When Police guitarist Andy Summers got together with King Crimson mastermind Robert Fripp, they were just looking to have some fun as two like-minded guitarists who were perceived to be similarly innovative with what they did.
“At that age, we were dicking around in the studio, trying out everything and trying to make exotic sounds that worked,” he explains in an interview with UCR. “It’s very much a reflection of the era.” The pair released two albums, 1982’s I Advance Masked and 1984’s Bewitched and to their surprise, they found there was an audience keenly interested in hearing what they’d done together. “The first one went inside the Billboard Top 50, which was amazing for an instrumental record like that.”
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