“Every working player knows a day will come when something goes wrong with their financial affairs. They’ll need an instrument for that day”: Robert Fripp on the guitars he’s kept, and the one he bought with no intention of playing

Robert Fripp.

Robert Fripp is primarily known for playing his beloved 1959 Gibson Les Paul Custom. Earlier in his career he often used a 1962 Gibson ES-345, then later he transitioned to Fernandes, brandishing a custom Gold Top – or as Fripp calls it, a facsimile of a Gibson.

But there have been other guitars, which he deems his “honorable mentions.” The first is the Roland G-303 synthesizer guitar, which he first came upon in 1980 and utilized with The League of Gentlemen. Then, with King Crimson, Fripp, and Adrian Belew both played G-303s.