Happy 80th Birthday Robert Fripp!

Celebrating the 80th birthday of guitarist Robert Fripp with a few interviews and more. Cheers Robert!

Robert Fripp reunites with Daryl Hall at Daryl's House

Guitarist Robert Fripp, who previously teamed up with Daryl Hall on each other's solo albums, stopped by Daryl's House recently.  

Unboxing Black Sabbath's Paranoid Super Deluxe 5LP edition

For the 50th anniversary of Black Sabbath's Paranoid, Rhino have issued a 5 LP version which you can see unboxed below. 

Here's the scoop from Rhino...

Black Sabbath's Paranoid: Super Deluxe Edition includes the original album, in addition to a rare 1974 Quad Mix of the album folded down to stereo, plus two concerts from 1970, from Montreux and Brussels, that are pressed on vinyl for the first time. The five-LP set comes with a hardbound book with extensive liner notes featuring interviews with all four band members, rare photos, and memorabilia, a poster, as well as a replica of the tour book sold during the Paranoid tour.

 

The first two LPs of Paranoid: Super Deluxe Edition feature the original album plus a Quadraphonic Mix of the album. Originally released on vinyl and 8-track cartridge in 1974, but subsequently long out of print, the Quad Mix has now been made available as a fold-down to stereo mix on vinyl for this set.

The collection's final three LPs mark the official vinyl debut of two 1970 live performances. The first was recorded on August 31 in Montreux, Switzerland shortly before the release of Paranoid. It captures the band, already a tight musical unit, thundering through new songs like "Hand Of Doom" and "Iron Man" while mixing in "N.I.B." and "Behind The Wall Of Sleep" from their debut album. The second concert was recorded a few months later in Brussels during the band's performance for Belgian television. Unofficial versions of this classic show have circulated in the past, but they've never sounded this good. 

You can order a copy directly from Rhino right here. 

Watch the unboxing clip followed by an unlikely salute to Sabbath from Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox below.