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, The B-52's, and Indigo Girls, keyboardist Barry Andrews (formerly of XTC; later of Shriekback) and percussionist Johnny Toobad. The group's name had previously been used by Fripp's first semi-professional band in the 1960s.^{[citation needed]}

The Trouser Press Record Guide describes the League of Gentlemen's music as typically taking "a simple medium-to-fast backbeat over which Fripp and Andrews locked horns, with melodic development emerging slowly, surely, subtly."^[1] Trouser Press also suggests that the League's foray into dance oriented rock was a precursor to Fripp's reformed King Crimson in the early 1980s.^[2]

[edit] Discography

• The League of Gentlemen (EG/Polydor, 1981)
• God Save the King (Robert Fripp compilation) (Editions EG, 1985)
• Thrang Thrang Gozinbulx (Live album constructed from bootleg recordings) (Discipline Records, 2003)

[edit] References

1. ^ Fleischmann, Mark & Ira Robbins (1991), "Robert Fripp", written at New York, in Ira A. Robbins, The Trouser Press Record Guide, Collier Books, 263, ISBN 0-02-036361-3, <http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=robert_fripp>
2. ^ Grant, Steven; Mark Fleischmann & Ira A. Robbins (1991), "King Crimson", written at New York, in Ira A. Robbins, The Trouser Press Record Guide, Collier Books, 367, ISBN 0-02-036361-3, <http://www.trouserpress.com/entry.php?a=king_crimson>