“Robin opened up the case, and there was a 1957 Fender Stratocaster. He said, ‘Do you like it?’ I said, ‘Yes.’ And he said, ‘Take it’”: Robert Fripp on that one time Robin Trower gave him a highly coveted Strat – and why he never ended up using it

Left-Robert Fripp performs at Fairport's Cropredy Convention 2023 on August 10, 2023 in Cropredy, Oxfordshire; Right- Robin Trower performs at Birmingham Town Hall on May 18, 2025 in Birmingham, England.

Robert Fripp is a Gibson (and Fernandes) aficionado through and through. However, the King Crimson guitarist did have an albeit very brief brush with Strats at one point in 1975.

“At the Reading Festival, Robin Trower said to me, ‘Do you have a Fender?’” he tells Guitar World in a new interview.