I saw Robert Fripp on the G3 tour several years back with Satch, Vai, and Kenny Wayne Sheppard. I'm well aware of his work with King Crimson. Suffice it to say, he shares nothing in common with those virtuosos and I don't think his style compliments Vai or Satch very much (nor, for that matter, does Kenny Wayne Sheppard....who stinks compared to the late SRV, let alone Satch or Vai). I'm being completely serious when I say this: When Robert Fripp was on stage, he was just strumming some random crap through a quadrillion effects pedals and a synth guitar unit. He was up first, and I swear 98% of the audience thought he was a sound technician who was setting up the guitars/sound equipment for the 'real' guitarists. No one in a million years thought he was actually part of the show. I personally thought he was extremely boring.