He is a guitarist, composer
and record producer born in Wimborne Minster, Dorset,
England.He began his professional career in
1967 as an organist in the band Giles, Giles and Fripp.
Although they released an album
and a couple of singles, they were not successful so broke up and formed
the band King Crimson with the addition of GregLake, Ian McDonald and Peter Sinfield.They released their first album in 1969 but broke up shortly
afterwards to reform again on several occasions through the years.He is the only member of the band
who has consistently remained with them but has also been involved in working
with other bands such as Van der Graaf Generator,
and recording in collaboration with Brian Eno. His albums with Brian Eno included a tape delay system which would become a
characteristic of his and was named "Frippertronics."He left music for a while and
concentrated on the works of the Greek-Armenian mystic Gurjieff
and these would later prove influential in his music.His return to music was as a
session guitarist and he performed with Peter
Gabriel
on his first and second albums.He toured with him to promote the
tour and was introduced by the name Dusty Rhodes.Other artists he has worked with are
many and include David Bowie on the albums Heroes and Scary Monsters
album, Daryl Hall on Sacred Songs, Blondie,
Phil
Collins
, David Sylvian, Andy Summers and Talking Heads. In 1984 he became a teacher at the
American Society for Continuous Education and through his Guitar Craft course
The League of Craft Guitarists was born and has since released several
albums.He is married to the
singer Toyah Willcox and has collaborated with her
on two recordings.In 1994 he
returned to solo recording and released the series of records called Soundscapes
which employs the "Frippertronic"
technique and digital technology. In 2005 he worked at Microsoft
Studios to record new sound effects for the 2007 release of Windows Vista.
