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GILES, GILES, & FRIPP – The Brondesbury Tapes (1968). Voiceprint VP 235. UK release. NEW CD. Issued in 2001. With the exception of the first track, which dates from late 1967, these recordings were made in 1968 at Peter Giles’ home studio. Comes with a 16-page informative/photo insert booklet. MUSICIANS: Michael Giles, Peter Giles, Robert Fripp, Al Kirtley, Ian McDonald, and Judy Dyble. TRACKS: Hypocrite (recorded at the Beacon Royal Hotel, 1967), Digging My Lawn (1), Tremelo Study In A-Major (Spanish Suite), Newly Weds, Suite No. 1, Scrivens, Make It Today (1), Digging My Lawn (2), Why Don’t You Just Drop In (1), I Talk To The Wind (1), Under The Sky (1), Plastic Pennies, Passages Of Time, Under The Sky (2), Murder, I Talk To The Wind (2, w/Judy Dyble), Erudite Eyes, Make It Today (2), Wonderland, Why Don’t You Just Drop In (2), and She Is Loaded. DESCRIPTION: These songs, recorded on a four track reel to reel as demo tapes, reflect the journey from the Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp and onwards to just before the formation of the first line-up of King Crimson. The disc begins with the trio (drums,bass and guitar respectively) then adds Ian Macdonald (sax, flute, etc.), and, finally, Judy Dyble (Fairport Convention vocalist) for a few tunes before Dyble moves on and plans are laid for Greg Lake to replace Peter Giles and for King Crimson to begin. The collection starts out with a suprisingly creepy little track called Hypocrite, which is the oldest surviving commercial recording to feature Mr. Fripp on guitar, dating from 1967. And while it may not be sonically rich the track still packs a bit of a whallop once you realize how the recording was made, and the acidic bitterness of the song's lyric is hard to not snicker at with sadistic glee. The highlight of these sessions is the inclusion of the long lost Judy Dyble voiced version of I Talk To The Wind, previously only available on a now deleted 2 record Crimson compilation from 1977, and here lovingly re-mastered to make it sound like an actual song. You also get two very different mixes of Cheerful Insanity era favorites Newly-Weds, Digging My Lawn, a very different version of Fripp's Erudite Eyes, a 2nd MacDonald/Giles vocalized I Talk To The Wind (which is nowhere near as nice as Judy's), as well as the bonus tracks released on the remastered Cheerful Insanity album, Under The Sky (2 versions), She Is Loaded, and 2 versions of the puzzling (Why Don't You Just) Drop In, a staple of the early live Crimson shows which Fripp stubbornly continued to re-work until the 1971 Islands album, retitled The Letters. Knowing Robert’s later penchant for discipline, on these recordings they were too busy rehearsing to be cool. Other standout tracks on this collection include Wonderland, an amazing Fripp scribed jazz/rock composition featuring a rare early pre-Belew instance of Fripp allowing someone else to play lead guitar (and a mind-boggling doo-wop vocalized section that is absurdly perfect), a bizarre bit of lounge-jazz pop called Make It Today (2 versions) which would have made a perfect pop single if anyone had been smart enough to release it, the priceless Judy Dyble version of I Talk To The Wind with it's bummer clarinet notes and tinny lead guitar riffs, and of course the aforementioned Drop In cuts. You also get to hear Fripp’s guitar craft sound in it's embryonic pre-infancy twenty years before he came up with a name for it. In other words you will want to listen to this again rather than hide it in the closet. Though I enjoy The Cheerful Insanity album I find myself popping this disc in the player more often; not to mention Peter Giles linernotes make for an interesting read while the disc is playing. Highly enjoyable and unquestionably recommended!
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