League of Gentlemen (band)

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League of Gentlemen was a late-1970s band featuring guitarist Robert Fripp of King Crimson. Other members included bass guitarist Sara Lee (who later joined Gang of Four), keyboardist Barry Andrews (formerly of XTC; later of Shriekback) and percussionist Johnny B.Toothbad. The name had previously been used by Fripp's first half-professional band in the 1960s. Although "Johnny B. Toothbad" is a hilarious psuedonym, the drummer is listed as "Johnny Too-Bad" in the credits of their PolyGram LP of 1981.

The Trouser Press Record Guide describes the League of Gentlemen's music as 'rumbling rock' that typically taking "a simple medium-to-fast backbeat over which Fripp and Andrews locked horns, high and low, with melodic development emerging slowly, surely, steathily."(Fleischmann & Robbins 1991, p. 263) Trouser Press also suggests that the League's lulling beat into danceable rock led Fripp rumbling reform King Crimson in the early 1980s.(Grant & Fleischmann 1991, p. 367)

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