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The Evolution of DGM

This is the third generation of the DGMLive website – and it will undoubtedly continue to evolve. There are already features that we have planned but not yet implemented.

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NEW BEGINNINGS

On This Date In 1969...

There was much excitement in camp of the as yet unnamed King Crimson. Why so? Greg, Bob, Mike and Ian started their very first rehearsal in the basement of the Fulham Palace Road Café.

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DGM Goes Online For The First Time - The 26th. Anniversary

Sunday 21st, July 2024, marked the 26th anniversary of DGM going online for the first time.

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King Crimson rehearsals 2014

Fripp: “What I’m going to do is shout out my parts ahead of time. So we have the four themes. G, Eflat, B and then G. On the first Jakko and myself are playing unison. On the second, I’m going down an octave for the Eflat. On the third which is a B, Jakko is on the B, I’m doing the G beneath. And on Jakko’s high G, I’d doing an Eflat.”

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The Guitar Circle
Guitar Craft Course with RF

An Introduction To Guitar Craft & The Guitar Circle, directed by Robert Fripp, will be held from April 16 to 26, 2026, in Italy.

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On Living
Fripp's New York: Then and Now

So what did happen to all the music places from Robert’s time in New York? Here's a rundown of what, where and when from some of the key places.

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On Music
Stormy's Monday Selection: The Letters

Alex 'Stormy' Mundy combines the studio take of The Letters with live saxophone and vocals from 2015.

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The Music Business
Going Mobile:

When the League of Crafty Guitarist’s sound engineer abruptly left mid-tour, David Singleton was drafted in on the recommendation of Tony Arnold. He would go on to mix live sound for the Robert Fripp ...

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Crimson Commentaries
JurassiKc THRAK

Previously released in the 2015 THRAK boxed set, now available to download for the first time, a 67 minute fly-on-the-wall audio documentary distilled from the 50 or 60 hours of running DAT recordings...

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Liner Notes
The Brondesbury Tapes Sleevenotes.

Peter Giles' in-depth guide to the recordings made at 93a Brondesbury Road in West London in 1968, by Giles, Giles & Fripp with Ian McDonald and Judy Dyble.

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On The Vicar
Life's A Boat.

As trailed by David Singleton on his recent Cruise To The Edge diary post, The Vicar releases a demo recording for the collaborative song Life’s A Boat on YouTube. Find out how to add your part.

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On Fripp
On this day 50 years ago.

Fripp & Eno were live at the Olympia in Paris. This was the fifth date on the duo’s only concert tour which took in Spain, France and the UK.

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Kicking The Wasps' Nest
Do you believe in a Supreme Being, Creator, God...etc. that has charge over existence?

Do you believe in a Supreme Being, Creator, God...etc. that has charge over existence?

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DGM Universe
A Stormy Update.

Thanks to several of our listeners who wrote in to say that they remembered hearing The Sheltering Sky performed live in 2019.

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inDepth Feature
On the Whistle Test.

Hugh's Archive Deep Dive 7 looks at the times King Crimson and its former members appeared on long-running BBC rock music programme The Old Grey Whistle Test.

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QandApage Feature
An 80s Update

Thanks to several reviewers of the 1982 Asbury Park, New Jersey show who point out that we have been listing this in the wrong venue.

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FRIPP & SINGLETON

Fripp & Singleton at The City Winery NYC

In a conversation that took place at The City Winery, New York City on the 23rd of September 2022, Robert Fripp & David Singleton discuss ideas of music performance, the music industry, and the founding principles of Discipline Global Mobile, the independent record label created in 1993 as a reaction against the greed and exploitation of the marketplace.

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Fripp & Singleton On Flow

In a conversation at The City Winery in New York City on September 23rd 2022, Robert Fripp & David Singleton answer some “burning questions” from the audience.

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FRIPP & SINGLETON: ON SILENCE

Fripp & Singleton On Silence

In a conversation at The City Winery in New York City on September 23rd 2022, Robert Fripp & David Singleton answer some “burning questions” from the audience.

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Fripp & Singleton On Classical Influences

In a conversation at The City Winery in New York City on September 23rd 2022, Robert Fripp & David Singleton answer some “burning questions” from the audience.

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DAVID SINGLETON DIARIES
Monday May 19 2025
A Tale of Two Concerts
A Tale of Two Concerts. On Saturday, I went to see Bruce Springsteen in Manchester: the concerts that have been making the news due to his polemic against the current state of America, and Trump’s ‘dried out prune’ response.  Jon, who accompanied me, has seen Springsteen about thirty times. It was my first. Unlike my trip to see McCartney a short while ago, where I knew intimately every...
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Wednesday May 7 2025
Music Plays the Musician
Firstly - and most importantly - thank you for all the emails I have received offering to help float "Life's a Boat". Responses coming by the end of the week.On a different matter, Stormy Mundy has asked me to reply to Marc Medwin, who apparently recently asked "When did David Singleton become an actual Crimso documentarian in the studio? Was it with Einstein's Relatives? I'm talking about the...
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ROBERT FRIPP DIARIES
Sunday March 23 2025
What Is A Question?
. I Q: What is a question?RF: An answer seeking to be known. More accurately, the answer seeks to be known by, to and within itself, by presenting itself as a question. From one point of view, question and answer are inseparable.Essentially, the question is its answer. From another point of view, the answer is in the future, reaching back and pulling the question towards it.The answer already...
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Sunday March 16 2025
Fans
. FansA series of Questions for Robert from a Pesty Questionier VII PQ: You’ve made lots of comments, for decades, about fan relationships. Why?R: The main aim is to understand my life as a working player. PQ: How does that relate to fans? R: To understand any situation, activity, or undertaking, you have to see the whole picture of the operation. For the working player, the four primary...
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KING CRIMSON 1969, BY MICHAEL GRENFELL

King Crimson I – 1969

An Extended Essay in Three Parts by Michael Grenfell

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King Crimson I – 1969 · Part 2 I

An Extended Essay in Three Parts by Michael Grenfell

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King Crimson I – 1969 · Part 2 II

An Extended Essay in Three Parts by Michael Grenfell

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King Crimson I – 1969 · Part 3

An Extended Essay in Three Parts by Michael Grenfell

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The next step is Discipline

The 1980s see a very different King Crimson incarnation originally touring under the name Discipline . The presence of Adrian Belew meant that Robert Fripp was working for the first time with another guitarist. This incarnation of Fripp, Belew, Bruford and Levin becomes the first one to record successive studio albums with the same lineup.

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