Jazz-Rock-Fusion

My first encounter with these guy's are from a live Robert Fripp & the League of Crafty Guitarist's album that was recorded December 1985.
Then after a few years i got my hands on a video called: "Careful With That Axe" a documentary of Robert Fripp guitar courses & King Crimson, from which i seen them all perform live together in class with Fripp.
I have seen these guy's three times, once with the Tony Levin Band & twice on thier own.
Last time i seen them, i had stepped out for a smoke at band break & Hideyo Moriya stepped out as well for a smoke & ask me for a light.
I've got about 6 or 7 of thier cd's two of which are signed by all three, including Tony Levin.
They play cover's (sometimes it seems) better than the original artists!
& thier own stuff is superb.
Any guitar player should check these guy's out.

http://www.cgtrio.com/

On a final note, they play in a new standard tuning created by Robert Fripp:

The New Standard Tuning (or NST) is a special type of guitar tuning, discovered by Robert Fripp of King Crimson. Although used by a small number of players in comparison to the standard guitar tuning (referred to as 'Old Standard Tuning' by NST players), it has gained some popularity among experimental guitarists, and is the tuning taught at Fripp's Guitar Craft. The tuning is (from low to high) C2 - G2 - D3 - A3 - E4 - G4. (Some guitarists maintain that the term 'New Standard Tuning' is a misnomer and consider it to be a source of controversy, but the name appears to have stuck due the absence of viable alternative designations. Time will tell whether the tuning is in fact accepted outside of GC as a viable all-purpose tuning.) It is also often called "GCST" or Guitar Craft Standard Tuning to more specifically indicate its origin.

Characteristics

The lowest four strings are tuned just like a cello, i.e. in fifths from a low C. The second string is a fourth up from the B to an E, and the first string is a minor third up from the E to a G. Since the first five strings are tuned in fifths, typical fingerings for chords and scales used on the violin, cello, and mandolin are applicable here. The minor third between the top strings allow denser chords in the high range of the scale, and easier access to some elementary chord tones (typically the thirteenth for chords with the root note on the sixth string, and the ninth and flat ninth for chords with the root note on the fifth string, see chord). NST has a greater range than the Old Standard Tuning, approximately a perfect fifth (a major third lower and a minor third higher).

Because GCST is also pentatonic in nature (there are no thirds in the open strings if you consider C or G as the root), its natural harmonics also make it easier to tune than the OST which has a major third (which is technically 'out of tune' by definition in a non-equal-tempered instrument such as a guitar) stuck right in the middle of its open strings (G-B.) In GCST, tuning is possible via the first harmonic rather than the more-awkward second-harmonic tuning which many OST players use to tune their guitars.

Scales across two strings in GCST also line up nicely into coherent 'tetra-chords' or four-note patterns that have a visually rational relationship (whole and half-tone relationships have a remarkable symmetry that can be easier to learn than the OST whose intervals from 6 to 1 have the (inconsistent) major third thrown in the middle of the scale.

Spread

Robert Fripp exclusively uses the New Standard Tuning in his guitar playing. It was discovered in 1984, and subsequently was used on all recordings since then, both as solo artist and within King Crimson, among others.

At Guitar Craft seminars and courses, students work exclusively in NST. The education is not completely centered around the tuning however, it was originally used a tool to push students to begin from scratch, renew themselves and approach their playing in a different way. The idea is that with a completely different guitar tuning than the one you're accustomed to, none of your regular chords or licks will work, and you will have to find new ways of musical expression with the guitar.

The tuning is most notably used by Guitar Craft players including the League of Crafty Guitarists, the California Guitar Trio, Bert Lams, Los Gauchos Alemanes, Gitbox Rebellion, BigTime Trio, Zum, the Atomic Chamber Ensemble, the Seattle Guitar Circle, Tuning the Air, Curt Golden, Steve Ball, Lost Pedro, and thousands of Guitar Craft students around the world.

Track Listing:
#01 Yamanashi Blues - Bert Lams
#02 Melrose Avenue - Hideyo Moriya
#03 Train To Lamy (including 21st Century Schizoid Man homage)- Bert Lams, Paul Richards, Hideyo Moriya, Ennio Morricone
#04 Blockhead - Paul Richards
#05 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - Ennio Morricone (Virgin Records, Ltd.)
#06 Punta Patri - Bert Lams
#07 Toccata and Fugue in D minor - J.S. Bach
#08 Pipeline - Spickard-Carman (Regent Music Corp)
#09 Kan-Non Power - Hideyo Moriya
#10 Invitation - Hideyo Moriya
#11 Walk Don't Run - Johnny Smith (Warner Chappell)
#12 Misirlou - Tauber, Wise, Rubanis, Leeds (Campbell, Connelly & Co. Ltd.)

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