripp.
He told me that even then they thought him "a weirdo", and knew he was going to do something unusual with his life.
I thought it was estate management.
@@Rich6Brew It's the "weirdos" that go on to do revolutionary things. "Normal" people can stick to their mundane lives and boring way of thinking
@@Rich6Brew I call him Bobby. Bob is to formal he told me.
Jesus...I'm a real estate agent and an old professional drummer...I guess I took the road more traveled...:-(...maybe in the next life...
In 1975 I was in the much missed Peabody Beer Stube in Baltimore. There was a guitarist playing for tips, when he came by my table I asked for Crimson's 21Century Schizoid Man. He stood in thought for a minute then started playing. I was blown away, he did things with that song I'd never heard befor. I tipped him $5, and praised his performance. Years later I became a Michael Hedges fan and saw a photo of him . It was the guitarist from the Peabody. I then found out that he'd been living in my neighborhood for two years. God how I wish I could have recorded that $5 preformance.
Fripp is the Grand Inquisitor of Guitar. There will be pain. Fuck, he's not even looking at the god damn neck while he plays.
+ MerkinMuffly - There are many fine shredmeisters out there these days, but there is only one Robert Fripp. And Adrien is a perfect foil for his maniacal musings.
I think his right eye goes to Adrian but the left controls the neck 🤣
@@sigmaman721 he rehearsed this in the dark for six months, he rehearses in the dark quite often so he knows exactly where he is on the instrument, it’s also why he sits so the guitar is always in the same place relative to his body. He says he saw this music in a dream during a particularly bad period of his life in the early seventies. When he woke a voice in his head said play what you saw. Six months in the dark followed.
@@hughjohnson2674 isn’t that for Fracture and not FraKctured?
@@barackobama9552 yes MR President!
If i got a Dollar every time Fripp misses a note, i'd actually lose money
Not true I have a buck. I framed it,lol.
@@Paul_Lenard_Ewing haha good one
If you had a dollar for every time Jimmy Page misses a note, you'd own the world
@@PutItAway101. Jimmy is much better than Robert
@@antoniozuquete5068 cut down on the drugs, buddy
I remember in my teens the people who wouldn't listen to King Crimson because Fripp sat to play. The things we do to find something wrong.
Recall an old interview when the first band formed and Greg Lake allegedly said" Robert ,you can't sit down you will look like a munchkin". Lol. I still recall no nothings thinking Fripp couldn't play because he wasn't a blues guitarist.
Idiots like Greg Lake you mean?
@Ampeli Guitar same idiots who didn't think Fripp was that good because he didn't play recycled BB King/ rock n blues riffs when that was the rave.
Fripp sits while playing because the hairs on our bodies are standing. Only one can stand at a time otherwise the universe will implode
@Nick B You were the one who called him an idiot....
One of the most complex rock guitar pieces ever written and Fripp pretty much never looks at his hands while playing it.
I played this loudly and now the birds outside will not stop singing it and keep me awake at night.
Other worldly and astounding. I'm 69, and I grew up in the perfect musical age for my soul, with music like this helping shape my mind.
I love humming this song in the shower
So do I
Absolutely. My first thought on hearing this was that I won’t be whistling the best parts of Frac
Such a catchy tune.
Another very funny comment.
The basslines are actually relatively catchy haha
I don't get it what all of the fuss is about, I have been able to play FraKctured for years.
I just pick up my guitar, plug it in the amp, make sure it is properly in tuned, and take a few moments to practice a few scales and assorted riffs.
Then I put the thing down, and put the appropriate CD into the CD player.
Outstanding
😂😂😂
The only way!
Ha!
Fripp - and Belew - are just amazing. I've been listening to Robert Fripp since the 70s and he's never wavered. Always twisted perfection.
At the end Robert said "alright now that our warm up is done we can start the show."
sometimes Fripp's playing can seem simple and beginner level, but then you have songs like this, that when you analyze Fripp's playing, not only is he complex but he is extremely unique
Mr. Fripp is actually looking like he is having a tremendous amount of fun. I was there, but not that close to the stage, so I couldn't tell then.
