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Andrew Daly

“The process with Robert was so intense – I feel like I helped create almost a new genre with King Crimson with each piece of music we made”: Trey Gunn on what he learned from Robert Fripp – and how to tame the Warr Guitar

Trey Gunn.

Best known for brandishing a Warr Guitar as a member of King Crimson from 1993 to 2003, Trey Gunn has stretched the bounds of instrumentation beyond the confines of six strings.

It’s not that he’s bored by standard guitars – it’s more that his mindset and muse drive him to dive headfirst into the obtuse. “I don’t know when it was, but at some point, I realized how different the Warr Guitar was, and that got me thinking about how challenging it was going to be,” he says.

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