Andy Summers & Robert Fripp * I Advance Masked (1982)

It's better than their follow-up album Bewitched. Generally a decent album, worth hearing. It features themes that would later show up on King Crimson's Beat (cf. "Neurotica" and "Neal and Jack and Me").

At the time I loved it, but some of the playing seems too stiffly rhythmic to me (like a lot of mid-late Fripp), from what I remember of it. I think I remember SPIN using a phrase like "the shape of rock guitar to come," or something of that sort.

hmm.......never heard of this...is this fairly cheap on vinyl usually?

It's a great album. I still have my vinyl copy that I bought when it first came out. Fripp is doing his usual schtick from that period of King Crimson, but the real winner here is Summers who gets to spew out all that textural whooshing/wobbling chords that you only hear for three seconds in a typical Police song.

It's cheap on vinyl and worth snagging.

police without the songs + 80s crimson w/o the singing = sounds like heaven!

Yeah, it's really good.

I am intrigued by this.

Good album. I listened to it a lot as a teen.

Funny thing: Andy Summers' "Mother" soloing (Synchronicity) is practically IDENTICAL to Fripp's solo on "Golden Hours" (from Another Green World). Those same calm, disciplined step-up/step-down runs. Not that Summers stole it or anything - just a mildly interesting coincidence.

I Advance Masked: I bought it, like, 16 years ago. Thought it was pleasant but hardly compelling, and probably only paid it a dozen times, if that. Today, can't recall even a single tune.

Never heard it, will sometime (yes it's VERY cheap on vinyl). On a similar note tho, I really recommend Robert Quine/Fred Maher "Basic". Lovely mood things and so on, and one track (don't remember the title, last song on side one I think) that could be on Kompakt.

pretty great album, glad it's been reissued; I sold my cd a few years ago when it was OOP for bucks, but I've been wanting it back since I lost the mp3s

This album rules.

"Every Breath You Take" = total Fripp guitar part. You know it's true.

You know what I think I like best (although I haven't heard this for a while) are the more amorphous passages, the percussion and whisps of guitar and stuff. (Haha, I remember playing some of this album for my mother. She liked the more upbeat parts okay, but we disagreed about whether the more ambient/amorphous passages segued adequately into those more upbeat sections. I thought they did, but she didn't hear them as fitting together. I actually own this on vinyl and (probably discount) cassette.

I concur with the love for this album, one of my favorite things Fripp has ever done and easily my favorite work of Summers. One thing worth pointing out about this record is that it has just tons of gorgeous Fripp solos all over it, some very understated and melodic. Very different from his sharp, heavy tone in KC. I would even call it essential listening for any Fripp fan.

And the title track has my favorite solo of his (except for maybe "Starless")!

lol, never saw this before

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTTHQgmpQII

I recently got this album from COLUMBIA HOUSE of all places

Oh my god, the music in that video is so cool. Leave it to ILM to turn me onto something like this I never would have thought of. I'd like to hear the whole album, actually.

dig it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAWtAPDvp_c

Loving this album.

I had no idea there was a video for this. WARNING: it is not a good video.

But it is a great song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOiuh2Upa8s

Wow that is a bad video. But I do love the track. Haven't heard this album in forever, I should get it again. This song reminds me of Nels Cline, or vice versa.

I remember seeing that video exactly once. Ii is exactly as I remember it.

such an amazing solo near the end of that tune

I really want the remastered CD version of this, can anybody tell me how it sounds compared to a clean OG LP?

it sounded good but I usually just listen to the vinyl