Add to Robert Fripp's wizardry the fact that he uses his own unique tuning. One of the most disciplined pair of hands to ever pick up a guitar. Gah!
Hence naming an album and song Discipline
@@David-iv6je it was the name of the band iteration as well before they changed the name to King Crimson again
@@heatherperleberg7816 Yup, when he got together with this 1980 group and wrote that song. Sort of like how the Yes alumni got together with Trevor Rabin and were going to call it "Cinema" after a song they wrote, and then went back to Yes because they'd make about 10x more money. Not sure Crim is motivated by money, but it's definitely self defeating to take on an obscure band name unless a label will over-saturate your exposure. (Another example from prog: Asia).
I think I got arthritis just from watching this.
5:08 Fripp goes into world domination mode
Yeah, sit the hell down Petrucci!
Nope, it's shit mode.
if you watch closely, you can see him briefly transcend time and space and ascend to a higher dimensional plane of existence during the perpetual motion part.. he's definitely not human
those rhytms...holy shit. I love how the drum accents it,
GOD MODE ACTIVATED [Fripp shooting red lazers out his eyes]
Sat/stood in the 2nd row for a Crimson show I witnessed this live. Still can’t describe the brilliance...
Remember what Bruford said... “if you’re in King Crimson, you’re just supposed to KNOW.” 😂
It's nice to see the camera person showing Trey some appreciation.
This video highly shows Fripp is actually a music robot.
He spends more time examining his band mates than his playing, zero emotion, plays the hardest thing to play on guitar, he doesn’t blink.
that is what makes him fripp, duh
Some say if you miss a note while playing with Fripp, he shoots you a look that gives you bad dreams for a month. Personally I don’t believe it. Maybe a few days at most....
Jon Nixon Just ask any of the cameramen that have to record Fripp close up.
"If you don't know what note to play, play C#."
Yeah I hear the look can leave you pretty frakctured
True-ish
It'd mark me for the rest of my life
It's called FraKctured for a reason. You will fracture your fingers if you dare to play it.
Now I understand why, when Guitar mag asked Fripp to write an article for them, he wrote seven pages about how to hold a pick.
Asus McTablet what’s the name of that magazine?
@@joesosa41 this was easily over 25 years ago. I think it was Guitar Magazine.
@@asusmctablet9180 yes
Really?
Beautiful night for a concert.
Lmao
Such a catchy tune.
Ikr cant stop humming this to myself
You win.
Rapid fire assault on guitar. Fripp exudes feeling and is so mechanical at the same time. Brilliant!
When I was a child and went to the circus, it was not the clowns painted up with outrageous makeup that scared me, it was the high-flying acrobats that were at risk at any moment of falling to the ground should their technique be anything less than perfect. There was the drama, there was the intensity, the artistry, the magic.
NOBODY ASKED YOU, JAMES.
Exactamente , King Crimson son como malabaristas, hacen una música genial que solo ellos pueden tocar, es muy fácil equivocarse y hacer que todos se pierdan. Su capacidad interpretativa es astronómica y lo hacen de una forma tan natural y tranquila que uno llega a temer que alguien cometa un error. Pero ellos simplemente caminan tranquilos por la cuerda floja como lo que son: Expertos, monstruos, dioses.
.......AND, when it was all over I said to myself: "Is that all there is to a circus"?.........Is that all there is?.............. "peggy lee"
You know it's about to get serious when Adrian starts the song with, "Are you ready Robert"!
The interleaved/syncopated parts between the two guitars is pretty stunning.
That, my friends, is what is called "talent", but in reality is thousands of hours of really hard work, to make the difficult seem effortless. Hats off to them!
The interplay is a force of nature. Like watching a swarm of flying bats coordinated to not hit each other in what is seemingly chaotic patterns.
From 5:08 on Fripp is demented....!
He looks at the fretboard maybe twice and smiles maybe once. Clearly he's having a ball!!
