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May I respectfully say I think you mean League of Crafty Guitarists, not League of Gentlemen.

Spot on, re: the music.

No, those are completely different groups. The League of Crafty Guitarists is the name Fripp uses for his more recent "guitar orchestra" project. The League of Gentlemen was his band in 1979-80. If you follow the link, you'll find that name is given on the cover of the album they recorded at the time.

I stand corrected.

There was also League of Crafty Guitarists, and then the comedy troupe League of Gentlemen, but you are right.

Apologies.

When I saw him in Detroit, he said to the audience in a quiet moment, "That's good! You're thinking while you're dancing." We were flattered.

Wow, thanks Scott - I had no idea about this stuff. Sounds like he was spending some time in New York. You don't know if Fripp was hanging out with Eno when he was working with DNA and the Contortions, do you?

Right, he was. Check out Fripp's "Exposure," from sometime in the late 1970s, which I think of as his New York album. And Fripp plays guitar on the Talking Heads' "Fear of Music," produced by Eno.

Thanks, I will - I've been wanting to hear some new stuff from that era.

Fripp also played Ramones covers with Blondie (& is on Parallel Lines, as everyone no doubt already knew).

There are some distinctly odd things about that clip—aside from the fact that it exists at all, though I don't know when he became camera-shy: Fripp audibly goofs pretty early on, and towards the end he's standing up while playing.

I think I may have seen these guys live in Dallas about 25 years ago. It was some non-Crimson incarnation of Robert Fripp. They played two sets at a large club. After set one I discovered I had locked my keys in my car, so we saw the second set. Afterwards we broke the window.

Ah, those halcyon days.

I always liked the first incarnation of the 1970's "Larks Tongues in Aspic" Crimson. It had that crazy second drummer who used a chain and always ended up with blood on his face. Good times.

Yeah - the Lark's/Starless/Red trilogy will always be nearest and dearest to me. At a recent Bruford clinic my god was sayin how Muir put red liquid capsules in his mouth, and at one point was inches away from braining Fripp with a huge, swinging chain.

I like in "U.H.M." when some girl - not Sara Lee - is reading aloud something about "....electric anal retentives...." and then breaks out in laughter.