Robert Fripp, Sorcerer of Sound

Robert Fripp has been ripping the guitar apart and putting it all back together wrong for almost 60 years. He never got the memo that "progressive rock" is just a label, that it's not actually supposed to progress... 

King Crimson, Gurdjieff and the Esoteric

Watch King Crimson Play Every Note That Has Ever Existed and then Invent Some New Ones.

Fripp sez, "Alan Holdsworth, Alan Schmoldsworth. I'll show you how to play a million notes a second without hammering or tapping."

Don't be fooled by the impassive demeanor. I saw Fripp do a Frippertronics show at the Winter Garden in the World Financial Center back in the day. He reduced thousands of stock brokers to tears. Very odd duck.

"FraKctured" is a sequel to "Fracture" from the John Wetton lineup. It took that chap 22 years to learn the latter. It will probably take him 44 years to learn the former.

I used to listen to this stuff when I was working on a particularly-complex vector rendering that needed maximum left-brain input. I recommend the practice.