Wow....
Seriously insane. Robert himself admits that this song is incredibly difficult to play, yet 90% of the time he's just flirting with Adrian while playing
Adrian was the perfect compliment to Robert
I miss bill and tony
Shannon Hickey and Belew left! Jakko is good, but Adrian was one of a kind.
The fourth incarnation was the most balanced, but this was the most chaotic which give a Metal Feeling that you cant found nowhere else in KC history. And thats because Brufford left, he doesnt like this kind of music.
Saw the double trio of Levin and Belew. They give King Crimson a run for their money.
@George Bleem, They miss you too
David Sylvian could be too ...
Belew on-mike: ‘Beautiful night for a concert’
Belew off-mike: ‘You ready Robert?’
Robert Fripp is really rocking it here, he actually raised an eyebrow at one point.😉🎸🎸
I saw the first performances of this song at the three tour rehearsal shows in Nashville at 12th & Porter May 19-21, 2000. During one performance of FraKctured Robert stopped the song about 3/4 of the way through. He shouted out that they were going to back up and continue on. These were the tour warm-up shows so why not? It was in a tiny room in a club. Couldn't have been more that 50-100 people. I was so close to them each night I could hear Adrian and Robert's pedals clicking. Before the show we sat on the floor and listened to Patricia Fripp telling stories. At one point Robert came out to dispute what she was telling us as he was embarrassed! During the middle of FracKctured every night Adrian had nothing to do (and nowhere to hide) so he just stood there doing nothing but looking out at us while Robert tore it up with Trey and Pat. An amazing sequel to the original masterpiece Fracture.
I'm very jealous.
I was at one of those Nashville shows. During intermission, I went out to the parking lot for some fresh air, and there was Robert, still with his guitar. I smiled at him with a knowing look and a nod, and he smiled back. No need for words.
Robert Fripp is the greatest, most abstract, innovative guitarist on this planet, and probably many other planets! There will never be another guitarist like Robert Fripp!!!
Agreed hard, truly one of a kind. Musical visionary decades ahead of his time always
Not as great (yet??) but Geordie Greep of black midi has a lot of parallels to fripp but his skill and creativity goes beyond a copy and to something unique
buckethead better
@@revo4051in no galaxy is that statement true. Buckethead is a great player but nothing more than a Gilbert clone.
@@missoula6724Sugar/Tzu’s insane riff when it begins instantly reminded me of Fripp! Geordie definitely can carry the torch forward!
I can't recognize myself in the audience... but I was there. It was the 6th of June 2000. I've stand not far from the stage, little bit right from the middle. The venue was very nice between two museums. The show was brlliant. They mostley played new material. Great sound feeling. About 20 years ago... oops!
if there was game of playing guitar, that song would be the final boss.
I could practice for 100 years and not be able to play this. I think the song is playing RF as much as he is playing the song.
So much King Crimson music sounds like final boss music.
This take, especially during the terror section is considerably faster than the studio version. Masochistic! But impressive despite the risk involved.
The most impressive part about this video is not Fripp's Guitar work, its that he doesn't even look at it while playing!
I have had so many young kids think that no one ever shredded on a guitar till the nineties.
Playing Starless and Bible Black by KC and Elegant Gypsy by Al Di Meiola should easily disabuse them of that notion.
Fripp grinnin' like the Cheshire Cat as he burns the world down. That li'l head waggle at 6:35 what a savage.
its what i look for now every time i watch it
These guys are magnificent.
Restored my faith in music when I heard this.beautiful.
The insanity of this is palpable. I love it.
Oh for gods sake. You think you can play, you think you're creative & then you see these bastards.... Brilliant.
Arguebly one the most beautifully and sublime pieces of guitar work. Roberts soundscapes leave you breathless too.
Controlled detonation ....
Love the synergy between Adrian and Robert... ❤️
What an incredible performance. Belews tone is so complimentary to fripps. Love it so much. Is like golden streams of nostalgia and forgotton memories of lost other worlds stteam in.
