The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp

Featuring brothers Michael Giles on drums and vocals, Peter Giles on bass guitar and vocals, and rounded out by Robert Fripp on guitar, Giles, Giles and Fripp was an English group that formed in the Bournemouth, Dorset area in 1967 when the Giles brothers advertised for a singing keyboard player and Fripp, a non-singing guitarist responded and was hired anyway.

The debut album, The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp, and two singles, did not sell well.

They added Ian McDonald on saxophone, flute and clarinet, and former Fairport Convention vocalist Judy Dyble. Their next studio sessions including "She Is Loaded" and "Under the Sky" were rejected by the record company, Deram.

These rejected tracks now appear as bonuses on the CD reissue of the album, but Dyble is not on them.

The group continued to record at home, Dyble was only with the group for a short time, but did perform with the group on a few songs including "Make It Today" and demo versions of "Under The Sky" and "I Talk to the Wind" ("I Talk to the Wind was later rerecorded by King Crimson, and appears on their debut, "In The Court Of The Crimson King").

A collection of the home recordings were eventually released in 2002 as The Brondesbury Tapes. The finished recordings are mono, but many have excellent sound quality and are close to studio sound for the period.

Michael Giles, Robert Fripp and Ian McDonald went on to form the first lineup of King Crimson, with bassist/vocalist Greg Lake and lyricist Peter Sinfield after Peter Giles left the group in late 1968.