Really one of the very best King Crimson songs/live take of this particular jam. Just wow. Thank you for this great, great music.
A fan since 69...Bob always a part of my life.. so lucky to have lived through this great era....
Absolutely fripping amazing !
Robert Fripp is *the* most overlooked guitarist on the planet. In my opinion, he's in the top three of all time, if not not number one.
He's also a great innovator and inventor just like Eddie Van Halen, their inventions alone take them above all the rest.
Raul Ruiz de Velasco There's a few as good Alan Holdworth. John McLaughlin, Al, Paco.
MerkinMuffly Van Halen didn't invent crap he stole everything.
phydeauxddog he basically did, I like all those guys you mentioned and for me there's no one at their level of technique. But Van Halen brought back a lot techniques that weren't used as much and made a whole generation of kids pick up the guitar
Bruno Cucolo Agreed plus the frakenstrat is in at least the top 30 guitars of all time.
It's hard to compare these guys to anyone else. There's no body else like them!
Can't help but admire Fripp's stamina with the speedy arpeggios. Just nuts!
I love Fripp quite a bit but the fact that he's so good that he doesn't have to look at the guitar makes me hate him
Lo hace tan tranquilo, que asusta.
The guitar looks at him.
He´s not been practicing in the dark for nothing.
If you have to look while playing this piece, you won't stand a chance in hell...
Huh? He looks at his guitar many times
50 years now!!! Greetings from Poland!!!
This has always been my favourite track since I fell off my chair at 5-06, the first time I played it. Truely mind bending and I have been following Fripp since 1969
You know that a band is amazing when their worst album is a work of art.
Nice.
My personal least favorite KC album has to be Beat. Except for Sartori in Tangier the album's not great, ConstruKction has a lot of good songs, they just sound much better live.
yeah ConstruKction songs sound much more interesting live. and btw same for beat, that frejus version of Neal and Jack and Me is awesome
rkrokberg I forgot about beat to be honest, but some songs are really good live, just like every other album of KC.
Construkction is probably among my top 5 KC albums. I just love the extremely electrical heavy sound they made. No other band managed to catch that same feeling.
6:50. End of solo.
Another guitar player: IM THE KING OF THE UNIVERSEEEEEEEE YEAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
Robert Fripp: I need a cup of tea
Hernan Rolando Medina Dead on.
"Another guitar player"
...Excuse me?
Adrian Belew is another god you know.
i guess he means a random douche guitar player
@@erenanidem3479 No he doesn’t. He said "another" not "any other". And he specified the time.
Keep in mind this was in Beethoven's birth town.
The disrespect
Why? He might have liked it. (If he could have heard it, that is.)
Who the fuck is Beethoven?
My goodness Robert Fripp
5:07.... Jesus Fucking Christ!!??... I will always, ALWAYS love Steve Howe, my all time guitar inspiration and hero.... but God DAMN, Fripp blows his fucking doors off here!!!!! HOLY SHIIIIITTTT!!!!
You said it man.
Howe Is an excellent country picker among a huge field of country pickers. Fripp is a unique, innovative one-off. I know of no other guitarist quite like him. Scary thing is I can say the same thing about Belew and to a lesser extent Gunn. The amount of talent on that stage is terrifying.
@@JosephFrancisBurton Try Shawn Lane one day. ;)
That's the easy bit.
Heavy shit.......
The undisputed kings of art rock since 1969.
The first time I heard this song I was like what the hell is this. Now I love it
THIS IS SO FREAKING COOL
I think I broke my fingers just watching Robert rip it up! I was at one of the shows on this tour, but I couldn't see his fingers from where I was sitting. I did get to see the rest of them just fine.
Robert Fripp is a true precise and virtuoso guitar hero. Just we shall remember when Ritchie Blackmore said that Fripp was the unique guitar player that he did not get play the chords easily.
For some reason, this special gig as a whole , while short, holds a special place in my heart. Alchemy is of the purest kind, and RF marching on showing to the new milennium what he's got. Now 23 Years later still holds up for the new generations to pick it up as influential as ITCOCK
I don't know what is beyond "beast mode", whatever it is Fripp is in that mode.
I have been practicing this song for nearly 2 years. Fripp actually fumbles during the brutal section at 6:00 where he plays a few wrong notes. I think his hand slipped out of place. You can see him briefly look at his guitar neck to find his positioning again. It's hardly noticeable and doesn't detract from the performance, but I thought it was interesting enough to point out.
Before walking onstage with his League of Crafty Guitarists in the 80s, Fripp addressed the assembled squad and said: "Mistakes will be made by everyone, including me. But I shall recover superbly."
incorrect. he didn't make a mistake. the guitar did.
Hearing this for the first time sent shivers down my spine. Belongs in a horror movie
The fast part is literally called "Terror"
@@gustavrsh Brutal Section* !!
Mr. Fripp, aka: The Lord of the Strings
Magnificent playing. Went on 3 road trips to see KC 2015 -2018. Last was the iconic Royal Albert Hall , London. Damned glad I did.
The crowd doesn’t go crazy. This is an exhibition
I kept expecting Rod Sterling to step forward in full black and white with a light cigarette in hand along with a serious expression and a story of all times to go with it.
The audience should be dancing like possessed by Belzebub
Hahahaha that would be hilarious..Fripp plays and crowd doing epileptic dance :D
Recently saw crimson in Toronto and one crazy bastard did exactly that😄
@Crimson Lens OFFICIAL I actually dont think he was. He was just all in on his dance number lol
I would normally agree. But in crimson shows it is forbiden to do anything but watch and listen. I went to see them last year and they asked the arena to only have 7000 seats, no standing people and no cellphones or cameras allowed. Security guards were strongly dealing with people who took their cellphones even to watch the hour.
Best and most underrated twin guitar team ever!!
I agree Belew is the perfect madness to Fripps stoicism. John Mclaughlin and Jimmy Herring did some incredible shows a few years ago too if you haven't heard them.
@3:32 it sounds like two guitars to me, but Adrian is taking a break. WTF Fripp!??!
Fripp is a master of cross picking!
the work of the devil
Amazing precision of Robert Fripp. This man is a genius !
Do not forget his companions in this creation, without them it would be little ....... ;-)
The sound quality for the fuzzy guitar monstrosity at 5:07 (also known as the money shot in this song) is really nicely "clear" in this recording. Plus, except for maybe one overly loose out of control moment, this version is faster and throat-chokingly gnarlier than the album version.
Yeah, Robert's discipline is best demonstrated here how even with the occasional bum note (or not so occasional), he doesn't completely lose his footing. Wrong note at the right time, indeed.
@@eddievhfan1984 Yeah, I see many comments stating that he never misses a note and that's plainly wrong in this recording (you can see him almost panicking at 6:00) but his ability to keep on going after a blunder is absolutely staggering. Not even counting the fact that this recording is at least 10 bpm faster than the (already barely playable) original's 138bpm and played live with what seems like subpar monitoring (he doesn't seem to have in-ears)... Yeah, his discipline is off the charts. I can barely play the original in my bedroom, let alone live.
@@yaelnamias You could be right, regarding the monitoring, I know during the '03 tours for The Power To Believe, he switched to headphone monitors.
@@eddievhfan1984 Yes, and he's been playing on headphones ever since, truly a man of fine taste ! He seems really more comfortable in the TPTB tours too, having little to no interference surely helps
Watching { listening }{ to } this makes me grin from ear to ear. I can't help myself from other wise.
It would be cool if on the 50th anniversary they brought back old members for a couple of songs each
Yeah like Greg Lake
I'm exhausted watching...Wow.
Music is the closest thing we have to magic
I would think the most nervous person on the planet would have to be anyone who had to accompany Fripp on a second guitar...can't imagine the pressure.
I witnessed Larks Tounges to Thrak. Sorry not to have heard 2018, but still very fortunate!! The music will never retire.
It’s ridiculous how amazing this song is.